So, more info on this story that I ran across today.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/s ... ss-account
The 911 caller has changed his story and now says "At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody" which directly contradicts his call to police dispatch.
His service in the Marines also turns out to be false as he was apparently thrown out after less than two months over fraudulent enlistment.
But this quote from the 911 caller, this boils my blood:
“And even still, it’s a gun in Walmart, in a public place, inducing panic,” said Ritchie.
I don't even have to say where we've heard that kind of talk before. I'm pretty sure everyone knows.
Now you folks know me, I'm not a huge supporter of open carry. We don't live in Switzerland, we're not in a country where carrying a slung long gun is non-controversial, mainly thanks to the press which has decided it's entirely fine to try and convince every single person in the country that they're all minutes away from getting shredded by some maladjusted kid with a $2000 AR.
But I am damn sure not a supporter of purposely getting someone killed by the police because they scared me or because I don't like what they're doing. That is exactly what this 911 caller did. And what he did has been repeatedly advocated by anti-gun folks all over the internet from anonymous bloggers to big-name pundits, with one main idea behind it: if one of them gets killed, it will scare the rest into changing their behavior.
The usual sites I've seen writing about this are being very, very careful how they talk about what happened. They blame the cops. They blame the store, for selling "realistic" air rifles. They blame open carry groups. They blame the NRA. They say the 911 caller only made the call because John Crawford III was black.
I have found ONE article where someone asks why the 911 caller isn't being charged for criminally negligent homicide for giving false information to 911 dispatch. One. I will not link to it, because the site and most of the people on it disgust me. But since it's the only one, it won't be that hard to find if you're so inclined.
My only hope is that at some point, the scummy little coward who called 911 ends up in fucking prison for negligent homicide. And I DO hope it sends a message to anyone else thinking about doing the same thing because in this case, someone fucking DIED because of what he did. As far as I am aware, the number of people killed due to open carry rallies still stands at zero.
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