Harry wrote:
Steve B wrote:
Las Vegas, Nevada. Federal Building. A Social Security recipient,
upset about a cut in benefits came into the building with a shotgun
under his coat. Before it was all over, a security guard was dead, a
U.S. Marshall was wounded, and the perp was dead.

Lots of people with no hope living on subsistence levels who might be
dead in six months are going to be wanting to fight the beast.
Especially when they get the letter telling them that their benefits
have been reduced or cancelled.

It's the next thing to receive a PC label. Just to insure that it
doesn't have a derogatory meaning, and therefore the people involved
don't feel bad about themselves.

Steve

RIP - The dead SO was a retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Sergeant, 66 years old, who had given of himself his whole career.


You ought to at least try to get some important facts straight:

"Wicks (the gunman) filed a discrimination claim against Social Security
in 2008, alleging he was denied full benefits because of his race,
according to court papers. A federal judge ruled against him in September.

Here's one readers view of the scenerio. Probably right on the mark too.
"His case had nothing to do with racial discrimination, He had moved
from California, where benefits are subsidized to cover a higher cost of
living, to Nevada, which has no subsidy. He was essentially upset over
being treated like every social security recipient in the state where he
resided. sarcasm Playing the race card failed, so naturally it was
time to grab a shotgun and get some justice! /sarcasm"


A law enforcement official said Wicks set fire to his residence before
the shooting, and surveillance video indicates he was a lone gunman with
no accomplices.

hearsay

The deputy marshal and the security officer were taken to a hospital,
where the security officer, Stanley W. Cooper, died, said U.S. Marshals
spokesman Jeff Carter. Cooper, an employee of Akal Security, had been a
contracted court security officer with the U.S. marshals in Las Vegas
since 1994, Carter said."

1. It wasn't about a "cut" in his benefits.

Oh really. What then?

2. He was upset about losing a court case.

Wouldn't you be?

3. He went off his rocker before the shootings, setting his residence on
fire.

Speculation on your part.


Wicks likely was receiving a policeman's retirement, social security,
and pay from his retirement job as a "contracted court security
officer." Was he living at subsistence levels? Unknown, but unlikely.

More speculation on your part.


Perhaps posters should have to score at least average on an IQ test
before being allow to make misinformed, moronic posts like Steve B's.
Wait...that would clear out loogy, justhate, BAR, flajim, Bob the
Krueger, and a few others.

The expected unhinged juvenile rant you usually close a post with.



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