Prayers for the Death of Children

March, 2010 - Crime: Road rage, murder

Houston, Texas - Richard Calderon, a CCW permit holder, was involved in a car accident where he hit a vehicle and kept going. When the driver of the car followed him in an attempt to get the license number in order to report him to police, Calderon shot at her. Instead of hitting the driver, he hit the driver's 13 year old daughter who died of her wounds.

Our prayers go out the family.

March, 2010 - Crime: Murder, Felonious Assault of a newborn

Cincinnati, Ohio - Shamon Davis, a CCW permit holder, should still be in the process of celebrating the birth of his daughter, Kloe, who was born three weeks ago.

Instead, he's in jail under a 3 million dollar bond.

It seems on a visit to his girlfriend, Kelli Walton's home to visit the baby, they argued over child support (Little Kloe being their fourth child, the others being ages 9, 6, and 3.) and Davis pulled out a gun and, while she held the newborn in her arms, shot her. The bullet grazed little Kloe's head, fracturing her skull and entered her mother, killing her.

Once again, our prayers go out to the motherless children and to Kelli's mother who has lost her precious daughter.

How to ruin a perfect party

February 2010 - Crime: Possession of a firearm in a liquor permit premises

Butler, Ohio - An unidentified concealed carry permit holder, after an evening out with his girlfriend and some friends, was getting ready to leave. Somehow, as he was putting on his coat, his .32 discharged, passing through his coat and hitting his girlfriend. Luckily, she was carrying a Blackberry Curve which stopped the slug and saved her life.

Anger, Stupidity, Insanity and Something to Consider

January, 2010 - Crime: Posession of a firearm while intoxicated and reckless use of a firearm
Novi, Michigan - At 4:45 PM a CCW permit holder whose name was withheld reportedly had been having a few with some friends when he decided to show his gun to his drinking buddy. No surprise that the gun was unintentionally discharged. The bullet travelled through the siding of the man's home to another nearby street, crashed through a family's sliding glass window and lodged in the wall near where the unsuspecting family had just sitting down for dinner. Luckily, no one was injured.

January, 2010 - Crime: Brandishing
Chico, California - Firefighter and CCW permit holder, Zachery Plottel, argued with a couple who were sitting in a car, apparently over the use of a laser pointer. The argument escalated to the point that Plottel took out his firearm and pointed it at the couple. The incident caused three nearby schools to go into lockdown. When apprehended Plottel pled the Fifth as to where he had place the firearm.

Plottel has been placed on administrative leave and if it's determined that the incident occurred within 1,000 feet of the nearest school, Neal Dow Elementary School, he may face additional charges which could negatively effect his 10 year career with the fire department.

January, 2010 - Crime: As yet unfiled
McDermitt, Ohio - A once again, unnamed CCW permit holder apparently needed to pay more attention when he was in school as he failed to read the large sign on his grandson's school which read 'No Concealed Guns on School Premises'. He went in with the gun unsecured in his pocket and decided to play basketball with his grandson in the school gym. The gun fell out of his pocket, discharged and shot him in the leg. Luckily the grandson was the only child in the gym at the time and he was uninjured.

Police are still determining appropriate charges.

January, 2010 - Crime: Murder
South Salt Lake City, Utah - Mary Nance Hanson, a CCW permit holder, went to the Salt Lake Community Action Program Head Start and firing at least five shots, killed Tetyana Nikitina, a head start teacher and mother of two as she left school for the day. Police stated that they had found evidence that Hanson had reloaded the firearm after firing several times.

When asked why she had killed the woman she stated that she didn't know and that that was all she was going to say.

Nikitina's two children, age 7 and 9 are in the custody of their father.



And a little bonus for you - for those who think that owning weapons are the be all and end all of security, I present you with this story:

January, 2010 - Crime: Theft, Complicity to Kidnapping, Complicity to Aggrevated Robbery
Fairfield Township, Ohio - Troy Purdin and his wife, both CCW permit owners, had a collection of firearms which they kept in a gun safe. They also had a cousin who had recently come into town named Timothy "TJ" Stone. They had not spent time with TJ since he was 10, but apparently one visit was enough to let TJ know that his relatives were gun owners.

The next time that TJ came over, he brought friends. Friends with their own firearms. TJ and his accomplises held a gun to Purdin's head and held him and his three year old son hostage while they stole the gun safe and 16 firearms.

Law Abiding CCW Permit Holder??!?

Christmas Day, 2009 - Crime: Felonious Assault

Dayton, Ohio - Shamar Davis is a familiar face to law enforcement in Dayton. As a reputed 'Money Go Getter' gang member, he's had several run ins with police. And he had another on Christmas Day when he was involved in a fight at a local club that erupted into gunfire.

Did I mention that this gang member with a criminal history has a CCW permit? Yep. Real law abiding citizen using the 2nd Amendment to protect himself and his rights.

In this case, just knowledge wasn't power enough

November, 2009 - Crime: OVI, having a weapon while intoxicated
Brecksville, Ohio - An unidentified CCW permit holder was stopped for weaving and driving on the wrong side of the road. He was found carrying a Glock 19 semi-automatic. He admitted that he had had alcoholic beverages and was aware that it was illegal to carry a firearm while intoxicated. He refused to take any sobriety tests.

Complicating Simple Situations

October, 2009 - Crime: Possession of a gun on school grounds
Marietta, Ohio - Robert Ball, a CCW permit holder, was waiting to pick up his kid brother after a band competition. Unfortunately, he and a friend decided to bring some "refreshments" and two loaded firearms, none of which is allowed on school property. Luckily, a police officer noticed Ball's passenger chugging the beer and investigated.

Let's see, being intoxicated and having a loaded gun around a crowded school grounds, being intoxicated and driving, being intoxicated and driving with a friend and your little brother in the car.

Call it luck, call it karma, call it a swarm of guardian angels - whatever you call it, the folks in Marietta dodged one last Friday.

October, 2009 - Crime: Resisting a police officer with a weapon
Las Vegas, Nevada - Libertarian Congressional candidate, former Nevada Libertarian Party chairman and CCW candidate, Raymond James Duensing, was pulled over by the police for driving through an intersection in a right turn only lane. As is standard procedure, the officer ran Duensing's information through his computer and when he did, he discovered that Duensing had a warrant for his arrest.

Apparently, not taking the idea of being arrested well, he attempted to flee while reaching for his .45. He was shot in the arm, tased and arrested.

There's no mention as to why Duensing thought running for the police and reaching for a firearm would have been more helpful to the situation than alerting the officer that you had a CCW permit and were carrying and going in, in a mature fashion, to clear up whatever legal difficulties there were. Whatever he was thinking, he's lucky it didn't get him killed.

Celebrity Abuses

January, 2008 - Crime: Possession of narcotic for sale, possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and misconduct involving weapons.
Yuma, Arizona - A trial date has been set for rapper and concealed carry permit holder, Lil Wayne, who was arrested at a border stop in Yuma after police found 41 grams of ecstasy, an ounce of cocaine, four ounces of pot and his handgun.

His hearing will be March, 2010.

August, 2009 - Aggrevated menacing, discharging firearms in the city and improper handling of firearms in a motor vehicle
Cleveland, Ohio - Nathaniel Summers, a CCW permit holder, became upset when two women who were fighting in the parking lot where he was dropping off a friend bumped his car. The argument escalated and Summers pulled two firearms out of his car and began firing into the air. Summers has been placed on probation, his guns will be destroyed and he will be taking anger management courses.

Just in time for the pre-Christmas sales

September, 2009 - Crime: Aggrevated menacing
Cincinnati, Ohio - Donald Goodrich, a CCW permit holder, was angry because his cell phone wasn't working properly. When he took it to the Apple store, he told the employee that he was so angry that he could "pop a 9mm at it" and then stated that he was going to shoot the phone as he showed the employee that he indeed HAD a 9mm.

The employee, with remarkable calm, assured Mr. Goodrich that she would fix the phone, took it to the manager and alerted him to the situation. Police were called and Mr. Goodrich was arrested.

Update September 19, 2009

September, 2009 - Crime: Murdering a police officer
Twinsburg, Ohio - Ashford Thompson, a CCW permit holder, is charged with murdering police officer, Joshua Miktarian.

September, 2009 - Crime: Prohibited use of a firearm, disorderly conduct
Arapahoe Co., Colorado - Timothy Guinn, a CCW permit holder, and two of his friends, Brian Laro and an unnamed individual were in the wrong place at the wrong time. When the FBI spotted them walking in the parking lot of Laro's apartment complex, they were carrying an AR-15 and a .45. Unfortunately, they also were well over the legal drinking limit. Timothy had a .20 and Brian had a .123. Why were the FBI watching the complex? Because they were investigating a suspected terrorist who also lived in the complex.