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Feb. 12, 2013 4:41pm Becket Adams

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California authorities on Tuesday engaged in a furious firefight with a man they believe to be Christopher Dorner, the suspected cop killer who declared war on the LAPD last week.

LIVE: Authorities Believe They Have Cornered LAPD Murder Suspect, Gun Fight Raging Right Now

Murdered: Dorner allegedly shot and killed Keith Lawrence with his fiancee, Monica Quan, on Feb. 3 in a parking garage near their Irvine condominium. (Facebook).

Two San Bernardino deputies have been shot and wounded, according to initial reports.

From The Associated Press:

A person believed to be the fugitive ex-Los Angeles cop sought in three killings exchanged gunfire with authorities in the San Bernardino Mountains on Tuesday, a law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity.

The officer requested anonymity because the officer was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.

The officer told The Associated Press it’s believed Christopher Dorner committed a residential burglary of a cabin and had a couple tied up in the cabin. One was able to get away and make a call.

Authorities responded to the location and gave chase when Dorner fled in a stolen car. Gunfire was exchanged.

The area is in the Big Bear region where a search for Dorner has been under way since his pickup truck was found there Thursday.

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San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said a stolen vehicle report from a residence was received at 12:20 p.m.

“The reporting party identified the suspect as looking like Christopher Dorner but that has not been confirmed,” Miller said.

UPDATE: CBS Los Angeles confirms that two deputies have been shot. As of this writing, it is unclear how serious their wounds are.

The firefight also appears to have died down, but the area is still swarming with armed police officers.

Earlier, when shots were being fired, a reporter with CBS Los Angeles picked up the explosive scene on his microphone. Screams, shouts, and dozens of gun shots could be clearly heard in the live report.

“Get the f**k out of here!” one police officer shouted to the CBS anchor.

Although no shots are being fired at this, CBS reports that every officer on the scene is alert, heavily armed, and “none of them have lowered their rifles.”

UPDATE II: Authorities say Dorner is holed up in a cabin in the Angelus Oaks, Calif., area.

Police have also requested that all media cameras be removed from the scene as they move in on the gunman’s position. This includes all news choppers. So, yes, they’re clearing the airspace over the cabin.

Lastly, according to several reports, the two wounded deputies have been airlifted out of the area and taken to a nearby hospital.

Dorner allegedly shot and killed Police Officer Michael Crain, a decorated U.S. Marine, on Feb. 7. He was married and had two children. (Reuters).

UPDATE III: It appears that the situation has turned into a tense standoff. We will bring you important updates as they become available.

UPDATE IV: LAPD Officer Andrew Smith, commander of media affairs, made a quick statement on the situation and took some questions from members of the press.

“LAPD sent resources to San Bernardino,” he said, adding that they are “waiting for authorization to assist,” but “only if asked.”

“We are continuing to work clues while events in San Bernardino unfold,” he said.

When asked by a reporter whether the gunman is actually Dorner, Smith answered, “Until we get this guy in custody — until in hand cuffs and in jail — we’re not going to know for sure.”

“Everyone is very hopeful that this thing ends without further bloodshed, he said, “the best thing for him would be to surrender and we can take him into custody.”

“If he is watching this, the message for him is, ‘enough is enough,’” he said. “”It’s time to turn yourself in. It’s time to stop the bloodshed. It’s time to let this bloodshed be over.”

Smith also stressed that there is nothing at this time to confirm whether Dorner has hostages with him in the cabin (contrary to earlier reports).

UPDATE V: CBS and Fox affiliates in L.A. and CNN are reporting that one of the two deputies injured in today’s firefight has died.

UPDATE VI: The cabin is now on fire and CNN is reporting that a SWAT team is using a heavy vehicle to breach the building.

However, CBS L.A. is also reporting that, based on tracks leading away from the cabin to a nearby horse corral, there is a small possibility that the gunman may have escaped. But that’s all speculation.

Also, it bears repeating: It is still unconfirmed at this time whether the gunman inside the cabin is actually suspected cop kill Christopher Dorner.

UPDATE VII: Per a CBS affiliate on the scene in Big Bear, Calif., police officers have started to relax, some even smoking cigarettes, and it’s highly unlikely that whoever is holed up inside the burning inferno (if there is indeed someone in there) is coming out alive.

“This may, in fact, be over,” said the CBS reporter.

Final Update: It looks like we’re one step closer to bringing this story to a close. From the L.A. Times:

A body was found inside the burned out cabin Tuesday night where Christopher Jordan Dorner was believed to have kept law enforcement authorities at bay before officers fired tear gas into the structure, a source told The Times.

The body, which was found in the charred rubble of the mountainside cabin, was not positively identified, the source said. The process of making a determination whether the body is that of the former Los Angeles Police Department officer could take hours or even days, the source said.

As authorities moved into the cabin earlier Tuesday, they heard a single gunshot.

Final Update II: Sorry, folks. False alarm.

In a troubling turn of events, the LAPD has put out a statement saying that no body has been extracted from the house and no one has been identified. As of this writing, it’s too hot for recovery teams to move in and look for the gunman’s remains (which, now that we think about it, makes complete sense. Apologies).

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ImWatchingYouAll
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:29pm
And now they are burning down the house of some poor individual. :(

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- PJL
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:36pm
  Hey, He is killing people. Replaceable cabin, non replaceable Dad.
  
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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:41pm
  This is why people and LE departments have insurance. “Flash-bangs” often set off structure fires. However, it not known if the suspect possibly started the fire before pulling the trigger and offing himself either. Report is of a single gunshot just prior to the black smoke rolling out of the cabin.
  
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DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:28pm
Let me get this straight. This guy’s manifesto shows he hates whites, gun owners, & conservatives. The leftist LAPD is being forced to go after him when most of them agree with him only because he wants to kill them. Do they not realize the campaignerNthief will treat them the same way? This is too rich. I hope they form a circle & all fire till no one is left standing. Wait that sounded harsh. No never mind at this point I do feel a little harsh about how the partisan left has shown so much hate & called for all civil citizens to be hunted & killed just for disagreeing with them. The partisanship is here to stay now & if that’s the way they want it then that’s the way it will be. Expect me to respond in kind.

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- PJL
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:37pm
  This is the SBCS dept!!!!!
  
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PJL
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:28pm
Just hart sick, that he killed the deputy, I know some of the deputies in the Big Bear area, all good people.

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Advection
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:25pm
Last report is the cabin is engulfed in flames.

I bet that insane leftwing narcissist started a fire then committed suicide. He thought he was too special to be taken alive or even leave a corpse.

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alinskythis
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:25pm
And how much do you love the fact that they have cleared the area of any cameras or helicopters who might actually catch them in their lies, like they did at Sandy Hook???

Oh, and how much do you love that “Occupy” types are out at the scene with signs “Don’t kill Dorner!”

Seriously???

REALLY???

Still believe all this is real?

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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:32pm
  Yes it is real! Not everything is a conspiracy ya know!
  
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- Bluedog78
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:29am
  Anyone who thinks that sandy hook didn’t happen is certifiable, just sayin………………hope you don’t share your opinions with anybody in real life, just keep it on the internet pal…
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:24pm
I say again. I want Sworn Testimony, Under Oath, in Open Court, subject to Cross examination and discovery.
THEN they can chop him.

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:23pm
One of those Waco fires is going to take him out. A one man suicide cult?

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jamestoms
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:23pm
This is a spoiled brat, selfish little runt, I suspect over the years he has killed lots of people, they just don’t know it!

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alinskythis
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:22pm
Okay, again, I’m not focused on conspiracy theories, and I don’t like digging for them, but dang, if every time I do even one internet search, the jaw-dropping things I find are mind-blowing, and I cannot believe more people don’t understand the incredible hoaxes being constantly perpetrated on us!

Check out just this one web page on the Gabby Giffords’ shooting – I don’t even know how I got there – and see the so-called SHERIFF of Clackamas County, Lt. JAMES RHODES, is actually DAVID PFLOUFFE, THAT MAN’s 2008 Presidential Campaign Manager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME PERSON!!!

http://www.wellaware1.com/clackamas.htm

Until very recently, I posited that they were just lame at all these hoaxes, but now I believe there is a TOTAL element of cat-and-mouse game-playing, to see if we “stupid cockroaches” can figure it out.

Take that INSANE mural in the Denver airport. They WANT us to figure it out.

I’m sorry, but from now on, with any other of these overblown, dramatic, violent “incidents” I’m STARTING at conspiracy theory and working from there.

You need to understand that utterly controlling us hinges on one thing only, and that is their Truman Show dual-reality campaign.

They are treating “us” and “them” to completely different realities, and the gap between them is widening FAST.

Understanding that one thing is 90% of dumping the wind right out of the sails of the New World Order,

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FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:19pm
Better watch out, before this is over whoever may even chance to wound this animal will be a redneck, racist, etc. etc. etc.

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- jamestoms
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:24pm
  Right but he is a coward!
  
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:36pm
  If they did kill him, then I expect LA will bare the brunt of an uprising citizenry.
  
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LBJDIDIT1963
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:11pm
Deputy he shot this afternoon dies, Wife just had thier child. Kill this magot! Burn him down!!

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:21pm
  Not till we get sworn testimony in open court.
  
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- PJL
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:30pm
  Ohh, just sick about the deputy and family.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:55pm
  LBJ,
  Do you want to know what cops do after they kill somebody’s father, brother, or relative? They go up to the trigger puller, back slap him, and offer to buy he/she a beer. Then they all go out and laugh about it together.
  
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Heybub13
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:07pm
Some of you people desperately need to get a hold of yourself. Wow. Scary. And we call the LEFT extreme. Unreal. This guy is a murderer. I don’t care how mistreated he feels, NOTHING warrants taking the lives that he did. And to take joy in the fact that police are being killed. Sick. How did this become about the police coming to take your guns, rights, and lives???? WTH? Maybe some of you should unplug from your ‘anti-everything’ websites for a few days. If you really think that the police officers of America are in any way lock step with taking away lawful citizens’ guns or rights, you are simply drinking the contaminated kool-aid. Try to let go of your paranoia and hate sometime and join us here in reality. I’ll save you a seat.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:20pm
  Miss the part where they near riddled two innocent women with bullets for the Heinous Crime of being in a pickup that vaguely resembled the suspect’s? Not the only incident of Lax Fire Discipline. NOr of “unreasonable” search. Where the LaPed hasn’t been Cowardly in this they have been Incompetent. Where they have been neither they have been Venal.
  I’ll listen to your implied defense of them when they put up 1 mill for the killer of a Wal-Mart greeter.
  The ONLY person who CAN be trusted with Power over others is the kind who would REJECT the “thin blue crew” concept of “one of our own” with “MY OWN are those I am sworn to PROTECT!”
  I regard Dorner as a Self-entitled Black Racist POS, but I have not seen where the LaPed has shown themselves to be any more Honest, Truthful, or having more Integrity than him.
  
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- atcmc50
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:21pm
  Are you related to any Feinsteins?
  
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:41pm
  Yes I agree, The police are being viewed as the enemy Waaaay too much and this is dangerous. If not them to protect us, then who? We can’t start all over without chaos. I do believe some people actually want chaos in the streets, they can’t wait to see it but they forget it will be real and not on TV but right outside their own front doors or for that matter in their own homes. The only guilty party here is Dorner. No one else! He murdered a 19 year old and to me that just a baby still. She had nothing to do with his sick twisted life.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:56pm
  ChiefGeorge 7:41
  “If not them to protect us then who?”
  Why not ourselves?
  And can an Objective Observer avoid the cogent conclusion that the FIRST thing being protected here is the LaPed? “One of our own” of “thin blue crew”.
  When they put up 1mil for the killer of a Wal-Mart greeter I’ll consider your point. Chief.
  Until then my recent experience, reversing a previous lifetime of respect for the badge, has taught me the hard way that most cops are NOT noticeably more Truthful, Honest, Just, or Full of Integrity then their fellow dumbcits. But they DO have a Pack Loyalty that is very similar to the Street Gangs they hunt.
  
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- Bluedog78
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:38am
  @ the big, Nobody is justifying the cops shooting the women in the blue truck. And stop acting like every cop in America is responsible for that incident. Those guys should be fired and prosecuted. But you and I know if that had never happened, you would still be cheering this guy on and hoping for more blood in the streets.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:33pm
  Look around folks. We have an out of control federal govt monster on the loose, criminal politicians taking their marching orders from unknown foreign entities, printing money like no tomorrow, creating horrible nazi-like organizations to oppress us, and who is at the fore front of all of this? The cops. They protect the criminal politicians because they bestow inordinate privileges, money and benefits to them. Instead of arresting these vermin, they side with them against us average peons. That is why they are scorned and hated. They have lost their way. Just take one look at the typical SWAT goon and tell me that is a cop. That is not a cop. They are killers doing the bidding of criminal politicians. I think the same of all crooks. I don’t admire those that protect those that are ruining our country. I wish the worst upon them all.
  
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PJL
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:05pm
He wont get out of our mountains the San Bernardino sheriffs dept will get him and now that he killed one our theirs go our to the family. Dorner is Pig. and deserves no quarter from the SBFD.

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SolitudeBliss
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:04pm
Obama should send in the Drones.

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- Advection
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:29pm
  Obama would send in the lawyers. This guy is/was a leftwing hero!
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:04pm
How insenstive of him to upstage the SOTU this way.

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FIREANDBRIMSTONE
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:00pm
YAWN! Just another irrelevant story that the pro-gun violence right wing has conjured up into its own national hype. Fortunately most rational Americans could care less about this insignificant person and have to get on with their own lives. Let old right wingers feed on this fodder. As they have nothing better to do in their nursing homes.

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- PJL
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:09pm
  You are a ASS. I live up here. Perhaps you will face a home invasion some day and will wish one of your 2nd armament nabours would come to your rescue, you dolt.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:13pm
  I see you are unfamiliar with CD’s Manifesto. Firestone.
  He’s got a man crush on JoeBiteme.
  Your kind of guy.
  And aren’t you the tiniest bit concerned the LaPed might be covering up for abusive and racist cops?
  Wasn’t that the whole point to Rodney King and The OJ Verdict?
  I’m disappointed in you Rimstone.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:13pm
  FYI idiot the obese coward murdering innocent people is a lefty like you and pretty much all murdering cowards are lefties ie progressives,communists or anarchists. This story is so insignificant yet you took the time to expose your idiocy.
  
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Soul Leister
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:59pm
Just imagine a world without guns (?)… then people would be killing each other with knives, bows and arrows, fists, sticks, buckets of gasoline, etc (maybe a good ole fashioned strangling either bare handed or with a rope)… heck, if we were more intelligent we cold fashion our own poisons, nerve agents and biologic problem solvers (thank god the union goons pretending to be teachers are really only glorified baby sitters… able to barely make mindless consumers of the children placed in their care)… poisons and such are reserved for the higher educated (socially retarded) amoung us… That’s right I’m in that group too just like the rest of you holier than thou bloggers, no eat you vegetables or there will be no desert..

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Bonnieblue2A
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:59pm
LA Times reporting one of the deputies injured in the earlier shootout with Dorner has died from his wounds. Sad. I hope LE finishes this swiftly before Dorner murders yet again.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/manhunt-deputy-dies-after-shootout.html

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alinskythis
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:58pm
One important thing is always reminding oneself that just because “they” or “someone” SAYS SO, does that make it true?

Do we just accept all of this insanity, over and over and over, without question or investigation or analysis?

Or, as they LOVE to do, use someone CLAIMING to be an authority figure of some kind – a cop, fireman, EMT, etc., or a “friend” “acquaintance” or “coworker” of the shooters or victims, to convince you of their credibility.

Just one example of this method is victimizing someone, then bringing forth a bunch of phony witnesses who claim to “know” the victim and vilifies them, or who “knows someone who knows” the victim, and vilifies that victim to project the perpetrators’ guilt away from themselves.

Are we simply believing whatever we are told, and believing it because we want to, or it’s easier?

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- girlnurse
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:19pm
  Exactly! I take EVERYTHING this lying media tells me with a grain of salt. Much of it is manufactured and/or propaganda.
  
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One of the Quiet Ones
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:57pm
Also this would be a good argument against police not having personal firearms. I am not advocating that but it would be a good argument. Cause it isn’t about the millions who don’t commit crimes. It is about saving the few. I really don’t mean to sound or be callous to those who have died or their families.

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- Soul Leister
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:02pm
  That would interfere with there narcisistic power trip… always packing heat and can’t wait until their next shift to use it.
  
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- Bluedog78
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:40am
  No it wouldn’t, but maybe it would be a good argument against fired cops owning guns. How about that?? Idiot…
  
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atcmc50
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:55pm
Just finished dinner and checked back in with the Blaze. Have the LAPD shot any innocents lately?

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barber2
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:55pm
This topic brings out all of the Van Jones’ / anarchists / Chicago radicals who hate cops, the military, America, capitalism, Christianity , and all laws. These jerks will be Obama’s Shock Troops for their long desired ” revolution” to really change America !

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- freeberty
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:35pm
  You and the anarchists, it’s like a broken record with you and nobody’s buying it.
  
  We all know that the all the parasites currently taking a government check will steal more money and freedoms from the American people then any washed-up loser anarchist.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:14pm
  The Barber is just sick of them defecating all over the place. An anarchist has a problem with let’s say, a bicycle, he defecates on the bike, if he doesn’t like cops, again he defecates. Then ………
  
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One of the Quiet Ones
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:54pm
For the conspiracy minded, since his name is Dorner which you can rearrange somewhat to Drone(r) maybe it is to get you to think Drone strike. Drone strike him. Perfect candidate to execute a US citizen on soil. Not against a normal citizen but a former law enforcement agent. PERFECT TARGET!

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Lear35Pilot
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:49pm
Is it possible that anyone is praying for the possible hostage as there must be one lest they would have smoked this guy instantly??. No cause for waste of futher millions dealing with him. Just call in a Seal Team and it will be handled quickly! :-))

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Soul Leister
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:46pm
Dorner, passed all his required “background checks” with flying colors… had no problem buying guns, ammo, magazines… all legally… no congressional laws being proposed by the liberals would have stopped him (or anyone else). Congress has proven to be too incompetent to even properly identify the problems we face, impeach ‘em all). Congress needs to stop trying to take our guns away and spend money identifying the mentally deranged (they are the ones killing people). Guns don’t kill people anymore than spoons make you fat or pencils cause students to fail tests.

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- Lear35Pilot
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:53pm
  AMEN BROTHER! We do not have a “Gun or Magazine” problem – we have a mental illness, morality and parental deficit problem.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:10pm
  Soul,
  If Congress concentrated on making sure all of the mentally deranged people don’t have guns they would disarm half the cops in this country. And we know they will NEVER get rid of their body guards.
  
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