Want to enact ‘gun control’ without the paralyzing insanity and rhetoric? Try this: if you leave a gun in an unlocked car you’re charged with reckless conduct (or some variation). In my city, we have hundreds and I mean HUNDREDS of guns stolen from unlocked cars year after year..
Another thing, write down the serial numbers of the guns you leave around unsecured like candy so that when they are inevitably stolen (‘but I never lock mah car!!) we can work those cases when they’re used for crimes: spoiler alert, they’re ALWAYS used for crime...
You want a gun, great, fine, have a gun. But be responsible. Don’t display them like books in your house. Don’t show unsecured guns in your social media. And STOP LEAVING THEM IN UNLOCKED CARS!!
I mean, come on, we’re the country with tough guy ‘zero tolerance’ for endless nonviolent misdemeanors. So you should be charged and prosecuted for leaving a gun in an unlocked car. I’ve worked countless ‘entering auto’ cases. I’ve worked maybe five where they actually broke in.

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So this happened at the end of the day: My personal cell rings. Number from Florida I don’t know. I rarely answer these calls cuz it’s endless car warrant social security police scams. But I answer. And Jane says ‘hi skinner!’ So who’s Jane, you ask?
Jane is a struggling neighbor I’ve gotten to know over the last 2 years. Often at chaotic loud calls. More often when I stopped by the side of the road or her tent & talk. Or let her use my phone to video parole officers or just friends. I don’t see her much as a detective....
So today she calls. And says ‘hey skinner. I just wanted to let you know I’m in Florida. In a hospital.’ We talk about her health and hopes for a recovery. And she says ‘I called for two reasons. That if people wonder if I went missing tell them I’m ok down in Florida’...
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He focuses on the acceptance of violence in politics. First in rhetoric & then in physical violence & murder in the days after the revolution that ended Wilhelmine Germany. Sound familiar? Replaced by an old man uninterested & opposed in democratic institutions. Sound familiar?
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Home. New cases same approach. Grind it out. Theresa put together my outfit this morning in honor of her most favorite movie ever...so I got that going for me.
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In a rare bad mood so I’m re-watching season one episode one of True Detective. Back at it tomorrow to bend the zeitgeist a little bit more.
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I don’t sleep. I just dream.

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Home. And of course I’m greeted by MeanCat on the front porch...and Drunk Uncle Orangey WHO SERIOUSLY IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN THIS ZIP CODE LET ALONE ON OUR FRONT PORCH. Anyway, it evidently was time for second dinner. And I was late. Sorry.
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