We're the Only Ones Bustin' Caps Enough

Police and school officials say a second-grade boy at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School brought the gun and apparently pointed it at two 6-year-olds and fired it, discharging smoke. [More]

Horrors!

Hopefully he was playing Cowboys and Indians instead of Cops and Robbers, and that way they can tack on a hate crime charge.

I'm trying to recall if I ever had a friend at that age who didn't shoot at other kids with cap guns...

[Via Harvey]

This I Don't Get

"I just finally told them what they wanted to hear. I just repeated everything they said. [More]

I'll never get it.

I can understand being naive enough to talk to the cops. I can even understand being naive enough to allow them to search without a warrant.

I get that there are people that uninformed about their rights and that trusting of the police.

But confessing to a crime you did not commit?

There has to be some kind of mental/emotional deficiency at play here. A whole person would just never do that.

Which makes coerced confessions like this especially contemptible--bullies picking on the disabled...

[Via FFFW]

Two from WorldNetDaily

U.N. gun-ban treaty faces pre-emptive attack

Gun owners hit the road to arm America

[Via Todd F]

Considered Basic By Many

Hansen, the criminal-justice student, grows especially exasperated when recalling a scary incident a few years ago as she waited for a bus. She said a carload of drunken men approached her until the police helicopter that had been trailing them turned a spotlight on the men and chased them off. Now the helicopter is gone, and the streetlight she was waiting under is threatened as well. [More]

And a "criminal justice student" discovering that the police can't protect you is a bad thing...why?

The right of the people to keep and bear arms is something many of us consider basic. If the government that admits it can't save us ever stops infringing on that, we can revisit the public safety issue after a while.

Still, expect the punishment to continue--because the alternative would be to do something about this:

Broadmoor luxury resort chief executive Steve Bartolin wrote an open letter asking why the city spends $89,000 per employee, when his enterprise has a similar number of workers and spends only $24,000 on each.

[Via William T]

Armed Assaults by Cops in Bars Show Folly of Unthinking Trust

What is it the antis expect us to swallow whole? Oh, yeah, the police are the "Only Ones" we can trust with guns--and are especially the only ones we can trust carrying them around in public. You and I are just too volatile and out of control. But if we see a government employee with a gun, we can all relax and know we're protected. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column uses current events to play good cop/bad cop. In addition to a couple drunken, sociopathic oafs, we meet two traveling sheriffs who don't go along with the nonsense that society is safer when you and I are disarmed.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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