Sexism meets ignorance, meets no respect for human life!
I remember once talking with an Anti about the wrongness of calling an AR-15 an “Assault Rifle” and the stupidity of calling it an “Assault Weapon”. In exasperation they asked me what I would call an AR-15.
I responded: “A Rifle”.
The conversation ended there.
Now this is an interesting story:
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a Buffalo Grove atheist’s final appeal in his lawsuit challenging the use of state funds to renovate an 11-story cross atop southern Illinois’ tallest peak, ending the legal dispute spanning more than two years.
The nation’s high court on Tuesday declined without comment to review Robert Sherman’s request to hear his case involving the $20,000 grant given in 2008 to the 111-foot-high Bald Knob Cross of Peace near Alto Pass. Lower courts already had ruled that Sherman lacked standing to sue over the grant.
I was asked the other day by a Co-Worker about the CDC’s restriction on public funds for gun research. I noted that the NRA’s position is that the funded research has always been for restricting guns from private hands. Given that it is a Constitutionally protected right, then public funds for restricting rights should be barred.
Still my PERSONAL feelings is that public funds should be used for building schools, and paving roads, and keeping a modest military equipped and paid. There is so much crap that we dump public funds into.
Personally as a non-Christian I find it hard to get bothered by public displays of faith. You see crosses and faith-based billboards all over the South, and I could care less. Still I’d personally rather not pay for any of it, and I don’t see why these good people need my help to erect a monument.
An inexperienced health care caseworker who visited a client at his home knew there was something that made her “very uncomfortable” about the 53-year-old man, even writing in his file that two people should visit him in the future.
Yet 25-year-old Stephanie Ross went alone to Lucious Smith’s apartment Monday morning, and police said the ex-con with a history of violence inexplicably chased her down the street, stabbing her to death with a butcher knife.
So many layers of wrong here. First we have a violent Ex-Con in a home with sharp objects. We have a case worker who likely would be fired for carrying a gun on the job (and in the field where such a termination would prevent them from further work in the field), and we have an implement that I would say ALL of us have, and somehow manage not to commit violent murders.
These home visits make the caseworker’s job terribly dangerous, as the clients are likely of a higher risk group, the clients control the environment of the visit, and likely the visit comes with a certain level of animosity.
Hey, but like so-called “Assault Weapons”, most people own kitchen knives without causing horrible crimes, and we all have good use for them. And we have violent criminals out and about without supervision.
What can you expect?
Remember if you ban guns you’ll stop crimes committed with those guns!
Federal agents have arrested a suburban Denver man accused of trying to trade explosive devices for cocaine or cash.
Federal prosecutors said U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents removed multiple explosive devices from the Morrison man’s home Thursday and rendered them safe….According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Sandberg told an undercover officer he is a former U.S. Marine. The affidavit says Sandberg and the officer discussed trading explosive devices for drugs or money and that the officer left Sandberg’s home after a visit this week with three devices.
Cocaine: illegal. Still why would cash be a decent substitute for an illegal drug? Easy you can simply BUY Cocaine, legal or not. Explosives: Illegal, but boy he sure built some. There are whole pages of high school and college text books on how explosives work, and how to make them. We give these out to our kids, and keep them in our public library. There are also more crude formulations for explosives to be found online, and in pamphlets.
Odd, the law doesn’t seem to stop this guy at all. Now it DOES allow us to arrest him. But so does using a firearm improperly. We already have laws and steep penalties for that, but these NEW laws are claiming to STOP said crimes BEFORE they happen.
Sorry, but there’s reality in the way.
I haven’t been shooting recently, mostly because ammo supplies are so short and expensive right now, I’d rather horde.
Also the range is friggin cold, so I might as well stay home and warm. I’m sure my shooting will suffer a bit, but that’ll all come back once things settle down.
Still these are some good tips for cold weather shooting!
Interesting to read between the lines on this one:
President Obama is suggesting that House Republicans on the issue of gun control appear neither willing to work with him nor listen to the American public on the issue.
“The House Republican majority is made up mostly of members who are in sharply gerrymandered districts that are very safely Republican and may not feel compelled to pay attention to broad-based public opinion, because what they’re really concerned about is the opinions of their specific Republican constituencies,” the president said in an interview with The New Republic.
Obama also said he can get 50 percent of public support for many of his upcoming initiatives, but “I can’t get enough votes out of the House of Representatives to actually get something passed. … I think there is still shock on the part of some in the party that I won re-election.”
First there’s a reason why Republicans aren’t budging. They know that these laws don’t do anything for public safety, and only effect lawful people, and the people who vote.
Also for his “50 percent public support” line, I doubt it. This may be for a generic unnamed bill, but when text hits the scene, I suspect the support will drop like a rock. And we’ll close for a little Fudd crap:
Has Obama himself ever fired a gun? Yes, he says, he and others shoot skeet frequently at the president’s Maryland retreat, Camp David.
I must say, of all my fears, clay disks attacking me, or depriving me of my liberty is REALLY small. Same with the meat-analog of the clay birds. I find Hitchcock’s fantasy to be about as plausible as Romero’s, so again, gun rights are NOT about hunting or sport shooting.
More Giant Ducky Pictures!
Thanks to Borepatch for sending these over, I’m still waiting for the artist to quote me a price! My yard would look AWESOME on Google Earth!
Friggin PERFECT!
Spread it around!
Here’s another
A man was crushed inside a trash compactor in Fort Worth.
According to investigators, an unidentified man in his 40s was inside a large commercial trash receptacle in the area of E. Lancaster and N. Hughes avenues when the container was picked up by a trash truck and its contents compacted.
Hey, not a “Gun Death” so not very bad, huh?
h/t Bob
This school nonsense has GOT to stop! A little girl scolded and searched because of a paper gun in her pocket.
Have a look at the video for what the “Gun” looked like.
Do we really need people this stupid teaching our kids?
