Someone Get that Man a Diaper

Is the right to bear arms really worth this price? The price of our children's blood? Blood on the streets of North Philadelphia? Blood in the woods behind the home of a respected member of the legislature?

Oh, I dunno, John.

You

tell

me.

That's Some Plan, Moonbeam

Hours after an armed suspect and a California Highway Patrol officer were wounded in a gun battle on the streets of Oakland, Mayor Jerry Brown unveiled his plan to stem the escalating violence called "Operation Ceasefire."

Great plan, Jerry! Maybe it'll work as well for Oakland as it has for Boston.

Exceeding Expectations

Two days into the buyback, 250 firearms, including an AK-47 rifle, have been turned in, police said.

"The response definitely exceeded our expectations so far," police spokesman James Tate told The Detroit News. "It has been so strong we are running low on money but we are going to continue through Sunday."

I guess that all depends on what your expectations are, Tate, you tater head.

If you're expecting violent crime to go down one whit, you're going to be disappointed. But that's not the point anyway, is it? It gives your superiors a chance to get some pr from the enuretic media, score points with their masters, reassert dominance over local Stockholm syndrome suffering cud chewers, plus everybody feels like bigshots and authorities passing out money that's not theirs and advice that's not sane.

Remember the name "Comerica Bank." Those tater heads can't even protect their own assets, employees and customers, and they want to extend this contemptible defenselessness to the public at large. If you have an account there, close it out and give 'em this card.

Pocketknives are Tools Used by Millions

The fact is, law-abiding Americans, your neighbors and Mr. Fritz’s neighbors, carry and use knives every day for everything from pruning the roses to hiking, camping and fishing to EMT rescue. Mr. Fritz wants readers to ignore those millions of U.S. citizens. His tactic is to imply that only criminals have knives and inflame his argument with such words as “deadly” and “menacing.” But the 12-inch knitting needles we can carry on planes can be deadly. And the unstable person swinging a baseball bat can be menacing. AKTI has always advocated that criminals who use any weapon in the commission of a crime be punished severely. Law-abiding citizens who carry knives for legitimate purposes should not.

Good rebuttal to a deceptive and agenda-driven Wall Street Journal article we referenced the other day in this post...

[Via Steven Van Dyke]

We're the Only Ones to the Point Enough

A Morgan County sheriff's deputy was arrested on suspicion of pointing a gun at his ex-wife and her boyfriend, both of whom are law enforcement officers.

The point being, imagine how much scarier it would have been for the ex and her new boyfriend had they not been "Only Ones" too.

[Thanks to Jay S]