Yep, watersports
A former NASA astronaut who commanded space shuttle Discovery’s second-to-last mission died after a water scooter crash involving his sons near Pensacola Beach.
Capt. Alan Poindexter, 50, died Sunday after a water scooter driven by his 26-year-old son, Zachary, collided into the back of another one the former astronaut was riding.
BAN PERSONAL WATERCRAFT!
They give the antis the time, but they give Miguel the final word! Go have a look!
I like Spitzer’s idea, because the gun companies won’t play, and the agencies will suffer, or cave. This is the same idea as Ron Barret refusing to sell any of his hardware to the State of California. Barret made his big bucks selling his .50 BMG rifles to sport shooters and collectors, and military and police discovered that the gun had some tactical implications. Barret expanded his products to smaller weapons with even more uses. Then California banned sales of .50 BMG rifles to civilians, and Ron told them they weren’t welcome to his products and stopped all sales.
The only downside to no government sales is its an easy way to defer development costs, hence why the Bushmaster ACR was claimed to be a $1,000 gun, but actually sells for closer to $3,000. When Bushmaster bought the rights of the rifle from Magpul they expected that they could get some government contracts for the gun…they didn’t, so rather than passing the cost over in large volume to the government, they have to pass the cost over smaller unit numbers…and guess what, people are buying them!
Spitzer thinks they have that power…but we KNOW they don’t. Certainly this will never happen to the military because the Department of Defense won’t risk losing weapon supplies. The state police agencies? They might be that dumb, and just imagine what things will look like once the service guns need new springs, or extractors, or trigger bars…and the parts bin is empty because S&W and Glock aren’t interested in going back to the lean days of the 90s, so the agency can’t be re-supplied.
And who can they go with? They can’t buy S&W Revolvers, because Smith won’t forgoe their M&P pistols and Rifles for the sake of some police department, they can’t get Ruger Revolvers because Ruger has their own AR-15s, as well as their SR9 and 40 guns they won’t want to burn.
Maybe they can raid those “Buy Back” piles and start issuing the police rusty Iver Johnson and H&R revolvers, and rusty Raven pistols! Yeah the beat cops would LOVE that!
Time for a week of relaxation in Vermont. No computers, no electricity, just lots of quiet time, swimming, and chilling with family. Blogging will be very light.
I took the liberty of doing a massive dump of articles this morning (mostly thanks to the amazing Bubblehead Les News Network! You’re awesome man, and we love you!) and of course thanks to everybody who has submitted articles for the “Gun Death?” Files which will be posted daily in my absence.
So have fun guys, and I’ll see you in a week!
Mrs. Weer’d found this article this morning. I think it raises some good points:
But how do we know who is dangerous? The Brady Campaign mentions “convicted felons,” “convicted domestic abusers,” “terrorists,” and “people found to be dangerously mentally ill.” It omits a crucial category: people with dangerous ideas.
Wade M. Page, the Army veteran identified as the gunman who was shot to death by police after killing six people and injuring three at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, had documented ties to white supremacist groups….In other words, Page’s scary views were well-known long before he bought the 9mm handgun he used in this week’s attack. Yet he was still able to pass a federal background check.
Federal law currently bans gun ownership by felons, illegal drug users, people convicted of misdemeanors involving domestic violence, and people “committed to a mental institution” or “adjudicated as a mental defective.” Amazingly, there is no ideological test for gun ownership, even though someone like Page, “who fed and was fueled by hate” (as the Times put it), is far more dangerous than the average pot smoker or mental patient.
Now the article is a parody (later on the author points out that Thomas Jefferson fit the bill to have his rights removed), still I think the point is really solid. The anti-rights boilerplate of “Criminals”, “Mentally Ill”, and “Terrorists”, is pretty clear. Obviously the first two are already federal law, and I suspect they’re mentioned for confusion (tho I suspect they want to broaden “Mental Illness” to everybody who ever took an aspirin for a headache….certainly that whole “Due Process” part currently in place is too lenient! Remember “anti-freedom”, not “anti-gun”) but “Terrorist” means anybody on the Terror Watch List, which is full of non-terrorists, devoid of many KNOWN terrorists, and completely without oversight or the ability to challenge the citation.
The antis want to ban all guns…but the Constitution and public sentiment won’t let them do that, so they can simply declare us all “unfit” and leave the guns for the handful of political elite who can manipulate the system for their own gains!
Anti-Freedom people are so stupid even forming their own thoughts is a difficult task:
Time magazine and CNN suspended Fareed Zakaria, the writer and television host, on Friday after he apologized for plagiarizing sections of his column on gun control in the Aug. 20 issue of Time.
Some passages in the column, “The Case for Gun Control,” closely tracked those in a longer article on guns in America by the historian Jill Lepore, which appeared in the April 23 issue of The New Yorker.
This is pretty wide-spread with anti-gun people, they copy their talking points and pat each other on the back for how “Smart” they are. This guy just went a bit further. Of course I know a few anti-rights blogs that do this every day. Its nothing new.
A 7-year-old Connecticut girl will lose her 20-pound pet rabbit if North Haven officials get their way.
Zoning Enforcement Officer Arthur Hausman issued a cease-and-desist order to the Lidsky family two weeks ago, informing them that they were violating town zoning regulations because their property was smaller than the 2 acres required to keep rabbits and other types of livestock….In May, town officials inspected the property and asked Lidsky to take several actions, including removing the rabbit hutch, replacing missing siding on his house and repairing an unfinished addition.
Lidsky says he’s appealing Hausman’s order about the rabbit to the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals, but he’s willing to clean up his yard….”The situation with North Haven’s zoning is ridiculous,” she told the Register. “We’re not talking about a breeder or multiple rabbits. We’re talking about one pet bunny who is obviously beloved and well-cared for.”
I fail to see how much worse ONE large rabbit is than say 5-6 large-breed dogs. Also rabbits are pretty common pets, I know a ton of people who keep them, hell even my parents had a pet rabbit when they were first married. Also I can see zoning laws being an issue if they were raising rabbits for various reasons, but this is obviously a pet. Now a hutch does have some odor, and mess compared to a box-trained rabbit, but again, are dogs and cats any better?
Sounds like the family is a little lax about the presentation of their house, given the other citations, and this was just a nice below-the-belt hit for the city to let the citizen know who’s boss.
Classy!
wo teens in suburban Philadelphia were cited for doodling on the street with chalk, police said.
The Doylestown Intelligencer reported Friday (http://bit.ly/P9IvKa ) that 18-year-old Connor Logan and a 17-year-old friend drew a whale and sea turtles in a parking lot.
Doylestown Police Chief James Donnelly said that although chalk washes off, the drawings are “an attempt at vandalism.”
The doodles might link the teens to chalk graffiti on buildings and businesses in town, Donnelly said.
Seriously? My Neighbor’s daughter LOVES sidewalk chalk, and frequently covers huge swaths of her driveway with doodles, and game boards like hopscotch. All it takes is a light rain and the drawings vanish. I guess I could see some minor charges if the kids were drawing obscenities on public or private property, but sea life? There is no way this is “Vandalism” as 30 seconds with a hose erases all traces, and on a public street, is this really a worry? If they’re obstructing traffic, fine, or if they’re loitering in a private or public parking lot, tell them to get lost. This is just jackbooted thuggery!
It seems that anti-gun people can only think like violent killers:
“I’m looking beyond gun control. That’s for the legislators to wrangle with,” Berkowitz, 59, said. “My hope is just that young people would understand just how terrible this violence is. When they use a gun against someone else, they ruin their lives too. It’s not worth it.”
A mentally insane violent killer can only frame guns from their own perspective. The Anti-Freedom lobby has the same mindset, they only see gun owners as violent killers. Meanwhile thousands of lives are SAVED (often without firing a shot) by guns every year.
Reading this drivel leaves me with one question: If one of Berkowitz’s victims had shot him dead, would the world really be a worse place?
Why don’t we register sex offenders like cars! Oh wait, we do!
A man on parole for trying to infect children with HIV nearly twenty years ago pulled a boy into a Portland restaurant bathroom over the weekend, attempted to sexually assault him and then stabbed him several times, police said.
The 10-year-old’s injuries from the attack Sunday were severe enough to require surgery, and officers said he would have died without immediate care.
Registration and legal restrictions did nothing to stop this…unless you only count “Gun death” then there was no crime at all!
Youtube is reading my mind! Jeff shows some love for the Vz 61!
Same his isn’t a full-auto variant. Transferable Vz 61s are VERY rare guns, and command high auction prices. I’m still trying to talk Wally into building a non-transferable one just so I can shoot one.
I have no idea why I like this gun so much, it has so-so ergonomics, its in a meager pistol caliber (tho there were variants in 9x18mm which is really appealing), and it really doesn’t seem to do anything particularly well, its a bulky crappy pistol, its an underpowered low-capacity SMG, and it isn’t much of a rifle.
I still want one, and if the NFA was to vanish tomorrow I’d buy one…and maybe a can for it too!
