Santino William Legan: Gilroy shooter
from boxing-loving family, cited ‘Might
Makes Right'
USA Today,
by
Joe Szydlowski*
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/31/2019 11:30:53 AM
The 19-year-old who police say turned an assault weapon on festival-goers here was known as a quiet teen from an athletic family who stayed out of trouble, neighbors said Monday.
But there clearly was another side to Santino William Legan,(Snip)
It was that side that appears to mirror the since-deleted Instagram account in Legan's name. The postings, which included a photo of the festival, urged people to read a book that argues power alone can establish moral right. The book, "Might Makes Right," was published in the late 1800s.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 7/31/2019 11:34:08 AM (No. 138861)
Young people who are muddle headed, reading violent, hateful trash like that can go off the rails. Evil has been drafting people for tens of thousands of years, and it is unlikely to stop. We need to offer good alternatives, teach our children right from wrong when they are young, and be ready to use our own might to stop the evil ones. Refuse to be a victim.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/31/2019 11:35:32 AM (No. 138863)
Here is the “white supremaist book” that the Lefty sites are trumpeting about:
Might Is Right or The Survival of the Fittest, is a book by pseudonymous author Ragnar Redbeard. First published in 1896[1], it heavily advocates egoist anarchism, amorality, consequentialism and psychological hedonism. In Might Is Right, Redbeard rejects conventional ideas such as advocacy of human and natural rights and he also argues that only strength or physical might can establish moral right (à la Callicles or Thrasymachus). The book also attacks Christianity and Democracy. Friedrich Nietzsche's theories of master–slave morality and herd mentality served as clear inspirations for Redbeard's book which was written contemporaneously.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_Is_Right
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/31/2019 11:36:01 AM (No. 138867)
supremacist
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/31/2019 11:37:08 AM (No. 138868)
His brother is or was a boxer. USA Today is big on clickbait, far out headlines...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/31/2019 12:23:40 PM (No. 138913)
Outside of this mass murder thing, he was a very good boy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/31/2019 12:46:32 PM (No. 138928)
Check the voting registration of that 1800s author. 10 -1, he was a Democrat.
Also, dont ignore the radical islam ties.
And the left who during the early obama years, said sit down and shut up, we won? This isn't just a little hypocritical?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Readaholic 7/31/2019 1:00:45 PM (No. 138943)
Looks like an incel (involuntarily celibate).
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 7/31/2019 2:25:27 PM (No. 138990)
I keep hearing 'assault weapon', but before it was 'assault style weapon'...so just exactly what make of rifle was it???? Tell us because you sure as he&& don't know what it is, since 'assault' is a verb, not a noun...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 7/31/2019 2:26:20 PM (No. 138992)
When they first mentioned 'the book', I thought it was the Turner Diaries...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Krause 7/31/2019 2:26:34 PM (No. 138993)
Assault weapon?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 7/31/2019 2:42:28 PM (No. 139017)
#10, the rifle was identified as a WASR-10, which is a US-assembled semi-automatic variation of the original AKM soviet design. The ignorant media calls all variants of the AK design "AK-47s", when in reality actual AK-47 are a fairly rare rifle, replaced by the AK-50, and then the AKM in the late 50s. At least 90% of the real military, select fire (full auto) assault rifles used by militaries around the world which are called "AK-47s" are actually various AKM variants.
In any case, the semi-automatic rifle used was illegal in California, and he broke the law bringing it into the state. Who is surprised that someone bent on murder is undeterred by a gun law?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kowgirl 7/31/2019 4:04:42 PM (No. 139082)
Re #2's post, the shooter sounds like a liberal/progressive/democrat to me.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/31/2019 5:13:05 PM (No. 139148)
Chances are the perpetrator there at Gilroy, CA was more like an Antifa style anarchist then a red cap wearing Keep America Great supporter.
More likely at his age (19) he was just another loner nut job who fell through the system. It’s lucky that competent police were nearby when he started shooting.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LaVallette 8/1/2019 8:23:40 AM (No. 139646)
It was Mao Tze Tung who preached the principle of "Political Power grows out of the barrel of a gun" and commended it to all the left wing cadres engaged in the communist "People's Revolutionary Wars", some still ongoing all over the planet
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