How far we've fallen....

Now days the toy company would be boycotted and the marketing staff would have to take sensitivity training.

More reasons why I don't listen to journalists

Gun Free Zone

Weapons of Israel

DoubleTapper has put together a nice video collection of modern military weapons used by the Israeli military (including the new Tavor 21 bullpup). Make sure to watch the IMI Galil vid (#4) - the guy shooting clearly knows what he's doing. I'd hate to be on the receiving end...

Someday....

I want to have a secret gun room like this....and I'll go ape if my kids let their friends in there with a video camera.

A Royal Mistake

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:

1. The video evidence was "just one piece of evidence, one person's view."
2. Only three officers responded (there were four).
3. They said they couldn't use pepper spray because they might hit bystanders (bystanders in another room on the other side of a glass wall).
4. They said the man continued to throw things around the room when the police arrived and to yell and scream at them (he did not do any of those things).
   

Police Brutality

Yep...only the police can be trusted with dangerous weapons.