We're the Only Ones Moral and Upright Enough...

Ja'nerra Carson-Slaughter testified Tuesday that during a business trip last year to Springfield, she delivered a cash bribe to former Police Chief Ron Matthews.

Carson-Slaughter said the money, including $800 to pay Matthews' girlfriend's overdue utility bill, had been requested by Matthews for his help in getting a .38-caliber handgun out of a locked police evidence room.

She said Matthews agreed to help make the pistol disappear before it could be used as evidence against Matthews' businessman friend, Ayoub "Dave" Qattoum, who had been arrested on an illegal weapons charge.

Why do I feel like I just read a 419 scam email?

It Could Be Worse

You could be Barry Campbell.

PLEASE Obey Our Gun Registration

Please...?

They're getting desperate. Threats and cajoling and a hopelessly incompetent bureaucracy haven't worked.

This is both funny and pathetic. Police manning tables at shopping centers. Nothing like a public admission of failure and impotence to foster respect and compliance.

I wonder if they're handing out stickers and balloons?

Keep your gun ownership status to yourselves, South Africans. Anyone who demands to know what you have, with penalties for noncompliance, is not your friend, but your oppressor.

When you pass the "information" tables, point and laugh--or better yet, ask 'em if they've recovered and registered those 17,000 firearms they had in their custody and "lost".

Unintended (But Not Unexpected) Consequences

Liberal Gun Ban Fuels Buying Binge

Paul Martin's plan to ban handguns may have backfired.

As soon as the Liberals unveiled their promise to ban the weapons earlier this month, Vancouver gun shop owners saw a jump in handgun sales.

Who can buy guns at such shops, Mr. Martin, the criminal element you're using as an excuse for this insane and evil crusade, or peaceable, decent Canadians who just want to be able to defend themselves?

Your government can't guarantee their protection, can it? No, of course not, neither in fact nor as an obligation of law.

But you're keeping your taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards, right?