FORT WORTH Legally armed and licensed to carry, the Virginia baseball field sniper breaks all stereotypes of a crazed mass-shooter thug.Or maybe he doesn’t. At 66, James “Tom” Hodgkinson left Illinois for D.C. with a “Bernie!” bumper sticker and a vendetta against not only President Donald Trump but also wealthy lawmakers in both parties, mainly Republicans. But he left behind a more typical history as a violent, abusive alcoholic man who beat a foster daughter and punched one of her friends, a 19-year-old girl, in the face.
Source: He shot at Republicans, but his first abuse victims were women | Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Liberals have used violence to their advantage for far too long and getting away with it because a complacent media. But then the Congressional Shooter comes along and the evidence of its Liberalism is so forward that even the best of Media damage Control can’t fix it. But instead of burying it, they bring articles trying to exonerate themselves by doing a Whoppi Goldberg “not rape-rape” like this “article.”
So yes, Hodgkinson had characteristics in common with some mall killer (even though he ain’t one): Liberals, deranged, abusive, violent and with substance abuse issues.
Basically a future Shannon Watts for Congress voter.
“a disturbing history of domestic violence”… which should have had him in jail for a long time. Assault, assault on a minor, etc etc.
All the charges were ‘dismissed’ when not one of the people attacked or involved showed up in court.
Just so you know, Bud Kennedy is a leftist ass.
“Licensed to carry”? I doubt it.
Under Illinois law, the sheriff of a CCW applicant’s county of residence is allowed to challenge its issuance. I doubt if any sheriff would pass up a chance to challenge someone with his record. And he had no fixed residence in Virginia, so he couldn’t get a Virginia permit.
I suspect that the reporter is “confusing” the idiot’s Illinois Firearms Owner ID (FOID) card for a carry permit. You need a valid FOID card to purchase a firearm, and a “previously issued” FOID card to own a firearm, but a FOID card is not a carry permit.
I put “confusing” in quotes because it’s an old reporter’s trick to call a criminal’s FOID card a “gun permit” to falsely imply that he had a carry permit. Most people in Illinois don’t know the difference, and almost nobody outside Illinois does. Reporters have used the old FOID card trick since long before Illinois had CCW
Even though Illinois is nominally a shall-issue state, the training requirements and cost of getting a CCW permit, plus the aforementioned sheriff’s right to challenge, makes it very difficult to get one. I’d like to see this idiot’s “license to carry.”