Running shooting thread 2023

The one time I made it into the room on jury duty, it was for someone accused of taking a tip box at a casino. Of course there was video.

 

My favorite burrito place only takes cash.

And apparently an airport luggage cart.

 

About 20-something years ago one of our local casinos got robbed by a highly organized crew. They set a fire on one end of the city, 10 or 15 miles south of the casino, and called in a bomb threat or something on the other end of the city, 10 or 15 miles north, to pull all of the cops away from the casino in the middle. Then, at 9 a.m. on Sunday, when the casino was taking money to the armored car, they pulled the heist outside the casino.
Got the money, hit the highway and were gone. Got away with about $50,000 IIRC, and the case was never solved.

 

In cases like that, there’s often at least one former (or current) employee involved who has inside info on when cash is about to be banked or brought in.

Problem with a casino is there probably are a LOT of recent employees — those places really churn through people.

 

In a case like that, the highly organized crew had to be several people and maybe had to kick some up. What was each person's take, maybe $5K. Not getting caught or involved in a shootout puts them in the minority, so that's why I the risk isn't worth the reward. Even if I was into crime, I probably wouldn't risk death or decades behind bars for five grand.

 

A follow-up to this tells a pretty complete story: another violent ex-husband goes off the deep end.
Glenn Douglas Perry: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

 

Got 230 years? Was his name Moses?

 

And again, historian Garry Wills:

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/04/04/the-court-kills/

Previous Courts read history, not simply the dictionary, and knew that Madison added the Bill of Rights not because there was any threat to individual ownership of guns, which had always existed unchallenged and would continue to do so before, under, and after the draft Constitution. If personal weapons of self-defense or attack were the issue Madison was dealing with, the Second Amendment could have been written about a right to “bear knives” or “bear swords” or “bear clubs.”

No, Madison added the Second Amendment to placate “states’ rights” advocates like Patrick Henry, who argued state militias had to be guaranteed for three reasons:

1. Short of war, states could not be shielded by a Federal standing army, which the Founders opposed. (How has that gone, Joint Chiefs?)
2. Residents of the states wanted to be able to respond to clashes on their borders with Native Americans or local opposition before a Federal authority could respond.
3. Slaveholders like Henry (and this was the main reason) feared slave uprisings in the South, anticipating rebellions like Nat Turner’s in 1831. They wanted to “keep arms” in guarded armories where the “well regulated” militias could get them out quickly and irregular slave mobs could not.

 

If you ever listen to the stories of some of the old school gamblers like Doyle Brunson, having your card game robbed from time to time was just part of it. If someone showed up with a gun, give them what they want, and play somewhere else the next night.

 

Restaurants.