Tuesday, April 25, 2006

We're the Only Ones Parental Enough

The seven-year-old son of a Leominster police officer accidentally fires his father's gun while inside the city's police station...

The officer was reportedly showing someone a demonstration model of a holster for his semiautomatic gun.

At some point, he put the gun down while reloading an ammunition magazine.

That's when his son picked it up and fired the shot.
And naturally, the chief "would not identify" the officer...

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Open Lines of Communication Focus of Gun Summit

God forbid the right of the people to keep and bear arms should be the focus...but then, we're dealing with people who view themselves as overlords, not public servants.

Here's a nice bit of unsubstantiated propaganda presented by CBS 11 as fact:
It's estimated 20 percent of gun industry profits come from the sales of illegal guns.
Really?

Who did the estimating? What methodology did they use? Have the findings been published? Who reviewed them to make sure that statement isn't pure agenda-driven hysteria? If provable, how many "gun industry" executives have been charged, prosecuted and convicted for selling "illegal guns," which is...umm...illegal?

And, if true, what does that say about GCA 68 and the Brady background check?

Don't look for these questions to be raised--the "open lines of communication" aren't open to dissent.

We're the Only Ones Wasted Enough

A BAG of drugs being used in the training of police sniffer dogs has gone missing.
The bag of drugs has gone missing? All by its own self? Is that anything like the gun went off?

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