He has taken the McCloskey case to argue that Democrats are truly coming for everyone's guns.
{Sigh} That's Wayne LaPierre-grade paranoia and hyperbole and is, frankly, unworthy of anyone who isn't residing in a locked ward.
The McCloskeys, arguably, committed crimes. Pointing guns at people without just cause is illegal damn near everywhere. After they did that, and it is well-documented, the cops investigated. The cops served a search warrant to seize the instrumentalities of possible crimes. There is nothing unusual in that. Search warrants are often executed before charges are brought. The St. Louis cops, from the accounts that I've read, did not go rooting through the Mccloskey's home, trashing the inside, the way that is sometimes done when the searched property is the residence of someone who isn't (or can't afford) a high-priced lawyer.
Whether or not the McCloskeys should or should not have been charged isn't the point of this post.[1] What is the point is that using what is common procedure in a criminal case to argue that the Democrats are going to seize everyone's guns is somewhere betwerrn gross hyperbole and drooling insanity.
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[1] If you go there, that's an automatic Red Card for you. Fair Warning, Cobber
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Agree. Trespassing does not carry the death penalty. Did the McClosky's call the local cops?
ReplyDeleteThey must've forgotten that bow and arrow guy that showed up to a protest in Salt Lake to "defend the police", aimed it at a protester, and was subsequently beaten by the protesters and had his car set on fire. Then he was arrested and charged with three felonies. Oh, and he was also a prior felon.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/04/man-who-drew-bow-arrow/
"In a posted video, McCormick, responded to a stranger who asked him if he calls himself an American with: “Yes, I’m American. All lives matter.”
The charging documents say McCormick also brandished a knife at demonstrators. He then went to the back seat of his car, the documents say, retrieved a bow and aimed an arrow at those around him. The knife and archery set appear to be the basis for two of the charges against McCormick, accusing him of being a felon in possession of a dangerous weapon.
The crowd responded by attacking McCormick and flipping his car. The vehicle was burned. Police pulled McCormick out of the melee."
The point of constantly claiming 'the democRat party is coming to seize your guns' has mostly to do with pumping up gun sales, which spike mightily whenever a D is elected, despite no guns ever being grabbed by any president. Like Charlie Brown, the GOP can't resist kicking that gun grabber meme. So, like the cultists they are, they buy another gun that will never be used to be inherited by the kids like the fine Spode. Deluded, but finest kind of mind confusion for big gun sales.
ReplyDeleteOTOH if you believe Ian Walsh this might be a good time to get a gun and more ammo. He sees at least a 1% chance of a Russia style societal collapse:
"History is odd and one never knows, but I suggest that readers look the situation hard in the face. America is an un-developing nation, well on its way to being a failed state. Because you live among the infrastructure created by the great engineers of the Lost, GI and Silent generations, it’s hard to see that, but that infrastructure is rotten, just as are the institutions and the souls of the people who run your society.
"When America goes bad, it’s going to go bad in truly awful ways. Americans have over 300 million guns, and an ethos that says violence is not just OK, but good. The right has been pushing eliminationist rhetoric for generations now: they think “liberals” are evil and need to be hung from lamp posts."
I hope he's wrong but I'm preparing daily for it by drinking beer, smoking heroic quantities of cannabis and playing improv blues riffs on electric bass. I'm not yet that good after 3 years but luckily I live alone. And I'm getting so much better that when the quarantine lifts I'll probably join the Sex Pistol. What, they broke up? And died? Well, there goes that plan.
Tod, links would be good. This is the commentary that you referenced.
ReplyDeleteBut you don't even have to do that. Just drop the bare link, next time.
The crowd responded by beating McCormick and burning his car.
ReplyDeleteMore of this please. Only take three or four, and that'll be the end of it.
The only solution to a bully problem is bust the bully's head.
No quarter.
Well the Karen and Ken did dit wrong. It was sufficient to prop the
ReplyDeleteAR against the front door and not handle it. properly slung would
do as well. Makes the brandishing charge harder to do. Generally
they went full stupid.
What is forgotten is the gated neighborhood is like HOAs, all land
inside is community (collective ownership) so the protesters were
trespassers at a very minimum. They used force to overcome the gate
so that property damage. The possibility of threat is there but
never above the point of armed response. Close, however is not
an adequate defense.
Once they cross on the he lawn and started doing damage inside
that may have moved the threat to require a response.
Collect our guns unlikely, collect the stupid I am with that.
After all its the stupid that makes it hard to have nice things.
At the same time there is the collective effort to ducks pecking
the gun owners to death with petty laws. That needs to stop and
uniform laws might be better instead of the patchwork across each
state never minding across the country.
One last thing.... the cities with the worse "gun Crime" are
those with the most draconian or random laws.
Eck!
Thanks Comrade I'll copy paste the url link in the future. I just assumed everyone checked Ian Welsh's blog frequently to get scared by truth.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ianwelsh.net/
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