It bothers even more that we seem to have a lot of people who see absolutely nothing wrong with this.
When Dimitriy Andreychenko (pictured) pulled his stunt at the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Center on Republic Road in Springfield, there can be no doubt he had to know what people's reactions would be.
His silly experiment, if that is what it is, coming on the heels of mass murders in El Paso and Dayton, was designed to evoke fear and it certainly did.
Unless, of course, Andreychenko is terminally stupid, and that remains a distinct possibility.
I do not understand the people who are comfortable with the idea of someone who is not in the military or in law enforcement blithely strolling about town heavily armed with the kind of weapons that cause multiple deaths in a short amount of time.
Maybe that's the kind of world they want to live in. Am I still wrong in thinking that the most of rest of us could do without that kind of thinking.
I have heard a few poeple say they hope Andreychenko gets away with what he did because it would teach the Republicans in the Missouri Legislature a lesson for their continued efforts to expand guns into every Wal-Mart, every church and every school in the state.
There has to be a better way to teach a lesson.
This is not the Second Amendment- this is sheer lunacy.
Book and Book Signings Updates
Barring something unexpected, I won't be having any book signings or events the remainder of this month or in September.
My next signings and I will write more about them later are at the McDonald County Library in Pineville and at the Joplin Public Library, multi-author events that will take place in October.
I will be revealing the subject of my next book at the end of this month in conjunction with an important anniversary.
Some of you are already aware of what I am working on since I have been doing research and conducting interviews for the past few months. I am really excited about this project.
I will also have word in the next few days about an upcoming television program in which I will be interviewed about local investigative reporting.
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The Turner Report
1. KC Police working with Homeland Security after Reddit post threatens biggest mass shooting in U. S. history at KC or Independence Wal-Mart
2. Father who dumped former Carthage woman's three kids in Des Moines, said, "You have guardianship now," is person of interest in her death
3. Troy Onstott to leave Children's Mercy Hospital much earlier than expected
4. Newton County Prosecuting Attorney plea bargained 2017 traffic arrest of Springfield man charged with DWI in triple-fatality crash
5. Armed Springfield man: I wanted to know if Wal-Mart honored the Second Amendment
6. Detention motion: Diamond man, 69, says he received photos of nude girls "but I didn't keep them"
7. Armed man at Springfield Wal-Mart held without bond: Is this the face of a terrorist?
8. High-priced criminal lawyer signs on for Springfield man charged with three counts of murder in connection with alleged drunk driving crash
9. Walgreen closing 200 stores, no word on Joplin area stores
10. Police, FBI continue to investigate threatened mass shooting at KC or Independence Wal-Mart
Inside Joplin
1. One killed, one injured as Neosho teen's trailer slams into car near Carthage
2. Two arrested, child placed in protective custody, heroin, meth seized after search warrants executed in Joplin, Duquesne
3. Joplin man seriously injured in crash on 43
4. McDonald County authorities identify body left in suitcase along 59
5. Joplin Police stop of stolen car with no headlights leads to arrests on DWI, meth trafficking, weapons charges
6. Stella woman injured in near head-on crash with Neosho teen
7. Granby man injured in rollover accident on Tiger Road
8. Three Carl Junction resident injured in two-vehicle accident
9. Neosho mail carrier injured in collision with Joplin teen on Kodiak Road
10. Joplin Police Department Weekend Arrests
Inside Joplin Obituaries
1. Hazel and Harrison Bogart
2. Glen Webb
3. Judy Moore
4. Debbie Lauber
5. George Thornberry
6. Lloyd Southern
7. Vera Pugh
8. Dale Dardenne
9. Bill Bowman
10. Brenda Perry
This isn't the first time and won't be the last. There is no crime until the trigger gets pulled - what have we done? No different than this mass shooting where the killer was reported, but police could do nothing because of "open carry" laws.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-warned-man-rifle-colorado-shooting-n457711
Oh no! Somebody did something and no one was harmed!
ReplyDeleteGiven that you don't want anyone (legally) carrying concealed, it's no surprise or even news that you don't like open carry of any sort. Too bad most of the nation disagrees with you.
ReplyDeleteYou're at heart a Yankee, perhaps best described as a group who "derives their sense of purpose from beating the sin, real or imagined, out of their fellow man."
@ 6:10
ReplyDeleteAccording to Webster’s dictionary a “yankee” is a person from the northern US, which Randy is not. What your definition describes is a “bible thumper” which is someone that aggressively expounds their beliefs. You ridiculously claim that open carry is supported by most of the nation, bullshit there has never been a vote, only laws passed by wacko representatives cowing to the NRA. When I see an open carry person on the street, I question whether he is a cop wannabe, a hero wannabe, or just a scared coward. People have lived the majority of this nation’s existence without the need for body armor and weapons, it’s sad that they are now so scared.
Sorry. Support the Constitution - but defending the actions of this clown makes you an extremist. People were harmed - he caused panic and two are still hospitalized. I would also like to ask - Was the "good guy" with the gun justified in holding the suspect at gunpoint until police arrived? According to a commenter above the answer is "no." Try to sort that one out, extremists.
ReplyDeleteWrap us all in bubble wrap. Someone saw a person carrying a gun and was harmed by the sight. Then it is said that bible thumpers force their beliefs down others throats while trying to force a belief down someone else's throat. Absolutely, hilarious.
ReplyDeleteYou don’t need bubble wrap or a gun, but coherence would be nice.
ReplyDeleteOk.
DeleteI will continue with coherence and you work on reading comprehension, ok Daisy?
I'll feel a whole lot differentr about going to Walmart after the NRA succeeds in getting the ban on full automatic self defense and hunting guns lifted! Nothing in the constitution says they aren't allowed!
ReplyDelete"How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment
ReplyDeleteThe Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened.
"A fraud on the American public." That’s how former Chief Justice Warren Burger described the idea that the Second Amendment gives an unfettered individual right to a gun. When he spoke these words to PBS in 1990, the rock-ribbed conservative appointed by Richard Nixon was expressing the longtime consensus of historians and judges across the political spectrum.
Twenty-five years later, Burger’s view seems as quaint as a powdered wig. Not only is an individual right to a firearm widely accepted, but increasingly states are also passing laws to legalize carrying weapons on streets, in parks, in bars—even in churches."
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/how-nra-rewrote-second-amendment
"From 1888, when law review articles first were indexed, through 1959, every single one on the Second Amendment concluded it did not guarantee an individual right to a gun. The first to argue otherwise, written by a William and Mary law student named Stuart R. Hays, appeared in 1960. He began by citing an article in the NRA’s American Rifleman magazine and argued that the amendment enforced a “right of revolution,” of which the Southern states availed themselves during what the author called “The War Between the States.”
At first, only a few articles echoed that view. Then, starting in the late 1970s, a squad of attorneys and professors began to churn out law review submissions, dozens of them, at a prodigious rate. Funds—much of them from the NRA—flowed freely. An essay contest, grants to write book reviews, the creation of “Academics for the Second Amendment,” all followed. In 2003, the NRA Foundation provided $1 million to endow the Patrick Henry professorship in constitutional law and the Second Amendment at George Mason University Law School.
This fusillade of scholarship and pseudo-scholarship insisted that the traditional view—shared by courts and historians—was wrong. There had been a colossal constitutional mistake. Two centuries of legal consensus, they argued, must be overturned.
If one delves into the claims these scholars were making, a startling number of them crumble. Historian Jack Rakove, whose Pulitzer-Prize winning book Original Meanings explored the founders’ myriad views, notes, “It is one thing to ransack the sources for a set of useful quotations, another to weigh their interpretive authority. … There are, in fact, only a handful of sources from the period of constitutional formation that bear directly on the questions that lie at the heart of our current controversies about the regulation of privately owned firearms. If Americans has indeed been concerned with the impact of the Constitution on this right … the proponents of individual right theory would not have to recycle the same handful of references … or to rip promising snippets of quotations from the texts and speeches in which they are embedded.”"
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/how-nra-rewrote-second-amendment
2nd Amendment people, does Dimitriy Andreychenko rank as a "good guy with a gun"?
ReplyDeleteAnti 2nd Amendment people, does Adolf Hitler rank as a "good guy who confiscated guns"?
ReplyDeleteHow many "rednecks" do you know? Come to thing of it, what is a "redneck"? By that I mean, what is your definition of "redneck", 7:36? Help us all understand exactly the point you are trying to make with your comment.
DeleteThese mass shootings aren't anything compared to the tyranny we would live under if we didn't have the 2nd amendment. Look at Canada, Europe, Australia...dystopian nightmare states where citizens have literally no freedom whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteTo bad some horrified armed citizen didn’t shoot him.
ReplyDeleteHow much do u think this guy actually knows about the constitution? Does he know how the 2nd amendment came about. What about the other amendments? I would guess he doesn’t even know what those amendments are called. I’d guess a lot of your readers don’t know, especially the ones that cling to the 2nd amendment.
ReplyDeletePlease explain to us, 7:14. Specifically how the 2nd Amendment came about and why it's origin matters in context of modern times. You seem to have a much better grasp on this topic than the rest of us.
DeleteThanks in advance.
ReplyDeleteMAGA!
"Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, flew to Canada for one of his regular visits to the Yukon mountains to hunt stone sheep with friends. He was accompanied by Secret Service agents on that August 2017 trip, just as he had been since his father was sworn in as president six months earlier.
The Secret Service frequented several Vancouver hotels: Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, Pinnacle Hotel Vancouver Harbourfront and Lakeview Inn and Suites. But it spent the most money at the president’s hotel, the Trump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.
The Secret Service is required to protect the president’s children, but the tendency of Trump and his family to funnel funds to their own properties has complicated what had been a routine practice. Critics say the Trumps are using the presidency to boost the president's businesses by forcing the federal government to spend taxpayer money at Trump properties." https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/14/secret-service-donald-trump-jr-canada-hotel-1459051
So, let's say that they had stayed in a Best Western, would we still be mad that Best Western made money off taxpayers or are we just mad that Trump Hotels made money of taxpayers? Or are we saying that once anyone recieves secret service protection that they should not be allowed to travel? Or are we just mad that the Trump family travels?
DeleteLefty's either drop their verbal garbage and never revisit comments to avoid being challenged or they simply can't respond.
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