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'Son of Sam' Killer: Recent Massacres 'Senseless'
(NEW YORK) -- David Berkowitz, who gunned down 13 people, killing six, 35 years ago, says he hopes society takes the "glamour" out of guns.
In the wake of the Aurora, Colo. theater massacre and the mass shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple, Berkowitz is calling for an end to gun violence.
"It's all senseless," Berkowitz told the New York Daily News from his jail cell in a maximum security facility in upstate New York.
"Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun," he added.
For 13 months in the mid-1970s, Berkowitz, who became known as the "Son of Sam," stalked the streets of New York's neighborhoods with a .44 caliber handgun, shooting his victims as they sat in their cars or walked on sidewalks.
He taunted New York City detectives in notes to Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin promising on one to "buy all those guys working on the case a new pair of shoes," upon his capture. He was eventually caught outside of his home on Aug. 10, 1977.
Now 59 and a born again Christian, Berkowitz avoids talking about his 24-year-old self, whom he called "lost," "tormented," "confused," and "under demonic control."
He spends his time urging young men to avoid resorting to crime in moments of anger, he said. Prison, he told the Daily News, is not all it's cracked up to be.
"I think it's a big tragedy when I see young men with their macho faces like they're cool when I know they are really scared to death," he said. "I know because I've been there. Prison is a house of pain. It's not what you see in the media and on those crime shows."
"One day, I hope that guns will lose their glamour, that it would be seen a social disapproval for those in gangs," Berkowitz added. "I know that's a bit simplistic, but to me the whole tragedy is that young people are losing direction and don't value life or have no clue why they're on this Earth."
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MinM wrote:He taunted New York City detectives in notes to Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin promising on one to "buy all those guys working on the case a new pair of shoes," upon his capture.
Breslin was among the journalists in the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel when RFK was murdered.
Sirhan’s attorney, William Pepper says there is evidence suggesting there was a second gunman who fatally shot Robert Kennedy. Do you believe this is possible?
It sure didn’t happen, and the attorney is displaying brilliance by coming up with something that didn’t happen. Unfortunately, Sirhan held the gun too far out for all to see to deny that his actions were alone.
On June 5, 1968—you were part of the group that helped subdue Sirhan…
He had the gun–and they wrestled it from his grip and threw him on a steam table in the kitchen of the hotel. Roosevelt Grier, the football player, brought his arm down and pinned him to the table. It was a rather large arm.
Sirhan’s eyes and arms were thrashing wildly.
I was sitting on his legs. By accident.
By accident?
I was in the crowd and then suddenly I got thrown on to the table.
Is the memory of that day stay always with you?
I mean I can put it out of my mind, but it all comes back when people bring it up.
Do you think that Sirhan should he ever be paroled?
It was quite an act—long time ago. I’m not sitting on the parole board—but an act of tyranny against the country is awfully hard to lift. Kennedy is keenly missed. He should not have been shot, I will tell you that.
http://inthearena.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03 ... ssination/
I was nearby, on Liberty Street, when that happened. . . .
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... n-20110819
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