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Left: The New York Times, 1/19/1989
Right: CBS News, 7/29/2019
Right: CBS News, 7/29/2019
A chapter in my book is about the Stockton shooting in 1989. A young man named Patrick Purdy opened fire on an elementary school playground with a Chinese made Norinco AK-47 S. He killed six children and wounded 32 others.
Purdy was the son of a Vietnam veteran. He had previously been arrested on a gun charge, when he was also found in possession of White Power literature. On the day of the shooting, he wore military fatigues. The children he targeted were Vietnamese and Cambodian war refugees.
combat veterans in body armor toting bullpup combat rifles patrolling a charter school in florida, normal country normal people normal times nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/…
hellworld factoid: the guns in question are made by Kel-Tec, a Florida-based company. George Zimmerman used a Kel-Tec pistol to kill Trayvon Martin. when Zimmerman later visited the Kel-Tec factory, they gave him a special tour and took selfies with him abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimm…
#gunpower as social reproduction exhibit #21435 : veterans who carried guns in service of US empire abroad hired to patrol a charter school stateside carrying the same brand of gun a wannabe cop patrolling his subdivision used to kill a child and get away with it
