None of these folks want to address assault weapons in Uvalde, where 19 children and two teachers were killed or the Buffalo supermarket where the shooter gunned down 10. Representative Ken Buck from Colorado believes his constituents need assault weapons to keep raccoons from getting chickens. He’s not alone in his lack of confidence in gun owners being good shots with a. And so I think there are legitimate reasons why people would want to have them.” In an interview about assault weapons, he was quoted as saying, “"In my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and, you know, other types of varmints. Thanks Dusty! Do you think we should be glad traffic accidents and suicide are no longer the leading cause of death for our young people? With gun violence and mass shootings, we have a new number one.īut, I suppose Dusty is just following in the footsteps of our senior South Dakota Republican senator, John Thune. They used to be banned and back then gun violence was not the number one killer of our kids like it is now.Īccording to the response to my letter, Dusty believes, “The Founders placed the right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution, and I believe it should be defended.”ĭusty proceeded to tell me all of the things he was doing to protect gun rights, saying nothing at all about what he was doing to protect school children, or beachgoers, or churchgoers or shoppers! He concluded with, ‘I will continue fighting to advance our Second Amendment rights and curtail unconstitutional limitations wherever possible.” I’m afraid our congressman, Dusty Johnson, doesn’t make that choice! I wrote to him about banning assault weapons. There would likely be lots of pieces.Īnother post I replicated reads, “I choose the 2nd grader over the 2nd Amendment.” One person commented that it might be hard to do that if she was killed by an assault weapon. It read, “If I die in a school shooting, leave my body on the steps of Congress.” She was obviously at some demonstration with other students and carrying a homemade sign. One picture I saw on Twitter I had to re-post. We should all be getting traumatized by the school shootings in this country. I can imagine how veterans of war, as well as victims of mass shootings, can be traumatized by their experiences with lasting impacts. I sped on, breathing deep and feeling gratitude for my self passage, as well as dismay for the violence of the scene I had just witnessed. All three of them were pumping more bullets into this moving target and at least two whizzed by my window. The hunters were obviously frightened as its hooves were flying in all directions and they couldn’t be sure a deer body wouldn’t be hurtling onto them at any moment. The deer was jumping erratically, as if it was all nerve action with nothing controlling its movements. It must have been initially wounded as they were all three close and surrounding it. I suddenly came upon three hunters who had trapped a deer in a roadside ditch. I was serving a rural church and taking a different route than usual on a little traveled country road. It reminded me of the Sunday morning I almost got shot by some South Dakota deer hunters. But why not? Guns can show up there, just like everyplace else! It hadn’t occurred to me that the beach was a good killing ground. I knew a person could be shot and killed in school, in church, in the theater, at the mall, in a drive-by shooting while in your car, on your porch, or walking. There was a second article about a near-the-beach shooting in Mexico, where two male tourists were killed and a woman wounded. Then I read this morning about the beach shooting in South Carolina with six people wounded. But we are jumping into it, as we have planned a family reunion where we will share some beach time together. Nor have we felt all that positive about travel. Patchin said police were serving the warrant in relation to an incident in another area of Point Richmond on Sunday night in which a person brandished a gun.Īnother person lived in the home but was uninjured, authorities said.We haven’t been with family since before the pandemic. The identities of the officers who fired were not released. The person refused to drop it, and several officers fired, authorities said. The shooting happened when police entered, and a person came at them armed with a gun, according to authorities. inside a home in the 1200 block of Sanderling Island, in the Point Richmond neighborhood, Patchin said. The investigation centered on illegal high-powered guns, according to authorities. Donald Patchin said by phone Wednesday afternoon. The person, whose identity was not immediately available, died despite rescue efforts from officers, Richmond police Sgt. RICHMOND - At least one Richmond police officer shot and fatally wounded a person during the service of a search warrant Wednesday morning, authorities said.
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