Sunday, May 8, 2011

Paul Helmke on the 2010 State Scorecard

At the Brady website there's a wonderful interactive map.

Perez Hilton Is Not Convinced about the Charlie Sheen "Complete Accident"

Our only question is - how come it took them both SO LONG to just explain that it was an accident? And why on Earth was he walking around with a loaded gun in one of his pant pockets?!

In Gun-Friendly South Carolina a 3-Year-Old Kills Herself

The Post and Courier reports.
Three-year-old India Grant just finished going to the bathroom with her mother's help Friday morning when she crossed through her parents' master bedroom and saw the family's loaded handgun sitting unsecured on a windowsill.

Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet said India's mother was still in the bathroom closet when the child handled the .45-caliber firearm and looked into the barrel.
The gun fired.
Were the parents arrested or charged with a crime? We have no mention of that in the article."[Capt. James] Nettles urged parents to keep their guns locked up and out of reach."  That's about it.

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Crooked Cops in Northern California Town

This kind of thing is probably a bigger problem than we realize. SFGate reports.
A second member of an anti-drug law enforcement squad in Contra Costa County was charged Friday with selling drugs seized in raids and other crimes.

San Ramon police Officer Louis Lombardi, 38, of Discovery Bay was charged with stealing guns, selling drugs, embezzlement, illegally possessing an assault rifle and conspiracy.
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Alaska Gun Shop Case

NECN.con reports on the way gun-friendly states conspire to make it easy for criminals and mentally ill folks to get guns.
The case involves a gun used to kill Simone Young Kim in 2006 outside a store in Juneau for no apparent reason. The gun was obtained at the Rayco Sales gun shop.

Ray Coxe, owner of the store, has said the shooter — Jason Coday — chose the rifle, put $200 on the counter and left without completing the required paperwork.

Coday, 33, is serving a 101-year sentence after being convicted of first-degree murder.
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Syracuse Cops Shoot and Kill Mentally Ill Man who had a Pellet Gun

 via syracuse.com

On Thursday, two sheriff’s deputies and one Syracuse police officer ended Benjamin Campione’s decades-long struggle with mental illness by shooting him dead when he pointed a pellet gun at them in the parking lot of the Regional Transportation Center.

Glenn Beck Tells O'Reilly How Shameless Obama Is

Over on Pat Dollard's Blog they agree.  What do you think? It seems to me the president was low-keyed and humble, and the only reason for disparaging what he did is if you suffer from islamophobia and good old American black racism.