Indiana police find 47 guns in arrest over threat to elementary school [View all]

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Source: The Guardian UK

Authorities have said that an Indiana man who had 47 guns and ammunition in his home has been arrested, after allegedly threatening to kill people at an elementary school near his home in Cedar Lake, about 45 miles southeast of Chicago.

Cedar Lake police were called to the home of 60-year-old Von I Meyer early Friday, after he allegedly threatened to set his wife on fire. A police statement said Meyer had also said that he would enter Jane Ball Elementary School and "kill as many people as he could".

Authorities found 47 guns and ammunition worth more than $100,000. Prosecutors filed felony intimidation charges against Meyer on Saturday, one day after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. He is being held without bond.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/16/indiana-47-guns-arrest-elementary-school

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Guns are obviously a big part of the problem but I believe the USA is suffering from a nationwide mental illness that also needs to be addressed. We are too militaristic, too aggressive, too angry. Our culture lacks education in arts and humanities and all the things that are beautiful in life. Faux news and the right wing noise machine are the head of the hydra that encourages people like this guy in the article and the mother of the Connecticut school shooter to gather their guns for an impending armageddon that isn't coming. It is delusion that is being wrapped in fear and paranoia and sold to the gullible American public. We need a sea change toward enlightenment. We need more money for education and the arts and less money for our ridiculously overgrown MIC. It's time to look deeper.