Anti-Freedom, Not Anti-Gun

Where they ban guns they tend to frown on other freedoms:

Police and prosecutors in the UK are accused of being “incredibly heavy-handed” when dealing with online trolls and abusive messages.

It follows several cases where young people have been arrested, fined or jailed after posting insulting comments on their Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Campaign groups and experts from Oxford University say the punishments are heavier than in other countries.

But police insist if a law is broken they will take action.

Of course its essentially illegal to own a firearm in the UK, also if police think you look “Suspicious” (which from all the studies I’ve read, it means “black”) they can detain and search you without cause.

Oh yeah, and you can go to prison for simply carrying a pocket knife.

Anti-Freedom, not Anti-gun! And this is where the gun banners want us to go! (BTW I wonder if I could jail some of the bloggers who have said rude and insulting things about me on the internet….one in particular happens to be a British Subject….)

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A Big Loss For Film

Tony Scott has committed Suicide.

Action movie maestro Tony Scott reportedly battled inoperable brain cancer before he jumped from a Los Angeles bridge and died Sunday.

I’m a huge fan of all the Scott Free movies made by Tony and his brother Ridley. Sounds like he was suffering from brain cancer, which can be a totally horrible way to go, so I respect his choice, but its still very sad.

He will be missed.

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Still Not Buying it!

Remember this story? They’re doubling down!

A man whose hands were cuffed behind him in the back seat of an Arkansas patrol car shot himself in the right temple with a handgun he apparently concealed from arresting officers, according to an autopsy report released Monday that listed the death as a suicide.

The state crime lab report, signed by three medical examiners, said the muzzle of a gun was placed against Chavis Carter’s head when it was fired. Jonesboro police released the report to The Associated Press and other news organizations under a Freedom of Information Act request.

I actually find the muzzle contact wound in conjunction with a man who’s hands are cuffed behind his back makes it smell even worse, not better. Then there’s this:

The autopsy report comes days after police released dashboard camera video recorded the night Carter was shot in Jonesboro, about 130 miles northeast of Little Rock. Part of the video showed Carter being patted down and ended before officers found Carter slumped over and bleeding in the back of a patrol car as was described in a police report. Police later released additional video they said was recorded after Carter was found.

Neither included the moment they say Carter shot himself, and the footage did little to resolve questions about how the shooting could have happened.

The videos (or likely just audio as I suspect the cameras don’t point into the back seat of the cruiser) have the moment the gun went off…or the potential of damning evidence such as a man saying “Hey what are you doing with that gun????”.

As part of their investigation, the Jonesboro Police Department also released a video reconstruction of the shooting showing how a man could shoot himself in the head with his hands cuffed behind him.

In producing the video, the agency said it used the same type of handcuffs used on Carter and the same model of handgun found with Carter after he died, a .380-caliber Cobra semi-automatic. An officer of similar height and weight as Carter sat in the back of a cruiser, leaned over and was able to lift the weapon to his head and reach the trigger.

Here’s the Police Video:

The police demo seems to point that it IS possible if he was able to stash the gun into the seat which seems like some expert fore-thought on the behalf of the suspect, and some severe incompetence on behalf of the police. The Cobra .380s aren’t Ruger LCPs, they’re cheap potmetal blowback pistols, and while not BIG guns, they aren’t tiny either.

I’m still not buying it. While this guy was NOT a saint, as he seems to have been dealing at the time of his detention, and was on the lam for other drug charges, I wonder if the cops decided Justice wasn’t going to work out in this case, and a cheap throwdown gun might solve their problem.

Given that this thin story is being held up by the very police who are the potential murder suspects.

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WWJD

Not always the best course of action:

A Republican congressman representing Kansas has apologized for embarrassing his supporters by swimming naked at the holy site of the Sea of Galilee while on a fact-finding mission to Israel.

Freshman U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, 36, has not been charged in the Aug. 18, 2011, incident in which he and about 20 other lawmakers and staff members jumped into the water. Politico reported Sunday that he was the only one among them who wore no clothes…..Some Christians consider the Sea of Galilee a holy site because they believe Jesus walked on water there. Swimming in the lake is permitted but public nudity is not allowed, according to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

Now I suspect when Jesus and his contemporaries wanted to cool off on a hot day they’d strip down to their B-Day suit and go for a swim. Frankly I couldn’t care less that this dude did this, but given that he broke Israeli law, that’s a bit of a big deal.

WWJD isn’t always the best choice. Also if you’re a Republican and get caught doing something like this, you’ll always note your party affiliation will be put right in the lead!

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Powerful Video

WOW my breath is taken away.

I suspect Maine has a fairly similar demographic makeup as Prince Edward Island back in the 80s and 90s when I was in school there. My high school was fairly large and we had TWO black families, and one of the black girls I went to school with, her white mother had divorced her black father and re-married a white man.

Her assertion that she was called “Nigger” nearly every day at school doesn’t surprise me, as people who live in a racial monoculture are often more curious and afraid of minorities, and probably don’t know the full weight that word holds, having likely only read about it in books and heard it spoken in film and music.

The racism of the Democrat party is burning strong, but they’re quick to point the finger to the Republicans because they feel they can get away with it.

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There’s an Ap for that!

Blackhawk 101 sends me this iphone ap!

This application is for any gun owner! The purpose of this app is for the legal and conscientious concealed carry license holder to know where they cannot legally carry before getting there. A licensed permit holder or a resident of a constitutional carry state can usually legally carry their firearm in any location other than statutory “no carry” locations such as schools, gov. buildings, etc., and in locations that are posted prohibiting firearms. This is a list of those Posted locations.

Find hotels where you can’t carry before booking a trip to one. Find restaurants where you cannot carry before making dinner plans. Find stores to avoid before you step out the door. It is extremely inconvenient to not find out until you get to a location that they prohibit your second amendment rights. You have to either disarm in the parking lot (causing your vehicle to be a target for thieves) or go somewhere else at the last second. If you know beforehand, you can avoid the places that prohibit carry, or you can leave your firearm at home if you must attend.

Super useful! I hope they port it for Android!

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Bubblehead Les News Dump

While I was on vacation, Bubblehead Les was still reading the news and sending me stories. I’ll just do one mega post to share the best ones!

First, why gun control will never win!

A raffle definitely would have brought in money. Same for a breakfast fundraiser — like maybe eggs, bacon and biscuits at $25 a plate.
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But for the Asheville Tea Party Political Action Committee, nothing quite says true American like the chance to blast a couple dozen rounds from an Uzi.

People showing up for the group’s “Machine Gun Social” on Sept. 29 will get to do just that while raising money to support candidates endorsed by the group in the November election, Chairwoman Jane Bilello said.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Bilello said. “It’s a really cool thing to do. Our folks love it.”

For $25, attendees can shoot a 30-round clip from a 9mm submachine gun such as an HK MP5 or Uzi, while $35 pays for use of an M16 and $50 gets the firepower of an AK-47.

Machine guns are fun, and people are willing to hold successful fund raisers by letting people fire them. They raised a bunch of money, and nobody was hurt! Funny how that works!

Next is this silliness.

A military appeals court on Friday officially postponed the court martial for accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan while it decides if the trial judge can order his beard forcibly shaved, U.S. Army officials said on Friday….Hasan’s attorneys say the beard is an expression of his religious beliefs, but the unshorn facial hair is in violation of Army grooming regulations.

The Court of Appeal for the Armed Forces said all proceedings related to Hasan’s case are off until further notice. July selection was set to begin on Monday.

Its not like this crazy asshole converted to Islam in Prison. He was yelling “Allah Hu Akbar!” as he shot his comrades in arms, who of course were disarmed by stupid military policy. The beard is a ploy, and frankly they should just tell him he can shave his beard as he did for his full military service, or he can watch his trial in his cell, and then have his corps shaved after he’s been executed, and buried with a porkchop stuck down his treasonous mouth and a star of David on his headstone.

Here’s some great state-sponsored “Progressive” racism:

Two high school choruses will reportedly not perform with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra this year because their groups are not racially-diverse enough.

WSBTV.com reports that the Walton and Lassiter High School choruses in Cobb County will not get a chance to perform with Atlanta’s professional this fall as a result of the determination.

“This year, the schools were informed by symphony officials that their choruses are not diverse enough, and that the symphony would be inviting a third, more diverse chorus,” Cobb County Schools spokesman Jay Dillon told the website.

Local residents told the website the decision reeked of discrimination.

Racism is alive and well in America, and the people who claim to be the most against racism are the ones supporting it!

Then there’s this junk-science boondoggle:

State Department oversight of climate change spending abroad is a mess, watchdog reports…The OIG report points to a host of lapses in the way OES/EGC has supervised climate change spending, based on what the OIG observed in a sampling of climate change projects between 2006 and 2010, when the overall spending tab amounted to some $214 million.

The OIG sampling involved $34 million of the total.

The whole reason for “Climate Change” even being discussed is political posturing and graft. The East Anglia conspiracy was all done to garner government grant money, and the grants were given so that politicians to push their Socialist agenda on environmentalism rather than the traditional Marxist class warfare model. Its little surprise people are lining their pockets with government monies.

Here’s some good news:

A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday refused to stop a tough new voter identification law from going into effect, which Democrats say will suppress votes among President Barack Obama’s supporters.

Its good for the Democrats to admit that Obama’s key supporters are dead people, illegal aliens, and convicted felons. I knew a few kids in school who didn’t have the funds to pay for their driving tests and fees so they went to city hall and got a Maine State ID. I think the fee was around $15…literally an amount you can easily get from picking up cans. I’m sure some states charge more for IDs because they’re greedy. I know my Massachusetts driver’s license costs around $50 to renew, and I think its closer to $100 for the first issue. That’s the fault of the state, not on ID. But really we don’t live in a society where you can function without positive ID, you need an ID to buy restricted items like cigarettes and alcohol, and while I’ve never been on public assistance, I can’t imagine they don’t need to see your ID to get the kiss in the mail. Sorry if you’re against Voter ID, its because you’re FOR voter fraud!

Not sure if this warrants its own “Gun Death” post, but its worth a look at.

Denver police are looking for a man accused of beating a bride on her wedding day, and then sending his roommate’s dog to attack her.

Dogs and fists aren’t guns! So this isn’t a “Gun Crime”, so the antis will ignore it.

Also this self defense tale is the reason why I urge for people to carry their damn guns.

A Louisiana college student desperately tried to fend off her killer by spraying him with mace and even stabbing him several times with his own knife before he fatally shot her, according to details revealed Friday in a guilty plea hearing.

Big guy with a knife and a gun vs. a small woman with some chemical spray. This is the Utopia the anti-rights people want for us. They are all for stacking the deck for the criminals.

And more anti-gun Utopia:

Norwegian authorities could have prevented or interrupted the bomb and gun attacks by a far-right fanatic who killed 77 people last year, a government appointed commission said Monday.

The long-awaited report into the July 22 attacks also said the domestic intelligence service could have done more to track down the gunman, but stopped short of saying it could have stopped him.

Anders Behring Breivik, 33, has admitted to the bombing of the government’s headquarters in Oslo, which killed eight people and the subsequent shooting spree at a youth camp that left 69 dead, more than half of them teenagers. He is currently awaiting sentencing.

Just trust the police to save you!

Oh and some anti-gun wishful thinking:

Democratic leaders in three big states have used this summer’s mass shooting in Colorado to push bills that would crack down on assault weapons and ammunition sales, rekindling a debate that has not gained much traction in Congress or on the presidential campaign.

In Illinois, Gov. Pat Quinn proposed that his state enact a strict ban on assault weapons, similar to California’s. New York lawmakers have proposed wide-ranging legislation that would limit weapons purchases.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the Democratic state Senate leader back a bill that would make it more difficult and time-consuming to reload assault weapons. The chairmen of public safety committees in California’s Assembly and Senate co-authored a bill that would require dealers to report purchases of large quantities of ammunition to law enforcement authorities.

Given that people are buying more guns and ammo than ever, they’ll need a LOT of luck to pass this crap.

OK well thanks Les for all the News! Hope you all enjoy the stories!

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“Gun Death” Stabbing and Car

This one is a ttofecta of horrible:

A woman and two children found dead in a suburban Detroit home when officers went to notify her of her husband’s death in a fatal crash were stabbed with a butcher knife, police said Friday.

Police said officers entered the home after finding the door ajar and getting no response. They found the bodies of Linda VanDerLinden and her two sons in separate bedrooms.

Van Buren Township police Capt. Gregory Laurain said an autopsy showed Linda VanDerLinden, 34, died of strangulation but had been stabbed in the chest.

The medical examiner’s report said Julien VanDerLinden, 7, and his brother Matthew VanDerLinden, 4, were stabbed multiple times in the chest and arms, Laurain said.

He said investigators believe an 8 1/2-inch butcher knife found in the kitchen sink was the weapon used in the stabbings.

So sick Daddy strangles his wife, and then pokes some holes in her for good measure, then stabs his young kids to death. All with a carving knife…again why would anybody NEED a kitchen knife???

Then I’m betting his suicide method was by car, but the police are unsure.

So a triple-murder suicide, committed by objects 99% of us all have. Bare hands, kitchen knives, and cars. Those who use “Gun Death” as a metric seem to imply that guns cause crime, and banning guns will somehow stop crime. Meanwhile almost all of us own guns and commit no crimes, but they must ban guns because very few people commit horrible crimes with guns. Yet here’s a very horrible crime committed with items we ALL have. The anti-rights logic doesn’t hold up.

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The Chickadee Wisperer

Dad sent me this picture. I was having some trouble with my email server, so he emailed it to my blog account under the heading “Gun Death” Chickadee. Dad’s a funny guy!

Now the Black Cap Chickadee is well known to have little fear of humans, despite being bite-sized, and relatively slow fliers. They can be easily tamed if one has the inclination. I remember going to a small amusement park in New Hampshire as a kid, and one of the workers passed the time by feeding the chickadees, and could even get the little guys to snatch sunflower seeds from between his lips!

Still Dad took the easy way to tame this guy. He let him knock himself silly against a picture window, and then picked him up to see if he was OK. Once he came to, he found that Dad’s finger was the place to be, and Dad had to actually pick him up and place him at the bird feeder so he could go about his day.

Good times!

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“Gun Death” Bad Mom

Really bad:

A Russian court sentenced a young mother and her brother to least eight years in jail each Tuesday after they acknowledged putting the woman’s 9-month-old son on a four-lane highway outside Moscow in hopes he would get killed.

EIGHT YEARS??? This is cold-blooded murder!!! WTF?? Not only is there no other likely outcome, but that was what they PLANNED! BAD JUSTICE! But not a “Gun Death”

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