Kenneth Glasgow, 1/2 Brother Of Rev. Al Sharpton,
Spoke At Anti-Gun Event; Faces Capital Murder In Shooting Death Of 23 Year Old Breunia Jennings One Day Later...Mother of Breunia Jennings: "They didn't have to kill my baby."
Sincerest condolences to the family of Ms. Jennings.
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This stuff cannot be made up.
Oopsy,his Race-Card might not work as it used to!
Under Alabama law, both may be (and are) charged with capital murder & face the death penalty.
I suspect Pastor Kenny might be offered a plea deal...
Turn state's evidence, spill his guts & send the other guy to death row; in return, he avoids the lethal needle.
JMO.
Now, regarding Pastor Kenny's Anti-Gun rhetoric 36 hours prior to being arrested/charged -
If Ms. Jennings had been packing, the incident might've ended differently.
True, that cannot be said with certainty; what is certain - it couldn't have ended a helluva lot worse than it did.
The March For Our Lives Anti-Gun event was held nationwide last Saturday, March 24.
Fifty-two year old Pastor Kenny was arrested the evening of Sunday, March 25 and subsequently charged with capital (death penalty) murder.
For the record, Pastor Kenny was not part of the planned events of the March in Dothan, Alabama.
He was a surprise speaker at the event.
The anti-gun March For Our Lives Movement has called Pastor Kenny's arrest 'troubling' - an understatement of galactic proportions, given the nature and timing of the incident.
The movement appears to be doing all it can to distance itself from the Pastor - no heart stopping surprise there, eh?
Whether Pastor Kenny escapes the death penalty or not, I suspect he's drawn his last breath as a free man.
I also have a weird interest in a great series of programmes on one of our channels about the major jails in U.S. and interviews with guy s on Death Row. Some there since they were about 14 years of age, who have grown up, and grown old on Death row.
Sorry gone off point ~ With the pharmaceutical companies and the fact that so many of their chemicals used in lethal injection have taken a long time to work, causing terrible suffering to the person strapped in, and also causing people to protest against the Death penalty. All pharma. companies have all but stopped supplying the particular Drug.
So, as you rightly say, the person will be in the prison [and they are far from nice, and the solitary confinement blocks in death row are places you would go mad in ], it is a probability that if charged, he will spend a long long time in a very unpleasant place.
Some said in the interviews they would prefer the injection to the life they are living.
I've heard it claimed that persons of certain age/gender/ethnic demographics residing in certain U.S. cities would actually increase their life expectancy by being sent to death row...
For y'all less familiar with U.S. news than gg -
Rev. Al Sharpton is a national figure & a frequent guest on U.S. national network news programs as an exponent of lib'rul views.
As might be expected, Rev. Al appeared on such media as part of the anti-gun March For Our Lives event.
Some hours before his 1/2 bro's arrest for capital murder, he opined that the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the one which affirms the right of individuals to legally keep & bear arms) may be outdated...
It might be speculated that were Ms. Jennings available for comment (i.e. on this side of the grave) she may not share Rev. Al's views
It might also be speculated that recent events have dealt Rev. Al's career as an exponent of lib'rul views (especially gun control) a significant setback.
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I don't think I can comment fairly as never having lived in a place as big as U,S, I can't really make a judgement that would be fair. The only people here who have them are the major criminals and the hit men who use Guns as an accessory to their career..
My grandfather always had a gun in the house,but it was a hunting one. kept well locked away. You had to have a licence and be registered with the cops as far as I remember.
For those unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution, the first 10 Amendments are referred to as The Bill Of Rights.
As we're discussing keeping & bearing arms, I'll pass along the 2nd Amendment in it's entirety...
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
- Ratified, along with the rest of The Bill Of Rights, December 15, 1791
That's it. The whole thing. Nothing left out.
Those ol' framers were nothing if not brief & to the point, eh?
More later...
The U.S. is big.
Sure is!
And there's a lot of variety.
North, South, East, West, Urban, Rural, Remote, The Coasts, Fly-Over-Coumtry...
People from other countries may have some...well...less than accurate perceptions of the U.S. - hearing of one type of environment/culture and thinking it's the whole country.
Example -
I used to conduct step-on guided tours for motorcoach tours traveling along the Mississippi River.
( Did you know - 'Mississippi' is the second most universally understood word in the English language?)
Anyway.
Some of the tours arrived from other countries and it made for interesting cultural exchanges.
One group from Japan was in the U.S. following the course of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books.
Their first stop was her birthsite near the Mississippi River; I was introducing them to Laura, the books, the Mississippi Valley...and the U.S.
We made a trip to Laura's rural birthsite.
A few of the women were talking among themselves in Japanese, and then took me aside and asked me a question unrelated to Laura or her books...
They wanted to know if they might be shot in a drive-by shooting.
It took me awhile to understand what they were even talking about!
They'd heard of such shootings taking place in larger cities & thought it happened everywhere in the U.S.
I assured them there was virtually no chance of it occurring there.
The county in which they were had experienced less than a half dozen or so murders...in the previous hundred years. Most all of them arose from disagreements among people; the most recent being committed by jealous wife ten years previously.
They were amazed. And relieved!
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Women in the country.
A couple women moved into a very remote part of that area.
Actually, they were a 'woman couple'
They were very gentle middle-aged ladies.
One was an artist, the other was interested in growing veggies.
Both were quite lib'rul, not in favor of gun ownership.
UNTIL...
They pulled me aside one day to ask what type of gun would be good for self-defense.
Their home had been vandalized.
They weren't home when it happened, but they felt violated.
Violated and unnerved.
Night sounds that might've once been enjoyable became potentially threatening.
I advised them to get training in firearms & offered some suggestions of firearms that might meet their requirements.
Don't know if they ever got a gun; I b'lieve they moved from their 'little piece of heaven' not long after.
Sad to see 'em go...
No I have never thought of U.S. as being one large place, it is many different laws etc., in each place, as in Texas is so different from New York, Ohio and Missippi , you cannot compare.
"The only people here who have them (guns) are the major criminals and the hit men who use Guns as an accessory to their career."
Therein lies a problem...
The folks who obey gun laws abide by other laws...they're not the problem.
The problem is the folks who disregard laws generally...
and then thinking those folks WILL abide by gun laws.