Brooklyn, NY, United States (AHN) – The GOP gained control of a Democratic stronghold Tuesday night to take the seat of former Rep. Anthony Weiner. Conservatives are hailing the victory as a rejection of the Obama administration’s economic agenda ahead of presidential and congressional elections next year.
Businessman Bob Turner bested state Assemblyman David Weprin in the special election in New York’s 9th congressional district, which includes parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
Wow! That’s pretty good right there! Pretty crazy when Republicans are making such serious inroads on “Safe” Democrat districts.
One can say that Bill Clinton was one of the greatest gift to gun rights because he was ballsy enough to press onerous gun control into law, awaking a proverbial sleeping giant, by showing that complacent gun owners were indeed under attack, not just the so-called “extremists”.
I wonder if President Obama has done the same thing for “Progressivism”?
News stories these days are still writing about guns as if they actively committed such-and-such of an act. Things like “The Gun went off” are really disingenuous given that the gun was always actively fired for it to discharge. If left alone, a loaded gun will NEVER discharge. Some things DO “Just go off”.
CYPRESS, Texas – Detectives say a 13-day-old baby has died after they say a pit bull dog mauled the child inside a northwest Harris County home.
Of course there people who want to ban “Dangerous Breeds”, of course there are some breeds, like fighting dogs like the Pitbull, but really there are some breeds prone to violence, and the rest of the breeds are just CAPABLE of violence. A Chihuahua may not be able to kill a baby, but they sure as hell could permanently disfigure and cripple one.
Still there is a part of me that has a LOT more apprehension around strange dogs than around strange loaded guns because despite what the antis say, guns don’t have a mind of their own.
I was doing some work in the lab, and one of my coworkers had the radio onto some music station I had little interest in so I kinda tuned it out. Suddenly I heard an ad with a Ben Franklin impersonator talking about Freemasonry.
OK I have several family members and more than a few friends who a members of the Masons. I even thought briefly about joining, and decided it wasn’t really my speed. My Great Grandfather had a Masonic funeral, which was VERY cool. So overall I never really got that whole “Secret Society” nonsense.
Still hearing a radio ad, and a website for the Masons has all the buzz-kill for the outsiders with overactive imaginations as hearing that the Illuminati advertising in the newspaper.
Kinda hard to be “Secret Society” when they start painting it on billboards and city buses!
Also states that maybe the Masonic membership is in decline. So maybe if you’re curious you should ask a Mason.
See a bunch of teenagers wandering around with a baseball bat, maybe you think they’re heading to the local field or park, or empty lot for a pickup game. Maybe Not.
Sheriff Charlie Crumpton says Tazah Hosey, 18, is now charged with murder. Deputies had already arrested two others — Bronson James, 34, and Koda Williamson, 26 — and charged them with murder…According to authorities, Jessie Beech, 21, of Raleigh was badly injured in the fight when he was beaten with a baseball bat. He was taken to a hospital in Jackson, where he died on Saturday.
A baseball bat is a thing I think we all had. I certainly walked over to the local field or park to slap the ball around with my friends. Those who use the metric “Gun Death” justify their made-up metric claiming that somehow guns are the key factor in violent deaths.
If this is true why do I own guns, but have never killed anybody? Why is it I, and most of the teens and young adults in the country own a baseball bat, but it was these three monsters that used it as a murder weapon, while the rest of us used it for a fun and non-violent game. Hell I’ve been hurt, and hurt others vastly more with nothing more than a Football than I ever have with a baseball bat, simply because of the rules of the game.
I hate flying. I hate the TSA Bullshit, which doesn’t help the fact that I’m stuck in one seat with little room to wander for several hours. My least favorite part of a flight is when the door is opened and everybody piles into the aisles, and I’m generally trapped in my seat as others exit.
Flying with a firearm sucks worse. Of course I’d prefer just to leave my gun holstered and take my seat. Sheeple tend to get bent out of shape about this notion, they come up with all sorts of bullshit reasons, from Explosive Decompression (hint: Goldfinger was a MOVIE, not real life) to notions that planes are crowded places…of course I carry everywhere which includes buses, theaters, tourist attractions, major cities, et al. Lots of other people do too, guess what, no blood in the streets.
The pilot J.K. Gilman was informed of the hijacking and was aware that Robert Denisco, a Brinks guard was sitting in First Class wearing plain clothes. Capt. Gilman quickly used the telephone to ask a First Class fight attendant to tell Denisco what was going on and to, “tell him I said to go back and shoot that Bastard!”
Spoiler alert: This story takes place in 1970, so the bastard got shot!
Yeah, if we lift the ban on weapons on planes it means the bad guys can bring weapons on planes. But when your plane is hijacked by terrorists with box cutters you can shoot the bastards!
And note that the TSA couldn’t find their own ass with two hands and a map, let alone terrorists smuggling dangerous stuff on planes.
Sorry flights are NOT safe from terrorists, can you please stop fucking with non-terrorists?
This story really got my pulse up. The article doesn’t really show the big thing that pissed me off. Go have a look at the Police dashcam. (note Video shows nothing, only audio is useful)
“If you’re going to exercise your rights call us first!” WOW, what else does this pertain to? Should I inform the cops I’m going out in my raincoat, but let them know I am just dressing for the weather, and I’m not a flasher?
Should I let them know I’m shopping in a local store and I intend to pay for all items I take, and I’m not shoplifting? This is totally outrageous!
“We’re fine with you exercising your rights in the parks, but out here on the street you’re only going to get hurt….if you get hurt don’t come crying to the person who hurt you?” I’d say this is the most glowing reason to carry a gun. The police are openly expressing their disinterest in protecting an innocent man’s life.
“With that extra magazine pouch you look like you’re going to war! What do you need this for?” Said by a cop with a duty belt loaded with gun, magazines, cuff, et al. Not a hint of irony there. Are you going to war officer? Well from the article:
Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green, who along with former commissioner William Dwyer are defendants in the lawsuit, said Friday he had just received a copy but had not read it yet….“We have to train and educate our troops when things like this happen,” said Green, “and we certainly do.”
Maybe he was being colloquial, or maybe indeed he thinks Peace Officers are in fact soldiers…
Also note the cops trying to claim that if you have a concealed weapons permit that mandates you to carry concealed…or maybe it just permits you to carry a weapon concealed. I wonder if the cops think that somebody is committing a “Big No-no” (their words) for somebody with a CCW who is currently UNARMED? I mean they have the permit, but they don’t have a concealed weapon, right?
Really? Who carries a receipt for the purchase of their gun?
There isn’t much I could say that Tam couldn’t say better:
Only paranoiacs who think the cops are going to prone them out and confiscate it…
Wait…
You know, I wish I’d thought of this; it doesn’t seem half so crazy as it did a few moments ago. Too bad I don’t even have receipts for half of mine.
In Mass you get an FA-10 registration form every time you buy or sell a gun in-state, might be a good idea for me to print up a copy of those for the guns I routinely carry for just such a horrible circumstance. Sadly these days Open Carry encounters with police are either Good (Where the cop is respectful of your rights and understands the law) Indifferent (where the cop simply chooses not to get involved in what is obviously a lawful action) or VERY VERY bad like this.
I have no idea why this man was open carrying. It was August in Michigan where it gets plenty warm for shorts and t-shirts, so it could have been convenience, or it could have been political. We talked about the political side of Open Carry on Friday’s Vicious Circle, Since he had an Open Carry law pamphlet on his person, I suspect he was very aware of the political implications. Bottom line is we NEED the activists, as they are the front-line workers that engage the police and educate the police and the populace about laws they may be unaware of. Without them these bad encounters will continue.
Emphasizing that he was not commenting on the Haman case, the city’s top police administrator said any officer who sees a person carrying a firearm must quickly assess any potential threat.
“I don’t think a citizen would just want us to drive by and assume it’s an open carry situation,” Green said.
“Safety’s first.”
“Assume it’s an open carry situation”? Is this guy a moron? If a person is openly carrying a firearm its an open carry situation. If the person is walking down the road with their gun holstered and minding their own business and otherwise acting normal, I think it may be safe to assume the person is just exercising their rights. Certainly if there is doubt the police are welcome to speak to them…depending on the state the citizen may chose not to speak back. Rights, funny how they work.
Still what does the gun have to do with anything? Every law enforcement encounter should assume people are armed, and its pretty foolish to assume that malice can only be determined by the presence of a firearm or other weapon.
The police want to be notified when people are going to exercise their rights?
Jeffery Haman, 54, seeks a $100,000 judgment and $500,000 in punitive or exemplary damages, as part of the lawsuit he filed recently in U.S. District Court.
First I’ll frame this post with this quote from Christina.
How to commemorate the ten year anniversary …
of the most heinous terrorist attack on American soil?
By going about my business as if it were any other day. I’m not watching TV or listening to the news. I might read some of my regular blogs. But other than that, I refuse to live my life one jot different.
That was pretty much my day. I wanted to go to the range (but how is that different from any other day?) I had bacon, but when don’t you want bacon? But overall I just felt ill, so I stayed in my jammies for most of the day, and in the evening I mowed my lawn.
Still the trump goes to my Boss who got married yesterday. Her reasons were not political. Her husband is the son of Greek immigrants, and he is devout Greek Orthodox, and she converted by his request (she was raised Catholic and she overall didn’t see the two Churches as very different, and her family, like many New England Catholics were fair-weather practitioners.) so she needed a Sunday in early September, and the 11th was available. She knew the date had significance, but her thought was: “Why do I let those bastards scare me away from my wedding day?”
She’s off on her Honeymoon, so no word on how it went, but I’m sure it went well, but they have a day of joy the overshadows the day of sorrow and anger. I like that.
I didn’t realize, but Robb had a similar, and totally unplanned event:
For one, my oldest celebrated her 9th birthday, so it was a day of happiness for our family…Cake was eaten, presents were open, dinner was consumed, and all in all it was a good day.
This doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten what happened on September 11th, 2001. However, I don’t need a special day to remember, that event has stuck in my head every day for the past ten years.
There was talk after the attacks of making 9-11 a national holiday, but I’m glad we agreed to just carry on as a nation, and not let those evil acts change our national behavior. Heck on the day of the attacks I was working on a fishing boat we had converted to a research vessel for watching fish spawn. I was supposed to be sleeping, as we worked at night, but obviously it wasn’t a day of sleep. Still I picked up the boat phone and called my boss just because I didn’t know if we even SHOULD continue work. My boss was respectful, and understanding, but said that nothing had changed as far as we were concerned. Science must be done, and the show must go on…albeit with almost no sleep that night.
So yeah, carry on. And as Robb says, we don’t need a special day to remember those events, that’s for every day, just like every huge event, both good and bad.
Suicide is a horrible, and selfish act that hurts so many people. Still this one makes me chuckle just on the style points alone.
A Chicago man who quickly accelerated in a sport utility vehicle with a cable around his neck decapitated himself after a domestic dispute in Yorktown, authorities said Tuesday.
about 17,000 of the 30,000 annual “Gun Deaths” cited by the anti-rights forces are suicides. When questioned on the relevance of “Suicide Gun Deaths” (as if “Gun Death” was irrelevant enough!) the antis often make claims that by banning, restricting, or registering guns (like cars!) will somehow mean there will be less suicide.
This guy seemed to figure out how to punch his own clock without a gun. About 17,000 people per year also take their own lives every year without the aid of a gun. Of course those who feel “Gun Death” is a relevant metric ignore 50% of all suicides.
Suicide is horrible, and it has touched my life, as well as the lives of many others. If you have been touched by suicide, or know somebody who has and you need somebody to talk to or help, Samaritans is a great charity and help line. They also accept donations.
