In the early morning (4:30 AM), Montgomery County Police killed a man while serving a search warrant. According to a family attorney, Duncan Socrates Lemp was asleep in his bed when police opened fire from outside the home, killing him and wounding his girlfriend.
I found these statements in the news report interesting.
A police statement Thursday says members of the department’s tactical unit were serving a “high-risk” search warrant related to unspecified “firearms offenses” at the home around 4:30 a.m.
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On his Instagram account, Lemp recently posted a photograph that depicts two people holding up rifles and included the term “boogaloo,” slang used by militia members and other extremists to describe a future civil war in the U.S.
Since I know Maryland has an “assault weapon” ban (Maryland Public Safety § 5-101 for “assault long guns,” Maryland Criminal Law § 4-303 for “assault pistols”), I was curious about the “rifles” picture posted to Lemp’s Instagram account. Fortunately, I got to it before the usual post-police shooting social media purge. This appears to be the post in question.
Those would seem to be “assault long guns” under Maryland victim disarmament law. Lemp was only 21 years old, so it’s rather unlikely he could lawfully possess a grandfathered “assault weapon” — the laws passed in 2013 — so I’m speculating that the police used that post as “evidence” that one of those arms was Lemp’s, putting him possession of a banned firearm. And since he is was reportedly a libertarian “Threeper,” that made him automatically dangerous.
I think Lemp was killed on the off chance that he “violated” an unconstitutional violence-enabling victim disarmament law.
Gun People control kills. It certainly did this time.
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And again, no one from the left will care that someone who is a gun owner is killed in their own home, in the middle of the night, by the jackbooted government thugs who are supposed to be following the constitution. It’s as if so long as it is only law abiding conservatives who are killed, over a POSSIBLE gun violation, then it is aok with them. But don’t you dare let the feds bother them if they plan a protest against having a Milo or a Ben Shapiro speak at one of the liberal colleges in the east. Sorry for being redundant there.
And also, once again, the fact that the 2nd amendment is only meant to codify our born freedom to self defense makes no difference to the liberal politicians of the gun control bunch. Because, unless the Supreme Court forces them to follow the decisions that they make, via another ruling, and another, and another, they will keep on doing just what they damn well please, and their liberal sheriffs will keep on enforcing what ever they are told, in order to keep their jobs.
I guess one good thing comes out of these middle of the night raids. When they kill the guy, they save money on a trial. And if they are lucky, they might even get to keep something that they can sell, like a few guns, or the like, that MIGHT have been used in a crime. Of course, if a private citizen did that, they would use the RICO laws against us. But the cops need the money to pay for their parties with hookers and booze.
NO MORE WACOS!!
There it is. When they spew their crap, that is our answer – over and over.