[Vision2020] No Charges For Men Who Pointed Guns at One Another at Tattoo Parlor

[J Ford]

Is the Moscow Police Department stand that unless a threat is actually voiced, no violence is intended or implied by guns that are being pointed at another person?  The very fact that a "fight" had ensued implies violence, yes?

You're kidding me, right?!

So who were the actors in this farce?

J  :]


> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:57:30 -0700
> Subject: [Vision2020] No Charges For Men Who Pointed Guns at One Another at	Tattoo Parlor
> 
> As a preface to the following article I offer a compromise, a compromise
> between allowing every citizen to carry handguns and Mayor Chaney's
> suggested policy of disallowing anybody from carrying a firearm in town.
> 
> My offered compromise is quite simple.  Each and every person would be
> permitted to carry firearms in town.  They simply cannot possess bullets.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> >From today's (September 14, 2007) Moscow-Pullman Daily News -
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> No charges for men who pointed guns at one another at tattoo parlor
> 
> Staff report
> 
> Moscow police detained four men outside Untamed Art Tattoo parlor Thursday
> afternoon following a report of a fight involving weapons. 
> 
> Two of the men had been in an argument at the parlor and pointed guns at
> each other, Moscow Assistant Police Chief David Duke said. While taking the
> men's statements, however, police determined "no threats of violence or no
> fear was initiated on the part of either one." 
> 
> Since police determined the men were not in fear of being harmed and neither
> man wanted to pursue criminal charges, they were released, Duke said. The
> other two men were detained because police did not initially know how many
> people were involved in the fight.
> 
> The fight was reported shortly after 2 p.m. at the tattoo parlor at 230 West
> Third St. The two men, a 37-year-old Moscow resident and a 51-year-old
> Moscow resident, argued orally about a "difference of opinion" but did not
> become physical, Duke said.
> 
> At some point during the argument the men pointed guns at each other - the
> 37-year-old had a Derringer and the 51-year-old had a semiautomatic handgun,
> Duke said. The guns had been put away when police arrived.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
> students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
> 
> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
> 
> 
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