Category: Crime

Making the Grade

A 10-year-old California boy who was shot over the weekend died because the shooter, also said to be 10 years old, angrily opened fire after losing a bicycle race, the victim’s mother said Tuesday… His father, Arkete Davis, 53, was booked on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a felon, criminal storage of a firearm, carrying a stolen loaded firearm in a vehicle, child endangerment and acting as an accessory to a crime after the fact, according to inmate records. [More]

That’s the best argument for disarming you and me I’ve ever heard.

Which doesn’t say much for all the others…

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Oath-Keeping Enough?

If it all goes wrong, with whom will the police side?… As with our military, cops tend to be conservative. Duty, honor and integrity are part of their everyday lives, as are grooming standards. If a cop loses his reputation for integrity, his career is over. [More]

There will be a few, but for every one of these, there are superiors, colleagues, and underlings who kept their mouths shut.

[Via bondmen]

Perry High School Shooting

Active shooting confirmed at Iowa high school on the first day after winter break [More]

NBC News made sure to tie it in with “the Iowa caucuses, which will kick off the 2024 presidential Republican primary process.”

And yes, of course:

This is new and breaking. Check back here for updates.

UPDATES

  • Waiting on live newscast from authorities to begin…
  • Sheriff gave limited details. Police arrived within seven minutes. The situation is over. They can’t yet say how many inuries but there were “multiple.” They know who the shooter was but aren’t saying yet. They’ll be giving an update this afternoon. They said the White House is monitoring the situation (can’t let a crisis go to waste), and they made a point of quoting blood dancer Kris Brown of Brady.
  • CNN reports “The shooter in the Perry High school shooting is dead, according to law enforcement official.”
  • [UPDATE: SHOOTER TIKTOK HAD PRIDE FLAG]
  • Look what “Iowa armed teachers” turns up. Some of the links say the problem is finding an insurance carrier, which the legislature has the power to fix if the companies want to do business in the state.

Fun Times in Cleveland Again

Mayor Justin Bibb and the Cleveland Foundation have announced the first recipients of grants from Cleveland’s violence-prevention fund, which the mayor describes as an historic, long-term investment in public safety. [More]

No doubt they have cost/benefit metrics to document how much violence will be prevented…? They don’t? They have no idea? This is simply a bunch of fraudulent and incompetent Democrats poltroons who don’t have a clue taking unearned credit and sticking their snouts in the trough while the lapdog press eats it up and regurgitates it for public consumption?

Hey, at least we’re not Detroit…

[Via JG]

Let’s Hear It for ‘Vigilante Gun Violence’!

Witnesses told police a male suspect robbed the restaurant at gunpoint, firing shots at an employee. Police say the 21-year-old employee returned fire, striking the robber. [More]

For those who say violence is not the answer…

Sometimes it’s the only one.

Especially considering the problem that needs solving.

[Via Sweet Babboo]

Doesn’t Fit the Profile

The preliminary investigation “confirmed a high probability” that the incident is not connected to “recent threats against the Colorado Supreme Court Justices,” the Colorado State Patrol said. [More]

Forget that the creepy loser perp has a 20+ year history of thefts and drug crimes. There’s a “greatest threat” narrative to exploit here, and if they can’t, expect the story to quietly go away.

Too bad. The DSM had a “By their low-hanging fruits ye shall know them” quote ready to exploit:

One user on a far-right, pro-Trump website posted, “All f— robed rats must f— hang,” an apparent reference to the Colorado justices.

Sounds like something a provocateur would post…

[Via Michael G]

Rendezvous with Rama

Authorities said the gun was not registered to Rakesh and that he was not licensed to possess it. State Police are working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to investigate where the gun originated. [More]

Noting he was an Indian immigrant, I’m more interested if he was a Democrat in favor of politicial lampreys imposing MA gun edicts…

As WarOnGuns Correspondent Edmund M observes:

Massachusetts requires that all firearm transfers (among individuals and from a FFL) be reported to the Division of Public Safety (State Police). A License to Carry Firearms is required to possess a pistol within your residence. An unregistered firearm possessed by an unlicensed individual is a double whammy of ungoodness in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A former head of Harvard Business School Online managed to figure out how to acquire a firearm outside the system of bureaucratic hurdles, something that requires no formal education to accomplish.

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