Monday, January 30, 2006

We're the Only...Hey, What the Hell You Lookin' At?

St. Paul police are rethinking their policies allowing undercover officers to drink on the job after a decorated officer was shot to death outside of a bar...When he was killed, Vick's blood-alcohol level was 0.20 percent -- twice the legal limit for driving at that time. Since the defense raised questions about Vick's partner carrying a firearm while consuming alcohol, Harrington said the department is examining that policy...Vick and his partner, Sgt. Joe Strong, were investigating prostitution when they confronted two men outside a bar on St. Paul's East Side. The argument escalated to a shooting in a nearby alley that killed Vick.

On Friday, Harry Evans was convicted of first-degree murder in Vick's death and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.

Another drunken cop shooting story? Any bets on the outcome if Vick had shot first and Evans was the one killed?

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Happy Birthday to Me...


...or more accurately to The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance, which made its debut one year ago today.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Talk About Picking and Choosing...

Google, the giant internet search company, is to lead industry opposition to new proposals from the European Commission to regulate online content.

The company, which last week said it would self-censor its Chinese search engine to appease the country's government, objects to the commission's proposals to extend regulations in the Television Without Frontiers directive (TWFD) to cover video content shown on the internet.
I guess if everyone sees you back down from a tough bully, picking a fight with the pudgy kid is one way of trying to regain some playground status...

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And Now for Something Completely Different

What with all this talk about rainbow posters and all, it's time for a little healthy, politically incorrect irreverance, courtesy of one of the funniest damn sites I've found, Superdickery.

Natural Assumptions

Security camera footage that detectives later studied...would show Hernandez being assaulted by at least five men and a woman. He had no teammates to back him, and his opponents hit him without the remotest sense of fair play. He ended up drawing his gun.
Michael Daly, who never saw a gun ban he didn't endorse, has nothing but wonderful things to say about the off-duty officer mistakenly shot by NY cops. And naturally, being a police worshipper, he has nothing but excuses for the cop doing the shooting:
Whatever happened next, nobody faults the responding officer who felt compelled to fire. Only when a paramedic discovered a shield in Hernandez's pocket did anyone realize he was an off-duty cop.
But while Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly were staying mysteriously silent about how officers would be safe if we could just disarm those pesky citizens, another angle to this story has surfaced:
[S]ources said [he] was highly intoxicated and holding his gun on a young man...
Naturally, the establishment media was all over this when they had a chance to question Mike and Ray. I mean, you and I would be if we had a chance, right?
Bloomberg and Kelly were not asked about Hernandez's sobriety at the news conference.
Maybe it made the reporters uncomfortable. Besides, how drunk could Hernandez have been?
[A]source familiar with the investigation said the officer, who had worked the 4 p.m. to midnight shift Friday at the 52nd Precinct, had been drinking at one or two bars before arriving at the restaurant and that his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit of .08.
Well, still, even a drunk cop has a right to defend himself against a mob. I'll bet the "opponents" he held at gunpoint are all in jail now, right? I mean, how could people confronting a drunken armed New York cop (who even other cops didn't realize was one) be giving him "the remotest sense of fair play"?
A man, who would give only his first name, Brian, said he was the one being held at gunpoint and left the 46th Precinct at about 5 p.m. after hours of questioning. "I was a little twisted," he said, referring to his own condition at the time. "Some dude came up and pointed a gun at me and said he was going to shoot and pushed me onto the floor. He looked drunk." He quoted the man as saying, "I know you did it. Get on the floor."

Brian was one of eight people taken to the precinct for questioning, police said.

Brian and a friend, who gave only his first name, Miguel, said Brian had tried to help Hernandez off the floor after the officer was attacked.
All the assumptions!

Why was Hernandez attacked? Are we to assume having twice the "legal" blood alcohol level had nothing to do with his level of aggression?

Why the assumption that--because a badge was discovered in his pocket--Hernandez was in the right? Had a badge not been discovered, how do you think the media would be presenting this story?

Why is it when cops mistakenly shoot one of their own, we get excuses, but when citizens shoot home invaders they don't even know are cops, they get the death penalty?

Here's the main assumption on the part of New York cops:
We need to make it clear that if someone lifts even a finger against a police officer, their life could be on the line.
This is what traitors like Mike Bloomberg wish to impose on the rest of the Republic. This is what fawning media lickspittles like Mike Daly wish to help them accomplish.

We are ordered to disarm. We are ordered to obey "authoritah". Even if the cop is drunk. If we lift a finger to defend ourselves, we risk forfeiting our lives.

Because as we have proven time and again here at WarOnGuns, they're the only ones [insert appropriate adjective] enough...

How could anyone assume otherwise?

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Saturday, January 28, 2006

Open Letter to Google

I received a comment in my open letter to my new pal Zhou Wenzhong asking people to visit the "Open Letter to Google" blog and leave their own thoughts.

I did, and encourage you to do so as well.

At last count, there were 232 posted comments. Be nice to increase that a thousandfold and more...

Please spread the word and urge other blogs to inform their visitors.

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PROOF...

...that if Mayor Bloomberg's plot to disarm all of America except "the authorities" succeeds, shootings of NYC police officers will cease.

[Thanks to HZ]

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Guess What Day This Is?

First, it's oldest son Uday's 15th birthday. As youngest son Qusay said when he was but a jihoddler, "Yappy Birthday!"

Oh, and it's also Second Amendment Saturday.

An Enemy of the People: An Open Letter

Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong

Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States

Dear Ambassador Wenzhong,

May I call you "Zhou"?

I have come across an insidious attack against the People's Revolution that you must be made aware of! An American website, Blognomicon, has been posting subversive counterrevolutionary propaganda with intent to undermine the legitimate and beloved-by-the-people's government. This includes altered photographs doctored by enemies of the Class Struggle to mask the insidious attacks on the People's Revolutionary Army by the reactionary traitors of the Falun Gong cult.

Please notify Google-China that such breaches in the ability of the Party to protect the workers and peasants from Western cultural hegemony must cease immediately!

Oh, and by the way: Sorry about this. I was thinking improperly, but I have since been reeducated.

Yours in the glorious struggle...

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Crime and Punishment

A township officer who left his AR-15 rifle behind at a Butler County high school received a three-day unpaid suspension and will have to undergo more training before he will be allowed back on the SWAT team, his chief said Friday...A student who was on his way to basketball practice at the school found the gun and alerted the coach.
I'm sure if it was you or me who left that AR-15 on school grounds for students to find, the authorities would be equally tolerant and understanding, don't you think?

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Garbage In, Garbage Out

A gun crime review team used E-Trace, a computer database managed by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, that can trace the serial number on a weapon to dealers, manufacturers and registered sellers, to shed light on the exchange of illegal guns in the Bull City...

While E-Trace can help investigators locate the gun's original dealer and, in some cases, records of sale, state laws do not require individuals to keep records of private gun sales, Mihaich said.

For that reason, he said, it's difficult to get a grasp on where the guns in Durham are truly coming from.

"We're trying to tighten up how we do that statistically. There's some [statistics] we just don't track because the information isn't there," Mihaich said.
Translation: Well, we have this fancy computer system and all these people working it, but it's really pretty much a make-work boondoggle unless we can use it as a foot in the door to stump for a full-blown gun registry. And then it still won't do anything but tell us who the people who obey us are...

Just what we need. More federal "gun control" harassment of We the People, courtesy of the NRA-backed Project Safe Neighborhoods...

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We're the Only Ones Non-Alcoholic Enough...

The results of a Washington, D.C.-based FBI probe came down Friday, clearing agents of any wrongdoing in the controversial Nov. 7 slugfest between two Bears players at the shooting range. Sources said alcohol had been served after the shooting practice.

The probe found no evidence that alcohol was mixed with guns. But FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Grant announced he will still ban the use of alcohol by any future group using the FBI's North Chicago shooting facility.

"He was not suggesting any impropriety ... he just wants to make sure an incident like this will not happen again," FBI spokesman Ross Rice said.
Translation: After investigating ourselves, we didn't do anything wrong. And we're banning alcohol at the range even though we didn't do anything wrong, as a way of making sure that we don't not do anything wrong again, even though we didn't the first time. Do anything wrong, that is.

Got it?

Boy, am I glad their internal investigation proves they didn't do anything wrong. I guess I was kind of judgmental when I posted on this before, huh?

So kudos to the FBI for figuring out that guns and booze don't mix. Perhaps their example of innovative government safety leadership will spill over into the private sector some day...

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Friday, January 27, 2006

Safe Space for All?

Supervisor Christine Lim of the San Leandro Unified School District has ordered "Safe Space" banners posted in all classrooms.


I'm concerned about tolerance and acceptance, too. KABA's Inclusion Policy was derived from the one I originated at GunTruths.com, in an attempt to show everyone that--regardless of our differences--you have a right to self defense that all must respect.

The problem is, those who posture the loudest about diversity don't seem very tolerant of traditional values. Heck, the SF cops launched an investigation of me for asking the mayor if I could exercise my right to keep and bear arms in his city (and hypothetically describing what that might look like).

So it's not like the political left embraces diversity that doesn't advance their agenda. I wonder if children who wish to express and exemplify "traditional values" feel welcomed, or if prevailing attitudes intimidate them from proudly expressing who they are...?

Just to make sure all feel there is a "safe space" for them in San Leandro's public schools, I'm sending Ms. Lim a link to this post, and asking her to also make sure the following message gets posted in the classrooms, side-by-side with the other.



What a wonderful way to show tolerance and acceptance of all! Think there's a chance in hell she'll do it?

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What's the Word I'm Looking For to Describe Mike Bloomberg?

The mayor described new tactics including a gun offender registration system, similar to one required for sex criminals, in which gun offenders would have to register and update their addresses with law enforcement. Bloomberg also said he would lobby to make criminal possession of a loaded gun a felony with a minimum prison sentence of 3 years. Both proposals would have to be pushed through the state Legislature.
"Enemy."

Yeah, that's the word.

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We're the Only Ones Inquisitive Enough...

A police officer accused of pointing his gun at a suspect to force him to confess during voluntary questioning at a police box has been arrested, law enforcers said.
Ah, gun-free Japan, where only the Samurai class bear arms in the service of their feudal lords...

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"It Was an Accident!"

A lawmaker accidentally discharged a handgun in his General Assembly office in Richmond...Delegate John S. Reid...was ejecting the bullet cartridge when the gun went off, he said.
And I'm sure his finger was nowhere near the trigger.

I love the part where he said he usually keeps the "bullets separate in his pocket."

Remember who else did that?

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Do What We Say Or Else

A National Rifle Association-backed bill that would force businesses that sell hunting and fishing licenses to help register customers to vote cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday.
"Force"?

That doesn't seem very freedom-friendly...

[Via John Schaefer]


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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Buying a Gun For Your Son

My son, Johnnie, is only 12 years old but he has been pestering my husband and me for several years to buy him a gun. My husband had his fill of rifles in the army, and for a long time I told Johnnie that “I wouldn’t have a gun around the house. They are too dangerous."

Last summer Johnnie bought a pistol from one of his playmates at school and managed to find some bullets to shoot in it. The gun went off in his pocket, and badly burned the side of his leg but thank goodness didn’t actually hit his leg or his foot. Our physician made out a routine gun-shot wound report which was sent to the police station, and they sent a policeman around to check up on the “shooting.”
Stop right here a moment. You've seen these kinds of letters before, haven't you? You know where this is going, right?

Read on:
He is now a real friend to our family, because after seeing Johnny and talking with him, he bought us a copy of your magazine with a story on “When to Buy Your Son A Gun.”

I want to thank writer Harvey Brandt for that story. It has literally changed our whole lives and really opened my eyes to how harsh and unfeeling my attitude must have seemed to my son. He now has a gun, a proper .22 rifle and he is shooting on a boys team which is supervised by the Police Athletic League. He shoots well, and my husband has promised to take him hunting next year with a real rifle for big game. Things are going fine at home, and the rusty revolver he bought at school reposes in my desk drawer as a reminder—not a reminder to Johnny, but a reminder to me—of how serious our neglect of our son might have been, if the police officer and Harvey Brandt hadn’t knocked on our door.

Mrs. Jane P. Perkins
Los Angeles, Cal.
Yes, this is an actual letter. It appeared in the January 1956 issue of GUNS Magazine, now available for free download.

This is the world I grew up in (I was three going on four when this was published). These are the attitudes I remember.

Compare every event in this story, and the reactions of the people involved, to the likely outcome were this to take place today. I have never seen a more concise illustration of the gulf between the culture I was born in and the one I live in now. How many fundamental differences can you spot?

I’m delighted the publishers decided to continue posting old issues—I thought it was just going to be for the 1955 series commemorating the magazine’s 50th anniversary.

Be sure and read the other articles: Are Pistol Champs Alcoholics? Could Gunfighters Really Shoot? The Guns of Teddy Roosevelt...

Read the other letters. Look at the ads. That's a cool and informative article on the Luger! Did you know the Kentucky rifle owed its development to the German long Jaeger? So that’s the origin of the word “trigger”! And what’s this? Gun safety tips from Hollywood comedian/TV pioneer Sid Caesar?

Then go ahead and feel some rage at what’s been stolen from free Americans in less than a lifetime.

I also hope you give the current issue of the mag a try—and hope you like it well enough to subscribe, and maybe even tell the editor whether or not you think he ought to fire me and hire some real talent…

One more thing: I'm filing away the term "Jane P. Perkins Award" for future reference. It should be an honor bestowed upon mothers who love their children enough to see that they get the training needed to be free people. Compare her to the "modern" type, who would rush off to sue, and to found a local chapter of the Million Moms. God bless that noble lady, wherever she is.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

More Media-Generated Hysteria

Liberty 1st explores the careful selection of words designed to elicit the most fear and loathing.

This is actually scary, because it's a bellwether--the more comfortable so-called "mainstream news" outlets are to engage in outright propaganda, the more conditioned they must believe the masses have become. On the flip side, the elites running the editorial departments aren't businessmen, and a combination of leftist arrogance and competion from "new media" (i.e., you're here reading a blog instead of a newspaper) have contributed to decreases in readership and plunging profits for many of the majors.

"Fear-Seeding" in the Media

Head shows us an example of how they do it.