by David Safier
Presented without comment, because I'm speechless.
From the Phoenix New Times article, Chris Simcox Allegedly Threatened To Kill Family and Cops, According To Wife's Order of Protection.
Former minuteman leader and ex, self-described "senior advisor" for J.D. Hayworth's U.S. Senate campaign Chris Simcox allegedly threatened to kill his wife and family according to a petition for an order of protection filed by his estranged spouse Alena Simcox.
A Maricopa County court commissioner granted the petition April 16, and ordered the 49 year-old Simcox to remain 200 yards away from Alena, their two children, and Alena's child from a previous relationship. The order prohibits Simcox from possessing, receiving, or purchasing firearms or ammunition. He was told to "surrender same" to the Scottsdale police within 24 hours of being served.
(Note: I called Scottsdale police today to ask if Simcox had surrendered his weapons. They told me they had no record of him doing so.)
Alena Simcox, 30, petitioned for divorce from her husband of five years on April 19. A judge later granted her temporary legal custody of the kids. The dissolution of the marriage is pending. A reply to the court, filed by Simcox's lawyer John Acer, denies allegations of domestic violence.
And yet, Alena Simcox goes into graphic detail in her order of protection paperwork, describing three disturbing incidents.
"On my husband's birthday, he was drinking," she states of the date November 29, 2009. "When I came home from Christmas shopping, he [threatened] me with a gun. Repeatedly pointed it at me, saying he was going to kill me, and my kids, and the police. Kids were present and saw him. Very verbally abusive to me throughout the incident. Punched my wall in and destroyed [an] office door.
"The incident started 8:00 p.m. went to 2:00 [a.m.] when he passed out. I locked myself in my master bedroom with the kids. I did not call the police because he threatened to kill me and the kids and all police if I did. He was waiting by the door for the police to come, with a gun pointed at me."
She details another incident dated August 22, 2009:
"On our wedding anniversary, he was drinking and angery [sic]. Got a revolver gun and loaded with kids present. Then proceeded to ask me to `shoot him.' I said `no,' so then he said he would shoot entire family and cops."
Alena Simcox also says that, "I have many emails that are harassing in nature, many emails accuse me of phone sex with other men. As well as adultery with many [different] men. All allegations are untrue."
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According to his recent filing with the court, Chris Simcox is unemployed. Alena Simcox said in her divorce paperwork that her husband's working for Hayworth's campaign. And he was doing so in some capacity after he ditched his own dark horse U.S. Senate candidacy and threw his support behind Hayworth's challenge of McCain in February.
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A 2005 profile of Simcox published by the Southern Poverty Law Center detailed how the second of Simcox's ex-wives, Kim Dunbar, "filed an emergency appeal in September 2001 to obtain full custody of their teenage son because she feared that Simcox had suffered a mental breakdown and was dangerous."
According to the SPLC, Dunbar stated in a sworn affidavit that Simcox "once took a knife from the kitchen and threatened to kill himself…When he was angry, he broke furniture, car windows, he banged his head against the wall repeatedly and punched things."
Simcox's first ex-wife Deborah Crews told the SPLC that, "He tried to molest our daughter when he was intoxicated…When she ran out, he tried to say he was just giving her a leg massage and she got the wrong idea."
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Simcox is currently seeking joint custody of his children with Alena and an "equitable division" of their joint property.
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It’s worth noting also that the shootout at the OK Corral was a prominent early example of police misconduct. The people should be able to shoot back, lest all our police become the Earps!
Francine Shacter should contemplate why, in her 142 years on this planet, this has been a rare occurrence, despite open carry of firearms being legal in Arizona this entire time.
One can worry about rare events, but one should keep them in perspective. Has firearms liberalization made us any less safe? Empirically, no.
Law must favor the practical. Protecting the right to carry what for many is the only practical means of self-defense must be favored over keeping phobics from shaking in their boots at Beyond Bread.
FWIW my real-life encounters with Ms Shacter have all been pleasant, and I’ll offer here to take her to the range, to give advice on a possible carry pistol, or even to refer her to a good instructor, were she to want to obtain a CCW permit.
When and if government police should visit Beyond Bread does it also worry you that they bring their guns with them? The fact is that Earth is not a risk free zone and some people choose to keep and bear arms so as to reduce the risk that living poses.
You may find a list of stores in Arizona that discourage peaceful weapon possession at:
http://www.nofirearmsallowed.com/Welcome.html
You can feel free to refer any business to the following signmaker:
http://www.SafetySign.com/NoWeaponsSign
You have the right to leave any such business that tolerates peaceful weapons ownership. I fail to understand why any rational person should wish to.
Let’s see, what do “they” say about second amendment rights??? Ah! yes! Now, in Arizona, anyone can carry a gun any and everywhere without a permit. I was in Beyond Bread when a group of such people, packing guns very visibly, met to have a meeting. It was detailed recently in an article by other people who were not comfortable with it. I’d like to know what rights there are for people not to have to be around such a group. As I said when I phoned the manager later that evening: if someone loses his (there were no women so his is correct) temper, could I find myself in the midst of a shoot out at the OK Corral – no, wait, that’s Beyond Bread, isn’t it? It worries me greatly to think that when I go to Beyond Bread, it is such a dangerous place to be that people need to come there with guns to protect themselves!
Really!
Classic psycho-sexual meltdown. I know that virulent hate-mongers like Simcox are usually one six-pack away from a murder-suicide spree at all times, but it is scary to see it demonstrated so clearly. Dude needs to tend to his own wounded psyche, not be messing about in politics.
Don’t forget the Brown Shirt Nazi Brigade Simcox funded in San Diego known as the Border Patrol Auxiliary lead now by a pudgy man with a Hitler mustache named Carl Braun.