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

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.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    25·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • Fondots@lemmy.world
        15·
        9 months ago

        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.

      • kurwa@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 months ago

        I think they’re trying to say a background check wouldn’t / didn’t do anything in this case.

        • GooseFinger@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 months ago

          I interpreted Donjuanme’s comment as sarcastic, where “no way a background check would’ve stopped this” implied that they thought a background check wasn’t performed, but if it would’ve been, this murder wouldn’t have happened.

          Not everyone who commits a violent crime with a gun has a previous record of doing that, or other indicators that would fail a background check for that matter. Not a lot of anti-gunners seem to remember that though, which is partly why I interpreted the comment that way.

          • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
            3·
            9 months ago

            Not everyone who commits a violent crime with a gun has a previous record of doing that, or other indicators that would fail a background check for that matter

            Damn, sounds like we should ban guns even harder then if there’s no better system than this one that constantly fails.

            Still though, weird that so many other countries are doing this impossible thing so much better than America, land of the gun.

            • GooseFinger@lemmy.world
              1·
              9 months ago

              America takes awful care of its citizens, some other countries certainly do better. I wish we’d focus more on addressing the root cause issues that push people to commit violence instead of superficial actions like banning weapons, though. Even if all guns disappeared overnight, the conditions that incentivize violence would still be around.

              • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
                3·
                9 months ago

                Gun control isn’t about curing violence and it never has been. Even 50 years of your social reforms won’t cure violence. Gun control is about limiting the damage that violent people are able to do.

                To put it bluntly, your views are nothing more than feigned compassion.

                I have no idea how you convince yourself that you’re the good guy for advocating “I wish there were less violent people but until then, I want to ensure they always have cheap, accessible tools that are able to execute one person every few seconds, even after being charged with domestic abuse or under extreme mental distress”.

                It’s not a “superficial action”. It’s a measurable, proven harm reduction strategy that could start saving lives the very day it went into effect. It’s deeply reprehensible to claim that’s a trivial thing, just because you don’t think the lives it saves will ever be ones you value.

                And of course the cherry on top of all of these dogshit views is that if you’re a gun owner, you’re financially supporting Republican efforts to block exactly the reforms you’re alluding to.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 months ago

      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.

  • pan_troglodytes@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    was the kitchen knife like, a meat cleaver or just a normal paring knife? honestly, article reads like meth psychosis was the real culprit

    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      9 months ago

      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.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    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/)

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      9 months ago

      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.