A Wisconsin was convicted and sentenced to time served Monday for threatening to shoot state lawmakers in 2022 if they passed a bill allowing teachers to carry firearms. A judge found James Stearns of Fond du Lac guilty of making terrorist threats, a felony. Stearns was sentenced to seven days in jail, which he had already served, and fined $500.
MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin man was convicted and sentenced to time served Monday for threatening to shoot state lawmakers in 2022 if they passed a bill allowing teachers to carry firearms.
James Stearns of Fond du Lac was found guilty of making terrorist threats, a felony, by Judge Anthony Nehls and sentenced to seven days in jail, which he had already served, and fined $500. Stearns’ attorney, Matthew Goldin, did not return an email seeking comment Tuesday. The 75-year-old Stearns sent two emails in May 2022 threatening to shoot state legislators if they passed a bill allowing for teachers to be armed, according to the criminal complaint. TheOne of the emails was sent to a state lawmaker who is not identified in the complaint. Another was sent to a conservative talk radio host in Wisconsin.
In that email, contained in the complaint, Stearns identified himself and said if the bill passed, he “will purchase a gun, the most powerful I can purchase, and go to Madison and shoot as many of the people who vote for this law as I can before someone shoots me.”In the email sent to the lawmaker, Stearns wrote that he would kill the lawmaker within 60 days of the bill passing.
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