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Category: Guns

  • School shooting in CA

    I saw the news alerts all day and I got your emails, but I figured I’d let this one shake itself out before I’d write anything. It seems that a 16-year-old with a specific target in mind took a shotgun to school, shot a classmate after shooting at another who refused medical treatment. According to Fox News, there is an armed officer at the school, but today he was snowed in and couldn’t get there.

    When the shots were fired, the teacher began trying to get the more than two dozen students out a back door and also engaged the shooter in conversation to distract him, Youngblood said. A campus supervisor responding to a call of shots fired also began talking to him.

    “They talked him into putting the shotgun down,” Youngblood said.

    The sheriff said that at one point the shooter told the teacher, “I don’t want to shoot you” and named the person he wanted to shoot.

    The shooter may have had up to 20 shotgun rounds in his pockets, he said.

    So an “assault weapon ban” wouldn’t have stopped this guy. And since he’s only 16 years old, I guess it’s safe to say he didn’t purchase the gun himself. It goes back to what I said after the Connecticut shooting, gun owners have to be responsible and lock up their guns when they don’t have them in their possession. Mine are locked up because I don’t want to help turn a common thief into an armed criminal.

  • Well, This Is New

    A suspect is in custody in Florida today after attempting – unsuccessfully – to rob a convenience store.

    Of course, someone trying to rob a convenience store is nothing new.  What was novel was the would-be robber’s choice of weapon – a cattle prod. 

    Seriously.

    The would-be robber, 26-year-old Lance Tomberlin, actually used his cattle prod on the clerk more than once.  And it looks like that ended up being his undoing.

    You see, the store clerk was exercising his right to “concealed carry” – and decided enough was enough.  The clerk produced his pistol.  (No word on whether or not the clerk also produced his rapier, or told the would-be robber to “stand and deliver”.  [smile])

    Tomberlin then left the store pronto and was later apprehended by Leon County, FL, sheriff’s deputies.  He is now in custody, awaiting trial on charges of armed robbery and aggravated battery.

    Chalk up another crime prevented by those “gun nuts” with their “evil guns”.

     

    And no, MCPO NYC – you don’t get a prize if you can ID the musical reference.  (smile)

  • Sometimes Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

    Ran across this little gem today:

    For those of us fighting for our traditional rights, the US 2nd Amendment is a rare light in an ever darkening room. Governments will use the excuse of trying to protect the people from maniacs and crime, but are in reality, it is the bureaucrats protecting their power and position. In all cases where guns are banned, gun crime continues and often increases. As for maniacs, be it nuts with cars (NYC, Chapel Hill NC), swords (Japan), knives (China) or home made bombs (everywhere), insane people strike. They throw acid (Pakistan, UK), they throw fire bombs (France), they attack. What is worse, is, that the best way to stop a maniac is not psychology or jail or “talking to them”, it is a bullet in the head, that is why they are a maniac, because they are incapable of living in reality or stopping themselves.

    Is the above from an NRA staffer?  Or from some “right-wing gun nut”?

    Hardly.  The above is from a column published in Pravda.  Yes, that Pravda – the one published in the former Soviet Union.

    People in the former Soviet Union know a thing or two about how sanctioned government oppression works, and what allows it.  We should listen to them.

    The entire article is worth a read.  It’s also worth sharing.

  • Paranoia Strikes Deep

    Noted a trend here at TAH.

    There IS some fun in being an old guy.

    Please ignore the direct Viet Nam references.

    I keep seeing  this tune as a glimpse of what we face.  It really could easily be OUR song.  Them Brits did get annoyed when our predecessors said similar to what we are hearing just now.

  • Gun News. Or something.

    Joe Biden threatened to make Obama get his gun control measures approved if it meant an Executive Order gets it done instead of using the legislative process, you know that pesky system designed to represent the People (Bloomberg link);

    Obama gave Biden an end-of-the-month deadline to come up with recommendations for measures to stem deaths and injuries from firearms in the U.S. Since the Dec. 14 shootings at the Newtown, Connecticut, school that killed 20 children and six adults, advocates of more restrictions on firearms have revived long-stalled efforts to push for legislation to regulate or restrict access to firearms.

    “Every once in a while there’s something that awakens the conscience of the country, and that tragic event did in a way like nothing I’ve seen in my career,” said Biden, 70.

    Yeah, more so than 9-11 or Pearl Harbor, huh, you dingus. Everything in this administration is somehow historic, especially the way that this administration is taking away people’s rights. Yeah, they said that Bush was thrashing the Constitution, but in no way does what Bush did equal what this Administration plans.

    Meanwhile speaking of dinguses (dingusi?), Piers Morgan, that scurvy-ridden dog at CNN had Joshua Boston on last night, who did a damn sight better job than Alex Jones did the night before, in this video from JP;

    Of course, Peirs says that his neighbor’s cousin bought a dog from someone who has been in Afghanistan and Iraq, so Peirs knows exactly what Joshua experienced. Or something. Then he trots out General McChrystal like we’ve been fully expecting. When Joshua says he won’t be able to pass his weapons on to his children, Peirs asks why he’d want to pass his weapons to his children. Well, it’s been my experience that children get older, they don’t remain pre-teens forever, you dumbass dick.

    But Joshua, as usual, makes a good accounting of himself. Much better than Alex Jones, certainly.

  • Emily Miller: MPD won’t arrest Gregory

    Emily Miller, our favorite Washington Times reporter in regards to guns, reports that the DC Metropolitan Police Department won’t be arresting David Gregory of NBC for bringing a high capacity AR box magazine into the District contrary to DC laws and the fact that they’ve arrested several people in the district for the same crime;

    While Mr. Gregory got away without being arrested or going to jail, the police arrested 105 other people in 2012 on charges that included possession of “high capacity” feeding devices.

    One of those cases was James Brinkley, an Army Veteran and federal employee, who was handcuffed, arrested and jailed for possessing two so-called high-capacity magazines and an unregistered firearm. The OAG refused to drop the charges, despite overwhelming evidence that he was legally transporting through Washington.

    The police have sent the results of their very cursory investigation into Gregory’s dastardly deed to the prosecutor’s office “for a determination of the prosecutorial merit of the case”. Of course, while the prosecutor mulled over James Brinkley’s case, he sat in a jail cell, but we can’t have pretty-boy Gregory rotting in jail while the wheels of justice make their slow rounds like they do for the proletariat.

    The anti-gun media doesn’t want to follow the laws that have already been written and the law enforcement community doesn’t want to enforce the laws that have already been written, but they all want more laws that they won’t enforce, until they finally get all of our guns.

  • A Politician Is Born

    Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal backed banning assault weapons on Tuesday, saying guns like the M4 and M16 belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets.

    By way explanation he adds:

    “I personally don’t think there’s any need for that kind of weaponry on the streets and particularly around the schools in America. I believe that we’ve got to take a serious look — I understand everybody’s desire to have whatever they want — we have to protect our children and our police and we have to protect our population. And I think we have to take a very mature look at that.”

    Sounds like a politician spouting half-truths don’t he?

    I did try to find any statistics that suggest how many people in the US have been killed by an M4 or an M16 since they were introduced. My Google-Fu failed me miserably, I’m afraid.

    However, I did find one reference that sort of  applies.

    Since 1934, there appear to have been at least two homicides committed with legally owned automatic weapons. One was a murder committed by a law enforcement officer (as opposed to a civilian). On September 15th, 1988, a 13-year veteran of the Dayton, Ohio police department, Patrolman Roger Waller, then 32, used his fully automatic MAC-11 .380 caliber submachine gun to kill a police informant, 52-year-old Lawrence Hileman. Patrolman Waller pleaded guilty in 1990, and he and an accomplice were sentenced to 18 years in prison. The 1986 ‘ban’ on sales of new machine guns does not apply to purchases by law enforcement or government agencies.

    Perhaps one of you folks will have better luck uncovering how many crimes have been committed BY Civilians (legally purchased) in the USA with such evil weapons? There MUST be hundreds of such cases.

     

  • Let Us Talk About Guns.

    Most here sort of collect firearms so we are well aware of the recent spate of headlines that have the potential to impact us. From outright confiscation to declaring  just what sort of guns we can own; the simmering fear is there for any gun owner that follows  the news.

    Some are genuine collectors. John over at The Castle comes to mind, but most (I think) have other motives.

    So…

    Question #1:  Motivation? I’m genuinely curious, BTW. I’ve bought guns for decades. Being one of them paranoid “prepper” types my interest begins at home.

    Question #2: Numbers? I have more than one SKS, for example.

    Question #3: Ammo, how much is enough?

    I dunno, in the current climate it is perhaps better NOT to discuss such things. OTOH if we’re lucky Jonn will be laughing his ass off at folks trying to bust him, and he’ll give us a warning.

    ETA: Question #4: How will the MSM portray you if…. Coupla comments made me wonder (I give a shit) so I added THIS question. Being a ‘Nam vet I’ve heard it before.