Category: Crime

According to the Wall Street Journal, that murderer fellow in Dallas who shot a dozen police officers didn’t go bad until he put a uniform in the Army Reserve;

Friends described the shooter as once an affable man who told jokes. The gunman’s mother, Delphene Johnson, told the Blaze that her son became a “hermit” after he returned from the military. She said that he didn’t recall any specific event during his time at the military, which included a deployment in Afghanistan, but she said he was disappointed by the experience.

“He was a good son,” she said…XXX was discharged from the military after facing a sexual-harassment allegation.

“The military was not what XXX thought it would be, he was very disappointed, very disappointed,” Delphene Johnson said. “But it may be that the ideal that he thought of our government—of what he thought the military represented—it just didn’t live up to his expectation.”

I wonder what he thought being a carpenter in the Army Reserves was supposed to be? Of course, this was a guy who had panties mailed to a love interest in a war zone and stole her panties when he had the opportunity. I also wonder how many Army Reservist carpenters didn’t shoot any cops this week.

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’ declared a war on drugs in his country when he took office. Police have admitted to killing 110 drug suspects since then, but there are others that have turned up dead that police don’t admit to killing.

From AFP;

As the official death toll has mounted, and other bodies not confirmed killed by police have been found with placards declaring them drug traffickers, human rights lawyers and some lawmakers have expressed deep concerns about the war on crime spiralling out of control.

In response to the criticism, Solicitor General Jose Calida held a press conference on Monday at national police headquarters to insist on the legality of the police killings and to encourage more deaths of people suspected of being involved in the drug trade.

“To me, that is not enough,” Calida said of the killings so far.

Now, I certainly don’t advocate that we adopt that method in the United States, in fact, we’re close enough to being a third world country without taking that last step. I don’t like the death penalty as it is – the government shouldn’t be in the business of declaring who should live and who should die given their incompetence is most things.

Noor Zahi Salman is the ex-wife of the animal that gunned down scores of people in that club in Orlando last weekend. According to CBS News last week, the feds have been contemplating arresting her because she knew about his plans and didn’t contact authorities. She says that she tried to talk him out of it.

This week CBS reports that a former teacher of Salman says that she shouldn’t be held responsible because she had a learning disability and that Noor was in a special ed class in school;

“Noor had difficulty with retention, she had difficulty with conceptualizing, understanding, all challenges to her,” Susan said. “She tried hard. She was very sweet.”

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“Noor is completely innocent and [was] unaware of the attacks,” the statement [from Salman’s family] said, adding she doesn’t understand “cause and effect.” The family said Salman was enrolled in special education classes because she needed extra help in school.

Anyone who has been on the internet for a minute can attest that everyone is an expert on any subject. Even the worst criminal can find sympathizers in social media who will make excuses for them. Check the comments of any of our phony soldiers and you can see how the conversations drift off from the crime and into tiny bits of minutia that don’t have much to do with the subject.

This Susan person was a teacher who can attest to Salman’s performance in the classroom, but not to her interaction with her environment. Teachers, like journalists, think they are experts on any subject presented to them.

Salman already admitted that she knew the difference between right and wrong and tried to talk the criminal out of committing his crime, the fact remains that she didn’t call the authorities about it. I don’t know what that has to do with her special education classes. Even a kindergartner knows how to dial 9-1-1.

Thanks to Andy11M for the link.

Yeah, I’m speechless, too. The Chicago Tribune reports that University of Chicago Crime Lab conducted a survey of their criminals to determine where they got their guns. Strangely enough, despite what we’re told by the media and the politicians, none bought their weapons at gun stores, from the internet or gun shows.

About 70 percent said they got their guns from family, fellow gang members or through other social connections. Only two said they bought a gun at a store. It’s unclear how many of those surveyed were felons, but they can’t hold a state firearm owner’s permit — so they can’t legally purchase a weapon at a store.

Most of the men said they had possessed semiautomatic handguns and preferred magazines with a capacity of 30 or more bullets. Only a handful said they had possessed military-style assault weapons such as an AK-47.

Those surveyed might prefer handguns with a lot of ammunition because they aren’t good marksmen, Pollack said. The survey showed the men don’t normally practice on targets and don’t have a lot of knowledge about their weapons, he said.

The interviewers spoke with the 100 or so criminals face-to-face and they asked folks who were in the system for violent gun-related crimes. So, of course, the solution is to write more laws to which criminals will find a work-around.