Florida resident Calin Chi Wong was arrested after posting a threat in an internet forum that he would re-enact the Virginia Tech shootings. Wong was a gun dealer who lived with his parents in a very well-armed residence:
Two days later, Homestead Police searched the home Wong shares with his parents and found the weapons in stacked on shelves in plain view, Detective Antonio Aquino said.
Wong had 13 firearms in all, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, some that could pierce armor, and 100 rounds in a feeding clip with bullets “meant to take down aircraft or military machinery,” Aquino said. He had hidden two AK-47s in his parents’ closet, and his parents said the guns did not belong to them, Aquino said.
So what would make a man angry enough to want to shoot dozens of people?
Wong was upset after being cheated in an $800 internet gun purchase, and he wasn’t too happy about gun dealers refusing to sell to him after they found out he was only 20 years old.
Vincent Wong claims that his brother never intended to hurt anyone and that the guns were an investment that he traded like Pokemon cards.
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Yeah, Pokemon cards… OF DEATH.
To be fair, some of those pokemon cards have sharp edges and corners.
So was his threat like “God, I’m going to kill you bitches for screwing me!” or something along the line of Cho’s video messages? ‘Cause there’s a big difference between the two.