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Hate Crime? Family Research Council Shooter Posed as an Intern — Carried Chick-fil-A Bag

The armed man who walked into the Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council and reportedly shot a security guard Wednesday morning has been identified as Floyd Corkins, 28, of Virginia, NBC News reports.

Corkins was taken into custody by the FBI following the shooting and was being interviewed.

Family Research Council Shooter Identified as Floyd Corkins, 28, Carried Chick fil A Bag

Local and federal investigators work to gather evidence after a security guard was shot in the arm at the headquarters of the Family Research Council August 15, 2012 in Washington, DC. The shooter is in FBI custody and has not yet been charged, authorities said. (Credit: Getty Images)

“We don’t know enough yet about him … or mentally what he’s thinking,” said James McJunkin, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office.

The guard, who was an employee of the FRC, was taken to a hospital in stable condition after being shot.

“Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today,” the group’s president, Tony Perkins, said in a statement.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said in a statement that he was appalled by the shooting. “There is no place for such violence in our society,” he said. “My prayers go out to the wounded security guard and his family, as well as all the people at the Family Research Council whose sense of security has been shattered by today’s horrific events.”

The Family Research Council advocates conservative positions on social issues and strongly opposes gay marriage and abortion. Fox News reports that Corkins posed as an intern and was carrying a Chick-fil-A bag with him during the attack.

Sources told Fox News that after guard took away his gun, the suspect said, “Don’t shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for.”

Perkins was an outspoken defender of Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy’s public stand against same-sex marriage, which made the fast-food chain a flashpoint in the nation’s culture wars. The Cathy family foundation has funded the Family Research Council.

“He’s taking a bold stand,” Perkins said after Cathy’s comments were reported. “Chick-fil-A is a Bible-based, Christian-based business who treats their employees well. They have been attacked in the past about their stand. But they refuse to budge on this matter, and I commend them for what they are doing.”

More from Fox News:

UPDATE: The Associated Press has learned that Corkins had been volunteering at a community center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people before his attack.

A law enforcement official has identified the suspect arrested in Wednesday’s shooting as Floyd Corkins II of Herndon, Va. Investigators were interviewing his neighbors.

Another official says the shooter made a negative reference about the work of the Family Research Council before opening fire. The officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.

David Mariner is executive director of The DC Center for the LGBT Community. He says Corkins had been volunteering at the center for about the past 6 months. Mariner describes Corkins as “kind, gentle and unassuming.”

This story is breaking and will be updated.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:09pm

    If reports of what the man said and speculation about his motivation are true, then this needs to be condemned soundly and loudly by anyone and everyone who supports equal rights for homosexuals.

    We should not be like the anti-homosexual crowd who ignores, dismisses violence against homosexuals or even tries to say it was made up, a hoax.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:31pm

      I would condemn these actions regardless of motive–there is, of course, no justification for this kind of violence.

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    • team1blazer
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:33pm

      Excuse me Brucy, but it was the homosexual who shot the guard. Go take another hit on your crack pipe.

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    • the_system_disconnect
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:50pm

      Agreed, Bruce.

      I posted this to a group of liberals that I know and some of them even said things like they thought they did this to themselves to make them look like victims.

      Speak the truth in love.

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    • tarm778
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:00pm

      Good to read that Gov. Romney condemned this domestic terrorist act by this anti-freedom, militant gay fascist.
      Wonder when President Downgrade’s condemnation will come?

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    • weisja4
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:27pm

      It already has:
      http://www.glaad.org/blog/lgbt-organizations-release-joint-statement-regarding-shooting-family-research-council-frc

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:28pm

      DID YOU SEE THE HUFFINGTON POST POST THAT THE FRC IS A PLACE OF ‘HATRED’ ( http://tiny.cc/0ps3iw )

      They are like Biden… UNHINGED. They need to check themselves before some accuses them of insiting violence of this gunman.

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    • Latte Sipping Lefty
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:36pm

      It was denounced by a bunch of pro-GLBT groups.

      http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/joint-statement-from-lgbt-organizations-on-frc-shooting

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:43pm

      Bruce is right for once except for one thing. Yes, the Left should condemn this behavior, but then Bruce virtually paints the entirety of Conservatives as being anti-gay and violent. It’s a small number of people that are driven by bigotry and hatred… FAR more hate and intolerance comes from the Left, but they usually remain silent with their own evils. Most of the people on the Right do condemn this behavior and do it most every time.
      I’ve had a couple of gay friends. I have no problem with them if they don‘t do perverse things in public and don’t obsessively talk about it. A few years ago, I even asked a black lesbian if she would like to move in with me, but she was afraid to live in a mostly white community. I had a boss that was black, but he had no problems living here at all. Just the opposite. I was talking with him about my desire to work in another country. He said (this isn’t an exact quote, but it’s in context), “I have actually found it very nice being a minority. Everyone always treats me very nicely. I think you might find it nice living as a minority too.” Of course that depends on the society.
      People walk on eggshells around him. I’m different from the Liberals though. I wasn’t afraid to talk about his experiences as a black in an almost all white community. He even seemed to like me more than my coworkers simply for ignoring those “politically correct eggshells.”

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    • venerablebede
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:55pm

      Janet Napolitano‘s Homeland Security should now put ’Gay Supremacist’ groups on her watch list.

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    • QuincySmith
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:01pm

      bruce;

      Would you agree that, if facts prove reports correct, this SHOULD be treated as a HATE crime?

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    • hillbillyinny
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:08pm

      Sorry @fastfacts, in 2010 the Southern Poverty Law group already named the Family Research Council as a HATE GROUP! I disagree with the listing, vehemently! But, as long as they remain targeted by the left, they will be in danger!!!

      I guess the test is now, “If you disagree with me, you are hateful; and if your are part of a “group,“ you are a hate group”!

      Wow, we are going “somewhere” fast. and not in a hand basket!

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    • Seasoldier
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:21pm

      Add your comments Who’s promoting and committing violence and spreading hatred? Who is attacking freedom of speech and freedom of association? Who is leading vigilante-style attacks on anyone who disagrees with them? Who is attacking the right to free exercise of religion? Did those who insisted upon a boycott of Chick-fil-A incite this man to become a shooter? Isn’t it time to call out the radical Left Wing elitists and their associated “special interest” organizations? And isn’t it time to pray for the victim, the intended victims, and the shooter in this incident and for everyone on both sides of the issue that is apparently at the bottom of this tragedy?

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    • RSHLUVER
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:28pm

      This is a clear example of domestic terrorism. I will not hold my breath waiting for Obama to call Tony Perkins with his condolences.

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    • Macman1138
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:41pm

      Add your commentsSounds like a hate crime to me….

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    • Herc11254
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:42pm

      Add your commentsThe only reason accusations of fabrication are made about these claims is because time and time again investigation PROVES them to be fabricated.

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    • tonykey
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:49pm

      As time goes on the sodomites expose their true nature. They pretend to be poor persecuted victims but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. Isnt this the logical outcome of the violent hateful rhetoric of people like Dan Savage, who typifies the common homos state of mind. I know from personal experience and have material evidence that sodomites are violent, hateful, criminal, lawless, malicious, malnevolent bullys and bigots.

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    • tonykey
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:54pm

      This event exposes the tru nature of the sodomites. Isnt this the natural outcome of the rhetoric of people like Dan Savage who typifies the homosexual mindset. I hope ppl wake up to see the reality that I have personally discovered long ago, Homosexuals are violent lawless criminals.

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    • EmmieO
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 9:26pm

      “We should not be like the anti-homosexual crowd who ignores, dismisses violence against homosexuals or even tries to say it was made up, a hoax.” ??? A bit on the profiling side! You sure have a funny way of celebrating tolerance and diversity. It is hypocritical, arrogant, and intellectually dishonest for you to brand all who disagree with you as hateful. I would consider myself, as you say “anti-homosexual”, I am a Christian and it is the practice of homosexuality that I am against, not the homosexual. I would never give a wink to violence against any person or animal. I would not associate with anyone who called themselves a Christian who would. The true issue here is the majority being kicked around by the minority. As long as Christians turn the other cheek and stay silent we have our rights trampled on. We all hear God’s warning shots and will prayerfully be at the polls to get this country back on track. At the risk of sounding hostile, I can not understand why anyone who truly, hates the laws of a land they are living in, stay.

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    • chazmo
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:04pm

      another dope that can’t read.. wth happened to reading comprehension in this country..

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    • TIME_THE_AVENGER
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:35pm

      you don’t pronounce your name bruth by any chance, do u u salty dog u

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    • chicago76
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 4:49am

      I doubt the Feds will investigate it as a hate crime. “No hate here, move along.”

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:28am

      Look, the shooting a gay person is NO more heinous than the shooting of any other human being. This business about the severity of a crime being predicated upon the race or sexual orientation of the victim is one of the reasons why we are on the cusp of civil war in this country-picking and choosing the demographic groups to value and those to shun. This kind of “grading” has never ended well for the graders.

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    • Locked
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:57am

      One day I hope people will learn that no matter what someone believes or who they are aligned with, some people are just crazy and will hurt others if given the opportunity and ability.

      This man doesn’t mean gays are violent any more than Anders Behring Breivik meant Christians are violent. It means that there’re extremists in the world, and if given the chance they will act out.

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    • aggiebrewer
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 10:21am

      Wow. So Bruce, can you point to the stories where Homosexuals have been murdered and people who do not like gay marriage celebrated the death of the homosexual? I think if you will actually look at the scale, the “pro gay marriage” crowd tips it overwhelmingly to their side with hatred and violence. But lets not let reality concern you when it comes to a polititcal agenda.

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    • ERP
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 2:28pm

      Somewhere out there…

      @Encicome is quietly celebrating the life of Floyd Corkins and his courage.

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  • Depressed_American
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:05pm

    Where is the outrage, the indignation from the Left. Oh this fellow has been identified as being from the Left fringe of Society, so they keep their mouths shut. I am supprrised they are not on the State-Controlled News Media praising this mans bravery…….

    WHERE IS THE NATIONAL NEWS ALL OVER THIS STORY. There is no REAL news in America anymore, welcome to the United Soviet States Of America’s (USSA) STATE CONTROLLED NEWS MEDIA!!!!

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:16pm

      this is ONN (Obama News Network).

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    • angelcat
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:21pm

      They will probably just label it workplace violence since many on the left think the FRC deserved it or instigated such violence by not agreeing with gay marriage and other sacred cows of the left. You ca bt the president or one of his representatives won’t be lecturing us about how the vitriol of the left is encouraging such behavior.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:34pm

      To be fair, the scale of this act is nothing compared to what happened in Aurora or at the Sikh Temple. That said, it’s an absolutely terrible thing, and unjustifiable no matter what the motives. I am just happy that no one else was hurt.

      A security guard shot in the arm–just business as usual in the NRA’s America, eh?

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    • Rajabear1
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:06pm

      @PubliusPencilman-for once, you are somewhat correct, but one BIG difference between this shooting and the other 2, 3 if you count Giffords/Tuscon—THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE WITH GUNS TO STOP HIM. They had the confidence to tackle him because they were armed. Guarantee that it would have been worse had none of the guards were armed. So many lives could have been saved and injuries avoided at the other shootings had there have been any type of concealed carry folks allowed…at least it would have shifted the odds…
      Side note:What a freakin puss, begging not to be shot and to be given the chance to live considering he gave no option to the person he aimed a gun at for no reason. At least they had a reason to drill a hole in him–and didn’t.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:41pm

      PUBLIUSPENCILMAN

      Ignorance like what you just spewed across my screen is the exact problem with the left. You spew platitudes and ill informed crap without having a clue as to what you are speaking about. Acts like this are not those of law abiding people and certainly not the kind of gun play promoted by the NRA. IF you had the slightest idea of what you were talking about you would know that the NRA promotes not only lawful ownership of firearms but proper and responsible handling of firearms. But leave it to an ignorant tool such as yourself to demagogue and falsely portray an organization that is honorable and certainly doing more for the citizenry of this country then that empty suit that is currently squatting in the oval office. So please cut the crap and at least try to make an honest argument instead of inane BS like you posted here (lets face it, you have mastered the inane in almost all if not all of your postings on the Blaze).

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    • 1forthegoodguy
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:08pm

      So….right after the Sikh Temple massacre, you guys were saying things like: “oh this is left wing terrorist” “he is an imposter” “it was a plot by the Obama administration” and the worst of these were the comments that actually condoned the shooting, that the shooter had had it up to here with illegals, immigrants, and Muslims….so we really can’t blame him. I am sure as hell not going to copy and paste. You’ll have to go back and look. Comments such as these are probably still there. Those commenting seemed proud of their comments and most others supported them. Now, some alleged lefty wounds someone in the arm (we don’t have any of the facts we have had after the Sikh shooting, yet) and you guys are crying about how violent the left is and how Obama is coddling the shooter, its a left wing conspiracy…on and on…..You Tea Party extreme right wingers are revolting, disgusting, anti-American, hypocrites. And I credit Glenn Beck with leading you down that path.

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    • Angry Redneck
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 9:29pm

      To: 1forthegoodguy
      What The hell is your problem! The Tea Party is not the problem; they just want their country back! You on the other hand just want to blame the problem on some group you disagree with. Pull your head out of your A$$! Think for yourself for once in your life!

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    • Duddio
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 1:59am

      @1forthegoodguy: No, the Sikh temple shooter was a racist, a skin head, neo-nazi national socialist. The facist side of the left. The other side of the coin from a communist. Skinheads are not right-wing, they are just as big leftists as the commies and socialists.

      In the Temple shooting, there was no one to confront and stop the shooter. At FRC, there was a guard who did an admirable job of stopping the terrorist with a political agenda. This yet another violent leftist hate-filled attack. The kind that was completely absent during the explosion of the Tea Party protests. That’s because conservative libertarians are willing to argue it out at town halls, debates, the ballot box, and with community groups.

      Your antipathy toward the intended victim of this crime is telling.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:05am

      Rajabear,

      You’re really stretching there. You insist that someone with a gun will make a difference, but since no gun was actually used during the subduing of the subject, you assume it must be the “confidence” the guy had because he had a gun. That just smells to high heaven my friend.

      Your argument is really that “guns help tackle people”?

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:07am

      HiFi,

      It is the NRA’s relentless lobbying that ensures anyone who wants a gun for any reason can get one. The NRA is not and has not for quite a while been merely for responsible gun ownership.

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:03pm

    Well gee,the Southern Poverty Law Center has the Family Research people on its list of “hate groups”, so…, I mean, Family Research must be bad, right?

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:52pm

      If the only ‘research’ you’re doing is in the Bible then yes, it is.

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    • tarm778
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:03pm

      The communist admiring SPLC labels anyone or any group that follows a traditional moral value system as “haters” or “hate groups”.

      They are a despicable and corrupt organization down to their very core.

      tarm778  
    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:59pm

      In both articles, trolls occupied the top posts. This must be corrected.

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  • floradaze
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:00pm

    Isn’t Washington DC one of those places where guns are outlawed? Didn’t this guy realize he was breaking the law by bringing a gun to the Nations Capitol?

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:22pm

      The D.C. Handgun Ban was overturned by the courts in 2008. It’s time to update your talking points.

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    • makamae
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:02pm

      Publius – the supremes may have overturned the law, but DC hasn’t done anything about it, yet. One still would have a very difficult time getting permission to legally carry a gun in DC

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    • ENIGMA28724
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:10pm

      Actually not totally outlawed, but you pretty much have to have a permission slip from God or Obama to own one, much less carry in public. Homeland Security is going to be so busy watching all the might-be terrorists they won’t be able to catch the real terrorists before they execute their plots.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 4:58am

      Publiuspencilman – Supremes struck down the DC restricions but you still can‘t purchase a legal gun in the district and you can’t get a CHL. The DC Government will try every manuver they can think of to keep from complying with the findings.
      This is a city where even the school board members have drivers and the drivers are armed Police Officers. The people in power don’t want to change the rules. An armed populace scares them as bad as it does Sweet Old Barack.

      OMG Nov 6, 2012

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  • Amarilloan
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:58pm

    This occurs while some consider Cathy’s comments “hate”. What is more hateful than a bullet when used to get your point accross?

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:17pm

      Cathy certainly supports groups that thrive off of hatred.

      While this act was certainly hateful and extremely vulgar, the groups Cathy supports are far more harmful than a single bullet to an arm.

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    • Flag-Man
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:40pm

      Bruce P; You must be really stupid

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    • SonOfThunder
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:40pm

      Repent Bruce and you will be saved if you trust in Jesus. Turn from your sin and turn to the Savior Lord Jesus. The hate I see comes from you.

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    • Just_Us2
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:43pm

      “While this act was certainly hateful and extremely vulgar, the groups Cathy supports are far more harmful than a single bullet to an arm.”

      I could say the same thing about Obama’s choices of groups he supports, like Rev Wright’s church, the Black Panthers, NAACP….all extremely harmful groups. So I guess it’s OK to shoot people we disagree with and find harmful….is that what you are saying?

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:50pm

      Bruce – the act of trying to justify or legitimize an act of terrorism is more damaging than any point of view – hateful or not. Have the debate. But if you go to bat for this guy’s actions — you lose.

      Silversmith

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    • tarm778
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:57pm

      Bruce,

      Your comments demonstrate how ethical and moral poverty often run in tandem.

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    • RajCaj
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:09pm

      @Bruce

      That little harmless bullet to the shoulder was 4 inches from his heart (thank god limbs don’t know how to shoot)

      Still morally equivalent now?

      What if the guard wasn’t there…..and pulled off something closer to the magnitude of Aurora, CO?

      Still morally equivalent now?

      It‘s that kind of thinking that causes a radical that thinks he’s evening the score by killing people to make up for gays not getting tax and inheritance benefits.

      It doesn’t take a piece of paper from a justice of the peace to love someone, and spend the rest of your life with the person you love. Get off the travesty of human rights bit!

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    • chazmo
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:22pm

      @flagman he is. ignore the troll

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    • chazmo
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:26pm

      hey bruce define their hatred by using facts, not liberal spin. Explain in detail what you have see from the Family Research Center that is hate… You know as an example. I hate a kracker… every idota of a kracker.. something like that.. Saying you support traditional marriage is not hate.. so give me some examples of FRC hating..

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:24pm

      FLAG-MAN — tell us where I am wrong.

      SONOFTHUNDER — Sorry, I prefer liberty and reason over the fear and oppression of religion. Thank you anyway.

      JUST_US2 — “So I guess it’s OK to shoot people we disagree with and find harmful….is that what you are saying?”

      Nice attempt at a straw-man argument and nice attempt at a red-herring argument. No one brought up the groups that Obama supports or tried to draw a moral equivalency to them. Nor did I say that it is okay to shoot people you disagree with; in fact, you quoted me saying just the opposite.

      SILVERSMITH — perhaps you missed the line where I condemned the man’s actions as hateful? I am having the debate, someone said that if Cathy supports hate-groups, it is far more hateful to shot someone. My argument is that yes, it is hateful to shoot someone, but do not let such vulgar displays blind us to the far more powerful, and insidious form of hatred that people such as Cathy promote.

      TARM — how is it ethically or morally poor to point out a singular vulgar display of hate does not carry the weight of a far more powerful, insidious and ongoing promotion of hate?

      RAJCAJ — red herring argument. No one is making a morally equivalent argument. The attacker shot someone. He should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:57pm

      As to why the Family Research Council is a hate group, you want facts? Here are some…

      They have supported the myth that homosexuals are pedophiles, something that is not supported by any scientific research. They cite the American College of Pediatricians, which is a purposefully deceptive name, meant to be confused with the American Academy of Pediatricians. The ACA is a extreme right group not affiliated with the AAP, more concerned with the promotion of politics and religion than with science.

      A senior research fellow at the FRC has called for homosexuals to be deported. Further, he has said that homosexuality should be criminalized.

      (Source: http://tinyurl.com/27lhrh2)

      Now, if you disagree with this, debate the FACTS. Tell us why they are wrong. Do not engage in Bulverism and simply dismiss them as “liberal, therefore wrong.” Tell us how they got the facts wrong.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 11:59pm

      At the end of the day, whether FRC is a hate group or not is irrelevant. No one there deserved to be shot and the gunman deserves to be in prison, no matter his motivation.

      My only point is do not let one vulgar display of hate blind us to more powerful and insidious forms of hate.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 12:05am

      CHAZMO — only the closed-minded and fear-filled seek to ignore contrary opinions, terrified they may have to actually think.

      And you are right. Saying you support traditional marriage is not hateful.

      However, it is curious you would accuse me of “liberal spin” when the phrase “pro traditional marriage” is one of spin. It is clear that phrase often employed as Orwellian double-speak. One is not “pro” something simply because they hate something else. Scoundrels use the term “pro-traditional marriage“ because it sounds far more pleasant than ”I hate homosexuals.” Hating homosexuals does absolutely nothing to help any heterosexual marriage. If you support traditional marriage, then show it by supporting traditional marriage, not attacking homosexuals.

      It is the same as saying, “I‘m not against women’s suffrage, I’m just for traditional gender roles.“ Or ”I’m not anti-black, I’m just pro-slavery.” Hyperbolic examples to be sure, but a clear thinking person can see the point.

      Cathy and company, despite hiding behind the “pro traditional marriage” label have shown support for venomously hateful groups, such as the American Family Association, who has promoted criminalizing gays, deporting gays, kidnapping the children of gays, behind boycotts of stores that hire gays, the killing of promiscuous straights, has attacked “Jewish-control” of the media, attacked Sikhism for a Sikh prayer in Congress, attacked American Indians,

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:30am

      Bruce – you lose. You continue to suggest that Cathy’s views are more more hateful than this violence. You are missing the idea that violence is a different kind of expression than anything Cathy is saying or doing. Agree, disagree, use your finances, have the debate. Using violence takes this to an entire new place. It corrupts the discourse. It commits us to a different form of interaction, and because it abandons the discussion, it changes peoples mind about the issue. Disagreement does not intrinsically make an argument hateful. And once words like hate and evil are used with such ease in the discussion, it isn’t long before some sweaty browed finger pointer takes out a gun.

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    • DareToBeWise
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 4:27pm

      @Bruce P: Let me guess… you’re a brony? Would explain a few things.

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    • tarm778
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:06pm

      Bruce,

      If you had one honest answer, it would die of loneliness.

      The false rumors about the Chick Fil A and FRC supporting the death penalty for gays in Uganda are debunked here:
      http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/family_research_council_explai.html

      You do realized that you’ve made a judgement call on the FRC and Chick Fil A, and you are, in fact, discriminating against them.

      How does it feel to be such a bigot, Bruce?

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    • Ohello
      Posted on August 18, 2012 at 11:52am

      BrucyBoy
      Pedophiles that like young boys are homosexuals unless they are women, then they are sickos.
      Pedophiles that like young girls are sickos, unless they are women then they are homosexual lesbian sickos.
      That makes Mohammad a sicko at least, and probably a homosexual sicko since in muslim culture you are only a homosexual sicko if you are on the receiving end.

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:58pm

    This gay killer is a TEACHER, for gosh sake ………….. of our CHILDREN !@

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:04pm

      i love my job, but the hypocrisy, bigotry, and blindness of my colleagues is breathtaking. i’m still trying to fight the good fight and save minds. believe it.

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  • Parrid1
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:57pm

    Must have been the Tea Party people, right Harry? Those crazy lawn chair people!

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  • JQuentinEvermann
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:56pm

    OBVIOUSLY a T.E.A. Party member…unless he isn’t, and then he’s “mentally unstable” or a “product of a broken home.”

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  • Deibido
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:56pm

    Oh, its not about you… it’s just that you need to attend our re-education camps in the desert.

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:05pm

      so say the maoists, stalinists, khmer rouge, and north koreans.

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    • woodyl1011fl
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:08am

      You the ones in California that Christian and/or home schooled student must attend in order to even apply to attend a state supported college or university. Mao/Stalin and Lenin and Obama are smiling.

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  • shakedowncrews
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:56pm

    So let me get this straight: when Nidal shot up and killed Ft Bragg soldiers, yelling Allauackbar, that was “workplace violence.” When that idiot white supremacist shot up the Sikh temple out of racial hate, that was “terrorism”. And when some guy shoots up a conservative office, it’s just an “act of violence”?

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:07pm

      c’mon, you know it just keeps things “fair” as obie likes to say. and besides, you know white christian males deserve it.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:39pm

      Well, yes–it was an “act of violence.” Given that we know so little about the perpetrator, your outrage at what this incident is being called is very premature. It’s a bit sad that your first instinct was to race to the message board and hem and haw about how you are somehow being persecuted.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:42pm

      It’s already being called an “Act of Terrorism” by authorities. Happy?

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    • Mr.Fitnah
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:32pm

      Self defense.

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:54pm

    Just another gay hater of normal people, folks. Nothing new here; move along.

    BAN GAYS, NOT GUNS.

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    • BaltimoreJoe
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:01pm

      U need to read the story again…it bassakwards.

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    • VoteRightDammit
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:02pm

      No, Joe – you need to shuck off the spin of the left.

      I said “this was a gay hater”. You assumed – because of conditioning – I meant it was someone who hates gays.

      Wrong.

      I said and meant it was a gay person who hates – a “gay hater”. That is, I believe, quite accurate.

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    • Ohello
      Posted on August 18, 2012 at 11:23am

      You need to be more clear with your wording try “hate-filled homosexual, hater of normal people and hater of God”. That should clear things up a bit. or… you could use the opposite… “Obama lover”

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  • avgconservative
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:53pm

    George Bush’s fault.

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    • VoteRightDammit
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:57pm

      Nope.

      Ryan is the “New Bush”

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:12pm

      it‘s ryan’s fault!!! of course!!! another white, christian male out to hurt people who don’t look like him or think like he does. why didn’t i see it sooner. i‘m sure cnn will set this straight with another expose by soledad o’brainless.

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  • Ranger45
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:51pm

    Twisting the lie that connects Corkins with the Tea Party is going to make the Left’s head spin!

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:37pm

      Hell, I am waiting for them to embrace the guy and call him a hero and a stand up guy.

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  • Justus39
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:51pm

    All of these things are a direct result of the Obama Administration and what the Democrat Party represents and preaches,You notice Obama hasnt replied to this! America,I hope you have not become so foolish as to overlook this hatred being stirred by Obama and cohorts. He even has the military training to attack civilians.

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:01pm

      romney has already released a statement condemning it. it probably won’t be reported by cable news.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:41pm

      Yes, sure–because the Democratic Party is the party trying to get everyone to carry around handguns and seek “2nd Amendment solutions.”

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    • RajCaj
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 8:22pm

      @plubis…

      It’s the Lib Progressives that see Americans as constituency groups, and tell their groups that you don’t have because this other group is keeping it from you. Men hold women down. Whites hold blacks down. Christians hold gays down. Conservatives hold progressives down. Stand up and unite! Occupy!

      Progressives use tolerance and free thinking to get their ideas mainstreamed, and then shut the door behind them.

      It’s the intolerance and divisive hate that causes a radical to storm a building and harm people…..not the second amendment

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:10am

      Rajcaj,

      Enough with the counter-intuitive spinning nonsense. One side pushes for stricter gun control, the other side actively talks about how important gun ownership is and that citizens should seek “second amendment” solutions. If someone walks into a building waving a gun around, you cannot call this ideologically consistent with the creed of the former. This is so obvious I don’t know how you think you can spin it.

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  • AintLIBSjuzGreat
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:50pm

    this young man has issues.I`m glad he isn`t a sycho killer but just a mixed up kid.wasn`t ready to read about another mass killing. make no mistake if his intent was death ,death there would be

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    • JustPeachy
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:05pm

      Aint, I agree this guy has issues (pretty obvious!) but we don’t know what his true intent was. What we DO know is this guy walked into a place with whose policies he apparently has problems with – with a loaded gun. I‘d say he wasn’t there to wish people well. . .!

      Thank God it turned out as it did, but it could have been much worse. And of course one reason they have security guards in the first place!

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  • lexington_green
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:49pm

    the left like to say “it’s not about you, it’s your ideas” as they kill off those who don’t agree with them. lenin, stalin, mao, pol pot. getting the picture folks? they keep telling us it’s the tea party we need to watch for as they send their black panther and occupy brown shirts into the streets and buy up millions of rounds of ammo. yeah, sure. whatever you say guys.

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  • MasterJoshua7
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:49pm

    Well, it‘ll be interesting to see how MSM will treat act about this one but let’s all remember this man is a nutjob. There are plenty of people on both sides with strong opinions that don’t do this.

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    • JustPeachy
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:09pm

      I agree, Masterjoshua7, obviously this guy is nuts. I wonder how many in our news media though is trying to find this guy on Facebook and link him with the Tea Party, etc? How many politicians might say “If I had a son, he’d look just like that security guard.”

      I see Romney issued a statement but not our “wonderful leader. . .” Maybe he’ll get around to it. . . lol

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:13pm

      no. he won’t.

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  • SREGN
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:46pm

    Tuckahoe Va teacher.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:46pm

    It’s already been declared an act of terrorism.

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    • Sy Kosys
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:48pm

      Tsk Tsk….its a “man-caused disaster” dontcha know?!?

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    • Diane TX
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:51pm

      Fox News reports that Corkins was carrying a Chick-fil-A bag with him during the attack.
      Sources told Fox News that after guard took away his gun, the suspect said, “Don’t shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for.”
      ______________________________________________________
      This is the very definition of terrorism. He’s trying to force his political or religious views on others by force.

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  • J.Thomas
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:46pm

    Why is it that isn’t being reported on in the media?

    These people cry ‘violent rhetoric’ and project violence onto conservatives, yet it’s their own who continue to show a propensity for violence.

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:59pm

      you just answered your own question. the media are ideologically on this guy’s side. they won’t say a word, just continue beating the trayvon martin, sikh temple shooting drums.

      btw, the romney campaign has already released a statement condemning the violence.

      the obama administration has said nothing. not. one. thing.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:46pm

      It’s not being reported widely because no one was killed–one security guard was shot in the arm. Stop trying to pretend that this is some massacre against poor persecuted white chrisitians.

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    • tarm778
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 6:11pm

      Pubilus,

      Only someone as dishonest as you could write the tripe you do.
      If there had been a white Christian male that walked into the offices of the Human Rights Campaign and shot up the place while condemning what they stand for, we’d be seeing riots in the streets by you leftist loons and crackpots.
      This is what the modern American left has devolved into and it is sickening.

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    • fiveft15
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:17pm

      Pubic, you have got tobe an OWS idiot, only they have the low mentality you exhibit!

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:13am

      “If there had been a white Christian male that walked into the offices of the Human Rights Campaign and shot up the place while condemning what they stand for, we’d be seeing riots in the streets by you leftist loons and crackpots.”

      Hahah. This is such a common argument tactic with you folks. You literally made up something that didn’t happen in order to try to win the argument. You invented a situation that would affirm your ideological assumptions rather than talk about what actually happen. What’s sad is that you actually seem to think that this is a valid argument.

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    • tarm778
      Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:57pm

      publius,

      I knew being as dishonest as you are, you would divert and distract and not be upfront about how the fringe left would react if the shoe was on the other foot.

      But you don’t have to admit it, those deranged people on your side can’t help themselves when it comes to spewing such hate.

      http://twitchy.com/2012/08/15/crosshairs-left-calls-family-research-council-hate-group-reacts-to-shooting-shooter-yelled-about-frcs-values/

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  • korbin
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:44pm

    Still 4,000 babies murdered by their mothers everyday, shooting here and there by these nut cases and everyone goes F N berserk….Especially the libtarded media. The guns aren’t the problem people…

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    • Just_Us2
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:29pm

      Remember, abortion doctor Ron Vormoni says they are mostly ugly black babies….so that makes it OK.

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  • Pontiac
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:44pm

    Funny, we got his name but so far no right-wing or TEA party connections. Hmm…

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    • VoteRightDammit
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:59pm

      Because the weirdo is a gay guy

      worse – a gay TEACHER of our children!

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:09pm

      only right wing, white, christian males can be violent, bigoted extremists. obie says so. that makes it true.

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  • NextGeneration
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:43pm

    When is Obama going to release his statement?

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    • Sy Kosys
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:59pm

      He doesn’t have all the facts, but clearly the security guard acted stupidy

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 5:02pm

      now, now, can’t upset the base by pointing out their hypocrisy. gotta keep the gays in the voting booths.

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  • FREEDOMoverFEAR
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:41pm

    Outlaw guns. Outlaw guns. OUTLAW GUNS! OUTLAW GUNS! blah blah blah

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:40pm

    Holder will not be able to find a crime here.

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    • NextGeneration
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:44pm

      Workplace shooting.

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    • DonaldH
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 4:49pm

      Holder is in himself A CRIME!!

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:00pm

      “Workplace shooting”

      White republican shot by leftwing gay… by the end of tomorrows news cycle it will be watered down to a mail room training accident.

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