Poor misdirected guy - the anger should be toward Congress & the rest of this administration, not the poor cops (& other LEO's)!! Turn your guns, letters, whatever else that way. Not the poor guy doing yoeman's work for little pay!!

Appears the shooting was the result of dog piss.

Fight over urinating dog got police to Pa. ambush
By JOE MANDAK – 2 hours ago

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 911 call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also later killed during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.

The Saturday argument between Margaret and Richard Poplawski escalated to the point that she threatened to kick him out and she called police to do it, according to a 12-page criminal complaint and affidavit filed late Saturday.

When officers Paul Sciullo III and Stephen Mayhle arrived, Margaret Poplawski opened the door and told them to come in and take her 23-year-old son, apparently unaware he was standing behind her with a rifle, the affidavit said. Hearing gunshots, she spun around to see her son with the gun and ran to the basement.

"What the hell have you done?" she shouted.

The mother told police her son had been stockpiling guns and ammunition "because he believed that as a result of economic collapse, the police were no longer able to protect society," the affidavit said.

Friends have said Poplawski was concerned about his weapons being seized during Barack Obama's presidency, and friends said he owned several handguns and an AK-47 assault rifle. Police have not said, specifically, what weapons were used to kill the officers.

I'm probably wrong but I thought dishonorable discharge disqualified you from voting, owning firearms, etc. because it is awarded at a Court-Martial. Is this right?

For as little as we know so far I'd throw out that his mom sounds like a terrible person, really.

Awfully chatty lady, leastways.

It is extremely unlikely that this individual had a Dishonorable Discharge, which is a punitive discharge awarded by a general court-martial for serious, felony-grade offenses, such as murder and rape, or weighty military offenses such as espionage. Reports indicate that he washed out of boot camp after some act of insubordination. He might have gotten a Bad Conduct Discharge, more comparable to a misdemeanor conviction, but I doubt that. An administrative Other Than
Honorable discharge is most likely.

These are terms of art, set forth in military law and regulations.

Of course, the fact that the vast majority of police officers are conservative means nothing to them. How would they know? The only one the ever met arrested them for dope, and they pled out so they never saw that cop again.

I was a cop for 12 years. Crazy people do crazy things and if they allow themselves to be taken alive they are far more likely to play the victim card handed out en masse by the left than to quote Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan or Newt Gingrich.

Dishonorable Discharge and Bad Conduct Discharge can only be awarded after a court-martial. Every court-martial (even a Summary Court) resulting in a guilty verdict counts as a felony conviction, but individual state laws govern which felonies abrogate which civil rights.

Today, it's a bit of domestic violence that got way out of control. She has conflict resolution issues, while he may have been a section 8.

Two years from now, men who stand up against government in such a fashion will be called 'heroes' and 'patriots' by one side...by the other, they'll be called 'traitors' and 'criminals.'

Which will you be called...and by whom?

I absolutely agree that using these horrific incidents to slander an entire group of people or a political ideology is repulsive. However, it is important to look at the way a message is being delivered and the kind of impact it can have on unstable people, especially now that heightened unemployment seems to be the subtext for a lot of these incidents.

In this very thread you have comments calling for "standing up to government in such a fashion", or turning guns on congress. More frightening, however, have been the pronouncements of side-stream conservative voices like RedState or Glenn Beck tacitly approving of this behavior (Erikson: beating your state legislator to a bloody pulp, cleaning his gun for the impending riots) and calling for armed revolution. Or the main-stream calls of republican congressmen for their constituents to be "armed and dangerous," or to adopt the practices of the Taliban.

You and I gloss over this as hyperbole or sensationalism, but is it absurd to suggest that these incitements can light the fuse under a deranged individual? Is it justified because the left has similar outbursts?

Unfortunately for you right-wingers, it's accurate. You have blatantly appealed to paranoia and weak minds, and you knew damned well that some folks would take your most over-the-top pronouncement seriously, and would act on them.

This is part of your pattern.

And for too long we’ve accepted your verbal diarrhea and your incitements to violence as though it was something other than the total insanity and the ravings of violent minds that it obviously is.

Me I think I will be called that guy what don't shoot cops. It's just a.) really hard to see what that would accomplish and b.) not how my mama brought me up.

What are you going to be called, Mr. Bonesteel?

"You have blatantly appealed to paranoia and weak minds, and you knew damned well that some folks would take your most over-the-top pronouncement seriously, and would act on them."

You mean like the left's endless declarations of the eminent End of Life on Earth because of economic activity? Or is the left utterly innocent of the political violence committed by environmentalist terrorists while the right is utterly responsible for the spur-of-the-moment, emotional violence of people like Powlaski?

How about the left's endless excuse-making for race riots when committed by the "right" races?

Or the stoking of anger towards the AIG executives, bankers, investors, and anyone else considered part of the "moneyed" classes?

Or the near immunity organized labor has for "strike-related" violence?

Or the utter blindness the left has towards race-based crime when committed by certain races?

Dear Ignatz: Which wingnut talking head told Jiverly Wong to kill those people?

Since when do liberals care if cops get killed? last time I checked they were marching in the streets to support them. From the San Fransisco Chronicle:

"Oakland -- About 60 people marched and rallied in Oakland tonight to condemn the police and honor Lovelle Mixon, who was killed by Oakland police after he fatally shot four officers Saturday.

'OPD you can't hide - we charge you with genocide,' chanted the demonstrators as they marched along MacArthur Blvd., near the intersection with 74th Avenue where Mixon, 26, a fugitive parolee, gunned down two motorcycle officers who had pulled him over in a traffic stop. He then killed two more officers who had tried to capture him where he was hiding in sister's apartment nearby.

The protest was organized by the Oakland branch of the radical Uhuru Movement, whose flyers for the march declared, "Stop Police Terror." Many marchers wore t-shirts featuring Mixon's photo, including a woman identified by march organizers as Mixon's mother. The woman declined to comment and gave her name only as Athena."

Huh. So that's the way the game is played now? RFK was shot and killed by a Palestinian. Progressives fall all over themselves supporting the Palestinians no matter what. The question must be asked. Why do Progressives support and encourage the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy?

Your first comment suggested that the shooter's rage and GUNS should have been pointed toward congress?? Do you agree with this?? Better scrub your comments because if anyone in congress is harmed it won't look real good for you guys.

I think it was pretty clear that the anger against Congress should be turned into letters to Congress, not into violence against police officers who don't make the laws.

I think that any attempt to find reason behind the crazy acts of a crazy person will tell you more about the speaker than about the crazy person.