Bad people will do bad things to other people, no matter what weapons are available to them. If guns were truly the issue, there wouldn't have been robbery and rape in Medieval England.
No, guns aren't the problem. A criminal justice system not doing its damn job kills people.
What I mean is that, while the individuals who hurt others are ultimately responsible, the American legal system is letting too many of these people walk around after various crimes, only for them to turn around and hurt others.
A teenage Texas repeat offender is back behind bars after allegedly killing a man while free from jail on three separate bonds.
Johnnie Lillie, 19, was charged with the shooting death of Jermarkus Johnson, 29, on Aldine Bender road in Houston, Texas, Sept. 22, 2025, according to FOX 26.
Lillie was reportedly out on probation after being sentenced for a burglary of a motor vehicle in June 2024 when he was taken into custody after allegedly purchasing a gun illegally.
“While he’s on probation, he picks up a possession of a prohibited weapon, a machine gun. That’s pretty serious,” Andy Kahan, director of victim services and advocacy for Houston’s Crime Stoppers, told the outlet.
After the additional charges were filed, Lillie was reportedly granted bond and subsequently released from jail.
Now, note that one of the stipulations of probation is that you can't have run-ins with the law. Even a traffic ticket has to be reported to your probation officer, and I don't see how a federal weapons violation didn't get him locked up for a probation violation. Even without the bond, that should have had him incarcerated.
But wait, like the Shamwow guy said, there's more.
Lillie was allegedly picked up on yet another burglary of a motor vehicle while on probation for the same charge and out on bond for the weapons possession charge. The article above notes that Lillie allegedly violated his bond half a dozen times, at a minimum, after he got out of jail.
He then killed Johnson, allegedly, over a dice game, despite the numerous times he violated his bond and his probation.
While Lillie's rap sheet isn't as extensive as some of the vile pieces of filth we've seen murder innocent people, such as Iryna Zarusta in Charlotte, it's still clear he's someone who should have been locked up. They had every reason to lock him up. They had legal grounds to do so, and they didn't.
And this is Texas, where one might expect them to be less than soft on criminals, but Houston apparently doesn't care all that much. So, a man is dead who probably shouldn't be, all because some snot-nosed little punk didn't get the spanking he should have from the so-called criminal justice system.
There's no justice in people just ignoring the law, then ignoring the conditions of their bond and/or probation, and clearly having no reason to be concerned.
Look, I understand that the criminal mind isn't exactly one that thinks, "What happens if I get caught?" They never think they are, so deterrence isn't likely to work on them very much. However, locking them up at least removes them from society for a time, and that makes everyone a little safer. Maybe they wake up in prison and fix themselves. Maybe they don't. It doesn't matter.
What does matter is that they can't hurt anyone except each other.
We're seeing so many examples of people who shouldn't be in a position to hurt others being in that position and hurting some innocent person. Sometimes they're illegal aliens. Other times, they're people the system should have locked in a room and thrown away the room.
But the truth is that while the anti-gunners are screaming about gun control, a lot of them support this weak-ass legal system being soft on criminals, tough on cops, and just letting us get mowed down by the people who are breaking the gun control laws they begged for and swore would make us safer.
So yeah, I'm going to say that guns don't kill people. The legal system is killing people.
