Penn Station slashing suspect was free despite eerily similar 2022 attack [More]
What else did those attacks have in common?
[Via Michael G]
Notes from the Resistance
A grand jury indicted the founder of a Kansas City non-profit three years after a deadly shooting. The grand jury found probable cause to upgrade charges against Na’im Al-Amin… the founder of SWAGG INC. The nonprofit worked to prevent re-incarceration. [More]
Me too.
Unless they can prove they can be trusted with a gun I don’t want to let ’em out in the first place.
Confession: It took me a couple reads to realize his nonprofit wasn’t working to prevent reincarnation, and I thought he may have been doing a field test.
[Via Steve T]

Memorial Drive shooting suspect went to prison over previous shootout with police, sources confirm [More]
Don’t worry. Those who decided he could be trusted outside of custodial care won’t suffer any personal repercussions.
Funny, how this report doesn’t mention the armed citizen who intervened. (Pro tip to the ones that do: “Marine” should be capitalized.)
I just don’t have time to watch this DA press conference, but am told:
The head of the Cambridge Police as well as the Colonel of the MSP did not acknowledge the role of the “civilian” in this, only the bravery of the responding officers, who mostly arrived after the shooting was done.
Related UPDATE
The desperate hour before Cambridge shooting: A parole officer’s frantic calls, a roommate’s warning and a FaceTime threat [More]
Sounds like a job for “diversion-based programs“…
[Via Edmund M]
Boston gang members, associates facing slew of firearm, drug trafficking charges… “I think it goes without saying that today’s arrests and seizures have made our communities safer.” [More]
If what they did was bad enough to determine they cannot be trusted without a custodian, what difference does what firearms they had make?
Beware of laws that can be used against you and me.
[Via Edmund M]

Emerald intentionally made eight separate Facebook posts in which he threatened to injure President Trump [More]
“injure,” hell, he threatened to kill him.
What must he want for Trump voters?
That’s a new category.
Funny, what’s considered a “community standards” violation over there.
Oh, apparently one went too far.
[Via bondmen]
Hudson man accused of beating grandmother to death with skateboard, also injuring father and sister [More]
Not my Hudson, but if Antifa blue hairs were involved I’d see where crazy begets crazy.
So now we have assault skateboards and skateboard violence? Hey, they’ve already got “commonsense skateboard safety laws.”
Gettin’ kinda crowded in here on what people can’t be trusted with.
When I had mine, they were still called “sidewalk surfboards.” It never did occur to me to kill anybody with it.
[Via Edmund M]

I put this together on ChatGPT to illustrate a point raised in my last article.
Who thinks the Bill of Rights would have been ratified if “except for prior restraint background checks, waiting periods and purchase/carry permits” had been tacked on right after “shall not be infringed”?

The late Robert J. Kukla made a brilliant observation in his 1973 classic, Gun Control, equating the release of violent misfits from prison with opening the cage of a man-eating tiger and expecting a different result. [More]
Anyone who can’t be trusted with a gun can’t be trusted without a custodian.
How does it “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” to use force of state arms to coerce us into feeding and housing parasites who will never be able to be trusted without a custodian?
[Via Michael G]
Teen charged with 2022 murder claims to have shot 400 people in lifetime [More]
I’d suggest my namesake law, but I just found out it’s racist.
[Via Steve T]
Apparently the defender has a past that disqualifies him from being allowed to defend himself by those absolving themselves of custodial responsibilities. The state’s answer is clear and brief.
Be nice if there were some way citizens under similar forced disability knew what the rules were to get recognition of their rights back…
Opinion: I’m a lifelong gun owner. Don’t tell me more guns and less mental health resources will save our children. [More]
I believe in the Second Amendment BUT… Where have we heard that before?
Who’s saying dangerous crazy people can be trusted with guns?
Is it fair to wonder if this pediatrician gave clot shots to infants?
A man who was released from prison early after racking up good behavior credits following his conviction for fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Kentucky boy during a 2015 home invasion was arrested weeks later for violating his parole. [More]
So the parole board thought he could be trusted…?
This is what it would take to turn me into Dexter.
Wannabe Influencer Sparks Outrage by Handing Out Machetes and Booze to Homeless in Austin and New Orleans [More]
Hey, if they can’t be trusted with either, what are they doing out?
[Via bondmen]
According to court documents, 33-year-old Willie Stephens pleaded guilty to felonious assault earlier this month and could spend over 10 years in prison for shooting three people after a dispute at Del Baggio Pizzeria in the city’s Italian Village. [More]
They’re sure he’ll be safe by then?
‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser escapes group home, cuts off ankle monitor – 11 years after horrifying attack [More]
Knowing she can’t be trusted with a knife, what kind of incompetent custodial care allowed her access to cutting tools?
[Via Michael G]

Man with violent criminal history on parole allegedly stabs teen to death: officials – Delano Middleton previously stabbed woman at U-Haul store, served 2 years in prison [More]
Chronic and habitual orcs like this give me a new appreciation for the Code of Hammurabi. But I’d settle for this.
Brutal Prison Attack Reveals How Transgender Policies Put Women In Harm’s Way [More]
Funny, how most prisoners come from Democrat constituencies.
And to clarify a point that would result from application of “the law“: While under custodial care, a duty to protect would exist with consequences for failure.
[Via Michael G]