Missouri resident Torrey Holliday just received a notice that should chill anyone who has even a passing interest in safeguarding constitutional rights.
The St. Louis Housing Authority (SLHA) told the wheelchair-bound man that he is being evicted from his home. His offense? Firing his weapon in August at an announced robber who had allegedly attacked him before.
No more public housing after he exercised his Second Amendment rights and defended himself from a previous threat. A threat captured on surveillance video and now charged with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action, and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Police found no reason to charge wheelchair-bound defender
As the National Rifle Association (NRA) noted in its report, Missouri is a pro-gun rights state encumbered with St. Louis and its notable hostility toward the right to keep and bear arms. Public housing residents have long dealt with such discriminatory practices; this is only the latest example.
By all accounts, Randall L. Taylor cornered his intended victim in the lobby after allegedly stealing a firearm from him in a previous encounter. This time, Holliday successfully defended himself even as he tried to roll his wheelchair away from the suspect.
With no other choice, the target fired.
Exercising constitutional rights should not result in eviction
Investigators gathered evidence and soon determined that the incident was a clear-cut case of self-defense. That should have been the end of Holliday’s troubles, but it was only the start.
Now, for exercising a fundamental right enjoyed by all law-abiding Americans, he faces having to uproot and find another home.
This would not be the NRA’s first rodeo if the group chooses to get involved. After the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, the gun rights group successfully challenged multiple housing authorities that denied this freedom to their tenants.
With Bruen reaffirming this liberty 14 years later, the right to armed self-defense should not be jeopardized by an upstanding person’s financial challenges. And that’s exactly what these restrictions are.
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