Crooks and Liars: Pittsburgh cop-killer feared "The Obama Gun Grab"

[villager]

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. One friend, Edward Perkovic, said the gunman feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon." Another longtime friend, Aaron Vire, said he feared that President Obama was going to take away his rights, though he said he "wasn't violently against Obama."

Perkovic, a 22-year-old who said he was the gunman's best friend, said he got a call at work from him in which he said, "Eddie, I am going to die today. ... Tell your family I love them and I love you."

He feared an Obama gun grab? Gee, I wonder where he could have heard that.

Indeed, a story replete with NRA-style fearmongering about the looming "grab" -- which has been fueling a run on guns at local shops -- ran just three days ago in the Pittsburgh Tribune.

We've been reporting for awhile on the surge in gun sales, and how the paranoia around guns is making the more unstable elements of the right particularly edgy. Inevitably, that edginess is going to break out into actual violence -- as it appears to have done today.

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http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/was-pittsburgh-shooter-driven-right-

[katandmoon]

1. Guns = stupidity

[ShareTheWoods]

2. Still looking for the hard link

Did you have a link that confirms his "fear of Obama" was the reason for his killing spree?

I understand the desire to connect the two, but has some evidence been introduced that confirms it?

[villager]

3. The Crooks and Liars link is itself embedded with numerous other links....

...to what the commentator was talkingabout...

[RamboLiberal]

6. I'm from Pittsburgh - local news has been interviewing his friends

Just heard one say he feared Zionist control of the government. And he feared Obama taking his guns. He collected ammo cause he feared the economic collapse of the country and bullets would be more valuable than money. BTW here's the story that ran 3 days ago in Dicky Mellon Scaife's rag the Tribune Review.

Speculation that President Obama might pull the trigger on tighter regulations for gun ownership continues to be a shot in the arm for local dealers.

"Gun owners see a definite swing toward stricter gun laws, if not confiscation of firearms altogether," said Buddy Savage, owner of Braverman Arms on Penn Avenue in Wilkinsburg. "His voting record is 100 percent anti-gun. That's where all of this is coming from. People are buying now while they can."

Savage, 73, estimated his guns sales have increased between 30 percent and 40 percent in the past six months over concern that Obama and Congress will revive a ban on military-style weapons and impose other restrictions on gun owners.

Obama backed a ban on semiautomatic weapons while in the Illinois Legislature. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has said the Obama administration supports reinstating a ban on military-style weapons that expired in 2004.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/tribpm/s_617729.html

[villager]

7. So in a way, this acting out by gun wielders is bringing about the very thing they claim to fear...

Hmmm.....

[aikoaiko]

4. If you blame the NRA for talking about possible gun bans, do you blame President Obama

for saying he'd like to reauthorize the Assault Weapons Ban?

[villager]

5. I certainly don't! I like your footer, btw...!

n/t

[Snazzy]

8. his buddie's white supremacist reading list (warning--it's offensive)

from myspace via crooks and liars and third site:

Perhaps just as interesting are the views of Poplowski's much-quoted "best friend," Edd Perkovic, whose MySpace page, as Troll Report notices, is rich anti-Semitic hate talk like this:

DOCUMENTS I RECCOMEND YOU READ BY GOOGLE: "Civil War II" by Tom Chittum "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" "The Turner Diaries" by Dr. William Pierce "Jewish Supremacy" by Dr. David Duke It Has Even Been Documented In The Communist Manifesto: "“We must realize that our party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension. "By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. "In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavour to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negros. "We will aid the Negros to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o

Mcviegh, eh.

[RamboLiberal]

9. And what's scary besides the reading list is Perkovic

works at Children's Hospital.

[Snazzy]

10. yikes, not for long I hope

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