Jayson Jack was 16 when he allegedly tried to carry out a hit against Synsyr Lewis’s father in a restaurant parking lot in Federal Way, Washington. According to prosecutors, Jack “circled the parking lot several times” before “firing 15 rounds into the windshield” of th[...]
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October 4th, 2024 - 11:14 pm § in Law and Courts
What should happen to a 16-year-old who guns down a toddler?
Republicans can’t have it both ways on guns
Austin Theriault, a Maine GOP legislator running for a U.S. House seat “as a champion of the Second Amendment,” called the sheriff in January 2023 because he saw a man carry an AR-15 rifle into his house, Huffington Post reported on Monday, September 9, 2024 (read story here). The police[...]
May 27th, 2024 - 1:44 am § in Misc.
Cop guns down deaf and blind dog
His name was Teddy, a Shih Tzu, deaf and blind. He escaped his kennel, and a neighbor who saw him wandering called the police because the small Missouri town doesn’t have an animal control officer. The cop spent all of three minutes trying to lasso Teddy with one of those poles that animal con[...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 4:01 am § in Law and Courts
Guns are changing American life
An entire generation of American kids are growing up in fear of being gunned down in their classrooms, or shot at a shopping mall. The NRA likes to say, “An armed society is a polite society,” but the data say otherwise. Guns are now the leading cause of death of Americans under age 19 ([...]
May 25th, 2023 - 8:28 pm § in Law and Courts
Coathanger machineguns
Machineguns are illegal without a federal license to possess one. There are several ways to convert a standard AR-15 to a fully automatic weapon. You can literally do it with a piece of coathanger wire. This video shows would it looks like. Without a federal license, that weapon is illegal, but the [...]
Guns in schools news for 2/24/23
“A 2-year-old girl, 13-year-old boy, 15-year-old boy and two 16-year-old boys were shot in the schoolyard of the James G. Blaine School at about 5:52 p.m. Thursday, according to Philadelphia police.” (Read story here.) “A male juvenile suspect has been arrested at a high school bas[...]
GOP judges rule wife-beaters are entitled to guns
“A federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms is unconstitutional,” a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday, February 2, 2023 (read story here). The Fifth Circuit, which is based in the De[...]
DeSantis is pulling guns on black voters
Add Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, to the list of armed Republicans brandishing guns at polling places. In 2018, Florida voters approved a state constitutional amendment that restored voting rights to felons who’ve completed their sentences, except those convicted of mur[...]
How to take guns out of the wrong hands
The rest of the world thinks America’s gun policies are crazy. A majority of Americans think so, too. Guns are simply too accessible, and in the hands of people who plainly shouldn’t have them. We really don’t need examples; mass shootings, school shootings, and gun crimes speak fo[...]
January 1st, 2023 - 8:10 pm § in Misc.
Innocent travelers don’t stash guns in peanut butter jars
A passenger tried to sneak a gun through security at New York’s JFK airport by stashing its parts (and ammo) in peanut butter jars. He was caught (see story here). Neither the man, who is from Rhode Island, nor the airline, or his destination, were identified. All the story says is he could be[...]