Thursday, September 08, 2011

See, Here's the Thing...

Hostage-taking justifies a lethal force response. [Read]

Say, the "progressives" may just have given us the answer to why we need "assault clips"...

We're the Only Ones "Sauce for the Goose" Enough

627:5 Physical Force in Law Enforcement. –
NEW SECTION
II. A law enforcement officer is not justified in using deadly force on another to defend himself/herself or a third person from deadly force by another if the officer knows that he or she and the third person can, with complete safety:

(a) Retreat from the encounter, except that the officer is not required to retreat if he or she is within the officer's police station building or its curtilage and was not the initial aggressor. [More]
Mmmm. Gander sauce.

Holder’s qualified ‘Gunwalker’ denial withers under examination

Let’s explore what it means for Holder and “upper levels of the Justice Department” not to have known about what he dismisses as “this thing,” although we’ll have to suspend what’s been documented to date about Assistant Attorney General (and direct report to Holder) Lanny Breuer, and National Security Council Director of North American Affairs Kevin O'Reilly (as well as the President’s role as a statutory attendee of NSC meetings). [More]
This morning's Gun Rights Examiner commentary shreds a press pass.  Not the one given to the "Authorized Journalists"--the one they give to the administration.

This Day in History: September 8

Erkuries Beatty, Lieutenant, 4th PA, "This morning came out orders that the men was to remain here all Day & for the men to clean their pieces likewise for all the sick lame &c to return to Tyoga properly officered; aft. 10 oClock Major Parr with the Rifle Corps & the Cohoun was going up the lake to a little town called Kushay to Destroy it. [More]