Yellowstone National Park officials say a gunman killed by park rangers as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at the entrance of a dining facility with 200 people inside had told a woman he planned to carry out a mass shooting
The warning from a woman in Yellowstone National Park came in just after midnight on July Fourth: She’d just been held at gunpoint by a man who said he planned to carry out a mass shooting — a random attack common in the U.S. these days but not in the Yellowstone region, let alone the park itself.
Rangers spent the next several hours trying to find the gunman before he showed up outside a dining area with 200 people inside. He shot a barrage of bullets with a semi-automatic rifle at a service entrance.
The rangers — including one who was wounded — shot back. Their rounds hit the attacker, Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner, 28, of Milton, Florida, who died at the scene in the busy Canyon Village tourist lodge area near the scenic Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.
There’s a fair chance he knew that and wanted to die while killing as many as possible.
As you said, good riddance.
I believe this to be the motives behind most mass shootings. They know they are going to die.
It’s about getting their name printed on newspapers, shown in the news, talked about for a few days before the cycle repeats.
We would be better served if the news simply referred to the shooter as “an assailant” and never say their names.
Absolutely. If they’re killed during their crime they should be completely anonymous. No names, no ‘manifestos’, no reference to the sorts of communities they were part of online, no last words, just, ‘they were a vile stain on humanity’ and then forgotten. Obviously, if they live more will come out as they’re prosecuted, but that should be minimized and once they’re jailed they can be forgotten by all but those tasked with keeping them alive to serve their sentence.
That’s what I mean though…
You don’t go to what is essentially the actual ‘wild wild west’ for that shit and not expect to get Dirty Harry’d before you succeed.
While I agree that the surrounding area would be well armed,
I believe firearms in the park itself are actually banned for civilians.(Wrong, see below) This is a rare case of a police force stopping an active shooter quickly.That is false, firearms have been legal to carry in national parks since 2010.
Oh dang really? Thanks for the correction I need to update my knowledge here.
"In areas administered by the National Park Service, an individual can possess a firearm if that individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the firearm and if the possession of the firearm complies with the laws of the state where the park area is located. 54 U.S.C. 104906. "
Thanks Obama 😒