Man Arrested for Bringing Rifle to St. John's University (College in Lockdown)

[brooklynite]

Source: WCBS

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- A man was arrested this afternoon for carrying a rifle on St. John's University campus. According to their site Public Safety officers quickly disarmed the suspect and have turned him over to NYPD. Additional information will be forthcoming as it becomes available.

Reporter Rich Lamb says an arrest was made at 2:30p and NYPD may be looking for a second suspect. There are no reports of any transports to hospitals.. NYPD describes the man as an 'outsider'.

St. John's University - Queens Campus - is on lock-down and authorities are telling everyone to stay inside where they are and keep away from windows.

Statement from St. John's University:
At approximately 3 p.m. EST, a male with a rifle in a bag was apprehended on St. John’s University’s Queens Campus. University Public Safety officers quickly disarmed the suspect and have turned him over to the NYPD. No injuries have occurred as a result of this incident.

At this time, the NYPD has a heavy presence on the Queens campus and are conducting an extensive and thorough search of all buildings and facilities. Students have been instructed to stay inside their classrooms and buildings until further notice.

All St. John’s classes on the Queens campus are cancelled for this evening.

Additional information will be forthcoming as it becomes available.

Read more: http://www.wcbs880.com/St--John-s-Univ-on-Lock-Down/1005106

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If only Rudy Giuliani were President. With his "Post 9/11" philosophy, everyone else could have been armed to protect themselves...

[Klaxon]

1. Sigh...

There cannot be that many MK Ultra killers out there can there?

I mean every time our nation slips down the hole another inch, here comes some freak killing people.

It is getting boo koo old.

[Recursion]

2. Not really... Rudy has a big 2nd-amendment problem...

If only Rudy Giuliani were President. With his "Post 9/11" philosophy, everyone else could have been armed to protect themselves...

Actually, he's probably the gun-grabbingest GOP candidate imaginable; as far as guns go, he might as well have been Feinstein during the '90s. Pro-gun-rights Democrats like me are salivating at the idea Rudy getting the GOP nod and our running a ticket that is friendlier to the right to keep and bear arms than the GOP's...

[brooklynite]

3. No, no, no, no, no

You apparently didn't get the memo that "9/11 changed averything"(tm). Meet the NEW Rudy Giuliani:

Giuliani Defends Right to Bear Arms
By LIZ SIDOTI and LIBBY QUAID – 2 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani, who sued firearms manufacturers and called for tough gun control as New York's mayor, said Tuesday the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a recent court ruling framed his current defense of a right to own guns.

"You have to look at all of these issues in light of the different concerns that now exist, which is terrorism, the terrorists' war on us," the Republican presidential contender told The Associated Press in an interview. He also mentioned immigration and border security.

He said his thinking on gun rights also was influenced by a federal appeals court decision that overturned a 30-year-old ban on private ownership of handguns in Washington on the grounds that the Constitution gives individual citizens the right to own guns.

"It is a very, very strong description of how important personal liberties are in this country and how we have to respect them," he said of the ruling, adding it "sort of maybe even did more to crystalize my thinking on the whole gun issue in light of Sept. 11."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkEKASYyqDGNQY7iWc6PW3d23-IQ

[Recursion]

6. Well, for what it's worth, my freeper relatives...

...rate Ghouliani's "change of heart" about gun rights about as highly as they rated Kerry's turkey hunt.

[Ian David]

4. Didn't Newt Gingrich used to bring a rifle on the New York Subways as a kid? n/t

[ManiacJoe]

5. At least this version of the story

does not try to describe the rifle by grabbing five random gun words and glue them together like multiple other versions of the story have done...

[Recursion]

7. You mean...

... the ".50 caliber single-bolt-pump black-powder semi-full-auto shotrifle"?

[slackmaster]

8. ".50-caliber rifle" indeed

It's a black powder muzzle-loading single-shot hunting rifle without the ram-rod that is required to load it. (Not that it may not be loaded, they still hadn't determined that.)



But all most of us are going to hear is ".50-caliber rifle".

:rofl:

[-..__...]

9. He should have informed the authorities...

that it's an art project.

[shenmue]

10. What is it with the crazy people?

Why is it lunatics have to hear a voice that says "shoot people"?

Why can't they hear voices that say "have an orange" or "brush your hair"?

:dunce: