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Though many details of the shooting remained unknown, some local and national Democrats said it showed a need for stricter gun laws.

“We shouldn’t have to live with this constant horror and grief,” Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a presidential candidate, said on Twitter. “We need to act now to end the gun violence epidemic.”

Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin said “we cannot allow the plague of gun violence to take any more lives.”

Never let a perfectly good tragedy go to waste.

You got all types of stuff on the news today.

Been watching fox news since around 930 am.

Aint seen 1 blurb about this......

350million killed by gun violence (that's a bunch) - Quo Pro Joe

Yep. The Commie DemoRats never pass up an opportunity to try and rob us of our second amendment rights!

This shooting is completely absent from the press, why the secrecy ?

Ok I just found this.

MILWAUKEE – The man who opened fire at the Molson Coors plant Wednesday, killing five co-workers and himself, had been involved in a long-running dispute with a co-worker that boiled over before he started shooting, according to a law enforcement source who spoke to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and brewery sources.

Anthony N. Ferrill, 51, had worked as an electrician for more than 20 years, about 17 of them at Molson Coors, according to multiple sources and online employment records.

A co-worker who asked not to be identified for fear of being disciplined said Ferrill believed he was being discriminated against because he was African American, and that he frequently argued with at least one of the victims, a fellow electrician.

The co-worker said Ferrill frequently watched movies on his phone during the day, which the other electrician took issue with, and that the two accused each other of going into each others' offices and stealing tools or tampering with computer equipment.

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About a year ago, the employee said, Ferrill started saying he believed Miller workers were coming into his home, bugging his computer and moving chairs around.

"I was, are you serious, Anthony? What? We all kind of joked about it, saying we should maybe get him an aluminum hat. Things just started getting weird. But he was dead serious about it," the co-worker said.

Investigators walk to a home believed to be that of the Molson Coors shooter in the 8200 block of West Potomac Avenue in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
But another co-worker, Keith Giese, said Ferrill seemed fine when he last saw him earlier this week.

"I never had a clue. I talked to him a couple of days ago and he seemed fine to me," Giese said. "I had no idea that there was a problem, that somebody could snap like that."

As word spread Thursday that Ferrill was the shooter, current and former co-workers echoed that surprise.

"He was a very good electrician, a very good worker, and I couldn’t say anything bad about the guy," said Phillip Rauch Sr. who retired in April after working with Ferrill for 15 years. "Every time I worked with him he was always in a good mood."

Ferrill was a licensed industrial journeyman electrician a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Milwaukee. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1987 to 1991 and was honorably discharged, according to Rick Flowers of Milwaukee County Veterans’ Services.

Ferrill received a VA loan to help purchase his three-bedroom ranch home on the 8200 block of W. Potomac Ave. He and his wife and family lived there with his family since 2004.

According to online court records, he was a co-plaintiff with MillerCoors LLC Health Benefits Program in a 2015 lawsuit that appears to be in connection with an auto accident.

Neighbors shocked
Neighbors said he was known to carry guns; some said he always carried a gun.

Elizabeth LaPine has lived in the neighborhood for 11 years. She said she once saw what she believed to be a gun safe delivered to the home.

“I knew he was interested in guns,” LaPine said.

She said it was hard to believe that her neighbor was the shooter.

“I would never believe it ... that he could do something like that,” LaPine said. “He didn’t give me the impression that there was anything wrong. It didn’t seem like there was anything different.”

Ferril had a Doberman pincher named Lucas, LaPine said.

“He loved that dog,” LaPine said. “He played ball with it in the street when there wasn’t much traffic. He’d throw the ball down the street and the dog would chase after it.”

LaPine said Ferril walked the dog every day before leaving for work.

Like others who live in the neighborhood, LaPine said Ferrill looked out for his home and his neighbors.

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“He had given me his phone number about a year ago,” LaPine said. “He said ‘If you see anybody messing around the house or anything like that ... give me a call.’"

Neighbor Patricia Dibb said she felt “shock, anger, sadness” when she heard about the shooting.

“Sadness for the families; sadness for his wife; sadness for his daughter,” Dibb said while holding back tears. “Sadness.”

LaPine said she also feels terrible for the families involved, including the Ferrills.

“If you’re mad at somebody or something, talk it out, don’t shoot it out,” LaPine said. “You’re just hurting so many families.”

Contributing: Ashley Luthern, Mark Johnson, Rory Linnane, Talis Shelbourne and Cary Spivak of the Journal Sentinel and Nick Penzenstadler of USA TODAY

Now this makes more sense.

Ferrill has a long history of back pain that was made worse when he was in car accidents in 2009 and 2010, according to court records. He was a co-plaintiff with MillerCoors LLC Health Benefits Program in a 2015 lawsuit in connection with one of those accidents.

A report filed as evidence in that suit and written by Jeffrey Gorelick, a Glendale physician, states Ferrill's back problems started about 25 years earlier.

He would use Vicodin, an opioid-based pain killer, and Cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant, when lower back pain flared up, Gorelick said.

"In spite of the back pain, he works every day as an electrician and pushes himself to get through the day," wrote Gorelick, who filed the report in support of Ferrill's lawsuit. "However, he is known on weekends to sometimes spend most of both days in bed recovering to allow him to get to work the next week."

A picture is worth a thousand words.......

Dang. sounds a lot like someone I know, very well...
ME! (but not an electrician)

Sounds like he was a paranoid schizophrenic.

When I was in my 20's, one of my best friends was PS. This is the type of schit he'd come up with, up until he killed himself.

"About a year ago, the employee said, Ferrill started saying he believed Miller workers were coming into his home, bugging his computer and moving chairs around."

StoneCutter you beat me to the punch. This is the talk of a paranoid schizophrenic. Which means, as crazy as you can get. Psychotic.
His co workers who heard this talk, needed to try to get him some mental health counseling. Might have helped him a lot, might not have helped him at all. But they should have tried.
I know that in Georgia you can get a person committed for an "involuntary 72 hour" committal, the docs will check him out, if they determine he is really nuts he may be kept for quite a while.

I have taken Cyclobenzaprine after several back surgeries, to get rid of muscle spasms at night while trying to sleep. That sh~t is terrible in its self, the night mares were scary, walking in my sleep and the likes, it didn't take long to sh~t can that stuff !

Figured so. Not a single article I checked had a pic of the shooter. We are adrift and soon to go over the falls, it would appear.

I hate the side effects too. I usually take either 1/2 or 1/4 of a pill at a time. My boss is about 6 ft 12 , skinny guy, and takes 2 whole ones at a time .

My FIL spent 20 years of his retirement just like that...and he didn't kill anyone.
If this guy wanted to end his misery by killing himself, that's his business but killing innocent people over it is the highest degree of cowardice.

Hmmmmmm.
Black guy on opiods shoots up work place...

No wonder it aint on the news...

Go figure..

Dont play into the Liberal Socialist Democrat media agenda.


What color were the victims????

As Colin Flaherty maintains, mass shootings are a black thing.

Hmmm

New buzzword


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