Maryland Stand Your Ground Law

In the Trayvon Martin case people are complaining that Florida’s “Stand Your Ground Law” allows “Vigilantes” to shoot and kill unarmed people. Wirecutter has this video that shows what unarmed people can do.

Those who oppose conceal carry and Stand Your Ground, like the fiends that run the city of Baltimore are really in favor of “Get robbed and beaten to death” laws.

This is the inconvenient truth. The man in the video is ONLY alive because the crowd just wanted to injure him and steal his stuff and his dignity. Also given that he falls headlong onto the concrete he’s also only alive without lasting injury because of dumb luck.

Hey but if he had died it wouldn’t have been a “Gun Death” so there would be no need to report it anyway!

**UPDATE**From Divemedic a better video of the attack. He seems drunk off his ass which makes it even more lucky he wasn’t killed. He was so shattered he didn’t even see that punch to his beak before he was on the ground.

Still even sober that was a LOT of unarmed dudes. Life ain’t a kung-fu movie and if they wanted any one of us dead, unless we were properly armed they could have just that!

Be Careful out there!

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Happy Bunny Day!

Remember from our Bibles, Today Jesus’ lifeless body was placed in a crypt with a huge rock on the entrance. Jesus’ pet bunny came and dug him out and Jesus was alive. Everybody celebrated with Chocolate eggs and Ham.

….At least that’s how it reads in my version.

Happy Easter!

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“Gun Death” Scissors

Why would ANYBODY have scissors?

A woman accused of stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death with scissors told police she had been taking a weight-loss product, had trouble sleeping for several days and felt an “evil” presence before the attack.

“Did I kill my daughter? Is she dead?'” Danielle Yvonne Slaughter asked police after police found her on Sunday, naked, bloody and running barefoot through Las Vegas, according to court documents released Tuesday.

Sick story…hey but no “Gun Death”. People who use that metric seem to think that makes a difference….I don’t think it does. What do you think?

h/t Bob

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Evening Video: Good Form

Nice Video of Destinee tossing some .500 Magnums down Range

Also good on her for playing it safe by loading one round at a time. “Doubles” can happen, its not really a “Double”, its just a case of severe inertia. The person is squeezing the gun in a death grip, and is attempting to hold the trigger back in their follow-through, but instead the recoil overcomes their grip pushing the gun back far enough to reset the trigger….but the shooter still holding the gun and trigger in a death grip pulls the trigger through a full travel a SECOND time, usually while the muzzle is pointing upward. Scary!

I’ve thankfully never encountered that, but another thing to note was while shooting some CRAZY HOT handloads I ran about 15 rounds down range and thought I was OK….but my right hand tendons were so battered from the recoil I couldn’t open a jar or shake somebody’s hand without wincing for a week.

Its easy to get “Macho” if you’re a man or a woman when shooting a gun so ridiculously huge as this. Its good to know your limits!

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Home

Made it home. Covered a LOT of ground, found everything in the fridge had developed its own society and needed to be eradicated with extreme prejudice.

Blogging will resume later.

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Nature’s Assault Weapon

Checking out of the Hotel, and While we’re packing up the gear I put on Animal Planet, where there is a show on Narwhals

She wasn’t familiar with them. When she finally got a good look at one she said “Oh its like a whale with a bayonet lug!”

Quote of the day!

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“Gun Death” Stabbing

Another Domestic situation that ends in “Gun Death”.

The 25-year-old woman who was fatally stabbed and found Monday outside a Grace Avenue home has been identified as Danielle Coleman, of Oakwood.

Police continue to look for her boyfriend, 41-year-old Marlon Ricks, who lived at the house in the 10000 block of Grace.

He is believed to be armed and dangerous and may be driving a maroon, 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer with license plate DFJ 4455, police said.

If you are in a violent relationship, GET OUT! Eventually it’ll end in somebody’s death if you don’t cut all ties. It doesn’t matter if somebody is armed with guns, or if they have frying pan. If your boyfriend hits you, look in your kitchen. He can stab you whenever he feels like he ups the ante. Same goes if your old lady goes off her rocker and gets violent. She may think her hands and feet don’t do enough damage and attempt to scramble your brains with a cast iron skillet or put a framing hammer between your eyes.

There is NO good reason to stay with a violent domestic partner. If you have kids, you’ll eventually have orphans. If you think they love you, they DON’T Love doesn’t generate black eyes or cigarette burns.

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Stopover

Bedding down in Pennsylvania for the night. We left Williamsberg this morning, spent morning at Montecello, and made it this far north before dinner.

We’ll be home tomorrow afternoon.

It was a great trip, I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to meet up with any of you local bloggers, but it just wasn’t in the cards.

Normal blogging to resume soon!

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“Gun Death” World Record

Interesting story. What I find most interesting is not the METHOD of the death but the motivation.

Sri Lankan police say a man has died while trying to set a world record for the longest time spent buried alive.

Police say the 24-year-old man (Janaka Basnayake) buried himself Saturday morning with the help of family and friends in a trench sealed with wood and soil.

A local newspaper says the trench was 10 feet deep.

Police say when the man was brought to the surface 7 1/2 hours later, he was unconscious and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

It’s unclear whether there is an official world record for the longest time buried alive.

That last line is REALLY macabre!

Note that if this guy had tried to set a world record for “Most times shot with a gun, and survived”, it would be a gun death and they’d consider a candlelight vigil. Meanwhile you asphyxiate under the soil….

h/t Wallphone

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“Gun Death” Mosque Attack

Have a read of this an tell me you don’t have EVERYTHING in this attack.

Belgian newspapers are reporting that a mosque near Brussels has been attacked with a Molotov cocktail and that the imam has died.

Le Soir newspaper says a man entered a Shiite mosque in Anderlecht, a suburb of Brussels, shortly before 7 p.m. local time (1 p.m. EST) on Monday armed with an ax, Molotov cocktails and a can of gasoline. The newspaper reports that the man broke windows and threw the incendiary devices inside.

Gasoline, bottles and textiles. Yep we all have that stuff. You can get fancy by using cat litter, motor oil, or sugar as a gelling agent to make it a little more nasty. We may not all have axes, but every hardware camping store has your choice of axes.

In Belgium that bans guns, knives, and any sort of liberty.

No law can stop such atrocities.

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