From JC

Don’t get me wrong. I would never celebrate the untimely end of someone’s time on this Earth, not in any way, not even when I say that sometimes, life serves up a special course of ultimate irony, as this next story perfectly illustrates. TownHall.com ran an article last week headlined, “D.C. Activist Who Pushed for City’s Soft-on-Crime Bill Shot and Killed.”

Kelvin Blowe, 32, pictured below, served five years in prison for abducting a man and forcing him to withdraw money from an ATM in 2017. When Kelvin got out last year, he joined up with liberal nonprofit ‘DC Justice Lab,’ which advocates for rewriting DC’s criminal code, mainly to install lighter sentences and remove mandatory minimum sentences. Recently the DC Justice Lab was promoting a bill to further reduce DC’s already-lenient mandatory minimum sentences for gun offenders or felons possessing illegal weapons.

Oddly, more lenient sentencing for illegal weapons possession is kind of crazy, when it’s coming from the same political team opposing owning guns at all. You’d think they would want harsher sentencing for illegal gun possession.

So. Weird.

Anyway, Kelvin was passionately working on the proposed new bill, and he testified personally in support at the City Council last December. Last week he was driving home with some co-workers at 5:30am, and got into a traffic accident. Kelvin got out of his car, walking toward the car that hit him, a stolen silver Lexus. A man jumped out of the Lexus, guns blazing, shot and killed Kelvin, and fled.

No arrests have been made.

Four HOURS later, the City Council unanimously voted and approved Kelvin’s bill to reduce sentencing minimums for illegal gun possession.

So.

Republicans in the House and the Senate dislike the bill. Representative Jame Comer (R-KY), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, told Townhall that legislators would try to stop the bill from becoming law, that is if deranged DC Mayor Muriel Bowser actually signs it. The federal government has jurisdiction in DC.

Sadly, Kelvin will never see the fruits of his passion, he won’t attend anymore city council meetings, and he definitely won’t kidnap anybody, since he’s now established underground somewhere. But at least we can be comforted knowing that the guy who shot Kelvin will get a lighter sentence, due in part to all of Kelvin’s diligent advocacy.

It’s what Kelvin would have wanted.