“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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Control’
Baby with a gun? Lock his dad up!
Prosecutors should go to the mat with Shane Osborne, 45, of Beech Grove, Indiana, whose diaper-clad toddler was seen roaming the halls of an apartment building with a loaded gun and going “pow-pow-pow!” (photo, left). Osborne (photo, right) is an ex-felon who can’t have a gun. Stat[...]
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 6th, 2023 - 10:07 pm § in Politics, Republicans
6-year-old gunman shoots teacher
That’s not a typo. A six-year-old kid shot a teacher in a first grade classroom in Newport News, Virginia, on Friday, December 6, 2023 (read story here). The teacher, Abby Zwerner (photo, left), 25, was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. She was shot in the chest. Police, who arreste[...]
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[...]
November 30th, 2022 - 12:34 pm § in Law and Courts
Let’s crack down on illegal gun possession
People with criminal records, under restraining orders, or subjects of “red flag” laws can’t have guns. They do anyway. Let’s stop pussyfooting around, and insist prosecutors charge these violations and judges give stiff sentences to violators. For example, Jadan Maurice Dav[...]
November 25th, 2022 - 7:24 pm § in Law and Courts
Why do people who shouldn’t have guns still have them?
Drummond Neil Smithson, 31, admits he has anger issues. He’s even told police he’s been “in and out of” psychiatric hospitals. In June 2019 a Tennessee judge issued a protection order against him. It barred him from having guns. He violated it. In September 2019, when police [...]
September 28th, 2022 - 12:12 am § in Politics
Look who’s buying guns now
Gun proliferation in America started with white male conservatives. The GOP and gun lobby have been very successful at removing restrictions on guns. Brandishing guns is even becoming a form of political speech. But guess what, the Second Amendment either applies to everybody or nobody; and now libe[...]
Crime blotter: I don’t care what his excuse is
Isabella Thallas (photo, left) didn’t see her 22nd birthday, because Michael Close (photo, below right), 38, killed her over dog poop. Thallas and her boyfriend, Darian Simon, were walking a dog on June 10, 2020, outside Close’s apartment building in Denver. They stopped and encouraged t[...]
September 21st, 2022 - 1:12 am § in Law and Courts
The guy who raped your sister can now legally carry a gun while stalking you
Until yesterday, a federal law prohibited people under felony indictment from buying guns. But that public safety protection is now gone, thanks to a ruling by an Obama-nominated, Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas (see his bio here). I’m not sure it’s his fault. In striking down the[...]