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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nYou probably heard that another man was arrested in California in the wake of the news of the shooting in Orlando. James Wesley Howell was in possession of some guns (possibly explosives) and told police that he was headed to the “Pride” parade in Los Angeles. He’s from Indiana and the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel<\/a> says that he’s on parole after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor intimidation charge. He was supposed to surrender his weapons to authorities as part of his plea agreement. He also didn’t have permission to leave Indiana;<\/p>\n Twice within four days last October he was accused of pulling a gun and making threats. The first incident involved Howell’s then-boyfriend and the second a neighbor, identified in police records as Jeremy Hebert.<\/p>\n Howell was charged with intimidation in the case involving Hebert, a conviction that led to his yearlong probation and weapons prohibition.<\/p>\n Hebert remembered Howell being “hot-headed” but said he had no interest in pursuing an intimidation charge against him.<\/p>\n “I wasn’t going to ruin his life for it,” Hebert said, adding that he was fine as long as Howell didn’t return to the neighborhood.<\/p>\n Prosecutors apparently pursued the case without Hebert.<\/p>\n Grace Logsdon, Howell’s former roommate, said Howell owned five guns and liked to spend time at a shooting range. He enjoyed teaching Logsdon about guns, she said, but he had a bad temper.<\/p>\n During one trip to a gun range, she said Howell told her: “I wish I could kill a lot of people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It’s not known if James Wesley Howell had intended to do harm in California, but it does illustrate the problem with gun regulations in this country. Prosecutors and law enforcement aren’t interested in enforcing the laws that are in place, so really what good is it going to do to write more laws that only burden legal gun owners. When the new laws are written and they don’t work because law enforcement is not going to enforce them, sooner or later, the case will be made to confiscate all guns – and the only people who will comply are the innocent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"