Life's a Beach

Suggesting measures from installing metal detectors at Revere Beach T stations...[More]

Brilliant idea!

And you could make them take their shoes off.

And ban bottles containing liquids and lotions!

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Grand Theft Auto Enough

Illinois State Police troopers seized a high-performance muscle car and set it aside for the personal use of an influential police official. The Associated Press reported that a suspected drunk driver in a 2006 Dodge Charger was pulled over in January 2007. The troopers used a state seizure law to confiscate the vehicle. [More]

And I almost sprayed my keyboard when I read that the "Only One" who got it heads up the state's "Merit Board."

Now that's funny.

Keep it up and these parasites may start getting what they merit...

A Victimless Crime

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that illegal gun possession is a “passive and victimless crime’’ and those charged with having illicit firearms cannot be held without bail as dangers to society. [More]

I wonder if it will be considered divisive if I point this out:

Project Exile meant zero tolerance for criminal gun use. No deals. No plea-bargains. No bail. No exceptions. Commit a crime with a gun and you’re done.

It worked like this: A police officer arrests a suspect carrying a gun. He asks the suspect the questions on the card. If the suspect answers “yes”--bang--he’s nailed on a federal gun crime. Conviction meant a mandatory five years in federal prison. No questions asked.

Hell of a thing when the MA judiciary is more lenient on guns than the NRA. Not that I want to incur the wrath of the pragosphere for making that observation...

[Via Ed M]

"No Questions Asked"

$1000 to be spent on buying guns from the public with no questions asked...The only requirement is proof that you are a resident of the City of Abbeville and are of legal age to possess the firearm. [More]

No questions except who you are, how old you are and where we can find you...

I guess somebody dumb enough to let a firearm go for those prices is probably dumb enough to fall for this.

[Via retrotruckman]

He Said/He Said

There's this:

I was being really cooperative except for not letting them in my house without a warrant,” Reed said.

And then there's this:

"If you assault an officer, it's almost like you're assaulting the public as well because that's who we're representing,” Hamblin said.

So to make sure that doesn't happen, we...uh...assault the public...?

[Via StrandedInIowa]

We're the Only Ones Hanging Up Enough

Cop Answering 911 Call Won't Send Ambulance; Decides Instead to Chastise Freaked-Out Caller for Her "Filthy Mouth"

And then, after he finally sent an ambulance... he showed up to arrest her, for "abuse of 911," a charge that the report says doesn't even exist.

Oh-- and he hung up on her twice without getting her information. He called the ambulance only after the third time she'd called, after wasting six minutes. [More]

So naturally, "Only One" management "argues they're right to resist firing" Sgt. Robert McFarland. He just needs training, because how else would someone who does this for a living know that you're not supposed to hang up on callers during life-and-death emergencies?

[Via mekender]

We're the Only Ones With Beer Breath Enough

Schweitz, who had run to check on the victims, told police at the scene and The Oregonian on Monday, that he was two to three feet from Adams and smelled alcohol on the mayor's breath. "It seemed like beer," Schweitz said. [More]

Sam Adams beer? Not with any underage drinkers, I trust.

Look, I'm sure Portland cops would give you and me the same break and not test us if we "'T-boned' [a]vehicle, striking the passenger side...pushed [the] vehicle over a curb, through shrubs, into another vehicle and 50 to 70 feet through [a] parking lot...powering through both of them...still on the gas pedal..." and if we "kept driving...after [breaking] free of the collision...peeling out, and finally [coming] to a stop about 100 feet away..."

Because if not, that would make Mayor Adams some kind of..."Only One"...


[Via Jeffersonian]

Hey Everybody-Do the Horwitz/Anderson Smear!

Sounds like a teeny-bopper dance craze from the 60s, doesn't it?

Nah, it's the latest offering from our good friends with teeny-bopper minds over at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Following the DHS "rightwing extremist" playbook, they go right after Oath Keepers--can't have cops and the military taking their Constitutional oaths seriously, can we?

But the real news is about their new book...oh, sorry, wrong one. Here it is:

In Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea, Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson challenge the proposition that more guns equal more freedom and expose Insurrectionism as a true threat to freedom in the United States today.

You know the drill:

War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.

And it looks like they singled out at least one WarOnGuns guest editorial by Threeperor-for-Life Vanderboegh (like the title, Mike? I just thunk it up) as representative of the militia terror that awaits us all. Horrors!

I wonder if they mention us anywhere else, because who doesn't like seeing their names make the rounds? Besides certain gungrabbers?

I'd like to say I crossed swords with Horwitz once before, over at The New York Times Virgina Tech panel,but in truth he just kind of slapped at the air and made catty remarks.

He was on this tack even then:

I am not surprised that David Codrea, got out of the gate first thing this morning with an argument for arming students. Mr. Codrea writes a blog titled, “The War on Guns, Notes from the Resistance” (who is he resisting?)

Why, I'm resisting you, Mr. Horwitz. And everyone who enables and abets you.

Media Not Reporting Upholding of Olofson Machine Gun Conviction

I won't pretend to argue this is the story of the century. But how can anyone pretend to argue it is not a story at all? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explores what economist and syndicated columnist Walter Williams calls "sins of commission and omission."

Also find out about a bill to bring Vermont/Alaska carry to Ohio, see how an Oregon CHL privacy bill was weakened, follow up on a fun 'n gun weekend, and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: May 5

General Arnolds promotion gives me much pleasure; he has certainly discovered, in every instance where he has had an opportunity, much bravery, activity and enterprize. But what will be done about his Rank? he will not act, most probably, under those he commanded but a few weeks ago. [More]