Wednesday, February 01, 2006
“Give us your car!” BLAM! “No.”
Looks like two idiots picked on the wrong person
An off-duty Richmond police officer shot two men, killing one and wounding another, as they attempted to carjack her in a northwest Harris County apartment complex parking lot this morning, police said.
The incident happened about 6:30 a.m. at 11011 Pleasant Colony in the Trails of Steeplechase apartments, Jersey Village Police Chief Charles N. Wedemeyer said in a prepared statement.
Two armed men entered the officer’s personal vehicle as she was putting her keys in the ignition. As one man pointed a pistol at her head and instructed her to move over, she pulled out her weapon and fired, striking two of the suspects.
One man was pronounced dead at the scene while another was flown by LifeFlight to Memorial Hermann Hospital. His condition is unknown.
To which Laurence Simon, whom I hat-tip for this article, said:
Is Pwn3d a condition?
No, but dead is. Hopefully Scumbag number 2 will reach the same condition as Scumbag number 1. :)
Ahh, another dead scumbag, another victory for responsible firearms owners.
Posted by JimK at 12:14 AM on February 01, 2006
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Gun porn: Springfield XD 45 ACP
Posted by JimK at 05:18 AM on January 31, 2006
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Saturday, July 16, 2005
We have to do something
Obviously this kind of thing can’t be tolerated any more in a civilized society.
There was a very close call for a 12-year-old boy who was accidentally shot by his own sister in north Harris County.
The children were in a home on Broadhaven at McKaney Friday night with their mother and their aunt. The 11-year-old girl wandered into a room and started playing with a gun. It went off. The bullet pierced a wall and hit her 12-year-old brother, who was in another room.
“Upon our arrival, we learned that another child in the house - an 11-year-old - was apparently playing with a gun,” said William Valerio with the Harris County Sheriff’s Department. “The gun discharged and went through a wall and struck the victim in the arm.”
The boy will be OK. The district attorney will decide whether or not any charges will be filed against the adults.
We have to finally do what we all know needs to be done. Making up statistics, manipulating public opinion, lobbying Congress, buying loyalty...it all has to stop. We have to get some laws on the books to prevent this kind of tragedy from getting worse and happening more often. I’m just going to say it. The answer is a ban.
A ban on little sisters.
Little sisters are the scourge of America, our secret shame as a nation. We must rid this country of little sisters, or at least make it so hard to get a little sister that it dissuades people from even trying. To that end, I will be forming “The Center For Little Sister Prevention” and accepting donations to gear up for this all-important and life-saving fight. Thank you for your support.
Posted by JimK at 01:27 PM on July 16, 2005
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
The medical Marijuana ruling, or, get me some smoke, dude
So I think I have a different take on the medical marijuana Supreme Court ruling. I’m also using this as my Patriot’s Journey post for the day.
Setting aside the argument about the Feds regulating drugs (because that is a lengthy argument that involves discussing just what is a “drug” and why pot is illegal at all), I find the Supreme Court ruling abhorrent and I think it tramples on the idea of states being able to govern themselves. All it does is add power to the Federal machine, which is precisely the thing the Founding Fathers were fighting against. I’m not alone, either. Read the comments here.
This is one thing people don’t get about the NRA. The gun fight over the last twenty years has been as much about setting legal precedent to return the rights of states to make laws for themselves as it has been about the Second Amendment. Now, while the NRA may not back legalization of pot (I don’t know if they even have an official position), they have created legal precedents that can be used to achieve goals in other areas of society.
Of course, the NRA is portrayed as mostly “redneck racist fascist richboy whitey” Republicans by the moderate-to-gun-grabbing left. Let’s assume for sake of argument that they are right. All the things you hear said about NRA members is true. They are also a group who broke thier balls to protect state’s rights in the modern day. The fact remains...what they’ve done can be used to fight for, get, and ultimately protect other rights we deserve as free-thinking adults.
Tthe reason state’s rights is so important is a philosophical one that will, over time, translate into real-world benefits. The act of decentralizing rule, which was the point of the United States of America, returns power to smaller groups and reinforces the concept of self-governance. This in turn reinforces the idea that the individual is capable of governing himself. It sets a governmental tone that believes in the individual to make the right choice when allowed to *have* a choice, and doesn’t try to pre-empt the act of making those choices.
Ultimately, it leads not to freedom, but *liberty*. Liberty based on the idea that each of us is a survival machine, and with nothing more than a framework of “Don’t fuck with others” set of laws, we can live and function and excel in society without the aid of an all-knowing monarch, be (s)he royal or elected.
So how is this a positive about America? Because we have processes that we can use to pursue these changes. We have guidelines in the original founding documents, and we can raise an army of support and make changes to our nation without violence, without revolution, without the threat of rolling a tank over a man who is armed with nothing more than a shopping bag and a dream of liberty.
Posted by JimK at 12:26 AM on June 08, 2005
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Roundup
I just don’t have the energy to do a bit on each of these, but I still wanted to link them…
These videos are brilliant. Watch thieves get caught stealing baitcars.
Yeah, Lurch weren’t too friggin’ smart neither. Goddamned hypocrite.
Posted by JimK at 12:09 AM on June 08, 2005
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Sunday, May 08, 2005
Ballistic Fingerprinting still gets press?
It must have been two years ago that I outlined why ballistic fingerprinting was 100% useless. Any gun owner already knows. What’s amazing to me is that anyone in law enforcement takes this shit seriously. Now someone in Mississippi wants to make it portable. Gregory at American Realpolitik takes it to the next logical step.
The paranoid end of this? This would be great tool for driving around to known gun owners houses, shooting ranges and competitions and collecting “data”, wouldn’t it? I don’t see it happening any time soon but once they have this expensive dinosaur and need to “justify the expense” involved, they just may decide to find ways to use it.
Of course they will, it’s what government does. It uses the toys it buys.
To defeat ballistic fingerprinting, all you need is a pencil, some fine-grade sandpaper and a jeweler’s file or two. Maybe $5 worth of material. If you really want to get fancy, there are parts on a gun you can easily replace without having to know a damn thing about gunsmithing, and these parts will result in a totally new and unique ballistic “fingerprint.”
The whole thing is a waste of time and money, and even if you hate guns and love gun control, you should be pissed off that your tax money would be used for something so useless. It’s so useless that in Maryland, the gun grabber mecca of the U.S., the Maryland State Police Forensics Sciences Division recommended that they abandoned their program. That’s like having Gil Grissom tell you that a ballistics fingerprint database is absolutely useless.
If you’d like to learn precisely why it’s useless, read this. The More You KnowTM.
Posted by JimK at 06:20 AM on May 08, 2005
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Monday, April 18, 2005
Nuge? Shut up.
I’ve been swearing a lot lately when I blog. I swear all the time, as I consider swear words just that, words to be used as any other. I say this not by way of excuse, but explanation. I guess I felt the need to say it because my initial thought when I read this story was to let loose with a tirade that would make Al Swearengen proud.
Instead I’ll say again...Nuge? Shut up.
“Let’s next year sit here and say, ‘Holy smokes, the NRA has 40 million members now,”’ he said, adding NRA members should only associate with other members. “No one is allowed at our barbecues unless they are an NRA member. Do that in your life.”
Yeah, shut out everyone that doesn’t think exactly like you! That’s the way to live your life.
“Our enemy is the gun owners that don’t belong to the NRA.”
Shut up, Ted, you’re not helping to bring them into the fold you nutcase.
“Remember the Alamo! Shoot ‘em!” he screamed to applause. “To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want ‘em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot ‘em.”
Yeah, let’s dismiss the rule of law and just move to jack-booted thuggery.
Ted, shut up. Idiot statements like this make us decent, responsible gun owners look like idiots and assholes.
Posted by JimK at 03:09 AM on April 18, 2005
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Monday, April 11, 2005
Tax day? No way! Buy-A-Gun Day!
It’s that time of year again folks. If you’ve been looking at a particular firearm and longing to add it to your collection, why not make a statement at the same time?
Unfortunately I do not have the funds to participate this year, but you can bet your butt that when I do...I will. So let me live vicariously...if you decide to buy one, drop me a comment and tell me what you got so I can get good and envious. ;)
Posted by JimK at 11:08 AM on April 11, 2005
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Thursday, April 07, 2005
Bellesiles revisited
David Hardy notes that ”the abstract of Prof. James Lindgren’s paper on Bellesiles is online.” You may remember the name from the early days of this blog...I was talking about his fraud way back when.
Bellesiles authored “Arming America,” which claimed that Americans were poorly armed and had no real gun culture until after the Civil War.
Which of course turned out to be completely false.
Posted by JimK at 10:57 PM on April 07, 2005
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Categories: Guns - 2nd Amendment, Michael_Bellesiles
Friday, April 01, 2005
A new blog to watch
David Hardy, a guy that Lee and I have been around the block with through Moorewatch and (among many credentials) the co-author of ”Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man, has opened a new 2nd Amendment blog. Hardy is one of those really smart guys that makes a regular smart guy feel like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel. You can bet the farm that he’ll have great posts about stories that matter in the ongoing debate over guns in America.
http://www.armsandthelaw.com/. Bookmark it!
Posted by JimK at 10:36 PM on April 01, 2005
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