“After police say a Maryland woman was killed by her husband within hours of seeking a restraining order, a D.C. lawmaker is proposing a change to better protect victims of domestic violence. Democratic Councilmember Mary Cheh, who represents Ward 3, said she wants judges in D.C. to have the authority to remove guns from anyone served with a protective order and to restrict them from buying firearms.” – DC lawmaker wants judges to remove guns from accused domestic abusers [via wtop.com]
As of this morning, NPR is reporting that the gun, in fact, did “just go off.”
That’s the second “just go off” we’ve gotten in a major story in the past few months, first the Kate Steinle case, and now this.
As we all know, in modern guns that doesn’t “just happen” without gross negligence on the part of the user, so I have a feeling this narrative is being pushed for a reason. My guess is it’s probably to try to fight against the reciprocity bill, because they know their usual arguments fall flat on that subject, since they know that anyone with the intent to do harm can and will carry illegally. So now they need to try to frame it as a safety issue, in which even people who are taking the time to get a permit and learn to carry properly run the risk of their guns “just going off” and hurting people.
Assuming this story is true, my heart goes out to the girl, who was probably just stupid and left the gun in their bag with no holster, and various pens, pencils, and other school supplies floating around on which the trigger could get caught, (not nearly as much as my heart goes out for the victims, of course, but I can still sympathize with her) but at the same time we can’t just let them twist the narrative to this purpose. It’s STILL her fault, nobody who went through the effort of getting a concealed carry permit would be so stupid, and it’s not like a 12 year old could have gotten a permit anyway. Plus, if gun-free zones weren’t a thing, people wouldn’t feel the need to hide their guns in bags filled with school supplies to snag on triggers, in the first place.
Aren’t these lib/prog legislators full of helpful ideas? DC (and almost every jurisdiction in this country) certainly has more than its share of them.
Funny, restraining orders usually come with a perimeter distance from a person or place. If the perp didn’t use a long range weapon to beat the distance requirement (in committing the crime) then people who possess even a slight amount of logical thinking will immediately jump to the factual conclusion THAT A RESTRAINING ORDER ONLY PROTECTS YOU ON PAPER, IF NOT BY THE HONOR SYSTEM.
It is a failure of the stupid MFs W R O N G F U L L Y claiming that they are / can protect you, as well as a failure of the stupid MFs that believe them.
Eventually this would apply to unpaid parking tickets.
So when all the gun stores go out of business because everyone bought your book and no longer has a need for them where will people go to buy guns and do paperwork? Gunstore profits aren’t made in guns they are made in accessories and ammo. Thanks for this trick to close down every mom and pop shop in America.
Oh goody! Or why the Chicagoaway Trib is just a rag to wrap s##t in. The colonel must roll over in his grave daily????????????
Certainly looks cool, and that’s what matters 87% of the time.
Looking forward to the review.
Kinda like holding on to a lit M-80.
Wow. Just. Fucking. Wow.
I know some folks that ought to be jobless now.
I thought one of the benefits of living in boonies was not having to interact so much with people and government. I also thought Wyoming was populated by like 4 people and a bear. Seems like it would have been a lot easier to dispatch the problem animal and proceed without alerting the authorities to the problem. Given that the guy has the game wardens cell to text on though, I’m going to go with he spends more time talking to the game warden than he should anyway, even when he hasn’t been shooting moose in self defense.
I’d have liked to see this kind of thing evaluated with along with the MHS contract. Its not an expanding bullet, so since we have been following the Hague Convention of 1899, even though we’re not signatory. It defeats light armor, body armor not an M2 Bradley, and should at minimum be as effective as FMJ.
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So, I don’t want to ask anything stupid, but how do you hit 5 people with “a negligent discharge” after “shots erupted”? Was this a volcanic backpack or or a JFK Assassination magic bullet?
How about some facts LAPD?