Why do they need to mention he was a trucker

[jmilici]

Being a trucker out of work has absolutely nothing to do with what he did.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/...hurch_shooting

As a driver and an owner operator, I am appalled at what he did and feel strongly for the victims and the witnesses but what is the relevance to him being a truck driver. I highly doubt he did this cause he is out of work. Someone please help me understand?

The report said he was against liberals, but what's the relevance to him being a truck driver? Did I mis-read the story?

[golfhobo]

I thought it was kinda funny. Guns don't kill people..... Liberal hating conservative truck drivers WITH guns kill people!

Although, I don't think anyone died, did they?

Hey, Terry Lamar...... what you doin' in Tennessee????

[Double L]

I thought it was kinda funny. Guns don't kill people..... Liberal hating conservative truck drivers WITH guns kill people!

Although, I don't think anyone died, did they?

Hey, Terry Lamar...... what you doin' in Tennessee????

I think you mean all of CAD, I think most of us are going for McCain. :wink:

[matcat]

I thought it was kinda funny. Guns don't kill people..... Liberal hating conservative truck drivers WITH guns kill people!

Although, I don't think anyone died, did they?

Hey, Terry Lamar...... what you doin' in Tennessee????

8 people where shot, 2 dead, 4 seriously injured.

[jmilici]

I re-read the story and they added to it. It now says he ONLY (emphasis added) has 2 drunk driving convictions for a criminal record. I wonder if this is why he can't get a job .

[golfhobo]

I re-read the story and they added to it. It now says he ONLY (emphasis added) has 2 drunk driving convictions for a criminal record. I wonder if this is why he can't get a job .

I'm sure it's a contributing factor, but it sounds like he's had problems all his life. He was busted back to private before being discharged from the Army! Did you see his picture? Looked like Ted Kasynski when they found him. I think this guy was just too creepy and anti-social for MOST companies to hire him.

I didn't read the article when you posted it. I had already "skimmed" it on AOL, and seen it on the news. The article NOW "corrects" the number of injured to show that 2 were killed. I hadn't heard that on the news.

As for mentioning his status as an unemployed truck driver.... I know WE hate to hear that and feel its being emphasized, but in these kinds of attacks, they usually DO tell that info. Like, "he was a postal worker who'd lost his job, etc."

[Windwalker]

He's not the first, and unfortunately, I doubt he'll be the last. The fact that he was a truck driver is not a factor. The fact that he has had two DWIs would certainly keep the insurance companies from being willing to insure him, so that's why he was out of work, and not able to get a job. Flipping hambergers just wasn't good enough for him.

[Orangetxguy]

I re-read the story and they added to it. It now says he ONLY (emphasis added) has 2 drunk driving convictions for a criminal record. I wonder if this is why he can't get a job .

This is from the yahoo article..and does a little to explain why they put in his "truckdriver" reference.

The attack Sunday morning lasted only minutes. But the anger behind it may have been building for months, if not years.

"It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement," Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen said of Adkisson.

A police affidavit used to get a search warrant for Adkisson's home said the suspect admitted to the shooting.

Adkisson "stated that he had targeted the church because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country," investigator Steve Still wrote.

Adkisson was a loner who hates "blacks, gays and anyone different from him," longtime acquaintance Carol Smallwood of Alice, Texas, told the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Authorities said Adkisson's criminal record consisted of only two drunken driving citations. But court records reviewed by The Associated Press show that his former wife obtained an order of protection in March 2000 while the two were still married and living in the Knoxville suburb of Powell.

The article also had this as the final sentence;

Adkisson, who is due in court Aug. 5, was on active duty with the Army beginning in 1974. Army records show he was a helicopter repairman, rising from a private to specialist and then returning to private before being discharged in late 1977.

So now he's either a deranged trucker, or a deranged Vet.

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[Windwalker]

So now he's either a deranged trucker, or a deranged Vet.

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Now, WAIT A MINUTE... I'm BOTH a deranged trucker, AND a deranged vet. And, I do not go around killing anyone. Don't go giving the rest of us a bad name just because he's simply deranged and being a trucker or being a vet has absolutely nothing to do with it. :wink:

[golfhobo]

So now he's either a deranged trucker, or a deranged Vet.

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Now, WAIT A MINUTE... I'm BOTH a deranged trucker, AND a deranged vet. And, I do not go around killing anyone. Don't go giving the rest of us a bad name just because he's simply deranged and being a trucker or being a vet has absolutely nothing to do with it. :wink:

You're absolutely right! He was also a deranged GUN NUT!

Couldn't go hunting with a standard pump shotgun..... had to have a "semi-automatic!" :wink:

[Windwalker]

So now he's either a deranged trucker, or a deranged Vet.

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Now, WAIT A MINUTE... I'm BOTH a deranged trucker, AND a deranged vet. And, I do not go around killing anyone. Don't go giving the rest of us a bad name just because he's simply deranged and being a trucker or being a vet has absolutely nothing to do with it. :wink:

You're absolutely right! He was also a deranged GUN NUT!

Couldn't go hunting with a standard pump shotgun..... had to have a "semi-automatic!" :wink:

But, in all honesty, give the other folks a whole lot of credit. Some nut comes in and starts blowing people away, and they're willing to MOB him and disarm him. A lot of the other shootings I've heard of, the people began to scatter. This time, they went for him and stopped him in his tracks. How much do you want to bet, some of them were also vets that had seen action along the front lines. You think about the courage it takes to face up to someone with a weapon and take it away from him. I have little doubt that if they had not done so, more of them would have been wounded or dead. Give those folks a round of applause, a cheer, a dozen "atta-boys", a cigar... But give them a whole lot of credit for what they did.

[jmilici]

So now he's either a deranged trucker, or a deranged Vet.

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Now, WAIT A MINUTE... I'm BOTH a deranged trucker, AND a deranged vet. And, I do not go around killing anyone. Don't go giving the rest of us a bad name just because he's simply deranged and being a trucker or being a vet has absolutely nothing to do with it. :wink:

You're absolutely right! He was also a deranged GUN NUT!

Couldn't go hunting with a standard pump shotgun..... had to have a "semi-automatic!" :wink:

But, in all honesty, give the other folks a whole lot of credit. Some nut comes in and starts blowing people away, and they're willing to MOB him and disarm him. A lot of the other shootings I've heard of, the people began to scatter. This time, they went for him and stopped him in his tracks. How much do you want to bet, some of them were also vets that had seen action along the front lines. You think about the courage it takes to face up to someone with a weapon and take it away from him. I have little doubt that if they had not done so, more of them would have been wounded or dead. Give those folks a round of applause, a cheer, a dozen "atta-boys", a cigar... But give them a whole lot of credit for what they did.

I definitely agree with you windwalker, I give these people 4 thumbs up (not that I have 4 thumbs) but what they did was definitely heroic.

I also see where others are coming from about the job. My only question now is if he was so frustrated with not being able to get a job why take it out on the church regardless of hating the whole liberal thing. Why not go to a trucking company that fired him or refused to hire him and do his rampage? I'm thinking that either they are using him to smear the trucking industry or his ex has a lot more to do with this than they are saying. Or maybe I'm just reading more into this than what it really is.