‘An estimated 32 million children in the United States live in homes with firearms, nearly 7 million of whom have at least one firearm in the household that’s unlocked and loaded.’
Johnson’s [extensive violent] conduct was … flagged for an Extreme Risk Protection Order, which would have meant Johnson had to turn over his guns. Additional evidence review found insufficient evidence to file the ERPO.
An evidence review didn’t find sufficient blahblah. A human being reviewing the evidence didn’t find sufficient etc. Why put this sentence in the passive voice? A human being looked at an asshole with decades of gun violence on his record and said Eh. No biggie.
And you know why? You know why decades of judges and ‘officials in various county and city agencies’ didn’t take this mass killer’s guns away? Because guns in America have the same status as a pair of scissors. Everyone owns multiples of them and yeah they can bleed you or whatever but basically at this point they’re just routine domestic objects. Remember When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns? Now it’s When guns are everywhere, everyone has one. Review boards don’t even see them, if you know what I mean. Handguns are boring little geegaws, tricked out nothings all over the house and the car and who the fuck cares.
You want to know how this country gets its amazing kill rate? That’s how.
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Oh and drop “shocking” from what I quoted in this post’s title, if I may make an editorial suggestion. No one even remembers it happened 48 hours later because it’s been abundantly superseded by other atrocities.
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Those against releasing [extreme violence] data [on prospective tenants] believe it will be too restrictive for people finding a place to live.
BWAHAHAHAHA
Enraged, he returns to the scene of his humiliation with his Glock, blows everyone away, and, when police get too close, shoots his head off.
It’s a classic American story, and one wonders if there’s any way it might have a less bloody outcome…
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I mean, qua story it’s no good at all, since it offers no suspense: Obviously the dude will storm some location or other and kill everybody. Anyone can see that. It’s why frightened people are always throwing him out. Duh.
One judge after another has been letting him off with a couple of anger management courses, which, given his manifest danger to the public and – in the latest story – his residing in a state that actually has Extreme Risk laws – affords a bit of comic relief, I guess, but otherwise it’s a common, grim, predictable, and dullsville little tale.
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The only way it can end without multiple bodies strewn in the hallway is the judges. I mean, it seems to me it comes down to the judges. If they refuse to put this person away in some institution or other for quite a stretch of time – and this latest guy had already done more than enough to earn years off the streets – then the story plays out the way the story plays out.
Warren County [Iowa] District Court Judge Michael Jacobsen overturned the rezoning [for shooting] in August after about 20 owners of property around the gun club sued. Jacobsen said the decision was “illegal, void and of no force or effect” and restored the land to A1 zoning.
The county’s ordinance requires them to seek voluntary compliance first. In addition to the cease-and-desist letter, the county zoning office has been notified that they continue to receive complaints. Next, a citation can be filed … followed by “full-on litigating.”
No one from the gun club has responded to requests for comment.
[D]eputies with the Delaware County [OK] Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call … where a caller reported that [Colton] Crane had a gun and could be heard by dispatchers screaming in the background. When deputies arrived on scene, Crane was walking down the road with a baby.
They say he was unsteady on his feet, had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech. He admitted to authorities he started drinking once he got home from work and argued with family members.
Court documents said Crane admitted to kicking in a door, pointing a firearm at a person and firing. Officials say the bullet was one foot from the victim and went through a wall. He then proceeded past family members, grabbed the baby and walked out of the residence after lowering the firearm.
The mayor’s all shucks geez ain’t that bad I mean really? But the numbers don’t lie, and if you’re topping sordid ol’ Nawlins you know you’re doing something special…
Frinstance, place like Alexandria gets em started young. Guy with his ten year old kid in the car gets pulled over by the police and hides his loaded gun. On the child.
When officers attempted to search the child, [Sheldon Doral] Franklin refused to give permission. Authorities said the child also refused officers’ commands and held a bag of chips against his leg.
An officer attempting to move the child’s arms felt what appeared to be a handgun concealed between the bag and the child’s leg, according to prosecutors. Franklin then ran from officers but was quickly apprehended.
Officers recovered a loaded .40-caliber Glock 23 handgun equipped with a device known as a switch that allowed the weapon to fire automatically, prosecutors said.
Glock ‘n Chips!
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This is what “precocious” means in Louisiana.
Yes indeed. We see every day what a golden age of gun ownership looks like. Take a bow!
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First stop of the NRA upcoming national elections/tour bus is Montana, where folks will gather to thank the organization for their state’s suicide rate. We’re Number One!
These Old West shootouts! Keep the guns coming.
Be there when Aarau goes wild again — exactly the way they go wild in America!
One difference — a DJ who was there said ‘he had “lost an important friend” and would withdraw from performing for a period of time.’
‘Round here we stick our head back up and get set for the next one.
And no one took his guns away, cuz this is America.
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And. Uh. Fire hydrants aren’t required if you live outside Billings city limits?
“[D]etectives were able to identify the man seen in the video and determined that he was also behind other recent vehicle break-ins reported in the Reston [VA] Police District, which spans the northwest corner of the county.
The incidents identified by the FCPD, as of Aug. 20, include:
- Two burglaries from vehicles in the West Market condominium neighborhood (1900 block of Logan Manor Drive) on Aug. 6, one at 4 a.m. and another at 4:19 a.m.
- Theft from a vehicle in the Oak Park at Reston Town Center condos (12000 block of Taliesin Place) on Aug. 14 at 2:35 a.m.
- Burglary from a vehicle and an open garage in the West Market condos (1900 block of Crescent Park Drive) on Aug. 18 at 1 a.m.
The man was arrested by Reston patrol officers on Aug. 18 at around 2 a.m. after they found him behind a building in the 11900 block of Bowman Towne Drive, the FCPD says.
“During the arrest, officers recovered an AR-15-style rifle and magazines among [the man’s] belongings,” the FCPD said. “Detectives determined the firearm had been stolen approximately one hour earlier after [the suspect] entered a vehicle and an open garage in the 1900 block of Crescent Park Drive.”
The man is now facing 18 different charges in connection with the four alleged burglaries and thefts, including:
four counts of Vehicle Trespass, three counts of Burglary, three counts of Grand Larceny, two counts of Vehicle Tampering, two counts of Petit Larceny, two counts of Carrying a Concealed Weapon, Larceny from a Motor Vehicle, and Possession of a Schedule I/II Drug.
According to the FCPD, the man was also subject to five outstanding warrants from another jurisdiction that were served upon his arrest.
Online court records indicate that the man had previously been arrested on July 28 and charged with auto theft and misdemeanor eluding the police for an offense that took place that same day. However, he was released from jail on his own recognizance after an arraignment on July 29.”
Clearly no threat to the public. Let him go again.
Well, but you also have bars like Reign, specifically designed to, er, disinhibit Daewoo MAX-1 clubbers.
Reign lives and reigns in the unity of the Hogue Avenger and Glock, for ever and ever in Columbia MO… which state really…
Missouri experiences one of the highest rates of gun deaths, gun homicides, and household firearm ownership. Missouri not only has none of the foundational gun violence prevention laws, but in 2007 the state repealed an 80-year-old permit-to-purchase law—leading to an increase in the state’s gun homicide rate of up to 27%.
The state itself is a disinhibitor, eager to establish conditions of peak packing, and having no minimum age for gun purchase.
So then it’s just a matter of crowding trigger-finger tots into Reign and letting everything explode in a fusillade of fun.
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Party-pooper prez Mun Choi has issued a back-to-school announcement to U Missouri students beseeching them to stay away from the gunplay around Reign, and is he ever catching it from gung-ho gunnies!