One man is dead and another hospitalized after an apparent stabbing in Minneapolis Saturday afternoon, Feb. 9.
Police responded to the 2000 block of Glenwood Avenue around 4:45 p.m. on reports of a disturbance or stabbing, said police spokesman Sgt. Stephen McCarty said.
When officers arrived, they found one man dead and another injured.
Hey, no guns, no “Gun Death” no big deal!
h/t Maddmedic
Again, anti-freedom, but boy do they squeal when THEY get oppressed!
Miracle of miracles: The New York Times finally has found an industry regulation it doesn’t like. The other day the gray lady denounced “Britain’s Press Crackdown,” which it described as an “attempt to rein in [Britain’s] reckless tabloid newspapers”—but one that would “chill free speech and threaten the survival of small publishers and Internet sites.” Such regulations, the paper said, “would do more harm than good” because “an unfettered press is essential to democracy.”
To put things mildly, this is not the standard posture for The Times—which currently is pounding away in an editorial series demanding more regulation of guns and gun owners. And when America’s No. 1 paper is not treating the Second Amendment like No. 2, it is demanding tougher regulation of the banking industry. And the food industry. And power plants. And home-care aides. And on and on. “Government regulations,” the paper declared in an editorial last year on “The Phony Regulation Debate,” “keep the air and water clean, improve the safety of consumer products, reduce workplace hazards, and prevent destructive financial practices.”
In short, regulation is great—except when it comes to the press….After Hurricane Sandy struck last fall, “Today” reporter Jeff Rossen did an exposé on how some contractors were “preying on” homeowners. How? By performing repair work without the proper licenses. Rossen found several contractors who lacked home-improvement licenses, but only one consumer who had been taken advantage of—and that was two months before Sandy struck. His big story boiled down to the fact that some Sandy-related tree removal and home repair work was carried out without prior government permission….It was a similar story with The Washington Post, which recently ran a lengthy, front-page article on the dangers posed by Virginia’s ostensibly too-lax standards for small family child care businesses. The paper termed those home-based businesses “unlicensed, unregulated, unmonitored, and perfectly legal.” But what about the reporter, Brigid Schulte? Does she have a license to report the news, or think journalists should be licensed? She didn’t answer those questions, either.
This is a prime example of “Useful Idiots”, Nanny-state fans LOVE the idea of the Nanny state because they THINK they get to be the Nanny. Pro-freedom activists know that the number of nannies needed in a Nanny State is quite small, so supporting it is wrapping chains around their own neck.
Well then there’s that whole caring for others, thing. I’m for gay marriage, but I’m not gay. I’m for legalizing drugs, but for me a Martini is really all I need to unwind. I’m for keeping abortion legal, even tho I see it as murder of the unborn, but I also see it as an easy black-market crime that will kill many more healthy women than save babies.
I like to point out how furious anti-gun people get when we start talking about “Car Death” instead of “Gun Death”…they hate it because THEY OWN CARS! They don’t own guns, or own guns so ill-used that they’d hardly notice if they were confiscated, or feel their political connections will protect their guns. Hey but CARS, man don’t come for my CAR!!!
Oddly enough these anti-freedom activists think they can pick and choose from the bill of rights, and that if you can shoot a deer or a duck with a caplock muzzle-loader then “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”. If a person can be searched by the police for walking down the street or entering an airport then The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”….but that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” will totally protect them because it means what it says….well except for the part where Christians and Jews are allowed to worship, because they HATE that part!
Good luck guys!
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
With a healthy dose of racism tossed in. I give you New York City:
The first time David Floyd was stopped and frisked, on a Friday afternoon in April 2007, he was walking down Beach Avenue a few doors from his house in the Bronx when two police officers confronted him, demanding to know who he was, where he was going, what he was doing, and whether he was carrying any weapons. Floyd, at the time a freelance film editor and now a medical student, presented his driver’s license and explained that he was walking home.
Unsatisfied, one of the officers searched Floyd, feeling under his shirt and inside his pants pockets. He found nothing illegal. Testifying last week in federal court, Floyd said the incident left him feeling “frustrated [and] humiliated, because it was on my block where I live, and I wasn’t doing anything.”….The legal basis for the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program is supposed to be a 1968 Supreme Court decision arising from a police encounter quite different from the ones described by Floyd and the many other New Yorkers, overwhelmingly black or Latino, who are hassled by cops for no apparent reason every year. The case, Terry v. Ohio, involved a Cleveland detective who saw two men take turns walking back and forth in front of a store, peering into the window, about a dozen times, conferring with each other between trips….The track record of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program suggests that its officers’ suspicions of criminal activity are frequently less than reasonable, since they turn out to be right only 12 percent of the time. That impression is reinforced by the forms that officers fill out after these encounters, which rely heavily on all-purpose excuses such as “furtive movements” and “high crime area” to justify stopping people.
When she certified Floyd v. City of New York as a class action last year, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin noted that in 2009 “officers listed no coherent suspected crime” on more than a third of the forms. She also observed that “for every sixty-nine stops that police officers justified specifically on the basis of a suspicious bulge [from 2004 through 2009], they found one gun.”
As the number of stop-and-frisk encounters initiated by the NYPD grew from about 100,000 in Michael Bloomberg’s first year as mayor to almost 700,000 in 2011, the share of stops yielding guns fell from 0.38 percent to 0.033 percent. Bloomberg says that trend shows the program is working, because “the whole idea…is not to catch people with guns; it’s to prevent people from carrying guns.”
If so, the policy is plainly inconsistent with the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment rulings, which do not allow random searches aimed at deterring crime. It is telling that Bloomberg, confronted by the argument that his beloved stop-and-frisk policy is unconstitutional, responds by insisting that it works. Rights are not contingent on the effectiveness of the police tactics that violate them.
Not only has Michael Bloomberg worked hard to destroy the 2nd Amendment, he’s adamant about destroying the 4th. He doesn’t want to be a Mayor, he wants to be the warden of a massive prison, and the safety of the “prisoners” is his least concern!
h/t Mrs. Weer’d
You’ll notice that once again, it has less to do with guns, and more to do with unrepentant shitheads. At this point, I have no problem with the eye for an eye philosophy.
Let’s break it down to its basic elements: Less murderers= less murders. Easy, peasy, japanesey. It’s not a difficult concept to those that value human life over political correctness.
Give them each a small bag of Cheetos and then split their f@cking skulls wide open. Future trouble averted, tune in to Nickelodeon and laugh. I hear Dora explores.
That’s the whole point of the “Gun Death?” Files. To show “Gun Death” is a worthless metric on safety, and to show how great a world without guns might be.
also “Japaneasy” made me laugh, and while my young Nieces and Nephews watch Dora on TV I swear I will never let my child watch that shit…still Swiper, no swiping!
Bloomberg Attempts and Fails to Buy America:
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre on Sunday challenged New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to spend $12 million on ads meant to pressure senators into backing strict new gun control measures, saying Bloomberg “can’t buy America.”
Bloomberg’s pro-gun control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns is launching the campaign in states where senators may be on the fence regarding a package of firearms proposals making its way to the Senate floor. As the push for that legislation appears to falter, President Obama plans to soon tour the country to talk about the need to reduce gun violence, a senior administration official confirmed to Fox News. Bloomberg also confirmed Sunday that he plans to spend $12 million to run ads in at least 10 states, suggesting there could be a political price to pay for opposing the measures.
Turns out anti-rights fanatics like Bloomberg can only be elected in ultra-“Progressive” microcosms. Turns out his talking points are wildly unpopular in America.
I’m glad to see his money being wasted!
This is why groups like the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation have members, and the anti-rights groups just have employees.
George sent me this story, because George knows me!
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $384,949 grant to Yale University for a study on “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia”, according to the recovery.gov website.
The grant description says,“The project examines how reproductive morphology covaries with season, age, and social environment in a diverse sample of duck species that differ in ecology, territoriality and breeding system.”
The grant was made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package.
Sequestration is serious business. Jobs are on the line. Day care for poor kids is under the ax.
Yet even in this budget climate, your federal government still has the money to pay for — please disregard our blushing — a study examining duck penises.
You read that right: duck penises.
This waterfowl kerfuffle erupted last week, when the conservative website CNSNews.com published a story pulling back the curtain on a $384,949 grant from the National Science Foundation for a Yale University study looking at ducks’ sexual behavior and anatomy and the evolutionary consequences.
So glad we’re so broke we still have money to burn!
A judge Friday ordered three Colorado men to stand trial for murder, robbery and arson in the stabbing deaths of five people at a Denver bar that authorities say was set on fire to cover up the killings.
“Gun Death” is such a valid method for viewing how safe we are!
h/t Wallphone
Reid wants gun control, Rand Paul is gonna thwart it!
Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, are vowing to filibuster any new restrictions on guns, according to a letter the conservative trio wrote to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The warning comes just days after Reid announced plans to forge ahead on legislation that would expand background checks and stiffen penalties for gun trafficking after the Senate returns from a two-week Easter recess.
“We, the undersigned, intend to oppose any legislation that infringe on the American people’s constitutional right to bear arms, or on their ability to exercise this right without being subjected to government surveillance,” the senators wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Fox News.
BRING IT!!
Brain Chains has got to be the best term I’ve heard in a while. I’m gonna have to use that one like crazy!
Jim Carrey’s career is pretty much over, and this is his attempt.
