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Florida School Board shooter blames "the wealthy," opens fire, kills self
This is the full video of yesterday’s shooting at a Panama City School Board meeting. It’s 6:11 long, shots fired at the 6:00 mark. Thankfully — whether through incompetence or a miracle — the gunman was unable to hit anyone at point blank range.
A gunman calmly walked to a podium, spray painted a red “V” with a circle around it on a wall and opened fire at Panama City school board members Tuesday, sending people scrambling and diving for cover. A security guard soon ran in, exchanged shots with and wounded the man who then killed himself, police said.
The Bay City Schools superintendent who calmly confronted the gunman who threatened to shoot him during the meeting said God protected him when Clay A. Duke opened fire
“It could have been a monumental tragedy,” Superintendent Bill Husfelt said late Tuesday, wearing a sweat shirt and pajama bottoms, surrounded by his family. With a Christmas tree as backdrop, he said, “God was standing in front of me and I will go to my grave believing that.”
“We could tell by the look in his eyes that this wasn’t going to end well,” Husfelt said.
Despite several shots being fired, no one else was hit. In video of the clash that lasted several minutes, Duke dispassionately confronts the Bay District school board, telling everyone in the room to leave except the men on the board. Duke, who was wearing a dark pullover coat, stands about eight feet directly in front of the board with the gun at his side.
Husfelt tries to persuade him to drop the gun. Duke suggests that his wife had been fired from the district, but won’t tell Husfelt or the board who she is or her job. Members promise to help her find a new job, but Duke just shakes his head. Husfelt tells Duke he would be responsible for her dismissal, so the board members should be allowed to leave.
“I’ve got a feeling you want the cops to come in and kill you because you said you are going to die today,” Husfelt tells Duke. He then tells him that this isn’t worth it.
The 56-year-old slowly and deliberately raises the gun and levels it at Husfelt, who pleads “Please don’t, please don’t.” Duke then fires two shots that miss, followed by several others that didn’t hit the half-dozen or so people still left in the room.
Before he started shooting, member Ginger Littleton, who had left the room as ordered, sneaks up behind Duke as he stands next to the long, beige desk where the board was sitting and whacks him on the arm with her large, brown purse made of an alligator-like material.
“In my mind, that was the last attempt or opportunity to divert him,” she told The Associated Press.
Duke, a large, heavyset man, got angry, turned around, and she fell to the floor and board members pleaded with her to stop. Duke pointed the gun at her head and said, “You stupid b—-” but he didn’t shoot her, she said. She’s not sure why.
“He had every opportunity to take me out,” she said.
After Duke, an ex-convict, fired and missed Husfelt, district security chief and former police officer Mike Jones ran in and shot Duke in the leg or his side.
Duke then fatally shot himself, police Sgt. Jeff Becker said. The video shows a distraught Jones, with his gun at his side, being comforted by colleagues as he says he had never shot anyone before. SWAT officers then storm the room and order everyone onto the ground.
Before the gun-grabbers start going crazy on this one, it should be noted that Duke was an ex-convict; more specifically, he was a convicted felon. According to Florida law, it was already illegal for him to own a firearm. So further gun control laws would not have prevented this.
On his Facebook page, Duke had written a suicide note that reads almost like it came out of the Democrat playbook. Or an Obama speech.
“My Testament: Some people (the government sponsored media) will say I was evil, a monster (V)… no… I was just born poor in a country where the Wealthy manipulate, use, abuse, and economically enslave 95% of the population. Rich Republicans, Rich Democrats… same-same… rich… they take turns fleecing us… our few dollars… pyramiding the wealth for themselves. The 95%… the us, in US of A, are the neo slaves of the Global South. Our Masters, the Wealthy, do, as they like to us…”
Duke was a conspiracy theorist, a 9/11 “truther,” and a fan of the left-wing propaganda mill Media Matters and other Progressive websites. Just imagine how the mainstream media would be clucking if this nutcase had been a Glenn Beck fan or a member of the Tea Party. But since he was a far-left moonbat, I suppose we won’t be hearing much in the news about his political influences.
I wonder if the Democrat party will tone down their class warfare rhetoric now that their agitprop has been taken to its violent and (il)logical conclusion? I won’t hold my breath. They’ll continue to harp on their message that the evil rich are victimizing everyone else, and tensions between the haves and the have-nots will worsen until this kind of thing happens again. Or until Democrats can step in with more draconian legislation which redistributes wealth and solidifies their hold on power.
Fortunately, this story played out like a real-life instance of the “divine intervention” scene from Pulp Fiction. Only in this case, the bad guy lost.
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
