{"id":83507,"date":"2022-10-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83507"},"modified":"2022-10-03T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:21:03","slug":"a-dumb-bad-guy-with-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83507","title":{"rendered":"A Dumb Bad Guy With A Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pro choice man shoots pro-life woman in Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Harvey, age 74 of Ionia, Michigan, apparently shot Joan Jacobson, <\/a>an 84-year-old woman who was gathering signatures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/a> that Sharon Harvey became angry during their conversation, yelled at her and told her to leave their property\u2026”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.”<\/p>\n\n\n

Her husband told the Grand Rapids TV station he used a .22-caliber rifle and fired a warning shot.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Not sure who Mr. Harvey\u2019s lawyer is, but he has apparently given a statement to\u2026 local media:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cShe (Jacobson) is still ranting and raving and she\u2019s got this clipboard,” Richard Harvey told WOOD-TV. “She\u2019s waving it around. I\u2019m thinking she\u2019s 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.”<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t imagine Mr. Harvey is going to claim self-defense, but if he does, I don\u2019t imagine \u201c84-year-old woman with a clipboard\u201c will do much for his \u201creasonable fear of immediate death or great bodily harm\u201c claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Mr. Harvey is certainly a poster, er, child for trigger discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les comically? Along with the Cayler Ellington case (of which more tomorrow), that\u2019s two cases of people arguably inflamed by try ballistic politics, killing or nearly killing people they disagree with, since President Biden labeled Republicans \u201cfascists\u201c a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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: Not sure who Mr. Harvey\u2019s lawyer is, but he has apparently given a statement to\u2026 local media: \u201cShe (Jacobson) is still ranting and raving and she\u2019s got this clipboard,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83507","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=83507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83515,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83507\/revisions\/83515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}