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Paul and Jarrad address the latest insult to the good people of the United State of America by yet another Muslim Missionary in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Solutions to the anger and frustrations are offered.

Our SWAT Fuel Warrior of the week has a follow up question about silencers and suppressors. We have a special piece of music to honor the fallen at the end of the show.

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From www.tennessean.com:

“The gunfire came in rapid bursts, too many shots to count, a witness said.

Rounds pierced the window of a military recruitment center, cracking the glass into a web.

At least four Marines were dead Thursday in what federal authorities are investigating as a possible act of terrorism.

This city was left mourning the loss of four service members and praying for the three others who officials say were wounded after the shootings at two separate locations.

Within hours, a picture began to emerge of the shooting suspect, a 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born electrical engineering graduate. The gunman also was killed.

“Lives have been lost from some faithful people who have been serving our country, and I think I join all Tennesseans in being both sickened and saddened by this,” Gov. Bill Haslam said.

After traveling to Chattanooga, Haslam called Thursday “a horrible day for Chattanooga and a tragic day for all of Tennessee.” On Friday morning, Haslam ordered flags at the state Capitol and state office buildings across the state to be flown at half-staff in honor of the fallen Marines.

This April 2015 booking photo released by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office shows a man identified as Mohammad Youssduf Adbulazeer after being detained for a driving offense. A U.S. official identified the gunman asMuhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who sharesthe same age and address as the man in the photo.

Haslam was joined by Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, who said during an evening news conference with the governor that he stayed in close contact with the White House throughout the day Thursday.

“Our hearts are breaking for the families of these Marines tonight,” Berke said.

Authorities identified the gunman as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez of Hixson, Tenn., though the spelling of his first name was in dispute, with federal officials and records giving at least four variations.

In addition to the Marines killed, three people — whom sources identified as a Navy sailor, a Marine, and a police officer — were reportedly wounded. The sailor was said to have been seriously hurt.

The names of the dead or wounded were not released Thursday.

Within hours of the bloodshed, law officers with guns drawn swarmed what was believed to be Abdulazeez’s house, and two females were led away in handcuffs.

A dozen law enforcement vehicles, including a bomb squad truck and an open-sided Army green truck carrying armed men, rolled into the Colonial Shores neighborhood of Hixson, and police closed off streets and turned away people trying to reach their homes.“

From www.cnn.com:

“The man who killed four U.S. Marines and a Navy sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, had changed after spending time in the Middle East and “distanced himself” for the first few months after returning, a friend says.

“Something happened over there,” Abdulrazzak Brizada said of Muhammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, adding that “he never became close to me like he was before he went overseas. … I’m sure he had something that happened to him overseas.”

Jordanian sources said Abdulazeez had been in Jordan as recently as 2014 visiting an uncle. He visited Kuwait and Jordan in 2010, Kuwait’s Interior Ministry said.

Abdulazeez had guns, Brizada said, and would go shooting as a hobby. When the childhood friends saw each other last weekend at the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, Abdulazeez was his normal self and was positive, Brizada said.

Brizada, a Chattanooga resident, was shaken and holding back tears as he spoke to CNN, saying his friend was “the coolest guy” who “was always so positive about people.”

“Whatever caused this to happen, it’s not him, it’s not normal. That’s not how he is,” Brizada said.

People who knew Abdulazeez were stunned to hear he was the man who sprayed a military recruiting center at a strip mall with bullets, then drove seven miles to assault Navy Operational Support Center Chattanooga. He killed a sailor and four Marines, and wounded two more people, before being killed by police.

Friends described Abdulazeez as a once-devoted, disciplined mixed-martial-arts fighter; a top student known for smarts, charm and humor; and a devout Muslim who kept in touch with his roots in the Middle East.

The FBI hasn’t released much information on Abdulazeez, saying it doesn’t yet know what motivated the bloodshed but it is working on an assumption. “We will treat this as a terrorism investigation until it can be determined that it is not,” FBI Special Agent Edward Reinhold said.“

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