{"id":590,"date":"2022-11-23T20:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2022-11-23T20:34:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:34:17","slug":"career-criminal-and-justice-reform-advocate-killed-in-washington-d-c-with-an-illegal-gun-at-his-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Career Criminal and &#8216;Justice Reform Advocate&#8217; Killed In Washington D.C. With an Illegal Gun at His Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead.jpg\" data-caption=\"Kevin Blowe.  Image via DC City Council.\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Blowe-dead.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blowe dead\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Blowe. Image via DC City Council.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite a mountain of gun control laws in Washington, D.C., a man driving a stolen car didn\u2019t have any compunction about packing an illegal gun too. What\u2019s more, after colliding with a \u201csocial justice advocate\u201d at 5:30 a.m., the driver of the boosted car didn\u2019t hesitate to use it to kill Kevin Blowe.<\/p>\n<p>The case grows more interesting as it turns out that the deceased social justice warrior also ignored D.C.\u2019s extensive gun control laws and was illegally carrying a gun, too.\u00a0 Cops found it next to his body.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <em>Washington Post, <\/em>not wanting democracy to die in darkness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/11\/19\/criminal-justice-advocate-killed-dc\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portrayed the convicted criminal<\/a> who was in illegal possession of a firearm as some sort of local folk hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>In December, the 32-year-old infused his personal story into an esoteric D.C. Council hearing on the topic,\u00a0testifying\u00a0that his travels through the criminal justice system put him in contact with people convicted on facts that \u201cwere essentially identical, but were somehow charged differently.\u201d<\/em><br \/><em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>Blowe never got to see the results of his advocacy. He was fatally shot early Tuesday by a gunman who, according to police, emerged from a stolen car after a crash with Blowe. Authorities said they believe Blowe also possessed a weapon, as they recovered a gun next to his body.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blowe was apparently slower on the draw that his killer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Hours after the shooting, the D.C. Council unanimously passed the bill about which Blowe had testified.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cIt is very difficult to accept that someone who survived the worst of what we have to offer \u2014 sent off to the military, sent off to prison \u2014 couldn\u2019t survive living on the streets of D.C.,\u201d said Patrice Sulton, a civil rights lawyer and executive director of the DC Justice Lab. \u201cHe dedicated himself to preventing the exact kind of harm that befell him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What the <em>Post<\/em> is too squeamish \u2014 or politically correct \u2014 to admit is that Kevin Blowe died just like he lived, as a common criminal. The fact that he was clever enough to adopt the mantle of wokeness and lobby the city council to further <em>decriminalize<\/em> violent crimes in D.C. doesn\u2019t make him some sort of patron saint of civic virtue.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, the bill Blowe lobbied the City Council for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/washington-d-c-set-to-lower-penalties-for-carrying-without-a-permit-felon-in-possession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>reduced<\/em> the maximum penalties<\/a> for violent crimes like carjacking, burglary and robbery. Also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/11\/15\/dc-criminal-code-passes-objections\/\">from the <em>WaPo<\/em><\/a> . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The D.C. Council unanimously approved a major overhaul of the city\u2019s criminal code Tuesday, despite objections from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and law enforcement leaders over certain aspects of the legislation.<\/em><br \/><em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em>If Bowser signs the bill, it will eliminate most mandatory minimum sentences, allow for jury trials in almost all misdemeanor cases and reduce the maximum penalties for offenses such as burglaries, carjackings and robberies. The law will not take effect for three years to give the courts, police and other groups time to prepare for implementation, officials have said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At some point, Americans who live in blue cities will have had enough of soft-on-crime policies and the carnage they create. Some day these voters will start voting their self-interest, replacing criminal-coddling politicians with those sporting law and order policies.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, look for more memorials of sainted criminal justice reform advocates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/career-criminal-and-justice-reform-advocate-killed-in-washington-d-c-with-an-illegal-gun-at-his-side\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Blowe. Image via DC City Council. Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 Despite a mountain of gun control laws in Washington, D.C., a man driving a stolen car didn\u2019t have any compunction about packing an illegal gun too. What\u2019s more, after colliding with a \u201csocial justice advocate\u201d at 5:30 a.m., the driver of the boosted car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}