No Justice, Just Us.

In line with the "don't be prey" and "carry your damn guns", comes this story, which surprisingly is not from MA:

Woman fatally stabbed in Garfield Heights identified as Danielle Coleman

GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The 25-year-old woman who was fatally stabbed and found Monday outside a Grace Avenue home has been identified as Danielle Coleman, of Oakwood.

Police continue to look for her boyfriend, 41-year-old Marlon Ricks, who lived at the house in the 10000 block of Grace.

A domestic disturbance gone wrong? Certainly. But unpredictable? Hardly:

Ricks was paroled in April after serving 20 years in prison for murder, kidnapping, aggravated burglary and felonious assault using a gun. He killed a man and kidnapped and assaulted a woman.

20 years for first degree murder, kidnapping and assault. Twenty years. That's what a "life" sentence means. And he was out of jail less than a year before he killed again - yeah, he was a productive member of society to be let out. Remember that. The police are under no obligation to protect you; this point has been driven home so many times it's in danger of no longer actually being a point. The courts sure as hell aren't going to protect you, letting violent criminals out on parole after serving small fractions of their sentences.

Notice, too, that all the gun control laws in the world didn't stop this murder from happening. No gun, no gun death, right? He used a knife; could have pulled it from the butcher's block in the kitchen (it doesn't even have to be one of those evil "assault knives" like you hear about in DC...). This is the brave new world of gun control, folks, where the big and strong and evil have their way with the small and weak and good. Take away Samuel Colt's "equalizer" and it comes down to who can hit hardest, fastest, and first.

Any bets on whether he'll kill someone the next time he's let out on parole?

That is all.

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(image courtesy of Robb Allen)