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Fort Worth shooting: Suspected shooter beaten to death after killing 1, injuring 3, police say

FORT WORTH, Texas — A suspected shooter was apparently beaten to death early Monday after he opened fire at a small gathering in Fort Worth, killing one person and injuring three others, according to police.

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The incident occurred about 1 a.m. on the 5600 block of Shiloh Drive in the Como neighborhood, according to WOAI-TV and investigators.

“A small gathering was taking place in the backyard of a residence when one of the attendees became upset and left the gathering,” authorities said in a news release. Officers said the attendee later returned to the party with another person and got into an argument with several people in the backyard.

The attendee, whose name was not released, then opened fire, shooting at least one person. Police said the unidentified partygoer suffered injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening.

“The other attendees of the party then gave chase to the shooter,” police said. “The shooter turned and fired at other people; a group picked up concrete landscaping bricks and started ‘throwing them’ at the shooter.”

Investigators said the group eventually caught up to the shooter, who continued to fire bullets as he either fell or was taken to the ground. At least two other people were struck by gunfire, police said.

“A victim was pronounced dead at the scene and another victim was transported to an area hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot injury,” police said. “The shooter was struck multiple times with at least one landscaping brick and was pronounced dead at the scene.”

Police recovered a handgun from the scene, believed to have been used by the shooter. Authorities continue to investigate.

Debra Mobley, a neighbor in the area, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the family living in the home where the shooting occurred had only been in the neighborhood for about a year.

“On weekends they play the music really loud,” she told the newspaper. “One of my neighbors had to go down there and tell them to turn it down.”

Now some say that Texans are getting soft and all that BS. This just goes to show that one does not mess with Texas! Grumpy Pin on Quentin Tarantino

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One Small Step – July 20, 1969

What happens when you bring a Knife to a Gunfight

COURT FINDS FEDERAL 21 & OVER LAW ON HANDGUNS UNCONSTITUTIONAL by CHRIS EGER

A federal appeals court this week took a look at the 1968 law that barred adults under age 21 from purchasing handguns and found it did not square against the right to keep and bear arms.

In the appeal of Tanner Hirchfeld and Natalia Marshall against federal gun regulators, a divided 2-1 panel of the U.S. 4th Circuit decided Tuesday that the provisions blocking otherwise lawful handgun sales to some adults due to their age go too far.

“Looking through the historical lens to the text and structure of the Constitution reveals that 18-to-20-year olds have Second Amendment rights,” U.S. Circuit Court Judge Julius Ness Richardson, a Trump appointee, said for the majority which included Judge G. Steven Agee, an appointee of President George W. Bush.

“Virtually every other Constitutional right applies whatever the age, and the Second Amendment is no different,” said Richardson. “The militia laws in force at the time of ratification uniformly required those 18 and older to join the militia and bring their own arms. While some historical restrictions existed, none supported finding that 18-year-olds lack rights under the Second Amendment.”

The panel majority went on to point out that, even pre-dating the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment within, 11 of the 13 original colonies had militia laws with an age threshold of 16 years to bear arms while the two outliers, Delaware and Pennsylvania, recognized age 18.

But while Congress—or judges—may have struck a different balance long after ratification, that role is foreclosed to us by the balance that the Founders chose. We cannot now second-guess or undermine their choice. History makes clear that 18- to 20-year-olds were understood to fall under the Second Amendment’s protections. Those over 18 were universally required to be part of the militia near the ratification, proving that they were considered part of “the people” who enjoyed Second Amendment rights, and most other constitutional rights apply to this age group.

U.S. Circuit Court Judge James A. Wynn Jr., a 2010 appointment by President Obama, dissented with the majority.

“Today, my good colleagues in the majority break new ground by invalidating a modest and long-established effort to control gun violence,” said Wynn. “The majority holds that Congress may not enact a law making 21 the minimum age to purchase handguns from federally licensed gun dealers. But the majority’s decision to grant the gun lobby a victory in a fight it lost on Capitol Hill more than fifty years ago is not compelled by law.”

The opinion, in an appeal from a West Virginia district court, only applies to the 4th Circuit, which covers Maryland, the Virginias, and the Carolinas. Signed on to support the law are a variety of well-funded anti-gun groups including Brady, Everytown, and Giffords. It will likely be appealed to the full 4th Circuit, and from there, regardless of the outcome, to the Supreme Court.

The case is Hirchfeld v. ATF.

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