Shooting At Church Festival

May 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Police identified the gunman responsible for shooting three people at a Los Angeles church festival as 33-year-old Fernando Diaz, Jr., FOX News confirmed on Sunday.

Diaz opened fire at the St. John Baptist de la Salle Roman Catholic parish shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday, wounding three people, before bystanders jumped in to restrain him.

The man’s 30-year-old wife, who was setting up a game booth at the time of the shooting, was the intended target, authorities told Fox’s Casey Stegall. She was injured and remains hospitalized in stable condition.

Police say Diaz now faces three counts of attempted murder.

Police say Diaz has a child who attends the church school and had an ongoing dispute with the mother. Police Capt. Steven Ruiz described the shooting Saturday as “an isolated incident, a domestic-violence dispute.”

And yet we continue to hear the cries of Liberals, “Guns do NOT belong in church.”

Wrong. Law-abiding citizens with their legal self-defense handguns belong ANYWHERE a crime may be committed.

Look, Police Capt. Steven Ruiz, this was absolutely no “isolated incident” to the victims. Don’t you dare play this off as something less that attempted murder at a public gathering. And don’t you dare play off this rampage as just a “domestic-violence dispute”, implying that this was something not entirely worthy of your important time.

Domestic violence is real, and it happens way too often. Spouses are often the target of a shooting. All spouses, especially those in bad relationships, should be armed at all times.

Fortunately the goblin in this incident was also an idiot:

Diaz showed up at the church with his child and a duffle bag shortly before the festival was to begin, investigators said. He then pulled a .22-caliber rifle from his bag and opened fire, witnesses told FOX News.

A .22-caliber rifle? Not usually the first choice for a killing. So much for the Evil Assault Rifles™ this time, huh? And it probably wasn’t even an Evil Black Rifle™ either. Most normal people use a .22-caliber rifle for chasing away squirrels. But the fact that this murderer-in-training didn’t kill a bunch of people is solely because he used a squirrel rifle instead of something more substantial. The victims were very lucky the goblin is an idiot.

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