Feds: DHS employee may have been planning workplace violence
Source: In Homeland Security.
Federal authorities and a congressman said Wednesday they were continuing to investigate whether a Department of Homeland Security employee with a top-secret clearance was planning to attack at the agencys Washington headquarters when he entered the building with a gun and other weapons.
Jonathan Wienke, a 45-year-old analyst in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, so far only faces a handgun charge and is not in custody, pending further court proceedings. He is accused of carrying a gun, a knife, an infrared camera, pepper spray and handcuffs into headquarters on the morning of June 9. According to court documents filed by the federal government, investigators have probable cause to believe Wienke was conspiring with another to commit workplace violence, and more particularly may have been conspiring or planning to commit violence against senior DHS officials in the building.
Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House committee on homeland security, said his committee would look into the matter.
Read more: http://inhomelandsecurity.com/feds-dhs-employee-may-have-been-planning-workplace-violence/
This is why I believe any gun control law passed must affect everyone, citizens and government alike. I don't want cops, or anyone on American soil allowed to own weapons the general population is prohibited from owning. Its a slippery slope if the government passes laws but exemps themselves from them.
Laws that target only citizens assume at there core that only citizens are prone to violence....when it is often the opposite that is true. Power corrupts absolutely.
Remember Kent State?
Well cops aren't armed in England and England enjoys a low rate of violent crime!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Designed to kill people. In these three incidents the weapons was in possession of people who used these weapons to kill people
. We have rules and regulations for other industries but are unable to be sensible when it comes to guns. What is wrong with life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?
REP
(21,691 posts)which has no legal standing as a legal document in the US government. So there's nothing wrong with it, but it's not part of the Constitution.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Constitution gives me the right to kill others?
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Rights don't flow from the government-- that would make them privileges. Rights existed before the constitution- see e.g. the Declaration of Independence.. 'That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..'
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Self defense, but to kill others such as mass shootings, just because one may feel another should not live any longer for any reason except in the line of duty such as war, law enforcement.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Rights exist. Governments are instituted to protect them.
Civics 101.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)There is no license (an artifact of a privilege) granted by the government to do so.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts).. that there is necessarily some privilege involved?
That would be.. not smart.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)"Spy Game" too many times
The plot's not exact, but the free reign inside National Security complexes sort of fits
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)Marengo
(3,477 posts)DemMomma4Sanders
(274 posts)There are no reasons for any infallible humans, governmental or civilian, to maintain a hand held arsenal capable of wiping out everyone in the world times over.
Unless the purpose is to maintain instability and prop up illigitimate empires.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)How can it do so unarmed?
DemMomma4Sanders
(274 posts)Guns have no place in civilized societies, or societies that hope to be civilized.
Americans aren't armed to the teeth because they believe they wory about the government. They're armed because their worried about a kid or group mugging them. Guns don't get rid of the economic inequity that leads to violence.
The annual ammount spent on guns could RID THE WORLD OF THAT INIQUITY!