This save-yourselves approach comes after government agencies were overwhelmed by pleas for help after last year's storms and strongly criticized as not responding swiftly or thoroughly enough to the public need.It's official.
Graham is a part-time security guard who brought his gun to the game and passed it around to everyone and pretended to shoot at each other with the gun...Sounds like a pretty compelling reason to disarm you and me, doesn't it?
A former top bureaucrat says political expediency - not sound accounting - was the key factor in a decision to fudge a report to Parliament two years ago on the cost of the federal long-gun registry."Fudge."
A Cook County judge sentenced two men to 2 years' probation on Tuesday after they pleaded guilty in connection with smuggling a handgun into Cook County Jail in February.Let that be a lesson to the rest of you real criminals. Now if you'll excuse us, we have some slav...uh... "law-abiding citizens" to disarm.
A young Salina police officer responding to a business burglary about 11:20 p.m. Friday accidentally fired her weapon when she was startled by movement inside the building, Salina Police Chief Jim Hill said Tuesday.I can't tell you how many holes I've put through walls, family members and neighbors every time I've been startled. But hey, it's a normal reaction. What can you do?
On this day in 1775, the committeemen of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, meet and respond to news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolution, with a series of 20 patriotic resolutions.
Rochester police and members of the clergy will be working out the final details this week to launch a citywide gun turn-in program at five churches on Saturday...My first thought: I wonder if Deloris is related to Homer.
"Most of our killings are caused by guns, and we're saying enough is enough"...
[Rev. Deloris] Simpson said many parents and grandparents know youths in their homes are carrying guns...
"In order for this to work, we have to have buy-in from the community," [District Attorney Mike] Green said. "If we only get one gun off the street Saturday, it'll be a successful day because that's a gun that might have been used in a homicide."
On this day in 1806, Revolutionary war veteran and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
An elderly Sydney couple are recovering after being brutally clubbed with a gun butt for the sake of a few dollars...The 76-year-old woman and her 82-year-old husband were punched and battered with the gun at their boarding house...the attacker burst in and marched him inside to find his wife...He then punched the woman in the head, knocking her down, before striking her, then her husband, with the butt of a sawn-off shotgun and running off...with the woman's handbag, containing a small amount of cash.Well the Australian government was certainly nowhere to be seen when the attack occurred, and what chance does an elderly couple have against such an assailant?
[W]e will find any means we can to further restrict them because I hate guns. I don’t think people should have guns unless they’re police or in the military or in the security industry. There is no earthly reason for people to have...ordinary citizens should not have weapons. We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.How are those taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards working out for you, Prime Minister? Thank goodness being an official makes you and your agents immune to gun disease!
[New Jersey Rep. Joe] Saxton is generally an opponent of gun control, though he has only a B-plus rating from the NRA.I can't trust anything Daly writes to be accurate, but just in case he's right on this one, it does bring up a question I've asked before:
The safest house is one with no guns, public health experts agree.Boy, that Sandra G. Boodman can parrot citizen disarmament propaganda with the best of them, can't she? And leave it to the WaPo to present this as news, rather than an editorial page opinion piece.
What percentage of the people in your studies who injured or killed themselves or negligently/wrongfully injured or killed others using a firearm, were NRA members? Since this is one of the most heavily armed citizen populations in the country, don't you think knowing this would be relevant to factor into your conclusions?Why not take a moment and compose a question of your own?
The Navy Cross is presented to George Codrea, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps (Reserve), for extraordinary heroism and courage as Platoon Commander in the Second Battalion, First Marines, First Marine Division, during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands, August 21, 1942. When it became necessary to reinforce the firing line during the heaviest fighting against a Japanese landing force of about 700 men, Second Lieutenant Codrea, coolly and with complete disregard for his own safety, placed each man, individually, in a position to deliver the most effective fire. Though wounded twice during the battle, he remained on duty with his platoon until ordered to retire to the aid stations. His outstanding leadership, determination and inspiring fortitude throughout the engagement were largely instrumental in stopping the most serious enemy threat.
SPOT AWARD, Serial 18 (CofN Signed March 18, 1943)
A POLICE force which lost a £500 bag of drugs during a sniffer dog exercise have now admitted they may have lost a gun.Wonder which "lost" item proved most lucrative?
In a new public service announcement, actor Michael Douglas, a United Nations Messenger of Peace, spotlights the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons and promotes an upcoming UN conference aimed at addressing the problem.I said about all I have to say on this reprobate here.
There are still no answers into the death of Ian Bush, the Houston B.C. 22-year-old shot in the head while in police custody after having an open beer at a hockey game in October.Seven months is "quick"?
But B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal said it's better to have a thorough investigation than a quick one into the Oct. 29 shooting inside the Houston RCMP detachment.
Cops in 'battle dress' to flood high-crime areas...Oh, that freedom-loving Mayor Daley!
Last week, 15 members of Iraq's taekwondo team were kidnapped between Falluja and Ramadi, west of Baghdad, said a member of the Iraqi Olympic Committee. The kidnappers have demanded $100,000 for their release.15 martial arts experts, a team that trains together, presumably the best in the land--helpless against armed captors?
Women would be safer knowing self-defense to fight off an attacker than using a gun which can easily be turned against them.That seems pretty authoritative to me.
Jackson Mayor Frank Melton has carried his guns aboard commercial aircraft but has been asked to no longer fly armed, a federal transportation official said.Naturally, he's one of the Bloomberg 15. He's also trying to ban gun shows in Jackson.
On this day in 1754, a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel of the Virginia militia named George Washington successfully defeats a party of French and Indian scouts in southwest Pennsylvania as Virginia attempts to lay claim to the territory for its own settlers. The action snowballed into a world war and began the military career of the first American commander in chief.
The order authorises the company to prohibit or limit the use of water. It means the clowns will not be able to use water pistols or squirt water from plastic flowers.And the clown promulgating this nonsense describes it as "sensible."
LOS ANGELES HAS MORE CRIMINALS than it can afford. So county officials are forced to release too many jail inmates too early, putting thousands of convicted criminals on the street — with predictably tragic consequences not only for their victims but for public trust in government...The answer, of course, is to give up those nasty, dangerous guns and rely on the government to protect us. No?
The Times reported last week that seven men have committed murders when they should have been serving out their sentences for other crimes. Nine more are awaiting trial for homicide. Of the nearly 16,000 other criminals rearrested while their earlier sentences were still in force, 518 were charged with robbery, 641 with weapons violations and 1,443 with assault.
Assailants firing assault rifles killed a Nuevo Laredo police officer and wounded his partner, the 11th law enforcement official to be gunned down this year in this violent border city...The death of the officer brings to 116 the number of people slain this year in Nuevo Laredo, a city of 300,000 across the Rio Grande from Laredo.And the fools/outright traitors in the administration and senate think their dangerous, stupid and treasonous amnesty bill will have any effect on violent men--with billions of incentives--like these?
The city is in the midst of a turf battle between drug cartels battling for billion-dollar drug routes into the United States.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is examining the results of an unusual sting set up by the City of New York, in which private investigators recorded themselves purchasing handguns at shops in several states...Well it's about damned time the "authorized journalists" began noticing this aspect of the story.
In a twist, ATF's inquiry will also include a review of whether the city acted legally in setting up the sting.
Several gun-rights advocates have questioned whether the city itself broke firearms rules or committed fraud by attempting to simulate straw sales in other states...
On this day in 1813, former President Thomas Jefferson writes former President John Adams to let him know that their mutual friend, Dr. Benjamin Rush, has died.
Rush’s passing caused Jefferson to meditate upon the departure of the Revolutionary generation. He wrote, “We too must go; and that ere long. I believe we are under half a dozen at present; I mean the signers of the Declaration.”
One State Police trooper was suspended for six months last year for allowing an unlicensed worker to sell firearms at a gun shop that the trooper was responsible for inspecting and where he purchased numerous weapons for himself. Another resigned after pleading guilty to internal charges for inviting two boys to his home and showing them pornography.The important thing to remember is, we're the only ones...
Three others were suspended for 120 days for causing motor vehicle accidents while off-duty because they were under the influence. A fourth got docked 20 days for being drunk behind the wheel of a state-issued car while he was out of uniform...
The infractions included using excessive force during an arrest, lying to protect an off-duty trooper under investigation, mishandling and destroying evidence, falsifying official reports and disobeying orders.
Mayor Bob Kiss, stepping into sensitive political territory in just his second month in office, responded to a shooting incident in the city by calling for greater gun control...This is in Vermont.
"I really have concerns in general about handguns and the fact there's maybe more prevalence in the world to the use of violence," Kiss said.
Oh, wait, it's just Beanie Sigel.Police acting on information gathered by private investigators working on the city's civil lawsuits against the gun industry have filed the first criminal charges related to the case.Yeah, against dealers in New York, for misdemeanor charges. Nothing indicates "prohibited persons" were sold anything. So much for the "problem" coming from out of state.
On this day in 1782, American Colonel William Crawford marches his army towards the Ohio River, where General George Washington has charged him with attacking local Indians who had sided with the British in the American Revolution.
May 25, 2006
KeepAndBearArms.com founder Angel Shamaya is selling most of his personal firearm collection to help defray legal expenses that resulted from gun- related charges in Michigan. Although the court ordered the police to return Shamaya's firearms, the legal expenses are steep -- so he's now selling those same guns. Shamaya says, "I had intended to leave these firearms to my son as his inheritance one day, but I have legal expenses to pay right now. My ultimate goal is to put this mess behind me and raise my son -- a far higher priority than owning extra guns."
The guns for sale include rifles, pistols and shotguns. Shamaya has made arrangements with a local licensed gun dealer to complete the transactions under federal and state law and ship the firearms to the new owners. Anyone interested in any of these firearms can go to the following website for details, descriptions, pictures and direction on how to make a purchase: http://www.marbut.com/angel/AngelSellingGuns.htm
"There are some really nice guns in this collection," says Shamaya. "I appreciate the support I have received from kind-hearted people in dealing with this nonsense. If you'd like to cherry pick one of my firearms, be my guest."
Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg thrust himself into the national immigration debate Wednesday, advocating a plan that would establish a DNA or fingerprint database to track and verify all legal U.S. workers...It's about "People Control." It always has been.
"You don't have to work _ but if you want to work for a company you have to have a Social Security card," he said.
UNABLE to stem the tide of murders of media people, the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is now suggesting that journalists do the job themselves. Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said the government would allow legitimate journalists to carry firearms if they wanted to do so."Because we all know the folks who tell us what our opinions should be are better than the rest of us...
Jonas Thage feels a lot safer since he declared the community recreational centre he runs in Diepkloof, a suburb of Soweto, a 'Gun Free Zone' (GFZ). "Before this was a GFZ the situation was terrible but now, at least during the day, there is no problem," he said.That's right, Jonas--you go on "feeling" that citizen disarmament zones will keep you safe. And who but an "authorized journalist" would consider this a new concept?
GFZs - public places where firearms are unwelcome - have been endorsed by Gun-Free South Africa (GFSA), a gun-control lobby group established in 1994 as a response to decades of armed violence.
Every year, physics teacher David Lapp brings his Korean War era M-1 carbine to school, fires a shot into a block of wood and instructs his students to calculate the velocity of the bullet...We can't have teachers being:
The rifle demonstration would not even be an issue if an anonymous parent had not complained.
A campaign by gun rights advocates to make it easier to use deadly force in self-defense is rapidly winning support across the country, as state after state makes it legal for people who feel their lives are in danger to shoot down an attacker - whether in a car-jacking or just on the street...Yeah, only The Only Ones are qualified to make such judgments...
[C]ritics - including police chiefs and prosecutors - warn that criminals are more likely to benefit than innocent victims.
With George Washington presiding, the Constitutional Convention formally convenes on this day in 1787. The convention faced a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as it had been defined by the Article of Confederation.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg should be investigated for obstruction of justice, and possibly prosecuted under the federal RICO statutes, for his headline-hunting "sting" operation of alleged law- breaking gun dealers, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today.Good.
On this day in 1775, John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress.And here's a tardy link for May 23 in History
Under HB89, the courts would be required to assume the use of deadly force was reasonable if the victim illegally broke into someone’s home, vehicle or business. The person shooting an intruder also would no longer have to show an attempt to retreat under the legislation.Look for more ridiculous "License to Murder" hysteria from the collectivists. Now if Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin would just give citizens their guns back...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined with gun control advocates Monday to call for a city law requiring gun owners to report lost or stolen weapons.California law gives the state preemption, meaning cities can't legally enact their own more restrictive measures.
Jim McGreevey shockingly admits that before he became governor of New Jersey, he'd have anonymous gay sex at Garden State highway rest stops...Nice control demonstrated there, Jimmer. No wonder you have such a sick compulsion to control others.
"New Jersey needs the proven leadership of Jim McGreevey to put the safety of our children and our families first."--Michael Barnes-Brady Campaign/Million Mom MarchAgain I recall some of my favorite lyrics:
He can't even run his own life
I'll be damned if he'll run mine...
Of course, under normal circumstances, I wouldn't wish the ATF on anyone, but for these sorts of anti-freedom operatives, I think it only right they get a dose of their own medicine, and in spades.Ayup.
NRA-iLA is pursuing the vagaries of the legal questions.And "Bloomie Makes an Oopsie" includes his plea for the New York Daily News to quit being a shill and start acting like investigative reporters.
ATF has said they will be investigating every aspect of these "sting" sales (and there were ATF people present who repeated that). This may be bad news for the city, since IF the sales were illegal straw sales, their investigators committed felonies.This is an interesting development, particularly the bit on how a gun apparently wandered away from the Only Ones' custody...Wonder if BATFU really has the guts and the administration backing to take on a billionaire Republican, though, and my gut says "no."
One gun was traced TWICE in NYC. The first time was for a crime, so it would have to have been confiscated. Only explanation for how it would later be on the street is that someone in NYC PD is selling seized guns on the street.
May 22, 2006
Office of the Attorney General of Georgia
Mr. Thurbert E. Baker
40 Capitol Square, SW
Atlanta, GA 30334
Dear Mr. Baker:
As a resident and law-abiding gun owner of Georgia, I am outraged at the recent illegal straw gun purchases made by an “investigative team” assembled at the behest of Mayor Bloomberg of New York City.
Mayor Bloomberg continuously attacks the civil liberties of law-abiding gun owners in this country and has taken it upon himself to destroy these liberties by targeting gun stores throughout the country, including some stores in Georgia such as Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna. In order to gain publicity for his anti-gun campaign he knowingly conspired and planned illegal straw purchases at these gun stores and violated federal law as well as possible Georgia state laws. His attempts to entrap gun store owners and produce evidence of illegal gun sale procedures at these Georgia gun stores are despicable.
I ask: What is the authority of private individuals from New York to conspire to break, and then actually violate, federal gun purchase laws and the laws of other states?
Mayor Bloomberg’s out-of-touch viewpoints are a threat to all law-abiding gun owners in Georgia as well as law-abiding legitimate businesses in Georgia.
I urge you to launch an investigation into these illicit tactics that were performed to support Bloomberg’s frivolous lawsuits against these legitimate and law-abiding Georgia businesses.
Thank you for your attention into this matter.
Sincerely,
Jason Morin
A town police officer's stolen sport utility vehicle was recovered yesterday morning in Jersey City - minus the loaded 9 mm pistol he had under the front seat, police said.Practicing "safe storage," I see...
Farmer said improper sales, such as the ones that the undercover agents pulled off, happen frequently. If the buyer can produce valid identification, passes a background check and takes legal responsibility for the gun, the sale will go through, he said.This is pretty much what I expected to find: No crimes are being committed by the gun dealer's targeted in Bloomberg's "sting"--only routine procedures followed when one person gives another the gift of a gun.
"It's the same scenario repeated many, many, many times," Farmer said. "Husbands buy guns for their wives, boyfriends buy for their girlfriends, fathers buy for their daughters."
The woman filled out papers registering the sale and signed a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives declaration saying she was the buyer and buying for someone else, he said.It appears these dealers were following the book to conduct a legal sale in both instances. It wouldn't surprise me to find this chain of events repeat itself in all 15 of the instances Bloomberg would have us believe resulted in "illegal gun sales," where dealers knew the purchasers "would turn the weapons over to criminals."
Men routinely advise women on what guns to buy, Mickalis said, adding "I think they were specifically sent here to create a lawsuit."
A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer.I have a hard time believing a Louisiana politician would ever involve himself in anything not on the up and up.
At one audiotaped meeting, Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chuckles about writing in code to keep secret what the government contends was his corrupt role in getting his children a cut of a communications company's deal for work in Africa.
Instead, the headline-hunting Bloomberg launched a civil lawsuit in what should be, if he is to be believed, a criminal action.
There's a reason for that. The private investigators New York hired to conduct this sting must have made deliberately false statements on federal firearms purchase forms. That's a felony. They should be prosecuted. If Bloomberg sent them to do this, he's an accessory, if not a conspirator.
Police on Sunday captured the man who allegedly opened fire and killed four people during services at a Louisiana church and later fatally shot his wife after abducting her and their infant, officials said.There are some who say guns have no place in churches.
"The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep."I'm also reminded of a 1747 Philadelphia sermon:
"He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one who has no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God has enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend [it]self."
On this day in 1781, Major General Nathanael Greene and 1,000 Patriots attempt an attack on the critical village of Ninety-Six in the South Carolina backcountry. After failing to seize the fortified settlement, they began a siege of it, which lasted until their retreat on June 18, making it the longest of the War for Independence.
Mayor Bloomberg's decision to hire private investigators to conduct undercover stings at Southern gun shops has potentially jeopardized several criminal cases, law enforcement sources charged.That's pathetically funny. Still, it misses a key point I have been harping on, but don't expect to see "authorized journalists" even hint at, let alone investigate: If Bloomberg's team broke the law in their publicity stunt, they committed multiple criminal acts for which "ordinary citizens" WOULD HAVE THEIR LIVES DESTROYED if they were caught in just one infraction. If they knowingly did this, it is a criminal conspiracy, with Mikey being the criminal mastermind.
If you buy a gun for someone else and lie on the federal form about who the gun is for, you have committed a federal crime.Another New York Daily News "story" tells us:
The city hired the James Mintz Group, a private investigation firm, to conduct sting operations in gun stores in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.And who makes up the James Mintz Group?
[M]ore than twenty-five experienced investigators, including former investigative reporters, federal investigators and prosecutors.It's not a stretch to conclude they're people who should know better than to break the law.
"Our opponents never tire of telling us that we ought to be going after the people who break the law with guns," Bloomberg said yesterday at City Hall, flanked by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and city Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo. "Well, okay, you ask for something, you got it."That's what I'm asking for, Mike. Not that I think anyone of the ruling elites or their enforcers will give it to me.
On this day in 1758, 10-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, by Lenape Indians; she becomes an icon of the French and Indian War and backcountry experience.
A quarrel over a rap performance between the rivaling “Hit Squad” and “Southside Mafia” led up to the park gunfight about a week later that killed 4-year-old Travon Wilson...See? SEE?
Law enforcement and authorities at government buildings are being warned to be on the lookout for guns disguised as cell phones that are difficult to spot in metal detectors, according to a Local 6 News report. [More]Thanks to Local6 News for their heads-up reporting on this emerging menace.
At the point when the passengers realized they were on a suicide mission, they quietly asked the flight attendants for help in scrounging knives, hammers, screwdrivers, weapons of any kind, from the galley. Only a true gun rights patriot will recognize this series of fatal events. Thus we all owe it to our families and friends to make them aware of these outcomes. I have not read any mention of this element by any movie reviewer. It completely went by them.This is the reason why I decided I wasn't going to see this movie. I read reports of theater-goers weeping, and being moved, etc., blah, blah, baaaa.
On this day in 1778, British forces from Philadelphia attempt to trap 2,200 Continentals defending Valley Forge led by Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette, through skillful maneuvering, avoids the entrapment and the destruction of his forces. The encounter takes place at Barren Hill, now known as Lafayette Hill, just northwest of Philadelphia.I'm sure those who sacrificed their all for Liberty would be proud, damned proud, of their beneficiaries.
Forrest was wearing a hidden transmitter, but FBI agents posted at a nearby gas station didn't hear the gunshot that struck Forrest in the head, an FBI spokesman said.Dang. Now we're gonna have to fill out a report...
A New York City police officer has been indicted on charges that she conspired to steal cocaine from drug stash houses in Manhattan.Another one of Bloomberg's finest. Just don't lift a finger against her unless you want your "life on the line"...or in this case, "lines".
Marauding hyenas have mauled to death four people and wounded three in the latest attack by the animals roaming the Somali enclave of Somaliland...So brazen have the predators become that local men are sleeping with guns to protect their families...Sounds like they need "small arms control" courtesy of the hyenas of IANSA...
Immediately after the incident an agitated Spears said, "This is why I need a gun," seemingly referring to having to battle her way through the crowd.You want to shoot your fans, Britney, the people who made you rich and famous? No wonder you're a vocal public advocate for disarming them.
Gun control advocate Britney Spears annulled her quickie Vegas marriage within hours on the grounds that she "lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to marriage." Nine months later her understanding had evidently ripened, because, oops, she did it again, marrying a backup dancer who had fathered a two-year-old and a newborn with another woman.
Based on her support of an "Open Letter to the NRA," it is Britney's opinion that a host of additional gun restrictions should be enacted. After all, you may not have the mature judgment to safely possess guns.
Investigators in New York City made illegal gun purchases in five states as part of an undercover investigation...And again I ask: What is the authority of private individuals from New York to conspire to break, and then actually violate, federal gun purchase laws and the laws of other states?
MPs in the Belgian Parliament voted almost unanimously in favour on Thursday night of new tighter gun control laws...One animal goes nuts and the "solution" is to harass all who controlled themselves.
The law will change existing regulations in which any adult with identification can buy a gun over the counter without a permit.
But in future, anyone who wants to buy a weapon will be subject to police screening and will need to obtain a gun licence first.
Passage of the legislation through parliament was accelerated after a double murder in Antwerp last week...
On this day in 1795, Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire Patriot and signatory of the Declaration of Independence who also served as the state’s governor and Supreme Court chief justice, dies. Over 200 years later, writer Aaron Sorkin resurrected the name Josiah Bartlet [sic] as a former New Hampshire governor and current Democratic president of the United States, played by Martin Sheen, in an award-winning television series, The West Wing.And we all know how aligned with founding principles Martin Sheen, Aaron Sorkin and The Left Wing are...
An Allentown police officer has been suspended with pay after he shot another police officer in the arm with a pellet gun inside the police station Saturday, according to a statement released Wednesday by police Chief Roger MacLean...Suspended with pay, name and report kept confidential...Yeah, you and me could expect the same treatment if we shot a cop with a pellet gun.
Police withheld the names of the officers involved pending the outcome of an internal investigation and would not release the incident report...
I mean, heck, the gator was barely 3 feet long, if that.All it needs to do is sever an artery and she could have bled to death, Tom. Why on earth would a human choose to "fight to the death" with an animal, when we have tools that can give us instant mastery of the situation?
Though Frey is disabled and uses a cane to get around, she wouldn't expect to lose a fight to the death with a gator that small.
Many adults in Canada think the federal government should do away with a highly controversial program, according to a poll by Ipsos-Reid released by CanWest Global. 54 per cent of respondents say the gun registry is badly organized, is not working properly, and should be scrapped.Now hold the phone just a damned minute here. I posted on this a few days ago, and the results being touted by the National Post quoted the Ispos-Reid VP stating:
The concept of a gun registry has taken root across the country. There's a majority, 67 per cent, that's not a small majority, who believe that Stephen Harper shouldn't be doing away with all gun registries.I think the most salient observation on this came from Jay in the "Comments" section, who noted:
If memory serves, a majority of Canadians said "screw you" at the ballot box to ex-Prime Minister Paul Martin and the Liberal Party. To me, that is a much more convincing opinion poll.Agreed.
On this day in 1783, the first United Empire Loyalists, known to American Patriots as Tories, arrive in Canada to take refuge under the British crown in Parrtown, Saint John, Nova Scotia (now New Brunswick), Canada. The town was located on the Bay of Fundy just north of the border with what is now the state of Maine.Which may explain some of the differences in national psyches...
When a bullet exploded through her living room's bay window less than 10 feet from her, the initial response of a startled Elise Nakhnihian was to find the projectile.Just as I suspected. It's the gun's fault.
Her husband, Steven Gittelson, had another idea: Stay out of sight and call the cops...
The couple couldn't have imagined that it was a Princeton Borough police officer's bullet that rocketed into their stately Governors Lane condominium...The shooting was the result of an allegedly malfunctioning rifle that discharged the bullet at the police firearms training range on River Road in the township without the officer who was holding the weapon even pulling the trigger, borough and township police said yesterday.
A small number of the gun cases dropped in the state court involved city officers who themselves got in trouble with the law.Well, du-uh. That's why they're "the only ones."
Young Jeezy escaped two gun charges due to insufficient evidence, stemming back to a March shooting incident in Miami.Thank goodness!
A gun-crazy Canada Customs officer has been fired for posing as Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry with automatic weapons on the Internet...Do you feel lucky? Well do you, hoser?
Airport sources said the photos show the fired officer with a machine-gun. In one photograph the firearm was held to a smirking co-worker's head...
Saying more than half of all firearms used in street crimes come from 1 percent of licensed gun dealers, Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined gun control advocates Tuesday in a campaign to crack down on gun trafficking.California, of course, has all of the "reasonable gun control laws" the antis clamor for in other states. But they're not enough. They're never enough.
On this day in 1777, British-born Georgia Patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett receives a bullet wound in a duel with his political rival, Georgia “city Whig” Lachlan McIntosh. Three days later, Gwinnett died as a result of the gangrenous wound. McIntosh was also shot in the duel, but the wound was not fatal.Horrors! More victims of "gun violence"...
On this day in 1781, a 352-man-strong Loyalist force commanded by Major Andrew Maxwell surrenders a fortified frame building, named “Fort Granby,” to a Patriot force in South Carolina.
On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin to assemble in Philadelphia to confront a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as defined by the Article of Confederation.
Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the zoo said Monday.You mean real life isn't a Disney film?
The city hired undercover private investigators who, in teams of two, attempted "straw purchasing," where a convicted felon or someone who does not want a gun traced to him will use a friend or family member to pass a background check. Then the gun gets handed over to the suspicious person.So if a municipality retains a private individual, he is somehow authorized to break federal law against "straw purchases"? If not, and since this appears to be an admission of a federal felony, where are the charges? And if these private investigators are breaking federal law under instruction from the Bloomberg administration, does that not make this a criminal conspiracy?
Clamping down on straw purchases would stem the flow of illegal guns into the city.And what did our good pal Tom Ferrick Jr. have to say about "straw purchases"?
A good first step would be to enact a state law limiting handgun purchases to one a month per buyer.
No one is pretending that this one-handgun-a-month ban is the cure-all, but it is a start.This is actually a dusting off of an old argument. I first wrote about it seven years ago, in "Smart Guns–-Dumb Lawsuits":
But for the gun controllers, that's not all bad-- because based on results, each tragedy provides a new opportunity to exploit, a new press conference to hold, a new law to enact, or a new lawsuit to file. They'll propose further restrictions under the bald-faced pretense that it's "a good first step." They won't tell you that there are already over 20,000 gun laws on the books at the federal, state and municipal level that are consistently ignored by all but the law-abiding.A good first step to ensuring this lie will be a non-starter is to be aware that it's being employed--and to expose it as a coordinated talking point whenever it is used.
"A good first step...…" the clueless segment of our victim pool populace will drone back at the proposal of law number 20,001.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have a tough time convincing Canadians it's time to completely scrap the country's expensive gun registry program, a new opinion poll suggests...What a surpruse. Urban constituents, that is, liberals, want more gun control. And we all know how individual rights ought to be defined by the majority--particularly a majority addicted to government influence and control in all aspects of their lives.
The poll of 1,001 Canadians was conducted May 9 to May 11, with a 3.1 percentage point margin of error, 19 times out of 20...
The support is strongest in Ontario and Quebec where 71 per cent and 76 per cent of respondents respectively said they were in favour of maintaining a gun control system.
A gun that was apparently stolen from a New Haven police detective was used in a December shooting, according to records obtained by the New Haven Register.So much for useful idiot Tom Ferrick Jr's. contention that keeping guns away from you and me--and giving special advantage to the police at the expense of the people--will cut "gun violence."
Taking his own lyrics to heart -- shoot back, but don't get shot -- will mean federal prison for a Calgary rapper who fired into a crowd.But we all know our enemies are guns, not sociopathic reptiles attracted to the thug culture, right, Cass?
A loaded handgun was found in the county jail Thursday night, the second time a firearm has been brought into the building's secure areas since September.Where there's a will, there's a way.
Joanne Sanabria, Victim's Mother: If you don't have a badge, if you're not in law enforcement, there's no reason you should have a gun.I know Carolina Tarazona calls herself a "reporter", but Good Lord...
I had a multiple, simultanous hard drive failure that killed my web and email server. I've managed to put together a replacement but since my time has been at a premium lately it's taking a lot longer than I would like to recover the data from backups and get everything working again.So patience. Check back on Monday and rest assured that a legion of highly trained TriggerFinger technical professionals are working 'round the clock to bring you your daily fix of cutting edge liberty-oriented commentary and analysis.
I'm hoping to have everything minimally functional Monday. Email should be back up right now, and I'm working on websites next, followed by source code repositories.
Feel free to post this email if you feel your readers would like to know where I've been.
Failure to adhere to the Constitution, through suppression of an enumerated right, whether by law, law enforcement's abuse of ambiguous policy, intellectual dishonesty among the judiciary and legislative branches, abuse of emergency situations to further an agenda, and radical misinterpretations of the word People and Infringed, in a better world, would be followed by petitions, and possible litigation thus resulting in the empirical recognition of such right.Free Constitution presents his weekly offering.
The federal government has launched a probe to find out who leaked details from an auditor general's report.See, the issue isn't that government wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on a bureaucratic boondoggle that only punishes the law-abiding. The issue isn't that contractor improprieties point to corruption and cronyism. The issue isn't even that criminals have stolen firearms from targeted list victims.
The New Democrats say that's not good enough and want the Mounties to investigate.
Connecticut land speculator, politician, jurist and Patriot Eliphalet Dyer dies on this day in 1807.
County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the effort would attack gun violence as part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods, which can result in federal prison time for those who commit gun crimes.Yeah--throw "government" money at it. That always fixes everything, doesn't it? Comments worthy of a statist functionary, Kym...
"I know this is going to work well because we actually have dollars committed from the state," Worthy said.
THE Scottish are so concerned about the rampant growth of the Grey American squirrel population, that they are using taxpayers money to employ someone to deal with the problem.Or as Dennis Walker writes, "You all realize there wouldn't be a story if the Scots could give every 14-year old boy a .22 and some shooting lessons..."
Most upsetting are incidents like the one in Paarl where a robber was arrested and a firearm seized. It was found the gun had been handed in to the police by its legal owner and had subsequently ended up in criminal hands.Here's a South African who truly gets it. Great letter.
Two firearms delivered to an Oshawa residence have gone missing and are assumed stolen after they were left in plain view on the porch, police say...Government. Is there anything it doesn't do well?
Det. Const. Steve Rhoden said the sporting goods store in Calgary sent the guns with a notice requiring a signature upon delivery. But Rhoden said that when the package arrived in Canada Post's hands, that signature requirement wasn't followed though.
"What I’m going to try mostly to do is convince the legislature to let Philadelphia have the right to pass its own gun laws. We had that, when I was mayor, up until 1996 – then they took it away from us. I’d like them to give us that right back," Rendell said.Translation: We want government to have the right to eradicate individual rights.
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina.
The former Liberal government "broke every rule in the book" when it signed a $273-million computer contract for the federal gun registry -- now the subject of a "stop-work" order -- and never reported the costs or terms of the deal to Parliament, a longtime Conservative gun-registry critic alleges.It's about political connections, cronyism, cushy deals, corruption and incompetence. In other words, typical government operations.
"We wanted the NRA to see what's happening on the streets of Philadelphia," he said.So much for promises.
An East Windsor police officer is on the hot seat after shooting someone in the face with a taser. And the victim he tasered is someone who patrols the streets with the officer!...Shocking, on the face of it...
A prong from the taser went right into the face of the East Windsor officer jolting him with tens of thousands of volts of electricity. It happened Monday night after roll call, when two officers were discussing their tasers and one accidentally discharged his weapon not believing there was a cartridge inside.
Cass said...Yes, there are people this ignorant.
I don't know exactly what your about here. But this is serious. the man will die. It Sounds to me like your blameing rap music. the clear enemy is guns themselves.
On this day in 1776, in a letter addressed to the president of Congress, American General George Washington recommends raising companies of German-Americans to use against the German mercenaries anticipated to fight for Britain. Washington hoped this would engender “a spirit of disaffection and desertion” among Britain’s paid soldiers.
Wyoming is suing the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, saying the agency is relying on a technicality to refuse the right to bear arms to state residents who have misdemeanor convictions for domestic violence...Hey Eric--what about the meaning of "shall not be infringed"?
"Essentially, what the dispute involves is the meaning of the word 'expungement' and how it is applied to firearms disability under federal law," said Eric Epstein, division counsel for the ATF field office in Phoenix.
McCain told Imus that he would, if necessary, sacrifice ``quote First Amendment rights'' to achieve ``clean'' government. If on Jan. 20, 2009, he were to swear to defend the Constitution, would he be thinking that the oath refers only to ``the quote Constitution''? And what would that mean?McCain v Hillary: You'll back him, won't you, and reserve special scorn for those of us who warn against him?
On this day in 1775, Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold lead a successful attack on Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York, while the Second Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Russia's biggest carmaker plans to make a high-tech version of the Soviet-era Lada car that will be named after the creator of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the Vedomosti business daily said.Right after I win the lottery...
"We will probably work... to create a military jeep," said the head of arms trader Rosoboronexport, Sergei Chemezov, quoted by the paper...
Vedomosti suggested the new car could be Russia's answer to the United States' Hummer, a vehicle originally designed for army use that is now a rich city-dweller's status symbol and is increasingly popular on the streets of Moscow.
The father of a three-year-old Detroit boy who fatally shot himself in the head has been charged with second-degree child abuse...a 4-year felony.Tragic. If you're a moral and rational person, I don't think there's any punishment that could be meted out that would be worse than the knowledge that your actions led to such a result. I'm not saying their shouldn't be legal consequences, but just think life would be literal hell and those consequences would pale against the guilt.
I still feel that way. The only reason I bring it up here is to note that under similar circumstances, I see a citizen facing 4-year charges, but not the cop.
Yeah, I saw this last night and decided not to do an "only ones" feature on it just because of the nature of the poor kid and the horror his parents must be going through--maybe I'm copping out, but I wouldn't wish this hell on my worst enemy, and I've accused the other side of dancing in blood at tragedies--I just can't bring myself to use this story to my advantage.
The names of those packing heat in Florida should not be a state secret.Boy, I wish I wasn't in a hurry to get to another 14 hour work day--these morons really deserve a good fisking, they are just so wrong on so many counts.
In other years, gun supporters have argued that the knowledge that someone had a permit to carry a concealed weapon would be a deterrent to crime. Now they have reversed themselves, contending that keeping concealed weapons permits as public records makes the gun owners vulnerable to attack or harassment.No, the argument has always been the knowledge that someone is likely to be armed in a given situation is what has been presented as a deterrent. Knowing specifically who eliminates the uncertainty factor and identifies a target.
The police officer said he had met Alice less than an hour earlier when he found her walking along a road. He said he gave her a lift as she appeared "agitated and drunk".What, you're not supposed to leave a loaded gun next to an "agitated and drunk" teenage girl you picked up--I mean, gave a helpful ride to--off the street?
The officer said he was running out of fuel and went to a cash machine to get money to buy petrol.
He said that on returning to the car he drove a short distance when Alice shot herself with his gun, which had been lying in the car.