We're the Only Ones BET Enough

Six times a week during November, a television show produced by Tempe police aired on the city’s cable channel showing a white police officer telling two black men they could get out of a ticket if they performed a rap...

“You know I’m right. You know why you say I’m right?” Schoville jokes. “Because I’ve got a gun and a badge. I’m always right.”

Word.

Now dance, puppets, dance!

Besides, "it's all in good-natured fun." Just as long as you remember the guy who has the badge and the gun is always right.

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We Want You to DIE

U.S. mayors, who have pledged to reduce the criminal use of firearms, continue to ignore the firearm industry’s offer of assistance and cooperation. Instead, the leaders of the mayors’ effort seem more interested in media events than real progress, according to officials of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).

Memo to Lawrence Keane:

Go rent the movie "Independence Day."

Go the the scene where the president tries to communicate with the captured alien, to see if there's anything we can do to peaceably coexist.

"What do you want from us?" he asks.

Everybody remember its reply?

Burt Constable and the Mountains on the Moon

David,

Thanks for the dialog. I'm writing about snowballs and such today, but I generally write an anti-gun column every year or two. Please look for them. I stuck my other gun column from 2006 at the end of this note. Thanks.

Sincerely,

Burt Constable

I guess I've been dismissed. Not that he had a snowball's chance in hell of defending his inane assumptions, but we've already established that self-defense ain't Burt's long suit.

The column he attached is hardly worth reproducing here--basically, some NRA members were very nice to him and hosted a day at the range to help him see that gun owners are good and responsible human beings, but it was a waste of their time and effort.

Burt's attitude reminds me of a story I once heard involving Galileo, who on inventing the telescope discovered there were mountains on the Moon. He tried to convince the "authorities" of this, but they refused to look through the telescope because Aristotle taught that celestial bodies were perfect spheres.

It's kind of a paradox, really, but one that shouldn't surprise us any more. Our "leaders" in whatever field--politics, journalism, education, religion--are basically superstitious primitives. I'll take a good, honest heretic over the entire lot of these shamans any day.

A Gun Exchange I Could Support

Etah Allah, 31, who grew up in West Oakland, summed it up nicely.

"I wouldn't give them a sling shot," he said. "In fact, given some of the things that (Axl) Rose has said about black folks, I think I should get a gun for just going to the concert," he said, bringing a laugh from his friends.

I love it.

Toronto Cell Block Locked Down in Ordeal

Toronto police locked down a northeast Toronto neighbourhood, including two elementary schools, after a man was seen with a gun Friday afternoon...

“Because we had information that there may be a gun in the area, we took all safety measures possible”...

The ordeal ended almost as quickly as it started when ETF officers fired tear gas...

“I’m not sure if it was an actual gun or an air weapon or something like that,” he said. “I don’t believe the weapon was ever pointed at anybody and he didn’t use it in any way shape or form.”

An "ordeal." Good Lord. Now imagine how the same situation would be responded to in a free society.

This Day in History: December 2

Legend has it that on the night of December 2, 1777, Philadelphia housewife and nurse Lydia Darragh single-handedly saves the lives of General George Washington and his Continental Army when she overhears the British planning a surprise attack on Washington’s army for the following day.