Sunday, July 29, 2007

We're the Only Ones Caught and Released Enough

Federal officials at Metro Airport...caught Sylvia James, chief judge of Inkster's 22nd District Court, with a loaded handgun in her luggage...James, who was described as very cooperative with TSA agents, was questioned and released.
Hey, if you catch me with a loaded handgun at the airport, will you let me go too, and tell people how cooperative I was?

Or aren't I a big enough fish?

[More from "The Only Ones" files]

A Joint Effort

Leading officials from Maryland, the District and Prince George's County will announce a set of initiatives today aimed at cracking down on gun trafficking, tightening laws that govern firearms use and improving information-sharing among law enforcement agencies.

I guess that's a lot easier and safer than going after the monsters causing the carnage.

Do they call it a "joint effort" because that's what the people who support these loopy ideas are smoking?

Anti-Gun Hijinks

In an fine example of locker room hijinks that go wrong, the Kansas City Royals' Emil Brown hit a reporter with a pellet gun in the team's clubhouse on Friday afternoon.
Not the Kansas City Royals that "have lent their corporate support to gun control initiatives or taken position supporting gun control"?

It's Gotta Be the Gun

A MAN has been shot dead and two others, including a teenager, have been injured in two shootings - one at a funeral wake for another gun victim.
Those guns really make people do bad things, don't they? Especially the banned ones?

I mean, it's not like there's any other plausible explanation...

And believe it, Patsy (fitting name). You've helped make it inevitable.

Switzerland Mulls National Suicide

Switzerland's the only country that requires its soldiers to keep guns at home. But concerns over high suicide rates and killings within families have caused some to ask whether having them there is simply too dangerous.

"Some"? Oh, you mean the stupid, the irrational, and those who manipulate them.

This Day in History: July 29

James M', Daniel, tried by a General Court Martial, whereof Col. Glover was President for "forgeing an Order of General Putnams to obtain a quart of Rum, and for abusive Language to Col. Gridley" and ordered to receive twenty Lashes. The General confirms the sentence, and orders it to be executed after prayer time to morrow.