Illinois is surrounded by gun lax states on all sides, and most of the guns in Chicago come from Indiana. State boundaries are not firm as you know. But are you saying that if you find one outlier or two, then the correlation is invalid? Or are you just trying to give me a hard time?
pretty much the latter. But of course the original statement you made ("Actually they do work pretty well, NY has a much lower rate of firearm deaths") was overgeneral: gun laws are effective in some contexts and not at all in other contexts. The gun laws only worked here in this case because a private security guard noticed the gun in a vehicle. And then of course the gun laws here are not working because they are not going to charge the rapper: Grammy-winning rapper Roddy Ricch was busted with a gun and a large-capacity magazine outside the Governors Ball festival Saturday night but won’t face charges, law-enforcement sources said Sunday. which is differential treatment from what any unsuspecting Texas tourist passing through La Guardia might receive, putting Mr. Ricch in the Hunter Biden category of criminal culpability, and proving once again that gun laws seem aimed only at the Little People. But hey! the gun laws work
The article says that the charges are dropped at a high rate if they have an out of state gun license:
So the "little people" are getting shafted because they are being arrested for the same crime Roddy Ricch was arrested for?
Roddy Rich Released From Police Custody After Being Arrested on Gun Charges The California rapper was arrested on gun charges hours before his Governor’s Ball Music Festival performance. https://www.theroot.com/roddy-rich-released-from-police-custody-after-being-arr-1849052663 this article suggests he is still being charged with the weapons possession charges
h/t @Asian Sensation Hornets' Montrezl Harrell Facing Felony Drug Charge; 3 Pounds of mar1juana Found
A military veteran accused of staging his suicide to avoid criminal charges for raping his 14-year-old stepdaughter, who later became pregnant, has been sentenced to 85 years in prison. Jacob Blair Scott, 45, was found guilty on nine counts of sexual battery, four counts of touching a child for lustful purposes and one count of child exploitation on Thursday. Scott showed little emotion when the verdict was read in the Jackson County Circuit Court located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, for the heinous crime, The Sun Herald reported. The convicted-rapist was supposed to turn himself in to face charges of assaulting the teen, but faked his death in July 2018. Investigators found Scott's small boat off the coast of Orange Beach, Alabama, They also found a gun and a suicide note but little forensic evidence confirming that a suicide occurred. For more than a week, the authorities searched for a body in the Gulf of Mexico, but nothing surfaced, US Marshal's said. Scott, who was living under a pseudonym, was captured in early 2020 at an RV park in Oklahoma where he had been living. On Thursday, Jackson County Circuit Judge Kathy King Jackson described the evidence in the case as 'overwhelming,' and sentenced the military veteran to 85 years in prison. She also ordered him to pay $10,000 in fine. 'It's more evidence than I've probably ever seen,' Jackson said, in part. At the trial, the victim wept as she detailed the terror she encountered daily at the hands of her stepfather during her testimony. She told the courtroom the disturbing details of how Scott sexually assaulted her at least 30 times that started in early 2016 and ended in 2017. The abuse ended after she learned that she was pregnant. The young victim told the judge and the jury that she gave birth to the baby. don’t cry now…enjoy eating months old meatloaf and being your new cellmate’s girlfriend in prison
A 35-year-old man in North Carolina was sentenced to death on Friday for torturing, raping, and brutally murdering his 15-year-old daughter in 2019. A Union County jury deliberated for approximately three hours before handing down the death sentence to Joshua Lee Burgess for the horrific slaying of Zaria Joshalyn Burgess, prosecutors announced. The same jury had previously found Burgess guilty on one count of first-degree murder, one count of statutory rape, one count of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, and three counts of statutory sex offense. He was sentenced to an additional minimum of 76 years behind bars for those offenses. Under North Carolina law, a jury must unanimously vote in favor of the death penalty, otherwise the defendant will be sentenced to life in prison. Zaria, who lived with her biological mother, had been visiting her father for the weekend at his home located in the 5100 block of Hampton Meadows Road in August 2019 when Burgess subjected her to unimaginable horrors, torturing her for nearly a full 24-hour period before taking her life. “On August 18, 2019, Burgess killed 15-year-old Zaria by slitting her throat after psychologically and sexually torturing her for 22 hours at his home off Airport Road in Monroe,” the Union County District Attorney’s Office wrote in a press release. “This was truly an especially heinous, atrocious, and cruel killing of an innocent child. This case was emotionally taxing for everyone involved. We continue to grieve with and pray for Zaria’s mother.” After committing the “heinous” crimes, Burgess at approximately 9:24 a.m. that day walked into the lobby of the Union County Sheriff’s Office and told one of the dispatchers that he was there to turn himself in for murder. “Once the dispatcher began inquiring about his name and searching for possible arrest warrants, Burgess told her she would not find his name and that he had just killed someone,” the sheriff’s office said in a press release at the time. “Burgess gave further details including the address where the victim was located as well as the victim’s identity.” Tony Underwood, the chief communications officer for the sheriff’s office, in 2019 reportedly told Charlotte NBC affiliate WCNC that the Zaria’s murder was a case involving “pure evil.” Sheriff Eddie Cathey shared similar thoughts on the nature of Burgess’s crime with the station. “The details of this murder are indescribable. Every officer and detective involved in this case is feeling the effects of what happened to this child. There is no logical answer to explain why this man did what he is accused of doing,” Cathey reportedly told WCNC. “It’s just evil.” In a Facebook post following Friday’s sentencing, the sheriff’s office thanked the DA’s office for the work put in to secure Burgess’s conviction. The sheriff’s office referred to him as a “truly evil criminal defendant.” The last person executed in the state of North Carolina was Samuel Flippen, whom the state put to death in August by lethal injection 2006 for murdering his 2-year-old stepdaughter. that poor girl Why even waste taxpayer dollars feeding and housing him? Carry out his sentence tomorrow.
I know this thread is to circle jerk about how we need more cops and guns and make fun of New York, but here's a big one I didn't see posted: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/13/us/idaho-patriot-front-arrests-pride-what-we-know/index.html
PETA protesters arrested after supergluing hands to Starbucks counter https://nypost.com/2022/06/16/peta-protesters-arrested-after-supergluing-hands-to-starbucks-counter/
