Weer'd World

Besides the oppression of the poor a huge issue with our current concealed weapons system is the danger it puts long-haul truckers in.

Oakland police released a sketch Friday of a man being sought in connection with the beating death of a truck driver at the Port of Oakland that may have resulted from a confrontation with another driver.

Jie Tao Liu, 58, of San Jose was found unconscious on the 1700 block of Middle Harbor Road about 12:40 p.m. on June 24, said Officer Holly Joshi, an Oakland police spokeswoman.

Liu died at Highland Hospital in Oakland the next day.

Doesn’t sound like Liu was a long-haul trucker, but he did live in California, so its not like it matters. Still for truckers who haul cross-country, unless you work exclusively in the deep south where the states generally like to play fair with permits you need to spend a LOT of money to acquire and maintain lawful conceal carry permits for the states you cross, and there are some places where its damn near impossible for you to have a defensive weapon in your sleeper cab when you get some rest in a rest area late at night.

I imagine most truckers have stories of scams, robberies and assaults at these rest areas. They aren’t safe places.

Hopefully they’ll find the guy who did this. (and maybe already have at the time of this syndication)

You might wind up as a Statistic

Los Angeles County prosecutors filed the charges against Sophia Cristo and Rodolfo Lopez on Friday. The pair was arrested in Horizon City, Texas, Wednesday, two days after Jack Dell Bezner and his wife Susan were found stabbed to death in their home in Rosemead.

Details are pretty light in this story, but what I see is a bunch of young kids breaking into an older couple’s house and stabbing them to death. Their deaths won’t count as “Gun Death”, but what the antis forget is they use both sides of the coin for their numbers. the oft touted 30,000 annual “Gun Deaths” in this country (about 17,000 are suicides) this includes Police shootings and self-defense shootings, like if this couple had a shotgun or pistol handy when these creeps broke in.

Authorities are seeking the death penalty, I have my doubts about it.

Seriously folks, To do research for stories for the “Gun Death?” category, all I need to do is type “Stabbing Death” or “Beating Death” into google news, and there, a week’s worth of posts DONE! I’m sure if I was like The Armed Citizen where I used a script to collect the news automatically that would just need to be sorted and published I could do this even more. I won’t because the “Gun Death?” category is just a cause I see as valuable for keeping our rights strong, and to raise awareness about self defense. I want this blog to be a mixed bag of guns, freedom, and fun stuff, so I’ll keep the “Gun Death?” stories to one-a-day unless otherwise relevant.

Still the number of violent predators out there, and the ease of this project is really scary. You need to be prepared to defend yourself at all times. While the world is hardly some scary movie premise, it also ain’t bean-bag either!

Don’t get yourself into one of my posts! Carry a gun! if you can’t or won’t carry a gun, carry a good, and dedicated defensive knife. If that’s an issue carry pepper spray or a taser. No matter what refuse to be a victim and always be prepared to fight!