When you call 911, you expect help immediately. Lisa, a Memphis resident, got anything but...Because we're "The Only Ones" in this room professional enough to use this phone, y'see...
The line goes silent. As Lisa continues to explain her situation, the dispatcher does not respond - not for just 15 or 30 seconds, but for one full minute.
Then, sounds of snoring can be heard on the line.
You can help babies in need have a brighter tomorrow! With every specially marked pack of Pampers that you purchase, Pampers will donate the cost of one vaccine to help UNICEF protect a woman and her newborns against tetanus*...
"The bottom line is that this protest is not going to change anything," said Jack Rogers, director of public safety at OSU. "The Oregon administrative rule overrides any provision for concealed weapons, and it is very unlikely that the Oregon University System will yield to any change on this subject."...
Rogers, however, doesn't believe that an average gun owner would know how to use deadly force properly in an extreme situation.
"We in law enforcement have gone through an extreme amount of firearms training," Rogers said. "We're the ones who are the professionals."
He also said that students who carry concealed weapons may not be knowledgeable enough to determine when to use deadly force and when to restrain. Rogers believes that firearms in a college environment have to be controlled.
"The bottom line is that we have well-trained and well-prepared staff here who know what the training is all about," Rogers said.
"[The use of deadly force] doesn't come lightly; it takes a tremendous amount of training to use deadly force."
Right.
This coming from the guy whose best advice is run or hide. If you can. He won't tell you to pray if you can't, because OSU is a public institution, and there's that "wall of separation" (that somehow doesn't keep the evil out)...
By your logic, Jack, all 48 states that have successfully implemented some form of concealed carry provisions must rescind them because--why is that again? Oh, yes, you're (and we knew this was coming) "The Only Ones."
Tell me something, Jack (your middle name wouldn't happen to be "Boot," would it?): If you're not an outright fraud, that is, if you truly believe that line of utter crap you just spouted to The Barometer, wouldn't such incompetence wielded by someone in authority amount to criminal negligence? Is not, in fact, calling someone who uses force to endanger other humans a "director of public safety" a perverse Orwellian oxymoron?
Where do we find the mentality that, with a straight face asserts evil little local edicts "override" unalienable natural rights? And where do we find the mentality that believes him?
[Via Cogito Ergo Geek]
The Philosophy of Liberty flash animation is a creation of the late Lux Lucre. I snarfed his entire Flash animation directory right after he died to ensure that it wouldn't be lost. It includes The Philosophy of Liberty in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, L. Neil Smith's "The Atlanta Declaration" in English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese, a rendition of the Zero Aggression Principle, and a few others.
Check it out at billstclair.com/luxlucre (the "Bill of Rights animation was missing at his site when I sampled it).
A CITIZEN who watched a cop illegally park, then walk into a Chinese restaurant to wait for his food, has issued the officer a series of citizen-initiated parking violations.Don't you just love the "Only One" rationale?
"If someone broke into your house, would you rather have the police be able to park in front of your house or have to park three blocks away and walk there?"There was no crime emergency, just personal convenience, and if there had been a break-in, you would be parking at the scene. We all know that and it isn't even a rational argument. But isn't it interesting, how your immediate reaction is to use a deceptive ploy to cover your tracks?
A 19-year-old clerk was killed Monday night after two men robbed the gas station where he worked, shot him and left him for dead in the middle of the street outside, Metro police said.Armed
A would-be robber at an Inglewood liquor store was shot and killed Saturday night after a customer opened fire, Metro police said.Not that it would do any good to show this to an anti-defense zealot--they'd just seize on what could have happened, as opposed to what did.
A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while
criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children.
...I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.
The gun industry should set its sights on a different target: certification.S'cuse me?
It should develop and adopt a private licensing and certification program fashioned on the highly successful scuba diving industry model to provide safety, legal, and marksmanship training to all gun owners and users.
No diver may fill their tanks or take part in recreational or professional diving trips without first obtaining a certification card from one of these private organizations.
Oh, I see.
No. I don't consent to be ruled by a "private" group, either. But I see you've managed to start a subversive new meme. If nothing else, it ought to make things harder for "those people," at least the ones in poorer, more dangerous communities who try to live by the rules.
And, it'll no doubt discourage many "fence sitters" from buying guns and ammo--possibly people who could have saved their lives--say--you never did say how many deaths you'd find acceptable with your little experiment here, because every benefit does have costs, you know.
I'm assuming you also have plans for those of us who own some of the 200 million guns already in circulation? And you can't forget those who reload.
Hey, have you figured out the economic impact to gun dealers? You may end up shutting more of them down than BATFU!
Y'know what, Mr. Media Conglomerate Mucky-Muck? What if somebody thinks we ought to treat the First Amendment the way you want to treat the Second, and make sure every Beckett subscriber/magazine purchaser has to undergo private certification before they can buy your trivial bread-and-circuses products?
Anything else, "hunter and gun owner" Peter A. Gudmundsson?
The technology alerts law enforcement officials to the location of gunfire within seconds with pinpoint accuracy, helping to reduce gun violence.How? The shots have already happened. By going back in time?
Honda has developed a crime rate detecting GPS that will search through local police records to alert drivers in real-time if they ever happen to drive by high crime areas...
Two students attending Eagan and Apple Valley high schools were expelled last week after buying souvenir swords during a spring break choir trip in the United Kingdom.So--do you think the outraged parents will organize and oust the board members? Good luck--most are controlled by the teachers' unions, and most parents don't care enough to get involved.
Flores said "Many of these people get CHL's because they are worried about their safety, whether it’s from a stalker, a case of domestic violence, or some other threat. Making their names, addresses and other records public might jeopardize their security.”
Good for Rep. Flores. I do wonder if legislation--assuming it passes--will override a judgment awarded under existing law: ex post facto 'n all that.
I still like this plan.
Here's my advice to snoops with a burning desire to know who has a gun:
Assume we all do. Conduct yourself accordingly and there shouldn't be any problems.
And by "snoops," I also mean the ones originally intended to secure the blessings of liberty. Why anyone thinks it's any of their business is beyond me, and this situation is only possible because gun owners made a special effort to put themselves on a list--one government controls and can access any time they want.
[Via Jeffersonian]
With one gun shop in Madison, another on the way in Franklin and his own custom gun manufacturing business, Uselton says he’s proudly “150 percent behind the Second Amendment.”Whenever I hear anyone claim more than 100%, I think about this, particularly 103%.
Uselton is especially fond of the phrasing at the end of the amendment, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
...But there’s one issue where Uselton breaks the party line and that’s on the topic of perceived lackadaisical laws surrounding sales at gun shows.
“The place is crawling with ATF and TBI agents,” Goodman said. “At my shows, I’ve got a booth for the ATF...While this fellow here has a better grip on the top number possible, you have to wonder if he understands what the upper limit really means:
Santos said while he is "100 percent behind the Second Amendment," he also supports the new measure.[Via Charelton Hest]
All the ministerial intelligence concerning us is false. We are a united, resolved people, are, or quickly shall be, well armed and disciplined; our smith’s and powder-mills are at work day and night; our supplies from foreign parts continually arriving. Good officers, that is, well-experienced ones, we shall soon have, and the navy of Great Britain cannot stop our whole trade. our towns are but brick and stone, and mortar and wood. They, perhaps, may be destroyed. They are only the hairs of our heads. If sheared evere so close, they will grow again. We compare them not with our rights and liberties. We worship as our fathers worshipped, not idols which our hands have made.
A 38-year-old Rushville man is being held on $1 million bond after being accused of using a flashlight to beat a Mount Sterling man to death.
It was probably one of those semi fully-automatic ones.
I no longer have the ability to post on Keep and bear Arms board any longer having switch to Mac. I don't believe they know they have locked out a number of people because of this. If you some how could pass this on, thanks in advance. Yes I know I'm off topic to this story. (had to move to Mac because Vista sucks)Anyone else having Mac problems?
What I get when trying to post:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'oRSWordList'
/includes/subs_01.asp, line 241
Massachusetts Police Get Black Uniforms to Instill Sense of 'Fear'Really?
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.Here's the swearing in ceremony for Blackshirt Gauleiter Fitchet. Notice he pledges to uphold "the laws of the Commonwealth...the charter and ordinance of the City of Springfield...[and] the rules and orders of the police department..."
Conflicts over gun policy and over the meaning of the Second Amendment betray a deeper clash over intensely held competing cultural values, in which the cultural mythology of the frontiersman, often white and male, is pitted against the racial and class subaltern, African Americans in particular.All those victims of "gun violence"--and nary a victim of evil individuals who happen to share an inconvenient commonality to be found. This is one of the more intellectually dishonest screeds it has been my misfortune to read--but it was important to do so if for no other reason than to "know thy enemy."
A man arrested after he used the word "bitch" when a woman took his parking space can go forward with a lawsuit against three Las Cruces police officers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday...Things may come and things may go, but "Only One" tactics remain the same. Anybody remember "Invisible Agent*"?
Gallegos — contrary to his training, the documents states — "decided to use his own arrest technique in which he grabs and handcuffs the suspect before explaining that he is under arrest."
York reflexively drew back his arm, which Gallegos interpreted as resisting arrest. Gallegos executed an arm-bar takedown and York struck his head and shoulder on the pavement.
Martinez then placed a Taser on York's neck and threatened to shock him if he did not untuck his arms from underneath his body, the documents state.
"I can't. I think you broke my arm," York reportedly responded.
Old man--sign ze papers.*-Incidentally, here's the cool trailer for it.
I can't--you have broken my fingers!
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office plans to review a year's worth of Detroit criminal cases involving firearms amid concerns raised about the accuracy of police ballistics testing.See, that's the problem when the city's "Only One" elites are demonstrable perjurers: how can you not suspect corruption, or believe a word they say?
...federal authorities would be called in if any evidence of criminality is turned up. At the moment, however, the problem appears to have resulted from sloppy work performed by a former employee
Forget it, Jake. It's Detroit.
Former U.S. Rep. Craig Washington proclaimed his innocence Friday to a charge alleging he fired a gun at an 18-year-old's car as the teen was driving on a downtown Houston street.Be sure and read the comments by former legislator Larry Warner, and my response.
Washington, 66, was indicted Thursday on a charge of aggravated assault with a gun, a second-degree felony. Taylor Brooks, 18, told police that three bullets struck his car as he was driving away from a confrontation with Washington on Jan. 1. Another 18-year-old also was in the car, police said.
I note the shooting allegedly took place outside his law office.
I'm wondering why no mention was made in the reporting about whether or not Mr. Washington has a CHL permit. That seems a valid and newsworthy question, especially since Washington advocated gun laws during his political career, and even said there were too many handguns in citizens' hands.
One would think a gun law advocate would obey gun laws. Will you follow up on this in your reporting and at least get the question out there?
We, the delegates of the people of the state of Maryland, having fully considered the Constitution of the United States of America...do, for ourselves, and in the name and on the behalf of the people of this state, assent to and ratify the said Constitution.So...uh...when are they going to start acting like it?
Fairy tales can come true,
it can happen to you...
At this point we believe we have investigated the alleged threats and the verifiable threat sufficiently and extensively and have dealt with both in a manner relative to the alleged and actual threats. We treated both of these incidents as serious and investigated them accordingly and dealt with them immediately.And what will you do if you have to deal with an actual threat incident immediately, Principal Berndt? Which children entrusted to your custody are you and your staff personally prepared to protect, and how?
Former Ontario cabinet minister John Snobelen received an absolute discharge on weapons charges today in a court in Oakville, Ont..."Justice" Brown? As in "just us"?
Justice Stephen Brown said the former Progressive Conservative politician has already endured public embarrassment by being arrested, and his “foolish mistake will follow him.”
THE number of gun crimes has risen by four per cent in a year, official figures revealed yesterday.Well, yes, but in fairness, our resources have been tied up on sausage roll and wheelie bin patrols...
More than 27 firearms offences are committed on our streets every day.
Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.Interesting pickle the "liberals" have gotten themselves into.
With his rubbish collected only once a fortnight, Gareth Corkhill's wheelie bin was so full the lid wouldn't shut.Hard to believe this is what has become of the British Empire. They've managed to fulfill Orwell's and Welles' visions, what with calling an extortion payment demand a "Notice of Opportunity," and with the way the Morlocks treat the Eloi.
And for that, the father of four finds himself with a criminal record.
In answer to your favor of the 25th. delivered to me yesterday, I shall beg leave to inform you, that it was my design to have included the Militia of this City, in the 2000 or 2500 Men, which I thought might be wanted upon an emergency; but whether common prudence may not dictate the expediency, of extending your views to a greater number, in case of necessity is submitted to the wisdom of your board.
The problem is guns...In other words, you clearly have no idea what you're doing. But you're bound and determined to keep doing it, even if it kills people.
The problem is bad parents...
The problem is drugs...
The problem is jobs...
The problem is our schools...
The trouble is he's crazy.Emperor Daley
The trouble is he drinks.
The trouble is he's lazy.
The trouble is he stinks.
The trouble is he's growing.
The trouble is he's grown.
Krupke, we got troubles of our own!
The Medford Mail Tribune, a newspaper which has repeatedly editorialized against self defense for public employees, has won a court case .pdf to get the names, addresses and occupations of all concealed handgun license holders in Jackson County.
Yeah, you can email the ironically-named editor Bob Hunter, but fascists like him probably get off on knowing how mad they make us.
I believe the most effective way to handle this is by making it their advertisers' problem, as they are the ones who finance and enable these subversives.
The first step would be to determine who their big regulars are--maybe come up with the top 5, and then send their CEOs a letter. It ought to be nice, that is, let them know you know they don't set editorial policy, but since the paper depends on them for their lifeblood they have been inadvertently drawn into this thanks to a newspaper management that places its subversive crusading above the interests of its customers. And who knows, maybe some of them will be gun owners.
I think if a business like a car dealership knew they could expect about a dozen protestors on the sidewalk outside their business on a busy weekend with signs highlighting how they are enabling undermining of rights, most would not want the controversy. If they knew their businesses were going to be regularly randomly selected for this, it would give them incentive to bring requisite pressure to bear.
This, of course, all depends on whether or not Oregon gun owners are interested in personally pursuing this and have the manpower to make good on it.
Being in Ohio, there is only so much I can do, but I will report on it via the War on Guns if anyone there wishes to pursue it. I'll also do what I can to recruit support from others.
Newspapers are fighting for survival right now, with circulation and revenues way down. Case in point, The New York Times will undergo a major bloodletting from among their reporting staff in the coming days. I just don't see the Medford local having the kind of against-the-trend prosperity to be able to sustain this, especially if their advertising guys are getting angry calls from big revenue sources demanding to know what the hell they've dragged them into.
[Via Jeffersonian]
Recently, Congressman Mark Kirk from Illinois 10th District introduced a bill to create a “Secure Social Security Card”. This new card is clearly a run around to the state’s opposition to Real ID and we must do all in our power to prevent it from becoming law.This Kirk character is a real piece of work. He's an anti-gun extremist and an enemy of just about any core conservative belief you could name--in short, the essence of "moderate republicans" who have taken center ring in "The Big Tent." I mean, the guy's endorsed by the Brady Campaign, for the love of...
The two page complaint was filed April 11th, regarding an incident in late march, when Sheriff Morton allegedly groped and performed oral sex on the woman against her will.You said a mouthful, sister.
Generally speaking, it is smart public policy to shield prosecutors from lawsuits when it comes to determining in which cases they'll pursue charges...Actually, it's past time. The absolute immunity doctrine should never have been established.
But you could make a good case that absolute immunity takes this idea too far. Even police officers are given what's called "qualified immunity" from civil rights suits, which in 1983 the Supreme Court determined meant, "insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known."
That sets a hurdle for lawsuits against the police, but not a wall (some would argue that this hurdle is also too high). It might be time to consider applying that standard to prosecutors, too.
Hannah Bradish, of that part of Cambridge, called Menotomy, and daughter of timothy Paine, of Worcester, in the county of Worcester, esq. of lawful age, testifies and says, that about five o'clock on Wednesday last, afternoon, being in her bed-chamber, with her infant child, about eight days old, she was surprised by the firing of the king's troops and our people, on their return from Concord. She being weak and unable to go out of her house, in order to secure herself and family, they all retired into the kitchen, in the back part of the house. She soon found the house surrounded with the king's troops; that upon observation made, at least seventy bullets were shot into the front part of the house; several bullets lodged in the kitchen where she was, and one passed through an easy chair she had just gone from. The door of the front part of the house was broken open; she did not see any soldiers in the house, but supposed, by the noise, they were in the front. After the troops had gone off, she missed the following things, which, she verily believes, were taken out of the house by the king's troops, viz: one rich brocade gown, called a negligée, one lutestring gown, one white quilt, one pair of brocade shoes, three shifts, eight white aprons, three caps, one case of ivory knives and forks, and several other small articles.
In what marks the end of one of the most high-profile police-involved shooting trials in New York City, a judge has acquitted three NYPD detectives of all charges in the shooting death of 23-year-old Sean Bell on Friday. Bell was gunned down in a hail of 50 bullets outside a Queens strip club on what would have been his wedding day in November 2006...Well, the weather's getting warmer. Y'all might need those "Hercules Teams," Mr. Mayor...
Investigators found no gun at the scene.
That's right. A US Marshal was making threats against a good, honest man for not......ahhh, you'll just have to read the rest of that sentence for yourself. But there is truth in it.
Is the gun bill still loaded? Gov. Sonny Perdue said he has not decided. He could pull the trigger on the controversial gun bill that passed the legislature earlier this month.But Sonny, I thought you were one of us...
The bill lets you carry your gun into restaurants that serve alcohol, or onto public transport, if you have a concealed weapons permit.
Guns are bad. Guns kill.Oh, look. Little boys making noise.
It may hold our financial records, innermost thoughts and pictures of our loved ones - but there's nothing private about a laptop computer at the nation's borders, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.No, of course not. And if they really want it, there's nothing private about them within our borders, either.
