“Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy Karnig Ohannessian stands on a sidewalk in front of a two-story suburban home, arguing with a group of young men, telling them to leave and pointing a gun at them.”
Fire him, decommision him, deny him a pension, send him to anger management classes after a couple years in the brig.
We don’t need people like this guy in the command structure of the military.
Well, he is a white guy…so I forsee a community service medal.
The guy’s gun was more convenient than his cell phone? Why didn’t he just call the local cops?
There will be exactly zero consequence for this lunatic. He’s a white, military officer. End of story. Had he been a black man, the cops would have arrived, shot him dead, then asked questions. The Navy brass will circle the ships and white wash this clearly crazed act of privilege.
He seems nice.
That is the problem with having a gun. Limp-dicks start to get cocky. But you can see the problem here, the boys are not afraid of him, so what is he going to do? escalate it even more? Shoot them? What if the kids happened to have guns as well like the NRA advocates?
This guy deliberately placed himself in a potentially lethal no-win situation, his wife could see that and tried to get him to lower his gun. And I don’t know where he gets that he can shoot anyone in his property.
This guys has shown extraordinarily bad judgement and should not be in any position of authority. And goes without saying, this guy should not be allowed to own guns. No limp-dick should be allowed to have them, but of course those are the ones that want them more.
White guy in Northern VA? No charges.
Finger on the trigger in that photo. I don’t care how annoying their skateboarding or setting off firecrackers in “his” street was (or whatever set this idiot off). He should be going to jail for making threats with a deadly weapon and a whole host of other gun-related and assault crimes.
I guarantee he was more than half-lit from drinking all afternoon too, but we’ll never be able to show that. And who wants to bet that the kid holding the phone was the black one, which is why you can’t see him?
This is what’s becoming the “stereotype” of an angry old white man.
Angry Old White Man: A person afraid of everything and anything around him. Give him a gun, and he goes postal on anyone (from the teens in the street corner, to the little girls playing dolls on the neighbor’s lawn, and especially on anyone NOT white). Due to cognitive disabilities caused by advanced age, Angry Old White Man will confront anyone with weapon brandished (while usually misquoting stand your ground law or the constitution) instead of doing what most rational being would do in case of a dangerous situation: call 911.
I’d say it was pathetic, if it weren’t so sad and dangerous. Thankfully, in another 15-20 years or so this particular species will be on a very sharp decline.
It’s amazing how widespread the belief is that you can kill anyone who bends a blade of grass on your yard. Actually the laws are a patchwork but basically you can catch all kinds of serious charges for brandishing a weapon, much less pointing it at someone, if you’re not in imminent danger of serious injury or death. There’s no credible threat here, which in most states I understand makes what Navy Boy did felony assault.
“Mr. Ohannessian’s supervisor is taking the appropriate action.”
Yeah, that’s exactly what would happen if I ran around my neighborhood threatening people with a gun – my boss would be notified and he’d be the one to discipline me.
Do we know what the young men were doing? I can’t tell.
My first thought was PTSD but then I thought Navy??
Why doesn’t the headline read “Former Navy Official?”
It should.
Get off my lawn?
And the police came in and shot him. Oh, wait. He’s a white man. Nevermind.
So this is the way he enforced discipline on active duty?
I wouldn’t bet on that.
If he’s a Deputy Assistant Secretary, he’s a civilian, not a military officer. He appears to be a policy advisor.
But I agree that this is the problem with easy access to handguns. Maybe this was the first time he ever pulled a gun on someone in an argument. Or maybe every time he hears a noise downstairs at night, he chambers a round and heads down to defend his castle against the marauders. With no criteria for who is allowed to possess a handgun or requirement for training, this bozo gets to make up his own rules.