From KOMO News comes a story that is balanced. Go read it. Give them the click.

“When Black folks came to this country we didn’t have guns. We were slaves. So, the gun was something like a Bible in the slave masters’ quarters. It was something you looked at but you didn’t touch. Now that’s been demystified,” said Philip Smith, president of the National African American Gun Association.

On their website, NAAGA says single Black women are one of the fastest-growing groups of firearms owners as exemplified by Lucretia Hughes during her testimony before the House committee hearing on gun violence this week.

“You think that the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to me? You, who are calling for more gun control and are the same ones calling to defund the police,” Hughes said to lawmakers. “Who is supposed to protect us?”

Via WTAP in Ohio As of June 13th, 2022 Ohio recognizes the Constitution and will no longer throw people in jail for failing to have government permission to exercise their right of self-defense.

Ohio Constitution Article I, Section 4, states: The people have the right to bear arms for their defense and security; but standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and shall not be kept up; and the military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.

Until today, the people of Ohio were required to get permission slips from the state in order to exercise their rights. With the passage of SB215 this is no longer the case.

It is also the case that people that are carrying are no longer required to inform the police that they are carrying if involved in a traffic stop.

WPRI Rhode Island is reporting on new criminal safety laws passed by the RI House.

With this bill, we are finally saying we will not tolerate these dangerious [to criminals] weapons,” Rep. Justine Caldwell continued. “our neighboring states have already prohibited highstandard-capacity magazines, and we should join them in refusing to accept the risks they present to Rhode IslandersIsland [criminals].”

So she wants to ban boxes with springs in them because she is afraid. Ok.

The house rejected a number of amendments including all grandfathering clauses.

So if this bill passes a bunch of subjects in RI will suddenly have to get rid of their magazines or face charges if found in possession of standard capacity magazines.

Of course they have no problems violating the constitution.

Article I, § 22 of the Constitution of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations provides that “[t]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Article I, § 24 states that “[t]he enumeration of the foregoing rights [of the Constitution] shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people. The rights guaranteed by this Constitution are not dependent on those guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.”

Having reached the point in life where I’m old and look more like a victim to young animals, I carry everywhere and try and keep my head on a swivel.

Fox News is reporting that four animals lay in ambush waiting for victims. An elderly man was shoot during the ambush. Four suspects are being sought.

I don’t see the race of the victims but the still picture of the animals meets our standard stereotype of the sort of animals that haunt parks looking for vicitims.

Likely there were drugs involved, but that’s just my guess.

Sure as the gods made little green apples, Red Flag laws are back in the headlines.

For the people who think these are a great idea, I have one simple question:

How many people have been convicted of misusing a Red Flag law?

Whatever you want to call it — “Misusing”, “False filing”, “Obtaining under perjury”, whatever — a fraudulently-obtained Red Flag law denies the person it was obtained against a civil right. Civil rights that the Government should be bending over backwards to protect.

The first Red Flag law was passed in 1999. 23 years ago. People are people, and someone has blatantly lied to obtain a Red Flag order against someone.

Someone in the last 23 years has misused a Red Flag law to harass someone else.

So. Show me their conviction for doing so.

I know about the time someone tried to get a Red Flag order against the cops, and that doesn’t count — some animals being more equal to other animals, and all that.

I’m talking about Joe Average having his civil rights taken away for a year with a misused Red Flag order. It has happened — we all know that it has happened — and I want to see the criminal record of the person who fraudulently deprived someone else of their Second Amendment right for a year.

Any claim of “Well, they’re so well checked that it’s never been abused” it complete and utter horse-puckey — I was in law enforcement for 26 years, that isn’t going to fly.

Absent a conviction, I will accept the name of a judge who rubber-stamped every Red Flag request to cross his desk, never turned one down, and was removed from office because of it.

If you don’t have that information, then your opinion on Red Flag laws means nothing; and you should be ignored.

LawDog

I have nothing prepared, my apologies. I had to work this past weekend and I got home with enough energy to kiss my lovely, have supper while watching some TV (last Bond move sucked. It should have been named “Mercy Killing”) and crash in bed.

So, random picture instead of thoughtful posting.

See you guys tomorrow.

On Tuesday, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin was recalled by the voters of San Francisco.  Under his radical Leftist watch, crime was not adequately prosecuted, criminals were let go with little to no punishment, and crime exploded, resulting in a significant decrease in quality of life for residents.

Loudoun County is in many ways the San Francisco of the East Coast.  A very Liberal/Leftist enclave seemingly governed entirely by Woke ideology and not reality.

Loudoun County has been in the news recently for things like transgender school politics that resulted in a rape and the school covering it up.

Loudoun County has their own Chesa Boudin, a woman named Buta Biberaj.

A judge just disqualified Biberaj on a case for lying to the court in order to get a serial burglar a low plea deal.

Loudoun County judge removes Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office from criminal case

A Loudoun County judge has removed the county’s Commonwealth’s Attorney office from a criminal case saying the office has shown an inability to prosecute the case with professional standards, and is “deliberately misleading the Court and the public” in effort to “sell” a plea agreement.

According to the order, obtained by FOX 5’s Lindsay Watts, Plowman says the Commonwealth’s Attorney office sought a plea deal for a serial burglary suspect while downplaying and even omitting his prior criminal past and current charges in other jurisdictions.

Kevin Enrique Valle was arrested on five warrants charging him with three misdemeanors for destruction of property and false identification, and two felonies for burglary.

Plowman writes that the plea agreement by Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Michele Burton states that the crimes occurred within hours of each other, not over the course of days or weeks. Plowman calls the assessment “entirely inaccurate,” because the defendant is accused of “a possible 12 burglary crime spree spanning four counties over ten days.”

Plowman ordered the Fauquier Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office to prosecute the case writing that “Biberaj and the Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office is hereby REMOVED AND DISQUALIFIED from further prosecution as counsel of record in this matter.”

“The Commonwealth is deliberately misleading the Court, and the public, in an effort to ‘sell’ the plea agreement for some reason that has yet to be explained,” wrote Plowman, adding that Burton could have filed supplemental explanations, but to date, has not.

One former prosecutor speaking on the condition of anonymity because of continued work in the legal field said they were “pushed to bond people out in domestic violence cases,” and that “Buta pushes to let people out generally.”

According to data from Loudoun County’s Circuit Court, criminal indictments in the county have fallen dramatically, 67 %, since Biberaj was elected. In 2019, there were 681 indictments compared to 225 in 2021.

A judge got so sick of a prosecutor bending over backwards to get a criminal out of jail, to the point of lying to the court, that he removed her from the case.

That is a start.

A disqualification is serious and will be used against the DA again and definitely will be used against her in the next election.

The radical Left has pushed too far.

The wealthy ones in their gated communities may not have to face the ramifications of their actions but the rest of the people in those cities and counties do, and they are tired of the crime.

The last two years can be described as radical Left overreach and everyone but the sheltered radical Left are pissed at the results.

The pushback is gaining momentum.