We're the Only Ones and You're Not

An Allentown police officer has been suspended with pay after he shot another police officer in the arm with a pellet gun inside the police station Saturday, according to a statement released Wednesday by police Chief Roger MacLean...

Police withheld the names of the officers involved pending the outcome of an internal investigation and would not release the incident report...

Suspended with pay, name and report kept confidential...Yeah, you and me could expect the same treatment if we shot a cop with a pellet gun.

No doubt about it.

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Alligator Problem? Call Tom Lyons

I mean, heck, the gator was barely 3 feet long, if that.

Though Frey is disabled and uses a cane to get around, she wouldn't expect to lose a fight to the death with a gator that small.

All it needs to do is sever an artery and she could have bled to death, Tom. Why on earth would a human choose to "fight to the death" with an animal, when we have tools that can give us instant mastery of the situation?

And you know what, Tom? Golden retrievers aren't small dogs. They instinctively know how to hunt, and this one was reluctant to attack. What did a dog know that you apparently don't, sitting in witless, smug judgment in your cubicle?

As for calling instead of defending herself, three women have been killed by alligators in the past week, and the hotline is "swamped." But you're one of those "Dial 911" types, aren't you, Tom? So I'm sure you won't mind pointing out to your readers the Florida law that makes state wildlife officers liable if they fail to protect a citizen's life?

What, you can't? They have no legal duty to do this, with consequences should they fail?

And what about if she had run away to call and the reptile had snatched a toddler?

Some of us won't cede our birthright to animals, Tom, including the 2-legged kind.

Tell you what, you self-impressed snot: Let's see you go after a 3-foot aggressive gator barehanded. Or better yet, a 2-foot possum, or a 1-foot rat.

I mean, heck, working at a major newspaper, you shouldn't have any problem finding large rats...

Canadians OK With Scrapping Gun Registry?

Many adults in Canada think the federal government should do away with a highly controversial program, according to a poll by Ipsos-Reid released by CanWest Global. 54 per cent of respondents say the gun registry is badly organized, is not working properly, and should be scrapped.

Now hold the phone just a damned minute here. I posted on this a few days ago, and the results being touted by the National Post quoted the Ispos-Reid VP stating:

The concept of a gun registry has taken root across the country. There's a majority, 67 per cent, that's not a small majority, who believe that Stephen Harper shouldn't be doing away with all gun registries.

I think the most salient observation on this came from Jay in the "Comments" section, who noted:

If memory serves, a majority of Canadians said "screw you" at the ballot box to ex-Prime Minister Paul Martin and the Liberal Party. To me, that is a much more convincing opinion poll.

Agreed.

This Day in History: May 18

On this day in 1783, the first United Empire Loyalists, known to American Patriots as Tories, arrive in Canada to take refuge under the British crown in Parrtown, Saint John, Nova Scotia (now New Brunswick), Canada. The town was located on the Bay of Fundy just north of the border with what is now the state of Maine.

Which may explain some of the differences in national psyches...

I also forgot to post yesterday's May 17 entry. Workin' 7 days a week here, with hours in double-digits. I'm bound to forget something...

Gun Not Good Enough for "Only Ones"

When a bullet exploded through her living room's bay window less than 10 feet from her, the initial response of a startled Elise Nakhnihian was to find the projectile.

Her husband, Steven Gittelson, had another idea: Stay out of sight and call the cops...

The couple couldn't have imagined that it was a Princeton Borough police officer's bullet that rocketed into their stately Governors Lane condominium...The shooting was the result of an allegedly malfunctioning rifle that discharged the bullet at the police firearms training range on River Road in the township without the officer who was holding the weapon even pulling the trigger, borough and township police said yesterday.

Just as I suspected. It's the gun's fault.

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The "Only Ones" Loophole

A small number of the gun cases dropped in the state court involved city officers who themselves got in trouble with the law.

Well, du-uh. That's why they're "the only ones."

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Justice Triumphs!

Young Jeezy escaped two gun charges due to insufficient evidence, stemming back to a March shooting incident in Miami.

Thank goodness!

Why the very thought of such a nice young man being in trouble is just too incredible to believe. And this was particularly hard to cope with, as Young Jeezy has been a personal hero of mine for some time.

We're the Only Ones, Eh?

A gun-crazy Canada Customs officer has been fired for posing as Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry with automatic weapons on the Internet...

Airport sources said the photos show the fired officer with a machine-gun. In one photograph the firearm was held to a smirking co-worker's head...

Do you feel lucky? Well do you, hoser?

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Of Course

Saying more than half of all firearms used in street crimes come from 1 percent of licensed gun dealers, Attorney General Bill Lockyer joined gun control advocates Tuesday in a campaign to crack down on gun trafficking.

California, of course, has all of the "reasonable gun control laws" the antis clamor for in other states. But they're not enough. They're never enough.

Lockyer, of course, says you have no right to keep and bear arms, and is backed up by both the state Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

And the gutless US Supreme Court, of course, keeps ducking the issue, despite a clear conflict between federal courts.

Just a Question...

Where was Mike Bloomberg's Straw Purchase Squad when Sarah Brady bought her son that "sniper rifle"?

Turnabout Being Fair Play and All...

The pathetic wretches at Gunguys thought it would be cool to post NRA's tax return and compensation for key executives.

OK. Two can play that game.

Gunguys is part of the Orwellian-named "Freedom States Alliance."


The hoplophobe in the lead story photo on the FSA website is Thom Mannard, Executive Director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.

Here is a comparable section from their 2004 tax return:



An interesting sidenote: Despite clear legislative advocacy, these folks claim tax exemption as a 501(c)(3) organization, that is, contributions are deductible.

Hmmm...

This is kinda fun! Shall we continue to play?

This Day in History: May 16

On this day in 1777, British-born Georgia Patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett receives a bullet wound in a duel with his political rival, Georgia “city Whig” Lachlan McIntosh. Three days later, Gwinnett died as a result of the gangrenous wound. McIntosh was also shot in the duel, but the wound was not fatal.

Horrors! More victims of "gun violence"...

I've been busy and plain forgot to post the last two days:

May 15:

On this day in 1781, a 352-man-strong Loyalist force commanded by Major Andrew Maxwell surrenders a fortified frame building, named “Fort Granby,” to a Patriot force in South Carolina.

May 14:

On this day in 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin to assemble in Philadelphia to confront a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as defined by the Article of Confederation.

Federal Gun Registry is Working, Police Say

Of course they do.

Rep. Moron Proposes Tougher Gun Control

What?

"Rep. Moran"?

There's a difference?

Oh, the Inhumanity!

Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the zoo said Monday.

You mean real life isn't a Disney film?

A Bloomberg Conspiracy to Violate Federal Gun Laws?

The city hired undercover private investigators who, in teams of two, attempted "straw purchasing," where a convicted felon or someone who does not want a gun traced to him will use a friend or family member to pass a background check. Then the gun gets handed over to the suspicious person.

So if a municipality retains a private individual, he is somehow authorized to break federal law against "straw purchases"? If not, and since this appears to be an admission of a federal felony, where are the charges? And if these private investigators are breaking federal law under instruction from the Bloomberg administration, does that not make this a criminal conspiracy?

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Oscar Poppa...

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Check it out and update your blogrolls and/or daily site visits accordingly.

A Good First Step

Why looky here:

Clamping down on straw purchases would stem the flow of illegal guns into the city.

A good first step would be to enact a state law limiting handgun purchases to one a month per buyer.

And what did our good pal Tom Ferrick Jr. have to say about "straw purchases"?

No one is pretending that this one-handgun-a-month ban is the cure-all, but it is a start.

This is actually a dusting off of an old argument. I first wrote about it seven years ago, in "Smart Guns–-Dumb Lawsuits":

But for the gun controllers, that's not all bad-- because based on results, each tragedy provides a new opportunity to exploit, a new press conference to hold, a new law to enact, or a new lawsuit to file. They'll propose further restrictions under the bald-faced pretense that it's "a good first step." They won't tell you that there are already over 20,000 gun laws on the books at the federal, state and municipal level that are consistently ignored by all but the law-abiding.

"A good first step...…" the clueless segment of our victim pool populace will drone back at the proposal of law number 20,001.

A good first step to ensuring this lie will be a non-starter is to be aware that it's being employed--and to expose it as a coordinated talking point whenever it is used.

Defer to the Brainwashed, Poll Concludes

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have a tough time convincing Canadians it's time to completely scrap the country's expensive gun registry program, a new opinion poll suggests...

The poll of 1,001 Canadians was conducted May 9 to May 11, with a 3.1 percentage point margin of error, 19 times out of 20...

The support is strongest in Ontario and Quebec where 71 per cent and 76 per cent of respondents respectively said they were in favour of maintaining a gun control system.

What a surpruse. Urban constituents, that is, liberals, want more gun control. And we all know how individual rights ought to be defined by the majority--particularly a majority addicted to government influence and control in all aspects of their lives.

In a related poll, a majority of sheep prefer grass...

We're the Only Ones...Hey, Has Anybody Seen My...

A gun that was apparently stolen from a New Haven police detective was used in a December shooting, according to records obtained by the New Haven Register.

So much for useful idiot Tom Ferrick Jr's. contention that keeping guns away from you and me--and giving special advantage to the police at the expense of the people--will cut "gun violence."

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