Wednesday, September 13, 2006

A Wynne-Win Situation

Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne.

"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne.

"(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."

Translation:
You need to protect my reputation with the UN by using a torture device against the sovereign individuals I am employed to serve. Oh, and we're gonna need to nuke an American city, because unless we're willing to use such weapons on Americans, we have no business deploying them in war.

We're the Only Ones Maternal Enough

A Hartford police officer's service weapon - missing for more than three months - was taken to Bloomfield High School by her son and ended up in the hands of another student before being recovered this weekend after a report of shots fired on a city street, authorities say.

There can be only one response to this outrage: Sue the gun dealer!

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We're the Only Ones Eligible to Deal Enough

A former deputy sheriff in western Kentucky has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors after being charged with taking a gun from the sheriff's department's evidence room...Ashley was given a pretrial diversion on the stolen property charge, which will keep him out of jail unless he commits another crime in two years.

Yeah, if one of us subcitizens stole a gun from the cops, tried to sell it at a swap meet and it ended up being used in a shooting, I'm sure we'd do no jail time, too.

No doubt about it.

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Fifth Third Follies

There are still mixed reviews about Kent County's gun buyback program, but regardless of what either side thinks, organizers collected a total of 278 weapons...

If you want to make a financial contribution, you can still do so at any Fifth Third Bank.

Or, I suppose if you're inclined to being evil, you could bring your weapon directly to any Fifth Third branch and make a withdrawal. It's not like--with their absurd customers/employees only disarmament policy-- that
they'd
be prepared
to do anything
about it.

In the wake of overwhelming real life evidence, this policy amounts to criminal negligence, where Fifth Third knew--or should have known--that it endangers the public. If anyone gets hurt on their premises, I hope they sue the pants off these cretins.

Why any gun owner would do business with them is beyond me. If you know of any, let 'em know what it is they're supporting with their patronage.

The Transatlantic Pipeline

London's biggest-ever gun haul has been seized by police after a series of 6am raids in London today.

Met officers stormed into a semi-detached house opposite a primary school and discovered "hundreds and hundreds" of pump-action shotguns, pistols and semi-automatic weapons.

The house was one of three addresses searched in the Dartford area.

A simultaneous operation was carried out in New Jersey, America.

That "gun control" sure works good, doesn't it, not only in the socialist hellhole UK, but also in the socialist hellhole NJ.

Gee, a "Transatlantic Pipeline." That'll bolster calls for international "gun control" edicts.

Maybe Tony Blair can send his own investigators over here à la Michael Bloomberg, and then file lawsuits against American gun dealers.

We're the Only Ones "Oops, My Bad!" Enough

Mistaken for a car thief, a Calgary dad had a gun pointed at him, was thrown to the ground and cuffed by police while picking up his daughter from school.
Only "The Only Ones"...

Guy's lucky he didn't twitch, I mean, "go for his waistband"...

This Day in History: September 13

On this day in 1806, Charles James Fox, first foreign secretary of the United Kingdom and vocal supporter of American independence, dies in Chiswick, Devon, England.