Um, Conks? You wanna control these assholes you let play with guns?????
By NBC News staff
A man was arrested after allegedly threatening to "kill as many people as he could" at a school during a heated argument with his wife, police in Indiana said Sunday.
Interim Cedar Lake Police Chief Jerry Smith said he believed Von I. Meyer, 60, was just bluffing when he made the ominous remark early Friday, NBCChicago.com reported.
Meyer, who was arrested Saturday on seven felony charges, initially threatened to set his wife on fire, then said he would kill her "at the school" where she worked and "would kill as many people as he could before police could stop him police," Smith said.
Meyer's wife works at the cafeteria at Jane Ball Elementary School, less than 1,000 feet from the couple's home in Cedar Lake, about 45 miles southeast of Chicago.
Smith said Meyer's wife stayed away from that school Friday and police boosted security at the elementary school and three other area schools as a precaution, taking those steps before 26 people, including 20 students, were shot and killed at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
"We just didn't want to take any chances," he said of the extra security at the schools.
47 guns hidden in houseAlthough police found 47 guns and ammunition hidden throughout Meyer's two-story home after they arrested him, Smith said most of those weapons were antique collector guns and he believes Meyer was not serious about his school threat.
He said Meyer's wife told officers their relationship was turbulent and he had often threatened her.
"If people followed through on all the threats they've ever made — things said in anger that they don't really mean and regret — our population in this country would be half of what it is," he said. "This was something he said in the heat of an argument. He hadn't been plotting this."
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Yeah, right..............said the same thing about McVeigh, I bet.
