Joshua Cartwright Feared Obama Would Take His Guns
I posted over the weekend about two (2) more officers who lost their lives due to gun violence. This was only one of three violent shooting sprees that happened last weekend and which appears to have become a regular part of our lives. Not much was known at the time why 28 year old Joshua Cartwright would murder two police. We know now that he was delusional courtesy of the NRA fear mongering and Faux News psychotainers, which is reminiscent of Richard Poplawski who recently killed himself and three police officers in Pittsburgh in a deliberate ambush.
According to the Huffington Post, it started out as a domestic violence incident when an argument broke out over the whereabouts of Clearasil and escalated from there. Elizabeth Cartwright, Joshua’s wife, escaped to a hospital, but Joshua’s anger remained at a high level:
According to the police report, Elizabeth Cartwright said her husband “believed that the US Government was conspiring against him. She said he had been severely disturbed that Barack Obama had been elected President.”
It isn’t the first shooting incident in recent weeks after which a crazed gunman’s political ravings have made headlines. On April 4, after Richard Poplawski killed three police officers, several of Poplawski’s friends told the Associated Press that Poplawski “feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.”
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The AP reports that Cartwright exchanged fire with the deputies after being stunned with a Taser:
“When that Taser released after five seconds, he came up shooting,” Interim Okaloosa County Sheriff Edward Spooner said.
“He went from just being disagreeable to using deadly force in a matter of seconds. It was a very aggressive move with a concealed weapon on his part.”Spooner said that between 30 and 40 rounds were exchanged between Cartwright and the two deputies.
You can read the police report at Huff Po. I hope Faux news psychotainment central is happy. I am counting 5 officers down over this hysteria over Barack Obama’s election. Glenn Beck and others at Faux News just keep fanning the flames of this type of lunacy for their own PROFIT people. THEY are making MONEY from your gullibility in actually believing the garbage that they feed you.
Oh, there’s more, as if that was not enough. The FBI arrested a man in Oklahoma earlier this month for posting threatening messages on his Twitter account. What did these messages say? Here you go courtesy of Huff Po:
- “The WAR wWIL start on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol. I will cast the first stone. In the meantime, I await the police,” wrote Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, according to messages included in the FBI affidavit (posted below).
- Another Twitter post began “START THE KILLING NOW!” Yet another: “Send the cops around. I will cut their heads off the heads and throw the[m] on the State Capitol steps,” he wrote in one message.
- Special agent Michael S. Puskas said that Hayden posted threats under the Internet name “Citizen Quasar.” Puskas says agents also found a MySpace account using the name “Citizen Quasar” and on Blogger.com an on line diary using the name “Quasar.”
- 7:59 p.m. “The WAR will start on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol. I will cast the first stone. In the meantime, I await the police.
While he was not considered a threat, is this really what Faux News and the Republicans want to promote???
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Barack could save a lot of lives if he just gave up on his gun banning agenda.
Gerald
April 28, 2009 at 11:43 pm
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April 29, 2009 at 12:36 am
I have an acquaintance who is a major gun owner and he joined this bandwagon of paranoia after Obama was elected. He regularly blasted out emails to a large list of people that were so incredibly offensive that I had to block him. These people really need to get a grip. This guy regularly sent photos of him with major guns…guns no individual ever needs to own. I find it all really disturbing.
Diane Beeler
April 29, 2009 at 4:54 am
He went crazy over Clearasil?
Well if that aint a sign, I mean getting that bent over a tube of cream that costs less than 3 dollars. And once again,
Where would Obama find the time to tackle the gun control? He is a little busy right now, with the economic collapse brought on by Bush and Co, the Swine Flu, and having to peruse every dumb ass presidential decree that King George ever foisted on us.
Oh yea, and having to rebuild our credibility with other governments. I noticed that in addition to not banning guns, that Obama has also refrained from giving out Free Back-rubs to Chancellor Merkel.
Reply: LOL! Yeah. Not really on the radar. Loved the video!!
seeing eye chick
April 29, 2009 at 10:11 pm
“Where would Obama find the time to tackle the gun control?”
It doesn’t take much time to sign a bill.
In fact, Barack could ban guns faster than he could buy one.
Gerald
April 30, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Yea, kind of like ranting about guns at this point. Its obvious by now that guns aren’t really on the radar either.
If they were, something would have happened by now.
seeing eye chick
April 30, 2009 at 12:18 am
Really, these people are SCARING me.
These are people concerned about Obama RAISING taxes when he just lowered them. IT DOES NOT MATTER what Obama DOES, it´s all PREORDAINED…if that aint scary!!! There is NO TALKING or reasoning with these folks…
DEOdeosil
April 30, 2009 at 3:53 am
When the fcuk did he ever say he was taking guns? He’s not taking any guns until I’m ready to shoot the owners. Sometimes I fantasize about shooting republicans but I’m just not there. After listening to those bastards saying that a guy who was shot deserved what he got, because he was in a highway camera van as an operator on the side of the freeway. Those are sick folks and we maybe shouldn’t waste time taking their guns away from them, but just fcukin shoot them before they get a chance to shoot someone for some tax increase they caused. Some of you people are so nuts you need to be locked up, who ever heard of protesting on tax day, when they get a tax cut?
Sammy
May 7, 2009 at 3:26 am
Deodeosil: I think you hit on a very important point. These people *want* us to be afraid… it’s the only real weapon they have left (fear). They no longer have an administration that validates their hate for anyone less than white, anyone who practices the wrong brand of faith, anyone who has a uterus they want to control, or anyone who lives an alternate lifestyle compared to their *normal* one.
skyewriter
May 7, 2009 at 8:48 am