Justification

From my Facebook memories, 2013:

@tomgara: I'd just like to recommend, as a general idea, that maybe America should consider shooting less things.

I don’t remember what was happening six years ago that would give context to that tweet, but I certainly know what’s happening now. In Howard County we have had two recent tragedies involving the use of firearms. Lives lost, other lives forever changed.

The local Republican Club is hosting an event to help people learn when they are legally justified to shoot people.

Join us on Wednesday, October 9th from 6:30 to 8:30  at The Hawthorne Center, 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD 21044 to learn when you are legally justified to defend yourself or your loved ones under Maryland Law. US Law Shield Independent Program Attorney Terrence Decker will be covering this topic along with the Castle Doctrine, Civil Liability, and how to interact with police after a critical incident. This is a free event for members of the Howard County Republican Club and Howard County Republican Women Club, use the promo code FRIEND when registering at the link below. Seats are limited and will fill up fast so reserve yours today!

It sounds as though they are expecting a line out the door, doesn’t it?

I wonder if they will discuss Gerard Espinosa or Stephen Michael Tucker. Perhaps they’ll discuss how a police officer received a sentence of only ten years for shooting a man in his own living room. It’s hard to say. It seems unlikely that they will discuss how all of these situations would have been different if no one had guns.

I do know that somebody, somewhere, made an assumption that there are either a) no Jewish gun owners or b) no Jewish Republicans. Why?

They’re holding this event on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.