SOTG 205 – Gun Possessors are Potential Murderers

Chicago’s Gary “the Enforcer” McCarthy is back at it again. Just as Paul predicted, the holiday weekend in Chicago was bloody and Gary is off his meds. Tune in to hear what he said this time.

Mayor “Space to Destroy” in Baltimore has gone off the rails with her latest demands. We have a “Go Team” moment. You definitely want to tune in to hear what weapon was used to save a family from a home invasion.

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From www.myfoxtampabay.com:

“There is a war of words raging in Polk County. And you may not be surprised to find out who is smack dab in the middle of it: Polk’s outspoken sheriff, Grady Judd.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based out of Wisconsin, is threatening to sue Judd if he wears his uniform while preaching again.

“It’s a violation of the Constitution, and he is sworn to uphold it, and he should take it more seriously,” the foundation’s attorney, Andrew Seidel, said during a telephone interview on Tuesday.

Wearing his uniform, Judd gave a Sunday sermon entitled, “Wouldn’t the World Be Better if Everyone Behaved like a Christian?”

He preached at the First Baptist Church at the Mall in Lakeland back in April. He talked about developing faith-based dorms in the Polk County Jail, and criminal changing their lives after finding Jesus.

“We don’t have any problem with him preaching in church. We don’t have any problem with him teaching Sunday School,” Seidel continued. “What he is not allowed to do is use a public office and title and uniform to promote his personal religion.”

The threat of lawsuit is not stopping Judd from being Judd.

“When people call the sheriff’s office and ask me to come speak, I am going to speak. I am going to wear my uniform,” Judd told FOX 13. “You can guarantee it.“

From www.washingtonpost.com:

“Chicago was yet again riddled with a flurry of shootings this Fourth of July weekend, with at least 47 wounded and nine killed, according to multiple media reports.

The numbers were down from last year’s holiday weekend after police increased their presence by nearly a third — 2014 saw over 80 shootings with 16 fatalities. Police also seized more than 80 illegal guns over the holiday, averaging around one per hour, DNA Info reported.

Some 3,400 illegal guns have been confiscated so far this year, according to the city’s police department.

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy expressed his frustration with the gun situation at a news conference Sunday, standing beside tables filled with the various guns. McCarthy pleaded for harsher sentencing in illegal gun possession cases.

“It’s real simple,” he said at the conference. “Gun possessors are potential murderers. If they don’t learn a lesson for carrying the gun, they keep carrying the gun. They get into an argument, now instead of fighting, they shoot.”

Specifically, McCarthy cited the shooting death of seven-year-old Amari Brown, who was killed close to midnight on Saturday, WGN News reported. Police believed Amari’s father was the intended target in the shooting, McCarthy said. Amari’s father has gang connections, the superintendent said, and his most recent in a long series of arrests was for gun possession in April.

“If Mr. Brown is in custody, his son is alive,” McCarthy said, arguing Brown should have faced a harsher penalty for the gun possession charge.

“This has got to stop,” he added. “We can put another 10,000 police officers on the street and what would happen? Maybe we’ll arrest Mr. Brown 90 times and nothing will happen.”

McCarthy said this year at least 12 people have already been arrested on their second gun possession charge and then released.

“We need some help here, folks. We have to fix this broken system.”

Chicago is infamous for its consistently high homicide rate. As of this weekend, Chicago has had more than 220 murders this year, with over 1,300 shootings, according to local media databases. This is up from last year, when there were 188 murders by the end of June, the Chicago Tribune’s database shows.

Law enforcement officials often dread the summer months, with warm weather driving more people outside and creating more opportunities for incidents. Chicago also experienced a troubling Memorial Day holiday weekend, which saw nine killed and 31 others injured, NBC News reported.

“I didn’t even hear anything with all the fireworks,” Hollie Williams, who lived in the area where Amari was shot Saturday, told the Chicago Tribune. Williams said she first got the news from her nine-year-old son who had been outside. “I was shocked he knew the difference between gunshots and fireworks.”

Illinois passed a “concealed carry” law in the summer of 2013, which allows qualified citizens to carry a firearm, loaded or unloaded, on their person or within their vehicle. Last summer, Chicago’s city council passed restrictions on firearms sales in the city, requiring all purchases to be videotaped and restricting buyers to one gun a month, the Los Angeles Times reported.“

From bearingarms.com:

“GunsNFreedom.com is reporting an astonishing statement made by Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy.

McCarthy is angry that Illinois has joined the other 49 states in the union that have authorized some level of concealed carry. In an recorded interview McCarthy issues a not so thinly-veiled threat that under his leadership, Chicago Police will shoot concealed carriers:

“You put more guns on the street expect more shootings,” McCarthy said. “I don’t care if they’re licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained… putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I’ll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we’re going to have tragedies as a result of that. I’m telling you right up front.”

McCarthy doesn’t just seem to think it may happen; he almost seems to look look forward to it with some sort of vindictive wrath. He asserts that only his police are responsible enough to carry handguns, an assertion that flies in the face of the fact that at least one study shows that police officers are five times more likely to shoot the wrong person than concealed carriers.

A key fact that McCarthy glosses over in claiming that police are so much better trained than the average concealed carrier, is that concealed carriers are not training to be police officers.

Concealed carriers do not learn radio procedures and codes, arrest procedures, the various laws and ordinances, or various other aspects of police work that take up most of the time McCarthy uses to assert his officers are somehow superior when it comes to firearms use.

The sad, simple fact of the matter is that CPD officers rarely train with their firearms. Most fire their weapons only during during the mandatory annual qualification, which lasts just one hour. There are Girl Scout troops with more frequent range time than the Chicago PD.

In most cities, a police superintendent threatening his city’s most law-abiding citizens with bloodshed would result in a groundswell of calls for his ouster or resignation. That outcome is unlikely in Chicago. Citizens are too busy going to funerals of the more than 250 citizens murdered so far this year under McCarthy’s watch in his “gun free” city.“

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