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foxnews.com - 4/4/2009

Shooter in Bulletproof Vest Kills 3 Pittsburgh Officers

— foxnews.com — Pittsburgh police say a man wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance... call, killing three of them. (more) Shooter in Bulletproof Vest Kills 3 Pittsburgh Officers

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chicagotribune.com - 4/4/2009

Gunman 'lying in wait' kills 3 Pittsburgh officers; friends say he feared Obama would ban guns -

— chicagotribune.com — PENN SHOOTING Map locates Pittsburgh , Penn. where police officers were wounded in a shootout ( W.... Castello, AP / April 4, 2009) (more) Gunman 'lying in wait' kills 3 Pittsburgh officers; ...

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kdka.com - 4/4/2009

Gunmen Kills Three Pittsburgh Police Officers

— kdka.com — A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them,... a police official said. Friends said he feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns. (more) Gunmen Kills Three Pittsburgh Police Officers

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Richard Poplawski: Was Pittsburgh shooter driven by right-wing gun paranoia about Obama?
Orcinus — ... this is exactly the kind of incident that law-enforcement intelligence-gathering is supposed to help prevent -- intelligence like the Missouri State Patrol report so hysterically attacked by these same paranoid right-wingers. I tried to explain at the time that these kinds of extremists are in fact a very real danger to people in law enforcement, but all anyone on the right wanted to talk about was Ron Paul bumper stickers. Well, there you go. Police say he was lying in wait in a carefully planned ambush: Richard Poplawski, 23, met ...

PITTSBURG SHOOTER WAS ‘ENCOURAGED’ BY CONSERVATIVES?
Right Wing Nut House — ... brush strokes of motivation used by most of the left on this incident are ridiculously simple minded and fails to take into account that in dealing with a diseased mind, there is no telling what will be the trigger that causes him to abandon all reason and attack police officers. A key piece of evidence that this is an individual who wanted to use the police to commit suicide and his fear that Obama would take his guns was a lot less of a motivating factor than many on the left are crowing about today: Perkovic, 22, said he got a call at work from him in which he said, ...

OLIVER WILLIS: IRRATIONAL CERTAINTY
Right Wing Nut House — ... gift comes in especially handy when peeriing into the confused, diseased mind of someone like the Pittsburgh cop killer. A battery of trained psychiatrists couldn’t tell you exactly why or even when this fellow snapped, why reason and logic left him and caused him to murder 3 policemen. But Oliver Willis and his liberal friends who are also blessed with this second sight can do so. As I mentioned in my post yesterday, Willis’s statement of fact runs into a small problem; the man was using the police to commit suicide: Perkovic, 22, said he got a call at work from him in which ...