While the city council and the mayor’s office has been ignoring this issue for several years, it came to a head today;
According to court documents, the victim was shot in the right eye and died from a gunshot wound to his head. Early indications show the gunshot happened from the range of 3 feet, court documents say.
The 9MM handgun was a stolen gun from an unlocked car in Sioux Falls, according to court documents.
The council has said that since there is an open carry law in South Dakota and of course 2nd Amendment rights they can’t write an ordinance that will punish negligible gun owners.
I suggested to Starr there is a reach around. This of course hasn’t been thru lawyering but this was my suggestion for an ordinance;
ANY DEADLY WEAPON* STOLEN FROM AN INDIVIDUAL’S HOME OR VEHICLE AND IS USED IN A CRIME WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FINE FOR NOT SECURING THAT WEAPON.
*A ‘DEADLY weapon’ is described as anything that can be used to cause bodily harm, injury or death when used by an individual.
I would also suggest another similar ordinance that just addresses your weapon being stolen then recovered before it is used in a crime.
In other words you avoid the ‘gun talk’. It could be anything, a hammer, a bat, a knife, a taser, etc. If we focus on WEAPONS being stolen from cars instead of just guns, I don’t think the 2nd Amendment applies. Just because you have the constitutional right to own a gun, you don’t have a right to abuse those privileges. Lock your crap up already before some other teenager is found dead.
I would also suggest the fine be $1,000 and if someone dies from your stolen gun it should be $10,000 and 3 months in jail. It’s time to send a message to these idiots who don’t know how to lock a door.
You have to insure your car, thus, you should be required by law to insure your gun.
“Lock your crap up already before some other teenager is found dead. I would also suggest the fine be $1,000 and if someone dies from your stolen gun it should be $10,000 and 3 months in jail.
It’s time to send a message to these idiots who don’t know how to lock a door.”
Punish the victim instead of the perpetrator? Typical…..
Personally, I’d be more in favor of an ordinance that allows for removal of the convicted thief’s limb with a rusty hacksaw blade in a public setting as a starting point.
Typical gun nut, trying to solve violent crime with more violence. How has our country having more guns worked out for us? huge fail.
Let me guess: WftDP is voting for Trump.
I helped Savanah at one time get a car for work. She had 3 kids then. I think there’s 7 now. She’s a welfare mom who has done the best she could. I bailed her out of jail once. The kids I knew were wonderful. She’ll have to do some serious time but she’ll handle it well. The kids will (hopefully) be taken away and adopted into good homes.
2nd Amendment only restricts the Federal Govt from interfering in our right to hold fire arms giving to the people the right to raise organized militias. Remember, the States sent delegates to draft a fedeal constitution (charter) creating a central government full time. They reserved to themselves the right to bare arms to form militias. This was done to guard against tyranny of a centralized power.
The 2nd amendment was created so plantation owners could keep there slaves in line, has nothing to do with militias, because if it did guns would be illegal, we have a national guard
If you really want to know what our forefathers meant with the 2nd Amendment, then look at how they addressed this issue a few years before the Constitution with the enactment of the Articles of Confederation:
“No vessel of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any state, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united states in congress assembled, for the defense of such state, or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any state in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgement of the united states in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defense of such state; but every state shall always keep up a well-regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage….”
Frankly, it was about the militia and not private ownership, but recent judicial activism by our conservative Supreme Court has now changed that judicial direction with ironically no true respect for original intent, which conservatives so often claim to cherish, while also “claiming” to have a great distain for judicial activism as well.
the 2nd amendment is the only one magas care about.
Oh sure but why stop there?
ANY DEADLY OPIOID* STOLEN FROM AN INDIVIDUAL’S HOME OR VEHICLE AND IS USED IN A CRIME WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FINE FOR NOT SECURING THAT OPIOID.
Now we can lock up your grandma to.
never lock up our guns takes longer to access them when u need em
I love it when Mike says “remember”, followed by nonsensical gibberish.
LJL – Is that really a problem?
JS – Don’t you want them in the house where you are at?