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Wednesday, January 19th, 2022

Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Able to Get a Gun Shortly After Arriving in US

Author:     Mack Lamoureux
Source:     Vice News
Publication Date:     January 17, 2022 | 10:11am
 Link: Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Able to Get a Gun Shortly After Arriving in US
Stephan:   Here is a good explanation of what happened in the Texas synagogue terrorist act. Some of it you may already know. What stood out for me that I had not previously known was that a man with a terrorist record could fly into the U.S. from a foreign country, and essentially immediately purchase a weapon, a handgun with which to carry out his assault and hostage taking.  That is insane, and a measure of America's obsessive gun psychosis.
Biden and law enforcement officials at Texas synagogue.
Credit: Drew Angerer and Andy Jacobsohn/Getty

The British man who took four people hostage in a Texas synagogue was able to get a gun within two weeks of being in the United States and may have got one almost immediately after landing. 

On Saturday morning, Malik Faisal Akram, 44, stormed the Sabbath service at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. Armed with a handgun, he held four people, including the rabbi, Charlie Cytron-Walker, hostage for more than 10 hours. 

Akram was shot dead when a SWAT team entered the building, and all four hostages were rescued unharmed.

President Joe Biden suggested lax American gun laws played a part in allowing a British citizen to purchase a gun so soon after landing in the U.S. Biden said U.S. authorities are still gathering facts, but it is believed Akram purchased the weapon “on the street” shortly after he arrived. 

“The idea of background checks are critical,”

said Biden. “But you can’t stop something like this if someone is on […]

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2 Comments

  1. Albus Eddie on Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 5:32 am

    This is a clear failure of the billions we have flushed down the toilet in so called “security” measures. The security industrial complex has made corporations and their shareholders rich but it has impoverished everyone else.

  2. Marco Kappenberger on Friday, January 21, 2022 at 4:46 pm

    Since the Police shot to kill, and so killed the guilty one after all the hostages had already been able to flee to safety,
    it must be asked if it was correct that who shot him really still had the duty to do so ??

    Since this killing was thus not necessary, it appears to be a very grave mistake by a police officer ?!?!

    Wouldn’t it have been fairer, juster, lawful if the the gunman was caught alive and given a chance to receive a fair trial and condemnation for his attack on the Synagogue and terrible bahaviour ?

    Let the US Police get the additional training so that such bad mistakes won’t happen anymore !

    Although he will get a relatively small prison term and possibly lose the job with the police,
    it is now the shooter that must be given the so deserved punishment: to have shot a person it was not necessary nor permissible to kill, and so give him the chance of a trial !!!