BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 3 months ago
Guns.com:
Attorneys for an undocumented immigrant facing charges in the high-profile death of a woman on San Francisco’s Pier 14 contend it may be the gun’s fault.
Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, 45, a Mexican national with at least five deportations under his belt, contends he shot Kathryn Steinle by accident with a found gun now tied to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. California Superior Court Judge Brendan P. Conroy on Friday found there is enough evidence for Lopez-Sanchez to stand trial on charges of second-degree murder for his alleged involvement in the woman’s death.
However, his legal team contends that the man never pulled the trigger and claimed the type of handgun involved is documented for having accidental discharges.
“This gun has no safety,” said public defender Matt Gonzalez as reported by the Associated Press. “There is no evidence that he put his finger in the trigger.”
The gun was discharged by the perpetrator, therefore he put his finger on the trigger and pulled it. Quod erat demonstrandum.
Actually though, you can’t blame the lawyer for this – he’s doing what lawyers do. He is only following the road LEOs pave for him concerning guns that just discharge, as if guns have some sort of will and volition all their own and can decide to “go off” without human action. If police departments all over America buy into that line of crap for the sake of saving careers, then so should the courts.
It’s dirty and scurrilous top to bottom, side to side, front to back, not the least of which is allowing a border that invites people like this across anyway. What’s one more pile of mud?
