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Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:08 PM Jun 2015

Man who killed family in remote Montana cabin was survivalist: police

Source: YAhoo! News / Reuters

MISSOULA, Mont. (Reuters) - A man who fatally shot his wife and three children in a remote Montana forest cabin over the weekend then set his house on fire and committed suicide was described on Tuesday by police as a survivalist who lived off the grid.

Michael Augustine Bournes, 59, called an acquaintance around the time he used a .45 caliber handgun to kill his wife, Arie Arlynn Lee, 37, and his two sons, Augustine Lee Bournes, 5, and Woodrow Lee Bournes, 4.

He shot his infant daughter, Arie Lee Bournes, 1, as she lay in her crib.

Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Police Chief Tim Barkell said that authorities who investigated the scene said books found at the cabin indicate Bournes may have been “a Constitutionalist who didn’t believe in government.”

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/man-killed-family-remote-montana-cabin-survivalist-police-001605145.html

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Man who killed family in remote Montana cabin was survivalist: police (Original Post) Little Tich Jun 2015 OP
"survivalist" = gun humping, paranoid asshole Skittles Jun 2015 #1
Hey! Not all gun humping, paranoid assholes are survivalists! onehandle Jun 2015 #4
Gee,...his toy actually HURTS.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #13
The musical was better jberryhill Jun 2015 #19
Now I wonder if he has kids.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #20
Doesn't look like he's having any more jberryhill Jun 2015 #21
Or "crazy shit." Must have gotten sick of "surviving." nt valerief Jun 2015 #27
How sad for that innocent family. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2015 #2
Right Wing CT Gun Nut? A-OKAY. Lefty doing "Occupy"? Call a cop!!! Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #10
If they hate government so much, why do they call themselves 'Constitutionalists'? Aristus Jun 2015 #3
They want rights, not responsibilities. Elmer S. E. Dump Jun 2015 #25
One of those right wing extremists the Justice Dept. tried to warn us about. n/t Tempest Jun 2015 #5
"committed suicide was described on Tuesday by police as a survivalist" Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #6
Yep, sounds like a murder-suicidalist to me. nt bemildred Jun 2015 #11
No, he is actually a family annihilator. It's almost always a man who thinks that Nay Jun 2015 #16
Heh... LuvLoogie Jun 2015 #15
I need to stop clicking on these stories. They just make me cry. Coventina Jun 2015 #7
I guess he didn't believe in family either notadmblnd Jun 2015 #8
What's sad is the locals would have thought he was patriotic.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #12
God, Family, Country notadmblnd Jun 2015 #14
I think it goes: Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer > One people, one empire, one leader hedda_foil Jun 2015 #18
I think that there is a difference between the people who do not believe in government and jwirr Jun 2015 #9
Wait a minute - a "constitutionalist" who "didn't believe in government"? tularetom Jun 2015 #17
Survivalist are a bunch of goofy turds. ileus Jun 2015 #22
But some of them do have really useful info on things like canning, preserving, gardening, etc. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #26
I don't mind the guns part, but the rest is silly horseshist IMHO. ileus Jun 2015 #28
Suicide seems like a strange tactic for survival JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2015 #23
Survivalists are anti-social misfits and a danger to society. nt hack89 Jun 2015 #24

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
4. Hey! Not all gun humping, paranoid assholes are survivalists!
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:16 PM
Jun 2015

Many of them have little chance of survival.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
13. Gee,...his toy actually HURTS....
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:40 PM
Jun 2015

Every time I hear of a mass killing the "Number 2s" come out and act like the very concept that THEIR GUNS could possibly hurt ANYONE is the most ridiculous thing in the world.

Aristus

(66,530 posts)
3. If they hate government so much, why do they call themselves 'Constitutionalists'?
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:14 PM
Jun 2015

The Constitution is the blueprint of American government...

His poor family.

Should have shot yourself first, asshole!

Nay

(12,051 posts)
16. No, he is actually a family annihilator. It's almost always a man who thinks that
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 11:31 PM
Jun 2015

that since HE feels awful and HE hates the world the way it is, his family must feel the same way (since he knows everything, amirite?), and his family would be GRATEFUL to be shot to death, cuz they won't be able to go on without him. He's such a rock, you understand. Who could live without him?

Of course, he's usually at home reloading ammo all day and maybe catching a squirrel once a week while his wife, who 'can't live without him,' works 2 waitress jobs to keep the bills paid.

Coventina

(27,227 posts)
7. I need to stop clicking on these stories. They just make me cry.
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:25 PM
Jun 2015

Those poor little kids - their last moments of terror!

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
12. What's sad is the locals would have thought he was patriotic....
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:36 PM
Jun 2015

No need to protect the kids. They'll grow up right,...with the fear of God in em.

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
14. God, Family, Country
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:47 PM
Jun 2015

Isn't that their creed?

on edit: I think I got it backward. God, Country, Family or something like that?

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
9. I think that there is a difference between the people who do not believe in government and
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 10:27 PM
Jun 2015

survivalists. Something must have happened that he decided that it was necessary to kill his family.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
17. Wait a minute - a "constitutionalist" who "didn't believe in government"?
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 11:51 PM
Jun 2015

The man was a walking oxymoron.

Or possibly simply a regular moron.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
26. But some of them do have really useful info on things like canning, preserving, gardening, etc.
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:47 AM
Jun 2015

I'm not looking to survive the zombie apocalypse, but we do get occasional ice storms, wind storms, etc, and some of the emergency tips and tricks are useful as well.

So ignore the parts about guns, the government, paranoia and hunkering in bunkers and there's still some useful things they can share.

ileus

(15,396 posts)
28. I don't mind the guns part, but the rest is silly horseshist IMHO.
Wed Jun 10, 2015, 11:04 AM
Jun 2015

There's a lot on useful info on homemade stuff that can come in handy that's for sure.

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