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Michigan Family Sues Neighbor After 6-Year-Old Shot While Picking Up His Bike
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The family of a 6-year-old boy who was shot in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, earlier this year has filed a lawsuit against their neighbors, TMZ reported. According to the family, Coby Daniel was shot in front of the home of Michigan Family Sues Neighbor After 6-Year-Old Shot While Picking Up His Bike
Le-Nguyen allegedly chased the child with a sledgehammer and shot him in the arm because he was angry about children leaving their bikes on the sidewalk in front of his home. The family is now seeking $4 million in damages. They say the neighbors should have known children in the neighborhood played near their yard and they should have kept it safe for them.
Le-Nguyen is also accused of showing "aggressive behavior" toward children several times in the past.
Security video from one of the houses shows multiple children frantically running away after hearing shots in the neighborhood. The children then call for help after noticing that Coby had been shot.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/michigan-family-sues-neighbor-after-6-year-old-shot-while-picking-up-his-bike/ar-AAQ6Yp1?ocid=msedgntp
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)That's "accountability" in the pathetic country known as America.
twin_ghost
(435 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)surprised the cops didn't arrest the little boy for pissing the guy off.
sarisataka
(18,600 posts)Who posts bond. Although I don't believe the police set the bond amount, the Court does that.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)We have to do something about this crazy need to be armed.
I believe I've read that one of the highest causes of death of children under 12 is by firearms.
Caliman73
(11,730 posts)Poor people in on an ounce of weed spend months in jail waiting on their trial, but people with money walk around free after committing actual, dangerous offenses.
In California, we had an amendment up in the last election or maybe 2018 to go to a "community safety" evaluation scheme for bail. While that system is also not ideal as the racism baked into the legal system (go CRT) would likely keep disproportionately affecting minorities, at least it actually sets a criteria for who should remain in jail awaiting trial and who should be able to be in the community, instead of, "This guy has money, or a house, or something he can put up for collateral. This guy doesn't" it doesn't matter that one guy has unpaid parking tickets and the other tried to poison a towns water supply. The guy with money walks, the guy without stays in jail.
This man is a direct danger to his neighbors and the community. He shot through his goddamned window, with the intent to harm children. I can only hope that all of his firearms and any other potentially deadly weapons were confiscated, but still, the guy is a menace.
Sancho
(9,067 posts)This is my generic response to gun threads where people are shot and killed by the dumb or criminal possession of guns. For the record, I grew up in the South and on military bases. I was taught about firearms as a child, and I grew up hunting, was a member of the NRA, and I still own guns. In the 70s, I dropped out of the NRA because they become more radical and less interested in safety and training. Some personal experiences where people I know were involved in shootings caused me to realize that anyone could obtain and posses a gun no matter how illogical it was for them to have a gun. Also, easy access to more powerful guns, guns in the hands of children, and guns that werent secured are out of control in our society. As such, heres what I now think ought to be the requirements to possess a gun. Im not debating the legal language, I just think its the reasonable way to stop the shootings. Notice, none of this restricts the type of guns sold. This is aimed at the people who shoot others, because its clear that they should never have had a gun.
1.) Anyone in possession of a gun (whether they own it or not) should have a regularly renewed license. If you want to call it a permit, certificate, or something else that's fine.
2.) To get a license, you should have a background check, and be examined by a professional for emotional and mental stability appropriate for gun possession. It might be appropriate to require that examination to be accompanied by references from family, friends, employers, etc. This check is not to subject you to a mental health diagnosis, just check on your superficial and apparent gun-worthyness.
3.) To get the license, you should be required to take a safety course and pass a test appropriate to the type of gun you want to use.
4.) To get a license, you should be over 21. Under 21, you could only use a gun under direct supervision of a licensed person and after obtaining a learners license. Your license might be restricted if you have children or criminals or other unsafe people living in your home. (If you want to argue 18 or 25 or some other age, fine. 21 makes sense to me.)
5.) If you possess a gun, you would have to carry a liability insurance policy specifically for gun ownership - and likely you would have to provide proof of appropriate storage, security, and whatever statistical reasons that emerge that would drive the costs and ability to get insurance.
6.) You could not purchase a gun or ammunition without a license, and purchases would have a waiting period.
7.) If you possess a gun without a license, you go to jail, the gun is impounded, and a judge will have to let you go (just like a DUI).
8.) No one should carry an unsecured gun (except in a locked case, unloaded) when outside of home. Guns should be secure when transporting to a shooting event without demonstrating a special need. Their license should indicate training and special carry circumstances beyond recreational shooting (security guard, etc.). If you are carrying your gun while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, you lose your gun and license.
9.) If you buy, sell, give away, or inherit a gun, your license information should be recorded.
10.) If you accidentally discharge your gun, commit a crime, get referred by a mental health professional, are served a restraining order, etc., you should lose your license and guns until reinstated by a serious relicensing process.
Most of you know that a license is no big deal. Besides a drivers license you need a license to fish, operate a boat, or many other activities. I realize these differ by state, but that is not a reason to let anyone without a bit of sense pack a semiautomatic weapon in public, on the roads, and in schools. I think we need to make it much harder for some people to have guns.
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At a time of increasing gun violence in America, Waldmans book provoked a wide range of discussion. This book looks at history to provide some surprising, illuminating answers.
The Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state militias made up of all (white) adult menwho were required to own a gun to serve. Waldman recounts the raucous public debate that has surrounded the amendment from its inception to the present. As the country spread to the Western frontier, violence spread too. But through it all, gun control was abundant. In the twentieth century, with Prohibition and gangsterism, the first federal control laws were passed. In all four separate times the Supreme Court ruled against a constitutional right to own a gun.
The present debate picked up in the 1970spart of a backlash to the liberal 1960s and a resurgence of libertarianism. A newly radicalized NRA entered the campaign to oppose gun control and elevate the status of an obscure constitutional provision. In 2008, in a case that reached the Court after a focused drive by conservative lawyers, the US Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Constitution protects an individual right to gun ownership. Famous for his theory of originalism, Justice Antonin Scalia twisted it in this instance to base his argument on contemporary conditions.
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Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)If Sandy hook didnt.change minds, nothing will
DemocraticPatriot
(4,343 posts)/ snark
Iris
(15,652 posts)who wonders if this man has been a victim of harassment by his neighbors?
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)Was orchestrated to set him off..obviously thenadults knew he didnt like it
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)hunter
(38,310 posts)That'll teach 'em.
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Tribetime
(4,684 posts)What kind of sick mf'er shoots a 6 year old
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... and he was held in jail again, months ago.
He also didn't live there. He shot the child from his girlfriend's home, not previously knowing his shooting victim.
His attorney claims it was an accident from inside the home and he didn't intend to shoot anyone. Of course he'd say that, but a jury will decide.
Could face life in prison, which is appropriate if he intended to harm that little kid!
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2021/06/washtenaw-county-officials-explain-how-accused-shooter-of-6-year-old-initially-went-free.html?outputType=amp