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Soldier Back From Iraq Shot Dead on Alaska Streets by Newly Released Felon

ANCHORAGE, Alaska —  An Army military police officer survived 15 months in Iraq, but it was the Anchorage streets that claimed his life.

Authorities say Army Sgt. Evan Minnear died at the hands of a convicted felon who had been out of jail 16 days and was not supposed to be carrying a firearm.

Authorities believe Vongdeuane Vongthongdy killed Minnear outside the Woodshed Lounge in downtown Anchorage on Sunday.

Vongthongdy was already on probation for the felony assault with a weapon during the shooting.

The 24-year-old Minnear had been in the Army since January of 2003 and had been assigned to Anchorage’s Fort Richardson base since October 2005. His unit came back from Iraq to Fort Richardson in November 2007.

There is NO permit required to carry concealed in Alaska.

BUT: there are these little sections of the law:

It is unlawful for a person convicted of a felony or adjudicated a delinquent minor for conduct that would constitute a felony if committed by an adult to possess a “firearm capable of being concealed on his person” unless a period of 10 years or more has elapsed between the date of the person’s unconditional discharge on the prior offense or adjudication of juvenile delinquency.

Loaded firearms may not be possessed in any place where intoxicating liquor is sold for consumption on the premises. Exempt: The owner or lessee or an employee or lessee while on the business premise. (Source)

The violent offender, a FELON was released from jail, goes to a bar with a firearm and kills one of our nations hero’s. So what do we learn from this? I can hear the anti-gun SHEEP crying about the GUNS. IT IS NOT THE FUCKING GUNS! IT’S the FELON. The argument that “if Guns were banned this would not have happened” is SERIOUSLY FLAWED! I would argue IF releasing violent felons was BANNED, this would not have happened.

I am in favor of keeping dangerous PEOPLE off the streets, rather than keeping the means to protect yourself from them OFF THE STREETS! Wake up SHEEP, the wolf is at the door.