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Desert Tortoise
More of the glorious benefits of the 2nd Amendment and NRA. Thank you very much.
bass4funk
I see, let’s make excuses for a thug that decided to from what we know so far wanted to burglarize this family. No one told this guy to do what he did. The NRA and 2nd amendment have nothing to do with this.
RegBilk
Jacqueline Avant died after being shot by a burglar, who also opened fire on a security guard, according to tabloid website TMZ.
Another tragedy,
Some far leftists might blame the gun and not the criminal though.
Desert TortoiseToday 08:08 am JST
I'm guessing the criminal was not a card carrying NRA member, although the criminal who drove his car into a crowd of people in a parade had a drivers license.
SophiaHernandez
RIP. Sounds like she was a great lady. This article doesn't mention it but in a statement from the families:
"Jacqueline was an amazing woman, wife, mother, philanthropist, and a 55 year resident of Beverly Hills, who has made an immeasurable positive contribution and impact on the arts community. She will be missed by her family, friends and all of the people she has helped throughout her amazing life.”
the security guard needs to be fired. Or investigated.
If only she'd been exercising her Second Amendment right to bear arms, perhaps she could have defended herself.
SophiaHernandez
Yeah right! Weakest comment of the day for sure.
the Second Amendment DOESN'T give people the right to keep and bear arms in defence of their lives and property?
bass4funk
Utter nonsense
RegBilk
"Police units arrived and discovered a victim with a gunshot wound," a press release said. "The suspect(s) were no longer on the scene. Beverly Hills Fire Department paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital. Unfortunately, the victim did not survive.
Kudos to the police who try to contain crimes such as these.
zichiToday 08:53 am JST
Non-US citizens have difficulty understanding the reality of living in the US and have an irrational fear of guns, while overlooking more dangerous elements of society.
bass4funk
Don’t even start to generalize that victims of gun homicides are anti-gun, don’t even go there unless you have proof.
SophiaHernandez
cracaphat,
Yeah right! Weakest comment of the day for sure.
Weak comment yet no rebuttal. curious.
bass4funk
Again, it has absolutely nothing to do with the people that were killed. Take the gun component out of it. They could have easily broken in an stabbed the woman to death, that’s another possible scenario. Remember Charles Manson and what his followers did? You’re making the usual weak gun arguments to bolster your weak argumentative points.
Nice try as usual. Blame the gun, not the person wielding the weapon.
I disagree.
Strangerland
Bass is correct. America doesn't have a gun problem. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. America doesn't have a gun problem it has a murderer problem. They are a particularly murderous people, who just happen to have open access to the tool that they can easier enact their murderous desires with. But the guns are just a tool, the real problem is that the American psyche has romanticized murder in their media, and given them the tools to see out their fantasies.
SophiaHernandez
BigYen,
California has the strongest gun laws in the US. As well as the federal baseline, they have:
Universal background checks
Extreme risk protection orders
Domestic violence gun laws
Assault weapon and magazine restrictions
Waiting periods
Strong concealed carry law
Minimum age laws
Open carry regulations
Safe storage laws
Community violence intervention funding
Lost & stolen firearm reporting
Ghost gun ban
Gun dealer regulation
Local authority to regulate firearms
State firearm sale records retention
Gun violence research funding
i'd genuinely like to know what other laws they can have. and please don't talk about guns coming in from other states because carrying ANY firearm (and ammo) purchased out of state into California, through private sales OR licensed dealers, is illegal.
www.californiacarry.org/out-of-state-purchases.html
snowymountainhell
Never heard of this ‘online media’ referencing KABC before today but it’s indicated may be the gun owner’s mishandling of her own firearm during the break-in? - Posted 5 hrs ago:
https://olxpraca.com/clarence-avants-wife-jacqueline-avant-shot-herself-during-a-home-invasion-in-beverly-hills/
“*Clarence Avant’s wife, Jacqueline Avant, shot herself during a home invasion in Beverly Hills” **- *Ghulam December 2, 2021 Beverly Hills, California. “According to a source close to the family, the wife of a famous music artist was killed in a robbery on a house in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night.Jacqueline Avant was fatally injured in the incident, which was reported to the Beverly Hills Police Department shortly before 2:30 am. Officers arrived at a house on the 1100th block in Mightor Place to find a victim suffering from a gunshot wound.
Authorities said she was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Avant, affectionately called “Jackie”, has been well known and respected for her philanthropy over the years.
Her husband, Clarence Avant, was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was also the hero of the 2019 Netflix documentary The Black Godfather, which highlighted his influence in the music industry.
AIR7 HD news video showed a broken sliding glass door in an Avant home. Local residents expressed regret and concern at the fatal burglary.
“It was terrible. There is something else every night. Someone needs to speak, ”said neighbor Rebecca Cohen. “It’s just awful, it breaks our hearts. They are a great family. “No one was detained in connection with the crime, and there was no description of the suspect or suspects.
“I am heartbroken by today’s morning news of this tragic and shocking murder,” Rep. Karen Bass said in a statement. “Mrs. Avant has been a force of compassion and empowerment at local and national levels for decades, and has served as a model for helping those who need it most.”
Beverly Hills police officials are expected to provide more details on the investigation at an afternoon press conference on Wednesday.” - 2021 KABC Television, LLC
snowymountainhell
Some LA media (not TMZ) have reported: “Clarence Avant’s wife, Jacqueline Avant, shot herself during a home invasion in Beverly Hills” -
snowymountainhell
- “Jacqueline Avant was fatally injured in the incident, which was reported to the Beverly Hills Police Department shortly before 2:30 am. Officers arrived at a house on the 1100th block in Mightor Place to find a victim suffering from a gunshot wound.” -
Strangerland
i'd genuinely like to know what other laws they can have.
California has unsecured borders with each of the neighboring states.
If you want to look at whether or not gun laws are effective, the neighbor to the north is a better comparison, as people can't just bring guns over the border unchecked like in California. Especially since the gun laws in California are exceptionally weak when compared to gun laws in Canada.
Nowhere in the US is a checkpoint for the effectiveness of gun laws, as the gun laws in every state of the country are weak. The only way they can look strong is in comparison to other states, as they are clearly weak when compared to any other first-world nation.
SophiaHernandez
snowymountainhell,
Wow. if it turns out to be true I will rethink my comment from 08:22
bass4funk
And millions that are pro-gun, if they weren’t it would be a lot easier for Democrats to take them but knowing that a large block of their very own constituents are gun owners, they are not about to alienate them.
You can blame the guns all you want as well and this is why no one is listening to the media because at the end of the day they could care less about these people, they ONLY care about is confiscating all guns and that’s just pure fantasy.
SophiaHernandez
so, secure the borders between California and the rest of the United States? Secession?as I said, transfer of any firearm into California is already illegal.
How so?
snowymountainhell
?? - These photos show a significant amount of glass and a curtain cast ‘outward’ on to a mat ‘outside’ the home, onto the patio:
https://www.tmz.com/2021/12/01/clarence-jackie-avant-shot-killed-home-invasion-robbery/ -From the AFP article above:
Could be a point of ‘exit’, rather than ‘entry’? - Still, there doesn’t appear to be any ‘visible’ shoe prints in all that glass. - (Just sayin’ ; )
RegBilk
BigYenToday 12:06 pm JST
The death tolls related to guns, which are less than those automobile related (BAN CARS!), are generally caused by criminals.
Is there a country without criminals?
Anyway, as the US is the most worshiped nation, guns are not going away, and the left needs to recognize the problems with crimes, as opposed to guns, knives, and awls.
SophiaHernandez
BigYen,
you didn't answer my question. why do I seldom get a straight answer? come on. what more gun laws can California make?
RegBilk
zichiToday 12:20 pm JST
Thanks for the stats rainman. More guns are owned in the US than automotive vehicles yet more deaths are motor vehicle related.
Go dig up some more stats.
Peter14
Americans treat each other with such disdain and are so untrustworthy towards each other they need guns to protect themselves from other Americans.
While the US has things to laud and applaud, the way it treats itself is not one of them. Their gun laws are centuries out of date and will be their ultimate downfall. They dont need to worry about China or Russia, when they kill more of their own people each year than most wars have done.
Not a good example to the world on this issue.
bass4funk
You checked?
Yes, and Democrat leaders are not going to do anything about confiscating guns, Beto O’Rourke is campaigning on wanting to take firearms away from people, this guy will never be elected to anything even remotely close, he just killed his chances just by saying that garbage, you have a lot of liberals that own guns and if Democrats want to get elected to anything ever again, they need to stop waging jihad against law abiding gun owners, because it’s never going to happen.