Saturday, September 16, 2006

"You Have Our Assurance"

A bystander broke up a Northwest Albany armed robbery he witnessed by firing two gunshots in the air. He then followed the armed robbers as they fled, and alerted police who arrested the three gunmen...

Marcus said the Police took his .357 Magnum as evidence after the robbery, but they assured him he would get it back soon.
Good luck.

He'll be lucky if charges don't follow.

Strike Two...

Women in one of Colombia's most dangerous cities have taken the rampant violence on with the only weapon that may defeat guns and ammunition: the power to deny their men any sexual relations.

Dozens of women in Pereira have joined the so called "crossed legs strike," hoping to help the local government's disarmament effort.

One gang member's girlfriend said withholding sex was proving a powerful incentive. "The boys listen to us. When we close ourselves off a bit they listen to us. If they don't give up their weapons, then we won't be with them," Margarita told AP Television.
Yeah, that'll work.

We all know how much gang culture respects women, especially the classy prizes who avail their bodies to violent street thugs.

Tell me this strike won't be over by the second or third strike...

We're the Only Ones Discharged Enough

A Berkeley police officer has been charged with criminally discharging his firearm outside his San Francisco home last month, the third member of the department this year to be investigated for alleged misconduct, authorities said today.

Sean Derry, 30, fired several shots with his department-issued weapon on Aug. 12, according to San Francisco prosecutors who lodged a felony charge against him of discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling.

But Derry's attorney, Harry Stern of Pleasant Hill, disputed the charge, saying his client thought a homeless man was burglarizing his home. Derry went outside and fired his weapon into the air, not at a building, Stern said, adding that no one was injured.
Yeah, I totally sympathize. I fire my gun in the air when I see homeless people near my house all the time--particularly on recycling day, where the law requires homeowners create an attractive nuisance in front of their houses. Talk about justified! And talk about a good belly-laugh when they scatter!

Good Lord, his excuse just about reflects more poorly on his judgment and training than what he's being charged with. Instead of going after a specific target, this moron endangers everyone in proximity.

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

The "Gun Offender" Registry

Two powerful aldermen are proposing a gun offender registry that would allow police to track people convicted of weapons violations...

Todd Vandermyde, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, criticized the proposed registry, especially if it includes people convicted of misdemeanors.

"If they're talking about hard-core offenders, that's one thing," he said. "If they're trying to nail gun owners who make honest mistakes, that's another..."

What if it's not an "honest mistake," Todd?

What if it's intentional defiance of unconstitutional disarmament edicts?

How about this instead (?):

If you can't be trusted with a gun, you can't be trusted without a custodian.

If you're unfit to live in a free society, you're unfit to live free.

The rest of us, leave the hell alone. What part of "shall not be infringed" is that difficult, and when is NRA management going to admit that all "gun control," even the brand they endorse, is, at best, counterproductive, at worst, monstrously evil?

[Via HZ]

A Witness Protection Program

Witnesses back state gang, gun legislation
And who are these "witnesses"?

Just the usual gang of democrats.

But you have to dig into the details to find that out. For someone just scanning the paper, inferring a different impression is not unexpected.

And the "authorized journalists" wouldn't have it any other way.

Just look at the coverage they provided for competent, rather than agenda-driven testimony from a real expert witness on the effectiveness of proposed "gun control" edicts.

They didn't.

Not a word.

An Open Door Policy

The Club de Tir Ville St. Pierre is the place where notorious Montreal mass murderer, Valery Fabrikant, took a course in handguns before killing four people at Concordia University in 1992 with a Smith and Wesson .38 special. He took the course in the fall of 1991.

And now it is the place where media reports suggest Dawson College killer Kimveer Gill went to train to get the firearms permit that allowed him to buy the weapons he used this week to kill one person and injure others.

Yesterday, when a reporter walked into the basement club asking questions, owner Marco Pendenza was firm.

"Put your pad away, we have no comment," Pendenza said before asking a reporter to leave. "What part of no comment do you not understand?"

There are nine such clubs in the Greater Montreal region, all offering a variety of gun related services including the training courses that are obligatory under Canadian law before an individual can get a licence to buy a gun.

Continue to hold firm, Mr. Pendenza.

That Canadian law requires preconditions is no doing of yours. And that you should be villified and tarred with the brush of culpability by those wishing to establish guilt by association is further proof that, for "authorized journalists," agenda is more important than truth.

This Day in History: September 16

On this day in 1776, General George Washington arrives at Harlem Heights, on the northern end of Manhattan, and takes command of a group of retreating Continental troops. The day before, 4,000 British soldiers had landed at Kip’s Bay in Manhattan (near present-day 34th Street) and taken control of the island, driving the Continentals north, where they appeared to be in disarray prior to Washington’s arrival.

War on Guns Exclusives

I'll be leaving this at the top of the heap for a while, to help give the following posts the exposure I think they deserve.

Can Gun Control Reduce Violence?

"Domestic Enemies"--An Interview With Matthew Bracken

Look for new posts below this one for the next week.