CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Baltimore Ku Klux Klan leader has pleaded no contest to firing a gun during a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last summer.
Court records show Richard W. Preston entered the plea Tuesday. He was charged with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school.
Authorities said Preston was shown in video of the incident yelling and firing a handgun once while standing on a sidewalk crowded with rally-goers and counterprotesters. No one was struck with the bullet.
Preston has previously said he was acting in self-defense.
A plea of no contest means a defendant acknowledges there’s enough evidence to convict him but doesn’t admit he committed the crime. The plea has the same effect as a guilty plea.
Court records show Preston will be sentenced Wednesday morning.
Convict appears to be confusing “defense” with “aggrandizement”, “indulgence”, “satisfaction”, or some combination of these.
Speaking of dumb gun owners, 8% of folks surveyed that have a gun(s) didn’t join the NRA because they didn’t know how.
Shit now I’m really scared of them having a gun!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-many-gun-owners-dont-join-the-nra_us_5ad8a110e4b03c426dabf372
Trump probably already hired him as a bodyguard. He likes to shoot first then worry about the small stuff later.