Is it the people, or maybe its just the house!
A “person of interest” is being sought in the stabbing death of a man inside a rooming house on Morris Avenue, police said.
The stabbing was the second inside the facility in as many days.
The victim, a 67-year-old man whose name was not released, was discovered in his room and pronounced dead at 1:30 p.m. Friday, police Lt. John Bastardo said.
A resident of the rooming house said yesterday it appeared the man had been dead for several days. Other residents had not seen the victim in several days and thought he was away on a planned vacation, according to the resident, who asked that his name not be used.
Police have a person of interest they want to question, but that person remained at-large today, Bastardo said.
There are dangerous people, not dangerous tools!
When will we have “Common Sense” Regulations on Building materials?
A US Marshals Service task force arrested a man wanted by Puerto Rico in the beating death of another man in that commonwealth in 2005. The victim was reportedly beaten to death with a 2-by-4 piece of wood. The Marshals Service said that the suspect, Jose Garcia-Cordero, 33, is believed to have moved to the Lawrence area after the killing. He was apprehended in Lawrence Thursday evening and is expected to be transferred back to Puerto Rico.
From Puerto Rico where there is essentially no 2nd Amendment rights, despite it being US Soil, to Massachusetts where there is practically no 2nd Amendment rights. And the murder weapon is nothing but a piece of common lumber.
Doesn’t that make you feel safer? No “Gun Death” Right?
Anti-Gun People want to be able to block pro-gun people from twitter!
#GunBullies routinely, everyday threaten physical and sexual violence, disrespect boundaries, harass and stalk peaceful users of Twitter and the block feature does not block anywhere except Interactions feed and direct messaging.
This is wrong. Not only is it wrong, it is dangerous and could result in serious harm.
Reporting tweets rarely does anything, adds great time delay and leaves victims vulnerable with no recourse other than to not use Twitter. Peaceful and loyal users of Twitter should have the option of a one click block that is effective site-wide as they do on other social sites.
Funny that’s not how I remember that happening…
Also given this anti-rights overstep, if you think the gun nuts are “threatening physical and sexual violence” get them blocked from the site completely and file charges.
Meanwhile the #gunbullies will be discussing the issues, presenting facts, and bringing new minds into the cause…while the anti-rights people make dick jokes, stalk, harass, and make veiled threats.
Its called Psychological Projection!
Yeah, that got weird! From the author who wrote
CJ posted an invitation to publicly debate Ms. Watts of Mothers Demand Action….CJ kindly left his email at the bottom, so I decided to take him up on the offer with a recorded, public debate on Skype. CJ, brave and wise warrior that he was, repeatedly dodged the bullet; apparently, he’s not comfortable talking to people who don’t express fear of him.
But Mr. Rowe WAS brave enough to come here…Kinda:
BTW, just so you know: Even though I live in gun nut central, I don’t carry one any more. I’ve worked enough security to know that guns escalate little problems into big ones pretty quickly. I carry knives usually, and I’ve found a six-foot length of Twaron rope with a weight on the end to be very helpful. I carry a sword under my coat when I’m walking around the neighborhood at night. I’ve looked down the barrels of guns before, and haven’t encountered a situation yet where one of those things (and my own brain) would have done me any less good than a gun of my own. I’ve been shot three times, and all three times I was carrying one of my own. Believe me when I tell you, there isn’t a gun on Earth that makes you bullet proof. Especially when the other guy pulls first.
That and a lot of “LOL” and talking about stuff nobody is discussing, and laws he’d like to change…except never mentioning a law or a change.
Really, I’m the stupid one, 15 years of doing this and I STILL think there is some rational anti-gun person hiding somewhere who is willing to debate.
But nope, I get a sorry excuse for Gecko45 “On Patrol” with a monkey fist and a concealed sword, because “Guns don’t make you bulletproof”.
Whatever, super sad man, in a super angry “Progressive” Website.
This is what I get from taking advice from Joan Peterson
The word of the day is “False Positive”
As a libertarian, I always think we should err on the side of individual liberty. The Authoritarian side is to err on the side of safety while punishing the innocent.
This Image REALLY gets me grouchy. I found it on Joan Peterson’s Pinterest page:
So first up its that “Collective Rights” arguments that only anti-freedom extremists believe in. (Read the Heller Dissent! ALL of the Judges, even the crazy “Progressive” ones accept that the 2nd Amendment is an Individual Right….just that “Rights” shouldn’t be anything…because “Progressive”)
But We have a State SWAT team armed with rifles and body armor as a “Well Regulated Militia”.
NO NO NO! First up STATE POLICE is the antithesis of the Militia, especially given that there really wasn’t much for a Federal Government at the time of the Framing of the US Constitution. Further if you read the writings of our founding fathers they spoke with GREAT distrust of “Standing Armies in Time of Peace”, and honestly today we have an Army, even at times of peace…but on US Soil they are essentially disarmed and with little power or authority.
Meanwhile we have Police forces with military weapons and armor, and a LESS stringent rules of engagement, and these SWAT teams are in every major city, and most smaller ones.
Those who are against the 2nd Amendment have literally ZERO understanding of the Constitution or the philosophy of the founders.
As if that should come as a surprise.
Divorces can get really ugly, and George’s Recent arrest was charges by his estranged wife:
George Zimmerman was charged Monday with felony aggravated assault after allegedly pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend, according to Dennis Lemma, chief deputy with the Seminole County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office….According to a police report on the incident, Scheibe said that after an argument Zimmerman broke a table with a shotgun then pointed it at her “for a minute.”
Scheibe called 911 at 12:30 E.T., Lemma said.
On a 911 call recording released by police, a woman can be heard telling authorities: “He’s inside my house breaking all my (things) because I asked him to leave.”
The woman then says to someone at the house, “I’m doing this again? You just broke my glass table. You just broke my sunglasses and you put your gun in my freaking face and told me to get the (expletive) out.”
Sounds like a lot of he-said-she-said, and honestly in the 911 call she doesn’t sound in fear of her life. Still if he indeed pointed a shotgun at her, loaded or otherwise, he deserves to be in jail. Still that might be difficult to prove:
On a separate 911 call, a man calls to report that his girlfriend was “for lack of a better term, going crazy on me” and throwing his things out. The caller says the woman is outside with police.
When asked why he is calling, the man says, “I just want everyone to know the truth.”
He says he never pulled a firearm and that it is in a bag, locked. He claims she was the one who broke the table.
When deputies arrived at the house, Scheibe gave them a key. When they pushed open the door — which was blocked by several small pieces of furniture — they found Zimmerman, who was sitting and unarmed, Lemma said. He was passive and cooperative, Lemma said.
The sheriff’s office was seeking a search warrant to look for two guns deputies believed were inside the home, he said. According to the police report, Zimmerman had locked up the guns before police arrived.
That’s going to be difficult to prove, still we have this:
This is one of several brushes that Zimmerman has had with law enforcement since he was acquitted this year of murder and manslaughter in the 2012 shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.
Earlier this month, police in Lake Mary, Florida, said no charges would result from an alleged domestic dispute in September between George Zimmerman and his estranged wife, Shellie Zimmerman….Since his acquittal in the Martin case, Zimmerman also has been stopped for speeding twice. He was pulled over the first time in Forney, Texas, in July and told the police officer he had a concealed weapon permit and a gun in his glove compartment. The officer wrote on his incident report that he gave Zimmerman a verbal warning.
Zimmerman was pulled over in early September going 60 mph in a 45-mph zone in Lake Mary and received a $256 ticket. He was not carrying a weapon at the time.
The mark of a hardened criminal, right there!
So here’s another story of an alleged gun owner who wants to ban guns talking about how to win the debate:
Home • Op-Ed • How to Win an Argument With a Gun Nut EVERY Time!
How to Win an Argument With a Gun Nut EVERY Time!Posted by: Richard Rowe in Op-Ed, The Gun Control Debate November 15, 2013
I’m a gun owner and enthusiast. My owning/firing credentials include everything from AK-47, AR-15, SPAS-12 and Dragunov to Barrett 50 cal, an original German Sturmgewehr, pistols, a couple of flamethrowers, and at least one radio-controlled A-10 equipped with a site camera and full-auto BB gun. We called it “The PredaHog.” Call it a byproduct of having been raised in Central Florida, or maybe just a gearhead affinity for machines of purpose — but I do love cool weapons.
PredaHogs aside, I’m also one of the 88% of gun owners who think that our weapons policies should periodically evolve(!) from the peerless Garden of Eden that was 1776. That, the fact that I live dead-center in StandYourGroundsville, FL and the that I write for AATTP brings me into pretty regular conflict with some of the nuttiest gun nuts out there. Case in point, CJ Grisham, of Open Carry Texas.
OCT’s made a bit of news lately, from helping to organize the Alex Jones-attended gun orgy at the Alamo last month, to more recently standing their ground against a few unarmed, female gun reform advocates last week. After having been thoroughly, and rightly, demonized by myself and others for this blatant act of intimidation, CJ posted an invitation to publicly debate Ms. Watts of Mothers Demand Action. Here’s an excerpt from it:
“We will also accept the Texas Chapter President of MDA if Shannon doesn’t feel intelligent or confident enough to handle an open debate. OCT will NOT be open carry at the event so MDA can feel safe and secure in its ignorance and false sense of safety.”
CJ kindly left his email at the bottom, so I decided to take him up on the offer with a recorded, public debate on Skype. CJ, brave and wise warrior that he was, repeatedly dodged the bullet; apparently, he’s not comfortable talking to people who don’t express fear of him. After several exchanges, his ever-changing excuses included:
“No thanks. Our offer was to MDA since they have defamed our organization with lies.” (as opposed to defaming it with the truth?)
Then: “We are only extending the offer to anti-gun groups.”
…And then, of course, “Shall not be infringed.”I retorted several times that I’ve personally defamed OCT plenty over the last couple of weeks to tens of thousands of people a day, and that the majority of AATTP’s audience (which is about 200,000 times larger than MDA) is as anti-gun as it gets. I practically BEGGED him to openly debate… but, my not being an unarmed woman, he declined.
Aside from getting some laughs at another brave Second Amendment soldier, I mention this exchange to make a specific point. These people only understand fear. Without intimidation, without the illusion of superiority, they’re just firing blanks. They’re brave target-shooters, but suddenly develop wet pants when the target is prepared to fire back.
Below is a list of my most frequently fired shots: the rounds I keep in my chamber for the daily firefight that is being a (somewhat) sensible gun enthusiast. Not all of them are going to take down the target. Half of these people have such thick heads, a 30 mm cannon wouldn’t penetrate. But they’ll at least feel these hits, and that’s usually all it takes to send them running. Some are statistical responses, some are just observations I like to use.
(PS: Last word to CJ Grisham, OCT or anyone else from any gun psycho group: You’re a b****, everyone in your organization is a b****, and real cowboys come from Florida.)
BASIC DOs AND DON’TsDO understand that there are lots of different types of gun owners. Some have them for protection, and some are gearheads who just like them as machines. Some people collect certain types of guns because they’re cool, and others just like stuff that’s loud, spits fire and blows holes in things. Often, a gun enthusiast is some combination of all of these.
DON’T lump the above gun owners in with the “Second Amendment” crowd. These 2A people own guns primarily because they feel inadequate, and live in fear because of it. They’re terrified of meeting an equal, and will almost always run from a fight if they don’t have a clear advantage going in.
DO remember at all times that these 2A people live in a state of constant fear, and they resent others who don’t. They’re going to do everything they can do to make others feel the same way they do.
DON’T bother with the “phallic symbol” thing. They don’t understand what it means, and the “inadequacy” they feel is a bit more layered than that. They might feel inadequate physically, but it may just as easily be mental or emotional. Often, they feel unprepared to compete in the modern world… because they are.
DO call them out on their fear, weakness and inadequacy…but BE EMPATHETIC. Be SYMPATHETIC about their shortcomings. It’s the one thing they absolutely cannot stand. Especially when you point out that the gun itself only proves their fear, weakness and sense of inadequacy. Make them face their demons, and force them to regard the gun itself as a symbol of their fear. Do that, and they’ll eventually come to hate it on principle.
So got that? Don’t lump all gun owners together, know that there are different types. Good point! Also DO lump them all together as stupid, fearful people with no valid argument for gun ownership!
BTW, does this also apply to the author who allegedly owns several guns?
There is plenty more to fisk, but unfortunately I don’t have the time still this one needs to be called out:
“Gun regulations are a slippery slope…GUN GRABBING IS NEXT!”
The United States passed its first gun control laws prior to the Civil War, criminalizing possession of firearms by blacks. Be honest, what’s your opinion on THAT one?
Gun regulations have existed in the United States for about 150 years, evolving many times since then to cover machine guns, assault rifles, Saturday Night Specials and undetectable firearms. And you can still carry an AR-15 around with a .45 in your back pocket.
A little pejorative, still this guy is legitimate about wanting a debate, because in the comments the author said:
he gun nuts are partially right…if we instituted a gun ban today, only the legally compliant owners would turn them in. It would be like turning the wolves loose in the henhouse. Over the long term…yeah, EVENTUALLY all or almost all of the guns would get confiscated. But that could take 100 years with all the guns out there now. In the meantime, we’d probably wind up turning everywhere in America into a maximum security prison to protect an unarmed populace.
If we’d have instituted a ban 100 years ago, I don’t doubt we’d be fine today. But Pandora’s box has already been opened, and too many evils have escaped. Slamming the lid now isn’t going to do much good. Sad fact is, we’re just going to have to slowly ramp things down, or all Hell’s going to break loose.
My suggestion is the same now as it’s always been…put a $200 or 20% tax on all new guns, and use the money to start buying back old guns at a little over market value for disposal. Least that’ll reduce the number of gun enough that we can seriously begin re-thinking the second amendment.
So we should trust him, he’s not a “Gun Grabber” like the rest….he just wants to put a massive tax on all guns and start grabbing them… Man that’s too rich.
Also “We need to re-think the Second Amendment”, and yet never once does he talk about self defense. He does talk about the whole “Tyrannical Government will kill you with drones…so just give up now”, which I think has been pretty well debunked in Iraq and Afghanistan, but never about the softer side of the true Second Amendment, that we have the right to shoot violent criminals.
He does talk a little about spree shooters, but again falls into the anti-gun trope that somehow if bad guys don’t have guns, then good guys would NEVER need guns. Yeah, we know about “Gun Death”.
So dive into this one. Also to Mr. Richard Rowe, you are welcome in my comments section to discuss this issue with other rational gun owners. Please leave a comment!
This is an ever-growing problem in America:
A recent string of attacks tied to a dangerous game called “Knockout” — where unsuspecting residents are targeted and sucker-punched – is being investigated as possible hate crimes.
New York police are looking into the growing trend, WPIX reports, after attacks in predominately Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
The most recent attack was caught on video last week in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where a group of ten men spotted a man walking alone, punched him and kept moving, according to the station.
But New York is not the only place to see the “Knockout Game” being played out.
In Washington, D.C., Tamera Jackson, 27, told WJLA that a group of teens on bicycles came up behind her last week as she walked home and one of them punched her in the back of the head before the group sped away, laughing.
According to Fox 31 Denver, similar attacks have occurred in St. Louis and Pittsburgh, where a teacher was knocked out by a 15-year-old as he walked home from school last month. The attack was caught on a security camera video, and the teen was charged with assault.
And in New Jersey, CBS 2 reports, video footage shows Ralph Santiago, 46, randomly targeted for knockout by a group of teens. Santiago was later found dead with his neck broken and head lodged between iron fence posts, according to NJ.com.
Interesting on how many of these attacks happen in places that are heavily restrictive on gun owners. Still nobody is immune to that, as there were several cases like this in Portland Maine when I still lived there.
Be Safe out there, people, because it isn’t the guns you have to fear.
