Monday, June 26, 2006

We're the Only Ones Possessive Enough

A traffic officer was arrested after two people were shot and wounded in Volksrust in a dispute over a girlfriend, Mpumalanga police said on Monday...

[T]he gun used in the incident was the officer's service pistol.
Thank goodness they were only wounded. It's a good thing for them they weren't armed and trying to defend themselves, because The Mail & Guardian tells us:
Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula said in an interview with the South African Broadcasting Corporation that anyone who points a gun at a police officer will be killed.
That's 'cause they're The Only Ones, and they're as possessive of power as they are of their partners--whether that attention is wanted or not.

We're the Only Ones Spinning Enough

A Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy serving as a disc jockey at a neighbor's birthday party was arrested Saturday night after he allegedly pulled a gun on a fellow deputy responding to a complaint about loud music...

Howell laughed at the deputies and said, "Who the (expletive) are you? Don't yell at me, I'm a deputy, I don't have to do (expletive)"...
That claim just may rival "I'm the Only One" as a succinct example of institutional arrogance.

Buy a Gun and Help Cincinnati's Finances

You can walk into your local sporting-goods store and buy a 50-round box of 9mm ammunition for about $6, or 12 cents a bullet.

The cost of that bullet increases exponentially on the streets of Greater Cincinnati if it rips through the gut or the spleen or the spine of a victim of a gun crime.
Time to encourage the good people to keep and bear arms then--think how much violence they could deter and how much money they could save the city...

This Day in History: June 26

On this day in 1784, Delaware Patriot Caesar Rodney dies.