“A Boston-area blogger who declared "one down, 534 to go" after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has had his gun license pulled and a "large amount" of weapons removed his home.
Travis Corcoran, a comic book retailer in Arlington, Massachusetts, made the comment in a blog posting on January 8, the day of Giffords' shooting.
Corcoran reportedly declared on his blog, “It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot indiscriminately. Target only politicians and their staff and leave regular citizens alone.”
The "534 to go" comment appeared to refer to the other 434 members of the US House, and the 100 US senators.
“We certainly take this as a credible threat, and credible until we prove otherwise,” Captain Robert Bongiorno of the Arlington police department told WBZ-TV…” The Raw Story
This story will get the attention of right wing bloggers. It will also get the attention of gun owners. I suspect nothing scares the crazy gun owner more than having his guns taken. Also the lost of his gun license will have him on his knees begging that he will be good.
What do you think about the statement on his blog? I think that falls falls under the federal law that says you can not make a threat on the life of members of Congress.
His blog is off line. If that one line is the only line in his blog like that then I would say the local police are coming down pretty hard on him. I would want to see the content of the rest of the blog.
“…Corcoran considers himself an "anarcho-capitalist," a radical branch of libertarianism. In aTweet on January 8, Corcoran declared, "Not all killing is murder. US troops have killed many under Obama's presidency. Is he a murderer? Or is it legitimate in war?"
In a Twitter exchange with reporter Laura Leslie, he declared, "As per the Declaration of [Independence], when a [government] becomes destructive those ends, it may be abolished ... and the most moral approach is that which spares the maximum number of lives. Thus, assassination is a legitimate tool."
He also argued that his blog is "to some degree, political theater (with a very serious anarchocapitalist theme) and thus long-time readers understand that '1 down, X to go' COMBINED with my strong assertion is ... entirely in keeping with a liberty-loving stance..."
Corcoran runs the Heavy Ink comic book store, and the controversy surrounding his blog comment has reached the comic book business. His LinkedIn profile describes him as a software engineer educated at Cornell University…”
Well that answers my questions. He should lose his gun license for sure.
I think the right will come to his defense big time. Remember Glenn Beck has said on TV to shoot Democrats in the head. Plus you got people going in person to political events armed with signs saying water the ground with the blood etc.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the guy. The question is the federal law that says you can not threaten members of Congress.
The gun license he should never get back.
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