We're the Only Ones Mentored Enough

A first-year Bay County judge was ordered to accept mentoring after bringing a loaded gun into his courtroom and announcing he was "locked and loaded."

County Judge Michael Hauversburk said he brought the handgun to court because he was frustrated that a defendant facing a felony parole violation was being tried for a separate misdemeanor charge in a courtroom with inadequate security...

I take this one personally. Many years back, I was summoned for jury "duty," that is, ordered to report as a hostage, to Compton, CA, a city with almost four times the violent crime rate as the national average.

They make you park in a lot several hundred feet from the building, and in order to get from your car to the court house, you need to run the gauntlet past friends, relatives and associates of the lovely people being detained inside. Because they make you go through metal detectors to get into the building's main entrance, taking appropriate measures to improve your own safety would assuredly result in detection and resultant violence from the "authorities".

Had I done this, do you think I would have been assigned to a "mentoring" program, or do you think I'd have been thrown in the hole with the "Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers!"?

But then again, I'm not an "Only One," am I?

We're the Only Ones Recovering Enough

There, in talking to 18-year-old Kevin Rodriguez, they recovered the automatic machine gun. Police called for the Sheriff's Office, and deputies interviewed Rodriguez and said they later recovered two other weapons used by the SWAT team from the Riverwoods Circle home of Gaston Delgado, 15.

This is a follow-up to an "Only Ones" episode posted yesterday.

[Via Cousin G, who notes: "They identified the perps, right down to the street where they lived, yet still won't release the name of the Deputy who carelessly lost the guns in the first place..."]

We're the Only Ones With Guns AND Drugs Enough

Documents showing that weapons once were reported stolen from Mississippi Board of Pharmacy employees are leading State Auditor Phil Bryant to take a closer look at the agency's inventory.

Board of Pharmacy employees with state-issued weapons? I guess if you work for any government agency, you just might be an "Only One."

I'm gonna spend the rest of the day pounding out a pilot script for a TV series this just inspired me to create.

You've heard of CSI Miami?

Well get ready for Rx Mississippi.

[Via Cousin G]

FreedomSight's New Home

Jed has moved in to his new place.

Don't mind the boxes, he's still settling in.

Still, the place doesn't seem quite like home yet. Maybe it's just me, but I think he needs to find a place to hang this:

Wayne Fincher Update: 11/12

Militia Leader Held Without Bail

ATF News Release Re: Fincher Arrest

Thank You, Claire...

...and Jr,
and E David,
and E David again,
and Bill,
and Hairy Hobbit,
and who did I miss?

Or more to the point, who didn't I?

Update: Thank you, Whose Paranoid.

This Day in History: November 12

Upon hearing of England's rejection of the so-called Olive Branch Petition on this day in 1775, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, "Let us separate, they are unworthy to be our Brethren. Let us renounce them and instead of supplications as formerly for their prosperity and happiness, Let us beseech the almighty to blast their councils and bring to Nought all their devices."