Notes from the Resistance...
Forget results. A compliant media presenting them as "successful" is all that's needed. As long as the general perception is that "Crimestoppers" stops crime, the incentive is to be a part of it all. What's that JFK quote? "Victory has a thousand fathers..."
I’ve got more damn guns than I can count...Guns really suck.When it comes to sucking, who are we to argue with an expert? Ditto for stupid.
Police are set to prioritize the escalating juvenile gun culture on the Peninsula with programs such as a new gun buyback after the shooting deaths of four teenagers in Hampton and Newport News in as many months.Well then, no need to worry. Everything's under control, isn't it?
"It's very good news for both the officers involved," O'Neill said. "It's almost a day of vindication, because we said that as soon as all the facts came out, it would show there was no wrongdoing."Ah, very good. No one should be prosecuted for having the means of defense and using it when justified.
Charges remain against a fifth Iron Pigs member, Defense Department firefighter Erik Pingel, whose firearm possession was not covered under the federal statute permitting law officers to remain armed under most circumstances.Sorry, chump.
Pingel had a concealed-pistol permit from his home state, Colorado, but may have violated a South Dakota prohibition against carrying a firearm where alcohol is sold.
Desert Hills High School administrators and a school resource officer thought a pistol they approved for use in the play "Oklahoma" was a harmless imitation until a blank discharged from the gun Saturday and killed a 15-year-old student.Here's more information on a story we talked about yesterday.
[T]the parent didn't tell authorities the gun was real.Yeah, how are "authorities" supposed to know?
...a blank discharged from the gun...
...the gun that shot Tucker...
What's more, the seller -- Brian Jackson, then a strength and conditioning coach for the much-heralded Oregon City High School girls basketball team -- told the informant he didn't worry about getting caught by the police because he was selling to the police...What who doesn't want?
"What you don't want is a more aggressive police officer...
Twice in recent days, police officers have gunned down family pets in incidents where the animals posed little or no clear threat to humans.That's something we've talked about many times here. My guess is, the type of "Only One" who would do this is pretty confident the system will back him up and the dog's owner won't respond in kind.
As cops, our focus should be simple: stop the bad people among us from harming the good people.Would that it were. But when edicts are tyrannical, there's a huge difference between "bad people" and good people who defy bad laws.
We are very sensible that your men, without some assistance, must suffer from the cold, in so severe a climate, and are anxious to do every thing in our power for their relief. From the very circumstance of their being ordered to join General Schuyler's Army, we supposed they were to be considered as Continental troops, and therefore no provision has been made for them by the Congress of this Colony. You say paper money will not pass there; no other can be procured here on any terms.
She looks like she could have been my mother, or perhaps yours, if your parents were of “The Greatest Generation.” In one sepia photo, she drapes a dark coat across her arm. In the other she’s wearing it. She stands by the side of a house, or perhaps a garage, looking off in one picture, toward the camera in another, appearing first, serious, and then — is that a smile?"The Lady of the Gun" is my Rights Watch column for the December 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine.
She was young. She was pretty. Who was she? Somebody’s sweetheart? Somebody’s wife? Is she still alive? Did she end up having children, grandchildren …?
And whose gun were the Plexiglas-covered photos on the grip of the 1911 Army .45 affixed to?
Meet Summit County Crimestoppers, sponsors of the local "Goods for Guns" nonsense, and a self-described " program designed to encourage cooperation between the citizenry and the law enforcement community."Here's today's Gun Rights Examiner column.
How do they do that? No, not through anything that will teach us how to protect ourselves until the police arrive. Instead, they offer "the citizens of Summit County direct and easy access to their law enforcement community and incentive in the form of anonymity and reward."
A 17-year-old Washington County high school student died Saturday after firing a blank-shooting prop pistol used for a play. [More]What do they think an explosive discharge through a metal tube is going to do? Ruffle their hair?
"The common link between all of these homicide cases is guns," Buske said from San Diego, where he had attended a police chiefs association meeting.If you think real hard, chief, there's a corollary to that.
"There are too many guns in the hands of people willing to use them to harm others."
They appeared in court on Thursday to argue that Mr. Hernandez, who served a year on Rikers Island for illegal gun possession, a felony, before joining the Army, had turned his life around so impressively that he deserved the judge’s help to realize his dream: joining the New York police force.Far be it from me to suggest that mere possession of a firearm should ever disqualify anyone from anything.
Larry Hincker!"We're disappointed and frankly not happy, and we expect to get some assurances that this won't happen again," Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said.What, your stupid, expensive after-the-fact alert system failing, or prohibiting an immediate active response?
Charles W. Steger, president of Virginia Tech, was paid nearly $720,000 during the same period...I wonder if Larry got to lick the plate?
"You'd think they'd have a backup for this kind of thing," Hincker said.That is supposed to be the backup, you dolt.
Vetting The Ant People for Our New RulerMike catches something that escaped both presidential candidate (and scares the cats in the process).
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Beginning the day after Thanksgiving, South Carolina residents will have a 48-hour period when they can purchase guns, shotguns, and rifles tax-free.Naturally, "Freedom States Alliance" spokesmodel Scott Vogel has a hissy fit.
A memorabilia collector has been jailed for five years for possessing a Second World War rifle listed as a prohibited firearm. The rifle was not in a condition to fire live ammunition...Bang bang, Maxwell's wooden gavel
Judge Maxwell said Parliamentary guidance meant strong sentences should be given for illegal firearms possession. “I feel bound to impose the minimum sentence of five years,” he added.
