Sunday, May 29, 2011

Moving Right Along...

Despite my earlier post, there will be no interruption in the Dead Goblin Count...

Brad_in_ma and The Big Guy both sent me this DGC addition, one that has a twist:

Home invasion leaves one suspect dead, two others arrested

Two men have been arrested following a reported home invasion in Clover Thursday that left their 17-year-old female comrade dead.

Justin Nathaniel Lamarr, 20, of 110 Grier St., Clover, and Jeffery Garrett Gillespie, 17, of 1186 Crossland Drive, Clover, have been found and are in police custody.

I honestly can't remember if this is the first female Dead Goblin - something tells me it's not - but it's certainly rare. On it's face, and once again, there's very little reporting to go with this, it seems like an open-and-shut DGC - three hoods break into someone's home, homeowner responds with deadly force. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Other reports indicate that the victim and the deceased/perps might have known each other; while that's certainly possible, the fact that it appears no charges will be filed indicates that the local PD feel it was a justified shooting and not a drinking party gone wrong...

Interesting note, though: Two 17 year olds and a 20 year old, and yet one of them had a handgun. In most areas, you can't own a handgun until age 21; no state of which I am aware permits one to carry a handgun under the age of 21. The odds of that being a legally acquired handgun, let alone legally carried, are quite slim. Yet this will be decried by the Brady's as not one but two incidents of a firearm being used against a child...

Dead Goblin Count: 165

That is all.

7 comments:

Robert said...

NC you can have a handgun at 18, but you have to get it as a gift from someone over 21 that bought it. Weird.

Janelle said...

In Idaho you can open carry at the age of 18.

jetaz said...

Federal law prohibits FFLs from selling a handgun to a person under 21, but there is not Federal law prohibiting a person under 21 from owning handguns. So, in Arizona, and many other states, an 18 year old can be given a handgun, or purchase it through a private sale. And most states with permit-less open carry don't prohibit under 21 from open carrying.

DJ said...

North Dakota allows persons 18 years of age to apply for and receive a Class 2 Concealed Weapon License. It is not honored for reciprocity in many states due to the lower minimum age, but it allows full concealed carry privileges in ND.

http://www.ag.nd.gov/BCI/CW/Age.htm

skidmark said...

What everybody else has already said. You have stayed too long in the People's Volksrepublik of Taxachusetts, to the point that you are parroting the propoganda mindlessly.

Come on out to Free America where discretely carrying a handgun is sometimes still treated like a privilege but a person can work around that by permitless open carry. If you are old enough to vote you are old enough to do the rest of the things a citizen can do, and that includes buying your own firearms.

stay safe.

Matthew said...

Add AK to the open carry list. Technically down to 16 but you won't see that in town much if at all.

Ian Argent said...

TX issues permits to sub-21 yo veterans, as well.