This save-yourselves approach comes after government agencies were overwhelmed by pleas for help after last year's storms and strongly criticized as not responding swiftly or thoroughly enough to the public need.It's official.
Graham is a part-time security guard who brought his gun to the game and passed it around to everyone and pretended to shoot at each other with the gun...Sounds like a pretty compelling reason to disarm you and me, doesn't it?
A former top bureaucrat says political expediency - not sound accounting - was the key factor in a decision to fudge a report to Parliament two years ago on the cost of the federal long-gun registry."Fudge."
A Cook County judge sentenced two men to 2 years' probation on Tuesday after they pleaded guilty in connection with smuggling a handgun into Cook County Jail in February.Let that be a lesson to the rest of you real criminals. Now if you'll excuse us, we have some slav...uh... "law-abiding citizens" to disarm.
A young Salina police officer responding to a business burglary about 11:20 p.m. Friday accidentally fired her weapon when she was startled by movement inside the building, Salina Police Chief Jim Hill said Tuesday.I can't tell you how many holes I've put through walls, family members and neighbors every time I've been startled. But hey, it's a normal reaction. What can you do?
On this day in 1775, the committeemen of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, meet and respond to news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolution, with a series of 20 patriotic resolutions.
Rochester police and members of the clergy will be working out the final details this week to launch a citywide gun turn-in program at five churches on Saturday...My first thought: I wonder if Deloris is related to Homer.
"Most of our killings are caused by guns, and we're saying enough is enough"...
[Rev. Deloris] Simpson said many parents and grandparents know youths in their homes are carrying guns...
"In order for this to work, we have to have buy-in from the community," [District Attorney Mike] Green said. "If we only get one gun off the street Saturday, it'll be a successful day because that's a gun that might have been used in a homicide."
On this day in 1806, Revolutionary war veteran and future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
An elderly Sydney couple are recovering after being brutally clubbed with a gun butt for the sake of a few dollars...The 76-year-old woman and her 82-year-old husband were punched and battered with the gun at their boarding house...the attacker burst in and marched him inside to find his wife...He then punched the woman in the head, knocking her down, before striking her, then her husband, with the butt of a sawn-off shotgun and running off...with the woman's handbag, containing a small amount of cash.Well the Australian government was certainly nowhere to be seen when the attack occurred, and what chance does an elderly couple have against such an assailant?
[W]e will find any means we can to further restrict them because I hate guns. I don’t think people should have guns unless they’re police or in the military or in the security industry. There is no earthly reason for people to have...ordinary citizens should not have weapons. We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.How are those taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards working out for you, Prime Minister? Thank goodness being an official makes you and your agents immune to gun disease!
[New Jersey Rep. Joe] Saxton is generally an opponent of gun control, though he has only a B-plus rating from the NRA.I can't trust anything Daly writes to be accurate, but just in case he's right on this one, it does bring up a question I've asked before:
The safest house is one with no guns, public health experts agree.Boy, that Sandra G. Boodman can parrot citizen disarmament propaganda with the best of them, can't she? And leave it to the WaPo to present this as news, rather than an editorial page opinion piece.
What percentage of the people in your studies who injured or killed themselves or negligently/wrongfully injured or killed others using a firearm, were NRA members? Since this is one of the most heavily armed citizen populations in the country, don't you think knowing this would be relevant to factor into your conclusions?Why not take a moment and compose a question of your own?
The Navy Cross is presented to George Codrea, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps (Reserve), for extraordinary heroism and courage as Platoon Commander in the Second Battalion, First Marines, First Marine Division, during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands, August 21, 1942. When it became necessary to reinforce the firing line during the heaviest fighting against a Japanese landing force of about 700 men, Second Lieutenant Codrea, coolly and with complete disregard for his own safety, placed each man, individually, in a position to deliver the most effective fire. Though wounded twice during the battle, he remained on duty with his platoon until ordered to retire to the aid stations. His outstanding leadership, determination and inspiring fortitude throughout the engagement were largely instrumental in stopping the most serious enemy threat.
SPOT AWARD, Serial 18 (CofN Signed March 18, 1943)
A POLICE force which lost a £500 bag of drugs during a sniffer dog exercise have now admitted they may have lost a gun.Wonder which "lost" item proved most lucrative?
In a new public service announcement, actor Michael Douglas, a United Nations Messenger of Peace, spotlights the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons and promotes an upcoming UN conference aimed at addressing the problem.I said about all I have to say on this reprobate here.
There are still no answers into the death of Ian Bush, the Houston B.C. 22-year-old shot in the head while in police custody after having an open beer at a hockey game in October.Seven months is "quick"?
But B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal said it's better to have a thorough investigation than a quick one into the Oct. 29 shooting inside the Houston RCMP detachment.
Cops in 'battle dress' to flood high-crime areas...Oh, that freedom-loving Mayor Daley!
Last week, 15 members of Iraq's taekwondo team were kidnapped between Falluja and Ramadi, west of Baghdad, said a member of the Iraqi Olympic Committee. The kidnappers have demanded $100,000 for their release.15 martial arts experts, a team that trains together, presumably the best in the land--helpless against armed captors?
Women would be safer knowing self-defense to fight off an attacker than using a gun which can easily be turned against them.That seems pretty authoritative to me.
Jackson Mayor Frank Melton has carried his guns aboard commercial aircraft but has been asked to no longer fly armed, a federal transportation official said.Naturally, he's one of the Bloomberg 15. He's also trying to ban gun shows in Jackson.
On this day in 1754, a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel of the Virginia militia named George Washington successfully defeats a party of French and Indian scouts in southwest Pennsylvania as Virginia attempts to lay claim to the territory for its own settlers. The action snowballed into a world war and began the military career of the first American commander in chief.
The order authorises the company to prohibit or limit the use of water. It means the clowns will not be able to use water pistols or squirt water from plastic flowers.And the clown promulgating this nonsense describes it as "sensible."
LOS ANGELES HAS MORE CRIMINALS than it can afford. So county officials are forced to release too many jail inmates too early, putting thousands of convicted criminals on the street — with predictably tragic consequences not only for their victims but for public trust in government...The answer, of course, is to give up those nasty, dangerous guns and rely on the government to protect us. No?
The Times reported last week that seven men have committed murders when they should have been serving out their sentences for other crimes. Nine more are awaiting trial for homicide. Of the nearly 16,000 other criminals rearrested while their earlier sentences were still in force, 518 were charged with robbery, 641 with weapons violations and 1,443 with assault.
Assailants firing assault rifles killed a Nuevo Laredo police officer and wounded his partner, the 11th law enforcement official to be gunned down this year in this violent border city...The death of the officer brings to 116 the number of people slain this year in Nuevo Laredo, a city of 300,000 across the Rio Grande from Laredo.And the fools/outright traitors in the administration and senate think their dangerous, stupid and treasonous amnesty bill will have any effect on violent men--with billions of incentives--like these?
The city is in the midst of a turf battle between drug cartels battling for billion-dollar drug routes into the United States.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is examining the results of an unusual sting set up by the City of New York, in which private investigators recorded themselves purchasing handguns at shops in several states...Well it's about damned time the "authorized journalists" began noticing this aspect of the story.
In a twist, ATF's inquiry will also include a review of whether the city acted legally in setting up the sting.
Several gun-rights advocates have questioned whether the city itself broke firearms rules or committed fraud by attempting to simulate straw sales in other states...
On this day in 1813, former President Thomas Jefferson writes former President John Adams to let him know that their mutual friend, Dr. Benjamin Rush, has died.
Rush’s passing caused Jefferson to meditate upon the departure of the Revolutionary generation. He wrote, “We too must go; and that ere long. I believe we are under half a dozen at present; I mean the signers of the Declaration.”
One State Police trooper was suspended for six months last year for allowing an unlicensed worker to sell firearms at a gun shop that the trooper was responsible for inspecting and where he purchased numerous weapons for himself. Another resigned after pleading guilty to internal charges for inviting two boys to his home and showing them pornography.The important thing to remember is, we're the only ones...
Three others were suspended for 120 days for causing motor vehicle accidents while off-duty because they were under the influence. A fourth got docked 20 days for being drunk behind the wheel of a state-issued car while he was out of uniform...
The infractions included using excessive force during an arrest, lying to protect an off-duty trooper under investigation, mishandling and destroying evidence, falsifying official reports and disobeying orders.
Mayor Bob Kiss, stepping into sensitive political territory in just his second month in office, responded to a shooting incident in the city by calling for greater gun control...This is in Vermont.
"I really have concerns in general about handguns and the fact there's maybe more prevalence in the world to the use of violence," Kiss said.
Oh, wait, it's just Beanie Sigel.Police acting on information gathered by private investigators working on the city's civil lawsuits against the gun industry have filed the first criminal charges related to the case.Yeah, against dealers in New York, for misdemeanor charges. Nothing indicates "prohibited persons" were sold anything. So much for the "problem" coming from out of state.
On this day in 1782, American Colonel William Crawford marches his army towards the Ohio River, where General George Washington has charged him with attacking local Indians who had sided with the British in the American Revolution.
May 25, 2006
KeepAndBearArms.com founder Angel Shamaya is selling most of his personal firearm collection to help defray legal expenses that resulted from gun- related charges in Michigan. Although the court ordered the police to return Shamaya's firearms, the legal expenses are steep -- so he's now selling those same guns. Shamaya says, "I had intended to leave these firearms to my son as his inheritance one day, but I have legal expenses to pay right now. My ultimate goal is to put this mess behind me and raise my son -- a far higher priority than owning extra guns."
The guns for sale include rifles, pistols and shotguns. Shamaya has made arrangements with a local licensed gun dealer to complete the transactions under federal and state law and ship the firearms to the new owners. Anyone interested in any of these firearms can go to the following website for details, descriptions, pictures and direction on how to make a purchase: http://www.marbut.com/angel/AngelSellingGuns.htm
"There are some really nice guns in this collection," says Shamaya. "I appreciate the support I have received from kind-hearted people in dealing with this nonsense. If you'd like to cherry pick one of my firearms, be my guest."
Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg thrust himself into the national immigration debate Wednesday, advocating a plan that would establish a DNA or fingerprint database to track and verify all legal U.S. workers...It's about "People Control." It always has been.
"You don't have to work _ but if you want to work for a company you have to have a Social Security card," he said.
UNABLE to stem the tide of murders of media people, the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is now suggesting that journalists do the job themselves. Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said the government would allow legitimate journalists to carry firearms if they wanted to do so."Because we all know the folks who tell us what our opinions should be are better than the rest of us...
Jonas Thage feels a lot safer since he declared the community recreational centre he runs in Diepkloof, a suburb of Soweto, a 'Gun Free Zone' (GFZ). "Before this was a GFZ the situation was terrible but now, at least during the day, there is no problem," he said.That's right, Jonas--you go on "feeling" that citizen disarmament zones will keep you safe. And who but an "authorized journalist" would consider this a new concept?
GFZs - public places where firearms are unwelcome - have been endorsed by Gun-Free South Africa (GFSA), a gun-control lobby group established in 1994 as a response to decades of armed violence.
Every year, physics teacher David Lapp brings his Korean War era M-1 carbine to school, fires a shot into a block of wood and instructs his students to calculate the velocity of the bullet...We can't have teachers being:
The rifle demonstration would not even be an issue if an anonymous parent had not complained.
A campaign by gun rights advocates to make it easier to use deadly force in self-defense is rapidly winning support across the country, as state after state makes it legal for people who feel their lives are in danger to shoot down an attacker - whether in a car-jacking or just on the street...Yeah, only The Only Ones are qualified to make such judgments...
[C]ritics - including police chiefs and prosecutors - warn that criminals are more likely to benefit than innocent victims.
With George Washington presiding, the Constitutional Convention formally convenes on this day in 1787. The convention faced a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as it had been defined by the Article of Confederation.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg should be investigated for obstruction of justice, and possibly prosecuted under the federal RICO statutes, for his headline-hunting "sting" operation of alleged law- breaking gun dealers, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today.Good.
On this day in 1775, John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress.And here's a tardy link for May 23 in History
Under HB89, the courts would be required to assume the use of deadly force was reasonable if the victim illegally broke into someone’s home, vehicle or business. The person shooting an intruder also would no longer have to show an attempt to retreat under the legislation.Look for more ridiculous "License to Murder" hysteria from the collectivists. Now if Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin would just give citizens their guns back...
