Columbia Police Chief Jill Schlude called attention to personal safety, situational awareness and responsible firearm handling and possession after two incidents of gun violence in the city over the weekend.
One incident involved shots fired in Dick’s Sporting Goods and a carjacking in the parking lot of The Shoppes at Stadium, and another involved a fatal shooting and stabbing at an apartment complex on Clark Lane.
“This just goes to show police can’t be everywhere,” Schlude said in response to the two gun violence incidents.
Schlude said while she’s proud of the staff at the Columbia Police Department for their work on both cases and getting suspects in custody, she believes there is a need to talk to the community about juveniles having access to guns.
The suspect detained in connection to the incident at Dick’s Sporting Goods is 17-years-old, police said.
“Whether they’re getting it from adults, or whether they’re stealing them out of cars, which incredibly prolific in this community, we’ve got to start really having conversations about safe storage of firearms and how these kids are getting guns in their hands,” Schlude said.
Schlude said she wants to find out how juveniles are getting firearms and interrupt that cycle.
— Payton Busselman in ‘Police can’t be everywhere’: Columbia police chief responds to weekend gun violence
I’m guessing she didn’t encourage the “little people” and “untrained” masses of commoners to carry the means with which to defend themselves against these young scholars and other miscreants, did she?
Due to the crazy SNW moderation and gho9st posting issue, the following thoughts are separated into multi-part posts just to post what should be in one post [note: the * and asso* ciated spaces in words are to keep the post from gh* ost posting with this crazy SNW mod* eration/filter system. Fix this thing please.]:
“Schlude said she wants to find out how juv* eniles are getting firearms and int* errupt that cycle.”
First, lets correct that in the context of the cri* min *ality outlined to bring out something left out:
Its not “juve* niles are getting firearms”… it should have been “Schl* ude said she wants to find out how crim* inal juveniles are getting fir* earms and inter* rupt that cycle.”
Now, we have something to work towards and define instead of using the non-functional ‘sh*otg* un sc*at* ter’ technique of imposing more bur* den and infrin* gem*ent on, and posing laws crimi* naliz* ing, law abi* ding gun owners who did nothing wrong.
Oh, and 17 is hardly a juve* nile in terms of crim* inality.
Ahh the heck with the rest…this is getting very tiring so just gonna give up on this one and not post the rest – can’t even get to the point in the posts. It should have gone in one post but it didn’t and kept up with that stupid ‘ghost post’ thing. So I tried testing it by separating it into separate posts with heavy edits to add extra spaces and * in words to break them up, and a few parts posted but the rest would not, but anyway it rendered the thing basically unreadable and it still ghost posted for the rest – and there are exactly zero moderation-offensive words in the whole thing. So disregard what I have already posted above in trying to get the comments across because its useless without being able to post the rest or being able to post cleanly without the heavy edit adds of * and spaces.
FIX THIS MODERATION/FILTER SYSTEM – ITS BEYOND STUPID AND RIDICULOUS!!!!
Welcome to the hell I had to go through, after ten years of no issues. Only way I could escape the mod goblins was to transition to a different form of my legacy username and a new email address. Oh, and I post comments sparingly nowadays, too.
Despite the claimed ‘psyc* holo* gically immature or undev* eloped’ men* tal/psyc* hological/matu* rity state of seven*te*en year olds …
.40cal,
Yes, in general, late teens (say 16 – 19) are less stable, and less mentally developed, than, say, a s5 year old. Contrariwise, I know PLENTY of 25 – 30 year olds that don’t have the brains God promised a doorknob, or the mental and emotional stability of your average pink-haired college undergrad, and plenty of 17 – 18 year olds who are dialed in. Now, if you want to have ‘qualification tests’ to test for mental ability to exercise the rights we are given, I’m not in favor of it, but I’d live with it if it extended to voting, alcohol, etc. Where is the Constitutional basis for treating the RKBA as a “second-class” right??
@Lamp
well, I was not able to post my full comments because of this stupid moderation/filter system so you did not see what else I had to say. So everything I was able to post is lacking the necessary context to fully understand what I was saying. I don’t even know if this will post, it seems so far to mostly be affecting this one comment section although in another comment section I did have a ghost post and didn’t retry.
When seconds count the police are only minutes away a wise man once said.
Gee, I wonder why people leave their guns in their cars to be stolen?
Maybe because of all the places the city, state and federal governments tell them they can’t carry in? So either they just stay defenseless the whole day, or they have to leave them in their cars when they visit one of the myriads of “protected” places.
I wonder if anyone’s ever done an analysis of exactly where the cars are that are having guns stolen from them? Seems to me, were I a bad guy looking for guns to steal, I’d be hanging out in places where law abiding citizens are required to leave their guns in their cars.
Why do I carry?
Because I can’t afford to keep my own personal cop in donuts.