I found this article via the Brady Campaign. They aren’t known for being big thinkers, but man there are limits for even rank stupidity. This article is entitled “When Are Light Bulbs More Dangerous Than Guns?” Ok you have my curiosity, when?
Gunwise, the Republican National Convention in Tampa presents the party with some knotty issues. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has designated the August convention a “National Special Security Event.” Guns will be prohibited inside the convention hall and in a safety perimeter around it….Mayor Bob Buckhorn has banned a number of items during convention week. They include: metal knuckles, mace, paintball rifles, hard plastic that is more than ¾ inch thick, wood that is more than ¼ inch thick and aerosol cans. In the area around the convention defined as the “event zone,” glass bottles, light bulbs and locks that are not attached to a bicycle will be forbidden. As will pieces of rope more than 6 inches long as well as sticks, poles or water guns.
All of these items are banned on the presumption that they might cause harm. Guns don’t make the list.
Guns don’t make the list because banning guns is specifically illegal in Florida. But are we really looking at it the right way? The anti-rights goons are bitching about guns being allowed…but they aren’t noting the sheer stupidity that Mayor Buckhorn is banning light bulbs, bike locks, pieces or rope and squirt guns!
Mayor Buckhorn is obviously a Nanny-State Moron, but because he’s anti-gun, the Brady Campaign and their mentally deficient compatriots are singing his praise.
BTW, there will be people carrying guns in the Convention…as well as lots of rope, light bulbs, and master locks, and pieces of plastic will get past the security checkpoints, and the WORST thing that will happen will be Mitt Romney getting the Republican Nomination.
The reason why this OTHER STUFF is banned is because Mayor Buckhorn CAN ban them!
Remember, anti-freedom, not anti-gun!
CSGV links this article again showing that they REALLY don’t like that icky due-process thing.
During this traffic stop, police find a handgun and some powder cocaine inside the car. Almaguer says the gangs have learned how to structure their crews so that at least one of them can be legally armed.
One member of a crew will have a concealed weapons permit, allowing them to be armed.
In Florida, anyone can get a gun permit as long as they have not been convicted of a crime. In some cases, Almaguer claimed, individuals may have multiple of arrests, but they get to keep their gun permit until they have an actual conviction.
So you end up with a situation where one guy holds the gun, another guy holds the dope, and a third guy drives.
“And there is nothing you can do about it because [the guy with the gun] has no convictions,” Almaguer said. “They’ve figured out the system and still have a firearm on them.”
The traffic stop ends with the guy holding the cocaine going to jail while the man with the concealed weapons permit was given back his gun and let go.
Now the whole article is slanted in a really peculiar way. There are lots of stories of “Gang Members”, but how do they know? They got a guy carrying Cocaine (probably not much given that the driver wasn’t charged), and one guy carrying a gun legally.
Sorry Johnny Five-Oh, but we have laws and due process for a reason. If you can’t charge them with a crime for shit this minor, we don’t need to make more shit illegal, you need to work harder to catch REAL crime. Of course we all know that cops prefer simple traffic stops, and pinching college students at parties to cruising the inner city streets. I’m sure they’d also like to get rid of the 4th and 5th Amendments too, because it would make things easier for them too!
Also, let’s just take a cynical look at this alleged “Gang Member”. They have no felony convictions, they aren’t committing any actual crimes, they really don’t sound like much of a big fish to be letting go. Also if this is indeed some “gang system”, the man with the gun has it for commission of a crime. There’s an easy solution, Just watch the bastard for when he commits a crime, so say the guy with the drugs sells them and pays the driver and the gunner for their services!
Now let’s take a cynical look. I just got back from a class. The average day involved the lab van picking us up at the Hotel and taking us to class. I’d never met any of my fellow classmates before. I don’t know if any of them had prior convictions, criminal associations, or were carrying any contraband. None of them knew I was carrying a gun. That’s fine that way, its none of their business and none of mine. Say our van had a busted tail light and we got stopped, should I lose my rights?
Well in the case of anti-rights people, yeah, whatever it takes. In the case of “task force” cops, the more arrests they make, the more they can justify their budget.
We have laws for a reason, and we have due process for a reason. If you don’t like it, well screw you! There are plenty of violent Police States in the world that would LOVE to have you!
I was going to vote against Scott Brown for his despicable performance in the US Senate. Looking more and more like I’ll just be leaving that slot blank.
BTW here’s a late-breaking story on Ms. Warren’s “Native American heritage”
Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson, citing a genealogist, claimed Tuesday that Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren‘s ancestry includes a great-great-great grandfather who helped round up Cherokees in the days leading to the Trail of Tears.
Warren has struggled to prove her American Indian ancestry since it was revealed more than a week ago that she referred to herself as a Native American minority in the 1980s and ’90s.
Man she’s a turd!
There’s a bunch of talk about Robb’s post on Condition 3
Condition 3 not a good idea for carry. Also there is never a race to get the gun back into the holster.
I’d like to add this bit of advice. If I’m ever in need of a gun to defend my life, I’ll be calling the cops as soon as I feel the fight is over. This leaves me in an interesting scenario. I called the cops because I feel I was in the right for whatever I did, and therefore felt I was in grave danger. I want the cops to show up so I can let them do their investigation, and I can begin making my legal case in the event they feel the need to charge me with a crime.
While waiting for the cops I was in what WAS a dangerous situation, and “backup” (in this case the cops) are not yet on scene.
KEEP THAT GUN IN YOUR HAND! Keep it at low ready, but have it ready. It could be the bad guy’s re-enforcements will show up first, and not be happy with you.
When the cops show up throw the gun on the ground and put your hands in the air. Your carry gun should be drop safe, so this isn’t an issue, further you shouldn’t be carrying a gun that you aren’t willing to let skid across the pavement. Lastly, one of my biggest fears is that I’ll meet my end by having a police officer disarm me using bad gun handling. Some cops are gun wizards, others just shoot enough to pass the annual qualifier, and the only handgun they’ve ever handled is the one issued by their department.
I practice really hard not to sweep my vital organs and keep my finger out of the trigger guard when I work on my pistol draw…does he? I think we can easily envision how somebody could sweep you and ND during a disarm. Better to let them handle the gun AWAY from you, than deal with your holster and cover garments.
Just my 2c. What do you think?
An old story, but I thought I’d mention it.
A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith’s store…Espinoza says, the knife wielding man seriously injured two people. “There is blood all over. One got stabbed in the stomach and got stabbed in the head and held his hands and got stabbed all over the arms.”
Then, before the suspect could find another victim – a citizen with a gun stopped the madness. “A guy pulled gun on him and told him to drop his weapon or he would shoot him. So, he dropped his weapon and the people from Smith’s grabbed him.”
The Anti-gun people would advise the gun owner to retreat home, and preferably hide under his bed in a pool of his own urine, while the fiend murdered people. Why? Because they love criminals more than sunshine!
Jay brings us another reason to support stand your ground.
A convicted robber who was shot while trying to rob a northwest suburban Wauconda pharmacy with a butcher knife last year filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the store asking it to pay for his medical bills.
Get that? The jerk was shot while committing a felony with a deadly weapon. He was convicted of the crime, while the man who shot him was not charged. But the no-questions-asked good guy is now being attacked for restitution.
Again, they are PRO CRIMINAL! If you are a GOOD person, anti-rights people have no interest in you, but they have a LOT of love for the worst of society.
They are evil!
Breda Just sent me this one.
Zombie Cats, Child Necromancers, and Dubstep. What’s not to love?
Thought I’d share this story.
Applications in Hennepin County for permits to carry a gun in public are coming in at a furious pace this year and should easily set an annual record, authorities said Monday.
The Sheriff’s Office has received 1,875 applications through the first four months of 2012, spokeswoman Lisa Kiava said. That’s a 54 percent increase over the same time frame in 2011, which was the second busiest year for applications in the county since the 2003 permit law took effect.
By the end of the year, Sheriff Rich Stanek said, the county will “absolutely” break the annual record of 3,359 submitted applications set in 2008.
There is NOTHING new here, I don’t know of ANY place where permits are DOWN. Gun sales are wayy up, and people are obviously buying guns for defensive use, as opposed to the disproportionately high sale of sporting arms of decades past. People are getting comfortable with guns, and are seeing the light that they’re nice things to have around. You never know!
Of course the reason for me sharing what is essentially a standing headline in today’s news is because I found it from Joan Peterson gnashing her teeth.
Of course the hilarious response from a fellow lefty is:
@commongunsense nonsense, it’s just the same people as usual getting multiple permits.
Ummmm…
Since 2003, the Sheriff’s Office in Hennepin County, the state’s most populous, has issued nearly 22,000 permits. About 3,300 of those were renewals, meaning there are roughly 18,700 permit holders in the county.
OK so is this shining light saying that ALL of these applications are renewals? That doesn’t seem likely, especially given that this trend is seen nation-wide. So are they saying that Minnesota residents are getting multiple permits just for the hell of it?
Are they using assumed names or multiple addresses? At $100 a pop, for no gain that seems VERY silly.
Just amusing the desperation of the anti-rights cult. They want reality to be false SO BAD that they’re willing to say things THIS stupid.
A man was charged Monday with murdering a toddler by allegedly swinging the boy into a wall, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Police said Jarrod W. Rudder of Elkville, Ill., was supposed to be taking care of two-year-old Michael Pulliam at the time of the incident on Friday night in St. Louis. His relationship to the child was not immediately known.
He allegedly grabbed the boy by the wrist and slammed him into a wall and a lamp…Authorities said the toddler had brain bleeding plus multiple broken bones and contusions, according to the Post-Dispatch.
No “Gun Death” so this boy isn’t candle-worthy….
First for the crass, Kristen!
hooray!
Next from Erin and her Pony Love! She kicked over my gigglebox with this one!
DA WUBS!!!!!
