Posted on 01/30/2009 1:33:39 PM PST by 2nd amendment mama
General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon on Wednesday told a female home invasion victim she needs to buy a gun to protect herself.
"There should be a law that law abiding citizens with no felony convictions should own a gun," the judge said while setting bond for Colton Dobbins.
Judge Moon told Danielle Walker, "I know many fine police officers. But we can't depend on the police to protect us any more."
He said Chattanooga is the 57th most dangerous city in the country, and to many criminals "the value of human life means nothing to them."
The judge said, "With 7,000 foreclosures every day and 6,000 kids dropping out of school" that the crime situation is going to get much worse.
He told the 18-year-old Dobbins he is "lucky to be alive" after barging into the home of Ms. Walker.
Judge Moon said, "If it had been my house you came in on, you would have wound up at Coulter Funeral Home."
Dobbins was charged with forcing his way into Ms. Walker's home where she and her nine-year-old son live. Ms. Walker said Dobbins knocked her to the floor, then two other men entered her home.
Ms. Walker said, "I was afraid for my son."
Several years ago, my neighbor's daughter was in the process of divorcing her husband and moved home with her parents. She just wanted away from the guy, and he just knew it was because she was involved with his stepbrother. (She is now, but that's a different story)
Anyhoo, the husband (ex-marine btw) waited until the parents were gone on his weekend to have the kids, made threatening phone calls to her and decided he use her kids to get her to open the doors so he could come in and beat the crap out of the stepbrother. This neighbor is also a hunter and had many guns that were in the house at the time.
Husband kicks the door out of her hand after she let the kids in, and proceeds to knock her down the basement stairs to get to the step-bro. The step-bro was laying in wait with a hatchet and knocked the cowboy hell out of the husband in the head to keep from getting his butt kicked. Here comes the law....46 minutes after her father called for them while in Atlanta. She had tried to call and couldn't get through.
When this went to court, the parents had already dropped the breaking & entering charge, the wife had a 2 year restraining order in effect, also filed assault charges and the step-bro had filed assault charges. The husband had also filed assault charges against the step-bro.
The judge flat out told the husband that he was very lucky he hadn't tried that with his daughter. He looked right at the husband, pointed his finger and said “BOOM”. I almost laughed out loud....it was priceless.
The husband wound up on probation for 1 year, the wife got her divorce and the kids, the step-bro got the girl and a new baby, and everyone is just happy as clams now.
anytime, FRiend unkus. meant as a friendly addendum.
particular words have particular meanings...
Thank you. We are on the same team and that’s what it’s all about.
passing it on.. I even added this to my FACEBOOK profile page... Thanks 2nd amendment mama for sharing this.. we need a LOT more judges just like this one.
FReegards,
David
BTTT
you need NOT leave Chicago to buy a pistol - they are EVERYWHERE.
only law-abiding people have to "jump through hoops" to get a firearm. the crooks have LOTS.
PLEASE don't be "sucked in" by the intentional LIES told daily by the main-SLIME, gun-HATING, LEFTIST media. the media KNOWS that they're lying;they think "the public" is terminally STUPID.
free dixie,sw
Okay, you’re pardoned. I agree that you could buy guns in Chicago.
LOL! Exactly!
free dixie,sw
bump
To a certain extent, yes,
but I do have an objection to _requiring_ gun ownership,
as I have a problem with requiring a lot of things.
The thing with firearms, though, is that you don’t have to have everyone armed for the deterrent to be effective.
Just enough ownership so that a criminal knows he’s risking his a$$ when committing a crime against anyone.
Taurus Judge, so named because it is the preferred CCW of many Judges. Shoots .45 long Colt and 410 shotgun.
I have a bumper sticker, on my car, that says, “Guns don’t kill people; abortion clinics kill people.”
There should be a law that law abiding citizens with no felony convictions should own a gun,
I agree.
I think what he is means is that he sarcastically believes there should be a law that makes it illegal for a law abiding citizen to NOT have a gun.
I disagree that he is being sarcastic. There are places in the US that make it mandatory to own a firearm. He seems to say that he thinks it should similarly be a requirement.
Where Gun Ownership Is Mandatory,(^) Reason Magazine.
Also, Virgin, Utah(^) requires firearm ownership.
I am nearly positive that there are a handful of other places that require firearms ownership, but those are the two I know by name right off the bat.
free dixie,sw
Yeah, it is, isn’t it? I have one, too.
free dixie,sw
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