Saturday, July 24, 2010
Albuquerque Murder-Suicide
kob.com reported on the murder suicide.
It seems like this all-too-frequent type of tragedy, which has come to actually symbolize the United States from abroad, so often ends with a self-inflicted gunshot. Where are all the lawful gun owners when we need them? Where are all the concealed carry guys, whom they say number in the millions? Why do we read of so few timely interventions?
Perhaps the answer is in order to have a discernable benefit, the one gun advocates keep talking about, we'd have to arm three or four times as many people. The way things are now, the number of guns in lawful hands is causing terrible problems. There's theft, accidents, improper transfers and of course the ever-increasing occasions of lawful gun owners turning bad.
Imagine if we increased that three or four fold?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
A gunman opened fire at an Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer Monday, killing two people and wounding four others before turning the gun on himself in what police are calling a domestic violence dispute.
The suspect has been identified as 37-year-old Robert Reza.
Detectives and FBI agents reviewed surveillance video and questioned witnesses to determine Reza confronted his target, his former girlfriend and parent of his children, outside the building before entering and continuing to fire his weapon. A total of 20 to 25 bullets were found on the scene.
It seems like this all-too-frequent type of tragedy, which has come to actually symbolize the United States from abroad, so often ends with a self-inflicted gunshot. Where are all the lawful gun owners when we need them? Where are all the concealed carry guys, whom they say number in the millions? Why do we read of so few timely interventions?
Perhaps the answer is in order to have a discernable benefit, the one gun advocates keep talking about, we'd have to arm three or four times as many people. The way things are now, the number of guns in lawful hands is causing terrible problems. There's theft, accidents, improper transfers and of course the ever-increasing occasions of lawful gun owners turning bad.
Imagine if we increased that three or four fold?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Machine Gun Kelly
This young rapper is from Ohio. I wonder if the title refers to the fact that he's a "chip off the old block" of FatWhiteMan's generation. What do you think?
Crazy In Tennessee
Where to start?
I suppose we could start with the fact Tennessee is the birthplace of the KKK. The Klan is still quite active in the Volunteer state.
We could also start with the fact the Teabaggin' Linoge has adopted TN as his home state, thus lowering an already abysmally low collective IQ even further.
We could begin with TN's lack of gun laws that has TN in the top 5 states for gun homicides per capita.
However, today, we will shall start with Rep. Zach Wamp (R-CrazyTN). Wamp is a TN Congressman who flunked out of college because he liked Tennessee Sippin' Whiskey and Peruvian Marching Powder waaay too much. Of course, since he found God or Dolly Parton or Wayne LaPierre whatever, he just sleeps with a gun at his head. Literally:
"I sleep with a gun next to my head and I'm not going to tell you what it is or frankly who it's titled to."
Well..ok..Zach.
The cokehead alcoholic who sleeps with a gun next to his head wants to be Governor of Crazy Tennessee. In an interview, Wamp said that if Health Care Reform wasn't repealed, TN would have to secede.
All I can say is--go ahead. Please go.
Friday, July 23, 2010
More on the ACLU and Byron Williams
Over at AlterNet, Joshua Holland lays out the recent history of ACLU activity with regards gun rights, including the case we looked at the other day.
He's referrring to Byron Williams, whom we've recently discussed. And, I'm afraid Byron is not the only one out there.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
None of this makes any difference. As I’ve written before, the debate over gun ownership now has little to do with substantive policy issues. Guns have become part of the culture wars, which means that no matter how secure the right to own a firearm may be in the courts — in reality — the gun lobby and firearms manufacturers have too much at stake to let the specter of the gummint taking your shooting irons go away. And there are always people who are easily suckered and buy their dark conspiracy theories.
But make no mistake: theirs is an incredibly dangerous brand of demagoguery, because the suckers who buy the gun lobby’s spin are heavily armed.
He's referrring to Byron Williams, whom we've recently discussed. And, I'm afraid Byron is not the only one out there.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Two Strikes You're Out
The Chigcago Tribune reports on the antics of a clumsy deputy.
What's your opinion? Should she be given another break and after some administrative leave with pay, return to duty? Or, do you agree with me, that she should have been fired and stripped of her gun-owning rights after the first incident?
Please leave a comment.
A Lake County sheriff's deputy has been placed on leave after her gun fell out of its holster and skidded across the floor of the crowded courthouse lobby Wednesday morning.
The gun did not discharge, but the incident, which occurred about 8:30 a.m., prompted at least one witness to phone security.
The sheriff's office confirmed the courthouse deputy is the same officer who accidentally shot herself while retrieving her service weapon from the trunk of her car in the Lake County Courthouse parking garage in February 2009. The bullet went through Deputy Karen Harris' hand and then lodged in her abdomen, but she eventually recovered and was able to return to work.
What's your opinion? Should she be given another break and after some administrative leave with pay, return to duty? Or, do you agree with me, that she should have been fired and stripped of her gun-owning rights after the first incident?
Please leave a comment.
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