Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Why Not Hold a CRIMINAL Turn-In Program Instead?

Rochester police and members of the clergy will be working out the final details this week to launch a citywide gun turn-in program at five churches on Saturday...

"Most of our killings are caused by guns, and we're saying enough is enough"...

[Rev. Deloris] Simpson said many parents and grandparents know youths in their homes are carrying guns...

"In order for this to work, we have to have buy-in from the community," [District Attorney Mike] Green said. "If we only get one gun off the street Saturday, it'll be a successful day because that's a gun that might have been used in a homicide."
My first thought: I wonder if Deloris is related to Homer.

Overlooked is the very real fact that the homicides are "caused" by killers, that is, the juvenile parasites the parents/grandparents enable.

But blame the guns and make a show of getting them "off the street," while leaving the killers there. Then elect political bosses who will pledge more "gun control," ensuring a steady supply of goats for the jackals--and move all the pieces another step closer to total dependence on the state, that is, to a state of being totally controlled, that is, to a state of totalitarianism.

It might seem DA Green has a pretty bizarre notion of what constitutes "a successful day," but it has been for him. He's got the serfs thinking they owe him one, plus he got ink from his adoring lapdogs at the Democrat and Chronicle.

That can't hurt his political ambitions one bit. And so what if he's got to crush a little freedom along the way? It's not like the cattle he's in charge of herding and culling do anything to secure their own liberty.

This Day in History: May 30

On this day in 1806, Revolutionary war veteran and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.

Aw, For Cryin' Out Loud

Airman arrested for Airsoft.

Stop it.

Just stop it.

Be sure and watch the video.

Sgt. Brian Vance, what the hell is wrong with you?

Good Lord.

Howard: I'm Protected, So the Rest of You Lot, Bugger Off, Mates!

An elderly Sydney couple are recovering after being brutally clubbed with a gun butt for the sake of a few dollars...The 76-year-old woman and her 82-year-old husband were punched and battered with the gun at their boarding house...the attacker burst in and marched him inside to find his wife...He then punched the woman in the head, knocking her down, before striking her, then her husband, with the butt of a sawn-off shotgun and running off...with the woman's handbag, containing a small amount of cash.
Well the Australian government was certainly nowhere to be seen when the attack occurred, and what chance does an elderly couple have against such an assailant?

Perhaps we should ask Prime Minister John Howard what he thinks of weaker people having the means to defend themselves against stronger predators:
[W]e will find any means we can to further restrict them because I hate guns. I don’t think people should have guns unless they’re police or in the military or in the security industry. There is no earthly reason for people to have...ordinary citizens should not have weapons. We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.
How are those taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards working out for you, Prime Minister? Thank goodness being an official makes you and your agents immune to gun disease!

The Ratings Game

More anti-defense cheerleading from Mr. Disarmament himself, Michael Daly. It's not his rant that interests me, as he is always so boringly predictable in his recitation of the Brady playbook. What caught my attention was this:
[New Jersey Rep. Joe] Saxton is generally an opponent of gun control, though he has only a B-plus rating from the NRA.
I can't trust anything Daly writes to be accurate, but just in case he's right on this one, it does bring up a question I've asked before:

Why does GOA give Saxton a "D"?

A Safe House

The safest house is one with no guns, public health experts agree.
Boy, that Sandra G. Boodman can parrot citizen disarmament propaganda with the best of them, can't she? And leave it to the WaPo to present this as news, rather than an editorial page opinion piece.

In a related matter, it looks like Harvard weenie Matthew Miller will be answering questions online today about gun safety in homes. I submitted this:
What percentage of the people in your studies who injured or killed themselves or negligently/wrongfully injured or killed others using a firearm, were NRA members? Since this is one of the most heavily armed citizen populations in the country, don't you think knowing this would be relevant to factor into your conclusions?
Why not take a moment and compose a question of your own?