Most of the time when you see the word "allegedly" applied to someone accused of criminal action, it's not because no one believes he or she did it. It's because if the publication doesn't, and they're acquitted, they can sue for defamation because the publication implied guilt before it was established.
Once convicted, or if the suspect is deceased, that doesn't matter anymore. A conviction is proof enough that any inaccurate claims as to guilt were made in good faith, and dead people don't have reputations to protect anymore in the eyes of the law.
So, in the headline, I included the word "allegedly" because this guy is still alive and unconvicted, at least so far.
Yet the accusations against him are still very good evidence of why gun control can and will never work.
A Binghamton man was arrested on Monday following reports of a burglary at a home in Susquehanna County, where numerous weapons were stolen, according to information from Pennsylvania State Police.
Daniel W. Lupold, 35, was arrested on Monday, Nov. 17, on the following charges:
- One count of burglary, a grade two felony.
- One count of theft by unlawful taking, movable property, a grade two felony.
- One count of possession of a firearm prohibited, a grade two felony.
- One count of criminal trespass, a grade three felony.
Lupold’s arrest stems from an investigation into a report of stolen weapons at a home on Church Street in Hallstead Borough in Susquehanna County on Monday.
The victim told police that when his wife came home that day, she noticed a gun part on the couch. The victim stated to state police that he had two guns stolen from his home in October, and as a result, he installed security cameras.
The following items were reported stolen from the home in October:
- .22 caliber lever-action rifle - brand new and still in the box.
- Winchester Model 70 or 72 30-06 rifle.
The following items were reported stolen on Monday:
- Single-shot 10-gauge shotgun.
- Marlin 35 lever-action rifle.
- Savage 30-06 rifle.
- Mossberg 25-06 rifle
- HR 20-gauge shotgun.
The October burglary and the incident on Monday may well both be Lupold, and the victim identified Lupold because that's his daughter's boyfriend.
Yeah, colossally stupid.
Whether it was Lupold or not, though, isn't relevant to my initial point. Someone stole those guns. Someone took them, didn't pay for them, and didn't undergo any background checks in doing so. While Pennsylvania doesn't require universal background checks on long guns like this, you still get my point. Even if it did, it wouldn't matter here because, Hello? Theft.
Criminals steal guns all over the country. We don't cover most of those thefts because, if we did, we wouldn't have time to cover anything else, and, to be frank, most of you don't care enough about a gun theft in Pensacola, Florida, to click on the link. We can talk about them from time to time if we frame them as something with broader implications, like this, but there are so many of them that we skip even that 99 percent of the time.
Even the DOJ knows this is how most criminals get their guns.
And yet, anti-gunners will still try to make it harder to buy a firearm and claim it's about stopping criminals from getting them. The simpleton nature of the claim would be adorable if our rights weren't on the line.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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