Police had been called to the house up to 10 times before the tragedy, mainly for mental health issues. [More]
Everything else falls under the heading of “WTF did you THINK was going to happen?”
[Via Jess]
Notes from the Resistance
No Charges in Deadly ATF Arkansas Home Raid [More]
Did anyone seriously think there would be?
Those whose Constitutional mandate is to not infringe on it executed a citizen for exercising his right. Their pretext, that some of his sales allegedly went to “prohibited persons,” is a fraudulent excuse because there is no delegated power authorizing the whole concept.
There’s only one way to address that problem…
Schierbaum said the suspected shooter has been arrested at least 11 times and is someone who should never have been in possession of a gun. [More]
Yeah? And how does he propose to make that happen?
Interesting response options…
On a positive note, at least Moriarty wouldn’t have been scared.
[Via Jess]
Tangentially-Related UPDATES (Alright, they happened around Atlanta, so I’m gonna stuff ’em all in the same drawer)
These two take me back years, to a job I briefly touched on. They hired me to run their plant in SoCal but wanted to indoctrinate me with an introductory month-long gig as the preseident’s personal assistant, to learn the company (his) ways.
I wasn’t there but a day or two when he got the call that his Atlanta plant manager needed brain tumor surgery, so my trial by fire was to fly down there and take over the factory until such time as he could come back to work or a permanent replacement could be found.
I was going through the financials with the controller down there and asked why we were being hit up for something called “MARTA,” and she explained the Metropolitian Regional Transit Authority sales tax. The (black) foreman overheard us, laughed, and told me it stood for something else.
[Via Steve T]
Home Intruder with Long Rap Sheet “Cut to Pieces” by Florida Man After Shooting Innocent Woman in the Face [More]
Yes, sometimes you can bring a knife to a gunfight, but the real question here is why did someone “with a long rap sheet” have access to guns and victims?
[Via Michael G]
Convicted killer spotted at Hamas-endorsed Syracuse University encampment before being arrested [More]
Not to worry: I mean, the very fact that he’s out means he must be trustworthy, right? Plus, it’s a “No Weapons” campus, so what harm could he do?
[Via Michael G]
Likening drug users to people who are “mentally ill and dangerous,” the ruling says barring them from owning firearms is not unconstitutional on its face. [More]
vs.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just said that the felon in possession of firearms statute may not apply to nonviolent felons. [Watch]
[Via Jess]
The FBI arrested a cruise ship employee in Juneau on Tuesday afternoon, the day after he allegedly stabbed multiple people with scissors aboard the Norwegian Encore. Ntando Sogoni, 35, of South Africa was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. [More]
At which point we can trust him with sharp everyday objects again…?
[Via Steve T]
Man sentenced to 15 to 20.5 years in prison for fatally shooting Akron mother [More]
Why, will he be safe by then?
The now 49-year-old father of 12-year-old twin girls focuses on the bad guys who end up using the guns, he said. “Guns are not the problem,” said DeVito, who plans to retire next month. “I’m an advocate of the second amendment. At the end of the day, the problem is guns ending up in the hands of the wrong people.” [More]
And there’s only one solution to that. The one nobody wants to acknowledge.
[Via Jess]
How the ATF traced guns at crime scenes to St. Charles man [More]
But it’s not as fun as going after collectors and FFLs, as you can tell by the “five years probation” sentence.
As for his untrustworthy customers…
[Via bondmen]
Man just released from prison involved in shooting in St. Pete…Small was firing at people outside with a 9 mm Glock handgun with a 50-round drum for a magazine…a short time later he was spotted firing into a home in the 1600 block of 42nd Avenue South, where a blind elderly man lives…he ran off into a nearby lot on 40th St S. Small reportedly fired two rounds at the officer. [More]
[Via Edmund M]
A woman accused of randomly shooting and killing a man Tuesday was released from prison months ago and ordered not to have any weapons, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned. [More]
How insane would someone have to be to go looking for love in all the wrong places?
[Via Steve T]
Texas dad who told wife she will ‘meet Jesus’ before shooting her dead on camera sentenced to 10 years: ‘Hope it was worth it’ [More]
So in 10 years we’ll be able to trust him with a gun again?
[Via bondmen]
Dettelbach, in the AP interview, declined to comment on the specifics of Card’s case, which an independent commission in Maine is investigating. But he said it is clear that the nation needs to make it harder for people “that everyone agrees should not have firearms, who the law says are not entitled to have firearms, to get them because it’s too easy to get them now.” [More]
It’s just that there’s this “due process” thing those who would rule us don’t want to have to follow…
[Via Jess]
Related UPDATE
Herer’s a first step in the right direction, but as long as they’ve got to be let out before they can be declared safe with certainty, expect plenty of lapses.
[Via Edmund M]
During a pre-trial assessment hearing, the judge told Friese he was not allowed to have a gun. [More]
A convicted murderer with an aggravated flight history?
What do you want to bet he didn’t even have an FOID card?
I’m starting to think the same rule should apply to anyone who can’t be trusted with a gavel.
[Via bondmen]
Virginia legislative committees approve bills allowing even serial killers to seek release [More]
So much for the law when the inmates run the asylum.
What kind of “ocracy” is run by psychopaths?
[Via Michael G]
Ah, the obvious solution!
Releasing them like this, with a charge that goes off if tampered with, is the only way I can see trusting them without a custodian.
We can even go high tech.
And include everybody!
Hey, if you’re not doing anything wrong, why would anyone but a white supremacist object?
[Via Michael G]
Crumbley’s defense attorney, meanwhile, argued that Crumbley had shown signs of severe mental illness years prior to the shooting, and neither his parents nor school officials did anything to help him. They also argued that he has the potential to be rehabilitated, saying he has participated in therapy every day and is taking medication by his own choice. [More]
Sorry, but what he did is so twisted and evil I’d recommend conclusive proof that he can be trusted with a gun before opening that cage.
22-time convicted felon burglarizes homes while on parole for 19 armed robberies [More]
And for all the dolts out still saying “enforce existing gun laws,” it’s on you to explain how that works on “the black market,” as well as why you’d obey infringements like a tyrant’s lickspittle rather than defy them like an exemplar of freedom by becoming a “gun criminal.”
[Via Michael G]
A Nicaraguan man who was deported from the US five times has been sentenced to 19 years behind bars for raping an Ohio woman — claiming that he committed the depraved act because he was “possessed by a demon.” [More]
Brought to you by Pathway to Citizenship Democrats and Cheap Labor Republicans.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” And I have that on good authority.
And nice to know that in 19 years (less with “good behavior,” i.e., if he doesn’t rape any non-existent women) he’ll be safe to release.
[Via Michael G]
And this is why the story got snuffed out of the news cycle: there were laws already on the books that could’ve stopped this shooting. [More]
No, there are not. And that’s terrible advice.
The only law that could have is not on anyone’s books.
[Via Michael G]
CDC Issues Health Advisory Over ‘Low Vaccination Rates’ Across US [More]
Damn cattle won’t enter the chute…
It’s almost like government can’t be trusted without a custodian…
[Via bondmen]
“We are sorry the system failed you.” [More]
If I smother someone to death can I blame “the system”?
And does Youngkin really think that sucking up will earn him appreciative kudos?
Yes, of course, if someone can’t be trusted without a custodian that should mean the custodians assume a legal duty for his care and his welfare. But guess who doesn’t want that.
Funny, what Youngkin won’t take a stand on, like “red flags.”
[Via Mack H]