Monday, June 19, 2006

A .357 Smith & Wesson Goes Berserk

This just in: "An Ohio gun went berserk in a crowded shopping mall, shooting six people before reloading and firing three more shots at fleeing shoppers."
Hal Lindsey shoots down the myth of self-animating guns.

AP Wakes Up

Federal agents seized inventory and paperwork in a raid of a gun parts manufacturing company here last week, the company's owner said.
Nice to see the "authorized journalists" finally getting around to noticing this story...

Officer Fires Gun at Charging Vehicle

Perhaps he got too close to its cubs?

Is There a Gun Where Your Child Plays?

You dang betcha.

And they've shot every one they're big enough to handle safely. It seems to educate them a lot better than adopting a policy of avoidance, denial and "adult"-induced phobia.

Any other questions, Dr. Pollack?

Newsflash: Marches Ineffective at Stopping "Gun Violence"

Just as yesterday's Stop the Violence walk was getting underway downtown, a man in his early twenties was shot with a handgun three times in the right arm and once in the upper chest in the Sheppard Ave. E. and Neilson Rd. area.
Well that didn't work...maybe it's time to try a candlelight vigil or a "gun buyback"?

We're the Only Ones--Wanna Fight About It?

Another one of the only ones who gets the kid glove treatment. Where would I be after repeatedly entering bars with a gun and starting fights?
Looks like Blognomicon is starting his own Only Ones archive.

This Day in History: June 19

On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor as a symbol of Franco-American friendship.

Nine years late, the 300-foot statue was a gift from the people of France, who had been the Patriots’ primary foreign ally in the War for Independence, to those of United States as a celebration of the Declaration of Independence’s centenary in 1876.

What Are the Odds?

One in 10 Britons have been affected by gun crime in the past five years, or know someone else who has been, a survey has found.
And the antis use this shameful statistic as justification for disarming the law-abiding even more?

Still, I wouldn't be surprised to find it's one of those fudged statistics, with "Britons" from some demographics experiencing a much higher rate than that, and then averaging things out to demographics that experience almost no violent crime...