INDIANAPOLIS (AP) " A man shot and wounded four co-workers Thursday morning at a manufacturing business that employs disabled people through Easter Seals, telling police he shot them over respect, police said.
Two men and two women were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, said Police Lt. Douglas Scheffel.
Jason Burnam, 24, was arrested inside the company cafeteria, said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Michael Spears. Burnam indicated to officers that the victims were targeted and when asked why he shot them, he said "it was over respect," Scheffel said. Police didn"t elaborate.
Burnam had been having trouble with other workers in the days leading up to the shooting, Scheffel said. "Something was going on that was building up to this," he said.
The business, Crossroads Industrial Services, a division of an Easter Seals program, has about 100 employees who do light manufacturing, such as making identification tags for military vehicles as part of a contract with the U.S. Army, said Candy Morrison, director of marketing.
About 85 percent of workers have physical or developmental disabilities, she said. Police did not know if the suspect has a disability.
Jack Thompson, a 21-year employee, said he was coming out of the bathroom when he heard nine shots and saw a man with a gun walk down a hallway.
"I heard first screaming and then shooting and more shooting," he said.
Easter Seals is a national provider of services for the disabled.
I bet our new Democratic Congress won't be able to avoid spinning this as a way to re-introduce gun control.
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I doubt it. The Democrats have been burned too often by the gun control issue. Gun control is a loser issue for Democrats on a national level. It is one thing for a Democrat to pursue gun control at a state level in Massachusetts or New York; it is another to stand up and cast a vote in the US congress supporting gun control. Democrats see that the NRA is keeping track, counting votes, and taking names. Democrats know that when election time rolls around, maybe in the October maybe in the September issue of American Rifleman/American Hunter, voters are going to be reminded in no uncertain terms where this guy has stood on gun control issues.
I don't know if this has ever been discussed, but it was clear to me that John Kerry was the "anti gun" presidential candidate in 2004. That was a close election. I wonder how many borderline voters voted against Kerry because of his anti-gun history who otherwise would have voted for him? Enough to turn the election?
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