Evansville Police arrested 27 year old Richard Dulin after officers responded to a shots fired call at 15 Hampton Dr. The incident began at 12:05pm on Sunday.
Police were called to an argument between and man and a woman. While officer were on their way to the call, the man fired 6 shots from a .38 caliber revolver. The shots were fired out of a window and struck the building next door.
During the investigation, officers recovered the gun, $2110, 64grams of Marijuana, and scales.
The female was not injured during the incident. Dulin told officers he fired the gun to relieve stress. Dulin did not have a permit for the gun and told officers he purchased it on the street.
Dulin was charged with Criminal Recklessness, Possession of a Firearm without a Permit, and Dealing Marijuana.
Wouldn’t have happened if marijuana was legalized.
Can you please explain what you mean by that? I am not sure on how shooting a gun while arguing with a girl is related to the legalization of marijuana.
The reason he has/needs the gun is dealing.
Agreed. I have explained this in great detail in other similar articles here. If Inquiring Mind really wants to know the connection, he can read all about it in those responses.
Marijuana legalization would remove the trade from illicit status and bring it into the light. It would make dealers into legitimate entrepreneurs with a clear incentive to conduct business openly and without violence and “the law of the street” as their enforcement tool.
As it stands, with marijuana illegal, how is a dealer an buyer to settle disputes? It’s not like they can call the cops, is it? It’s not like a buyer can bring a dealer to court to dispute being shorted on a deal, is it? That’s why you see senseless shootings in relation to the otherwise harmless marijuana.
Just as Prohibition of alcohol gave rise to the Al Capones of the day, criminalization of marijuana – and all drugs for that matter – give rise to thugs who think that violence is a legitimate way to protect their illicit trade.
No one need take my word for it. Just study the differences between countries without marijuana criminalization and those with. We incarcerate 5 million Americans, many of whom are inside because of drug dealing and use. That takes beds away we could use for truly violence criminals.
The drug war is a lose-lose for everyone, police included. It’s too damn bad they are largely too pig-headed to change their attitudes. The only beneficiaries of the drug war are the federal government agencies and local task forces who get their funding specifically to fight it, and the prison industrial complex of private companies who make more money by incarcerating more people.
All of that doesn’t necessarily apply in this case. Sounds like this guy was just being a jackass.
That is what I was saying. This guy is a jackass. Weed had nothing to do with his actions.This guy carries a gun around because he is a chump. He has victimized people his whole life and has to have a gun to control them, including the girl in this case.
If you research Dulin, you will find he stood trial for armed robbery last year. He was found guilty of a lesser charge and was released on time served. You will also find that the victim in that armed robbery was murdered two weeks after he was robbed. That murder is unsolved because of the stop snitching mentality in some neighborhoods.
While there are cases where violence has happened because someone wanted free weed, II would point out that there are many cases where people like Dulin rob, beat up, and shoot at people in order to take things that are perfectly legal to have. Why? Because they don’t want to work for anything. Weed can be legal as beer and people who want it for free will still commit violent acts to get it.
There is truth in what you say there. That truth doesn’t really speak to the drug war one way or another, but you’re right.
Wow. I have not seen a stretch like that since Stretch Armstrong back n 1979.
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