Noam Chomsky on the Government

So many pro-gun folks hate the government. Noam would say they're misled. What do you think? (via The Well-Armed Lamb)

Road Rage Battle in Ft. Myers

In this report they may have coined a new phrase: "Road Rage Battle."

I'll bet the guy had a concealed carry permit, what do you think?

Please leave a comment.

Triple Shooting in Raleigh

If these two conspired with that one to kill the other one, then who shot the three of them? All I know is when people like these want guns, they can get all they want, every one of which passed through the hands of one or more legal gun owners. Yet, the legal gun owners insist they have nothing to do with this, these people are criminals, they cry.



Please leave a comment.

Shore Leave - Tom Waits

Dedicated to true veterans like Il Principe, whose opinion I listen to rather than all the wannabe veterans and phonies.

"They're Both Gone"

Today's Murder-Suicide:

"They're both gone," the caller said through tears.

"What do you mean they're both gone?" a Washington County dispatcher asked.

"I just came and I found them."

"Are they..."

"They're both dead."

The call came into the county's dispatch center shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. A man had walked up a steep path in the dark woods of Lakeland's Humphries Park and found the bodies of Jacob Zachary Campbell, 14, and Lisa Marie Grijalva, 15, who died in an apparent murder-suicide.

Weer'd Thinks, Fails

Weer'd thinks about Hate Crimes:

As much as it disgusts me to hear about “Hate Crime”, I see no valid reason to judge the crime any differently than crimes of passion, or crime for profit, or “honor killings” like this. You judge a man by his actions, not by what’s in his mind, or heart, and not by the tools in his hand.

This is odd for several reasons; first, Weer'd has been pretty much ok with white males shooting and killing people. But the second and larger point is that such thinking goes entirely against our entire system of justice which does account for intent. Laci can address this far better than I but IIRC there are around 20 categories of homicide that one could possibly get charged with. There's a world of difference between someone who plots a murder for months and carries it out and someone who gets into a bar fight and accidentally kills someone. Similarly, there's a ton of difference between someone spray paints a swastika on the side of a Synagogue and someone who paints "Red Sox Rule" on a garage door.
Pretty strange coming from Weer'd who believes the ATF goes after FFLs for making "typos."

Gun Range Suicide

In the Fort Lauderdale area there have been a few of these incidents lately.  Do you think South Florida is particularly suicide-prone?  I wouldn't think so, which means to get an idea of what's really happening, we'd have to figure this is going on everywhere there are shooting ranges. We've covered this a few times, for example here and here and here.

Sounds bad.  What do you think?

Please leave a comment.