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Virginia Tech in the News

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Les sends me two stories related to the Virginia Tech shooting. First a Negligence lawsuit.

A judge on Wednesday upheld a jury’s negligence finding against the state in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre but sharply reduced damages to two families who said their daughters could have survived if the university alerted the campus earlier.

Franklin County Circuit Judge William Alexander II set the jury’s award at $100,000 for each family, the highest amount allowed under a cap on damages against the state. A jury had initially awarded $4 million to each family after an eight-day trial of the lawsuit in March.

Interesting given this little tid-bit.

The state said while it was pleased the damages were reduced, it continued to argue that Virginia Tech leaders had no “duty” to warn the campus of the first two shootings, among other points of their appeal.

Cops don’t HAVE to protect you. Still the campus had recently ruled that there was no need for students and faculty with carry permits to be allowed on campus…for all the good it did on that day. Maybe this hit to the wallet will get them to give campus carry a little more reasonable thought.

Then this story:

An online weapons dealer who supplied three mass killers has quietly closed up shop amid numerous customer complaints…Police say Thompson closed the business at the end of May after scores of customers complained they ordered equipment and received nothing. The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau says it has received nearly 200 complaints from customers in 44 states since January. Detectives have opened an investigation.

Well that just sucks. This guy has been SCREWED by the anti-rights cult, and the MSM (But I repeat myself) as he followed all the laws, and backgrounds were conducted on all the guns, and as for the equipment…who cares?

But he’s apparently pulling this crap, and it sounds like not only was he failing to deliver product, but he may have been pocketing the cash.

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Light Blogging Ahead

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I’m heading up to Maine for the Portcon Anime Convention. Should be a good time, but there won’t be a ton of blogging.

Still per usual, the “Gun Death?” files are set so it won’t be completely dark!

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In the Land Where Carrying Guns Are Banned…

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Weerd Beard

The Kangaroos rule.

An Australian mom has told of being “stalked” by a rogue kangaroo for two days before it savaged her, leaving her with a 12-inch scar.

Kirrily McWilliams was first confronted by the growling female eastern gray kangaroo in the backyard of her property south of Port Macquarie, in New South Wales — and the next day it got through her fence and attacked her dog, a 143-pound mastiff.

Despite worried calls to National Parks and Wildlife Services for help, McWilliams was told to ignore the animal and it would go away, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph reported.

That afternoon she was walking down the driveway to pick her daughter up from the school bus when she saw the mad marsupial heading towards her at high speed. With nowhere to hide she dropped to the ground and curled up in a ball.

Of course carrying a gun is NOT just for aggressive people. Around here the commonly feared beasties are things like Bull Moose, Bears, Coyotes, or large cats…but even a dog attack can turn deadly. Heck in more extreme I’ve heard of people getting attack by deer who were either protecting young, injured, or felt they were cornered.

In America, if nature turns hostile, you can shoot it can call the authorities for cleanup and verification that indeed the animal was a danger and no, you’re not a poacher (but I guess a pre-dug hole can be the end of it as well) and you go on with life.

Rather than simply be at the mercy of how the authorities want to deal…and in this case NOT deal with it, while you’re getting the crap beat out of you by a hostile critter.

h/t Wallphone

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“Progressive”

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Weerd Beard

I guess it was suggested that a Kindergarten group sing “God Bless the USA” in a Kindergarten graduation. The Principal wouldn’t let them, so a local Politician hosted them in the playground to sing it.

What were they met with? “Progressives”!

Its a shame as the kids are really too young to understand this. Certainly the Principal did what he felt was right, and the response was acceptable….meanwhile the “Progressives” had every right to be there too.

But it doesn’t make you look very good shouting and swearing at kids while they’re trying to sing a patriotic song. This is “Progress” in their eyes.

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GOOD!

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Weerd Beard

The Texas Dad Won’t Face Charges!

Hearing his 5-year-old daughter crying from behind a barn, a father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man molesting her. The father pulled the man off his daughter, authorities say, and started pummeling him to death with his fists.

Caught a sexual assault in the act, and did what he could to stop it. Of course this story isn’t a “Gun Death”, so the antis are ignoring it. But I wonder what they would say about his “Duty to Retreat” if he had killed this man with his gun rather than his fists?

Best wishes to the family, and especially the little girl who went through hell, and the Dad who had to bring hell to save her.

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“Gun Death” Wrong Way

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Brutal Mass Death. You’ve been warned, but no guns involved.

A wrong-way crash that killed five people, including three children, in Mesquite overnight has many in the small community of Lindale grieving Thursday afternoon.

Police said 27-year-old Krystle Carranza, of Lindale, was driving the wrong way Wednesday night on Interstate 20 with her three daughters in a pickup truck. The truck slammed head-on into an SUV heading the right direction at about 11:30 p.m. near FM 740 in Mesquite. Both vehicles burst into flames. Carranza, her three children and the other driver, Fred Ulysses Hammett Jr., 70, were all killed in the crash…Mesquite police are still looking into how Carranza got onto Interstate 20 going the wrong way. They’re also investigating how fast she was driving and whether alcohol was involved.

Is this massive body count any better because no “Gun Deaths” were involved? If you don’t think so it only means you’re human.

h/t Bob

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Odd Case

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Weerd Beard

The antis are tossing around this story. I gotta say there is probably a LOT more to it.

Tavarious China Smith was not particularly lucky. A small-time drug dealer in Manatee County, Smith sold crack and marijuana not once, not twice, but three times to undercover cops.

But in one respect, Smith, 29, hit the jackpot.

On two occasions, more than two years apart, he committed homicides but was not charged thanks to provisions of Florida’s “stand your ground” law. Smith claimed self-defense in both cases and prosecutors agreed. He never faced a judge or jury for fatally shooting Nikita Williams, 18, in February 2008 in a drug-related incident or Breon Mitchell, Williams’ 23-year-old half-brother, in December 2010.

Smith’s only punishment stemmed from using a gun to kill Mitchell. Since he was by then a felon, convicted on drug charges, Smith wasn’t allowed to carry the Ruger .357 Magnum he used to shoot Mitchell outside a Palmetto nightclub in 2010. In January, a federal judge in Tampa sent Smith to prison after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

OK so first up, this again isn’t the anti-rights “Free Pass”, charges were filed, then dismissed. Still this isn’t a reason to repeal the law, as criminals plying their trade (which implied in these cases) are exempt from SYG.

I think like this Massachusetts case, its bad justice from bleeding heart prosecutors ignoring the law. Might I remind you of this famous case in Massachusetts.

But rather than attack a justice system that doesn’t follow the law, they attack the law….because gun control ALWAYS WORKS!

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Programming and Beards

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Weerd Beard

Mike W. sends me this amusing article.

What Separates Average Computer Programmers from Extraordinary Programmers? Beards.

Take, for example, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, who are pictured above. They have fine, beardly beards. They also invented C. A coincidence? Maybe. But certainly a beard can’t hurt. And studies that I just made up show a strong correlation between having a beard and being super intelligent. So why take chances? Start growing one today.

All I could think of was Sid from User Friendly. I had to have Vector explain the joke to me, as I know little to nothing about computer science. But beards and suspenders are the mark of a hardcore Linux/Unix programmer.

Certainly there’s something to be said about a man who isn’t going to waste time in the morning removing what God rightfully intended to be there in the first place. I will point that I never let my beard get super long, not for style reasons. This beard is a lifestyle choice, not a fashion decision. I simply don’t like to let it grow too long because I like to eat soup and actually get some of it in my mouth. But I certainly respect the Mega beard!