Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts
You Need to Know
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Ellyn Santiago
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/29/2019 10:36:38 AM
Santino William Legan, 19, has been identified by CBS News as the suspect in the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. (Snip)Legan also shared his views that include fringe white supremacist book written in 1890. Called “…one of the most incendiary works ever to be published anywhere,” by a noted anarchist, Legan quoted from the book in a post accompanied by a Smokey the Bear sign about fire danger. He wrote: “Read Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/29/2019 10:38:30 AM (No. 136948)
He identified as being of Italian and Iranian descent. Photo with article shows a pretty normal-looking young guy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Tennman 7/29/2019 10:53:09 AM (No. 136966)
At least here the police acted rapidly and decisively to take him down. Unlike Marjorie Stoneman Douglas.
Waiting for Trump to be blamed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/29/2019 11:10:54 AM (No. 136988)
Im confused..... he's a white supremacist that shoots white people?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/29/2019 11:12:22 AM (No. 136991)
Gun control didn’t work. Doesn’t work. Never will work. Everyone needs to be armed. This is not a joke. Years ago, at a popular shooting spot above Fontana, CA, on a Sunday afternoon, a drunk with a rifle started shooting at other shooters. Needless to say, he was shot and wounded immediately by his targets, who all were armed. That is what the public needs for its protection: everybody who is a citizen of good standing should be allowed to arm themselves.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MattMusson 7/29/2019 11:23:14 AM (No. 137001)
Teenage Shooters dwell in the Triad of Evil: Deceit, Arrogance and Resentment.
Every one of them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/29/2019 11:24:23 AM (No. 137002)
He was a white supremacist who was influenced by a booked promoted by an anarchist. Which is it? Is he a white supremacist or an anarchist?
Sounds like he was screwed up. Deluded. How big a role did drugs and alcohol play in this sad scenario? What role did his parents play in this? Did he get his view of reality from the internet? Big mistake.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LadyHen 7/29/2019 11:27:24 AM (No. 137003)
Crazy people do crazy things and this guy was unhinged and angry.
He got a long gun into this festival. A long gun hidden on his person in 100 degree temps? Security must have been excessively lax.
When you disarm your guests, you should take responsibility for their safety. Sadly, this outcome is the most common one in gun free zones.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/29/2019 11:29:16 AM (No. 137007)
Of all the festivals and crowd producing venues on the entire face of the earth, Gilroy is the least offensive. What a lovely place of mostly food producing and farming families. The muzzies among us will starve first. Gilroy is where I ate my first In-and-Out Burger. This angry man should be ashamed, if he HAD any shame.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 11:50:58 AM (No. 137022)
So one of the gun expert geniuses being quoted as "he had a machine gun".
So, we'll wait for some facts. Nothing at this point. And very irritating that the one video I clicked on
was some woman screaming in Spanish. Illegals everywhere.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 11:53:52 AM (No. 137024)
Crazy violent teen, without any brains, apparently.
Crazy people write books on violence and hate, and other crazy people read books on violence and hate.
Be able to shoot back, because it is impossible to know where these lunatics will strike and for what reason, if they can even articulate anything that is remotely a 'reason.' Not any logic here, just hate and raw, violent emotion.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Texas Tillie 7/29/2019 12:00:51 PM (No. 137026)
#8, he cut through a fence on the back of the festival. Didn't come through the entrances.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/29/2019 12:18:12 PM (No. 137036)
The shooter was a whackjob who just wanted to shoot people. Trying to go down the rabbit hole that were his thought processes will leave you with a headache, and not much else. This article is nothing more than an attempt to see if we can blame Trump and Conservatives for the actions of this madman. Next up, how lax Gun Control Laws failed the victims of this shooting spree.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Doconc 7/29/2019 12:57:57 PM (No. 137066)
Don’t ignore the satanist influence! They hate everyone
A love of God doesn’t lead to this
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 7/29/2019 2:04:13 PM (No. 137154)
There are some MAJOR brain realignments/maturation type events that happen about 19-21 age period and not all young men make it through without serious mental illness.
I clearly remember being 20 and idly musing on some of the foolish choices that I and my HS friends had made just a couple of years earlier- mostly involving driving cars too fast and in the wrong places. It was crystal clear to my 20 year old mind that things that "seemed reasonable at the time" to my intelligent, but immature 17 and18 year old mind were NOT reasonable, but risky and foolish - immature. It was clear to me at that moment that something HAD happened to may decision making process. I had matured a LOT in a very short time. It seemed amazing at the time, and I made a mental note that "at 20 you are probably no paragon of maturity", yet there was a clear step function difference over a short time period that surprised me. I have read that this is a time of great changes in young brains, and I believe it.
It doesn't work out well for everyone. Some certain small minority of young men at that age lose their minds. Perhaps this was one.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hershey 7/29/2019 2:40:52 PM (No. 137197)
At least he's dead....won't have to care for him for the rest of his life..
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/29/2019 3:17:54 PM (No. 137235)
Every young person who does one of these bad deeds is suddenly this “ist” or that “ist”… When did one have to be an “ist” to do evil. How about just a bad person. An individual. Not necessarily an “ist”….
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/29/2019 3:53:57 PM (No. 137267)
Schizophrenia is not uncommon in men and onset is usually late teens to early twenties. It is now known that marijuana use can bring it on in some persons. Many young persons believe marijuana is harmless. And so it goes… In some persons, maybe not so harmless?
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All of us at one time or another have encounter somebody who is 'not quite right'. What do you do? See something Say something ? It's not like you are taken seriously if you say something, so most people don't. Did his family notice his anger? What could they do legally? Did he snap when his grandfather died last year? In the Parkland shooting, Cruz's mother had recently died. Then there was CameraHogg and friends taunting him.
I was in a pawn shop recently. It was amazing how many people are buying big guns. Then there was the weird individual selling one and buying another.
Know your surroundings.
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In short: He was a crackpot from a decent family - grandfather a West Point graduate who served in Korea. Article talks of a book he read that seriously affected his thinking. At that age, schizophrenia could not be ruled out. Nor could drug-fueled brain sickness. Delusions.