Fire, Meet Gasoline
There’s a little town named Greenville, Texas, just east of Dallas. A guy in that town by the name of Nathan Donald Pelham, was fixing to face 3 misdemeanor charges for his participation in the January 6th insurrection. And then he screwed up.
On April 12, an FBI special agent called Pelham and asked him to surrender “in a few days.” You know, it was a misdemeanor so they didn’t think they were dealing with somebody who should have been sitting in jail for a year awaiting trial. Later that same day, the local police get a request from Pelham’s father to do a welfare check on Pelham, which they do.
The damn fool fired on them when they arrived at his home. One officer was missed by inches.
Many the Jan. 6 defendants who have pleaded guilty to the same misdemeanor charges against Pelham have been sentenced only to periods of probation.
So, the dude facing probable probation ain’t likely going to be celebrating Christmas at home – for several years.
Now comes the fun part. Right after the January insurrection …
Authorities said that after they obtained a search warrant, they found text messages on Pelham’s phone that suggested he entered the Capitol, according to court documents.
“If you have a video of being inside, don’t post it,” his wife is alleged to have written a day after the riot. “I know I am smart honey,” Pelham replied, according to court documents.
Obviously not all that smart.
It’s like they get up every morning and have to shoot some damn thing.
STOOPID carries its own penalty.
1Sounds as though we’re falling down in the “well regulated” section of the Second Amendment. Perhaps mandatory training classes on the proper storage and use of firearms before letting people buy them? (Sacrilege, I know.)
As others have noted, the Second Amendment was drafted in the age of single-shot black powder weapons. Perhaps untrained people’s “right to bear arms” should be limited to black powder flintlocks? It’d definitely cut down on the number of people blasting away until the magazine’s empty…
2Why didn’t the father or wife do a welfare check first? Maybe they were scared of him so they put the police in harms way first, probably without warning he might be armed..
3RepubAnon you are so right!! And Steve doesn’t that sound like entrapment of police.and finally Mike ain’t that just the truth!
4Thanks for posting this, JJ. It made my day. Just more proof that you can’t fix stupid.
5So he’s gone from a misdemeanor to a felony. Not only will he be put away – endangering a policeman has a twenty year minimum – but he won’t be voting, legally at least!
6One of the things I remember from my time in Dallas is that Greenville was known for having a banner that said, “Welcome to Greenville, the Blackest Land, The Whitest People.”
This apple did not fall far from the tree.
7I’m surprised the officer didn’t shoot him.
8Pelham was probably methed out and watching too many old gangster movies. “Come and get me Copper!”
9RepubAnon @ 2 I have a different take on 2A. If we are original intentists, then the intent was to allow citizens to have infantry weapons (Brown Bess muskets, Pennsylvania rifles and cutlasses, at that time). So, I propose, make owning Armalite-style weapons the protected activity but not handguns. Handguns cause far more carnage than AR-15s, in aggregate.
The well-regulated militia part is entirely mythical.This nation has never had a well-regulated militia, just a bunch of drunks. And, if truth be told, it as had one main purpose: shoot workers when asked to by bosses. (Minor functions were murdering Indians.)
In the few occasions when the militia faced armed formations, they ran like rabbits, notably at Lundy’s Lane.
It is history that the militia has never shot a boss.
The great hero in this story is Frank Murphy, governor of Michigan during the sit-down strikes. When the auto bosses demanded that Murphy gun down the workers, he refused. (His grandfather had been hanged by the English for being an Irish patriot.)
From that day to this, the militia has not been used anywhere to shoot workers. I think Murphy should have a national holiday.
The auto kings made sure that Murphy was not re-elected. Roosevelt then appointed him to the Supreme Court.
Frank Murphy is by far the most important Amrican that nobody has ever heard of.
10For these MAGA types, the day is just not complete until they have shot something. Or someone.
11Thanks for the history lesson, Harry. I always enjoy learning things they didn’t teach me in school, even back in the 1960s.
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