Jet Skier hops a fence, walks across the runways and walks into the terminal at JFK.
This guy was drunk and wearing a life jacket. Can you imagine if somebody SMART attempted to do this with ill intent?
Makes you feel really good when the TSA goon is sticking their hands down your pants, doesn’t it?
Yet another sex offender making a mockery of the Registry:
A suburban Philadelphia police chief said he is outraged after learning that a violent sex predator was able to list his address as a park popular among children…Sherlock, 30, pleaded guilty in 2003 to aggravated indecent assault of a 13-year-old girl and was sentenced to two to four years in prison, according to the newspaper.
Chitwood said that Sherlock, who is required to publicly list his address, is labeled homeless on the Megan Law’s website, with the popular children’s park listed as his residence.
One of the more common tricks I hear about are when the Sex Offender transitions from Prison to the home of a friend or family member…then they get an apartment of their own, and they don’t change the registration. So they’re listed as living in Mom’s retirement community where nobody on the street is under 65, but they’ve since signed a lease at the cheap apartment across the street from the municipal swimming pool and playground.
Really the crux is that these people may have legal restrictions, but they’re unsupervised and free to go wherever they please. Either they’re safe to freely walk among our children or they should still be locked up, or dead.
I don’t think I’m unreasonable. NOT raping children is EASY, I do it every day, all day long. I don’t have much sympathy for those so damaged that somehow that horrible behavior is not only not repugnant, but agreeable to them. We have lots of good people out there, let’s not waste time trying to fix the monsters.
Haven’t heard an anti step into this little conundrum in a while!
You must remember when I wrote this post. Guns are used so infrequently in public places for self defense that it begs credulity to hear the gun guys try to sell legislators on the idea that that is how their guns will be used….Van Cleave tries to make us all believe that someone in the Aurora movie theater with a gun could have changed the outcome. He has absolutely no standing to say that. It hasn’t worked so far in a mass shooting….We do not need guns in libraries and on college campuses. There is no reason for people to have them there. Gun free zones do not invite criminals with guns to shoot people. Those folks intent on doing harm shoot people anywhere. The idea that a criminal or law abiding citizen thinks ahead of time about whether someone inside of a place will have a gun is just a specious argument.
Ok first let’s touch on Joan’s little parallel universe “facts”. First guns are used defensively quite often, the low stats say around 100,000 per year (which is dead even with people who are criminally shot per year) high stats say up to 2 million. Reality is somewhere in between, and those numbers add up pretty good on the side of liberty and arming good people. Also Joan Peterson has a nice “heads I win, tales you lose” when it comes to defensive guns to stop mass shootings. If the shooter kills a bunch of people and is stopped, the defensive gun wasn’t enough, if the shooter is stopped BEFORE they can kill anybody…well that wasn’t a mass shooting so it doesn’t count! Its like the Christian Scientist method of medical care, or medical blood letting. If the person recovers the bunk treatment was the solution, if the person dies, then obviously they were too sick and there was NOTHING that could have saved them!
Still the Conundrum is that we don’t NEED to have guns and shouldn’t carry them because we’ll never use them and that doesn’t happen…but we NEED “Gun Free Zones”, and onerous gun control laws because armed people very frequently commit mass murder.
Of course the issue is these two observations are contradictory. Its obvious that police protection is hardly enough because such events DO indeed happen, and by the time the Police arrive the action is over, or the bulk of the carnage is done. Still what is it? Am I so safe that I have zero need to carry a gun, or am I living a some horrible post-apocalyptic world where murder is commonplace?
Also just like the anti-rights logic problem of “If guns were as illegal as murder, nobody would be murdered with guns” one needs to think, if we’re so safe, who fucking cares who or where people carry guns? I mean if the world suddenly had a zero violent crime rate I certainly wouldn’t NEED guns….but if the world has a zero violent crime rate, who cares what guns I own and what I do with them?
And if we live in such a dangerous world as Joan Asserts:
Semi automatic weapons are guns that shoot a lot of people in a very short time. The public understands that one. Though some hunting rifles are semi-automatic and are used to kill people as well, it is the assault type weapons that are doing the most damage in the shootings. Gun owners understand the difference.
Then why on Earth would I EVER leave my home unarmed? And why wouldn’t I want to keep my own “Assault type weapon” close at hand?….you know, because of all the mass murder!
Of course the reality is that life in America is mostly safe. Violent crime on the individual basis is fairly rare. If you’re an upstanding citizen who doesn’t deal in or associate with illegal drug economy, you’re really in overall good shape. Mass murders are even more rare, and right up there with getting bit by a shark or struck by lighting.
Still I don’t go swimming when I have an open cut and the Coast Guard helicopters are circling the beach watching the great whites, nor do I climb a tree in an electrical storm, or decide that a thunderstorm is the ideal time to go for a horseback ride in the pasture or decide to take up the game of golf.
You are relatively safe, but you are not COMPLETELY safe. People ARE killed by lighting, sharks, and spree killers, and you really need to examine factors that might put you in those numbers. Frankly even with the VPC biased “Conceal Carry Killers” project doesn’t even paint a convincing point that lawful carriers are much of a risk to public, and certainly I know I’M not a violent person. I get upset at people, and occasionally I lose my temper with some interpersonal situations…and I never so much as take a swing at those people, so my gun being used for murder seems pretty weak. I also know how long it takes for me to draw, and I know my shooting ability.
That math says Its probably a good idea for me to go armed wherever I can. Also from reading stories of defensive shooting I know that being able to qualify IDPA Master Class are probably mostly superfluous skills and the skills that can REALLY save your life are simply mental preparation and a basic familiarity and proficiency with their carry gun is all that’s needed. So its probably better for all lawful people to be armed if they so wish.
Also odd that Joan asserts that criminals don’t seem to choose “Gun Free Zones” as their areas to do mayhem, when it seems that all the shootings she revels in are indeed in “Gun Free Zones”.
Of course this is why they lose, and why her bleats of “Common Sense” is so ironic. She talks about “Common Sense” yet she’s openly contradicting herself? Good luck with that!
Are these Russian Moms one-upping each other?
A Russian mother told witnesses she threw her two young sons to their deaths from a 15th-floor balcony because she was “fed up” with them, RT News reported Monday.
Galina Ryabkova, 30, allegedly tossed her sons, ages 4 and 7, from the Moscow apartment building where she lived with her husband.
Ryabkova reportedly later told witnesses she was “fed up with children” and “decided to get rid of them.”
Stunned neighbors were alerted to the horrific incident when they heard the thump of the children’s bodies hitting the ground.
Good thing Russia bans guns, otherwise these kids might have been shot!
She later told investigators that her children were now “angels in heaven,” RIA Novosti reported.
How sweet…
h/t Bob
Their use of electronic sounds is really making me happy!
Also God Bless whoever decided that a sports bra as enough for a woman to cover her breasts. Modesty sucks! 😉
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….)
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.
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.
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!
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.
