Shomo – The Last Bit
I’ll miss that name
Via Xrlq, Aubrey Ellen Shomo addresses her critics and addresses the following allegations:
I do not have a CCW permit.
Yes, I said that. Because her original piece states I am now qualified for a concealed weapons permit. Why not just say I have a concealed weapons permit? She removes all doubt by posting a picture of her permit there (good for her). However, it is worth noting that it is entirely possible Tim Lambert helped forge one (for those who haven’t been reading this site a while, that would be a joke).
I violated state and/or federal law in handling a weapon, or in applying for a permit, or that I must have lied on my application form.
Well, nothing I found anywhere else (granted, I didn’t look very hard) intimated that said commitment was 1) by your parents and 2) technically not considered adjudication nor technically considered committed to a mental institution. So, it seems, you have benefited from the parental commitment loophole. And that is fine with me. Seems to be fine with you as well.
I am a psycho.
I never said any such thing.
A few other notes on her comments:
Should I be allowed to own a firearm now? Yes, I believe so. I have a completely clean bill of mental health.
I don’t disagree. Innocent until proven guilty and sane until proven otherwise as far as I’m concerned.
That said, I probably should have had to prove it. Nothing, under the law, separates me from anyone else with my past who might – very understandably – not be the sort of person the General Assembly of the State of Colorado wants to see armed.
And how would you prove it? The NICS (National Instant Check System) is generally inaccurate when it comes to mental health issues. And unless it picks up a blip, there’s nothing to prove. If it does pick up a blip, there is a procedure to dispute said blips.
My point is about how easy it is to get a permit, and about how stereotypical my instructors were.
I thought your point was to make fun of gun nuts and the CCW process. Yet, you seem to feel the need to justify that you, in fact, are perfectly within your rights to get one. As I said, I do not disagree.
And my only point now is that you should have written that a bit more clearly.
Update: I knew it. In response to my comments at her blog, she writes:
When I initially wrote the piece, I did not yet have a permit.
December 21st, 2005 at 10:33 am
Congrats to Ellen on getting her CCW. Now she needs to practice….practice….practice. Wonder if she owns her own gun? Does she have that Glocky look in her eyes or do you think she’s a Ruger SP101 all the way?
Maybe she’ll get hitched up with the cowboy action shooters bunch and get a handle! The Shomo Kid. Suicide Shomo. Sixgun Shomo. Saloongirl.
The possiblilities are endless. If she puts up a contribution button, I hope everyone hits it for a box of 9mm at least…this girl NEEDS to be shooting.
As Kim would say: Welcome to the Nation of Riflemen!
December 21st, 2005 at 11:07 am
Along the same lines, I was wondering if, once she actually went shooting, if she’d like it? Like Mikey on the cereal commercial.
December 21st, 2005 at 11:08 am
So basically her point of the story is:
“My instructor is big, slow, and dumb, and by extension so is any other gun nut.”
and not:
“I’m mental, but I easily got myself a firearm carry permit anyway”
Cool, I’m glad she got that straight. But I have to point out that she did a crappy job explaining everything in the first place:
Inside, I filled out a standard form to make sure I was legal. Restraining orders? None. Felony? Nope. Ever been committed? Snicker. Technically, no. Not by a court. Am I a fugitive from justice? I bet fugitives usually answer that one honestly.
Of course, it wouldn’t be as entertaining a read had she not spiced it up a bit. I also notice she issued her correction in her own blog and not on the Democratic Underground.
December 21st, 2005 at 11:10 am
another quote:
And people think I shouldn’t be armed.
Excuse me for misunderstanding you mental state.
December 21st, 2005 at 2:54 pm
“have you ever been committed to a mental institution?”
I read that as have you ever stayed in a mental instituation, which i think would be the common man’s reading. Weather you went voluntary or not, is not the issue. I do not know if my reading is correct or not by a legal standard, but then again I also dislike most lawyers.
Of course the forms are also written by lawyers, so the chick could be right on that point.