At least 71 shot, 9 fatally

[2aguy]

but that's the point, isn't it? The gun stores KNOW those girlfriends are buying for their old man who has two or three felonies. They do it anyway. They probably even show these ladies how to fill out the 4473.

Now, if you had REAL liability for the gun stores, they would conduct REAL background checks, and they would show real scrutiny.

they run the background checks on those women, you lying ass.......the Federally mandated background check....on all sales.

And if they did refuse to sell to black women or men, based on the suspicion of gang ties, assholes like you would sue them for discrimination...

 

[2aguy]

Cars aren't designed to kill people. Guns are.

As it stands right now, bars CAN be sued for drunk drivers killing people if the overserved someone they knew was too drunk to drive.

Of course, I have my solution to drunk driving: put a blow meter on every car that locks the ignition if you are over 0.8.

Cars kill more people every single year than guns do....

Las Vegas shooting.....58 people murdered...

Nice, France, muslim terrorist in rental truck murdered 86 people, wounded 435 in 5 minutes....more people murdered than in Las Vegas and any mass public shooting in the U.S....

Cars need to be banned.

 

[JoeB131]

They are talking about suing gun makers.........and a drunk at a bar is different from a customer at a gun store dumb fuck.

No, they are exactly the same.

If someone shows up at your bar, slurring his words, picking fights with the other patrons, you stop serving him and call him a cab.

If someone shows up at your gun store with Orange hair acting weird, doing a bad Heath Ledger impression, you don't sell him an AR-15 and a 100 round magazine.

 

[JoeB131]

they run the background checks on those women, you lying ass.......the Federally mandated background check....on all sales.

And if they did refuse to sell to black women or men, based on the suspicion of gang ties, assholes like you would sue them for discrimination...

Probably. Gun sellers are assholes, they deserve whatever abuse they get and then some.

They'll get their day in court. They can show their background check, we have autopsy pictures.

We win!!!!

 

[otto105]

Honestly, what we are seeing, especially in the rural areas, is a lack of opportunities for young white men. So they take drugs, they get into other illicit activities.

Of course, if our system was fair, more whites would be in prison. I had a brother who got into all sorts of trouble as a young man after our parents died. His excuse was "I was going through stuff." I was going through the same stuff and still managed to serve my country and get a college degree. Thankfully, due to family standing with him, he straightened out his life with no permanent blot on his record.

No sense of irony, today he's a right wing law and order type.

He’ll just look at affluent Gilbert, AZ and bored white rich boys on a crime spee to murder.

How a Homegrown Teen Gang Punctured the Image of an Upscale Community

 

[Woodznutz]

Cars kill more people every single year than guns do....

Las Vegas shooting.....58 people murdered...

Nice, France, muslim terrorist in rental truck murdered 86 people, wounded 435 in 5 minutes....more people murdered than in Las Vegas and any mass public shooting in the U.S....

Cars need to be banned.

Ban Muslims from non-Muslim countries.

 

[Woodznutz]

The lie about Chicago getting guns from out of state....


This brings me to my favorite part.

The gun-grabbers will argue: Guns are shipped into these cities from places without tough gun control laws!

Okay, then shouldn’t these places where all the guns supposedly originate from be even more violent?

FACT: Gun control is a total failure at stopping gun crime.
FACT: Gun control encourages violent crime and criminals.


Nolte: If Gun Control Worked, Democrat-Run Cities Wouldn't Be War Zones

Such problems attract Federal and State money. Why kill the goose.

 

[sealybobo]

I fully agree. However, the only way to understand it is to examine each and every case individually, no statistics, only data.

I grew up in Detroit. No economic opportunities. No jobs. Shitty school. Shitty teachers. Dangerous. Drugs. Fatherlessness. Not a good place to grow up.

We moved to Metro Detroit. Boy what a difference. The economic opportunities, low crime, connections, most of my friends had fathers, good public schools, no drugs other than pot. A great place to grow up.

My brother and I are very successful. We often wonder what would have become of us if we stayed in Detroit. One thing that would have helped is we had a father. That's huge. The other thing is we're white. It's a lot easier finding a job when you are white. You don't have white hiring managers who have a negative bias towards black people.

 

[marvin martian]

It's blacks killing blacks...for the most part...

It's phase 2 of the DemoKKKrats' black genocide program.

Phase 1 is Planned Parenthood.

 

[2aguy]

No, they are exactly the same.

If someone shows up at your bar, slurring his words, picking fights with the other patrons, you stop serving him and call him a cab.

If someone shows up at your gun store with Orange hair acting weird, doing a bad Heath Ledger impression, you don't sell him an AR-15 and a 100 round magazine.

You can bet the Colorado theater shooter was not acting weird at the gun store....and the trained professionals who actually did see him acting weird...didn't do shit.....but you want the gun store clerk to make decisions about the mental health of customers and be held accountable in ways you refuse to hold actual medical and law enforcement professionals....

You are an asshole.

 

[JoeB131]

You can bet the Colorado theater shooter was not acting weird at the gun store....

Are you sure? Frankly, I don't think people like that can switch off the crazy.

Seriously, look at this guy.

and the trained professionals who actually did see him acting weird...didn't do shit.....

They didn't sell him a gun.

James Holmes (mass murderer) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Holmes' defense attorneys stated in a motion that he was a psychiatric patient of the medical director of Anschutz Medical Campus's Student Mental Health Services prior to the Aurora shooting. The prosecutor disagreed with that claim.[66][67] Four days after the release of the defense attorney's motion, the judge required this information to be blacked out.[68] CBS News later reported that Holmes had met with at least three mental health professionals at the University of Colorado before the massacre. One of them, who was informed by Holmes of his homicidal thoughts, considered placing him on an involuntary mental health hold, but decided against it, noting her belief that Holmes was "borderline" and the commitment would only inflame him.[69]

One of Holmes' psychiatrists suspected that prior to the shooting, Holmes suffered from a mental illness that could have been dangerous. A month before the tragedy, Dr. Lynne Fenton told the campus police that he had also made homicidal statements.[70] Two weeks before the massacre, Holmes sent a text message asking a graduate student if the student had ever heard of the disorder dysphoric mania, and warning the student to stay away from him "because [he was] bad news".[71]

but you want the gun store clerk to make decisions about the mental health of customers and be held accountable in ways you refuse to hold actual medical and law enforcement professionals....

Um, yeah, if you are going to sell people the tools to commit mass murder, you should be held responsible when they commit mass murder, if they have a long standing pattern of irresponsible behavior.

Take the Tylenol Poisoning case in Chicago. The industry acted very responsibly, doing a 100% recall, and then changing the way they packaged items to keep it from happening again. Oh, yeah, and Johson and Johnson STILL reached a settlement with the families of the seven people who died! This is corporate responsibility. After 9/11, the airlines and government put in more advanced scanners, put steel doors on the airplanes, hired a more professional security force. Again- being responsible.

We have mass shooting after mass shooting, and the gun industry fights tooth and nail to keep guys like Joker Holmes and Awake the Rapper awash in guns.

You are an asshole.

Yes, I am. But it doesn't mean I'm wrong.

The gun industry is unethical. They are happy to see crazy people and criminals get guns, because they know people like will get scared and want more guns as well. They know every mass shooting will get politicians talking about gun control, and that sells more guns.

 

[Woodznutz]

The gun industry is unethical. They are happy to see crazy people and criminals get guns, because they know people like will get scared and want more guns as well. They know every mass shooting will get politicians talking about gun control, and that sells more guns.

It is the threat of more regulations that causes increased gun sales, not the fear of being a victim of a mass shooting.

 

[ninja007]

Oh, I'm very concerned about the innocents shot, which is why I would like to see sensible gun laws to make it hard for people who shouldn't have guns to get them.

yes because criminals follow the law.

 

[JoeB131]

It is the threat of more regulations that causes increased gun sales, not the fear of being a victim of a mass shooting.

Why should law abiding citizens worry about more regulations?

yes because criminals follow the law.

No, but gun sellers will... if they don't want to lose their business.

 

[Woodznutz]

Why should law abiding citizens worry about more regulations?

If the government wants fewer gun deaths, they should propose things that will actually reduce gun deaths. The reality is that gun deaths are just part of life in America. The freedoms protected by the 1st Amendment are far more destructive than the freedoms protected by the Second.

"The Pen is Mightier than the Sword."

 

[2aguy]

Are you sure? Frankly, I don't think people like that can switch off the crazy.

Seriously, look at this guy.

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They didn't sell him a gun.

James Holmes (mass murderer) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Holmes' defense attorneys stated in a motion that he was a psychiatric patient of the medical director of Anschutz Medical Campus's Student Mental Health Services prior to the Aurora shooting. The prosecutor disagreed with that claim.[66][67] Four days after the release of the defense attorney's motion, the judge required this information to be blacked out.[68] CBS News later reported that Holmes had met with at least three mental health professionals at the University of Colorado before the massacre. One of them, who was informed by Holmes of his homicidal thoughts, considered placing him on an involuntary mental health hold, but decided against it, noting her belief that Holmes was "borderline" and the commitment would only inflame him.[69]

One of Holmes' psychiatrists suspected that prior to the shooting, Holmes suffered from a mental illness that could have been dangerous. A month before the tragedy, Dr. Lynne Fenton told the campus police that he had also made homicidal statements.[70] Two weeks before the massacre, Holmes sent a text message asking a graduate student if the student had ever heard of the disorder dysphoric mania, and warning the student to stay away from him "because [he was] bad news".[71]





Um, yeah, if you are going to sell people the tools to commit mass murder, you should be held responsible when they commit mass murder, if they have a long standing pattern of irresponsible behavior.

Take the Tylenol Poisoning case in Chicago. The industry acted very responsibly, doing a 100% recall, and then changing the way they packaged items to keep it from happening again. Oh, yeah, and Johson and Johnson STILL reached a settlement with the families of the seven people who died! This is corporate responsibility. After 9/11, the airlines and government put in more advanced scanners, put steel doors on the airplanes, hired a more professional security force. Again- being responsible.

We have mass shooting after mass shooting, and the gun industry fights tooth and nail to keep guys like Joker Holmes and Awake the Rapper awash in guns.



Yes, I am. But it doesn't mean I'm wrong.

The gun industry is unethical. They are happy to see crazy people and criminals get guns, because they know people like will get scared and want more guns as well. They know every mass shooting will get politicians talking about gun control, and that sells more guns.

Orange hair isn't illegal and half the population has pink, blue or any other color hair. You are a moron....he was


The pulse nightclub shooter passed a psychiatric exam for his job, he passed an FBI invesitgation and yet you want a store clerk to know what is in the inner thoughts of a customer....you are simply looking for any excuse to keep normal people from buying and owning guns...


Trained professionals and trained FBI agents couldn't spot the Pulse night club shooter.....yet the moron, joe, expects a clerk at a gun store who actually follows Federal Law is supposed to be able to know the mental health of each customer....

Screening issues​

G4S said two screenings of Mateen—one conducted upon hiring and the other in 2013—had raised no red flags.[42]Under Florida state law, for him to work as an armed guard the company was required either to make a full psychiatric evaluation of Mateen, or to administer a "validated written psychological test."[43] The test administered was the updated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), a test used for job screenings and court cases requiring those subjected to it to agree or disagree with statements such as "My soul sometimes leaves my body" and "Once in a while I think of things too bad to talk about."[43] Carol Nudelman, the psychologist listed on the character certification submitted by G4S to the state, said she stopped working for the company in 2005. After the shooting, Nudelman, who according to the records of the security company G4S, was said to have evaluated and cleared Mateen for his firearms license in 2007, denied ever meeting him or having lived in Florida at the time, and said she had stopped her practice in Florida in January 2006. G4S said Mateen was not actually interviewed by a psychologist, but rather, a psychologist evaluated the results of a standard test used in job screenings and his test was evaluated by the firm that bought Nudelman's practice, Headquarters for Psychological Evaluation.[44][45]
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Mateen held an active concealed carry permit and an armed security guard license.[51][52] It was also noted that Mateen had no adult criminal record.[53] According to licensing records, he was a proficient shooter who scored at or above the 98th percentile with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol.[54]​

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Alleged links to terrorist groups​

The FBI investigated Mateen in May 2013 after he made "inflammatory" remarks while working as a security guard. Mateen had told his coworkers that his family was linked to al-Qaeda and that he had joined Hezbollah, both rivals of the Islamic State (IS) and of one another. Mateen pledged allegiance to IS during his 2016 shooting.[103] FBI Director James Comey commented on the contradictions within Mateen's statements. The FBI interviewed Mateen twice after opening the investigation; in these interviews, Mateen admitted to making the statements but "explained that he said them in anger because his co-workers were teasing him." After ten months, the investigation was closed and Mateen determined not to be a threat. Mateen had been placed on a terrorist watch list while the investigation was under way, but he was removed from it afterwards. Mateen came to the FBI's attention again in July 2014, when he was linked to Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, an American who had traveled to Syria and committed a suicide bombing in late May 2014. The two had been acquainted and "attended the same mosque." The investigation continued, but focused on Abu Salha rather than Mateen,[104][105] law-enforcement officials told The Wall Street Journal.[51]

Omar Mateen - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Trained professionals passed on James Holmes....yet joe wants a clerk at a gun store, who actually follows Federal Background check laws, to be able to determine the mental health of a customer....

Beginning in graduate school, Holmes would see shadows and "flickers" at the corners of his eyes, which would fight each other with firearms and other weapons.[60] At the University of Colorado, Holmes sought help in 2012 for his mental state at the student health clinic after he broke up with his girlfriend. Because he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, his caregivers were allowed to testify at his trial. He was seen by psychiatrist Dr. Lynne Fenton, who testified at his trial that she was worried about his homicidal ideation expressed in their last meeting. She saw him a total of seven times over three months, twice with a male psychiatrist. Holmes rejected their suggestions for treatment. In June 2012 after Holmes had sent her a threatening email, she activated a threat assessment team to help her formulate a plan for Holmes. She expressed concerns about his social phobia and "psychotic-level thinking" and believed he may have had schizoid personality disorder. She listed specific concerns, such as his long-standing fantasies about killing as many people as possible, his reluctance to discuss any details about his plans, his refusal to allow them to talk to anyone else and the unclear timeline; she didn't know if he was always that way or if this was a new behavior. She consulted with his mother, who said he had longstanding social problems. Although the center offered to treat him if he lost his insurance, he left treatment.[61]

James Holmes (mass murderer) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[2aguy]

If the government wants fewer gun deaths, they should propose things that will actually reduce gun deaths. The reality is that gun deaths are just part of life in America. The freedoms protected by the 1st Amendment are far more destructive than the freedoms protected by the Second.

"The Pen is Mightier than the Sword."

If the democrat party wanted fewer gun deaths, they wouldn't keep releasing violent gun criminals, and creating laws that allow violent gun criminals to recieve lower sentences for actual gun crimes....

The democrat party....being soft on actual gun criminals.....

New Orleans...



Under Louisiana statute, possessing a gun after a felony conviction comes with a mandatory five-year prison sentence. But according to an investigation by WWL-TV in New Orleans, felons charged with possessing a gun are far more likely to receive probation than the mandatory minimum sentence.

A statistical analysis by the MCC shows that out of 286 felons with gun cases in 2022 and 2023, only about one-third of the defendants got sentenced to five years or more. More frequently, the sentence is probation.
So far, records show that most of the defendants have stayed out of trouble.
Yet dozens have been re-arrested, some for shocking crimes, such as Darnell Hunter.
... Hunter, 33, was a repeat felon battling mental illness and drug addiction when he was arrested for an attempted robbery with a gun. He pleaded guilty as charged to being a felon with a firearm, yet despite being re-arrested in two brutal stabbings, he was given probation through a legal provision known as a “downward departure.”
After his release, Hunter was re-arrested in another stabbing, this one fatal.

New Orleans Felons Getting 'Carveout' for Illegally Carrying Guns

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New York....



New York Governor Kathy Hochul. While other leaders are working to lock up the bad guys, she has been springing more people loose. On Friday she granted clemency to thirteen more people. Many were convicted of dealing hard drugs, but two of them were serving life sentences for murder.

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In addition to those thirteen people, Hochul also significantly moved up the dates for two prisoners to have a meeting with the parole board. One of them is a convicted murderer serving a 75-year to life sentence for killing a cab driver and attempting to kill another person. He wasn't supposed to be eligible to appear before the parole board for thirty more years. The other lucky recipient is a 41-year-old who is serving a 25-year-to-life sentence for second-degree murder.



NY Governor Quietly Grants Clemency to Murderers



Chicago.....democrat party prosecutor Kim Foxx...



Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is floating a new policy that would direct prosecutors in her office to reject drug and gun charges that stem solely from some routine traffic stops.

In an interview, Foxx said the draft policy aims to undercut a dramatic rise in stops that disproportionately target people of color and rarely lead to arrests.



Kim Foxx wouldn’t prosecute gun cases tied to some minor traffic stops under new plan’s%20Attorney%20Kim%20Foxx%20is%20floating,people%20of%20color%20and%20rarely%20lead%20to%20arrests.=======





D.C......



A judge in Washington, D.C., has come under fire after releasing on bail a teenager accused of firing dozens of shots from an AR-15 on a busy street.Lloyd U. Nolan, Jr., a magistrate judge who sits on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, released 18-year-old Amonte Moody ahead of his trial even though he is accused of firing more than two dozen rounds at a car full of people, Fox News reported. Moody has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and more, the New York Post reported.------Nolan, a self-described “woke” judge, set his Facebook profile to private after Fox contacted him, the outlet reported. Nolan’s social media accounts reportedly show that he is heavily involved in leftist politics, has promoted Black Lives Matter, and donated to a fundraiser that supported a professor tied to Democrat mega-donor George Soros.https://dailywire.com/news/teen-accused-of-shooting-up-dc-street-with-ar-15-released-on-bail-by-woke-judge

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Minneapolis....

THE LONESOME DEATH OF TYESHA EDWARDS​

In a nearby post John writes about the case of Myon Burrell. In the early days of Power Line John and I wrote several columns for the local newspapers decrying the murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. Tyesha was doing her homework at the dining room table in November 2002 when she was caught in the crossfire of Minneapolis gangbangers. Myon Burrell was convicted twice of Tyesha’s murder and sentenced to life in prison.

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Burrell’s sentence was commuted in 2020 by a pardon board including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Out on the streets, Burrell was free to offend again and subsequent charges suggest that he has done so. John’s nearby post updates that aspect of the Burrell story.



https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/the-lonesome-death-of-tyesha-edwards-2.php



Tennessee? Democrats?



Davis said the 18-year-old suspect who died had been previously arrested by Memphis police in March, found in a stolen vehicle with “an illegal modified semi-automatic weapon with a Glock switch attached” that converted the weapon into a fully automatic machine gun.

At that time the teen was also charged in connection with two stolen vehicles and having a programming device commonly used to steal cars. He was released at that time without bond, she said.

Memphis police officer and teen suspect killed in early-morning shootout



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Chicago....



Now, in a rare moment of drive-by media coverage, the Chicago Sun-Times admits in a roundabout way that not only is the local Soros-funded prosecutor Kim Foxx not prosecuting gang bangers with guns shooting up the town, federal prosecutors are declining cases aplenty too.

Again, crime without consequences leads to more crime.


In past years, when local prosecutors refused to take slam-dunk cases, oftentimes the local cops would go to federal prosecutors who take the cases. For that to happen, the good guys just have to prove that the gun used travelled in interstate commerce (easy-peasy with most guns) and that they had their man guilty as sin.

Unfortunately, not only has Kim Foxx not only failed to prosecute, but stats show the feds have elected to do much of the same.

From the Sun-Times:

Gun cases in Chicago turned down by feds at higher rate than in most cities​

Federal prosecutors are less likely than those in most other places — including New York and Los Angeles — to approve gun charges. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is taking up some of those rejected cases.



https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/a...ecuted-locally-feds-arent-prosecuting-either/

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California



California Democrats hate the gun, not the gunman – Orange County Register

Now that Democrats have supermajorities in the California state Legislature, they’ve rolled into Sacramento with a zest for lowering the state’s prison population and have interpreted St. Augustine’s words of wisdom to mean, “Hate the gun, not the gunman.”

I say this because, once they finally took a break from preaching about the benefits of stricter gun control, the state Senate voted to loosen sentencing guidelines for criminals convicted of gun crimes.

Currently, California law requires anyone who uses a gun while committing a felony to have their sentence increased by 10 years or more in prison — on top of the normal criminal penalty. If enacted, Senate Bill 620 would eliminate that mandate.

The bill, which passed on a 22-14 party-line vote, with support only from Democrats, now heads to the state Assembly for consideration.

Republicans and the National Rifle Association have vowed to campaign against it.

Why have Democrats suddenly developed a soft spot for criminals convicted of gun crimes? The bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, D-Gardena, says that he was motivated to write the bill after a 17-year-old riding in a car involved in a drive-by shooting was sentenced to 25 years in prison, even though he claims that he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger.
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Prop. 57, for example, very deceptively and fundamentally changed the definition of what constitutes a “non-violent” offense.


supplying a firearm to a gang member,

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felon obtaining a firearm,

discharging a firearm on school grounds


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Washington state...



So why are Washington Democrats offering up a bill in the state legislature to lower the penalties for drive-by shootings? Well, there’s woke and then there’s just plain stupid. Washington state Democrats are vying to become the best stupid they can be, bless ’em.

Currently, Washington law holds that a drive-by shooter should get an aggravated enhancement if he is arrested and prosecuted—and that’s a big if. Such an enhancement could land a drive-by murderer a life prison sentence.

But under a bill proposed for the upcoming Washington state legislature by white, woke ex-con state Rep. Tarra Simmons and her co-sponsor David Hackney, the reduction in penalties is a move toward “racial equity.” That’s right, drive-by shooting prosecutorial outcomes are racist. Never mind all the black and brown people who are the disproportionate victims of drive-by shootings.

Washington State Democrats Want Decreased Penalties for Drive-By Shooters Because... Aw, You Guessed

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California..



Two days after the Uvalde shooting in Texas, the California State Senate passed a bill that would allow schools not to report threats or attacks against employees to law enforcement.

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According to the Bill, it would repeal the provision of existing law where it requires that “whenever any employee of a school district or county superintendent of schools is attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil, the employee and any person under whose direction or supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident are required to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities.”

SB 1273 would then make such reports to law enforcement voluntary.






California Senate Passes Bill to Allow Schools Not to Report Threats to Police





Chicago.......



Last Monday, hours after three people were shot and three others stabbed in separate incidents following the Chicago Pride Parade, city officials offered glowing reviews of their performance.



Everyone responsible for the shootings and stabbings was in custody, they said.

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But, CWBChicago has learned, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office refused to file any charges against the three people who were in the pickup truck. As of this morning, no one is in custody for the triple shooting.

http://[URL='https://cwbchicago.com...reject-felony-charges-in-triple-stabbing.html

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New York...



The Mayor of New York City held a press conference yesterday that was full of fire and brimstone. The cover of the New York Post really says it all. “Mayor’s plea: We took 2,600 guns… But the shooters are back on the streets.”

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The Mayor is clearly frustrated and it’s reached the point where he feels compelled to point out the obvious. He said, “after the shooting, after the arrest, after being let go — You know what they do? They go do another shooting.” The NYPD is already aware of this because they keep arresting the same people over and over again.

He pointed out that criminals in New York City “no longer believe you can’t do a shooting.” He continued, saying that criminals don’t take criminal justice seriously anymore.

While the Mayor didn’t mention him by name, he was clearly making a reference to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The DA came into office promising to put fewer people behind bars and proceeded to make good on that threat.



NYC Mayor: Our prosecutors are "a laughingstock" of the country

 

[JoeB131]

If the government wants fewer gun deaths, they should propose things that will actually reduce gun deaths. The reality is that gun deaths are just part of life in America. The freedoms protected by the 1st Amendment are far more destructive than the freedoms protected by the Second.

"The Pen is Mightier than the Sword."

Funny, I never heard of a newspaper gunning down a bunch of preschoolers.

Orange hair isn't illegal and half the population has pink, blue or any other color hair. You are a moron....he was

Yet everyone in his life knew he was nuts.

The pulse nightclub shooter passed a psychiatric exam for his job, he passed an FBI invesitgation and yet you want a store clerk to know what is in the inner thoughts of a customer....you are simply looking for any excuse to keep normal people from buying and owning guns...

Normal people don't want guns.

Seriously, the best argument for gun control is listening to the crazy shit gun fetishists say.

Here's the problem. You want a gun clerk to have the ability to make that decision, without checking.


When I got my mortgage, the bank didn't say, "He looks legit." Nor did they merely punch in my credit score on Experion and call it a day. Nope. They did a complete background check into all aspects of my economic life. They even questioned a new line of credit I opened with a furniture store. This was with a bank that I had been doing business with for two decades, and I had already had an Equity loan I paid off early with them. It took about 30 days to complete the loan approval.

Gun stores should show similar scrutiny with their customers.

"BUT THE FOUNDING SLAVE RAPISTS SAID I CAN HAVE A GUN!!!" 2AGuy says while touching his guns in a way that makes the gun uncomfortable.

 

[JoeB131]

If the democrat party wanted fewer gun deaths, they wouldn't keep releasing violent gun criminals, and creating laws that allow violent gun criminals to recieve lower sentences for actual gun crimes....

The democrat party....being soft on actual gun criminals.....

Except we lock up 2 million people. We don't have the room to lock up more.

Inevitably, you are going to have a make a judgment call on who you can let go and who you have to put in jail.

 

[Woodznutz]

If the democrat party wanted fewer gun deaths, they wouldn't keep releasing violent gun criminals, and creating laws that allow violent gun criminals to recieve lower sentences for actual gun crimes....

The democrat party....being soft on actual gun criminals.....

New Orleans...



Under Louisiana statute, possessing a gun after a felony conviction comes with a mandatory five-year prison sentence. But according to an investigation by WWL-TV in New Orleans, felons charged with possessing a gun are far more likely to receive probation than the mandatory minimum sentence.







New Orleans Felons Getting 'Carveout' for Illegally Carrying Guns

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New York....



New York Governor Kathy Hochul. While other leaders are working to lock up the bad guys, she has been springing more people loose. On Friday she granted clemency to thirteen more people. Many were convicted of dealing hard drugs, but two of them were serving life sentences for murder.

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In addition to those thirteen people, Hochul also significantly moved up the dates for two prisoners to have a meeting with the parole board. One of them is a convicted murderer serving a 75-year to life sentence for killing a cab driver and attempting to kill another person. He wasn't supposed to be eligible to appear before the parole board for thirty more years. The other lucky recipient is a 41-year-old who is serving a 25-year-to-life sentence for second-degree murder.



NY Governor Quietly Grants Clemency to Murderers



Chicago.....democrat party prosecutor Kim Foxx...



Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is floating a new policy that would direct prosecutors in her office to reject drug and gun charges that stem solely from some routine traffic stops.

In an interview, Foxx said the draft policy aims to undercut a dramatic rise in stops that disproportionately target people of color and rarely lead to arrests.



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D.C......



A judge in Washington, D.C., has come under fire after releasing on bail a teenager accused of firing dozens of shots from an AR-15 on a busy street.Lloyd U. Nolan, Jr., a magistrate judge who sits on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, released 18-year-old Amonte Moody ahead of his trial even though he is accused of firing more than two dozen rounds at a car full of people, Fox News reported. Moody has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and more, the New York Post reported.------Nolan, a self-described “woke” judge, set his Facebook profile to private after Fox contacted him, the outlet reported. Nolan’s social media accounts reportedly show that he is heavily involved in leftist politics, has promoted Black Lives Matter, and donated to a fundraiser that supported a professor tied to Democrat mega-donor George Soros.https://dailywire.com/news/teen-accused-of-shooting-up-dc-street-with-ar-15-released-on-bail-by-woke-judge

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Minneapolis....

THE LONESOME DEATH OF TYESHA EDWARDS​

In a nearby post John writes about the case of Myon Burrell. In the early days of Power Line John and I wrote several columns for the local newspapers decrying the murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. Tyesha was doing her homework at the dining room table in November 2002 when she was caught in the crossfire of Minneapolis gangbangers. Myon Burrell was convicted twice of Tyesha’s murder and sentenced to life in prison.

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Burrell’s sentence was commuted in 2020 by a pardon board including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Out on the streets, Burrell was free to offend again and subsequent charges suggest that he has done so. John’s nearby post updates that aspect of the Burrell story.



https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/the-lonesome-death-of-tyesha-edwards-2.php



Tennessee? Democrats?



Davis said the 18-year-old suspect who died had been previously arrested by Memphis police in March, found in a stolen vehicle with “an illegal modified semi-automatic weapon with a Glock switch attached” that converted the weapon into a fully automatic machine gun.

At that time the teen was also charged in connection with two stolen vehicles and having a programming device commonly used to steal cars. He was released at that time without bond, she said.

Memphis police officer and teen suspect killed in early-morning shootout



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Chicago....



Now, in a rare moment of drive-by media coverage, the Chicago Sun-Times admits in a roundabout way that not only is the local Soros-funded prosecutor Kim Foxx not prosecuting gang bangers with guns shooting up the town, federal prosecutors are declining cases aplenty too.

Again, crime without consequences leads to more crime.


In past years, when local prosecutors refused to take slam-dunk cases, oftentimes the local cops would go to federal prosecutors who take the cases. For that to happen, the good guys just have to prove that the gun used travelled in interstate commerce (easy-peasy with most guns) and that they had their man guilty as sin.

Unfortunately, not only has Kim Foxx not only failed to prosecute, but stats show the feds have elected to do much of the same.

From the Sun-Times:

Gun cases in Chicago turned down by feds at higher rate than in most cities​

Federal prosecutors are less likely than those in most other places — including New York and Los Angeles — to approve gun charges. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is taking up some of those rejected cases.



AMERICA’S MURDER CITY: Cook County (IL) Gun Cases Not Prosecuted Locally, Feds Aren’t Prosecuting Either | The Truth About Guns

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California



California Democrats hate the gun, not the gunman – Orange County Register

Now that Democrats have supermajorities in the California state Legislature, they’ve rolled into Sacramento with a zest for lowering the state’s prison population and have interpreted St. Augustine’s words of wisdom to mean, “Hate the gun, not the gunman.”

I say this because, once they finally took a break from preaching about the benefits of stricter gun control, the state Senate voted to loosen sentencing guidelines for criminals convicted of gun crimes.

Currently, California law requires anyone who uses a gun while committing a felony to have their sentence increased by 10 years or more in prison — on top of the normal criminal penalty. If enacted, Senate Bill 620 would eliminate that mandate.

The bill, which passed on a 22-14 party-line vote, with support only from Democrats, now heads to the state Assembly for consideration.

Republicans and the National Rifle Association have vowed to campaign against it.

Why have Democrats suddenly developed a soft spot for criminals convicted of gun crimes? The bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, D-Gardena, says that he was motivated to write the bill after a 17-year-old riding in a car involved in a drive-by shooting was sentenced to 25 years in prison, even though he claims that he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger.
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Prop. 57, for example, very deceptively and fundamentally changed the definition of what constitutes a “non-violent” offense.


supplying a firearm to a gang member,

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felon obtaining a firearm,

discharging a firearm on school grounds


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Washington state...



So why are Washington Democrats offering up a bill in the state legislature to lower the penalties for drive-by shootings? Well, there’s woke and then there’s just plain stupid. Washington state Democrats are vying to become the best stupid they can be, bless ’em.

Currently, Washington law holds that a drive-by shooter should get an aggravated enhancement if he is arrested and prosecuted—and that’s a big if. Such an enhancement could land a drive-by murderer a life prison sentence.

But under a bill proposed for the upcoming Washington state legislature by white, woke ex-con state Rep. Tarra Simmons and her co-sponsor David Hackney, the reduction in penalties is a move toward “racial equity.” That’s right, drive-by shooting prosecutorial outcomes are racist. Never mind all the black and brown people who are the disproportionate victims of drive-by shootings.

Washington State Democrats Want Decreased Penalties for Drive-By Shooters Because... Aw, You Guessed

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Two days after the Uvalde shooting in Texas, the California State Senate passed a bill that would allow schools not to report threats or attacks against employees to law enforcement.

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According to the Bill, it would repeal the provision of existing law where it requires that “whenever any employee of a school district or county superintendent of schools is attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil, the employee and any person under whose direction or supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident are required to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities.”

SB 1273 would then make such reports to law enforcement voluntary.






California Senate Passes Bill to Allow Schools Not to Report Threats to Police





Chicago.......



Last Monday, hours after three people were shot and three others stabbed in separate incidents following the Chicago Pride Parade, city officials offered glowing reviews of their performance.



Everyone responsible for the shootings and stabbings was in custody, they said.

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But, CWBChicago has learned, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office refused to file any charges against the three people who were in the pickup truck. As of this morning, no one is in custody for the triple shooting.

http://[URL='https://cwbchicago.com...reject-felony-charges-in-triple-stabbing.html

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New York...



The Mayor of New York City held a press conference yesterday that was full of fire and brimstone. The cover of the New York Post really says it all. “Mayor’s plea: We took 2,600 guns… But the shooters are back on the streets.”

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The Mayor is clearly frustrated and it’s reached the point where he feels compelled to point out the obvious. He said, “after the shooting, after the arrest, after being let go — You know what they do? They go do another shooting.” The NYPD is already aware of this because they keep arresting the same people over and over again.

He pointed out that criminals in New York City “no longer believe you can’t do a shooting.” He continued, saying that criminals don’t take criminal justice seriously anymore.

While the Mayor didn’t mention him by name, he was clearly making a reference to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The DA came into office promising to put fewer people behind bars and proceeded to make good on that threat.



NYC Mayor: Our prosecutors are "a laughingstock" of the country

Great post! Thanks. I smell a conspiracy to confiscate all guns.

"We've done all we can do, I'm afraid you'll have to give up your guns."