Birther Leader Joseph Farah Caught with Loaded Gun at Dulles TSA Checkpoint, Faces Weapon Charge

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Joseph Francis Farah, a leading ‘birther’ who runs the right-wing, conspiracy website WorldNetDaily, was reportedly caught by TSA agents on Sunday with a loaded .38-caliber revolver in his carry-on bag as he passed through security at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.

Farah, who denounced TSA screening practices in a 2010 column, faces a class 1 misdemeanor charge for carrying a gun in an airport terminal, according to a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. He was released pending a summons.

The Washington Post first reported the incident yesterday but described the individual in question as Joseph Farah, 49, of Centreville, Va. Hatewatch confirmed with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority today that in fact Joseph Francis Farah, who is 59, was cited for the weapon charge.

Federal Judge Upholds Colorado Gun Laws - The Whining and Stamping of Feet on TTAG is Hysterical - Literally

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“A federal judge on Thursday upheld Colorado’s new gun-control laws that mandated background checks for all gun sales and limited the capacity of ammunition magazines to no more than 15 rounds,” denverpost.com reports. Click here to read Chief Judge Marcia S. Krieger’s ruling. Or not, as it contains statements bound to raise your blood pressure, starting with “the Supreme Court does not equate the Second Amendment ‘right to keep and bear arms’ to guarantee an individual the ‘right to use any firearm one chooses for self-defense.’” Thank you “reasonable regulations”Heller loophole. As for ammunition magazines . . .

Of the many law enforcement officials called to testify, none were able to identify a single instance in which they were involved where a single civilian fired more than 15 shots in self defense.

Huh. So police aren’t civilians. Who knew? Anyway, who cares how many rounds it takes to defend oneself or with what weapon? I thought the Second Amendment was pretty clear about Americans’ civil and natural rights (the bit about shall not be infringed) – whether or not the infringements are “worthwhile” or not.

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Commenter TS Proves Himself Incapable of Common Sense and Honesty

Mikeb: A tiny bit of common sense and honesty is all it takes to answer your question. If all guns magically disappeared today, do you think the overall murders would go up, go down or stay the same??

TS: Stay the same.

In his typical way, TS went on to justify his amazing answer with a non-sequitur argument about criminals buying guns in neighboring states. He desperately wants to avoid looking directly at the question posed.

In order for the number of murders to stay the same if all guns magically disappeared, you would have to believe that every single gun murder would be committed with another weapon, including all the multiple murders. Lanza would have killed 27 people with what, a knife, a bomb.  Perhaps James Holmes would have clubbed all those people to death in the movie theater. I suppose Loughner and Cho could have used machetes or samurai swords. 

The absurdity of this position is so apparent that in the other thread I thought TS was going to avoid answering altogether. I don't think he's a stupid man and I don't think his opinion of me is such that he'd lie and expect me to buy it.  That leaves only one possibility that I can think of.  His bias for the gun-rights argument is so deep that it blinds him to obvious truths.

If guns magically disappeared, there would be fewer murders and lower rates of violence.  It could not be otherwise since 70% of all murders are committed with guns, the most lethal and efficient tool for the job. 

The reason TS's sub-conscience cannot allow such an admission is that once it's accepted the entire gun-rights position against gun control crumbles.  If proper gun control laws were implemented fewer people would own guns legally and fewer criminals would enjoy the gun availability they do now.  Lives would be saved.

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South Dakota Man Gets 10 Years for Unintentional Shooting

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Diego B. Ortiz Mendez, 30, previously pleaded guilty to a felony count of aggravated assault. This morning, Judge Rick Sommers sentenced Ortiz Mendez to 10 years in prison with four years suspended. He must also make nearly $15,000 in restitution for the victim's medical bills.

After a dispute between two groups of people, Ortiz Mendez fired a single shot from a 9-millimeter handgun that struck Whitney Schaunaman, of Aberdeen, in the back of the neck, said Chris White, chief deputy state's attorney for Brown County. Schaunaman was taken to the hospital and released later in the day. Both Sommers and White said there's no reason to believe Ortiz Mendez was trying to hit Schaunaman with the shot. But the incident was still serious and could have been even worse if the bullet had struck the victim even a centimeter closer to the center of the neck, instead of near the outside of her neck, White said.

"This could have ended up so badly that you could have ended up with life in prison," Sommers told Ortiz Mendez as he tried to convince the defendant that the sentence was not harsh or unfair.

Ortiz Mendez apologized to Schaunaman's family — her father was in the courtroom — and said it was never his intent to hurt anybody. He said he was trying to fire a warning shot to attract the attention of police because he was fearful of his life as the result of the altercation between the two groups.

Men who were with Schaunaman were hassling and bothering Ortiz Mendez while both parties were in the Zoo Bar and outside after the bar closed, said Josh Finer, Ortiz Mendez's attorney. When one of the men ran to his vehicle, Ortiz Mendez became fearful and went to his car and grabbed his gun, Finer said. Shortly thereafter, the shot was fired.

14-inch Artillery Shell Hits OK House from a Gun Show 3 Miles Away - No One Responsible - Just a Freak Accident

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