A week before Ron Haskell allegedly killed four children and two adults in a Texas rampage he taped his mother to a chair, choked her and threatened to kill her for speaking to his ex-wife, according to police records obtained by ABC News.
The wife had also filed domestic abuse complaint against her husband in 2008 after he dragged her by the hair and repeatedly punched her in the head and five years later sought a restraining order against him, court documents state.
Haskell, 33, was charged with capital murder today for allegedly shooting seven people in Spring, Texas. Six died and one is in the hospital with a head wound. He shot his victims after kicking open their door, tying them up face down on the floor and demanding to know where his wife was, according to testimony in a preliminary hearing today. He then shot them execution style.
Did you know the US Constitution has something called the "Domestic Violence Clause"?
ReplyDeleteOn application of the [state] legislature or the executive [governor] when the legislature cannot be convened, the United States shall protect them [the people] against domestic violence.
It's time for this to be MISused the same way the Second Amendment has.
www.domesticviolenceclause.org
Yeah, this is like double-domestic violence. In order to have the maximum convenience in exercising their so-called rights, the gun fanatics want guys like this to have legal access.
DeletePerhaps if his domestic assault charge hadn't plea bargained down in Utah back in '08, he wouldn't have acquired the firearm he used. Perhaps we should be asking some questions of that prosecutor.
ReplyDelete"Ronald Haskell pleaded guilty to simple assault in a domestic violence-related incident in 2008, according to Utah state court records."
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865606660/Utahn-accused-of-killing-6-in-Texas-was-ordered-to-stay-away-from-ex-wife.html?pg=all
Guess what? This isn't an isolated occurrence.
DeleteIn fact, plea bargains happen in the vast majority of all cases. There are a number of reasons: an overloaded judicial system, costs associated with going to a jury trial, etc.
This is why the "law-abiding citizen" meme is so absurd. Per the gunloon, Ronald Haskell is a law-abiding citizen.
If Republicans would stop the "tax cut" meme, maybe we would have the money to not plea barging every crime to its lowest (dishonest) level. Blame the authorities after denying them the money needed to properly prosecute criminals.
DeleteHaskell, born, married, divorced and employed in California and with a current California drivers license, could only legally buy a gun in California. In California if you are convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence, you are prohibited under California law from possessing a gun for ten years. A felony conviction results in a lifetime ban. Listed among his recent and eventful criminal history in California including attacks on his sister and mother, officials have already stated that they confiscated weapons he stole from his father from Haskell (another felony). Any firearms he bought during the time he lived Utah would have been required to be registered in California within 60 days of returning according to California law. The registration would have triggered a background check again.
ReplyDeleteIt is illegal to buy a weapon outside the state of your residency, so if he bought the weapon en-route in Arizona, New Mexico or Texas it would have been a violation of federal law for both private sales and licensed dealer sales. So I can't see how he could be a legal gun owner, if he is, it is a miss for California.
The bigger question for me is how California could determine that he was unsafe to be with his own kids but was fine to mingle among ours. It doesn't take a gun for a man of his size to overpower a 15 year old girl, and once she is at jeopardy, it doesn't take a gun to subdue the rest when they arrive home. They were tied up and helpless when he killed them all.
He was divorced in Utah, not CA. Same with the domestic violence charges. He lived in Alaska, fished, may have hunted, and comes from a family that has members involved in law enforcement. I seriously doubt the gun was a recent purchase.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia has already confiscated guns from him once. As stated above California law requires you register any guns you bring into the state as a resident (which he was) within 60 days (which had passed). So if he had legally acquired the gun in Utah or anywhere else it was not legal for him to have it in California.
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