It's Just Our Bringin' Up-ke

Cabarrus County law enforcement officials say a new strategy they're adopting will reduce gun-related crime by helping habitual offenders shed their criminal past and start their lives over...

Officials will target habitual violent offenders with arrest histories, including those convicted of homicides, robberies, aggravated assaults and felony gun charges who are on probation, Lang said.

A rousing chorus of Gee, Officer Krupke, anyone...?

We're the Only Ones Adult Enough...

Jamming the barrel of a handgun into a fifth-grader's belly, an enraged Queens parent threatened to shoot the boy in his school playground yesterday - all because he had punched the man's son - the boy and witnesses said...

Antoine said he was walking through the schoolyard of Public School 50 in Jamaica at about 8:15 a.m. when Carlos Ugarte, a federal immigration officer, ran up and grabbed him by the collar.

From this account, it sounds like the reason there was a scuffle in the first place is because the fruit didn't fall very far from the tree. Nice to see he got put on administrative leave. It sure beats what would happen to one of us if similar charges by eyewitnesses were made.

My Kind of Town

I received the following email in response to yesterday's post on rogue Chicago cops terrorizing South Side residents. I have corresponded with this person in the past and found his information and observations to be reliable and insightful--he wishes to retain anonymity because he is concerned about possible reprisals:

I've personally spoken to people in this city who've experienced similar things to what's described in the article. One who comes to mind now is a fellow who was beaten to a pulp and had drugs planted on him by members of the Chicago Police Department.

In another local court case I heard about recently, an (alleged) carjacker who was on parole for attempted murder at the time of the crime was let off the hook even with convincing evidence of his guilt. The jury just wanted to set the guy free and go home. One of them said, "Look, if we get into an argument about this we're gonna have to stay in a hotel tonight!" They made the dissenters as uncomfortable as possible until they got their way.

Garbage like the above is unfortunately quite common. People seem to have lost their sense of outrage. I believe that the populace can be conditioned to police-state tactics and gross injustice until they are apathetic, and that's what seems to have happened in Chicago.-- A Friend of Freedom

Yesterday

Yesterday
Was Second Amendment Saturday
But I forgot and did not say
Forgive me, Stan, for yesterday

And I guess I also owe an apology to Lennon and McCartney. My experience with things poetic generally begins with "There once was a man from Nantuckett..."

Anyway, Free Constitution posted a brief but powerful photo essay.

UPDATE: As long as I'm talking photo essays, I see Gun Show on the Net posted one with a similar theme. E David showed me this in draft form a few days ago, but I've been real busy and got distracted from linking to it. Sorry, E.D.

It looks like I'm apologizing to everyone this morning. Why don't I just go back to bed?