Category: Codrea’s Law

There Oughta Be a Law

‘I’m gonna make you watch me kill your child’: Man charged with terrorizing ex-girlfriend, threatening their child… At the time of his arrest, Shoop was out on bond for first-degree harassment for allegedly threatening to kill the same victim… Police said Shoop also has a prior felony conviction for unlawful use of a firearm. [More]

If only someone could come up with a way for society to deal with people like this…

That she has two children and one is his and they were never married is something else we’re not supposed to factor in.

[Via bondmen]

What ‘We’ Believe

Now, I want to remind all of you one thing in the Second Amendment community. We do not want violent criminal thugs to have guns. We also do not want whackadoodle nut job psychopaths to be armed. [Watch]

That’s true.

As long as we’re using the royal “we,” we also don’t want Red Queen Laws. We don’t believe citizen disarmament edicts stop dangerous people from getting guns. And we don’t believe in enforcing existing Intolerable Acts.

[Via Jess]

Switch Hitter

According to charging documents, Kenny Edwards, 24, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of an illegal weapon and resisting arrest. Prosecutors allege Edwards, a convicted felon, was carrying a Glock 20 pistol equipped with an auto-sear switch, a device that allows the gun to fire fully automatically. [More]

Questions: If they knew he couldn’t be trusted with a gun, why was he let out, and why should his inability to responsibly exercise his rights be a burden with terrible risks and severe consequences on me?

[Via bondmen]

Uncaged

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Man convicted in Seattle mass shooting that killed woman, injured 7 released after 3 years… At the time of the 2020 shooting, [he and his accomplice] already had long criminal histories, with 65 previous arrests and four felony convictions between them. [More]

There ought be a law.

Don’t worry. The leftist gynocracy is on it.

With an A-, they obviously have a ways to go.

[Via bondmen]

And They’re A-Rated by Giffords!

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The family and friends of Laci Peterson are among the advocates of California murder victims opposing a new parole board policy that would open a path to recommend resentencing or clemency for serial killers, mass shooters and other convicts serving sentences of life without parole when it goes into effect later this year. [More]

Of course, after they get out they’ll need safe passage.

There oughta be a law.

It’s enough to make me rethink my position on capital punishment– starting with parole boards and politicians who appoint them.

[Via Michael G]

Missing the Barn

The proposal we’re discussing was published in the Federal Register by the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Its purpose is to revise the regulatory definitions of two phrases that have existed in federal firearms law for decades, “adjudicated as a mental defective” and “committed to a mental institution…” [Watch]

I guess everbody’ll keep making it about guns as long as people want to keep ignoring the obvious…

[Via Jess]

A Shared Goal

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]

Deliberately Uncaged Wild Animal Attacks

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]

‘A Little Temporary Safety’

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]