The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he held up the severed head had a device with photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions for making explosives when he was arrested, authorities said Thursday.
Justin Mohn, 32, faces a dozen new charges, including terrorism and theft, in the death last month of his father Michael Mohn, the Bucks County District Attorney’s office said Thursday.
A woman who answered the phone at the Bucks County Public Defender’s office, listed as Mohn’s attorney, declined to comment on Thursday.
According to prosecutors, Justin Mohn fatally shot his father with a pistol he bought the day before and then used a kitchen knife and machete to decapitate Michael Mohn at the Levittown house where they both lived.
Yup, perfectly responsible gun owner who purchased a perfectly legal gun a perfectly reasonable time before using it. No way a background check could’ve stopped this, so let’s not bother pushing for them.
Every gun owner is a good guy with a gun until they aren’t.
Fuck are you on about? I have 40+ guns (depending on how you define “gun”) and only one, bought from a close friend, without a federal background check.
“GuN sHow LoOpoLe!!” coming up next? Go to a gun show. Buy a gun without a Form 4473. Be my guest.
I think they’re trying to say a background check wouldn’t / didn’t do anything in this case.
I interpreted Donjuanme’s comment as sarcastic, where “no way a background check would’ve stopped this” implied that they thought a background check wasn’t performed, but if it would’ve been, this murder wouldn’t have happened.
Not everyone who commits a violent crime with a gun has a previous record of doing that, or other indicators that would fail a background check for that matter. Not a lot of anti-gunners seem to remember that though, which is partly why I interpreted the comment that way.
Not everyone who commits a violent crime with a gun has a previous record of doing that, or other indicators that would fail a background check for that matter
Damn, sounds like we should ban guns even harder then if there’s no better system than this one that constantly fails.
Still though, weird that so many other countries are doing this impossible thing so much better than America, land of the gun.
America takes awful care of its citizens, some other countries certainly do better. I wish we’d focus more on addressing the root cause issues that push people to commit violence instead of superficial actions like banning weapons, though. Even if all guns disappeared overnight, the conditions that incentivize violence would still be around.
Gun control isn’t about curing violence and it never has been. Even 50 years of your social reforms won’t cure violence. Gun control is about limiting the damage that violent people are able to do.
To put it bluntly, your views are nothing more than feigned compassion.
I have no idea how you convince yourself that you’re the good guy for advocating “I wish there were less violent people but until then, I want to ensure they always have cheap, accessible tools that are able to execute one person every few seconds, even after being charged with domestic abuse or under extreme mental distress”.
It’s not a “superficial action”. It’s a measurable, proven harm reduction strategy that could start saving lives the very day it went into effect. It’s deeply reprehensible to claim that’s a trivial thing, just because you don’t think the lives it saves will ever be ones you value.
And of course the cherry on top of all of these dogshit views is that if you’re a gun owner, you’re financially supporting Republican efforts to block exactly the reforms you’re alluding to.
We can do BOTH.
Wasn’t it only like a week or two later that a Florida man killed his father for getting the covid shot?
I’d keep spamming the notion of not rewarding the banner of right-wing extremists who take the cake in causing the vast majority of political violence and homicide.
I feel we’re sitting at the intersection of several risk factors… too many uncontrolled guns, not enough healthcare (including mental healthcare), a very stressed society, and an entire political and media infrastructure telling people not to trust their doctors, not to trust their medicine and not to trust their neighbors. I’ve got my own opinions about who is responsible for most of that, and I’m sure everyone else here does too.
I think we’re in for a long time of random act of violence, some from deeply unwell individuals, and some calculated and planned by rational, if sociopathic, actors.
Dont forget the toxic, brain-damaging lead in the air and soil!
And rampant substance abuse, and traumatic brain injuries (eg, football).
traumatic brain injuries (eg, football).
This just made me think about a news story I saw a few years ago talking about how the Marines used to use a rocket launcher that gave the troops who fired it concussions and maybe/probably permanent TBIs, and I was just about to comment about how they used to use those…
2018 - “Marines Who Fired Rocket Launchers Now Worry About Their Brains”
2023 -“U.S. Troops Still Train on Weapons With Known Risk of Brain Injury”
As soon as you mentioned these launchers, I immediately thought about the Carl Gustav launcher. I didn’t see these formal investigations by journalists but I heard veterans (in the context of seeing these launchers given to Ukrainians) recounting just how jarring it was to fire these.
It’s tragic you can see the culmination of all these debilitating forces on peoples’ brains at a national scale.
Totally normal Trump supporter.
Guy will probably be the keynote at CPAC.
One thing that I hope eventually happens as conservatives become more delirious is that the children of these parents are apprehended by CAS and taken away. As someone who has a big interest in extremists and spends a lot of time in their spheres, I can say without a doubt that most of them are very dangerous for their children. They are unvaccinated, uneducated (they literally prop them up in front of conspiracy theory YouTube all day under the guise of homeschool), malnourished, unregistered in any legal sense much of the time, and don’t socialize with others, as well as being physically disciplined. The guy who killed his kids in Mexico for Qanon reasons illustrates how dangerous these people are to children, as well as the guy who killed his kid for almost being vaccinated (this is much less well known and heartbreaking: https://longreads.com/2023/04/06/a-vaccine-dispute-turns-deadly/)
Sorry, source on that guy in Mexico? Haven’t heard about it
This is a good in depth piece about it; https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/matthew-taylor-coleman-qanon-children-killing-1239151/
An apparent non paywall link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmjzq/matthew-taylor-coleman-santa-barbara-qanon
was the kitchen knife like, a meat cleaver or just a normal paring knife? honestly, article reads like meth psychosis was the real culprit
While some sort of major mental malfunction happened, previous articles mention the guy was heavily involved in RWNJ conspiracies for years before this event. That certainly was a large driving factor of his offense.
