Notes from the Resistance...
A newly surfaced videotape that shows Broward Sheriff's Office officials laughing over footage of Ritter being shot by rubber bullets and calling protesters "cockroaches" has sparked outrage and prompted an apology from law enforcement.The courts have consistently held infringements of the First, Second And Fourth Amendments constitutional, so why shouldn't they laugh, cockroaches?
Random bag searches by New York police at subway stations are constitutional and an effective means of combating terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.And if it turns out "terrorists" are avoiding detection and smuggling vials of liquid explosives by inserting them into body cavities, I won't be surprised if random sigmoidoscopy is upheld as constitutional, too...
Why is the NRA aggressively trying to repeal the Brady Law (background checks), which since 1994 has prevented more than 1.3 million prohibited purchasers from getting guns? ...So there have been 1.3 million prosecutions and convictions, right?
It's time for the gun lobby to come to the table and meet us at least halfway in passing common-sense gun laws...
The NRA`s membership of more than four million persons, has a strong interest in the proper implementation of the provisions of law concerning the acquisition of firearms by law-abiding citizens and the prevention of such acquisition by violent criminals.That isn't "halfway" enough for you, Diane?
A former Columbus police officer illegally sold 501 guns last year — including one that was found with two Somali men now charged in a terrorist plot in Canada...Breaks laws he would have arrested us for, beats citizens in a lethal rage when he doesn't get his way, and then turns snitch when it's his corrupt butt on the line...
Nelson, who joined the Columbus Police Division in late 1997, left because of a spinal disability in June 2005. He was off work and on medical leave in November 2004 when he was charged with felonious assault in a road-rage incident. Authorities say he hit another motorist in the head with a metal flashlight...
After he was caught, Nelson agreed to help investigators trace guns he’d sold.
Parents with guns in their homes become less vigilant about how they store those guns as their children grow older, a new study suggests -- even though older children are at far more risk of being harmed by those guns than younger children are...First you take a subset--people who admit to an interviewer they have guns in their home. Then you take an entire population--including impoverished criminal adolescents immersed in gang activities and drugs, generational government dependence and fatherless homes, and Presto-Changeo! you get hysterical hyperbole presented as general truth! Oh, and pitchfork murders.
...Johnson and her colleagues analyzed responses from the 392 people who had at least one gun in the house and at least one child younger than 18.
Hodges faces a possible life sentence for possession of the marijuana and possession of the shotgun during the commission of a felony.I'm sure there will be no shortage of "law and order" gun owners who will deem this a good thing. I'm also sure they will have no problem finding the enumerated federal authority for such arrests, prosecutions and convictions in this document that they proclaim such reverence for...
A suburban Chicago police detective has been charged with misconduct after investigators say he tampered with evidence.
Authorities say 37-year-old Harvey police detective Hollis Dorrough smuggled a gun out of the police station that was linked to an October incident.
Investigators allege that a Harvey city official urged Dorrough to get rid of the gun.
Police at Austin Bergstrom International Airport arrested Horseshoe Bay Resort CEO Douglas Jaffe, 26, on Thursday morning for "unlawfully carrying a weapon in places where weapons are prohibited," says Travis County Sheriff's Office spokesman Roger Wade...Don't worry too much. The Jaffe's are big behind-the-scenes Texas Democrat party movers and shakers.
If found guilty, authorities say he could face between two and 10 years in prison, and a fine up to $10,000.
A four-year-old boy apparently killed himself today with a handgun he found under a bed in a police officer's home...Anderson has since been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
Detroit Police spokesman James Tate said the gun was a Glock and was the officer's department-issued weapon. The guns have a reputation for having a hair trigger and can easily discharge.Glocks. Is there any time they won't go off? Nice to see our old pal Tater Head, the citizen gun turn-in enthusiast, out there clouding the issue (again)...
GARDEN-VARIETY GUN NUT NABBED IN QNS.Gee, no media bias reflected there, ya think?
I am asking sincerely as a newly minted (though not born yesterday) attorney that wants to make the second amendment (and the constitution) the law of the land for my children (and yours). Everywhere I look I don’t see it as a practical reality. As much as I want to believe in the second, it seems like a mass delusion (or worse) a cynical use of the concept for pure fund raising hype with no expectation (by the professional promoters) that there is any argument to win.We should all be familiar with the letter John Ashcroft wrote to the NRA proclaiming "[L]et me state unequivocally my view that the text and the original intent of the Second Amendment clearly protect the right of individuals to keep and bear firearms."
Of course, the individual rights view of the Second Amendment does not prohibit Congress from enacting laws restricting firearms ownership for compelling state interests, such as prohibiting firearms ownership by convicted felons, just as the First Amendment does not prohibit shouting “fire” in a crowded movie theater. As Samuel Adams explained at the Massachusetts ratifying convention, the proposed Constitution should”never [be] construed . . .to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.”With all due respect to Mr. Ashcroft, he's describing a prior restraint on the Second Amendment and a response to an act for his First Amendment example. So he's talking apples and oranges, but most people never noticed. Besides--you can yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
"None of us ever want to visit the morgue," Bishop said. "It's not a place anyone wants to be - and if we had fewer assault weapons on our streets, fewer of us would ever have to go there."It's official. These people have no shame.
Authorities said a 4-month-old baby died Tuesday after her father, a Lindale Police Department reserve sergeant, left her in his pickup in a parking lot outside City Hall.I can't bring myself to come up with a sarcastic "Only Ones" title for this tragic story, but couldn't not post about it because, like the other examples we've presented, it illustrates how law enforcers are no more competent at life--or less prone to the consequences of thoughtlessness--than the society they spring from. Some will note no arrest has been made, as would probably happen if an "ordinary" citizen was involved.
"How about Council pushing for a bill that would require gun purchasers to register their guns every six months?"And they say there are no stupid questions...
A NEW South Wales police student has been charged and booted out of the Goulburn training college for turning up to training with replica guns.Sorry, kid. You were just a proto-"Only One," and that doesn't quite cut it.
I can proudly say that I have no fear of the government taking away my firearms...Those are good ones, Duane. Here are some more for you:
It is naive to wrap yourself in the flag and call all who oppose your point of view "freedom haters" or "elitists."
Gun control is neither anti-American nor unconstitutional, and in most cases, it is actually beneficial to both our economy and the operation of a free society.
I have gone to Law school and I have worked in a top law firm (as an intern) and everywhere I turn the people with the experience in the trenches that I respect tell me that the second amendment is NEVER the argument.Unless things radically change, I'd say this assessment of the current state of things is inarguable.
I continually talk to experienced, smart, creative attorneys that I respect who tell me there is no second amendment. Yesterday I had a long talk with the partner I work for and he told me to "forget the second amendment, it was poorly written, it's been completely de-balled. U.S. gun laws are entirely statute driven and it has been increasingly thus since "U.S. v Miller" in 1938. He said with the exception of "U.S. v Lopez" there are no meaningful constitutional arguments for inalienable gun rights. The courts have routinely upheld restrictions on possession and ownership particularly local ordinances.
I should throw in that these are seriously constitution believing, gun owning, gun in the top desk drawer attorneys with years of experience, not the bRADY BUNCH.
