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Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says

The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he held up the severed head had a device with photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions for making explosives when he was arrested, authorities said Thursday.

Justin Mohn, 32, faces a dozen new charges, including terrorism and theft, in the death last month of his father Michael Mohn, the Bucks County District Attorney’s office said Thursday.

A woman who answered the phone at the Bucks County Public Defender’s office, listed as Mohn’s attorney, declined to comment on Thursday.

According to prosecutors, Justin Mohn fatally shot his father with a pistol he bought the day before and then used a kitchen knife and machete to decapitate Michael Mohn at the Levittown house where they both lived.

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Wasn't it only like a week or two later that a Florida man killed his father for getting the covid shot?
I'd keep spamming the notion of not rewarding the banner of right-wing extremists who take the cake in causing the vast majority of political violence and homicide.
- I feel we're sitting at the intersection of several risk factors... too many uncontrolled guns, not enough healthcare (including mental healthcare), a very stressed society, and an entire political and media infrastructure telling people not to trust their doctors, not to trust their medicine and not to trust their neighbors. I've got my own opinions about who is responsible for most of that, and I'm sure everyone else here does too.
  I think we're in for a long time of random act of violence, some from deeply unwell individuals, and some calculated and planned by rational, if sociopathic, actors.
  
  Dont forget the toxic, brain-damaging lead in the air and soil!
- alt-right violence is on an unprecedented rise, and if you traced it back I bet nearly every fuckdamn one of them was a gamergater to begin with
  
  G*mers getting mad at this
- Wait this is a DIFFERENT right wing depatercapitator? Goodness. If I had a nickel...
- God in heaven you're right: https://www.wesh.com/article/father-killed-lake-worth-vaccination/46671473#:~:text=BEACH%2C%20Fla.%20%E2%80%94-,A%20Florida%20man%20made%20his%20initial%20court%20appearance%20on%20Tuesday,the%20suspect%2C%20Brian%20McGann%20Jr.
  Killing your father to own the libs.
Yup, perfectly responsible gun owner who purchased a perfectly legal gun a perfectly reasonable time before using it. No way a background check could've stopped this, so let's not bother pushing for them.
- Every gun owner is a good guy with a gun until they aren’t.
- Why does it matter he could've killed his dad woth a knife if he wanted to
  
  But he didn't. He used a gun, like they always use guns.
- Fuck are you on about? I have 40+ guns (depending on how you define "gun") and only one, bought from a close friend, without a federal background check.
  "GuN sHow LoOpoLe!!" coming up next? Go to a gun show. Buy a gun without a Form 4473. Be my guest.
  
  So by your own admission you have purchased a gun through what many people commonly call the "gun show loophole"
  Look, it's a stupid name, I wish people would stop calling it that, it really has nothing to do with gun shows, calling it the "Walmart Parking Lot Loophole" or "My Buddy's Garage Loophole" would be a lot more accurate, and I think people make themselves look uninformed by continuing to use that term, but at the end of the day that's exactly what they're talking about.
  
  I think they're trying to say a background check wouldn't / didn't do anything in this case.
One thing that I hope eventually happens as conservatives become more delirious is that the children of these parents are apprehended by CAS and taken away. As someone who has a big interest in extremists and spends a lot of time in their spheres, I can say without a doubt that most of them are very dangerous for their children. They are unvaccinated, uneducated (they literally prop them up in front of conspiracy theory YouTube all day under the guise of homeschool), malnourished, unregistered in any legal sense much of the time, and don't socialize with others, as well as being physically disciplined. The guy who killed his kids in Mexico for Qanon reasons illustrates how dangerous these people are to children, as well as the guy who killed his kid for almost being vaccinated (this is much less well known and heartbreaking: https://longreads.com/2023/04/06/a-vaccine-dispute-turns-deadly/)
- Yeah it's frightening that there's literally a cult developing of home schooled zealots brought up on the wackiest conspiracies on YouTube. I was friends with a guy that was brought up by intese Jehovah's witnesses and even though he stopped participating and believing it took a long time for him to understand the stuff they'd taught him was crazy - like he was shocked that I believed in evolution because as far as he knew it was long since disproven.
  The real problem was critical reasoning skills and learning skills, he had no idea how to verify information or seek out out from reasonable sources. I think we're going to get a lot of people in the same boat, except a lot more violent and terrified of the world.
- Sorry, source on that guy in Mexico? Haven't heard about it
  
  It happened in 2021.
  A California father took his two young children to Mexico and killed them with a spearfishing gun after he claimed he had been "enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories," federal authorities say.
  According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in California, Matthew Taylor Coleman reportedly told investigators he had been "receiving visions and signs revealing that his wife possessed serpent DNA and had passed it onto his children" and that by killing them he was "saving the world from monsters."
  NPR Source
  
  This is a good in depth piece about it; https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/matthew-taylor-coleman-qanon-children-killing-1239151/
Totally normal Trump supporter.
Guy will probably be the keynote at CPAC.
I have a hatred of right-wing stochastic terrorism most of you would not believe. My loathing borders on, and may be well past... healthy.
This is not that.
This guy is/was clearly suffering a psychotic break. No idea what the diagnosis will end up being, but right-wing media is merely the thing he latched onto. He would have latched onto another thing if not that.
- I don't care what he would have done in some alternative universe. In this universe, he latched on to right wing media, murdered someone and then proudly displayed their severed head in triumph.
was the kitchen knife like, a meat cleaver or just a normal paring knife? honestly, article reads like meth psychosis was the real culprit
- While some sort of major mental malfunction happened, previous articles mention the guy was heavily involved in RWNJ conspiracies for years before this event. That certainly was a large driving factor of his offense.
  
  Grooming people like this is exactly why the far-right took over conspiracy spaces in the first place.

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