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Category: Guns

  • Kokesh goes to court in DC

    According to the Washington Post, Adam Kokesh is currently in the custody of the DC police to answer charges that he had a loaded shotgun in the District for the video he posted on line on July 4th.

    The spokesman, Bill Miller, said Kokesh is expected to be arraigned in D.C. Superior Court Friday afternoon. Court documents show that Kokesh is being charged with one count of illegally possessing a shotgun related to the video.

    By the way, The Post calls Kokesh a Libertarian. Obviously, they don’t know the difference between a Libertarian and a Libertine/Anarchist.

    According to WTOP;

    Kokesh was allowed to post bail and leave jail ahead of his trial for felony drug charges in Fairfax County. Bond was set at $5,000.

    I hope he got that money from his hippie buddies. They deserve to be separated from it.

    The Post reports that a shotgun wasn’t the only weapon they found in Kokesh’s house;

    The court documents say police found nine other guns in the house, including rifles and semiautomatic handguns.

    Well, and some mushrooms. With gun such a hot button issue, I wouldn’t recommend anyone try to be the Gandhi of gun rights. While I disagree with the laws in DC, you’ll never see me carrying a weapon there. When I go to the range in Maryland, I never take weapons that are illegal in Maryland – it’s all part of being a responsible gun owner.

    Someone posted on Kokesh’s blog;

    “These costumed thugs ransacked Adam’s home, and committed numerous civil rights violations in the course of their dubious search- both against Adam and the members of his crew who were present at the time. The officers would not identify themselves, and had covered their badges and name tags.”

    Yeah, because they’re so scared of Kokesh and his minions.

    Thanks to Chief Tango, Chip and Jerry920 for the links. And screw you Washington Post for limiting my access to your stupid paper. I didn’t pay for a subscription when I lived in DC, why would I pay for it now?

  • Stand Your Ground in Houston

    David sent us this story from Houston today. I’ve seen it a couple of times over the past few days, but apparently it’s a thing now. 23-year-old Shanequia McDonald was accosted by 58-year-old Louis Daniel in a bar. When she left, he followed her to the service station, where she drew a 22-caliber rifle from her car when she saw that Daniel had a knife and an umbrella and bowed up at her. He punched her and she shot him dead. From KHOU;

    Family members identified the victim as 58-year-old Louis Daniel.

    He was pronounced dead at the scene.

    According to police, the shooter claimed the man had made unwanted sexual advances and refused to leave her alone. She also told police she feared for her life.

    According to witnesses, the victim was acting strangely.

    “He had an expression like he was just mad at the world,” said Jon Thomas who was in the parking lot at the time of the gunfire.

    “She just had the gun pointed down to the ground and said get back. I guess he didn’t expect or like that.”

    I don’t know how Daniel accosts the woman and follows her, then threatens her with a knife and suddenly he’s a “victim”. He’s a victim of his own stupidity. But anyway, it looks like that in Texas it’s spurred a debate about “stand your ground”. Whatever. The guy made it clear that the only way the young woman was going to come out of that situation was after Daniel became “the victim”.

  • Another Saturday feel good story

    Since the earlier Saturday feel good story actually happened on Tuesday, you get a bonus today along with some chuckles from Land O’Lakes, FL. It seems that two men tried to turn their lives around with someone else’s property, but I guess the initial investment in their start-up business wasn’t quite enough, so they took a fake gun to their first cold call visit;

    The sheriff’s office said two men went into the cottage armed with a fake gun and tried to rob the people inside. Someone inside then pulled out a real gun and shot the suspects, deputies said.

    Both of the injured men ran outside and collapsed on the sidewalk by the road.

    A registered nurse, Jennifer Price, was driving by with her daughter and stopped to help.

    “When I stopped, I said ‘Somebody needs to get that gun and move it, I don’t want to get shot,’” she said. “One of the boys that I went to had about four or five gunshot wounds and I just tried to help him as much as I could. The other fellow they moved off and he had several wounds to but he wasn’t conscious at the time.”

    The article goes on to say that there were five people in the house at the time including a 2-year-old. Both of the ventilated entrepreneurs are in serious condition and probably looking forward to their well-earned retirement from the property-ownership-transfer business.

  • Saturday feel good story

    Top Kone sends us our feel good story for the start of the weekend from Cleveland. A woman was leaving her home with her kids when three men forced her back into her house, but her boyfriend was watching the scene unfold from his window…with his gun;

    “They walked her out of the garage and when they got to the door, I shot,” Bridges said.

    Bridges’ bullet hit one of the suspects. All three gunmen ran. The injured suspect was taken into custody at Euclid Hospital. The other two were stopped a few blocks away after police noticed they looked suspicious.

    Fifth District Commander Wayne Drummond said they face charges of aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and felonious assault.

    A local politician says the he wants to give Johnny Bridges a medal. He should – Johnny got three dangerous men off the streets and his neighborhood is marginally safer because of his actions.

  • Friday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends today’s story from Erwin, North Carolina where two armed men tried to turn their lives around in the early morning hours today, From a WRAL link;

    Ronald McDougald said his 22-year-old son and his nephew live in the house and were home early Friday with the nephew’s girlfriend and her 2-year-old child.

    Two men armed with a gun kicked in the carport door and entered, McDougald said, and his his son fired at the intruders. One of the men was shot and killed, and the other fled the area.

    I’m betting that if police followed that slick brown trail that the second man left, they’ll find him eventually, unless he ran all the way to California today.

  • How’s Gun Control Working Out for Brazil?

    Gun laws in Brazil are relatively severe.  Per Wikipedia (yeah, I know – but I don’t really have the desire to research Brazilian law in-depth myself), gun ownership in Brazil is legal, but heavily restricted.

    One must be 25 years of age to own a firearm in Brazil.  By law firearms must be registered with the government.  A registration tax of R$85 (R$ is the symbol for the Brazilian real) must be paid every three years.  Carrying a firearm outside one’s home requires a special permit.  However, changes in Brazilian federal policy instituted in 2002 made it effectively impossible to get such a permit today.

    Between 1980 and 2011, approximately 1,100,000 Brazilians were murdered.  The homicide rate increased by over 130% – from 11.5 per 100,000 population in 1980 to 27 per 100,000 in 2011.  Between 2008 and 2011 – a time when Brazil’s economy, like the rest of the world’s economy, cooled – 206,000 Brazilians were murdered (an average of roughly 51,500 per year).  And like in the US, murders in Brazil are far more common among males and the young.

    For comparison, the US murder rate is now 5.3 per 100,000 population.

    Murders in Brazil are now not only a Rio/Sao Paulo problem, either.  As commerce and commercial centers have spread across Brazil, so have the murders – murder “followed the money”, so to speak.

    That makes sense, actually.  Criminals certainly do.

    It’s estimated that there are around 17 million firearms in Brazil today.  Less than half (only about 8 million) are legally-owned.  I’m guessing it’s a safe bet that those used in the vast majority of crimes aren’t of the legally-owned variety.

    Yeah, that gun control thing is really working out great for the people of Brazil.  Maybe we ought to study their experience.  We could certainly learn a thing or two from it.

  • Thursday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a story today from Hominy, Oklahoma where a ten-year-old girl answered her door when a teen was banging on it. The teen tried to force his way in the home but the mother slammed it in his face.

    He then punched through the window on the door, so the woman said she woke her 17-year-old son and told him to get his gun.

    Her son, who is a senior at Hominy High School, grabbed a 12-guage shotgun and fired as the other boy reached his hand through the broken glass and turned the doorknob to obtain entry.

    A neighbor says the same person was sitting on her porch earlier. When she told him to leave, he started acting strangely, so she called 911. She said she was on the phone with dispatch when she heard gunfire next door.

    So I guess we’ll never know if he was trying to turn his life around or just being a pest. Again the story isn’t that this happened, the story is that these stories happen every-damn-day, that every day Americans are protecting their homes and their families with gun with barely a mention from the media.

  • Wednesday Feel Good Story

    Chief Tango sends us a link to today’s feel good story from Oklahoma. The homeowner called the police when he heard someone break into his house;

    “The homeowner advised dispatch, who was still on with 911, that he had just shot the suspect who had broken the back door,” said Owasso Police Capt. Tracy Townsend.

    Police say [44-year-old Timothy] Wall was shot in the thigh and taken to St. John Hospital in Tulsa.

    Neighbors say Wall suffers from a mental condition, but they understand the homeowner had to do something to protect himself and his family.

    “At one point is, you’ve got to understand the guy [is] delusional there and doesn’t understand what he was doing, but on the other side you’ve got to understand that the homeowner–you don’t know what the guy is seeing, so he had to defend himself there, and his wife, at the time,” said neighbor Eric Hamblin.