By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
Investigators have found what the New York Post is describing as “a shocking, hate-filled manifesto” left behind by the two teenage killers who opened fire at a San Diego, California mosque, removing any doubt about their motivation.
What remains to be seen is whether, when and how the gun prohibition lobby tries to twist this incident into yet another launch pad for gun control.
According to NBC News, authorities searching through three homes associated with the two gunmen, identified as Caleb Vasquez, 18 and Cain Clark, 17, found “dozens of weapons, including pistols, rifles, shotguns, ammunition, tactical gear and a crossbow.” NBC also noted the firearms “belonged to one of their parents” and were not registered to the shooters.
California has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, yet none of those laws prevented the deadly mosque shooting. While investigators are reportedly trying to determine how the teens got those guns, they have “not yet determined if they will be recommending charges.” In California, those charges would be leveled against the parents who owned the guns.
The New York Post’s report includes chilling revelations about the 75-page manifesto including references to Adolph Hitler, “Nazi iconography,” and what the newspaper described as “a nonsensical collection of anti-Trump, anti-liberal, antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic bile — tied together only by the authors’ fury that they were not given more in life.”
Digging further, the Post said a section of the document, apparently authored by Clark, claimed to align with Hitler and indicated he drew inspiration from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist.
FBI investigators are reportedly trying to determine what radicalized the killers.
According to NBC, Clark’s mother called police Monday to report her son missing, along with firearms and her vehicle.
According to online information posted by the Office of the Attorney General, “You may be guilty of a misdemeanor or a felony if you keep a loaded firearm within any premises that are under your custody or control and a child under 18 years of age obtains and uses it, resulting in injury or death, or carries it to a public place, unless you stored the firearm in a locked container or locked the firearm with a locking device to temporarily keep it from functioning.”
KRCR News reported last December that a new law took effect Jan, 1 of this year. It requires guns to be “securely stored when not in use,” which might mean either in a locked gun safe or secured with some sort of safety device.
