Three people shot outside Pentagon Metro station

[stevedeshazer]

Source: WTOP

WASHINGTON - A Metrorail stop on the Yellow Line has closed after a shooting Thursday evening.

The Pentagon Metro station has been closed due to a shooting outside the station. Trains are no longer stopping at the station.

Arlington Country Fire and Rescue says three people have been transported to a local hospital. There has been no word on their condition.

Metro is in the process of coordinating shuttle buses around the station.

Read more: http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1904181&nid=25

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Few details yet.

ON EDIT: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35716821/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

This says that possibly the three who were shot are two Pentagon police officers and the shooting suspect.

[slackmaster]

1. Not terrorism

Probably gang bangers.

[haele]

4. Could also be estranged family members or a fired worker.

A place that crowded, you could hit more than the person you're aiming at, especially if you're pissed or in an equally altered state or if someone tries to intervien.
Not sure that gang-bangers would be at the Pentagon station; the Navy Yard or any of the other downtown stations more east or north, maybe.

We'll find out.

Haele

[Faygo Kid]

22. Is this him? On Facebook and Amazon. If so, looks like a conspiracist.

Check them out:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1S137X4WZFNZO/ref=cm_aya_pdp_profile

http://www.facebook.com/jpbedell

I note Lew Rockwell and Ludwig Von Mises Institute as Facebook friends. Not good.

[panzerfaust]

39. Facebook link gone, Amazon still live

If it is the same guy he is from Austin (didn't something having to do with the federal government just happen there, or is that too many "news" cycles ago) and the books shown on his "wish list" look a lot like books on my shelf.

So, if he is a nutter (vs estranged lover) he may a left-wing rather than a right-wing nut. Certainly, if there is any chance, he will be held up by MSM as such.

[True_Blue]

44. I think he was a Libertarian

This sounds like something a right wing nut would say -

snip - "Communist and socialist governments that abolished or disregarded private property," said Bedell in the recording, "created poverty, repression and murder on a truly enormous scale." But, he continued, "Even in the United States, however, there has been a continual erosion of protection of private property justified by the belief that government is an efficient instrument for the positive direction of society."

Bedell added: "Governments lack the profit and loss incentives that individuals and private organizations must use..."

And he warned: "When governments are able to confiscate the resources of their citizens to fund schemes that need only be justified by lies and deception enormous disasters can result."

Bedell also denounced the monetary system, a frequent bete noir of anti-government extremists. "When the government can control how private property is used," he said, "and especially when the government controls the monetary system that is use to exchange private property, the government has the mechanisms and the motivation to control individuals to the smallest detail."
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/pentagon_shooter_praised_private_property_rights_d.php

[DesertFlower]

2. holy shit. nt

[SharonRB]

3. That's a nice area.

[liberal N proud]

13. That is what I thought

We have stayed down in that area a few times and walked to and from the metro late at night.

You never know!

[sharesunited]

5. There's Virginia for you.

[vadawg]

25. yeah its geographically virginia, but its not the real virginia

rather its the region known as NOVA, which everyone knows is nothing like the rest of virginia, and the closer you get to DC in NOVA the less like the rest of the commonwealth it becomes....

[sharesunited]

28. It's Virginia for the purpose of gun laws.

[proteus_lives]

29. Standard sharesunited lack of logic.

Zero points awarded.

[sharesunited]

31. Could be a resident of the District, I suppose. A beneficiary of the Heller decision.

[proteus_lives]

32. Now in negative points.

You're never going to catch up if you keep clutching at straws.

[npk]

6. Pentagon on lockdown according to report

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/pentagon-reportedly-on-lockdown-348037.html

[stevedeshazer]

9. Thanks for that link n/t

[stevedeshazer]

7. UPDATE:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35716821/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

This says that possibly the three who were shot are two Pentagon police officers and the shooting suspect.

[tanyev]

11. "It appears to be a random shooting and not an act of terrorism"

I'm guessing the official who said that thought it was reassuring.

[Robb]

15. LOL no kidding. nt

[LisaM]

8. Probably just finished quadruple shot espresso macchiatos from Starbucks

Geesh.

[xchrom]

10. This was just a Piffle! If everyone had been armed

We could have had a REAL shoot-out.

[pjt7]

12. No lobbyists where hit?

.

[Nancy Waterman]

14. Now is the time to sell more guns in virginia - no limits!!

At least that is how the Republican legislators and the new governor think. The Senate squashed them on this issue today for another year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030404372.html

A Virginia Senate panel designed to eliminate House gun rights proposals went about its work efficiently Thursday, killing an attempted repeal of the state's 17-year-old ban on buying more than one handgun a month and several other bills.

[wordpix]

21. one handgun/month just isn't enough for some people - I prefer no limits, too!

:sarcasm:

[vadawg]

26. hey ive been struggling to keep up with the one a month limit so in some ways im happy not to be

able to buy more, i guess the local gangbangers will now have tolimit their purchases, oh wait thats right they dont buy them legally anyway so the law makes no difference to them...

[Merchant Marine]

17. There was a shootout

Armed pentagon cops shot him, preventing a potential massacre.

[proteus_lives]

30. Why do antis always want bloodbaths?

Weird.

[Snazzy]

16. AP

2 Pentagon police officers shot

By CHRISTINE SIMMONS
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at the teeming subway entrance to the Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two police officers before being shot and critically wounded, officials said.

Authorities said all three were taken to a hospital. Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police, said the two officers suffered grazing wounds that were not life-threatening.

The suspect, believed to be a U.S. citizen, walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon in an apparent attempt to get inside the Defense Department headquarters, at about 6:40 p.m. "He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting," Keevill said. "He walked up very cool. He had no real emotion on his face." The Pentagon officers returned fire with semiautomatic weapons.

Of the suspect, the chief said, "His injury is pretty critical."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PENTAGON_METRO_SHOOTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-04-21-05-21

Mar 4, 9:22 PM EST

2nd person scrutinized in Pentagon subway shooting

By DEVLIN BARRETT and MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Law enforcement officials say they've got one person in custody and are investigating whether a second was involved in a shooting at Pentagon subway entrance

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still unfolding.

They say there's no immediate signs of terrorism but, with information coming in quickly, they haven't ruled anything out.

Two police officers were shot and critically wounded in the shooting.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PENTAGON_METRO_SHOOTING_SUSPECTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-04-21-22-22

[Snazzy]

20. AP sources: Suspect in Pentagon shooting identified as 36-year-old John Patrick Bedell

http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=12087610&nav=menu25_2

[Judi Lynn]

41. Update: Pentagon shooter apparently doubted 9/11 facts in Web posting

Pentagon shooter apparently doubted 9/11 facts in Web posting
Associated Press
March 5, 2010

Washington - The gunman in the Pentagon shootings may have harbored resentment for the military and had doubts about the facts behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

John Patrick Bedell, 36, died after exchanging gunfire with two police officers, both of whom were wounded.

In an Internet posting, a user named JPatrickBedell wrote that he was determined to see justice for the 1991 death of Marine Col. James Sabow in Orange County, which was ruled a suicide but has long been the source of coverup theories. The writer said the case would be a step toward revealing the truth behind the 9/11 "demolitions."

The same posting railed against the government's enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author's 2006 court case in Orange County for cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-pentagon-shooting-interne-2010mar05,0,4234658.story

[Faygo Kid]

18. Listening to Glenn Beck?

We will see something violent from his followers. Maybe not this, but then again, an anti-government type just flew a plane into an IRS building.

Will be interesting to learn the details. And then some.

[wordpix]

19. I think all metro passengers should be allowed guns on trains & the streets in DC

:sarcasm: Why don't we allow these guns in more places? :sarcasm:

[Duchess]

23. I don't have a problem with the guns

just the criminals that kill innocent people.

[ChicagoSuz219]

35. Me, neither...

...it's those damn bullets I hate... ;-)

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

33. Those that choose to could apply for a permit.

[Kievan Rus]

24. These kind of incidents are becoming all too common

[Pavulon]

27. We should make them illegal.. Like smoking weed

then people will stop.

[sharesunited]

34. If there was even a hint of the same zero tolerance, we'd be getting somewhere.

[Merchant Marine]

36. Yeah, that mentality has worked great for our drug war.

[sharesunited]

43. You can't force me to use drugs. You CAN force me to take a bullet in my hide.

Big difference.

[Merchant Marine]

45. I dunno if you've noticed,

But our zero-tolerance ban it all drug war has done nothing but open up a humongous, extremely lucrative black market that has swelled criminal gangs in this country to a level not seen since prohibition.

I think you're right that was can do the same thing to guns that we have done to drugs- create a vast criminal black market over which we have no control.

[Rapier09]

37. Random country

I am sure we'll see a lot more random incident as this goes on.

God bless our leadership and may he help them.

They are going to need it;very very badly.

[Jax]

38. Sad and sick

telling thread, though not surprising...the responses.

[Indy Lurker]

40. Another crazy with a gun

This incident however stands in sharp contrast to all the school mass shootings where several individuals were killed, and everyone but the crazy criminal were unarmed.

In this case there were sane individuals present with firearms. They were able to eliminate the threat posed by the crazy person in under one minute. The only person who died was the crazy criminal. Everyone else was treated and released by the next morning.

[onehandle]

42. Where did he get the guns? nt