Doing the Numbers in DC

There have been 14 homicides this month: Three on the 1st. Two on the 2nd. One each on the 4th and 5th. Two on the 7th. And one each day from July 8 through Wednesday.

Since the antis would have us assume guns are the cause of this, let's do some basic math.

There are approximately 550,000 people who live in DC. There are approximately 4 million NRA members.

Let's see, 550 thou goes into 4 mil about 7.27 times, so multiply that by 14...

So there should have been roughly 102 homicides committed by the Association's membership in the past two weeks...

Actually, that's not a fair comparison, since only a fraction of DC residents, those who ignore the law and agents of the state [insert sarcasm here], are armed, whereas pretty much 100% of NRA members are armed to the teeth. So the NRA death toll ought to be a lot higher...

I don't get it. Something's not adding up.

We're the Only Ones With Youthful Ardor Enough

A Miami-Dade County detective who lives in Southwest Ranches has been arrested for allegedly posting videos of child pornography on the Internet.

There must be some misunderstanding--maybe he's a member of the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes...

[Thanks to Jason M]

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

Gun Accidentally Fires in Only Ones' Evidence Bin

All by its own self, no doubt.

I wonder if Custodiette Shari was anywhere nearby?

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

Trooper Saved By Armed Citizen

Tourist kills man who pointed gun at trooper...

Care to comment, Ms. Brady?

Tired of Your Dead-End Job? Become a Professional Gun Snitch and Earn Big Money!

But Lee says both he and Sheriff John Rutherford know these people won't turn in their friends for free.

These fools are going to get someone killed.

We're the Only Ones Hauling It In Enough

Vernon RCMP received 60 firearms and hundreds and hundreds of ammunition rounds during the province-wide gun amnesty in June.

"Hundreds and hundreds"? My God, who could possibly need that kind of firepower?

Note Custodiette Shari displaying the cardinal rules of safe gun handling--always point your gun in a safe direction, and never point it at a person unless you intend to shoot him. Good job, Shari--it certainly is a relief to know all those guns are off the street and in your capable hands.

We anticipate a starring role for you in a future "Only Ones" episode.

Help KT Ordnance

Gary Marbut of the Montana Shooting Sports Association has begun a fundraising effort to help Richard Celata of KT Ordnance.

Claire Wolfe announces an eBay auction of JPFO materials to further the effort.

It's nice to see people come together to offer help in times of need. The question now is how many will answer the call? Or will this be another moment of gun owner inaction?

My check is in the mail.

Considering the Source

Every once in a while I like to browse around the Internet to see whether or not all this effort is at least getting dispersed, and every once in a while I learn something about that dispersal I didn't know.

I was aware that many of my GUNS Magazine articles are for sale at Amazon.com, even though it looks like no one is buying them--that's no surprise as I link to past columns at the magazine's site each month here for free.

Anyway, I just had a first. My name and work turned up in a place I had no idea they had wandered into: Larry Elder cited me in Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests that Divide America. More specifically, he cited my KABA expose on actor Mark Wahlberg (be sure to visit the Pokey Poke Picture Gallery at the end).

"Yawn," you might say, but I've never been cited as a book source before, so to get endnoted by a nationally syndicated radio host, columnist and New York Times bestselling author is a big deal for me. Naturally, I had to run right out and buy a copy. (Writing isn't supposed to work this way. It's not supposed to cost me money.)

Still, I haven't felt this famous since some musically retarded college buddies and I appeared on Houlihan and Big Chuck's "New Talent Time" a lifetime ago...

We're the Only Ones' LA Trifecta

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The 3-year-old son of a Los Angeles police officer got hold of his father's service handgun Tuesday and shot him as they sat in the family's pickup at a traffic light near their home in Anaheim, police said...

...Chavez is the third Los Angeles area police officer to be shot by a relative with his or her service weapon in recent weeks.

On Monday, Pasadena police said Officer Karen White, contrary to initial reports, did not attempt suicide in Compton last month when she was shot in the face but was wounded when she tried to wrestle her gun from her suicidal 18-year-old son...

On July 2, LAPD Officer Ronald Cade was shot and wounded off duty with his service weapon by Yolanda Cade, his wife of two weeks.

And these are the people who will arrest you and me for bearing arms. That's 'cause they're "The Only Ones."

[Incidentally, the Chavez incident is what I was referring to here when I said I did not blog on a story.]

Philly "Gun Violence" Escalates

The shooting Wednesday continues to mark a dramatic increase in gun violence in Philadelphia, and the number of shooting victims is up more than 15 percent compared to a year ago.

But...but...but...

When Clowns Attack

For several nights last month, a group of thugs with black hooded sweat shirts pulled tight over their heads, including at least one in "angry" clown makeup, terrorized visitors to Pierce County's Fort Steilacoom Park, police say...

"The violence was gratuitous," said Lakewood police Lt. Dave Guttu. "They [victims] had already given up their stuff and were assaulted anyway."

Rely on the state for protection and this insanity is allowed to go on unchecked. So much for the safest course being to not resist and give the attackers what they want.

In a rational world, the turf would have been taken back by the good people that very night.

[Via Jason M]

Councillor: Only Fudd Can Save Us Now

A Richmond city councillor is suggesting a call to arms may be the only option left that could curb the city's troublesome rabbit population.

What--you don't want to take the "humane" approach and catch, spay/neuter and adopt them--with taxes plundered under threat of armed force?

Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.

Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh.

We're the Only Ones Registering Enough

A NORTH Wales Police worker has been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences following a major inquiry into gun crime in the region...His work is thought to involve keeping a firearms register...He is now the subject of a criminal investigation by officers, which forms part of a wider probe into firearms offences across North Wales.

I repeat: I do NOT purposely go our looking for additions to "The Only Ones" files. I merely look for stories related to guns.

These just fall in my lap. And sometimes I ignore them because I don't want the site totally dominated by this theme--and today, I did not blog on another story where an officer is fighting for his life out of consideration for a family going through hell right now.

We're the Only Ones Improper Enough

No action had been taken, and none pledged, as of yesterday against a Metro parks officer whose shooting of a man last year in Centennial Park was ruled improper.

Of course not. He's one of "The Only Ones."

Bloodthirsty Gun Store Profiteers Guilty of Murdering Innocents

At least that's what "authorized journalist" John Duncanson and his fellow hysterical propagandists at the Toronto Star would apparently have us believe...

The Mare's Leg Loophole

I just had time to read this month's issue of GUNS Magazine, and found an interesting article by Senior Field Editor John Taffin on the JB Custom Mare's Leg. Those of you at least as old as me will remember TV's Wanted: Dead or Alive, where Steve McQueen portrayed Josh Randall, a bounty hunter who carried one of the more memorable firearms of western fiction, the "Mare's Leg."

Starting with a Model 1892 Winchester, the gunsmith cut the barrel back to 12", removed most of the buttstock and re-shaped the lever to a larger more triangular affair. While he was at it he also increased the power significantly by converting the .44-40 to the larger and longer .45-70.

Every month I link to a cool and unique feature on the GUNS website, the issue of their magazine from 50 years earlier. It invariably invokes nostalgia for a simpler time, particularly an era when "gun control" laws were far less onerous and pervasive. Taffin's article reminds us of a stark reality of the time:

The Mare's Leg...was highly illegal by federal standards and required special agents on the set while being used.

So how does JB Custom produce a modern equivalent?

While it is illegal to turn a rifle into a handgun as done by Randall it is not illegal to produce such a firearm as a handgun original.

Yeah, I guess. At least until some evil traitor starts screaming "Loophole!"

We're the Only Ones Automatic Enough

"Some dealers would have loved to have it," Chisholm said. "But the ATF told me I basically had two options: I could destroy it or I could give it to a museum."

But he still managed to hold onto it for years.

That's because he's one of "The Only Ones".

[Thanks to HZ]

We Decide Who Gets to Say What

It puts the state in the position of defining what is a legitimate news publication.

What have we been saying about "authorized journalists"?

Besides--what kind of idiot would think we're entitled as sovereign individuals to free political speech?

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Buyback

A 33-year-old Milton man faces gun and assault charges after he allegedly shot a man who was said to have been trying to rob him at gunpoint outside a Mattapan store, prosecutors said yesterday.

But the defendant's family and friends said yesterday that the accused man, Robert Washington, had a gun last Thursday only because he was on his way to turn the weapon in to a police station in exchange for a gift card under Boston's gun buyback program...

"We're assuming that if he didn't have the gun, we'd be burying him instead of watching him go to jail today," she said.

Wonder if he still wants to trade in that gun...?

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

Glenn Fine said the ATF should have included all firearms-related violent crimes. By that measurement, Greensboro's results were stable with 353 gun-related crimes between June and November 2003 and 351 during the same period in 2004.

Dang. And we were counting on the lapdog media and their readership not realizing that you can't establish trends from such limited data sets...