To: bentway who wrote (284583 ) 12/4/2015 1:21:35 AM From: Alex MG Read Replies (1) | Respond to Timothy McVeigh still holds the record for homegrown terrorism killed 168 people and injured over 600 and thankfully he fully explained himself en.wikipedia.org McVeigh was introduced to firearms by his grandfather. He told people he wanted to be a gun shop owner and sometimes took firearms to school to impress his classmates. McVeigh became intensely interested in gun rights after he graduated from high school, as well as the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution , and read magazines such as Soldier of Fortune . In May 1988, at the age of 20, McVeigh graduated from the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning , Georgia. [13] While in the military, McVeigh used much of his spare time to read about firearms, sniper tactics , and explosives. [14] McVeigh was reprimanded by the military for purchasing a " White Power " T-shirt at a Ku Klux Klan protest Waco, Texas during the Waco Siege to show his support. At the scene, he distributed pro- gun rights literature and bumper stickers, such as "When guns are outlawed, I will become an outlaw." He told a student reporter:According to CNN, his only known associations were as a registered Republican while in Buffalo, New York in the 1980s, and a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the Army gun shows and handed out free cards printed up with Lon Horiuchi 's name and address, "in the hope that somebody in the Patriot movement would assassinate the sharpshooter." (Horiuchi is an FBI sniper and some of his official actions have drawn controversy, specifically his shooting and killing of Randy Weaver 's wife while she held an infant child.) He wrote hate mail to the sniper, suggesting that "what goes around, comes around". He later considered putting aside his plan to target the Murrah Building to target Horiuchi, or a member of his family instead. [29] [30] McVeigh sold survival items and copies of The Turner Diaries . One author said:United Nations , the federal government and possible threats to American liberty............Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge . [101] McVeigh visited Waco during the standoff. While there, he was interviewed by student reporter Michelle Rauch, a senior journalism major at SMU who was writing for the school paper. McVeigh expressed his objections over what was happening there. [89] [102] The Turner Diaries ; he claimed to appreciate its interest in firearms. Photocopies of pages sixty-one and sixty-two of The Turner Diaries were found in an envelope inside McVeigh's car. These pages depicted a fictitious mortar attack upon the U.S. Capitol in Washington...............
