With ‘Friends’ Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

It’s imperative that we police our own as best we can. That means calling out bad behavior, condemning the worst, and making it clear that it’s not acceptable.

We normally don’t have to do much of that because while some people get stupid with guns, they’re usually casual gun owners, we all call them out, and then we go about our business. It’s often over something tragic, though sometimes it’s just hilarious; it’s often not intentional.

But what this guy was convicted of is completely unacceptable.

A former DuPage County prosecutor was sentenced earlier this month to home confinement and supervised release after pleading guilty to suggesting online that a bomb could go off at a downstate LGBTQ festival.

Samuel Cundari, 32, an assistant state’s attorney at the time of the 2024 social media posts, also made online threats to two state lawmakers and gun control groups.

He was sentenced March 2 to three years of mandatory supervised release, with one year spent in home confinement, records show.

It doesn’t say which gun control groups or who the volunteer was, but it doesn’t particularly matter.

Look, I get that some gun control advocates are annoying as hell. Some of them are absolutely vile. More than a few make it clear that they don’t really think we’re as violent as they claim, because if we were, they’d have stopped flapping their gums years ago.

But people like Cundari don’t help that perception in the least, and while he tried to tell investigators that he was only joking, he had to know that there’s a line you should never cross. The truth is, I don’t care if this wasn’t intended as a direct threat. The moment you start even joking about violence against a child, I’m through with you. [Though if Cundari had merely wished someone else fed those kids into a woodchipper instead of using “we”, he’d be eligible to run for Virginia Attorney General as a Democrat – Cam]

I’m willing to debate. I’m willing to discuss. I’m willing to engage and defend the right to keep and bear arms, but why would anyone engage with us and even pretend to listen to our side of things if we act like what Cundari said was just?

Should he have been convicted? I think there’s a difference between “it would be a shame if this happened” and “I’m going to make sure this happens if you do X.” Still, the court and jury felt differently, I suppose, which means at least some of the death threats I’ve received over the years are a lot more actionable than I thought.

Oh well.

Regardless, though, this is never acceptable, even if you think it shouldn’t have been prosecutable.

Not everything legal is right.

I have no issue with people being passionate about the issues that matter. The moment you start talking about bombs and hurting people’s children to make your point, though, you’ve cross a line that no decent human being should ever cross.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment, so they last thing we need is people making their job easier.

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