We’ve talked a few times about how smaller crimes like “May Issue” carry permits, mandatory training, safe storage, magazine restrictions, and gun-free zones won’t do much to stop somebody who is perfectly willing to commit the penultimate crime of murder. I would say somebody willing to murder over a car won’t even be deterred by not having a gun.
Tory Nelson, 21, faces trial this week in the 2007 slaying of an 89-year-old church deacon.
Authorities say Nelson broke into Charles Davis’ home in rural northeastern Durham County, stabbedDavis and drove off in his 1993 Buick Century on the night of Sept. 26, 2007. The car, worth about $2,000, was the only property taken from the home.
Davis’ body was discovered that evening when his brother-in-law, James Taylor, brought Davis’ wife, Sallie, home from dialysis treatment after Davis failed to come for her.
North Carolina is an interesting state. Depending on how you look at it its both gun friendly, and gun unfriendly. Certainly its a state where one can choose any gun on the market. “Assault Weapons”, “Junk Guns”, “Saturday Night Specials”, and certainly no testing is required by state officials on guns sold. You can buy-and-sell guns face-to-face so long as you obey the law, you can buy magazines that hold 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 50 rounds and anything above or below. Their carry permitting system is shall-issue, also they recognize most state gun permits and allow outsiders to carry in their state.
It does also have mandatory training for that permit, there are “Gun free zones” galore, you need a $5 Jim Crow permit and a waiting period to buy a handgun if you didn’t go and get a carry permit.
Why am I reciting the North Carolina gun laws? It isn’t relevant because this man was stabbed to death. The attacker wasn’t even old enough to own a handgun legally, and while the south is the home of the fabled “Iron Pipeline” that brings guns from Southern States into Leftist havens like New York and Massachusetts, he didn’t buy a black market gun.
He just stabbed a Veteran and a Church Deacon in his own home, and took his unimpressive car. Can you tell me how this could have been worse if it had been a “Gun Death”?
h/t Sean
