The Cadillac of Nail Guns

The Wire, Season 4 Intro. The best one since the first.

More on Bloomberg's Terror Gap

ScrappleFace posted a quote of Bloomberg's that I couldn't resist.

“The FBI ought to be able to block the sale of these items, and perhaps others, to American citizens who have not yet been charged with a crime, but who are viewed as potential threats by the FBI,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “Anyone who opposes closing the ‘terror gap’ is essentially an accessory to terrorism…a virtual member of al Qaeda, and a threat to our national security. In fact, opposition to my sensible proposal ought to provide grounds for putting someone on the no-buy list.”

Is it any wonder that hizzoner is shaping up as the number one antagonist of the gun rights crowd? It takes extreme measures to fight extreme people.

In fact, opposition to my sensible proposal ought to provide grounds for putting someone on the no-buy list.

Now, that should be the quote of the day on many of the gun blogs. What do you think?

$10,000 Reward Offered in GA Gun Theft

The Washington Examiner reports on the ATF's offer of a reward for information leading to the arrest of gun thieves.

ATLANTA — Authorities are offering a reward of up to $10,000 in hopes of catching two men accused of stealing two dozen guns from a shop in Woodstock.

The burglary occurred at Pannell's Firearms and Range on April 27. Security cameras show two men smashing glass countertops and putting guns into bags before fleeing the area at around 3:15 a.m.

Now, wait a minute, some people get so upset when I "blame the victim," but I don't think it's too much of a stretch to question the security measures taken by the gun shop. Don't they have jewellery stores in Atlanta that put all the stuff in a big safe at night for this very reason? Why in the world would gun dealers not be required to do something like that?

Jewellers take these common sense precautions in order to protect themselves and their property. What is the gun dealer thinking who leaves his merchandise under glass all through the night? To me this is the height of irresponsibility. If gun dealers don't have the common sense to take basic precautions against theft, then they should be held partly responsible for that theft.

I think the problem goes right down the line from the NRA lobbyists who enjoy the reputation of being among the most powerful on K Street to the individual gun owner who believes he's sanctioned by god to carry his gun anywhere he want to. It's a type of arrogance, an attitude which says I'm special and I'm different and I don't have to comply with common sense rules like everybody else. It's the attitude that says I can leave my gun in the glove box of the car or in the display case of the store and if a thief breaks in only he's responsible for his actions.

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

Austin Police Officer Fired

The Houston Chronicle reports.

AUSTIN, Texas — An Austin police officer who fatally shot a man in 2009 has been fired after being arrested in January for alleged drunken driving.

Police Chief Art Acevedo on Thursday fired Quintana, who in May 2009 fatally shot Nathaniel Sanders II.

A grand jury declined to indict Quintana. Sanders had been sleeping in a car that police were investigating as possibly being used in crimes.

A disciplinary memo says Quintana went out Jan. 11 and drank alcohol, then drove to Leander. A 911 call about a traffic accident led to his arrest.

Quintana's arrest came hours after he was questioned as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit into the fatal shooting.

I'm not sure if I understood it correctly, but I think they said he shot and killed a guy who was sleeping in his car, and the "grand jury declined to indict." Well, that certainly sounds like Texas and it certainly sounds like how they treat cops, not just in Texas, but other places too.

Then, I guess the bosses just had enough with his drinking and finally fired him.

What I'm wondering is this: will he now be just another unfit Texas gun owner with a drinking problem? If they didn't indict him for the shooting and he lost his job for the DWI, he should still be entitled to his sacred 2nd Amendment rights, don't you think?

I guess what it boils down to is he'll not take his place among the Famous 10%, until, of course, he does something else stupid enough to be classified as an out and out criminal.

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

Murder - Suicide in Florida Leaves 3 Dead

WDBO.com reports on a terrible shooting that left three dead in Florida. Like something you see in the movies, the enraged ex-husband came around with a gun and killed the new husband, the ex-wife and himself.

Nothing was mentioned about his criminal record or where the gun came from. But short of presuming he was just another legitimate gun owner gone berserk, I'll say this was not a gang-related drug shootout, which is supposed to account for the majority. So, what the heck, I may as well say it. This was another legitimate gun owner gone berserk.

It's cases like this that prove gun control works. Laws that make it harder for people like this go get guns make it less likely that something like this will happen. It's simple.

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

More on the Terror Gap

The New York Times published an op-ed about the Congressional discussions about closinig the terror gap. This has been pretty well covered by both sides, but this article contained some interesting points.

Yes, if you are on the terrorist watch list, the authorities can keep you from getting on a plane but not from purchasing an AK-47. This makes sense to Congress because, as Graham accurately pointed out, “when the founders sat down and wrote the Constitution, they didn’t consider flying.”

The subject of guns turns Congress into a twilight zone. People who are perfectly happy to let the government wiretap phones go nuts when the government wants to keep track of weapons permits. A guy who stands up in the House and defends the torture of terror suspects will nearly faint with horror at the prospect of depriving someone on the watch list of the right to purchase a pistol.

“We make it so easy for dangerous people to get guns. If it’s the Second Amendment, it doesn’t matter if they’re Osama bin Laden,” said Paul Helmke, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

What do you think about that? How could people who accept illegal wiretapping of American citizens be so upset about the Constitutional implications of this proposal?

Please leave a comment.

Obama Hatred

The Obama haters are sometimes so silly it requires no response, but this one was too good to resist.

From The Rude Pundit.

Tell you what, motherfuckers, when dead people are left to rot in the sun because of the incompetence of the federal government, when corpses are floating in the streets, when the President passively ignores the pleas of the governors of Gulf Coast states, when entire neighborhoods have been physically destroyed, when the federal government strands tens of thousands of people without food or water, when the federal government starts to blame the local governments, when the President praises the work of a failed, incompetent bureaucrat while a major city rots, then you can say that this is Barack Obama's "Katrina."

What's your opinion? Is comparing this oil leak to Katrina one of the stupidest things you're ever heard, or what?

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