Cause it’s funny!
I dunno about you, but I love me some lamb chops!
So I just checked my sitemeter and found that it was spinning.
Turns out that I made Tam’s QOTD!
OK, I’ve been linked by Tam before, but she wasn’t a Comic Book Hero before!!!
I was a comic book Hero once too…but sadly it was only in a short-lived webcomic that is no-more. (Written and Drawn by a guy I went to High School with who decided to write all his drinkin’ buddies into the comic)
Wow, if this case wasn’t a great example of gun control, I don’t know what is.
Los Angeles police say a 1-year-old boy has died after he and his father were shot by a teenager on a bicycle….The suspect fled and hasn’t been arrested.
Police could not immediately name a motive, but Tingirides says investigators were leaning heavily toward gang rivalry being the cause.
So we have somebody who’s underage, illegally carrying a gun, probably a stolen gun, and they probably already have convictions, and this is suspected to be gang-related.
All of these factors, but those who are against freedom ONLY focus on the gun. What’s really scary is how little anti-rights activists play the bleeding-heart card about “Victims of Gun Violence”, but never seem to note the toll that gangs (and the drug prohibitions that give the gangs their recruitment draw and power) play on public safety.
Wow, just have a look at this article by Joan Peterson. She starts off by citing this biased article talking about people claiming self-defense and being released.
They of course give no data on the various cases, but imply that somehow all these self-defense cases are legalized murder. Of course this does happen, and has happened since the dawn of time, as Mas Ayoob makes note of. But that’s how the law works. You can claim anything you want, and the law needs to decide if they have a case, and the court of law decided if charges are valid, and what punishments need to be administered.
Still she doubles-down in the end which REALLY shows how anti-rights cultists stand.
Do we have throw away people in this country? Real people have become the collateral damage of the NRA’s agenda. Trayvon Martin for one. Darius Simmons who was moving the garbage cart in front of his house for another. Burglars who happen to run through the yard of a Texas home owner? And yet another- Bo Morrisson who hid in a Wisconsin man’s back porch because of trouble at a near-by party, meaning no harm and unarmed. And how about Yoshihiro Hattori unfamiliar with American customs on Halloween who shows up at the wrong house for a party and got blown away by the home owner just because? Are these throw-away people? Is stealing with no intent to do harm a reason for being shot? Is getting the garbage innocently not realizing that the man next door thinks you stole his guns reason to be blown away by the man? Is innocently showing up at the wrong house on Halloween a reason to be shot? Is walking around in a neighborhood unarmed meaning no harm while wearing a hoodie a reason for a vigilante with a gun to shoot you? Laws can be amended or changed when it is obvious they are harmful. People’s lives cannot be brought back when they are wrongfully dead. Let’s not throw away our common sense in the guise of the NRA’s dark version of self defense.
If you aren’t familiar with the case she gives articles on all of the cases…well except this one, where the shooter has been charged with murder, so it doesn’t even pertain to her point.
All of the “Throw Away” people were committing aggressive crimes, and some were career criminals. In most of the cases it could be argued that if the defender hadn’t shot THEY might be dead.
So there’s the crux of all anti-rights “Progressive” arguments. Violent Criminal life is sacred, and peaceful lawful life is forfeit.
In her addled mind this is what passes for “Common Sense”.
Bob has an amusing post up on NYC decriminalizing marijuana, and the hypocrisy when one notes their restriction on various food items.
I pointed out the New York City has HEAVY restrictions on tobacco smoking, essentially Bloomberg is trying to ban smoking in all spaces that are accessible to the public. (Let’s not look too deep at the fact that you can be standing on a sidewalk next to and overfilled garbage can, a dumpster in the ally, a homeless person using the toilet behind the dumpster, and countless cars, trucks, and buses idling in a traffic jam, while jets and helicopters fly in low…but god forbid somebody sparks up a butt!)
This is NOT public health, this is legislation of a social doctrine. This is no difference than Theocracy, such as Muslims restricting Alcohol and Pork for consumption, but have no restriction on Marijuana. Or say why its illegal to butcher a horse or dog for meat in America, but there are many nations where its a common culinary tradition.
Massachusetts is (per usual) is right behind NYC in banning smoking, but legalizing marijuana. Heck Boston is even working to ban Electronic Cigarettes, meanwhile you can smoke a joint while sitting on a park bench in Boston, and if the person refuses to give identification when caught, the WORST that can happen is the pot will be confiscated by the police.
Also I was musing to Bob about the smoking of “Blunts” which is a hollowed-out cigar that is then stuffed with marijuana. The wrapper is made of tobacco, and I’m sure there is some tobacco filler left in the mix. So what is this? Is this “good” Marijuana, or “Evil” tobacco? This is as stupid as “Texting while Riverdancing”.
And in closing I found this quote in the Wikipedia article to be a further example of this stupidity. Yeah its Wikipedia, but I think its representative of current “Progressive” thinking.
Due to the tobacco content in the wrapper leaf, blunts carry with them the risks of tobacco use, including addiction and cancer
Ok the addiction part is valid, Marijuana doesn’t contain nicotine, and THC does not have the addictive qualities of nicotine, still what’s with the cancer bit?
YOU’RE INHALING SMOKE! Not only that, but you’re substituting dry cured tobacco for damp green marijuana buds!
Sorry kids, but inhaling ALL smoke is bad for you, it doesn’t matter if its weed, or if you’re just doing a LOT of grilling or sitting around a camp fire!
Nothing like people who have no knowledge of biology or medicine dictating what’s “Healthy” for us all!
I’d say just let people wear their big kid pants and do what they want, and everybody else wear their big kid pants and know that you don’t have to like or love how other people spend their time.
I just found this article being pushed by the antis of a psychiatry professor speaking out against campus carry. Frankly I think she should be embarrassed.
People who commit violent acts tend to fall into at least one of several categories. Young adults are more prone to violence, as are people of lower social class, IQ and education level. Individuals exhibiting violent behavior are 10 times more likely to be male. Mental illness, particularly paranoid delusions, is a major factor. But a history of violence is the best predictor of future violence.
Unfortunately, given the people who populate college campuses, most of those risk factors are present in enough people that the criteria aren’t much help for college officials trying to determine whether students or employees might become the next college shooter.
Is she saying that colleges SELECT for mental ill, mentally challenged, and violent people? Or is she saying that there is a certain percentage of violent, dangerous people in ALL WALKS OF LIFE?
If A) that’s DAMN embarrassing. If B) Well, I agree…and that’s why I carry a gun! You can’t catch them all, and the Pre-Crime division in the film and book Minority Report is a work of fiction (and even then the power was abused by the bureaucrats in charge of it), so its best just to have a plan to DEAL with such a problem in the unlikely event it happens to you. I avoid car accidents with all diligence, but I wear my safety belt, and have my airbags engaged just in case all I do isn’t enough.
“We have more shootings in areas where we have more schools,” she said. “I would hypothesize that if we allow more guns on college campuses, we are going to have more trouble, and I think that just goes without saying.”
Does it? Or is more logical that these campus shooters tend to be mentally ill, socially backwards, and emotionally impotent people who choose large bodies of disarmed people for their shooting sprees.
In the body of this article she takes some pretty strong ethical jumps comparing the various active shooters as if they are all equal. I will not that besides Charles Whitman, none of the active shooters were very well-armed, nor did they use any exceptional tactics, and as soon as an armed individual intervened they were quickly pacified…often by their own hand.
And you think by introducing more vetted people with guns is a BAD thing? I think that if you’d like to pursue higher education at Case Western Reserve University, you might want to look at a school that hires functional humans as professors.
This is typical junk-science, the professor starts with her conclusion and cherry picks the facts, data, and reality to support that conclusion, even if it was false from the start!
Does she know about the three seashells?
A Port Saint Lucie woman allegedly attacked a man with a sea shell after biting his ear during a domestic dispute, the Port Saint Lucie Police Department said….The 41-year-old victim told police he and Wehr had gone out for drinks because Wehr had an upcoming court date on a battery charge and was stressed, an incident report said. When they returned home, Wehr was intoxicated and began an argument with the man, police said.
According to the incident report, Wehr bit the man on his right ear, grabbed a sea shell with a pointed tip and stabbed the victim four times in the shoulder.
In the future this is going to be a problem!
h/t Barron
A Talk Show Invites Ladd Everett to talk about his side on Stand Your Ground. What do you think he says?
“No Thank You!” Because while Ladd is a paid lobbyist on this very issue, he wouldn’t DARE go up against even an amateur who’s willing to tell the truth and ask tough questions.
Keep your eyes here for the show.
**UPDATE** Looks like the talk show nailed it in a response:
@CSGV I guess that’s a firm no. Unfortunate. I get it though. It’s easier to talk about #florida when you don’t have to talk to floridians
They know they can’t convince people on the other side to change their minds…so best not to talk to them at all!
If you carry a firearm, or keep one in the home WATCH THIS VIDEO!
On a Discussion topic: Have you EVER heard such a concise, logical, and rational argument or talk ever given by somebody arguing for the removal of gun rights? There’s a reason for this!
From Hotair
These are the people in the Occupy movement, and voting for Obama. That money was THIERS to take, and spend how they wished, because they were broke, and somebody WORKING wasn’t
The Starbucks coffee really caps it!
