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Category: Crime

  • DC: Be the best crime victim you can be

    That Supreme Court decision a few years back hasn’t taught the District of Columbia, our nation’s capitol, anything in the way of respecting people’s rights. Emily Miller at the Washington Times who spent more than six months and spending hundreds of dollars to qualify for a permit to own a handgun in the District, reports that in a community meeting about the 40% increase in crime in the first two months of this year with councilwoman Mary M. Cheh, crime victims confronted the councilwoman with questions about the difficulty of purchasing weapons. The response;

    Paul Quander, the District’s deputy mayor for public safety and justice, responded that crime victims should give the criminals what they want. Mr. Portman protested, saying, “But how do you know you’re going live and survive? You’re completely at their mercy.”

    Mr. Quander thinks victimhood is preferable to self-defense. “The problem is, if you are armed, it escalates the situation,” Mr. Quander told residents. “It is much better, in my opinion, to be scared, to be frightened, and even if you have to be, to be injured, but to walk away and survive. You’ll heal, and you can replace whatever was taken away.”

    Spoken like a true Liberal who has never been mugged. the video of the complete waste of time;

    Thanks to ROS for the link.

  • Like clockwork

    Remember all those optics that went missing from JBLM a couple days ago? Well it turns out it’s about $600k worth of stuff that was secured in a locked but not alarmed room. Whatever, like that doesn’t happen all the time. Somehow, though, the thieves managed to cut the locks and make off with it unbeknownst to the Company’s Supply section for as long as three weeks.

    Right on time, the North Korean apologist, Stalinist lunatics at International ANSWER have crawled across I-5 from Coffee Strong to use this opportunity to take up the locked-down comapany’s cause via their front group “March Forward”. You might remember some illustrious members such as Michael Prysner. According to the Seattle Times:

    The lockdown has angered some of the soldiers, who are part of the brigade’s 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment. They have received support from March Forward, a group of soldiers and veterans opposed to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, who have been circulating a petition calling for an end to the lockdown.

    “The Fort Lewis, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment is again being subjected to abusive treatment by its chain of command,” the petition reads.

    Ah, good to have some emo-Communist burnouts in your corner, isn’t it guys?

    Don’t get me wrong, if I was stuck on lock down in the BEQ because some criminal in cammies stole a bunch of crap from my unit I’d be pretty pissed too. All that being said I have to add that, in the big scheme of things, sitting around drinking beer and watching cable while the CID figures out who’s going to lockup isn’t exactly a humanitarian crisis.

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  • JBLM loses “hundreds” of optics sets

    It seems like a Company in the 4th Stryker Brigade on Fort Lewis have had their optics go missing. How thefts of this magnitude happen are beyond my understanding. The whole Company is on lockdown until they locate the gear while the PR Major at I Corps sent out this amusing statement to the public:

    “You have to have other stuff to make it dangerous, and you have to know how to use it,” Ophardt said Sunday. “It’s not something the average Joe can attach to their gun and become instant Rambo.”

    I’d like to know where they’ve been hiding the just-add-attachments Instant Rambo Gear.

    They’re also offering a $10,000 reward so if you see that shifty Supply SSGT who lives next door in housing unloading crates full of optics at 3 a.m. I’d say give the MPs a ring.

  • The Rambo remake gets to be based on a “true” story

    If you haven’t yet girded yourself for the post Iraq/Afghanistan round of “crazy vet” movies and other slanderously anti-military entertainment narratives coming out of the liberal enclave of Hollywood you better start now. The latest unfunny anecdote which will no doubt trump the mountain of evidence about vets is a story out of my backyard in Seattle. From Fox News:

    Authorities are conducting a manhunt at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State after a park ranger died in a shooting Sunday following a routing traffic stop, authorities said.
    Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said late Sunday afternoon Benjamin Colton Barnes, a 24-year-old believed to have survivalist skills, was a “strong person of interest” in the slaying of Margaret Anderson. A parks spokesman said Barnes was an Iraq war veteran. Authorities recovered his vehicle, which had weapons and body armor inside, Troyer said.

    Barnes was also a suspect in the early Sunday morning shooting of four people at a house party south of Seattle, police said.
    Authorities believed the gunman was still in the woods, with weapons. They asked people to stay away from the park, and for those already inside to leave.
    “We do have a very hot and dangerous situation,” Troyer said.
    Troyer said authorities were following tracks in the snow they believe are from the gunman, and crews planned to bring an airplane through the area with heat-seeking capabilities.
    “We believe we have a good track on him, but he’s way ahead of us,” Troyer said.

    The local Fox affiliate (via the Chicago Tribune here) is circulating a short bio, and this rather unflattering photo of Barnes:

    They also assert he was picked up for DUI in 2009 and has a restraining order by the mother of his child. They also speculate (without an evidence) that he’s a currently serving member of the Reserves or Guard. The family and friends of the victims have my sincere condolences. I’m not sure if they’re actually aware of any evidence of his “strong survival skills” aside from being a vet. At this point nobody even seems to know what it is he did in the military.

    I hope that those in positions which can make a difference make the best effort to keep things in perspective as they discuss our community.