Virginia Delegate Joseph Dee Morrissey brought an AK 47 to the floor of the House of Delegates for a misguided demonstration during a gun control debate. He explained that he borrowed the gun from people he knew were "gun enthusiasts" for the show and tell. Morrissey, a Democrat with a checkered past said, "Right now, there are members of the House of Delegates on the other side of the aisle that pack weapons." Morrissey must be afraid for his life with those crazy Republicans running around with guns in the Statehouse!
As reported by David Martosko of the Daily Caller, during the "demonstration," Republican Delegate Todd Gilbert asked him to "remove his finger from inside the gun's trigger-guard — a basic gun-safety practice." Who would lend this guy a weapon?
In 2011, Morrissey's law license was reinstated after 8 years after he was disbarred in 2001. He lost his law license in 2003 "after a series of fist fights and disorderly conduct," as reported by Margaret Minnicks of the Examiner. According to legal brief filed on behalf of one of his victims, an unhinged Morrissey yelled, "I'm going to kill you. I'm going to beat your head in," and then beat him while wearing a large ring.
As reported by Steven Nelson, "when the man attempted to escape his beating, Morrissey 'smashed his head into the corner of a brick wall,' according to a court filing by the victim's lawyers." Good thing Joseph Dee Morrissey did not call on his gun enthusiast friends that day. Perhaps the good people of Virginia should do a bit of research before they go to the polling booth.
Photo Source: Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via ABC News
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Comments: 9
Context is important...if he were in a bar, for example, merely showing it might be brandishing...
Also...your second definition isn't really appropos...
I saw a movie about a man executed because he used brass knuckles in a fight, it amounted to premeditation in the eyes of the court. He was semi retarded so it became a clarion call for abolition in Britain. Of the death penalty, not retardation, they're still big on that I think. True story, very sad.
"Take off the ring! Take off the ring!" I remember that from school scraps...you know, you're about to beat each others face in, but that's just wrong... and it is, it's a weapon, metal on flesh.
Ah, Joey Dee, you hopeless tool. Couldn't find a single gun in America to go with that tie.
And there's so many ties in America...we don't need that many ties. Certainly when freedom of expression was raised the founders never considered the level of garishnous that would result, or the sheer prolifacy, there's nutjobs like Morrisey, they have a dozen or more of those abominations in their closet...not even under lock and key, what if the kids get into them, they don't know how to tie one of those terrible things...
...and now, just wearing it...In the very House of Delegates...the humanity...
Yes, people are ugly and stupid, but, you just can't get that ugly or stupid without a bad tie, it's so obvious. Maybe something will finally be done now. It just feels different.
Goooood morning:)
Apparently... if what the article says is true this guy doesn't need a gun to inflict his will in harm to others. And that weapon he is brandishing? Just the outward expression of his own inner heart.
Perhaps the good people of Virginia should do a bit of research before they go to the polling booth.