Hardy-har-har. :dubious:
How is it you’ve spent so much time in shops and ranges?
Someone banging on the door long and hard enough to break glass with the homeowner presumably yelling through the door to go away or that he was armed or that the police had been called.
Fires a single shot after the glass broke.
If this had been a known felon rather than someone’s 15yo kid, Mr Lovell would be sleeping in his own bed tonight.
The comment about facebook is also sufficiently vague enough to be suspicious in itself. If he had been pointing a big scary black “assault rifle” they would have thrown that up there in bold print. Probably even put the pic up with the other 12 in the article. I’d bet that the picture is of him with a hunting rifle or maybe even a super soaker knowing the state of the press these days.
Do known felons tend to knock first?
No, but drunk/high/psychotic people sometimes do.
For home invasions? It happens:
Know who else knocks and then breaks the glass if they don’t hear you answer? Firemen. There’s no way this was a good shoot and it’s horrifying that anyone would defend it. He shot blind through a door with no idea who or what his target was. Inexcusable.
Frequently enough.
You know who announces themselves when attempting forcible entrance into a home? People who have a legitimate reason to break in. You know who responds when someone inside is challenging their intentions? The same group.
Even odds that the charges will be dismissed once the bleeding hearts get tired of standing on their soapboxes gnashing their teeth and beating their outraged breasts.
Soapboxes that would never have been pulled out if the trespasser had been a felon because not all lives are sympathetic enough to inspire their ire.
That’s not the same case as the teenager who was shot through the door when he thought he was at his friend’s house.
I sell urinal cakes to gun shops.
Well?
Novelty ones, with little bulls-eyes or cross-hairs on them? 
Most likely those are the ones that sells along with the ones with Obama’s face. 
University of Delaware denies own skeet team funding for practice ammo:
Massachusetts Attorney General claims authority to prosecute sale of rifles “substantially like” explicitly banned guns:
That “article”, such as it is, claims that UD pulled finding due to student pressure, but it quotes a total of zero sources to back that up. If there was widespread opposition to the funding, surely they could have found a student or two to interview. What did the faculty think? University administration? No clue, since they weren’t interviewed. Did they decline to comment? No clue, because the report didn’t say. UD is raising tuition. Are they reassessing budget priorities and cutting back on providing charity to non-school-run extracurricular groups? Your guess is as good as mine. But we did hear from a lot of whiny gun hobbyists with chips on their shoulders, so that’s something I guess.
Just to put the partisan fearmongering in perspective, more Americans are killed by *toddlers * than by terrorists.
Law abiding citizens who never thought it could happen to them etc.
Let me see if I got this correctly.
You gun nuts are all about law-and-order and the sanctity of God’s Second Commandment.
And you brag about how you’ll break the law by making false statements to law enforcement officers.
While Lumpy’s views are…problematic… in many respects, it is not (or not in all contexts) illegal to lie to law enforcement officers, although doing so may have later negative consequences for you (as per the standard Miranda text).
The wider point about potential hypocrisy stands, however.