Texas Killer Devin Kelley Should Still Have Been in Jail

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The Air Force has admitted that its failure to enter Devin Patrick Kelley’s domestic violence conviction into the federal NICS database enabled him to purchase the assault rifle that he used to murder 26 people in a Texas church.

What the Air Force has not said is that the ultimate reason Kelley should not have been able to buy the gun last April is this:

He should have still been incarcerated for assaulting his wife and fracturing his infant son’s skull in 2012.

In fact he should have still been behind bars at the time of Sunday’s shooting.

Had justice been done, Kelley would have only been due for release at the end of a five-year term, which would have come on Tuesday.

Back on Nov. 7, 2012, Kelley faced sentencing for having violated Article 128 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which states, “Any service member offering or attempting to do bodily harm to another individual, through unlawful violence or force, whether or not the offer or attempt is consummated, is guilty of committing assault.”

Article 128 further says, “Any service member who… assaults and inflicts severe bodily harm intentionally with a weapon or without it… will be held guilty of committing aggravated assault and will be punished as directed by a court martial.”

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