Thursday, February 15, 2007

Back to the Future

"Requiring notification of lost and stolen firearms is the single most effective way to prevent those who are not legally allowed to own a gun from obtaining one," Levine said.
But Lloyd, wait, if the gun has already been stolen, how does that prevent the person who took it from obtaining it?

It looks like Lloyd's prototype time travel field is only effective for 5 days, but I'm sure the staff of highly trained temporal technicians at the CA State Assembly will break through that paradox barrier soon--then maybe we can start requiring gun owners to report thefts before they happen!

Oh, and here's the kicker--you realize, of course, this only applies to "law abiding" gun owners. Criminals, who possess their guns "illegally", can't be compelled to report if their guns are lost or stolen, because that would violate their Fifth Amendment right against self- incrimination. That is, unless we can send Lloyd back to before the Bill of Rights was drafted to cause a few small time rift changes...maybe we could get him to strangle the infant James Madison in his crib...

Gary's Not Comfortable

"I'm not comfortable arming our entire country for protection - that's a paranoid notion," said Gary Sackett, a Gun Violence Prevention Center board member.

"You can't protect against every madman with a firearm or a hand grenade. That sort of thing is going to happen from time to time."
And you'd just let it happen and wouldn't even try to stop it, right, Gary? Better to label men and women who aren't useless cowards as "paranoid." That way, you won't stick out so pathetically.

The Punishment Fits the Crime

An 8-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon after he allegedly threatened fellow students at Frank Silvia School Tuesday with what turned out to be a toy gun, the police said.
I guess spanking him and making him apologize and do extra chores for a week would have been too simple.

It probably would have been. These days, there's a great chance he comes from a home with no dad, and he's probably been on Ritalin for several years by now because, being tax slaves, who has the time to give kids the intensive attention that they need...? Besides--isn't that the school's job?

We're the Only Ones for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Croatia

The perpetrator used the policewoman’s inattention (of Imotski origin) and stole her official 7.65 caliber CZ gun, with ammunition, her belt, gun case and the leather baton holder, Split-Dalmatia police says.
Jagshemash. "Only Ones" is same everywhere. Like Gypsies.

Holy Lockdown, Batman!

Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campus, jump a fence and disappear into the desert...
That's all it seems to take these in these days of Lite Brite Terror.

Some certainly seem to be doing their utmost to condition their charges into fearing everything.

One Gun Per Month

The Liberty Belles has more on the latest Stalinist hate crime proposed by Comrade Quigley.

This Day in History: February 15

From Halifax, Canada, on this day in 1776, Governor Francis Legge reports to British headquarters in London that traitorous elements in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, have contacted American General George Washington. Washington received a letter from the Nova Scotians, in which they expressed their sympathy for the American cause, on February 8. They invited General Washington and the Continental Army to invade Nova Scotia at his earliest possible convenience.
One man's traitor is another man's patriot. My favorite line from Errol Flynn's "Robin Hood" is when someone (Basil Rathbone as Guy of Gisbourne, as I recall) shouts "You speak treason!" and he responds "Fluently."

If the choice is supporting unalienable rights or tyrant rulers, I'll side with the "traitors" every time.