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Category: Guns

  • Thursday feel good story

    Chief Tango sends us a link from Sumner County, Kansas, where a farmer encountered a known-to-be-armed fugitive on a relative’s farm;

    “The farmer had advised us that he had confronted the individual and had him at gunpoint and the individual took off running,” said [Sheriff Darren Chambers]. “At that point, the farmer did not feel threatened and allowed the individual to run away.”

    But as the man ran away, the farmer realized he was heading toward a relative’s home where a woman might be home alone.

    The farmer took his 17-year-old son and a shotgun with him to check the relative’s house east of the Kansas Turnpike about 5:30 p.m.

    The relatives were not home, so the farmer and his son decided to check the relative’s outbuildings.

    He found the man hiding in one of the buildings.

    “The individual jumped out from behind a pile of feed sacks, told the farmer he was going to kill him and attacked,” said Chambers. “As he attacked, the farmer shot him. The individual was deceased right there.”

    According to the Wellington Daily News, the farmer is not facing any charges.

  • A HumpDay Detour Into Bizzarro World

    This can be a sort of  “feel good” story depending how one sees the world.

    Caveat: I dunno if this linked site is satire or not? I opted against delving too deeply there because either way I had the feeling it would cause my blood pressure to spike.

    School Offers Counseling for Students Troubled by Pastry-Gun Incident

    The elementary school that was the scene of Josh’s brutally harmless rampage sent students home Friday with a letter describing the incident as if it had actually been serious:

    Dear Parents and Guardians:

    I am writing to let you know about an incident that occurred this morning in one of our classrooms and encourage you to discuss this matter with your child in a manner you deem most appropriate.

    During breakfast this morning, one of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class. While no physical threats were made and no one [was] harmed, the student had to be removed from the classroom.

    * * *

    As you are aware, the … Code of Student Conduct and appropriate consequences related to violations of the code are clearly spelled out in the Student Handbook, which was sent home during the first week of school and can be found on our website, www.aacps.org….

    If your children express that they are troubled by today’s incident, please talk with them and help them share their feelings. Our school counselor is available to meet with any students who have the need to do so next week. In general, please remind them of the importance of making good choices.

    Pretty sure that if your children are “troubled” by another kid biting a pastry into something that looks sort of like a gun and waving said pastry around, you have already failed as a parent.

    I keep thinking about “Animal House” and the food fight scene. Simulated explosives  – OH THE HORROR!

  • Humpday feel good story

    WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather

    Let’s start Wednesday with a feel good story about Sue Johnson, a retired widow who opened her door to find 26-year-old Nathaniel Leatherwood, the man who had ransacked her home earlier standing there with a stick (WRBCTV);

    “So I just pulled my gun out of my pocket and said I’m calling the sheriff’s office,” Johnson explains. “They’re going to come pick you up. I’m not going to let this happen to an old, retired lady who lives alone.”

    Sheriff Keith Lovin arrived on scene, relieved Sue was not harmed.

    “I hugged her neck and told her she’s my hero,” says Sheriff Lovin.

    Just a few weeks earlier, the sheriff taught a gun safety course at Sue’s church.

    He says all citizens should be prepared.

    “A medical emergency or whether it’s a fire, whether it’s an intruder, whether it’s a natural disaster, I think sometimes citizens sometimes get complacent,” says Sheriff Lovin.

    “Especially if you are a widow and live alone, you need to be taught to shoot and have something in your house to protect yourself,” says Johnson.

    Apparently, young Leatherwood picked the wrong county to become a criminal in.

  • What’s Next – Pop-Tart Control Laws?

    In Baltimore, People’s Republic of Maryland, a 7 year old kid was recently suspended from school for 2 days for an “inappropriate gesture”.

    His “crime”?  Eating a Pop-Tart.  While doing so, one of his teachers saw the half-eaten pastry – and thought it was being shaped to look like a gun.

    I wish I was joking above.  Unfortunately, I’m not.

    We all knew that common sense ceased to be a requirement for public educators years ago.  Apparently now working brain cells are no longer required either.

    Completely asinine.  But hey – it’s just another public-school example of “your tax dollars at work.”

  • An Experiment Gone Bad – What Would YOU do?

    Stumbled across this via FB. I don’t wrestle much any more. I think I woulda shot first myself.

    C’mon… it IS funny.

  • Time for More Dog Control?

    Maybe.  It seems like a police K9 in Massachusetts managed to fire a pistol into an occupied dwelling.

    Police in Lawrence, MA, were investigating 3 shots fired.  They spied a vehicle containing suspects.

    The suspect vehicle led police on a high-speed chase.  When it stopped, one of the vehicle’s occupants got out and buried something in a snowbank.

    The police detained the 3 occupants of the vehicle.  The police soon afterwards released a K9, who located the buried object – which turned out to be a firearm.  In doing so, however, the K9 managed to discharge the weapon into an occupied dwelling.  Thankfully there were no injuries.

    The 3 occupants of the vehicle are now facing various charges.  No word on whether the K9 was placed on administrative leave pending investigation of a negligent discharge.  (smile)

    No, I’m not joking – well, except for the “administrative leave pending investigation . . . ” part.

    At least, I think that was a joke.  With some big-city police departments, you never know. (smile)

     

  • Student suspended for wrestling gun away from shooter

    Dominick sends us a link to a local Fox news station’s article about an unidentified student who was suspended from school because he wrestled a loaded .22 caliber revolver away from a 15-year-old who threatened to shoot another student and brandished the handgun;

    The student says he wrestled the .22 caliber RG-14 Revolver away from the suspect, a football player, who witnesses say threatened to shoot a teammate because he had been arguing with his friend.

    “No doubt,” the student said, “he was going to shoot him point blank.”

    The teen we spoke to and authorities both confirm the Revolver was loaded. According to the arrest report the suspect, who Fox 4 is not naming because he is a minor, was “pointing the gun directly” at another student and “threatening to shoot him.”

    That’s when the student we spoke with says he and two others tackled the teen and wrestled away the gun. The next day the school slapped him with a three day suspension.

    “It’s dumb,” he said. “How they going to suspend me for doing the right thing?”

    Apparently, he was suspended for not cooperating with the investigation, which is still no reason to suspend him. What kind of message does that send? Are they upset that the kid didn’t get to kill four other people so it would count for Mother Jones’ arbitrary statistics?

  • Colion Noir joins NRA

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    We just got this announcement from our friends at the NRA:

    NRA News just unveiled the first of, what will be, a series of diverse contributors. His name is Colion Noir and he is unlike anyone you have seen on NRA programming before. He will offer exclusive commentary starting with his first episode, which will debut in the near future.

    You might not know his name, but you’ll recognize his face in this trailer video;