Crackdown Smackdown

LEGALLY held firearms will be seized and destroyed by police if licences are not renewed on time, the PSNI in north Antrim has warned.

Hmmm...

Are You Sure You Don't Mean "Oblivious"?

Trolley Square survivor calls need for tighter gun laws
'obvious'...

Obviously.

And the fact that you were helpless--and saved by another man with a gun--is obviously of no relevance.

It's hard to feel sorry for some people--at least the ones who demand imposing their despicable abdication of responsibility for self defense on the rest of us--under force of arms. While planting daffodils outside a police station...

Good Lord.

On Shaky "Higher Ground"

A couple weeks ago, my boyfriend told me something that nearly brought me to tears.

"I bought a gun," he said.

Dude, I hope for your sake you're not considering marrying this silly little girl.

She starts to halfway get things right, but keeps reverting to inanities and hysteria. Why the proto-"authorized journalists" at The Teen Titan perceive this bipolar train of cognitive dissonance to be worth five pages is anybody's guess--probably because the ovine "thought" processes on display here mirror their own...

Which part of Europe did you say you were from, again, Aleksandra...?

Cry Havoc

THE THREE people leading the march up North Broad Street in the Gun Violence Survivor's Walk and Rally this week were a poignant reminder of the havoc guns play on lives.

Y'know, I've been told by "authorized journalists" that guns go off, kill, fire accidentally, threaten, and terrorize, all by their own selves from the reported accounts, but this is the first time I've heard of one playing havoc.

I wonder if I could teach one of mine to play piano?

I don't suppose it occurs to the hand-wringing editorial writer that the price of guns would go down considerably if they shucked all the useless prior restraints--and the societal cost of individuals committing violence with firearms would go down considerably if government stopped enabling predators and parasites.

Gun Amnesty Yields Its Bounty

Edmonton has the worst record in Canada for firearms homicides, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday...

The finding comes on the heels of a provincewide gun amnesty last year that allowed Albertans to hand over unregistered firearms without punishment.

Edmonton police Chief Mike Boyd said the service may discuss offering another such amnesty with the province.

Because the first one worked so well, no doubt.

Q.E.D. and all that. Maybe they should put up signs...

All in the Family

Antonia Gadson, whose 7-year-old son is accused of fatally shooting 8-year-old Liquarry Jefferson in June, was arraigned yesterday on charges of unlawful gun possession and trafficking more than 100 grams of cocaine in a school zone, which could send her to prison for 12 years if she is found guilty.

It was another turn in the tortured story of the Gadson family, whose long history of violence and tragedy became public after Liquarry's death.

If only we'd enact some "common sense gun control" and disarm you and me, these tragedies would never happen again.

Signs of the Times

"Gun-free zone" signs soon will go up around Richmond schools, the city's latest effort to curb violence.

Well then, all right.

Golly, Eric--It's a good thing there were no signs up!

"Recall Joaquin Jackson" Blog

We do not feel it is appropriate for an NRA director to disparage ownership of any type of firearm, and believe anyone who does should not sit on the board.

We discussed this yesterday. The site to coordinate this effort is now online. Click on the title link to find out more.

This Day in History: October 18

On October 18, 1775, six short months after the outbreak of fighting at Lexington and Concord, a British naval squadron under the command of Lt. Henry Mowatt bombarded and destroyed a large part of Falmouth (Portland) along with most of the port town’s commerce.