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TX: No indictment in shooting death of girl during ATM robbery
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The family of a 9-year-old Houston girl who died after she was shot by a man who had opened fire when he was robbed at an ATM said Wednesday they remain angered by a grand jury’s decision to not indict the man.
“That was not an accident. That was not self-defense,” April Aguirre, the aunt of Arlene Alvarez said during a news conference as a photograph of the girl as she lay in a hospital bed bloodied and bandaged shortly before her death was shown. |
GOP lawmaker says Democrats have 'made it clear' they want to 'defy the Supreme Court' over gun rights
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REP. DAN BISHOP: You know very well that the Heller decision held in 2008, the Supreme Court's decision that weapons that are in common use can’t be banned under the Second Amendment. People have a right to keep them and bear them for self-defense. But that’s what Jerry [Nadler] said. They marked up the bill to ban weapons, the AR-15s and the like, ammunition magazines of which there are tens of millions in the United States, and they're just going to defy the United States Supreme Court. That’s what they've made clear. |
You “law abiding” gun owner, are responsible for making guns available for mass murders. YOU!
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You, “law abiding” gun owner insist that your State Legislators enact gun laws that protect your right to own, possess and carry guns in your State. Do you realize that the same laws that grant you the right to posses a gun, also grant your fellow citizens, the same right to own, possess, and carry guns.
Unfortunately, some of these other gunowners will use the gun, authorized by you, to kill your neighbor’s children. |
NV: Amendment not without context
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Unjustified imagination is required to claim that these two phrases do not unite to satisfy the need for defense, which, consequently, restricts the main clause’ right to arms to a militia only.
That states have recognized that the Second Amendment applies to militias only and that all other arms rights belong to the states is shown by rights to arms for self-defense. |
Tom and Molly Martens retrial for murder of Jason Corbett could go ahead later this year
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The attorneys wanted to use those statements to bolster their claims of self-defense, however, trial judge, David Lee, excluded the statements.
The N.C. Court of Appeals concluded that Lee's decision was a prejudicial error that denied Molly Corbett and Thomas Martens the chance to make an effective self-defense claim.
Jack and Sarah, who are in the custody of Tracy Corbett Lynch in Ireland, did not testify at the first trial. But they appeared at the hearing in March and are likely to testify at the re-trial. |
MT: Woman Kills Gunman after He Runs Over, Shoots Her Family
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A woman killed an alleged gunman in self-defense after the assailant drove into her family and fatally shot a man and toddler near Montana’s Glacier National Park, police said Tuesday.
Authorities determined 37-year-old Derick Amos Madden, of Goldsby, Okla., “purposefully drove his vehicle” into Christina Siau’s family Sunday as they were walking alongside the road. |
VA: Law Students Help Formerly Incarcerated Regain Civil Rights, Avoid Legal Spiral
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After serving prison time for riding in a car where a gun was found after being convicted of marijuana possession, Charlottesville civic leader Whitmore Merrick Jr. sought to have his Second Amendment rights restored in order to lawfully possess a firearm in his own right.
While working with Charlottesville’s Home to Hope program, Merrick and his colleague Shadee Gilliam explained this common legal dilemma to students participating in the University of Virginia School of Law’s Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic, spotlighting real-world issues people face after prison.
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Chairman Beyer's Opening Statement at Hearing on Economic Toll of Gun Violence
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“It is abundantly clear that the United States is facing a gun violence crisis that is unique in its deadliness and scale. While mass shootings capture international attention, the use of guns in homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings impose widespread and long-lasting costs. Loss or injury to gun violence is immeasurable, but the economy-wide harms are real and calculable.
“According to new estimates from Everytown for Gun Safety, gun violence costs our economy more than half a trillion dollars every year. " |
MO: North Kansas City police officer’s killing is a symptom of sick Missouri
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The killing is another terrible reminder of the price we pay for lax gun laws, particularly in Missouri — and the ongoing need to change the gun culture and stop senseless murders in the state. Wednesday, authorities charged Joshua Rocha with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the case. Authorities say Rocha shot officer Vasquez multiple times after being stopped for a routine traffic violation. |
AMMO, Inc. Announces Launch of Green Streak® Ammunition
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The Streak™ is the next generation of visual ammunition featuring one-way luminescent technology (“O.W.L. Technology™), which has been offered by AMMO for a number of years in Red. Unlike its predecessors, this non-incendiary technology does not use any form of pyrotechnic to illuminate the trajectory of the projectile. Instead, it incorporates a patented non-toxic composite that utilizes the light emitted from the ignition of the gun powder to “flash charge” the rear of the projectile. As a result, the shooter has a visible trace as the round leaves the barrel of the gun, but is completely undetectable from the target’s viewpoint, masking the location of the firing position. |
FL: Keys man attacked victim with crowbar, was stabbed in self-defense, sheriff says
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Deputies arrested a Florida Keys man Tuesday night after he attacked another man with a crowbar during a fight, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said the victim stabbed Jason Taylor, 43, in self-defense.
According to a news release, deputies were called to a home on Barcelona Drive on Big Coppitt Key at around 11:40 p.m. regarding a fight in progress involving Taylor and another man. Deputies reported seeing blood on the ground where the fight took place. |
MO: A concealed carry Missourian puts an end to an active robbery
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An unassuming customer saved a gas station clerk’s life Saturday morning in Missouri after a robbery suspect put a knife to the employee’s neck. Lance Bush, 26, allegedly held the female clerk of the gas station at knifepoint while the customer, who was concealed carrying, sat in his car in the parking lot.
After noticing the bizarre dynamic between the would-be robbery suspect and his hostage, the anonymous customer repeatedly asked if everything was “okay.” |
Nadler Opening Statement for Markup on Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2021
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler today delivered the following remarks, as prepared, during a markup of the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 (H.R. 1808):
“Today, we take another step to advance historic gun violence prevention legislation. H.R. 1808, the ‘Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2021,’ restores and updates the prior assault weapons ban that kept weapons of war out of our communities for a decade before Republicans opposed its renewal.
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ID: No charges to be filed in Lewis County fatal shooting
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The person who was shot was identified as 40-year-old Damien Giles.
On Wednesday, July 20, Lewis County Sheriff Jason Davis announced that the Lewis County Prosecutor reviewed the investigation and has declined prosecution.
All evidence indicated that the homeowner acted within his right of self-defense, Davis wrote. |
MO: Gun violence in Kansas City, through the eyes of a Bhutanese visitor
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A journalist from one of the happiest countries in the world, where people don't need guns, visits the United States during a summer when much of the news is about mass shootings.
I am a journalist visiting the United States for the first time.
After five flights and a nearly 31-hour journey from my home country of Bhutan, I arrived in Columbia, Missouri, on the night of April 23 to begin my Alfred Friendly Press Partners Fellowship. |
Murder charge dropped against NYC bodega clerk in ‘self defense’ case
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday dropped a murder charge against bodega store clerk Jose Alba, who fatally stabbed another man earlier this month in what he said was an act of self-defense.
Prosecutors filed a motion in a Manhattan criminal court to dismiss the second-degree murder charge against Alba because they could not prove his use of deadly force was unjustified, NBC New York reported. |
"A constitutional joke": Jamie Raskin destroys Republicans' 2nd Amendment fantasy
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Rep Jamie Raskin, D-MD, went off on Republicans for their "insurrectionist view" of the Second Amendment during Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on a bill that would ban assault weapons.
The proposed legislation, introduced in March 2021, would ban the sale, manufacturing, and importation of certain automatic weapons, in addition to high-capacity ammunition magazines, which allow guns to send quickly off 10 rounds of ammunition. |
Democrats push for 1st semi-automatic gun ban in 20 years
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House Democrats began pushing ahead Wednesday with legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons as they considered their most far-reaching response yet to this summer’s spate of mass shootings.
Democrats hope that the 100-page bill moving through the Judiciary Committee will pass the House before the August break. But that is far from assured, with moderates in the party, especially those hailing from politically divided swing districts, wary of a vote on sweeping gun controls ahead of the November midterm elections — especially when the bill has little chance of becoming law due to opposition in the Senate. |
Woke prosecutors increase efforts to criminalize self-defense
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People who stand up to violent criminals resonate with Americans of all walks of life. The courage to fight back against crime is heroic. Everybody believes this today except the woke prosecutors in our midst.
One of the most notorious woke prosecutors is New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He brought charges against Jose Alba, 61, who stabbed an ex-con and assailant to death at a bodega shop he owned. After an earlier argument with the attacker’s girlfriend about not paying for an item, Alba defended himself when the perpetrator went behind the counter to assault him. |
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