LA: Heavily Armed Man going to Gay Pride Parade NOT A TERRORIST: You can tell because he is white.

http://wonkette.com/602891/heavily-armed-guy-on-way-to-los-angeles-pride-parade-merely-violent-gun-nut-not-scary-terrorist

After the massacre in Orlando Sunday, we at least won’t have to worry about the gun-toting NRA supporter who was arrested on the other coast, because maybe he was just a Responsible Gun Owner who happened to have an arsenal in his car, and we don’t even know for sure he was planning any mayhem at Los Angeles’s Pride celebration at all. There, we feel better already.

Santa Monica police arrested James Wesley Howell, 20, of Indiana, early in in the morning Sunday after receiving a call about a possible prowler who was knocking on someone’s door and window.

Patrol officers responded and encountered Howell, who was sitting in a car registered in Indiana, police said. Officers inspected the car and found three assault rifles, high-capacity ammunition and a 5-gallon bucket containing “chemicals capable of forming an improvised explosive device,” police said.

A law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the contents of the bucket included Tannerite, an ingredient that could be used to create a pipe bomb. The maker of the material said that was not the case and that it can only be detonated by high-velocity impact such as a bullet strike. But Tannerite is known as a material used in the construction of other types of explosive devices.

Tannerite is commonly used in exploding targets for recreational shooting; misuse of the powder has also been blamed for several forest fires, and in gun fun incidents like that one in March 2016 when a Georgia gentleman stuffed an old lawnmower full of Tannerite, shot it, and blew his own leg off.

Howell told police Sunday morning he was looking for a friend and that he was on his way to L.A.’s Pride parade; Santa Monica police initially tweeted that Howell confessed he intended to “harm Gay Pride event,” but later clarified the tweet was incorrect; Howell had only said he was going to the parade but hadn’t made other statements about his plans. So really, maybe Howell was simply a heavily armed guy who planned to go to the parade, then later do some target shooting/forest fire setting/leg blowing off later on.

Police said they have not yet located the friend Howell said he intended to meet at (or before) the Pride parade, and that there is no evidence to suggest any connection to the Orlando shooting.

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