What do you call the guy who graduated last in his class at med school?
DOCTOR!
Its Thursday, that means Moar Squirrel Report!!!
Tonight we’ll be talking Biden Gaffes, odd Irish Holidays, and our favorite Pie for Pi Day!
Oh yeah, and I have a super seecrit announcement to make that I think you’ll all like!
So tune in at 9pm EST and call in with your comments!
ITS THE SQUIRREL REPORT!!
Looks like the LAPD and the state of California are jerking around the two innocent women whom the LAPD attempted to execute because they thought their blue Toyota Tacoma was Chris Dorners Grey Nissan Titan.
Jonas said the women were first offered a used truck, then a non-four-wheel drive Ford to replace their Toyota four-wheel drive vehicle. The women also had to agree not to sell it for a year. His clients agreed to that truck, he said.
But then the dealership and LAPD officials said the truck would be considered a prize for tax purposes, Jonas said.
“Essentially, they’d have to pay taxes like they won it on a game show,” Jonas said.
First up, the cops didn’t shoot up their truck in error THEY ATTEMPTED TO MURDER THEM!!! I might accept a new truck if my truck was destroyed by error or bad luck by the police conducting police business, but the police aren’t a death squad, and shooting into a truck with no posed threat is not police SOP.
The taxes and stipulations just add insult to injury.
Carolla on the subject:
I played an old one the other day, here’s a newer one.
I’ve talked a lot about Massachusetts stupid “May Issue” laws. BTW read this story just to show how stupid they can be.
Handcuffed to his hospital bed, Pedro J. DeSousa was arraigned Monday on charges that he cut his girlfriend’s throat and killed her after they fought at his home Sunday morning, prosecutors said Monday….The arraignment was held in DeSousa’s room at St. Luke’s Hospital. DeSousa injured his back jumping from a second-floor window of his home Sunday in an effort to elude police, officials said.
BTW what “Assault Weapon” was used? A Box Cutter! Also the victim also had severe head trauma.
Again, its not the tool, its the people, and dangerous people are still dangerous no matter WHAT items are restricted from them.
h/t JD
Photograph your paper dolls and share them with us and Congress by using the submission form (below left) to send your photos and a personal note to your Congressional representatives.
Also I like how Anti-gunner are such brain surgeons that they need an instruction sheet on how to make a grade-school arts project. If they need instructions on how to cut folded paper, how can we expect them to pass wildly unpopular bills?
Draw paper doll profile on top of the folded paper. Make sure the arms and legs are drawn all the way to the edge. Doing this ensures your paper dolls will be attached to create one long strand.
I wonder how many antis drew the doll shape on the wrong side and instead got a pile of “Dismembered children”….then yelled “BLOOD IN THE STREETS!!!” wet themselves, and then gave up!
Seriously, I can’t make this shit up!
We engage in the challenging task of educating the ignorant, and teaching people how to safely use and enjoy firearms, as well as how to navigate the complex and confusing web of bizarre gun laws….they teach their followers how to cut folded paper.
WOW! I thought I was joking when I made this:
AIRSTRIKE!!!!
No, I’m demanding ACTION!!!! or something.
One must read Occam’s Razor before reading this story:
Here’s a riddle: If gun ownership is declining, why are so many guns being sold?
According to the General Social Survey, a project of the independent research organization NORC, the number of U.S. households with guns dropped from 50% in 1973 to 34% in 2012. This decline has shown up everywhere, including the historically gun-toting regions of the South and West.
According to researchers, just 23% of people in urban areas have guns, compared with 56% of country folk. Even that rural percentage is down from 70% in the 1970s. The number of hunters is dropping fast. Only 10% of women own firearms. Most young people are shunning guns — just 23% of those under 30 have guns now, compared with 47% four decades ago. Latinos are a growing segment of the population, but their gun ownership numbers are small….If the pollsters are correct, there are a whole lot of people in this country who live in an alternate reality woven from the exaggerations and outright lies of Internet fabulists, talk radio screamers and NRA propagandists. These people tend to be old, male and Republican — the same folks who have not given up on guns.
So, the answer to the riddle seems fairly obvious: While more and more Americans are finding guns unnecessary for sport or protection, the most paranoid among us are building personal arsenals and driving gun sales through the roof.
OR the poll isn’t correct. Last I checked I didn’t live in a rural area…yet the gun shops are bare. Other people in urban areas have noticed the same thing. Also this is happening just as frequently in blue states as red ones.
Occam’s Razor, the simplest solution to the riddle is the poll is wrong. But what happens when the writer of a left-wing fear-piece promoting anti-freedom WANTS the poll to be true?
Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey introduced a bill Tuesday to stop the government from allowing airline passengers to carry small knives on planes, as two more airlines this week joined in opposition to the revised federal policy.
Markey said he resorted to legislative action because the Transportation Security Administration refuses to reverse its recent policy change that permits knives and other potential weapons in cabins, despite widespread criticism.
“If TSA won’t reverse its policy to allow knives onto planes, then Congress will take action with this legislation,” the Democratic congressman said. “There is no reason for a passenger to have a knife on a plane, and allowing knives on planes puts our flight attendants, pilots and passengers at greater risk.”
Remember, the pro-freedom people are the ones pushing a “Culture of Fear”.
The video is pretty hysterical too!
Found this article via Joan, and it was too good not to shred:
The NRA’s first reason: Increasing the number of gun owners will make us safer.
But the higher the number of people who have guns, the more likely it is gun violence will occur. To believe everyone who has a gun will never use it the wrong way is not reasonable. In addition, anyone in a home where one of these gun owners lives has access to that weapon, as happened in the Connecticut school massacre.
Ok first up A) ignoring entirely using guns to STOP crimes (we’lll get to that later) and B) Not looking at the man behind the curtain, which is areas with liberal gun ownership and little to no crime, and areas with heavy gun control laws which are some of the most dangerous places in the country.
Also this is kinda like the anti-rights abuse of the Ten Commandments. The antis frequently list Commandment #6 as “Thou Shall Not kill”, ignoring all the verses in the bible where God commands his followers to kill, or prescribes death as a punishment for a crime. No the sin is Murder, and the people who we want armed are LAW ABIDING CITIZENS. The problems in this country are not people owning guns, its criminals, who sometimes illegally own guns, and other times don’t and still MURDER.
Second: Banning military-type weapons or large ammo clips will not make any difference.
There are important reasons the military chose the weapons it uses. It wants guns that are better for killing people. It also likely wants guns that are light and easy to carry and able to hold a larger amount of ammunition. Spreading guns designed to kill people throughout our population does not make sense. Inevitably they will be used to kill. Making large ammo-magazine clips available assures those bent on murder can fire many more bullets at a time.
Is it too much to ask responsible gun owners to use smaller clips to give the rest of us a chance to intervene with a shooter?
Again, ignoring self defense. Also ignoring shootings like Virginia Tech which is currently the #1 mass shooting in the nation, where all but two magazines held more than 10. Also while Whitman’s M1 Carbine had a “High Capacity Magazine” he never used it, and caused the #2 mass shooting using just a bolt-action rifle, a revolver, and a shotgun.
Of course they need to ignore self-defense because spree killers choose the time and place of their attack, and come kitted up for mass murder, while defenders simple go armed every day in hopes they’ll never need it. I don’t go lugging a backpack full of magazines like these killers do, I generally just have what’s in the gun, and a few spares. This laws obviously doesn’t hurt them, but it sure hurts me, hence why I’m not put into his argument.
Third: Background checks do not work.
Certainly background checks cannot stop all gun violence. Existing laws must be strictly enforced. But without expanded and more-thorough background checks, legally purchased guns will continue to easily end up in the hands of those who murder others. We have seen that happen too often. In particular, background checks must do more to identify potentially dangerous or violent mental illness. It needs to be much more than only checking to see if a person has had treatment for mental illness. Most mentally ill people never receive treatment.
If wishes were horses… He paints a flowery picture, but notice there’s no specifics on what “Mental illness” is, nor how somebody never treated by professionals can be adjudicated “mentally ill”. Yeah if somebody goes on a spree killing, they’re likely crazy, but how do you stop that? Since you’re talking a lot of crap in this article, can I safely assume you are willing to call anybody who keeps and bears arms “Mentally ill”?
Fourth: If gun access is restricted, only criminals will have guns.
The opposite would seem truer. Making guns easier to purchase actually means more criminals have easier access to guns and access to more powerful guns. Anyone can find someone to buy whatever weapon they desire if their own record is not clean. Also, they can steal guns or buy stolen weapons. At least 60 handguns were stolen from Twin Cities gun sellers last year, according to news reports. So greater access to all types of weapons means criminals will be better armed as well.
Except not, and we’ve proven it. Just look at the best petri dish in America, Washington DC, which is one of the most dangerous cities in America, yet gun ownership has been effectively banned…even after Heller V DC. They note that criminals probably get their guns from more liberal Virginia…except Virginia isn’t very dangerous at all. You know what state IS dangerous, Maryland…and how’s the gun laws there? Funny how that works. Even if that was true (and it isn’t) one must wonder why the arms traffickers are so well behaved when they’re in the more liberal states, and further, why TRAVEL? Why not uproot and live in the state where they can buy guns so easily?
Oh yeah, there’s that ugly fact of citizens shooting criminals committing crimes.
Finally: Owning a gun is the best way to protect yourself and others from gun violence.
To think the good guy always will win in a shootout is quite unrealistic. At best the good guy has a 50:50 chance, and the odds go down if the assailant has a powerful, rapid-fire weapon, gets it out first, and has a large ammunition clip. Even with a weapon, most of us would certainly rather not end up in a shoot-out situation in the first place. Public policy on guns needs to view a shootout as a least-desirable outcome.
The ability of guns to actually make us safer is quite limited. Preventing incidents from happening is a much more sensible approach. We currently lack a strong emphasis on improving prevention.
There he finally touches on self defense…and he does it by making up facts to fit his opinion. No research needed, no facts cited. You people who carry for self defense are just deluded and you should give up your guns right now because he said so!
This is what passes for intelligence in the anti-rights camp!
If you have hands in your house you’re ,7,000,000 times more likely to be strangled!
A South Florida man killed two of his sons early Saturday before killing himself at his estranged wife’s home, police said….Victoria Zavala told detectives that she was watching TV when she heard a commotion. She went to check on the boys and saw Zavala choking one of them
Here’s an interesting angle:
Zavala was also discovered in the kitchen with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
So he HAD a gun, but he chose to strangle his kids. I thought guns caused crime, or made it “too easy” to murder?
Its almost like its the people, and not the tool!
