We're the Only Ones Immune from Felony Charges Enough

Missouri law prohibits O'Connor from being charged with a felony because he is a law enforcement officer, according to a statement by Ed Postawko, chief warrant officer for the circuit attorney's office.

You got that, right?

Being an "Only One" guarantees a lesser charge. By law.

Had enough yet?

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

UPDATE:
Here's another account that just adds insult to injury:

" A civilian in similar circumstances could have been charged with unlawful use of a weapon. State law makes it a felony when a person "exhibits, in the presence of one or more persons, any weapon readily capable of lethal use in an angry or threatening manner."

Police officers have been exempt from prosecution for that violation for some time. In 2003, legislators included off-duty police officers in the exemption.

That seems ripe for challenge under "the supreme law of the land's" equal protection guarantee. Or it would be in nation where justice mattered.

[Via Michael G]

We''re the Only Ones Scoring Tight Groups Enough

He did it! He missed the barn! [More]

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

We're the Only Ones "Stairway to Heaven" Enough

Gurley was killed by Officer Peter Liang, whom police say fired his pistol by accident while he was patrolling a dimly-lit staircase at a notorious Brooklyn apartment block. [More]

Oh, well then those mitigating circumstances, described with dramatic flair, make it all OK then.

Thanks for the cover, "Authorized Journalists"!

[Via Bruce W, Krafft]

Thanks for the Mammaries... Not.

I started a topless gun protest because ammo-sexuals still won't shut up [More]

Really? Not because you're a headcase exhibitionist loser?

I dunno Phyllis, I'm still not convinced.

Take your bottom off, too, and maybe insert some gun safety flags, and...

Not that I'd want to see it, but if you're bent on making a spectacle of yourself, I say go for it.  The more ridiculous and gross, the better.

Hey, I bet the EVOLVE people are done with these...

Maybe not...

[Via Bruce W, Krafft]

We're the Only Ones Pleading Enough

Misdemeanor. And it was intentional. Cool. [More]

I wonder how David Olofson feels about that...

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

A Shotgun Wedding

Campaign promises free shotguns to residents of troubled Tucson neighborhood [More] 

I see pros to this, but also cons. I dunno. I hope no one ends up regretting it.

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

Homer Simpson's Dumber Brother Redux

Let's see...hunters (that would be you, silly Ms. Fuddette) could keep their weapons  in an armory (I told you they'd be coming for you if the line falls back), we could keep one registered gun in our homes subject to annual fitness evaluations, and collectors would have to render valuable pieces "unfireable"...[Read]

Simply put, domestic enemy Dan Simpson, the answer is "No."

The longer answer is two words, starts with "F" and ends with "you."

[Via Bruce W, Krafft]

In Other Words...

...Mary McFating is bad when we do it but good when they do...? [More]

Speaking of which, anybody find My Favorite Mute yet...?

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

And Fill the Coin Box in the Process

As a result, he expects his annual budget could grow to $6 million this year, considerably more than the $3.6 million that SAF, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, took in last year...[More]

What's your point, Rick Anderson?

It costs money to run an organization, employ people, fund lawsuits...

Do you get paid for what you do? How about your paper--do they make money?

Besides, it's not like Alan Gottlieb gets astroturf foundation grants, like groups who side with you anti-gun Seattle latte-sippers rely on. If gun owners don't like him, they won't support him. It's that simple.

It's not like anyone from the state will force anything on them at gunpoint, you know, what you gungrabbers rely on when people don't approve of you...?

It would seem Seattle Weekly bears a grudge.

The day before it was Nincompoop Nina and now they Rickroll him.

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

The Morally Disabled on Property Rights

Officials with the Second Amendment Foundation have said the rule is illegal and planned to sue the city once the law went into effect. But Nickels doesn't believe the city is acting beyond its power, saying he is asserting the same rights private property owners have. [More]

What do they say? Possession is nine-tenths of the law?

Why would we expect a career kleptocrat to recognize the distinction between property and plunder?

Or recognize rights?

There's just no reasoning with moral retards.

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

An Ethical Question

CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE PUBLIC LAW 96-303 [More]

So if it's "public law", can people be arrested for violating it?

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

A Willing Slave

[A] bloodlust for killing...pompous enough to call it self-defense...a phallic substitute... [More]

Good grief. There's a whole lotta stupid going on here, inside Madison J. Gray's confused and angry skull.

And nope, "dope dealers" don't scare me, child. Seriously. Really. If you think they do, you have no idea what the score is, and seeing as how you're my enemy, that's a good thing. I want you to be as ignorant as possible, and in truth, you exceed all hopes.

No "crawlspace" hiding, either. That's a survival tactic for the disarmed.

Here's my comment in full, in case it gets reported as "offensive," which, face it, is what I was trying to be.

By: David Codrea on 3/02/2009 2:35PM

"Look, those of you who read me regularly, know how much I HATE guns. The very concept of handling a device that is actually designed for the sole purpose of ending a human life, I find abhorrent."

So are you going to send someone else who doesn't have such qualms to die in the civil war your little gun control scheme will start?

I mean, really--what do you do if some of us say "No"?

We will not disarm.

Are you willing to engage in battle and die for your beliefs--or do you expect others will handle the messy part for you?

You're unworthy of the sacrifice men like the Deacons for Defense and Justice made on behalf of Freedom.

I don't expect you to learn from men like Roy Innis--you're one of those self-important fools who thinks he's qualified to teach but in fact is too dull to learn.

Continue being a tool for Massah Uncle Sam's Plantation, you disgusting coward, you willing slave.

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

Cleaning Up...

...after the party in San Benito...

In exchange for his resignation, the district attorney's office will not file criminal charges against Maldonado pertaining to an October incident in which he let a friend fire his county issue weapon.

I wonder if my new BFF deputy Gus Reyna will keep good on his promise to treat my doing the same thing "like any other case," meaning there will be no arrest and prosecution? As a show of good faith, I'll even promise never to be a constable.

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

Technology

There is one thing gun lovers won't understand. It is very simple. The word that sums it up is: Technology.

I see. The superstitious barbarian who views objects as animated totems lectures those of us who know better.

So, Richard A. Benton, why not lecture designers, manufacturers and increasingly sophisticated users of firearms, ammunition, scopes and the host of other equipment and apparatuses about their understanding of technology?

Here's some technology for you, Richard. The rounded end goes in first.

Whiny anti-gun males. Talk about an evolutionary dead end.

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

We're the Only Ones Cashing Out Enough

Retiring a few years early will leave 59-year-old Police Chief Carmen LaBruno with a comfortable landing - and may cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars...

After 37 years on the Hoboken force, LaBruno's annual salary is $210,794. And when his retirement becomes official, he would be entitled to an annual state pension of around $147,555...

[H]e will also likely be entitled to termination pay - five days for each year for his 37 years, officials said. That's another 185 days at around $810 per day, or $149,850...

LaBruno was photographed posing with a topless woman during the 2006 trip to New Orleans, one that SWAT officers said was to provide security at Mardi Gras. But the SWAT team was not authorized by law enforcement officers in Louisiana, and in fact, city officials say, LaBruno told them that he was on vacation.

Pi...uh..."Only Ones" at the trough. New Jersey sure takes care of its own, doesn't it, all the while maintaining the highest ethical standards?

See, you do work for them. What, you thought it was the other way around?

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

"It's Certainly Not an Endorsement"

The National Rifle Association has added $2,500 to the campaign coffers of incumbent Sen. Tim Johnson.

It's the first time since the South Dakota Democrat ran for the Senate in 1996 that he has received support from the pro-gun organization, which promotes the Second Amendment and opposes more restrictions on gun ownership and possession.

Steve Jarding of Rapid City, Johnson's re-election campaign manager, said Wednesday that the NRA donation was "a big deal."

"It's not necessarily an endorsement," he said. "But sending financial assistance is certainly a form of support. To send it this early, I think, sends a signal that this organization feels pretty good about Tim Johnson."

Hmmm...


And hmmm...

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

We're the Only Ones That Kind Enough

"I've got to wonder what kind of moron would Tase an adult holding a baby," said George Kirkham, a former police officer and criminologist at Florida State University. "It doesn't take rocket science to realize the baby is going to fall."

What kind? Meet "David Boling, an off-duty Houston police officer working security at the hospital..."

What is it about "Only Ones" and shooting people holding babies?

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

We're the Only Ones Buttary Enough

Montpelier Police Officer Kevin Buttars was charged last night with unnecessary assault by a police officer...

The criminal complaint states Buttars shoved and choked Finley, slammed his head into a wall and possibly forced simulated sodomy on Finley.

You'll note it's a misdemeanor charge--I wonder what it would have been if roles had been reversed--and if there's such a thing as "necessary assault" for non-"Only Ones"?

And why can't I get this song out of my head?

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

Thinking Outside the Scope

From Bruce W. Krafft via email:

For those of you who have not yet heard, California Cartridge-Microstamp Law Upheld in Gun Group Loss. 

I think the money quote from U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller is "Plaintiffs insist they have the right to determine the precise way in which they would exercise their Second Amendment rights," but that the insistence upon particular handguns falls "outside the scope of the right to bear arms." 

Let's try this on for size: Suppose CA law was changed so that only blacks who had graduated from a whites only university or college could run for office. Then imagine a judge saying Plaintiffs insist they have the right to determine the precise way in which they would exercise their Voting rights," but that the insistence upon being able to vote for people of color falls "outside the scope of the right to vote."