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Nashville DA’s domestic violence team seizes first gun. The man was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend.
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May 15th, 2015 at 1:10 am
What a tool. He’s bragging about seizing guns from people convicted of misdemeanors, while he is being investigated for defrauding the state so that he could get take office under a more favorable pension arrangement.
May 15th, 2015 at 8:23 am
Did he assault her with a gun?
May 15th, 2015 at 9:31 am
That shows their true goal. It’s not to keep guns away from “violent abusers”, or to keep the victim safe. It’s to seize guns. Period.
May 15th, 2015 at 11:54 am
You can lose your carry permit too; even if as in our FLA county the cops use their discretion in a non-violent domestic violence situation (think that’s an oxymoron? Not by state definition it’s not) and even if the case is nolle prossed.
Several years ago son and fiancé had been drinking at home and got into an argument. Son goes to leave and fiancé grabs his keys; he grabs them back and she calls 911 so he won’t drive drunk. At this point they’ve both attempted to do the right thing, him by leaving to avoid escalation, she by trying to protect him and others from him driving impaired.
But even LEO discretion doesn’t protect you from the intractability of the system; the deputies know my son and would have liked to just drive him to my home but their hands were tied because the girl’s arm was scratched in the tussle for the keys and they had to take him and book him for DV, telling him the case would be dropped when the girl asked for that. She did, the state’s attorney nolle prossed, but the report to the state saying DV still triggered a suspension letter a few weeks later.
Not making any excuses here; booze will fuck you up every time, and taking the keys and trying to drive away was wrong and could have ended tragically. The girl’s actions in calling 911 was to protect someone she loved, but she could have called me or a friend instead. His permit was reinstated after two months of paperwork exchange and 2K to the esq., but this is truly a case of catch 22 and good intentions going bad. An example of why mandatory laws are flawed, taking away important rights when some discretion, discussion, and sleep would have solved the problem.
Certainly a learning experience for him, and his hope is that the story will help others learn what can happen in a not quite innocent, but certainly not criminal situation.