{"id":37617,"date":"2013-09-17T06:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37617"},"modified":"2013-09-17T06:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:32:51","slug":"those-crazy-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37617","title":{"rendered":"Those crazy vets"},"content":{"rendered":"

DrewM at Ace<\/a> sent us this Tweet last night from a Washington Post headline<\/p>\n

\"DrewM<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The Post changed the headline after Drew captured it, but they’re back at it again this morning<\/a>;<\/p>\n

One Navy official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Alexis was discharged in January 2011 for \u201ca pattern of misconduct\u201d and that the 2010 gun incident in Texas played a role in his departure.<\/p>\n

Another Navy official said Alexis was given a \u201cgeneral discharge,\u201d a classification often used to designate a blemished performance record. In some cases, a general discharge can make it difficult to land a civilian job.<\/p>\n

But Alexis, 34, had no such trouble. He moved from Fort Worth to Washington about a month ago, friends said, and was hired as an hourly tech employee for The Experts, a Hewlett-Packard subcontractor that is updating computer systems at Navy and Marine Corps installations worldwide. He was scheduled to begin work at the Washington Navy Yard this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem isn’t the military or Alexis’ training. He had an incident in 2004 before he joined the military in which he fired three shots into a tire of some construction workers who he thought were mocking him – that was before he joined the military. The problem is that he wasn’t prosecuted on either incident, so he wouldn’t appear as a risk in the NICS criminal background check. In fact, after the 2004 incident, it took nearly month from the shooting until police finally arrested Alexis. <\/p>\n

I’m having similar problems with our current situation. Apparently, not answering your door when the police knock is one way to avoid jail. And if you don’t answer your phone, the police won’t bother to take you into custody or get an arrest warrant from the prosecutor, in some places. <\/p>\n

Seattle’s excuse;<\/p>\n

He was arrested but not charged, Seattle police said. The paperwork apparently was lost.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat report never got to the Seattle city attorney\u2019s office,\u201d said Kimberly Mills, a spokeswoman for the city attorney. \u201cConsequently, we never filed charges.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, there you go. Yes, there are plenty of gun laws in place, but if the police and prosecutors aren’t willing to use them, they’re useless. <\/p>\n

Not reported in the news this morning; Millions of veterans who legally own guns didn’t go on a rampage yesterday.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, good job, CNN;<\/p>\n

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