Well, for starters, America’s gun violence problem is unique. No other country experiences the mass shootings we do. So we’re doing something different from others that encourages it or at least makes it possible. How about lax gun laws? In May 2022, a CNN columnist wrote (here), “[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Violence’
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[...]
January 25th, 2023 - 8:32 pm § in Law and Courts
Res ipsa loquitur
That’s a “legal Latin” term describing a common law doctrine taught to first-year law students in their torts class. A “tort” is negligence or other wrongful behavior that results in harm, giving rise to liability for injury or damage. A car accident is a common example[...]
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 2nd, 2023 - 3:39 pm § in Law and Courts
Another case of trigger-happy vigilantism
Quadarius McDowell, 30 (photo, left), of Decatur, Georgia, took his car to a tire shop (photo below) on Saturday, December 31, 2022. When he saw Daniel Gorden, 24 (photo, right), a tire shop employee, moving his car he assumed Gorden was stealing it and shot him to death (see story here). McDowell w[...]
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 [...]
DeSantis-appointed school board fired by Parkland voters
Lori Alhadeff is a locomotive even Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t stop. After her 14-year-old daughter was killed in the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school massacre, she became a safe-schools and gun-control activist, and was elected to the Broward County School Board in 2018. In August 2022, D[...]
Angry Trumper will get prison for shooting at jet skiers with Biden flag
A Florida Trump supporter will go to prison for shooting at jet skiers for flying a Biden flag on Nov. 3, 2020. That was election day, feelings were running high, and Eduardo Acosta, 37, was jet skiing with friends in Biscayne Bay near Miami when he spotted the flag on another jet ski. “Trigge[...]
September 18th, 2022 - 6:58 pm § in Law and Courts
No. No, no, and no.
On December 1, 1997, a 14-year-old boy named Michael Carneal walked into a Paducah, Kentucky, high school with a gun and “and opened fire in the lobby where students had gathered for a prayer circle.” Three girls died. They were Nicole Hadley, 14; Kayce Steger, 15; and Jessica James, 17.[...]