There have been 67 mass shootings in the U.S. in the first 45 days of 2023. It’s obvious we’re not doing a good enough job of keeping guns away from people who shouldn’t have them. That’s because Republicans and the Supreme Court are blocking nearly all gun control efforts, l[...]
Posts Tagged ‘guns’
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
December 3rd, 2022 - 1:33 am § in Law and Courts
Should this trigger-happy cop stand trial for murder?
Rajan “Raj” Moonesinghe, 33, was shot and killed at his home by an Austin, Texas, police officer on November 15, 2022. He’d just returned home, and thinking his house was being burglarized, walked around outside with a rifle, then fired two shots into his house. A neighbor had called polic[...]
November 26th, 2022 - 8:18 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Guns aren’t free speech
“Firearms are frequently becoming part of political life as Republicans loosen restrictions on carrying guns in public,” Raw Story says (in a story here). “Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense — increasingly it is a soa[...]
November 25th, 2022 - 1:55 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kyle Rittenhouse is still an awful person
I was astonished, yet not really surprised, to read there’s a video game called “Kyle Rittenhouse’s Turkey Shoot.” It’s exactly what the title implies: Gamers pretend to be the teenaged killer and try to gun down virtual turkeys (read story here). In a video promoting t[...]
November 15th, 2022 - 12:34 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Black men can’t have guns
Harith Augustus, aka “Snoop the Barber,” was a popular barber in Chicago’s south side. On July 14, 2018, Augustus was on a sidewalk near his barbershop, just walking and doing nothing suspicious, when he was accosted by five cops. Two of the officers were black, three were white. T[...]
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[...]