Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread

[PhilM]

Technically, I can understand the ruling from the judge, but it epitomises the madness of the US in some many aspects.

US gun laws: Judge overturns California assault weapons ban

The judge ruled that the law undermined constitutional gun ownership rights.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[LinekersLegs]

'He shot me': Why did Alabama give Jason McIntosh back his gun?

Alabama authorities took his gun away after a violent domestic incident. Nine months later they gave it back, and he used it to shoot and kill his wife.

www.nbcnews.com

HOOVER, Alabama — Late one night in February 2019, a 31-year-old woman in a troubled marriage was rushed to an emergency room in a Birmingham, Alabama, suburb, with a gunshot wound in her upper right arm."He shot me," Megan Montgomery told doctors, according to an investigative report obtained exclusively by NBC News. By "he," she meant her husband, a local police officer named Jason McIntosh.

Police took her husband’s pistol away. Nine months later, the state’s top law enforcement agency gave it back, despite pending domestic violence charges and an active protective order. Just 16 days after that, he used the gun to shoot and kill her during another late-night dispute.

 

[Wizard]

I'm sure this will end well

 

[TN Toffee]

I'm sure this will end well

They passed something almost identical here in Tennessee a couple weeks ago. It’s insane. The only thing left in their arsenal to absolutely max out gun violence would be to somehow criminalize people seeking help for mental health issues.

 

[RAFUH]

 

[trueblue84]

Gun resembling Lego toy sparks backlash in US

A US company is told to stop producing a customised firearm covered in what looks like Lego.

www.bbc.co.uk

I'm speechless...

 

[Huyton Layne]

Gun resembling Lego toy sparks backlash in US

A US company is told to stop producing a customised firearm covered in what looks like Lego.

www.bbc.co.uk

I'm speechless

Really suns up the mess gun laws are in when there's rules against toys looking like real guns but no law about real guns looking like toys.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Technically, I can understand the ruling from the judge, but it epitomises the madness of the US in some many aspects.

US gun laws: Judge overturns California assault weapons ban

The judge ruled that the law undermined constitutional gun ownership rights.

www.bbc.co.uk

The Ninth Circuit will overturn that.

Whoever filed that was really, really smart. They filed it where the District Judge would find for the gun owner. The Ninth will overturn. They're gambling that the Supreme Court will perceive sufficient overreach in the Ninth's decision, because it's the Ninth, to take the case and reverse.

That outcome is in the hands of the 'random' assignment of judges to that case in the Ninth. Marin K. Levy pretty persuasively argues that assignment is, in fact, non-random. The smart play would be to assign middle-of-the road justices that will reverse the District judge on narrow grounds. That leaves the Supreme Court unwilling to be holding the bag for explicitly saying AR-15s are kosher when a sizable majority of Americans support assault weapon bans, as Roberts maximizes the Court's legitimacy and can usually pull Kavanaugh along.

 

[Huyton Layne]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Christ, that is depressing.

 

[PhilM]

We shouldn’t really make light of the situations, but I think this actually tells a thousand tales.

 

[TN Toffee]

We shouldn’t really make light of the situations, but I think this actually tells a thousand tales.

I’m not sure many Americans truly understand how insane the rest of the world thinks our gun culture is, and I imagine a lot wouldn’t care. The replies to that tweet are pure gold, and every one of them deserved since we appear hell bent on never changing.

 

[PhilM]

I’m not sure many Americans truly understand how insane the rest of the world thinks our gun culture is, and I imagine a lot wouldn’t care. The replies to that tweet are pure gold, and every one of them deserved since we appear hell bent on never changing.

This was sort of my point. It feels somewhat wrong to make fun of terrible events and an overall negative cultural entity, but as you say it's equally deserved.

 

[PaddyJames]

'He shot me': Why did Alabama give Jason McIntosh back his gun?

Alabama authorities took his gun away after a violent domestic incident. Nine months later they gave it back, and he used it to shoot and kill his wife.

www.nbcnews.com

HOOVER, Alabama — Late one night in February 2019, a 31-year-old woman in a troubled marriage was rushed to an emergency room in a Birmingham, Alabama, suburb, with a gunshot wound in her upper right arm."He shot me," Megan Montgomery told doctors, according to an investigative report obtained exclusively by NBC News. By "he," she meant her husband, a local police officer named Jason McIntosh.

Police took her husband’s pistol away. Nine months later, the state’s top law enforcement agency gave it back, despite pending domestic violence charges and an active protective order. Just 16 days after that, he used the gun to shoot and kill her during another late-night dispute.

So he was still being investigated? Someones head needs to roll for that. He will probably get reinstated and given an award for god aim or something.

I'm sure this will end well

When was Sergio Leone made Texas governor?

Thats grim.

 

[TN Toffee]

Just your average run of the mill shooting in the parking lot of a water park less than an hour from me…

One dead, two arrested following Soaky Mountain shooting

Two have been arrested following a fatal Sevierville shooting.

www.wvlt.tv

Meanwhile, at the indoor water park directly across the street…

Man accused of filming young girls at Wilderness at the Smokies in Sevierville

Investigators received information from the subpoena which indicated that the IP address belonged to Christopher Earnest Stefan, 45, of Haw River, North Carolina.

www.wvlt.tv

East TN really grabbing all the headlines the past few days.