The well-regulated militia is hard at work protecting freedom in Sioux Falls:
An 11-year-old child is in critical condition in Sioux Falls after being shot by a 10-year-old boy. It happened at a home on the west side of Sioux Falls. The shooting occurred Saturday at a home on South Larch Avenue. The 11-year-old victim was accidentally shot in the left arm and stomach. At last word, the child was listed in critical condition.
…According to court records, at the time of the shooting, [the shooter’s mother] Miranda Kriechseidschlaw was in the Minnehaha County jail, accused of having a stolen vehicle last Thursday. The 31-year-old woman has two prior felony meth convictions. The most recent was last year. She now faces new charges in connection to the shooting.
“The two charges on the warrant are abuse or cruelty to a minor and possession of a firearm by a convicted drug offender,” said Sam Clemens with the Sioux Falls Police Department.
After the shooting, police got a search warrant to search Kriechseidschlaw’s apartment on North Cleveland Avenue. Police say they found a Smith & Wesson assault-style weapon called an M&P 15-22. They also found ammunition matching both guns in a Coach purse under the bathroom sink.
Kriechseidschlaw denies the guns are hers [Tom Hanson, “10-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots 11-Year-Old, Mom Charged,” KELO-TV, 2023.04.17].
Why should Kriechseidschlaw face any gun-related charges? She’s not exposing her kids to any more guns in the home than Kristi Noem’s family is giving to the Governor’s not-yet-two-year-old toddler.
The M&P 15-22 is a semi-automatic rifle that shoots the 22 caliber long rifle ammunition. It is capable and legal to carry a 10 round magazine in the following states “California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington”. Other than the states listed above a 25 round magazine is legal. However it only takes 1 round in the hands of the wrong individual to cause life altering damage.
Were these 10 and 11 year old kids home alone while mom was in jail? When she was arrested why weren’t the kids checked on and taken to the home of a relative, neighbor, or some other responsible adult willing to care for them while needed. In addition to an irresponsible parent, the system also failed when mom was first arrested for the car theft.
Nich raises a valid point: the obligation to provide a safe envcironment for the children would seem to shift to some other adult or to the State as soon as the State takes the mother into custody and prevents her from taking steps to provide that safe environment.
And if simply possessing a gun in a home with children is a failure to provide a safe environment, then I share Cory’s curiosity: what about the two guns that “Kristi Noem’s family is giving to the Governor’s not-yet-two-year-old toddler,” as well as South Dakotans with a gun or gun collections and children, both in their homes?
Maybe mom was just holding the guns for a “friend”.
Such crap!!
One Colorado company is trying to address gun safety with innovation. Biofirei in Broomfield is building its own brand of smart gun from the ground up, both mechanically and technologically.
It’s a handgun with a fingerprint sensor on the grip designed to only unlock for the owner. It then locks instantaneously when they put it down.
https://www.denver7.com/news/in-good-company/colorados-biofire-using-smart-technology-to-tackle-gun-safety?_amp=true
To 2nd Amendment fanatics……
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3j8xOqqUQZE
As Kaiser Health News finds, Americans now commonly experience gun violence.
Guns are not stored safely here. This Sioux Falls parent is not alone experiencing the US’s outlier
“more guns–more gun violence” carnage. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
On learning that firearm violence is now the leading cause of death for US children and teens,
did SD’s Gov. Noem and legislators or US Congressmen Thune, Rounds, or Johnson pass
strong gun control laws as other peer nations have done? Nope—the opposite.
Does South Dakota have laws that protect children from gun violence? Nope, nope, and nope.
4-11-2023 KFF Americans’ Experiences With Gun-Related Violence, Injuries, And Deaths
https://www.kff.org/other/poll-finding/americans-experiences-with-gun-related-violence-injuries-and-deaths/
7-8-2022 KFF Child and Teen Firearm Mortality in the U.S. and Peer Countries
https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/
2021 KFF States with Firearm Laws Designed to Protect Children
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/firearms-and-children-legislation/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
Well, IMO, there are some serious problems with both the gun nuts and the no nothing gun haters. Agree that the rifle was a “assault weapon” styled gun but it was a 22! I was hunting with a 22 at age 10. I did have responsible parents that would only let me hunt alone after careful indoctrination in gun safety.. Pistols???…Well, once again I had a responsible 2’nd WW Marine veteran father that instilled in me a dislike of pistols. My dad told me that pistols were only good for shooting people at short range. That they were inherently unsafe since it was almost impossible to keep them pointed in a safe direction. In my life I have only owned one and not for long. Do personally know three fellows that have accidentally shot themselves with their pistols!! Know of other accidental pistol discharges that didn’t injure anyone.
Lot of problems with this story and the responses but I would guess the number one problem is the meth addiction not the guns. Blame should be placed on responsible agency’s as well, Why does a meth addict even have children in her care????? Where is responsible government if there is any?
This country needs a massive outlay to hire law enforcement and the fact that everyone an officer is going to encounter is likely to have a concealed handgun is a major problem. Really cracking down on concealed pistols should be on top of law enforcements agenda. They should be monitored constantly and taxed through the roof at any purchase of new and used. Owning one should be such a hassle that people avoid them.
Owners of long arms, on the other hand, should be organized into private militia’s. I have only recently come to the belief that the second amendment was not so much intended to allow the government to raise a militia but to allow the people to raise a militia AGAINST the government. Things have gotten so far out of hand in this country that I think the threat of an armed insurrection is the only thing capable of fixing them.
Clyde, then in your view does the 2nd Amendement make an armed insurrection by a non-government militia legal?
No it does not but I think it may become necessary to at least offer the threat. If the citizenry presented that threat it might make those that are supposedly representing us actually do so. During the 1930’s a army was being raised in North Dakota just for that purpose. Remember the “bonus army” in Washington. Of course if the necessity to actually go into combat became necessary the Militia’s would not stand a chance but if there were a large enough number……Remember WE are many THEY are few.
If anyone on this forum would actually like to do something get behind THIS and see that this worthless state government push it through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHGFwfvAa4I
An armed militia carrying out an insurrection — even threatening an insurrection — is a teen-boy fevered fantasy.
The Second Amendment is profit-at-any-cost capitalism coopted by right-wing extremism for the purpose of virtue signaling. One can only support the current extremist, individual interpretation of the Second Amendment IF setting aside ALL evidence and fact.
Clyde, If I understand what you are saying, and correct me if I am wrong, you believe the 2nd Amendment is intended to allow the people to “threaten” to raise a militia “AGAINST the government” as you have written, but you also believe that raising that militia against the government for an armed insurrection is not legally authorized by the 2nd Amendment. You also have written that
As you may be aware, it is currently illegal to threaten violence against the government.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_government_officials_of_the_United_States.
Do you believe then that the 2nd Amendment overrides these criminal statutes and makes it legal for people that want to “fix things” to use guns to “threaten” government officials, such as the President, members of Congress, Judges, bureucrats et al, with a violent insurrection?
Civilian possession of assault weapons should be criminalized with a rather toothy mandatory sentence (minimum five years). It’s time to rein in the gun culture hard with a big step in the sensible, humane direction. No registration, no gun transfer. No cooling off period, no gun transfer. No guns at all for felons, people with violent criminal records, domestic abusers and people who pose harm to themselves and others (remove any guns in their possession). And stack the SCOTUS and federal benches with judges who have a sober, literal reading of the 2nd Amendment. There is a well organized militia called the National Guard in every state. Nobody needs two or more of them and nobody especially needs clowns who think they are a legal militia only because they imagine they are.
Guns in the hands of the wrong people is the epidemic that is real in the USA. After the events since Jan. 6, 2021, there should be no doubt about what gun fever has done to cripple our democracy and make us all unsafe.
Ammon Bundy announced he had reached his breaking point and local sheriff declined to serve papers on his sorry ass. Tail wagging the dog?
Ammon Bundy demonstrates exactly the freedom from government that a well-armed militia really means: putting one’s self above the law through/because of gun ownership. He is not reforming a tyrannical government or embodying the will of the repressed people; he just doesn’t want to play be the laws the society — a society he enjoys the VAST majority of the benefits of — that the majority of the society has set. This nonsense of militia checking the tyranny of the government is nothing more than justification of criminal action by gun. Somehow the 2nd Amendment fanatics have seen gun ownership as a license for the criminal behavior guns embolden them to.
Look, I am a former hater of assault guns and especially pistols but this country has gotten so bad I have changed my stance. I own a large number of guns and hunt. Nearly all of those guns are antiques. The sensational statistics the propaganda machine puts out doesn’t tell you that the number of people that own guns is not all that high but those who do own guns usually own several. The propaganda machine loves to ferret out every action of paranoid gun idiots. Perhaps their paranoia might have something to do with the insanity of crime all around them.
The idiot pro gun nuts are going to get all guns taken away by this increasingly anti constitution authoritarian government that is behind the constant barrage of anti gun news. When they are gone you will see just how authoritarian a government can be. Take a look at any country where the populace is not allowed to own firearms and tell me how FREE those people are.
Do something constructive and see that the action called for by the video I posted get’s done in this the reddest of all states.
Just in….. 2021 was the deadliest year for kids being killed by guns. (2021 the latest year stats are available for)
Do not feed hungry kds, shoot them. More humane, innit? https://tinyurl.com/4fzx7snn