Fire, brimstone, and a pistol.
Released prisoner arrested for carjacking in jail parking lot - WPTV NewsChannel 5
"A clergyman for Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office saw the incident and ran to help.
The Reverend put his firearm to his side and told Singleton to get on the ground. A deputy came to assist and handcuffed Singleton."
The Brady Bunch are out giving states "report cards" on gun control. The press is dutifully repeating it since they think the Brady's is smart. I happily live in a state that got a 6 out of 100. We have some more work to do here, but I have hopes that we'll be able to 100% piss-off Sarah in the next year or so. You folks in Massachusetts and New England need to move to the back of the class - ah hell, you guys are going to be riding the short bus from now on!
Of course the media is not content with Massachusetts having the toughest gun laws in the nation because guns are "still easy to get". Careful reading this article folks - it will make you want to throw up.
Citizen Y carries a 9 mm semi automatic pistol. Citizen X carries a .38mm. "This right here, you can get for a buck, a buck 50 ($100-$150). As long as it shoots, you're all set."I can't quote any more from these idiots...they're not even going to get on the short bus.
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"The problem is," according to Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, "Instead of a few large illegal dealers in this state, we now have many small dealers who will sell maybe one, two, maybe five guns and there are many more of them, unfortunately."
A teenager who went on a rampage at a Durban school with a firearm is the son of a Durban Metro policeman, police have confirmed. The boy, aged 17, who is a former pupil of the school, held teachers and pupils at gunpoint at the Mbeleble High School in Umlazi on Tuesday after stealing his father’s gun from a safe.Maybe it's schools that cause violence....?
A city police officer suffered a gunshot wound from his own firearm yesterday when he shot a dog that was attacking him and the bullet went through the animal's jaw and into the officer's leg, the police department said.Oops...bet he's hating the idea of going back to work...wonder if he'll receive the order of the targetted toe. Apparently both pit bull and rookie cop are recovering well.
Most recently, Smith& Wesson received an order from the Colorado Springs Police Department to equip the city's officers with 500 M&P40 polymer pistols. Other sizeable agencies that have recently converted to the M&P pistol series include the Atlanta Police Department, Charlotte Police Department, and Syracuse Police Department. A total of 1,900 M&P40 pistols have been shipped to the Atlanta Police Department; 1,650 M&P40 pistols have been shipped to the Charlotte Police Department; and 500 .45 ACP M&P pistols have been shipped to the Syracuse Police Department.
A patrolling police car noticed a 18-year-old student arguing with two teen boys outside the Queens School for Career Development, located at 142-10 Linden Blvd., on Jan. 23 and approached the group when the student was shot in the neck, police said. The two teenage suspects, who police said were members of the Crips gang, ran away and began firing at the officers, who fired back, according to police.Gee...maybe it is schools that are causing violence...
Trying to close a loophole that still doesn't exist...
Several families of the Virginia Tech massacre and Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke joined Senators Frank Lautenberg and Jack Reed on Capitol Hill today as the Senators announced the introduction of legislation that would strengthen the Brady background check system by closing the gun show loophole.
A bill to close the gun-show "loophole" came to an unceremonious end Friday when Democrats failed to get enough votes to reconsider the legislation in committee.
House Bill 745 attracted an overflow crowd in the initial vote Jan. 18. A week later, there was no visible presence of any activists in favor or opposed.
A Los Angeles, Calif., jury today found former Los Angeles Police Department Officer William Ferguson and his brother, former Long Beach Police Department Officer Joseph Ferguson, guilty of conspiring to violate civil rights, conspiring to possess narcotics with intent to distribute, and possession of narcotics with intent to distribute, the Justice Department announced.
THE frightening shootout in Othello Drive on Tuesday night, which left two men hospitalised with gun shot injuries, has been confirmed as a gang-related dispute.
They included a double and a single barrelled sawn-off shotgun, a bolt-action rifle and being in possession of a quantity of shotgun cartridges, at Piperstown Hill, Tallaght on June 6th last year.
Now here's an interesting little experiment. Start by doing a Google news search for the word "shot" in the last 24 hours. You'll find a plethora of crimes. Sounds like evidence for the Brady Bunch, right? Just a second. Go back and do a search for the word "stabbed". Notice anything?
In the word search for "shot" most of the stories come from the United States where there's free gun ownership and a strong push by the media to report crimes committed with guns. In the search for "stabbed" most of the stories come from countries with stringent gun control and a strong push by the media to report crimes committed with knives (particularly the UK which is now talking about "knife crime").
Conclusions? Well, first it's pretty clear that where there are guns there will be crimes committed with guns. No surprise there. It's also pretty clear that where there are knives there will be knife crime. Still no surprise. Heck, where there are rocks there are crimes committed with rocks. People will always use the most efficient tool at their disposal to do evil things.
Second, and the key point here, where there are people there will be violent crimes committed by people. The press will never deal with this issue because a society can't "fix" people. All it can do is hold them accountable for their actions. What's worse is that the press have decided that people are broken because of a bad upbringing or a traumatic experience in life and not because they choose to do evil things. This leaves the press with no way to confront crime except to blame the instruments of crime. For them it's no longer the bad guy who shot or stabbed someone, it's the gun or knife that gave them the opportunity to shoot or stab someone.
People like the Brady Bunch have bought the press' story hook, line, and sinker.
The real question is not how to remove the implements of violence, but how to keep violent criminals from hurting the innocent. Police can't (or won't do it). Society can't legislate it. The only option left is to allow the law-abiding citizen the right to carry a weapon equal to or greater than that which an assailant might use. In other words, recognize their right to self-defense.
And lest you think this is all a pipe-dream and that "gun crime" is the real issue in the United States take a look at this chart from the FBI.
Notice how many "knife crimes" there were in 2006? How about non-weapon crimes? So ask yourself, why is it you only hear about "gun crime"? There's a word for it: bias.
It looks like the folks in D.C. are shuffling their legal team in preparation for the upcoming Supreme Court battle. They've dumped the lead man and now they're "many, many, many laps behind where we ought to be."
Red's trading post points out that the BATFE continues to abuse the law in defiance of Congress by shutting down gun dealers for minor paperwork offenses. It's nothing new - which is part of the problem.
This evening I stumbled across this interesting discussion from October. Basically a woman wanted to know if anyone had experience with a side-mount bed rack for a shotgun. The responses ranged from the informed to the inane.
Some of the posters told her to move, to install a security system, to add bars to the windows, to give an intruder whatever he wanted. Some said guns are "creepy" because they're used to kill people. One uninformed person called armed self-defense "murder". However, it was the recurring implication that she was being paranoid that made me wonder. How much did she really have to fear?
I jumped over to Google and did a news search for "home invasion". Take a look at the hit count at the top of the screen shot:
If it's a bit hard to read don't worry, it says that there were 5,061 news stories posted in the last day about home invasion. Undoubtedly a number of these are repeat stories (like the second one that is covered in 12 separate places due to news wires). Still, 5,061 news stories is a lot for a non-current event topic.
In other words, home invasion is a real problem. The lady who posed the question was not being paranoid, she was being realistic. Which brings to question the mental state of the other people on the thread. It seems to me that they are living in denial about the realities of the dangerous world in which they live...
On August 5th, 2007 San Francisco proudly proclaimed that they had enacted the toughest gun control laws in the nation. As KPIX reported:
City Mayor Gavin Newsom (yes, that Gavin Nesom - the one more concerned about his hair than doing his job) proclaimed in May as he introduced the new laws:SF Leads Nation With Toughest Gun Control Law
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / AP) ― A new San Francisco city law now requires all guns in homes to have a trigger lock or to be stored in a locked container.
Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the measure into law this past week. It also prohibits the sale or possession of firearms on city property and requires the city's six licensed gun dealers to submit their inventory to the police chief every six months, according to Newsom's office.
"Enough is enough. We need common sense gun control."But that's not all. District Attorney Kamala Harris made it clear who they were targeting:
So, how's it working out? Well, KFMB channel 8 over in San Diego (a CBS affiliate) has this little December 18, 2007 AP headline:"Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way that you conduct your affairs," Harris said.
....Even though criminals already don't follow the law, city leaders believe any gun crackdown makes the city safer.
"It's just time and it's the right thing to do," said Harris, citing existing laws in Alameda and Los Angeles counties that are similar to the proposed ones for San Francisco.
"San Francisco Murder Rate At Highest Level In More Than A Decade"What was Newsom's response? There hasn't been one. Apparently he was too focused on his latest big project - the first ever city carbon offset program. Seems he's trying to save the world while his constituents bleed out in the streets.
Oooookaaaaaaay...........then why are people croaking faster now than they have been for a decade? Doesn't seem so smart now does it?Since her election in 2003, Kamala Harris has proved herself to be a District Attorney who not only stands her ground, but breaks new ground in the fight to fix our failing system of criminal justice.
Her pledge is to move beyond the false choice of being "tough" or "weak" on crime. Kamala Harris is smart on crime...and it's working. She's put more violent and serious felons in state prison, cracked down on gang and gun violence, and protected neighborhoods from drug dealers and quality of life crimes.
At the same time, she's safeguarded medical marijuana, reached out to keep youth away from violence, and pioneered innovative programs to help men and women released from state prison get back on track.
Following President Thabo Mbeki's loss Uganda officials have declared January 31 as the deadline for declaring all guns and registering them with the state.
MBARARA district security officials have set January 31, 2008, as the deadline for the declaration of all guns in private hands.
The chairman of the security committee and RDC, Clement Kandole, told reporters last week that there were many unregistered guns which poses a security risk.
“There have been many robberies and we suspect the robbers use such guns,” he said.
The procedure is euphemistically called “forcible disarmament.” It works something like this: The misnamed Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) will torture and rape Karamajong, after which some Karamojong might then disclose the location of some hidden guns. Or the army will burn down a village, after which it might find some guns in the ash left behind.Meanwhile their women are being raped and beaten and the entire country teeters on the edge of stability with Northern Uganda in a state of war.
Paul Helmke (speaking as President of the Brady gang) is lauding the new NICS background check law as "A Victory For The Families Of Virginia Tech, And For Common-Sense Gun Control". What does the new law do? It makes sure the government actually does what the old NICS law did - check mental health records.
Big deal.
Why aren't they asking the government to really do its job? Why not go out and arrest those felons who fail the background check and throw them in jail for attempting to illegally purchase a firearm? Why not ask the government to apply the law to the felons instead of making up new laws to impose upon the law abiding citizens? He lauds the "1.4 million people [stopped] from legally buying guns since 1994" and yet he never takes a look at those 1.4 million felons and psychologically unstable people to begin with.
What's worse is that he draws a poor conclusion from the passage of the law saying:
If the Commonwealth of Virginia had sent his records to NICS, he would have been denied guns at the point of purchase - and the 32 people he murdered might still be alive today.Really? You mean that psychotic maniac wouldn't have made a pipe bomb or fertilizer bomb instead? You mean he wouldn't have walked down into the basement of one of the buildings, broke the gas main, and lit a match instead?
My objection is to distancing the courts from this process, and especially to diverting "rights restoration" to a portion of law that has been cut off from funding and is thus unusable. Every such petition is going to take a court case of no small scale, and probably beyond the finances of the average American.There's the problem. A bureaucrat can take away your rights by throwing you in a mental health institution and you are left hanging with very little chance of restoring your rights.
Cases in which police, prison guards and other law enforcement authorities have used excessive force or other tactics to violate victims' civil rights have increased 25% (281 vs. 224) from fiscal years 2001 to 2007 over the previous seven years, the department says.More disturbing, is the trend of prosecutors refusing to bring charges against police who abuse their authority.
In 2005, 98% were declined, a rate that has remained "extremely high" under every administration dating to President Carter....
The high refusal rates, say Burnham and law enforcement analysts, result in part from the extraordinary difficulty in prosecuting abuse cases. Juries are conditioned to believe cops, and victims' credibility is often challenged.
Police are "professionals" and are there to "help", right? They are trained not to exert more force than necessary, right? That's why police should be the only ones to have weapons, right? Wrong. Watch.
The video below (taken on October 14th 20077) shows Canadian Royal Mounted Police kill Robert Dziekański who is in extreme emotional distress after a 15 hour flight and being unable to find his mother for 10 hours while being left in the immigration area at the Vancouver airport. No one came to his aid. No one thought to help him.
10 hours in the airport after a 15 hour flight and feeling trapped in a metal box. He threw a chair. He smashed a computer. He wanted out. He was a man who was in need of help. Instead it took the police 24 seconds from their time to arrive to use lethal force on a man who was not a physical threat to them.
First, this is in an international airport and they have no one (or service available) who can interpret for him? Instead the bureaucrats decide he's an annoyance that needs to be removed.
Then the police come in like a bunch of jack-booted thugs and surround him. Rather than try to work with him they immediately try to arrest him and throw handcuffs on him. Then they shoot at him with a taser when he is not a physical threat to them. He screams in terror and they hit him with the taser again. While he is on the ground screaming in agony and terror they attempt to issue commands to him in English - a language he clearly can't speak. Finally they apply extreme control methods which result in intense pain causing him to struggle more. At one point a policeman can be seen striking him with a metal batton in a stabbing motion (albeit it's possible he's collapsing the batton - a batton the police implied they didn't use). In the end they kill him through their abuse of force - albeit he didn't actually expire until the ambulance arrived.
Initial News reports made it sound like the man had just walked off the plane and gone off the deep end. They never mentioned his 10 hours of being trapped in the customs area with no airport service to help him find his way.
The unidentified foreign man, who arrived on an international flight on Sunday, showed signs of distress in the customs area. He started shouting in an eastern European language, pounded on windows, threw chairs and shoved computer equipment on the floor.Then police attempted to confiscate the video to cover themselves and their liability for the murder. Finally they issued statements that were outright lies about what happened. They said:
The "International Action Network on Small Arms" is touting on their website a decrease in gun deaths and overall homicides in Brazil proclaiming that it is a direct result of Brazil's new anti-gun laws. The laws include:
The law has cut homicides by nearly half and has slashed other crimes by as much as 80 percent after forcing nearly all of the city's 4,800 bars and restaurants in 2002 to stop selling alcohol between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. Since then, the homicide rate has dropped by 47 percent, traffic accidents by 30 percent, assaults against women by 55 percent, and alcohol-related hospital admissions by 80 percent, according to Miki.The Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkley was instrumental in helping institute the program that brought such startling results to Diadema. Joel Grube of the institute had this to say:
Diadema had a large homicide rate, and we estimated that based on the data they gave us, the intervention prevented about 270 homicides over a three-year period. That is stunningly large. It is a huge, huge change, and I've never seen an intervention that has had an impact of this size.Now, take a moment and look back at the date when they implemented this change: 2002. And, since Diadema saw such a precipitious drop in crime their sister cities took note as well. 120 of them have instituted similar laws that shut down the bars at 11:00. In fact, their federal government is encouraging these laws by offering cities additional federal funds for city police if they follow suit.
The study showed that the majority of crimes -- and 60 percent of all homicides -- occurred at night in and around the city's bars and restaurants. De Filippi then canvassed public opinion over a possible alcohol ban and found that many residents supported restrictions. The next year, the City Council prohibited alcohol sales after 11 p.m.And it wasn't just a law put on the books. Each night four police cars circulate through the city looking for bars that violate the partial prohibition. And those cars are not staffed by a single cop or two. Instead it has military, local police, and police inspectors all ride in the cars together to make sure corruption doesn't subvert the process.
"ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Central Florida man who collects cash for parking at a church fought off five armed men who had ambushed him and demanded cash.... The man said he pretended to reach into his jacket for cash but instead pulled out his hidden gun and opened fire." - Full Story
Take a long look at the screenshot above from the Brady Center's front page today. This is how they see the D.C. Court of Appeals - marking out parts of the Constitution. Of course the part they have the judge marking out is the portion of the 2nd Amendment that says
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State....
...the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The D.C. Court of Appeals' decision in the Parker (now Heller) case was an example of judicial activism at its worst. The Court of Appeals ignored longstanding Supreme Court precedent and substituted its policy preferences for those of the District's elected representatives.
