A 39-year-old rock climber is facing a slate of attempted murder charges over an alleged plot to kill random people at a Smith Rock climbing event this weekend.
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office arrested Samson Zebturiah Garner on Thursday and took him to the county jail on several charges each of attempted murder of multiple victims, attempted first degree assault, attempted second degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon.
Law enforcement recovered a Beretta 9mm handgun, a Sig Sauer 9mm handgun and an AR-15 from Garner when he was arrested. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office seized those weapons under an extreme risk protection order during the arrest, meaning the courts will take those guns away for at least a year.
What in the world?! Absolutely insane.
Kind of literally I would think.
the courts will take those guns away for at least a year.
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🫡 🫡 🫡 🫡 🫡 🫡 🫡 🫡 🫡He would have to beat those charges, all felonies so no more gun rights, to get them back. If he is acquitted or found not guilty his weapons should not be kept from him, but with this he would still have to wait that year.
Look, everyone makes mistakes and that should not mean this dangerous psychopath should lose their god given right to own a personal arsenal.
Maybe next time they will understand that the true goal of any gun owner should be to plug a kindergartner or two. Because America
But not a white kindergartener if you can help it …
Which god and where in their religious text does it say this man gets a gun?
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Gunnels, the Deschutes County prosecutor, said Central Oregon law enforcement became aware of Garner after Portland police received tips about the potential shooting.
So… do you think the guy gave people hints about his plans because he has a psychological issue, because he wanted to get caught, or simply because he can’t keep his mouth shut? A combination, perhaps?
Name checks out. Knowing the story of Samson is that he killed himself along with many other people after killing a bunch of other people, why would you ever name your child Samson?
What a wild story! Sounds like the cops were ahead of him though. Man worked in IT. I wanna know what wore him this far down.
The gun stores weren’t. Additionally, the pro-gun community opposes the measures that took his guns away.
Not at all surprised. What’s with only taking them away for a year? Isn’t this a felony, meaning he should lose his right to own guns for life.
As another commenter pointed out, yes if found guilty it’s a lifetime firearms ban, if not he’s still out those guns for minimum of a year.
Functionally a ban on buying guns from gun stores. He can still easily buy an arsenal of semi-automatic weapons by buying them privately without a background check – again, thanks to the pro-gun community.
Oregon requires background checks for private sales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Oregon?wprov=sfla1
But Idaho doesn’t
Which is how this shit goes. A state can care enough to add common sense laws. But if the state next door doesn’t, you have to REALLY hope your crazies really hate day trips
Maybe there should be some kind of federal law that addresses firearm ownership?
Not hurting the guns feelings is more important than the lives of innocent families.
Yeah, this came up when I posted it to the Portland group:
“Gunnels, the Deschutes County prosecutor, said Central Oregon law enforcement became aware of Garner after Portland police received tips about the potential shooting.”
Portland police started working with County law enforcement on Monday, when they found he was en route to the county on Thursday, they rounded him up.
what wore him this fast down
Customer support. Or his waifu left him.
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… So did you just wake up today and say to yourself “I want to defend a mass murderer today”?
Alleged attemped mass murderer, innocent until proven guilty. You should not immediately jump to conclusions with insufficient evidence.
Allegations like these are enough to destroy a person’s life because of the fact that people always assume guilt.
So… That’s a yes?
You are talking to two different accounts.
You know how orange tabbies share a single brain cell among all of them?
It is like that. Except instead of being loveable goofballs they are a psychotic death cult.
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Deschutes County District Attorney Steve Gunnels said investigators had recovered journal entries with Garner’s belongings that indicated he was not planning to target specific people, but had a “generalized anger.” Court charging documents list potential victims in the case as “spectator” and “belayer.”
Cops claim that this is what the journal talks about, seems to be true. However, I’m sure the actual contents are out there somewhere or will be publicized during the trial if there is one
Garner is a Portland resident who has worked as an information technology professional in the past … had a “generalized anger.”
The whole thing smells like another incel story to me. Makes me wonder if he got romantically rejected by someone (because IT nerd) and was going to damn well show that someone what a Real Man he is!
Pretty sure being an “IT nerd” has nothing to do with being romantically rejected, I don’t see why you need to connect those two.
