The goblin killed on Halloween by a licensed concealed carrier wasn’t your average “dindu nuffin”, but his family is still cryin’ the blues to the media.
55-year-old Reginald Gildersleeve was shot dead by a card-carrying good guy at a currency exchange and corner market after he started taking a 17-year-old female employee to another part of the story. He was armed with a realistic looking “toy” gun, that some have said was an airsoft gun.
He also had not five prior arrests. Not ten prior arrests.
Not twenty prior arrests.
Not thirty prior arrests.
Not forty prior arrests.
But over fifty. Including an armed robbery in 2012 that was not prosecuted by Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez’s office.
We’ve been illustrating how violent criminals aren’t prosecuted and imprisoned in Illinois – especially Cook County – leaving these individuals like Gildersleeve with dozens of arrests to prey upon the local residents.
Reginald Gildersleeve was a violent criminal predator. He was old enough that he should have known better, but he just couldn’t help himself. And his family kept him “protected” from the authorities for his vicious crimes against his neighbors. With friends like Gildersleeve and his family, who needs enemies, right?
And now his dysfunctional family is blaming not themselves or Reginald for his career criminal actions, but everyone else. They claim they are the victim of an untrained concealed carry licenseholder that shot their ne’er-do-well relative dead in that store to save innocent life from death or great bodily injury (and rape is ‘great bodily injury’).
The family, quoted prominently in a “poor Reginald” story in the Tribune (no hot link as they are hiding the story behind a paywall, easily defeated by turning off Javascript on the Tribune website):
Gildersleeve’s stepson told reporters Sunday that he doubted the police account that Gildersleeve was shot while attempting to rob the store.
“Something doesn’t seem right,” said Igbinosa Oronsaye, whose mother was married to Gildersleeve. “Reggie doesn’t even own a gun. He couldn’t own a gun if he wanted to.”
That’s for sure. With a host of priors, including many for violent crimes, he couldn’t legally be near a gun, or buy one at a store or even a gun show, thanks to Illinois’ existing extensive background check system.
But he went out and found himself a realistic-looking gun with no problems, by hook or by crook.
Oronsaye said he wasn’t convinced the shooter acted properly.
Oh really, Professor Oronsaye?
“Some people don’t actually know how to use guns,” he said. “They go to firing ranges, but it’s not the same as a bullet going into someone’s body, it’s not the same as a bullet going into flesh. They should be able to wound first, kill next. He didn’t deserve to get shot multiple times.
Oronsaye illustrates for the world that he’s an ignorant fool. As for Mr. Scumbag robber not deserving to get shot multiple times? If he had been trick or treating with his grandkids and been a productive, decent human being instead of a career violent felon, then maybe he wouldn’t have gotten perforated multiple times while taking a 17-year-old to another part of the store – potentially to rape her or worse.
“You just took a brother, you just took a father from a lot of people. Somebody’s got to answer for that.“
Hey, Mr. “Scumbag” Oronsaye: We would give the concealed carrier a Certificate of Appreciation if we had his name and address. We would tell him, “Sorry this had to happen to you, but we are thankful you are okay. If there’s anything we can do in this troubling time for you, let us know. Oh yeah, do you need a replacement gun? Nice shooting, by the way. Thank you for saving innocent life, including your own.”
And the comments at the Trib story are just golden and delicious, so we are told, but we can’t access them.
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