Category: Codrea’s Law

And They’re A-Rated by Giffords!

Tiger

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]

Can’t Be Trusted with Social Media

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]

No Legitimate Boarding Purpose

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]

‘Non-Dangerous Felon’ Opinion Leaves More Immediate Danger Unresolved

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.

No Such Thing as Bad Boy?

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]

What Is It They Want Us to Do?

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…