Mary Knowlton was the 73-year old retired librarian who made the ill-fated decision to participate in a “shoot/don’t shoot” demonstration with a criminally incompetent member of the punitive class. Lee Coel was supposed to be shooting blanks, but instead fired two live rounds through Knowlton’s heart, killing her. This rooting, snorting, unionized piece of garbage has been charged with “manslaughter”, and will more than likely serve no time at all, thanks to the “thin blue line” institutional support, amplified by the unconditional love held by an idiotic and unthinking public. Knowlton is a victim of the culture of incompetence that is rampant among police departments today. The kid who killed her had probably never even held a gun 6 months ago, but he did have the quick temper and eagerness to escalate a situation so prized among departments. IQ hovering below that of my dog. (That is an insult to my pit bull, actually, who exhibits daily a capacity for reflection and judgment far above that of most people I encounter).
As every firearm owner knows, you never point your gun at anyone, whether you think you’re loaded or not. Every real gun owner feels the gravitational pull of their barrel down to the ground, and obeys that instinct. No real gun owner would ever dream of pointing their weapon at an elderly woman, much less fire blanks at her heart.
