Local district attorney Sim Gill’s office said on Friday that it was unable to make a decision on charges against Arturo Gamboa after the 14 June shooting that killed demonstrator Arthur Folasa Ah Loo – but that the investigation into the slaying continues.
Salt Lake City police had said Arturo Gamboa brought an assault-style rifle to the rally and was moving toward the crowd with the weapon raised when a safety volunteer for the event fired three shots, wounding Gamboa and killing Ah Loo nearby.
Gamboa didn’t fire his rifle, and it’s unclear what he intended to do with it. His father, Albert Gamboa said his son was “an innocent guy” who was “in the wrong place at the wrong time”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/21/suspect-no-kings-rally-shooting-death-utah-released.
“Innocent guys” don’t walk around with rifles, you fucking asshole. Dude should at the very least be charged with reckless endangerment.
Edit: I got a couple of things confused because I misread the article, including, but not limited to, thinking the shooter’s dad was claiming the shooter was innocent, which is what I was responding to. Today’s not my day for reading comprehension, apparently.
I get what you’re trying to say, but Utah is a “constitutional carry” state. Meaning that he was legally allowed to open carry whatever firearm he wished as long as he didn’t point it at anyone. In this case I think the law is more reckless than the individual.
To add to that, look at pictures of the pro Trump protests in Utah around Jan 6, many of them openly carrying assault rifles, none of them shot. I don’t like guns or open carry but the difference in reaction is stark.
Agreed, while I fucking hate the fact that certain individuals have decided that the right to bare arms is more important than the right to life, it is still their right. I disapprove of limiting rights based on which individual uses them. The Utah Legislature needs to figure out if the right to carry firearms is for everyone or go the route California did and ban it because individuals they didn’t like started arming themselves.
Zero chance Utah does anything like California on guns. Utah Mormons are prepper gun nuts.
Yup. IIRC, the NRA didn’t really get influential until minorities started arming themselves and organizations like the Black Panthers started to appear. Then all of a sudden these 2A clowns are all about gun control… For certain individuals.
You’re right. There’s definitely a double standard going on. I misread this article at first and thought it was a pro Trump person pointing their rifle at a crowd, so I thought this was finally one of them actually facing a consequence, but I see I was wrong. Either way, we are far too loose with guns and i don’t think approaching any crowd with a gun raised is a smart idea.
That’s true, and I agree, the law is too reckless when it comes to guns. That said, it seems like he did raise his weapon to the crowd, which seems very unwise.
so these guys are assholes, right?
and these guys
and these guys
and these guys too
all these people should be charged. right?
had to add this. Chopper Dan has a sticker on his “assault helmet”. aka, a bicycle helmet. fuckin losers.
Yes.
Surely you mean that “safety volunteer” that was actually shooting, right? The guy who killed a person, right?
Yeah, I misread the article and got a couple of things confused, as I mentioned in another comment.
That’s why I don’t trust cops