Category: Crime

If a rational person took an unjaundiced look at the four recent shootings which have captured the media’s unblinking eye, they’d find a common thread running through all of them. The four being Jared Loughner’s rampage in Tucson, James Eagan Holmes’ shoot-’em-up in Aurora, Colorado, Adam Lanza in the Newtown murders and yesterday’s shootings by Aaron Alexis at the Navy Yard. All four fellows were known to law enforcement at some point. Loughner, Holmes and Lanza were all being treated by mental healthcare professionals and Alexis should have been, given his erratic behavior. Only Lanza was denied the purchase of a firearm by current laws, but only the law that requires his to wait three days. He couldn’t wait that long, so he killed his mother and used her guns.

But given their mental health treatment, all four should have been flagged in the NICS system, but no one was willing to take that step, for whatever reason. Even though law enforcement had the tools to prevent these four heinous crimes, they were reticent about using them.

As I mentioned previously, it took Seattle cops a month to finally confront Alexis after he discharged his firearm (a scary Glock) three times into the tire of some construction workers. They knocked on his door, and he didn’t answer their knock so they went away. They tried to telephone him, and again, he didn’t answer, so they didn’t bother with him.

TSO and I are experiencing the exact same thing. Last month, we were both threatened with bodily harm as well as harm to our families, so we reported it to police. When I reported the threats to the West Virginia State Police, the officer told me that he was going to try to call the suspect before swearing out a warrant against him because the officer didn’t want to negatively impact the suspect’s NICS report. Yes, the officer said that. Well, said suspect hasn’t returned the officer’s call, so we’re still waiting – a month later. Last week, the police finally moved on threats to TSO and went to the suspect’s house and knocked on his door. Clearly he was home what with all of the cars in his driveway, but he didn’t answer their knock, so they left.

Obviously, the police don’t take threats seriously. The suspect in our case threatened to send explosives to TSO’s home in flower and pizza deliveries. He threatened to hire hit men to take us out. We’ve both taken to carrying guns even in our homes. Sunday, I answered a knock on my door with my Colt Defender in hand, only to find a grade-schooler selling raffle tickets. Of course, I kept the pistol out of sight, but I felt guilty about it.

I can only imagine what the headlines will be if I do have to defend myself against this particular person. Since this person has threatened to kill me and beat me in front of my wife, I’d probably shoot him on sight given the graphic nature of his threats. Somehow, that would be blamed on my combat experience, I suppose.

So, this guy is out there running around and continuing his threats and the police are being polite. The dude has an extensive violent record and probably can’t buy a gun as a result anyway, but the police are doing a long, slow dance with him instead of removing the threat from society. But I guess my point is this; why have laws, why more laws if law enforcement is unwilling to use the existing laws to prevent things like what happened yesterday?

CBS News reports that some New York Police Department officers shot more innocent bystanders near the Port Authority yesterday while trying to subdue a man who was acting erratically;

Police said officers saw a man on foot weaving erratically through traffic and sometimes blocking vehicles. After approaching him, police said, the man reached into his pocket as if grabbing a weapon, and two officers fired a total of three shots. They missed him but struck a 54-year-old woman in the right knee and a grazed a 35-year-old woman in the buttocks, police said.

The women were taken to hospitals, where they both were listed in stable condition, according to police. Neither had injuries considered life threatening, police said.

The man was taken into custody after a police sergeant subdued him with a Taser. No weapons were found on him.

Lucky for the crowd that he didn’t have a gun. A year ago, NYPD officers shot nine innocent passer-byes while subduing a gunman outside the Empire State Building. In yesterday’s incident, the guy the cops were shooting at was not struck by bullets, so Mayor Bloomberg is right, they need more gun control in NYC, that can be cured by more range time for NYPD.

The Washington Post has an article about local militias in Mexico which are beating back drug cartels when the government doesn’t seem interested in it. The citizenry began their operations with sling shots, machetes and old hunting rifles, but they’re arming themselves more appropriately with the weapons that they take from from the cartels;

“We are coming together with only one thing in mind: Kill or be killed,” said the doctor, JoséManuel Mireles, 55, who described what is happening as an armed social movement and estimated that thousands of citizen-fighters are pursuing the gangsters into the hills. “The only training we have is the courage we have inside.”

The rise of the self-defense movement in Michoacan is a desperate reaction to an increasingly oppressive drug cartel and to the security vacuum created as [President] Peña Nieto took office last year seeking to avoid a direct confrontation with the cartels.

As with everything that seems to work effectively, the government is trying to disarm the militia groups;

In Tepalcatepec, a core group formed that included many cattle raisers angry that the cartel was about to take over their association’s governing board. They decided to make their stand at the semiannual association meeting.

“When those criminals climbed onto the stage, we said, ‘How is this possible? We are many, and they are so few,’?” Reyes said.

Hidden shotguns and even machetes came out, and the crowd swarmed 15 men whom they recognized as gang members. Amid clashes over the next hours and days, locals detained many more, handing them over to the state prosecutor in the town of Apatzingan, a cartel stronghold.

After 12 hours, however, the prisoners were released.

Since then, Mireles said, “we decided not to detain anyone anymore.”

That’s probably a lesson we should apply to our Guantanamo experience.

Here we go again with another unprovoked attack on a white senior citizen by a Son of Obama, this time in that bastion of entrenched conservatism, Connecticut. According to New Haven police, a 71-year-old white man who had just attended a mayoral campaign political rally was sitting on a bench in Goffe Street Park eating a post-rally hamburger when he was approached by Jorge de la Paz, 35. Don’t let that Spanish appellation mislead you –Jorge, as his subsequent actions demonstrated, is a member in good standing of the black thugocracy.

The police say Jorge approached the white senior and demanded that he leave the park, telling the old guy that, “He shouldn’t be in his park where young black kids are playing.” When the obstinate old coot stood his ground, he promptly got pounded into it by Jorge who reportedly smacked the surly septuagenarian several times in the face knocking him to the ground, according to multiple witnesses. Jorge then allegedly threatened to go get a gun, a witness reported.

Jorge, demonstrating the usual mental acuity of a Son of Obama, hung around following the assault and only jack-rabbited when the police arrived. When he was apprehended he was reportedly well-prepared for further martial engagement. Police confiscated a 9mm Sig Sauer P239, a magazine containing five hollow-point rounds, a set of brass knuckles, and two voter registration cards in his name. It would seem all those draconian gun control laws they have in Connecticut really made an impression on Citizen Jorge, who is a convicted felon pending trial on charges of illegal possession of a firearm in a vehicle and numerous drug violations. Yep, those strict gun laws really work, don’t they?

You have to give grudging credit to Citizen Jorge, who is apparently such a devoted Son of Obama that he not only whupped that old cracka who dared come into a black park but he so admires the Black Messiah that he availed himself of the means to vote for him twice. Jorge de la Paz, which, by the way, means George of the Peace, or more colloquially, Peaceful George, will probably organize the other Sons of Obama sharing the slammer with him into a real voter bloc with voting capabilities far beyond their actual numbers.

Is this a great country or what?

Crossposted at American Thinker

ABC News reports that the Texas man who beat the rapist of his five-year-old daughter to death won’t be charged in the incident. Apparently a witness alerted the father to the rape who caught his ranch hand, Jesus Mora Flores, in the act and immediately beat him to death;

“Under the law in the state of Texas deadly force is authorized and justified in order to stop an aggravated sexual assault or sexual assault,” District Attorney Heather McMinn told reporters.

“All the evidence provided by the sheriff’s department and the Texas Rangers indicated that’s what was occurring when the victim’s father arrived at the scene,” she said.

To his credit, the unnamed Dad called 911 and pleaded with the medics to hurry to save Flores’ life. Even though Flores didn’t really deserve it.