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Residents asked to stay indoors after escaped Pennsylvania killer is spotted again, and police say he is armed

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Residents asked to stay indoors after escaped Pennsylvania killer is spotted again, and police say he is armed | CNN

A Monday night sighting of the convicted killer who escaped from an eastern Pennsylvania prison nearly two weeks ago jolted the surrounding community into high alert and prompted school closures Tuesday, after police warned the inmate now has a weapon.

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Apparently some idiot left his garage door open and the convict got a hold of his “.22” rifle from the corner of the garage.
Dude should never be allowed to own firearms again.
- If only that .22 had a wepon to defend its self from the killer!
- There is no "illegal gun fairy". If a known criminal has a gun, it was either the fault of a legal gun owner or gun laws that are so dogshit they can't even deny a sale to a known criminal.
  But don't worry, the gun lobby profits the same from both.
- Dude should never be allowed to own firearms again.
  I would argue that, generally, one isn't responsible for the crimes that another commits -- the perp would have had to have trespassed, and stolen the rifle. What one does on their own property is generally of their own concern. This is assuming, of course, that the reason in which this occurred has no laws on the storage of firearms (whether such laws are justified, or not is separate argument, ofc).
  
  While I don't think laws exist for gun storage in most of the US. It is very well known that you should lock up guns when not in use. Seriously there are ads about it on YouTube ( I don't know why, I don't and have never had a gun, nor anyone in my immediate family) at the very least he deserves to be bullied for making such an obvious bad decision. I want this to be kept in mind you live in the same state as Kensington... and you think it's a good idea to leave guns open?
  
  Let's say you're a reactor engineer, and you're safeguarding a package of plutonium being unloaded from a truck while some others go to get equipment to move it. You look at a particularly fluffy cloud in the sky for 25 minutes, then look down and the plutonium is gone. You apologize to your superiors about the oversight, not knowing what criminal might have trespassed in the area. Then, terrorists blow up a city with a dirty bomb.
  Are you a terrorist directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people? No. Are you still partly responsible, enough that you should lose any potential jobs in nuclear engineering? Absolutely. Carrying dangerous items bears responsibility for their safeguarding.
- Now that you have the caliber correct, mind sharing your source on "garage door open"?
  
  Police just held a press conference stating as much.
- The weapon is a .22 caliber rifle
  Try again.
  
  Turns out you can edit comments so no need to try again. You probably didn’t know that
Friend of mine lives within walking distance of the gas station where he was just spotted. She's on lockdown, helicopters flying overhead, schools are closed for the day, etc
Keystone Kops wasn't supposed to be a documentary
No was this guy gets captured, he's gonna be shot on sight.
I hope they can find a way to relieve us of some 🐷.
- Two birds
Curious when we're going to start saying 'personhunt.'
- Do you expect us to start saying 'huperson' as well? Get off it. Not every use of 'man' is gendered.
  
  You could say that about many words that are unfortunately getting interpreted as gendered for some reason
- Honestly, the term is antiquated beyond just being gendered. We say hunt when we really mean search and capture.
  And people make jokes about this but it really can matter. If someone hears there's a manhunt for Sam Jones, they are more likely to assume it's a man. It could be a Woman, tho, and using gender neutral terms could help prevent false assumptions.
  
  A hunt can also just mean a search, like an Easter egg hunt.
  
  But manhunt is not a gendered word. Maybe the solution to the misunderstandings you speak of could be Americans learning some damn English.
  
  Even if it was just hunt, I'd assume it's a man because men on average commit more violent crimes than women.
- Calm down. Lol.
  You wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

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