Stand your ground laws.
Dehumanizing is always used.
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He must have been white as snow; I can't imagine a black guy who shot at cops living. From his treatment it looks like he's got some white privilege at least until the FBI showed up.Texas man fired at police before surrendering to FBI for Jan. 6 charges: officials
A Texas man charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol allegedly shot at law enforcement ahead of his first court appearance and has been hit with an additional federal firearm charge, officials said.
Nathan Pelham, of Greenville, Texas, has now been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in addition to the four misdemeanor counts related to his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said in a release. According to the attorney’s office, Pelham, 40, is a previously convicted felon.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia charged Pelham with the Jan. 6 misdemeanors earlier this month. An FBI agent notified him of the charges on April 12 and told him to self-surrender five days later, which he agreed to do, according to the release.
But on the night of the April 12, local law enforcement went to Pelham’s residence for a welfare check “in response to a call from a relative, who advised deputies that Mr. Pelham had a gun,” the release reads.
Deputies allegedly “heard gunshots emanating from the residence” upon arrival. An hour later, Pelham “walked onto the porch and allegedly fired towards several deputies, who could be heard on body-worn camera video noting bullets ‘whiz’ by them.”
According to the attorney’s office, Pelham was asked to put his gun down but “continued to waive it” and reentered his home — he then exited his home again that night and allegedly fired multiple rounds.
“A subsequent search of Mr. Pelham’s home revealed a Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol and four boxes of ammunition, as well as several 9mm sized holes in the walls,” the release notes.
If convicted, Pelham could face up to 15 years in prison on the gun charge and three years on the misdemeanors.
The Department of Justice has sought to crack down on Jan. 6 participants and reports more than 1,000 individuals have been arrested for related crimes, including more than 320 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
Texas man fired at police before surrendering to FBI for Jan. 6 charges: officials
A Texas man charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol allegedly shot at law enforcement ahead of his first court appearance and has been hit with an additional federal f…
Should be listed in the Dumb As Fuck department?
cant wait to here your in depth analysis about this guy. Just look at that record! Considering he is a felon, I wonder what gun laws he was following? I wonder if he was a Christian? For sure NRA member thoughHe was waiting for someone to come into his driveway so he could shoot them, and had a gun ready to do so, he was out on the deck shooting in seconds as they were reserving out to turn around. No more than a few seconds passed since he saw them at the foot of his driveway and got out the door with the gun and shot them while they were backing out. Too bad he didn't live in Florida, or he could have got off for "Standing his ground".
Assholes like this should never have had a gun in the first place, it wasn't an accidental tragedy, it was murder in the 1st degree, not second degree, he made preparations for murder, mentally and physically. No remorse tells you everything you need to know about him, he isn't normal, most men would have trouble living with themselves after that.
Kaylin Gillis: Driveway shooting suspect shows no remorse - police
A young woman was killed in New York state when her car pulled up in the wrong driveway.www.bbc.com
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He bought his gun with the same reason you have yours. So you have something in common. Maybe you should send him cookies.cant wait to here your in depth analysis about this guy. Just look at that record! Considering he is a felon, I wonder what gun laws he was following? I wonder if he was a Christian? For sure NRA member though
Police arrest man who allegedly shot 6-year-old when basketball rolled into yard
A North Carolina man allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl, her parents and an additional neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard.abcnews.go.com
Robert Louis Singletary, wanted in shooting of NC family, was arrested for alleged sledgehammer assault
Robert Louis Singletary, who remains on the run after allegedly shooting a six-year-old and her parents was previously arrested for allegedly attacking his girlfriend.
Slightly off topic but I'll circle back to what I'm thinking. The Challenger space shuttle disaster was caused by a piece of foam insulation that broke free from the ship's insulating coating and gouged a hole in the craft's left wing during re-entry which cascaded into the losing the craft and lives of its crewmembers. During reviews and investigations into the accident, photos from earlier flights showed holes from insulation breaking off. It showed that the shuttle flight teams had seen the same thing happen before but didn't land in a critical area. That kind of event is called a near miss. It is a predictor of failure. Near misses are when something happens and only one more event will cause death, injury or mission failure. When people's lives are on the line, programs should track near misses as if they are failures and take action to prevent them. Obviously, NASA's shuttle program did not recognize the risk because every flight had damage due to the same cause that took down Challenger and they didn't do anything about it.
I prefer evil motherfucker, crazy seems to reduce culpability, at least in the legal sense.
The shuttle thing is an apt comparison.
He's a murderer and a jury will find him to be one. Some home defense all right, the house will be gone in the lawsuit already filed, if the legal fees don't take it first. Meanwhile our he-ro is gonna be cornholed by his cellmate until he dies.cant wait to here your in depth analysis about this guy. Just look at that record! Considering he is a felon, I wonder what gun laws he was following? I wonder if he was a Christian? For sure NRA member though
Police arrest man who allegedly shot 6-year-old when basketball rolled into yard
A North Carolina man allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl, her parents and an additional neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard.
Robert Louis Singletary, wanted in shooting of NC family, was arrested for alleged sledgehammer assault
Robert Louis Singletary, who remains on the run after allegedly shooting a six-year-old and her parents was previously arrested for allegedly attacking his girlfriend.
i'm not talking about whether or not they qualify for a legal defense, i'm talking about from a societal, human viewpoint...anyone who would take another persons life in anything less than self defense is fucking crazy. anyone who kills someone over stupid shit they've allowed to influence them is fucking crazy. They are outside normal, socially acceptable behavior, by a large margin and in a dramatic way...That isn't crazy?
Is sociopathy insanity?
i always thought so...not the raving lunatic, talking to giant invisible rabbits kind of insanity, but i think it at least qualifies as neuroses...and it can quite certainly cause you to make otherwise unreasonable decisions.
Yeah imo it’s an open question. Sociopaths are by and large rational. But there may be a cognitive breach underlying the phenomenon. I don’t know.
The world would be a better place if we locked up the sociopaths and pathological narcissists, instead of those with Schizophrenia.
some people are more social than the average, and some are less, and that doesn't make you crazy...
) and there was a guy at the desk with someone asking him to sign some papers. He threw his hands away like the papers were on fire and said, "I may be crazy but I am not stupid. I know what those papers mean..." I can not remember what else he said. They were papers to have him committed long term and he was sane enough to know it.
I was in the psych ward once (actually many times but I had a card to let me out
Where these people stand on the line between stupid and crazy? I hear they can correct crazy in some instances. Stupid, seems a lot harder today.
Excluding people who are legally and clinically crazy, calling somebody crazy after the fact is an excuse and not part of a productive discussion. We have an unacceptably high rate of gun homicide .Excusing gun owners, the ones who are preventing corrective action, by compartmentalizing people who take a life for no good reason as "crazy" is an excuse and not at all helpful.