Just spotted your most recent shooting. This alert is for if you do a follow-up on last week’s shooting of Gage Meche at Moss Bluff Elementary.
1) Gage had to go back to surgery yesterday (5/23/17) (Info from his Facebook recovery page)
- State Rep. Stephen Dwight’s wife Jessica Dwight works as a librarian at the school Gage attended
- Dwight grew up in Moss Bluff and worked as General Counsel in the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Department (In my piece I highlighted the DA’s and sheriff’s activist pro-gun views after the shooting.)
- Michael L. Dugas, the gun owner, was released on a $5,000 bond because the negligent injuring and improper supervision of a minor are only misdemeanors (link)
- Michael Dugas was arrested for a DUI that resulted in a death in 2015
- Michael Dugas said he gave Jake Dugas a gun based on a robbery a few month ago. I couldn’t determine which robbery it was because Jake’s name wasn’t mentioned in the news stories, but you might since you apparently covered it. It might be these suspects.
Nobody has asked your state representative Dwight if he will do anything about this shooting.
Maybe you should ask him what his plans are following this one, before the next.
He should at least have an opinion or comment because of these relevant facts.
- He worked in the Sheriff’s office
- He is a lawyer who must know the DA
- His wife works at Moss Bluff Elementary
- He can now propose laws to make changes
The state determines the level of charges available to the DA. Dwight could propose harsher penalties for negligent storage of firearms, or he could forge new ground and propose gun laws that protect children and require financial responsibility of gun owners for accidents. Laws could include
- Mandatory safe storage of guns
- Mandatory safety locks on guns
- Mandatory liability insurance for gun owners to pay for medical bills of people injured in gun accidents
