Have You Seen Me?

The Halton Police could use your help, eh?

[Via Bruce M]

[Graphic via Stieger]

We're the Only Ones Wild West Enough

When they left Wild West City amusement park in New Jersey, 12-year-old Aleksey Derevyankin sat in the family's gray Ford Focus, a black cowboy hat on his head, a gold "Deputy Marshal" star with him, pretending to shoot a toy gun — a Western-style revolver with a bright orange tip.

A passing motorist saw the Focus and reported it to police as a road-rage incident with someone in the backseat pointing a gun. Police ran the license plate, which came back to Keahon's Oak Street home.

I'm amazed we survived The Fifties. I know this would sure scare the hell out of me:



[Via Declan]
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We're the Only Ones Defending Ourselves Enough

Proof that having a gun can drive away an attacker with lethal intentions...too bad New Jersey limits such responses to "The Only Ones," but in truth, your life just isn't that important.

From NRA-ILA:

Issuance of the permit is almost completely discretionary, and New Jersey courts have upheld the policy of strictly limiting permits “to persons specifically employed in security work . . . and to others who can establish an urgent necessity for carrying guns for self-protection.”

[Via Tony G]

Opportunity Knocks

Now Gov. Schwarzenegger has a chance to make Californians safer, and set a new national standard, by signing into law the Crime Gun Identification Act of 2007.

More bloviating by "authorized journalists" who don't know what the hell they're talking about. And they accuse us of being "reflexive."

And it figures they'd work in a reference to Virginia Tech.

Now would probably be a good time to add some more effort to "The Surge."

This Day in History: September 25

On September 25, 1789, the First Federal Congress of the United States proposed to the state legislatures twelve amendments to the Constitution. The first two, concerning the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen, were not ratified. Articles three through twelve, known as the Bill of Rights, became the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution and contained guarantees of essential rights and liberties omitted in the crafting of the original document.