Christopher Bryan Speight, the 39-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed eight men and women yesterday in Appomattox, Virginia, is at least the 12th person licensed to carry a concealed handgun reported to have committed a mass shooting since May 2007.
According to the Associated Press, Appomattox County court records show a concealed weapons permit was issued to a Christopher Bryan Speight three times between 1999 and last year.
The 11 prior mass shootings are detailed on the VPC's web site, Concealed Carry Killers, an on-line resource, updated monthly, that tallies from news reports of killings by concealed handgun permit holders. Not including yesterday's shooting, Concealed Carry Killers reports that since May 2007 concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least 117 people, including nine law enforcement officers.
Prior to yesterday's shooting, concealed handgun permit holders had claimed 43 innocent lives in 11 mass shootings since May 2007 (in addition, in six of the incidents, the shooter killed himself). Yesterday's shooting brings the total number of innocent victims reportedly killed by concealed handgun permit holders in mass shootings during this period to 51.
Yesterday's attack is, in fact, the second mass shooting in Virginia by a concealed carry permit holder in less than two years. In May 2008, concealed handgun permit holder Aaron Poseidon Jackson, 24, shot and killed his two children, one-year-old Aaron Neptune Jackson and two-year-old Nicole Aaron Jackson, and their mother Latasha Nicole Thomas, before taking his own life. Jackson was wearing body armor and was surrounded by guns and ammunition when police found him dead in their home in the Walt Lou Trailer Park in Falmouth, Virginia. Christopher Bryan Speight was also wearing body armor when he surrendered to police.
Two mass shootings in two years. Perhaps someone should ask Governor Bob McDonnell whether it's time to reconsider Virginia's lax concealed weapons law.
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Jade claimed that there are only 300 gang murders a year in the US and that Chicago accounts for nearly half of them. This, along w/the 190 in LA last year, would mean that the zombie apocalypse is upon us as voodoo gang leaders like the guy in Predator II resurrect the dead.
As it turns out, the '300' was itself deliberately reduced by him and also referenced only ONE (yes that's 1) city. Not the entire US.
Then we have the deliberate inflation of the US murder rate by 35%.
His claim that Chicago is bigger than New York by 2 million people.
Meteorites kill hundreds of people in the US every year.
The Census Bureau is lying about population numbers.
Filing down a FIRING pin makes any gun into a machinegun.
So what kind of person would take ANY of his claims seriously?
Instead, the only legislation VA GOPers are considering is how to hide CCW records from the public. IOW, VA GOPers don't care how many people get killed by VA CCW holders. They just care aboutmaking sure the fact that CCW murderers are hidden from public sight.
Thanks to the NRA.
"the only legislation VA GOPers are considering is how to hide CCW records from the public"
Key word, "public", not from law enforcement, not from the judicial system. Just from people like you whi misuse the information.
"IOW, VA GOPers don't care how many people get killed by VA CCW holders"
How exactly would you, Jade/Lynn, knowing who has a permit, prevent any crimes? HINT: It wouldn't. You are just upset that you might lose access to data. However, if people from your side of the fence had not misused the data, you would not be losing access to it.
"Perhaps someone should ask Governor Bob McDonnell whether it's time to reconsider Virginia's lax concealed weapons law."
Unless of course the gun lobby didn't pay its dues.
How can that be in a city where handguns are banned like the VPC wants?
And like about 83% of the misleading "evidence" Josh throws out about these things, did not use a firearm he was carrying concealed in public.
Therefore, the fact that he had a CCW is largely meaningless.
So, please tell us, Paul, Josh, Dennis, Josh, Marian, DreamWeaver, JadeGold (or whoever you are this week), Lee (or whoever YOU are this week), jsgaetano, Keli, etc. etc. etc. what makes you think your grasp of the proper methods for dealing with the willful misuse (as well as the misuse of firearms by the mentally ill) is any more correct or accurate?
We’ll wait!
Old SF MJT
I am confused; in what way is is the concealed weapons law of Virgina related to Mr. Speight's alleged criminal actions?
Perhaps the vpc's new slogan will be this:
"Guns don't kill people, CCW permit cards do".
A CCW permit offers a criminal no advantages. It actually makes it harder for them since they have to give the police vital information to get one.
Right, because two people two years apart are representative of the hundreds of thousands of CCW holders in Virginia. What an absurdly stupid notion.
Does Josh also think we should re-examine the requirements for getting a driver's license after every DUI fatality?
In that same time frame, how many licensed drivers killed people with their vehicles? Seriously, a vehicle is just as dangerous as a car in the wrong hands. And that is proven everyday on American freeways where legally licensed drivers murder "innocent" people. See the idiocy in that? That idiocy applies to trying to make some connection with licensed to carry gun owners.
The bottom line is the same and will always be the same. Maybe if it's iterated enough you folks will start to get it. It's not the gun, it's the person. Period.
Bottom line, based on the number of people shot by licensed to carry gun owners in the past three years, you have a higher probability of being killed by a licensed driver. So your illogical fear needs to stop infringing on my LEGAL and CONSTITUTIONAL right to own and carry firearms. If you don't agree with the Constitution, you can alway immigrate to England. I hear they are gun free... of course I also hear their violent crime is on the rise and last year they were voted the most VIOLENT nation in the EU.
Neither case had anything to do with concealed carry.