OT Waffle House shooting

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The gentleman who stopped the shooter is a stone cold hero. Amazing story, such a humble person.

The father of the shooter sounds like an idiot.

 
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/us/travis-reinking-guns-trnd/index.html

(CNN)Travis Reinking, the suspect in the Nashville-area Waffle House shooting that left four people dead, was still at large Monday after being added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's "Top 10 Most Wanted" list.

Police also fear he's still armed with a rifle and a handgun. Reinking, 29, owns at least four firearms, and he's had his guns taken away from him at least twice.
The swimming pool incident
The first time, Reinking's guns were apparently taken away by his own father. Reinking was living in an apartment above his father's business, a crane-rental company in Tremont, Illinois. An employee at the business called the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office in June 2017 to report that Reinking came down from his apartment wearing a pink dress and holding a rifle, an incident report states.


The employee told police that Reinking yelled, "Is this what you f---ing want?" before he threw his rifle in his vehicle's trunk and left.
Later that day, the Tremont Police Department responded to a call at a public pool, according to another incident report. The pool director told the responding officer that a man in his 20s barged into the pool wearing a pink women's housecoat, the report states. The man dove into the pool, took off the coat and swam around in his underwear. When he got out of the pool, he shouted at lifeguards that he was a man and exposed his genitals to them, the report states.
The rifle stayed in the vehicle and no one at the pool asked to press charges, the officer said in the report. "This is an informational report showing the state of mind of Travis Reinking," the report said.
Meanwhile, several members of the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office went to the crane-rental business to speak with Reinking. An officer also called Reinking's father, who was out of state. Jeffrey Reinking told the officer he had taken three rifles and a handgun away from his son before and locked them up "when Travis was having problems," the report states.
Later in the day, the officer said in his report, "I called back Jeff Reinking and advised him of what happened and when he gets back home he might want to lock the guns back up until Travis gets mental help, which he stated he would."
The White House incident
Reinking's guns were taken away again a few months later. He was arrested in early July 2017 in Washington, DC, after he breached a White House security barrier and told the US Secret Service he wanted to meet with President Trump.
After his arrest, the FBI and the Secret Service coordinated with local law enforcement to investigate Reinking and remove firearms from his possession, said Matthew Espenshade, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of FBI's Nashville office.
In August, the Tazewell County Sheriff's Office seized four firearms and ammunition from Reinking's apartment along with his state firearm owners identification, according to an incident report. Officers gave the firearms and ammo to Reinking's father, who said he would keep them away from his son, the report states.
"The officers did not believe they had any legal authority to withhold the weapons," said Tazewell County Sheriff Robert Huston on Sunday. "We need to be on solid legal ground in order to seize someone's property."
Investigators now believe that Jeffrey Reinking returned the guns to his son. Of those four weapons, one was the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle recovered from the shooting scene at the Waffle House.
Another firearm was recovered Sunday from Reinking's one-bedroom apartment. The two other guns could still be in Reinking's possession, police said. Authorities are warning the public to keep their doors locked and eyes open while he is on the loose.
 
The suspected gunman on the run after riddling a Tennessee Waffle House with bullets dubbed himself a "sovereign citizen," before being arrested in July 2017 outside the White House.

Travis Reinking, 29, used that term — which the FBI has also used to describe a group of anti-government extremists — during a clash last year with the Secret Service, according to a police report obtained by USA TODAY.

Reinking told agents he needed to see President Trump and defined himself as sovereign citizen who had a right to inspect the grounds, according to an arrest report by the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. He was arrested on an unlawful entry charge after refusing to leave the area.

The FBI has said sovereign citizens "believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or 'sovereign' from the United States."

The agency has also defined sovereign citizens as "anti-government extremists who claim the federal government is operating outside its jurisdiction and they are therefore not bound by government authority—including the courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments, and even law enforcement."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/
 
He's a wack job. More troubling currently is the guy that drove a van into pedestrians in Toronto.
 
I thought maybe it was because the Waffle shooter was white and targeted blacks while the vandiver is reported to be brown and targeted whites.

Waffle house also serves poor people, Toronto is full of rich people.
 
These sovereign citizens whackjobs are a real treat aren't they?

We should fence off a few hundred miles of nothing on federal lands somewhere and let them live there. No help from us of course.
 
The young man looks normal but under it all he was fucked up and he should have shot himself instead of wasting innocents and causing untold grief for their families. We should have a law for insane people like this. Here is my version: Take the prick into a helicopter and drop him off in the ocean from 100 feet up one mile out. If he makes it to shore without being devoured by sharks or entangled in plastic waste, the family can have their way with him when he reaches a beach. If he gets clubbed to death by the victims' family after the exhausting ordeal, it would be Ok with me. Meanwhile, asses like this suck and absorb the prison system costing us 70 K a year.
 
These sovereign citizens whackjobs are a real treat aren't they?

We should fence off a few hundred miles of nothing on federal lands somewhere and let them live there. No help from us of course.

That is help. Must be nice to live somewhere rent free off the govt teet.
 
That is help. Must be nice to live somewhere rent free off the govt teet.
Well, they wanna use the roads and other things we all pay for. I'd deport them but there really isn't a good answer for what to do with people that don't want to be a part of us. And where to deport them to? There isn't anything to explore left is there?

Give them some empty land to roam and keep them away from the rest of us.
 
Really? The guy with the gun is less trouble? No... Your thinking is.

The wack job in Toronto killed more people than the wack job in Tennessee. I found that more troubling.
 

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