Houston Man Is First to Be Charged Under Bump Stock Ban, Officials Believe
Ajay Dhingra drew the authorities’ focus after he sent an email asking former President George W. Bush to “send one of your boys to come murder me,” records show.
Bump stocks, attachments enabling semiautomatic rifles to fire in sustained, rapid bursts, were banned by the Trump administration last year. George Frey/Reuters
By Mihir Zaveri
Sept. 5, 2019 Updated 11:49 p.m. ET
The authorities in Houston said Thursday that they had brought charges in what they believed to be the country’s first prosecution under a new ban on bump stocks, the attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in sustained, rapid bursts.
The ban, which went into effect in March, was ordered last year by the Trump administration following several mass shootings.
The suspect in the Houston case, Ajay Dhingra, 43, drew the authorities’ attention in August after he sent an email to the George W. Bush Presidential Center asking the former president to “send one of your boys to come murder me,” according to court records. “I want to die by the hands of a white Christian.”
"Guns in America: What's Freud and Sex Got to Do With It? [...] > Can you please describe what you mean in your post about “beyond the unavoidable Freudian link between guns and potency…” Has anyone actually done research on this? How does this relate to pleasure of shooting a gun? Is it dangerous to associate pleasure with an object that can cause violence? I feel like there are lots of articles written about 'gun fetishes' that don't actually discuss them AS a fetish. Do you think it might be important to look at the sexual aspects of the gun, and our love of them? P - We often think of Freud as having suggested that everything can be interpreted in the context of sexuality, so the imagery of shooting bullets through a cylindrical barrel is hard to ignore. This is especially true when we acknowledge that the most gun violence and nearly every case of mass shooting is perpetrated by men. Thinking along those lines seems to be consistent with the observation that gun violence among men — especially in the context of mass shootings where perpetrators are haven mostly been white — is sometimes about compensating for feelings of impotence with fantasies of revenge that, more often than not, end in suicide or the perpetrator being killed by law enforcement. Going out with a bang, if you will."
yet another false equivalency. The rarity is that there have been a couple who WEREN'T alt right supporters of trump. So many guns and so easy to get means even normal people can go off sometimes. P - A buy back that paid a thousand or so would get a lot of them gone and make them less readily available. It would be a better use of the millions of ours that trump spends on golfing and profiting from the golfing. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150885988
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