The Disinformation Never Stops.
A 20-year-old University of South Carolina student was fatally shot Saturday when he accidentally tried to enter the wrong house on the street where he lived and was mistaken for a burglar, according to police.
The student was identified as Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, according to the Richland County, South Carolina, Coroner’s Office. Donofrio was from Connecticut and had just started his sophomore year last week at the university, school officials said.
I am going to speculate intoxicants were part of the issue that led to the death of the young man, as we all have done stupid stuff at that age under involving alcohol or other stuff.
Now, they are trying to reprise this as part two of the shooting of Ralph Yarl some months ago, but it does not pass the same smell test. For once, the Yarl shooting has been tried to be passed as a hate crime by the media but seems not to get a whole lot of traction. Then there appears to be one big difference between both cases: Yarl never attempted to break in and the homeowner shot anyway, while in Donofrio case, albeit not mentioned by the talking heads and not played in some outlets, you hear in the recording of the police dispatch that the perimeter have been broken.
This changes the perspective of the shooting tremendously. We are no longer entertaining the idea of a trigger-happy racist guy, but that the sanctity of the house was violated and what seemed appropriate action was taken. It is still a sad ending, but the Media needs something to blame and if not the homeowner, then it is the law:
South Carolina’s “stand your ground” law allows people to use deadly force in self-defense if they are not breaking the law and in places where they have a right to be, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a nonprofit advocacy organization. The state does not require gun owners to be licensed to own or purchase guns, it says.
University of South Carolina student fatally shot after trying to enter the wrong home (nbcnews.com)
And in the video of the NBC article (00:55), the “reporter” tells us that: “South Carolina does have a Stand Your Ground Law, also known as the Castle Doctrine, which allows someone in their home or place of business to not retreat and use deadly force in self-defense.”
I believe here is no excuse other than to purposely misinform people to confuse both very well discussed legal terms. Wouldn’t it be a beautiful thing for a bad government to eliminate both Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground? Hell, they used Gigabytes of memory and tons of ink trying to badmouth SYG and if they can get Castle Doctrine in the mix and get rid of them troublesome rights, they will do so.
If it is confirmed that Donofrio broke in a two in the morning, then we just have a sad case in which nobody is intentionally guilty of crimes, but just a sad misunderstanding that resulted in a tragic death.
Nobody won here.
PS: The photo allegedly shows the door of the home where event happened. No bullet holes in it. I checked other videos and none of them show damage consistent with shots fired through the door.
There Is No Middle
To take this further down the rabbit hole, the below post was from the Book of Faces. I had originally responded to a Dem friend’s statement regarding Republicans and hate (I do not have permission to share her post or the resulting comments, unfortunately). I am sharing it here, along with my commentary that I moved to my own wall. I am so tired of the yawning maw of division.
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On another wall, a discussion was ensuing. In an effort not to pee on that person’s virtual carpet, I am bringing my part of the conversation here. No, I do not have permission to share what the other people said. So the only “side” I can present is my own, sadly.
I wrote (as a response):
“So it’s a lot deeper than that. And reducing it to what you did basically is repeating what you think they’re doing to you. How does that fix anything or make anything better? I’m not Republican and I’m not Democrat, because of statements like this on both sides. It’s also why I don’t talk about politics with people very often. There are tons of nuances on all sides of this and I agree with some of what the Republicans have to say and some of what the Democrats have to say. Largely though, I don’t agree with either side has to say, and I’m frustrated and tired and depressed over watching people that I love reduce really complex issues that have real facts and feelings and depth to them, to basically… “They are bad and we are good.” ?”
state v. state?
When I write about cases, legislation and events, I use the term “state” or “the state” to represent the Government. It doesn’t matter if it is the federal, state, or local government. It doesn’t matter if it is a rule promulgated by an agency or a city ordnance. In all cases, it is still “the state” that is doing it.
When we discuss cases, we speak about the case and the court’s opinion. We speak of Heller, Bruen, or Caetano we know the opinion. We might even know which Supreme Court Justice wrote the majority opinion.
Do you pay attention to the lawyers that are arguing the cases?
You should know Paul D. Clement. He argued McDonald and other 2A cases, and won.
Alan Gura argued Heller and won the biggest Supreme Court case for the 2A ever. Bruen was more about slapping down rogue courts and spoon-feeding the inferior courts how to handle 2A cases.
If you go look at west cost cases, you will find the firm of Michel and Associates with Carl D. Michel arguing for us.
It is highly unlikely that you have heard of J. Matthew Wright. He is the counsel of record for the Rahimi case.
He is ably assisted by Jared Guemmer, Jason Hawkins, Kevin Page, Rachel Taft, T.W. Brown.
They all work for a gigantic entity. Guemmer is part of the Federal Public Defender’s office of Oklahoma. The rest are part of the federal public defender’s office of Texas.
That’s correct, the federal government lawyers are arguing against federal government lawyers.
And the Public Defender’s are doing a great job.
When you find out the hard way about Indian Nations
BREAKING: Tribal Rangers trucks in Nevada just RAMMED a climate change group blocking the road and mass arrested all of them https://t.co/EuF2r777mW
— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) August 28, 2023
Shoot him in the dick – Jacksonville edition
Video from the Jacksonville Dollar General shooting.
It looks like he’s wearing a plate carrier of some sort.
I haven’t read that he was wearing armor, but it’s not an unreasonable assumption to think he was with that rig.
Your CCW gun won’t punch through plates.
A mag dump into the space between the top of his dick and the bottom of his belly button will shatter the pelvis and put him on the ground.
Nobody is walking with a broken pelvis.
If you’re lucky you’ll hit the descending aorta, iliac, and/or femoral arteries, and he’ll bleed out in about 30 seconds.
If not, you have the ability to maneuver into a position where a more instantly lethal shot can be taken.
I would be violent
Years ago I wrote this post:
The difference between Americans and Venezuelans (hopefully)
It was in response to this picture from an article about the Communist famine in Venezuela.
At the time, I quoted a friend of mine who sent me the article:
“Please, tell me they failed because they didn’t try socialism hard enough. Because, God knows, if that were my daughter or wife, I’d wage a crusade against that regime that would be written about for hundreds of years.”
I agreed.
I never thought I’d see the same happen in America.
I was wrong.
Parents find remains of teen son hugging dead dog in Maui home destroyed by wildfire
Grieving parents found the body of their 14-year-old adopted son hugging his dead dog after the Maui wildfires — then carried him around half a mile to a police station to be confirmed among the dead.
Schoolboy Keyiro Fuentes had been home alone enjoying his last day of summer break when the deadliest US wildfires in a century started overwhelming his neighborhood in Lahaina, his mother, Luz Vargas, told CBS News.
The mom was working five miles away at the time — and unable to get home when she saw the smoke, despite begging cops to let her through their barriers.
When she and the rest of her family managed to search their home two days later, they found Keyiro’s charred body wrapped around his dead dog, the sobbing mom told CBS.
The family then wrapped Keyiro’s body in a tarp, carrying the remains half a mile to the nearest police station.
I am telling you right now: If my children are in harm’s way, and you try and stop me from getting to them, I will kill you and run your barricade.
If the government caused my children to die in a fire, I promise you, the result will be war.
The entire local government of Maui deserves to be forced onto their knees in front of a ditch.