A 13-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was shot Friday evening on his way to choir practice.
When Boston police arrived, they found the teen laying in the street with a gunshot wound.
He was shot by somebody in a gray car. Sounds gang related. Can’t be, as guns are so heavily restricted in Boston.
When I read the headline I thought somebody was joking, as generally when a “Choir Boy” is shot in Boston, the term is used Ironically.
Looks like Kel-Tec is raising the price of their KSG with the threat of a pending ban.
Frankly I don’t blame them, as they spent a lot of money creating this gun from essentially scratch, and expected in their business model to pay off that cost over time with the sale of a lot of units. If it gets banned this year they won’t sell any more units except to exempted agencies which I suspect aren’t buying many shotguns, especially funky shotguns with lots of new technology.
Still I wonder if this is just political hoopla, as Kel-Tec has NEVER had a supply chain. You simply can’t find their guns when you want them, be it the relatively new KSG or the PMR 30, or older guns like the Sub 2000 or the SU-16. So I wonder how much this price bump is going to help given how few guns they are able to produce from the factory.
Also, while I admire them for making unique guns, the problems the KSG addresses would have simply been better addressed by doubling down on production of simpler, more proven technology like the Sub 2000 and the SU-16, which can do everything the KSG does, with less moving parts, and less novel technology which as of yet is technically unproven.
This price hike will effect NOBODY, as if you want a KSG its not like you’re going to find one anyway.
So James Yeager got his carry permit suspended.
A Middle Tennessee firearms trainer who made an ominous comment about killing people in a YouTube video that gained national attention this week has had his handgun carry permit suspended Friday by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security.
James Yeager, 42, had his permit suspended based on a “material likelihood of risk of harm to the public,” the department said in a statement.
Col. Tracy Trott of the Tennessee Department of Safety said it didn’t take him long to reach a decision after viewing the comments on the Internet.
Look, I’m no fan of James Yeager, and I’ve spoken quite a bit about his recent upswing in outlandish and potentially criminal videos here on this blog. Still, I’m a Freedom Loving American, and I say with no qualms that the 1st Amendment is not to protect your right to tweet your lunch on twitter, but to protect horrible groups like the KKK or the Westboro Baptist Church.
This is nothing but political grandstanding and bullshit. This situation really only boils down to two potential things. Either A) James Yeager is a dangerous sociopath who will kill people who shouldn’t justifiably be killed or B) Yeager is cowardly blowhard who likes to run his mouth.
Occam’s Razor points to the B) Option. Still, what does taking away his piece of paper do? He still has guns, he’s still a free man, and if option A is true, he still can commit crimes.
In my opinion, Tennessee is being even MORE of a cowardly blowhard than Yeager is. If James Yeager has committed a crime, arrest and charge him, then take away his rights that way. Don’t play foolish games that don’t do ANYTHING.
As I said before, if you have worked or were instructed under one of Mr. Yeager’s institutions, get some less controversial training IMMEDIATELY! I mean THIS WEEKEND! That’s likely too short notice (tho you had months to plan), still if you end up having to defend your life with deadly force, the more Mr. Yeager gets in the news for questionable acts, the more likely his bad judgement will be placed on YOU in a court of law.
I wouldn’t want to be in that situation. Sometimes justifiable homicide cases are VERY cut and dry, other times they’re clear, but like Mr. Zimmerman is experiencing right now, can be polluted by evil people with political motivations. Other cases can be pretty murky. You do NOT want this albatross hung around your neck.
Mr. Yeager’s foolish actions have likely forever suspended his right to lawful self defense. He’s threatened to murder people for things as small as a simple insult, or an unflattering opinion voiced. No matter what an attacker has been done, if Yeager acts with violence against that person these instances will be raised in the court, and likely he’ll lose his case and the remainder of his freedoms.
You do NOT want to be in that situation!
More than six years after two children burned to death in an SUV in Los Angeles, their father has pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder….Yun, who was separated from his wife, picked up the children for lunch and a movie, then drove to an industrial area and put gasoline-soaked rags around the vehicle. His daughter got out but he pulled her back inside before igniting the rags.
What are we going to blame for this horrible murder? Cars? Rags? Lighters? Gasoline? Hell maybe we should ban divorce?
Or maybe we should just lock up the monsters, because their tools are irrelevant.
So there’s the silly meme of “Register Guns Like Cars”…to which I say SURE! They don’t really consider the scope of the law, and what that means…instead they want to take just a small portion of the law and apply it wherever they want.
A more absurd example would be like them saying “You register your car, so why not register all your socks!” Sorry guys it needs to make sense first for us to bite.
Now have a read of this. “7 things that are harder than buying a gun”
In many states, you have to register in advance to vote, sometimes by as much as 30 days. Under federal law, you can buy a gun on the day you decide you want one.
Of course most states openly BAN the requirement for any positive ID, so is that the best analogy? Also they set up voter registration stations EVERYWHERE, Malls, Subway Stations, Street corners. Also the registration rolls have minimal oversight. Frequently college towns push to register students who aren’t legal residents.
Take Sudafed for your cold symptoms? Due to its connection with methamphetamine, federal law limits the amount pseudoephedrine (antihistamine) you can buy in a month. Federal law says nothing about how many guns you can purchase in one transaction.
Also like Gun Control, the pseudoephedrine restrictions were put in place to limit the production of illegal meth…have you noticed how people aren’t using meth anymore? Nice idea, citing a law that doesn’t work as justifications for other laws that don’t work. Also there are some laws in place that treat larger sales different than smaller ones, but its pretty obvious that factual arguments aren’t going to be used here.
To get a cell phone contract, you have to provide your social security number. It’s the same when signing up for many utilities services. When buying a gun, providing a social security number is not necessary.
…But supplying a SSN is an OPTION! I’ve never filled out the optional line when buying a gun, I know others who have when contesting a NICS denial. You see the system is built so that there are tons of false denials for every person who is actually denied a transaction, usually the addition of the SSN clears that up. So what’s the point you’re trying to make?
The FDA prohibits most dogs in restaurants in all fifty states. Forty-nine states (all but Illinois) allow concealed firearms to be carried in public.
So a living entity with its own free will is EXACTLY like guns? This is just pure lack of thought. Dogs aren’t allowed in restaurants because they are living animals, they’re covered with allergens, they are self-contained colonies of bacteria, and they excrete harmful waste. Guns are pieces of metal, plastic, and wood, often lubed with oil. Kinda like cars…which we send through the drive-through. Of course also if we think about this a little bit, many of us have dogs. Of those people, all of you have kitchens. All but a few of you regularly use said kitchen to prepare food. How many of you have become ill or died because you have a dog in the home where you prepare and eat food? Man if we were to THINK, we might have a good discussion about that!
Houston lawmakers recently proposed a law which would require all strippers to get permits to take off their clothes. In the same state of Texas, no permit is necessary to purchase an assault rifle.
Here’s a good one. Is Houston licensing strippers for a reason other than shaking them down for money? Is there a major health risk from unlicensed strippers? Yeah, they’re really going to hang their hat on this one.
Due to zoning laws in Miami-Dade county in Florida, liquor stores must be built 2,000 feet away from churches. Concealed guns can be carried into churches. Last year, in St. Petersburg, Fla., a pastor’s daughter was accidentally shot by a gun-carrying congregant.
Huhhh? Seriously? More bullshit blue laws from the puritans and you’re actually claiming this is GOOD? Why don’t you talk about laws requiring blacks to drink from water fountains and sit in special spots on the bus, but not for gun owners? This is REALLY your argument?
In order to get open water scuba diving certification in Colorado, certification courses of up to three days are required; these include classroom sessions, pool dives, and open water practice dives. To meet the qualification for a concealed carry permit, you can take a 90-minute online course called “Introduction to Pistol Safety,” with no actual shooting practice, and be on your way.
Ok first they’re over-simplifying the issue. Some states, like Florida have such a system. You take a simple class and go through some silly motions and you get your permit. Other states have range qualifications and DAYS of class. Other states don’t have any training…or any permits. So we have a nice petri dish of variables here…and there is no noticeable difference negligent, ignorant, or foolish behavior by gun owners. Sorry, the classes simply aren’t necessary. I wrote a great post about it a while back.
Now I’m licensed to carry in most states, and I’m a certified SCUBA diver (BTW which is good in ALL states, and never needs to be renewed…sign me up for that!), and the stuff they teach you in SCUBA class is pretty different than in carry class. In Carry class they spend a little bit of time on how to align sights, load unload, and safely handle a gun, the different types of guns, and how to press the trigger. Most of the talk is about laws.
In SCUBA we have a little bit of law talk (like you’re not allowed to dive without a diver flag flying), and things like the different types of gear, and what things are used for. But Much of the class is teaching you things that might be counter-intuitive. The four rules of gun safety are REALLY intuitive. Add in the “Keep the Gun Unloaded when you aren’t using it” bit, and its REALLY easy to not have a problem.
Did you know that if you hold your breath while at depth your could rupture your lungs while on SCUBA? Did you know that if you’ve been at depth for a length of time, simply swimming to the surface might kill you? There are also tasks we needed to do that really don’t have a parallel to gun training, unless you’re in some of the more outlandish “Tactical Carbine” courses. Things like how to take off, and put all your gear back on WHILE AT DEPTH, say in the event that your tank or vest gets tangled.
Really the two aren’t comparable, but that sure doesn’t stop them, does it?
Thinking really isn’t something they do much of when talking about the issue. If only they MEANT it when they say we need a “Serious Debate” about guns.
Wow, just saw this video from the US Navy:
Look, I’m no proponent of “Bath Salts”, and frankly the only reason why people do that crap is because its one way to keep ahead of drug possession laws and testing.
Really this screams of this:
Honestly I don’t know much about the effects of this family of drugs (also given the rapid changes in formulation to evade the law, possibly nobody else does either), but videos like this make me scratch my head and have serious doubts.
Also what’s the DOCTOR on? He kinda creeps me out too!
This is yet another event of unintended consequences from the “War on Drugs”. In college I knew a guy who had a pretty serious drug problem, and this problem led him to get arrested and put on parole. While on parole he was regularly drug tested, and being a guy who didn’t like to go very long without SOMETHING in his system, he turned to alternatives that wouldn’t show up in tests. He told me he had taken Robitussin for hallucinogenic effects, and described the resultant experience as “Not Worth It”.
Still this crap along with “Bath Salts” and “Spice” are popular because they sidestep around laws and testing kits.
Can we please end this horrible foolishness? People want to take drugs, and they want to take them so badly they risk prosecution, and death. We really need to re-think these things.
People tell us you don’t need a gun because your property isn’t worth killing over:
A southwest Florida man has been charged with second-degree murder after authorities say he fatally stabbed his roommate for stealing his food.
They also tell us if the bad guys don’t have guns, we don’t need guns. I beg to differ!
So on the Squirrel Report I was just about to make a point about Mitt Romney, when Skype went all wonky.
I’ll put it here. First go read this post.
Obama dropped the whole “AKs belong on the battlefield not on the streets” bit while on the campaign trail, and the gun bloggers said that Romney may have won the race…until Romney said this:
Mitt Romney said today he believes new gun legislation is unnecessary and defended an assault-weapons ban he signed into law as Massachusetts governor…As Massachusetts governor in 2004, Romney signed into law an assault weapons ban that was backed by gun owners and gun control advocates. The Massachusetts law banned the AR-15, one of the weapons that police say was used inside the Colorado theater on Friday.
Romney loves gun bans as much as Obama does. The only difference is that if he was President today he’d be leading the charge for gun bans rather than Joe Biden.
Which do you think we have a better chance with?
OK I’m off to bed!
We’ll be talking about, what else, but“> guns and gun control.
Our call-in topic is what your favorite anti-rights talking point on this debate. That should keep us busy all night!
Tune in for yet another SQUIRREL REPORT! 9pm EST!
