It Took This DA a VERY Long Time to Decide Self-Defense Is Legal

Could it be because DAs HATE self-defense? Butler Island Road shooting death ‘justified’

The May 2025 shooting death of a 19-year-old Autryville man has been ruled a justifiable homicide, 5th Prosecutorial District Attorney Ernie Lee said earlier this week.

Ten months. I doubt it took the cops 10 months to complete their investigation. I doubt it took 10 months for the autopsy to be completed. I believe that it took 10 months for the DA to make this determination because the DA hates self-defense, and in that time he was looking for any excuse to bring charges.

What follows is from a statement from 5th Prosecutorial District Attorney Ernie Lee.

The general rules of self-defense and defense of others in North Carolina allow for the use of deadly force when the individual actually, or honestly, believed in the need to defend himself or others from death or great bodily injury and the individual’s belief is reasonable considering the circumstances as they appeared to him at the time. From the facts and circumstances of this case, the individual who shot the fatal shots was justified in using deadly force to defend himself and others from death or great bodily injury by Guin, who had already shot and wounded one individual.

Self-defense is a human right.

How Is That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?

The Other McCain has an update on North Carolina. Because You Asked: ‘What in the Actual Hell is Happening in North Carolina?’

A pregnant woman with a toddler was stabbed in the parking lot of a grocery store, apparently because the stabber objected to families. Or something.

Readers will recall that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who fatally stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, also had an extensive criminal history. It is natural that readers wonder why such leniency toward habitual offenders — a “revolving door” policy — has become standard practice in North Carolina. One word: DEMOCRATS.

You thought North Carolina was a conservative state? You would be wrong if you thought that, and even more wrong in some locations.

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried North Carolina by a three-point margin, 51% to 48%, over Kamala Harris. However, Harris got 80% of the vote in Durham County, 75% in Orange County, 65% in Mecklenburg County and 62% in Wake County.

Hence the revolving door. Because keeping criminals in jail is unfair. Letting criminals stab pregnant women is apparently fair, according to the Left.

The grocery store where the pregnant woman was stabbed is in one of the “nice” parts of Charlotte.

Read the whole thing.

Eleanor Rigby

I have a cousin who is really into The Beatles, so I heard a bit of their music growing up. I never really cared for the most of the stuff I heard, but lately I have been revisiting some of their work, because a YouTube channel I follow is covering every Beatles album in order. I still don't like all of it, but I never do like everything a band or an artist produces. I thought that I should highlight a few of the ones I do like.

This song is notable because it doesn't make use of any of the usual rock-song instruments, but is only backed up by a string quartet.

This is "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver.