I guess we High Road members are all murder suspects now

[benEzra]

Considering that 25% to 30% of the U.S. population owns handguns, I think it's a little silly to say that only 1% know how to shoot one...

 

[odysseus]

Proficiency with handguns was "critical evidence" because 99 percent of the population could not use such a gun

Legislating opinion from the bench.

Moronic statement. Scary that this comes from a sitting judge. This judge must think that the gun cases coming by the desk statistically means that a very large number of this 1% are in the their area. Wow! What are the odds...

 

[HankB]

If I lived in that area, I'd be tempted to make up bumper stickers reading "Another One Percenter."

 

[Andrew Rothman]

I got a polite reply from the writer. He said that the shooter killed the two victims with one head shot each.

I explained that that was certainly competent shooting, but nothing spectacular at room distances.

Oh, well. We gotta try.

 

[gunsmith]

it was suicide

I remember back in the 1950s in Texas when a business competitor of LBJ's was found with his hands tied and shot in the back with a rilfe and the local authorities ruled it a suicide.

To mess with LBJ was suicidal....ask JFK!

 

[KnightHawk67]

Hmm,

Maybe that explains why I shoot my .45 much better than my 9mm.

 

[wingnutx]

99 percent of the population could not use such a gun,

That's why I have a .45

 

[KriegHund]

Proficiency with handguns was "critical evidence" because 99 percent of the population could not use such a gun,

I wouldnt mind showing him just how profiecent i am with my mauser.

Moron.

 

[Luchtaine]

I'm in the top 1%! maybe I wonder what they consider proficient?

 

[44Special]

Ask the judge what he meant?

As a journalism school graduate and still a professional reporter, I have seen very few judges who will explain in an interview later what they said on the bench. In fact I THINK the canons of ethics forbid it, right or wrong as that may be.

 

[The_Antibubba]

99 percent of the population couldn't use such a gun

There's only one explanation, then:

The murder weapon was a LORCIN!

From what I read here, their 9mm may fire once, if you're lucky, but twice? Without a jam? I think the judge was being optimistic.

 

[entropy]

This judge must think that the gun cases coming by the desk statistically means that a very large number of this 1% are in the their area.

Actually, he sees very few gun crime cases outside of DNR/game law cases.


I've met Judge Lundell. Not as much anti-gun as clueless about them. I had also met Dan O'Connell, my wife knew him better. Ryan Erickson was a very disturbed individual, and I hope he gets what's coming to him in the hereafter.

I recall something about millstones in the Bible.

It is nice to be part of such an exclusive group; It almost thrills me as much as when I qualified for MENSA; my attitude towards it is the same: "Doesn't everybody shoot this good?"