We're the Only Ones Laughing at the Right to Peaceably Assemble Enough

A newly surfaced videotape that shows Broward Sheriff's Office officials laughing over footage of Ritter being shot by rubber bullets and calling protesters "cockroaches" has sparked outrage and prompted an apology from law enforcement.

The courts have consistently held infringements of the First, Second And Fourth Amendments constitutional, so why shouldn't they laugh, cockroaches?

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Second Circuit Short-Circuits Fourth Amendment

Random bag searches by New York police at subway stations are constitutional and an effective means of combating terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.

And if it turns out "terrorists" are avoiding detection and smuggling vials of liquid explosives by inserting them into body cavities, I won't be surprised if random sigmoidoscopy is upheld as constitutional, too...

At Least She Doesn't Go Halfway When She Lies

Why is the NRA aggressively trying to repeal the Brady Law (background checks), which since 1994 has prevented more than 1.3 million prohibited purchasers from getting guns? ...

It's time for the gun lobby to come to the table and meet us at least halfway in passing common-sense gun laws...

So there have been 1.3 million prosecutions and convictions, right?

As for NRA aggressively trying to repeal Brady, they did fight the waiting period and unfunded mandates to local law enforcement, but supported and proposed inputs to the "instant check" system. The Association's official position, in a nutshell:

The NRA`s membership of more than four million persons, has a strong interest in the proper implementation of the provisions of law concerning the acquisition of firearms by law-abiding citizens and the prevention of such acquisition by violent criminals.

That isn't "halfway" enough for you, Diane?

We're the Only Ones Running Guns Enough

A former Columbus police officer illegally sold 501 guns last year — including one that was found with two Somali men now charged in a terrorist plot in Canada...

Nelson, who joined the Columbus Police Division in late 1997, left because of a spinal disability in June 2005. He was off work and on medical leave in November 2004 when he was charged with felonious assault in a road-rage incident. Authorities say he hit another motorist in the head with a metal flashlight...

After he was caught, Nelson agreed to help investigators trace guns he’d sold.

Breaks laws he would have arrested us for, beats citizens in a lethal rage when he doesn't get his way, and then turns snitch when it's his corrupt butt on the line...

Enjoy the rest of your life, Nelson. It sucks to be you.

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Gun Control Voodoo

Parents with guns in their homes become less vigilant about how they store those guns as their children grow older, a new study suggests -- even though older children are at far more risk of being harmed by those guns than younger children are...

...Johnson and her colleagues analyzed responses from the 392 people who had at least one gun in the house and at least one child younger than 18.

First you take a subset--people who admit to an interviewer they have guns in their home. Then you take an entire population--including impoverished criminal adolescents immersed in gang activities and drugs, generational government dependence and fatherless homes, and Presto-Changeo! you get hysterical hyperbole presented as general truth! Oh, and pitchfork murders.

It happens every time when witch doctors like Johnson convince people they're scientists.

Their message? Eliminate the bad juju. Keep the evil fetish object locked away.

But under no circumstances apply education, training and discipline...