{"id":41522,"date":"2014-01-31T06:25:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41522"},"modified":"2014-01-31T06:25:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T12:25:40","slug":"question-for-gun-safety-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41522","title":{"rendered":"Question For “Gun Safety” Advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"

What “gun safety” law would have prevented this<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Donquarius Davon Copeland, 19, acknowledged that he fired the .357 semiautomatic pistol that killed Rayjon Gomez and said he knew he’d hit somebody.<\/p>\n

“I shot two times,” Copeland said under questioning by his defense attorney, Eric Hawkins.<\/p>\n

Copeland’s admission Thursday came in a plea bargain in the Aug. 24, 2011, death of Gomez, whose death shocked Minneapolis. The victim was riding piggyback on a friend’s bicycle when he was shot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember that? \u00a0A completely random killing of a kid, for no reason whatsoever. \u00a0 It was a “revenge” shooting, done by people too stupid to know that “revenge” is supposed to mean “against the people who supposedly wronged you in the first place”.<\/p>\n

They were cruising around in a van registered to a church pastored by the Taylors’ father.<\/p>\n

“We were going to go down there and shoot at people,” Copeland responded to Hawkins when asked why they were driving around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just “shoot at people”.<\/p>\n

Now, here’s the part I’d like to bring to the attention of all of you ‘gun safety” advocates. \u00a0I’ll add some emphasis:<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said that as Taylor drove, Copeland and Catchings passed a .357 SIG semi-automatic handgun<\/strong> back and forth.<\/p>\n

“Taylor suggested that Catchings and Copeland stop ‘talking’ about shooting someone and ‘just do it,’ ” Mabley wrote in an order last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, all you “gun safety” advocates; “.357 SIG” is a type of ammo, not a gun. \u00a0But it is, generally, found in higher-end firearms<\/a>. \u00a0 Not your cheapo guns. \u00a0Not the kind of firearm a typical 19 year old can buy – at a gun show, anyway. \u00a0 The article is silent on where the gun came from – but I’m going to go out on a limb and say a couple of 19 year olds playing with a gun that probably didn’t go for less than $600 probably had a stolen firearm.<\/p>\n

Pick any one of Michael Paymar, Ron Latz or Alice Hausman’s proposals from the last session; which one would have prevented this?<\/p>\n

I’ll give you a hint. \u00a0None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What “gun safety” law would have prevented this? Donquarius Davon Copeland, 19, acknowledged that he fired the .357 semiautomatic pistol that killed Rayjon Gomez and said he knew he’d hit somebody. “I shot two times,” Copeland said under questioning by his defense attorney, Eric Hawkins. Copeland’s admission Thursday came in a plea bargain in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41524,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522\/revisions\/41524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}