Category: Guns

In the first day of the new Congress, Richard Hudson (R-NC-8) introduced national concealed carry reciprocity legislation. It would, like a driver’s license make a concealed weapon permit from your own country, legal in every other county where concealed carry is allowed, according to Breitbart;

Hudson’s legislation not only establishes national reciprocity for concealed permit holders but also national reciprocity for residents who live in states that require no permit for concealed carry. In the former situation the concealed carry permit of any state would be valid in every state and the “identification document” in possession of a resident of a constitutional carry state would serve as a permit to carry without a license in other states.

Basically, it’s the same law that Joe Manchin introduced in 2012 before he was elected to his full term as Senator of WV. He abandoned that law after Sandy Hook and he formed a new friendship with Chuck Schumer and the other gun grabbers.

Back in May, 2015, Deshon Cooper, 47, and Theotis Watkins, 47, Carnell Taylor Jr., 26, and Jason Johnson, 28, forced their way into a home in an invasion-type assault in Pittsburg, California. The resident was watching TV with friends when the four broke in and began beating him. The victim was able to get his hands on a gun and he shot Taylor and Johnson who were subsequently DRT (dead right there) when the police arrived. Watkins, the getaway driver, had a GPS ankle bracelet on, which put him at the scene of the crime.

They had threatened to “kneecap” the victim which put him in fear, so he shot the pair. Now, even though they didn’t fire a shot, Watkins and Cooper are looking at murder charges for the deaths of their accomplices under California’s “provocative act” doctrine – committing an act that provokes a victim to kill criminals.

The robbery occurred around 9 p.m. when the Jewett Avenue resident was watching TV with two friends. According to police testimony, Cooper — an acquaintance of one of the resident’s sons — stopped by the home and spoke with the resident. A few minutes later, Taylor and Johnson barged into the home and began a brutal robbery, according to prosecutors.

The robbers threatened to kill the resident, while holding him at gunpoint, and demanded more money after some was handed over, according to testimony of Pittsburg police Detective Joseph Terry.

“(Taylor) said he was going to shoot (the resident) in his leg or knee cap, and began to count to five,” Terry said under oath.

Both of the crooks have entered pleas of not guilty, but they remain in jail until they each post a million-dollar bail.

In Bountiful, Utah, a parent noticed some their guns missing and went to school to confront their son. he had squeezed off a shot, but no one injured and the parent was able to talk the son down;

According to [Bountiful City Police Chief Tom] Ross, the parents were concerned about their sons behavior and noticed two guns missing from their home. They rushed to the school where police say the student fired one shot inside of a classroom and ran into the hallway. He say the parents themselves disarmed their son.

“The parents of this individual, concerned about what might occur…had also come to the school and in looking for their child heard the gunshot and actually apprehended and disarmed this individual,” said Chief Ross.”

“Two weapons were recovered — a shotgun and a handgun — and as I mentioned the suspect was taken safely into custody without incident. There were no injuries to anyone at the school.”

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Students allege the boy was upset about a bad grade on a science test and say he had even texted friends not to come to school today.

The San Bernadino Sun talks a little bit about Trenna Meins, the widow of San Bernadino terrorism victim Damian Meins.

She talked to a class of students at Cal State San Bernardino. She intends to use her status to forward legislation for good gun violence policy. The bad news, for her California audience, is that she wants to keep guns from criminals, but not from the rest of us;

Meins doesn’t want to upend the Second Amendment.

“This isn’t a gun thing,” she said. “I don’t want to ban guns or ammunition.”

One cousin owns a gun shop, she said. Other relatives are hunters.

But she favors stricter regulations “so that people who don’t deserve a gun don’t get a gun.”

I’m right there behind her as long as she stays on that course. The problem, of course, is that she’ll be dealing with people who want to take everyone’s guns. I hope she’s mindful of that in her new journey.

15-year-old Javon Wilson the grandson of Illinois U.S. Representative Danny Davis was killed in his home this weekend by another 15-year-old boy who had changed his mind in regards to a trade of shoes for pants with Wilson’s 14-year-old brother. The 15-year-old forced his way into the home in the company of a seventeen-year-old girl, got into an argument with Wilson and subsequently shot him dead. From The Olympian;

Davis, a Democratic member of the House for 20 years, told The Associated Press Saturday that his grandson was a victim of a world where gun violence has become commonplace.

“It’s almost, just the way it is. People think nothing of it,” Davis said.

“Youngsters invariably say, ‘I know a lot of guys who’ve got guns. I know a lot of girls who’ve got guns,’” Davis said. “It becomes a part of the culture of an environment that has got to change.”

Chicago has seen a dramatic rise in the number of shootings and homicides, with August being the deadliest month in the city in two decades. There have been 673 homicides so far this year, including the fatal shootings of the cousin of Chicago Bulls basketball star Dwyane Wade, a Chicago police officer’s son and the son of a famed percussionist.

You know what’s coming next, right?

“The question becomes where does a 15-year-old obtain a gun? Who let the 15-year-old have a gun and under what circumstances?” Davis asked. “There’s no answer for that except that the availability of guns is so prevalent in America to the point where you almost can’t tell who has a gun” anymore.

They should write a law that forbids 15-year-olds from possessing firearms. They could also make forcing your way into other people’s homes illegal. Go the extra mile and make murder illegal, too. Or, parents could start parenting.