Posted on 01/10/2011 3:39:06 PM PST by Hojczyk
On Saturday evening Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told reporters that the Tucson Safeway shooter had made previous threats.
There are now accusations that Dupnik knew about the previous threats by leftwing pothead Jared Loughner and did nothing to protect the Tucson community from this homicidal young man. The Clolla Jumps:
The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political agenda.
Jared Loughner, pronounced by the Sheriff as Lock-ner, saying it was the Polish pronunciation. Of course he meant Scott or Irish but that isn’t the point. The point is he and his office have had previous contact with the alleged assailant in the past and that is how he knows how to pronounce the name.
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Amy Loughner is a Natural Resource specialist for the Pima County Parks and Recreation. My sympathies and my heart goes out to her and the rest of Mr. Loughner’s family. This tragedy must be tearing them up inside wondering if they had done the right things in trying to manage Jared’s obvious mental instability.
Every victim of his threats previously must also be wondering if this tragedy could have been prevented if they had been more aggressive in pursuing charges against Mr. Loughner. Perhaps with a felony conviction he would never have been able to lawfully by the Glock 9mm Model 19 that he used to strike down the lives of six people and decimate 14 more.
This was not an act of politics. This was an act of a mentally disturbed young man hell bent on getting his 15 minutes of infamy. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department was aware of his violent nature and they failed to act appropriately. This tragedy leads right back to Sherriff Dupnik and all the spin in the world is not going to change that fact.
Hat Tip Larwyn
As Ace says, “This is a claim. We’ll see if it’s true.”
Related… The Loughner family is now barring the FBI from entering their home. That’s strange.
Here in Florida parents can have there kids or anyone sent in for drug or mental problems as long as the police say the person is a threat to him self or others....example a person high on drugs ...it is the police call...had a girl down the street high on drugs and some times she goes and other times the police say no...
Can you document that?
Freeper satindoll brought it to my attention, and I am hoping if enough freepers are told about it that we can find out if it's true, and it it isn't, to find out what kind of work Jared/Jerry's dad does.
One neighbor said that Randy rebuilt classic cars, but that could be a hobby.
Is it enough to mark your file so that you could not buy a gun?
That is simple. He had never been convicted of a felony and had never been legally adjudicated mentally incompetent. That's pretty much all a NICS check will turn up.
Oh, one other thing will cause you to fail a NICS check to buy a firearm. A restraining order for domestic violence. No conviction necessary.
Since the Sheriff is the one who started the idiotic blame game - and I find it scary when somebody in his positions starts accusing people without a shred of evidence, then we should start pointing the finger at him and keep repeating how he failed to do his job.
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