Pro choice man shoots pro-life woman in Michigan.

Richard Harvey, age 74 of Ionia, Michigan, apparently shot Joan Jacobson, an 84-year-old woman who was gathering signatures:

Jacobson was canvassing against a statewide proposal to enshrine abortion rights in Michigan’s constitution. Harvey’s wife, Sharon Harvey, supported the proposed amendment known as Proposal 3. Jacobson told The Detroit News Wednesday that Sharon Harvey became angry during their conversation, yelled at her and told her to leave their property…”I realized that I saw a man, and the man was standing right beside her,” Jacobson said. “And the next thing I knew, I heard a shot and I felt some pain. I was just stunned. The pain was in my back, and it was very severe.”

Her husband told the Grand Rapids TV station he used a .22-caliber rifle and fired a warning shot.

Not sure who Mr. Harvey’s lawyer is, but he has apparently given a statement to… local media:

“She (Jacobson) is still ranting and raving and she’s got this clipboard,” Richard Harvey told WOOD-TV. “She’s waving it around. I’m thinking she’s going to smack Sharon with it. So without thinking, I went to club it away with the rifle and my finger was still in the trigger guard.”

I can’t imagine Mr. Harvey is going to claim self-defense, but if he does, I don’t imagine “84-year-old woman with a clipboard“ will do much for his “reasonable fear of immediate death or great bodily harm“ claim.

And Mr. Harvey is certainly a poster, er, child for trigger discipline.

Les comically? Along with the Cayler Ellington case (of which more tomorrow), that’s two cases of people arguably inflamed by try ballistic politics, killing or nearly killing people they disagree with, since President Biden labeled Republicans “fascists“ a few weeks ago.