Posted on 01/09/2011 11:39:30 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
Until Saturday's rampage against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left her battling for her life and ended the lives of six others, Clarence Dupnik was not the most famous sheriff in Arizona.
But after a pull-no-punches news conference in which he linked the shooting in Tucson to a poisonous underlying political atmosphere, the Pima County sheriff may soon become known nationally as the anti-Joe Arpaio.
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A Democrat, Dupnik called the [Arizona immigration enforcement] law "a national embarrassment" and wrote in the Wall Street Journal that it was "unnecessary ... a travesty, and most significantly ... unconstitutional."
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Excellent question! His remarks are typical of placing the blame elsewhere because he feel directly responsible himself. Psychiatric projection.
I LOVE Babeu! I live in Maricopa and he’s my sherrif. I certainly feel more protected here in Pinal county than I would living in Pima county with that moron Dupnik. Some people have wondered if Dupnik is getting kickbacks from the drug cartels since he was so vehemently against 1070 when it was passed.
Yep, I called that just reading the headline.
BINGO
I used to live in Tucson, when the city and Pima County were old-school conservative.
THen the balck-taggers moved in, then the Granola bars from Califlower - now Tucson is laying off cops so they can ‘afford’ to give free bus passes to “poor people”.
While there are good folks that still live there, I spent Aug of this year there - and it didn’t take long to soo the area is a hive of barking moonbats.
A shame really, I love the winter weather, don’t know if I will ever go back.
Good luck Mr Rogers, I think you will need it.
I love to wake up every morning. Him in my bed? He looks half dead now, can’t imagine mornings, Thank God.
So he made death threats before and is a known mental case and the police DIDN'T arrest him? This just goes to prove that the police CANNOT and in some cases WILL NOT protect the public at large.
The sheriff has no say so in who is allowed to buy a gun. Either the state can run a background check or the state can do nothing and the dealers will run the background check through the FBI. In this case, unless the nut had been involuntarily confined to a mental hospital for more than an observation period, or unless the police had arrested him for his threats where a judge had ordered him to surrender all firearms until he was judged not to be a threat (or he was convicted of a felony) there would have been no reason not to sell him a firearm.
It appears that Loughner should have been arrested by the police for making threats and charged. While in custody, it would have been fairly evident that he was mentally unbalanced and should be committed to a mental hospital.
Sheriff Sputnik going off during the presser yesterday has to be one of the most bizarre things I have ever witnessed in public life. I am not kidding. He used the mass murder as his personal soapbox and should be fired immediately for his irresponsibility, jumping to baseless conclusions and such.
Sheriff Dupnik allowed the shooter to obtain a gun.
Despite the fact that he was a known threat.
Even the local college banned him from campus.
Dupnik is responsible for a lot of crap, but he has no say whatsoever in who gets to own a gun in Pima County. Arizona uses the NICS database or a state-issued CCW permit to authorize gun sales.
Now, had the Pima County prosecutor not allowed the boy to skate on his drug charges 2 years ago, he might have been denied when the gun store did the NICS check. That might have changed things.
“Dupnik said the suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers.”
When the FBI did its background check on the pyscho, surely they contacted the sheriff’s office to see if they had anything on the psycho.
Did Dupnik hid these events from the FBI?
If so, why did he not point them out to the FBI and warn them?
Contact with law enforcement is not enough and should not be enough to prevent a person from exercising their 2nd Amendment right. If I had my way, the 1968 GCA would be repealed and ex-cons would have ALL their rights restored upon release from prison. If they have a second felony conviction, THEN, they would lose their 2A rights.
Looks like Soros’s long lost brother
Also, unless you are involuntarily admitted to a mental facility and declared to be mentally unstable, you don not lose your 2A right.
I think internet journalists will have to find out the answers to your questions. The MSM is pretty much good for nothing. They have no credibility whatsoever. I’m not even watching today. Totally prefer to get my news from the internet.
Read some of my posts above.
Don’t forget Spike Lee who said that Bush ought to be shot with a 44 Bulldog.
I see you’re from that area. The sheriff was born in 1936 yet I cannot find any reference to military service, despite his turning of age during the Korean era. Is the Sheriff a draft dodger?
Not for nuthin, but someone born in late 1936 would have been 14 at the outbreak of the war. He would have been 17 at the time of the cease fire.
Not quite draft age.
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