More Gun Hypocrisy
This time though, from a Million Mom March gun activist.A Springfield woman who began lobbying against gun violence after her son was
shot to death in 2002 was arrested last week when police allegedly found an
illegal gun and drugs in her home.Annette "Flirty" Stevens, however, said Monday she's innocent, and the arrest is an attempt by police to get her to give up information about unsolved crime in the city.
Um...Flirty, why would they think that you have info about unsolved crimes in the city? Who are you?
The handgun, which had a scratched-off serial number, and drugs allegedly were discovered Friday morning inside Stevens' home in the 2500 block of South 15th Street. Authorities said they obtained a search warrant for the residence as
part of an ongoing investigation of a recent series of drive-by shootings. No one has been hurt in the gunplay.
Sounds pretty hokey and suspicious to me. So if I get this straight, she's such a good person and up-standing member of the community, that she keeps drugs and guns w/o serial numbers in her house?
"This is a blatant attempt to try and undermine me," she said Monday night. "...
They can't solve these crimes, and I'm familiar with these individuals, so
they're going after me because I socialize with all of them."
When all else fails, call the cops incompetent and play-up the victim angle! She "socializes" with these people? Cocktails and ammo, or what? Is she trying to seduce them into giving up their weapons and lives of crime for cocktail weanies in a barbecue sauce? Pffbt! "I'm being oppressed!"
Davis said detectives working on the drive-by cases - which already have
resulted in four arrests - began taking a closer look at Stevens after her name
came up in interviews with witnesses and informants.
Apparently, if she is completely innocent, the gang-bangers are not fond of her coming around and trying to convert them. Either that, or...she's not the crusading do-gooder she pretends to be. They have already arrested four people...they've already got their "scapegoats", honey.
Stevens said she believes the search warrant was obtained illegally. She said no
drugs were found in her home. And as for the gun, she admits to having it in the
house. But she said it belonged to her son. She didn't find it until six or
seven months after he died. Not knowing what to do with it, she wrapped it up,
put it in a drawer and forgot about it.
Bullshit alert! She's a crusading gun-grabber, her son was a victim of gun violence, and she keeps a gun in a drawer of her home?!? That, my friends, is bullshit! The very nature of these people, and I have met a great many, is driven by fear. That fear is not mitigated by losing your son to gun violence. You don't keep this sort of thing as a memento if your kid was shot. No crusading gun grabber would fold the offensive thing in cloth and then put it in a drawer and forget about it. These people are always braying about trigger locks and handing in your guns to the local police department. Are you telling me she didn't know she could just turn it in to the cops? BULLSHIT!
Look, I just want to point out the hypocrisy. It is the same as the Mikey Moore thing. "I can have a gun, but YOU can't." It is selfish, stupid, and hypocritical. This woman has every right to have a gun. But, she can't say she "forgot" it was in the house and retain any credibility. Could the cops be crooked? Sure. But the inherent hypocrisy of a rabid gun-grabber conveniently forgetting about having a gun in the house isn't really impacted by crooked cops.
Her own admission proves the hypocrisy. She could have turned the weapon into her local police department at any time after the discovery. "I've come across this in my son's things since his death and am not comfortable with the thing in my home."
Why wouldn't she turn it in? (And no way do I believe she didn't know that she could.)
Could it be that she was afraid that ballistics testing would prove that the weapon had been involved in a crime and implicate either her son or herself?
I don't know, but her story smells like 2-day-old fish in 102 degree weather. Like hell.
