UPDATE: Man arrested after road rage incident

I’m going to ask Mr. Hurt, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Merricks, etc. to immediately draft legislation that will require JP to pull his/her head out of his/her bu!!, to tighten up and see things properly and with clear, concise common sense OR ELSE the full weight of the law will be applied to make Cranial Rectumosis illegal and forbidden. Obviously this will also have the desired effect of preventing everyone else from sticking their heads up their bu!!s and subsequently lower the tragic statistics of stupid bu!!head incidents.
  Obviously another overlooked point is that it is the fault of General Motors that Mr. Emerson used one of their products, a loaded Cadillac, to commit this heinous crime, therefore Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Kia and Robert Woodall will need to be sued at the earliest possible moment so that he can explain to the court why a Mazda wasn’t used instead. Then, obviously(I just DON’T understand why people can’t see this OUR way) legislation will need to be immediately passed calling for the licensing and registration of automobiles, trucks, tractors and jon boats, with taxes and stiff fees attached to discourage anyone from getting the idea that they can possess a car whenever they want, especially since, with a one car a month purchase regulation, surely no automobiles or trucks, especially really big truck that have more that 4 wheels, might be illegally smuggled into D.C. or New York and that could result in an unnecessary and plainly avoidable backing accident.
JP-you, and the rest of your left wing bleeding heart liberal imbecile ilk are dumb as a rock and have contributed more to the problems of this country with your well meaning,but seriously misguided agendas, that all of ya need to shut up with that tired, incessant whining.
  While we are on the subject, since I am directly decended from Cherokee Tribal Elders, I am serving you notice that you are trespassing on our lands. If you leave now, I won’t have you charged, but if you don’t…...., well we will just have to see.

Wow Rockit.  The same old stuck record ... If you don’t like something, move.  What a poor, worn out cliche.  Surely you can do better than that.  I’m very disappointed in you.  And, where do you think most of the illegal guns used to commit all the homicides in the nation’s capital come from?  That’s right - the Old Dominion.

In theory the additional prison time for using a gun in a felony is fine; in reality, many crimes, like the one committed by this old gentleman from Java, are committed by individuals who can’t be held accountable because of mental problems or rage. 

Whether he was mentally competent when he bought the gun or not, or whether it was his gun or someone else’s gun is a moot point; it still has the same effect if someone is killed by it, which could have very likely been the case here.  The bottom line is, contrary to the NRA’s mantra, GUNS KILL. 

Comparing guns to automobiles is just as absurd today as it was years ago when it became the illogical analogy put forth by the NRA after they became not just an organization to teach gun safety (certainly a noble beginning) but a lobbyist for terrorists and murderers (who really needs an UZI or an assault weapon for hunting, unless you are hunting humans?) 

My argument is not that “gun laws were violated”; my point is that gun laws are too lenient, especially in Virginia which helps to foster DC as, as you so proudly noted, “the homicide capital of America.“  Thanks to our legislators in Richmond, many people in other states, as well as in Virginia, will die at the end of the barrel of a gun that was sold in Virginia.  Mr. Merricks, Mr. Marshall and our other conservative legislators have blood on their hands through their acts of omission.  Virginians who voted for these “friends of murderers” are likewise guilty.

Peace.

JP - couple of points here.  First, since you oppose so strongly Virginia’s gun laws, why don’t you move to another area where the laws are as strong as you would like them….an area like for example, Washington DC?  Does the phrase “homicide capital of America” from just a few years ago ring a bell?

Second, and I appreciate this may be a novel idea for you, but how about hold people accountable for their actions?  If you use a gun in the commission of a felony, how about an automatic additional 10 years added to your sentence.  I do believe there is already something like this for federal drug crimes.  Would you agree we mandate such penalties at the state level?

Another thing to consider is this.  Assuming that this guy was a mental case as appears to be the defense line his family and friends are attempting to establish, how do you know he was mental when he got the gun?  How do you know the gun is not really his but his son’s, or brother’s?  Point is, just like we can’t say for sure he is not crazy because all the information is not out there yet, you don’t know for sure that anybody “dropped the ball” in providing this guy a gun.

Now, at the end of the day you may be proven right.  But as it stands right now you don’t know anymore about this guy than the rest of us.  You’re just using this incident to go an an ill-advised anti-gun rant when the truth may be that no gun laws were violated.  As of now, we just don’t know.  And neither do you.

Know it all I am grateful that you responded in that manner your dad should be proud. I don’t know neither party but you sound sincere enough that we should show compassion because one of our family member’s could drift also. I hope thing’s go well for you’ll take it easy and take of your father

hymanator.  In Virginia you don’t even need to be mentally competent to own a gun.  The point at issue here is that there needs to be tougher gun laws - but, of course, NEVER in Virginia where the state motto needs to be changed to “. . . from my cold dead hand.“  Peace.