Guns
James Wesley Howell; armed man in California
You probably heard that another man was arrested in California in the wake of the news of the shooting in Orlando. James Wesley Howell was in possession of some guns (possibly explosives) and told police that he was headed to the “Pride” parade in Los Angeles. He’s from Indiana and the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel says […]
FBI agent arms criminal in San Francisco
Fox News reports that an FBI agent in San Francisco tells local cops that his badge and .40 caliber handgun were stolen from his car. The theft follows a series of break-in and burglaries where guns have been stolen and used in homicides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prosecutors say a trio of homeless […]
That gun debate thing again
The Washington Post has decided that we need to reinvigorate the the gun debate. Now, they’re wringing their hands over that fact that a five-year-old girl, Haley Moore, of LaPlace, Louisiana, got a hold of her father’s handgun and killed herself the other day. Apparently, her father went to take a shower and didn’t put […]
New York Times’ Untold Damage
The New York Times does a bit of lobbying for the gun control industry today with a piece entitled “Untold Damage: America’s Overlooked Gun Violence” in which they recount incidents of gun violence which they claim goes largely unnoticed because it happens in minority communities. Most of the shootings occurred in economically downtrodden neighborhoods. These […]
Court: DC’s “good reason” restriction ain’t good enough
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that the District of Columbia’s “may issue” restriction that a citizen needs a “good reason” to apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon in the district didn’t meet the Supreme Court’s intentions in Heller v. US, according to the Washington Times; “In Heller, the Supreme Court’s unequivocally […]
Liberal Logic: Self-Defense Contradicts Justice
Let me preface this with an apology for perusing on a liberal trash heap blog (Huffington Post). But every once and a while you need a brief glimpse into the dysfunctional minds of the people who are behind Obama’s fundamental transformation of America. Today, I stumbled upon an “article” that attempted to argue that defending […]
“. . . . individuals are just not being held accountable for gun crimes”
Jonn published an article yesterday based on this story. But there are a couple of points here I thought warranted further emphasis, so I’m doing a follow-up. First point: IMO significantly, Chicago police are decidedly not blaming this uptick in violent crime on fallout from the SCOTUS’s decision in McDonald v. Chicago (2010). Rather, here […]
Newtown science teacher arrested for gun
Hondo sends us a link to Fox News which reports that Jason Adams, a 46-year-old science teacher at Newtown, Connecticut middle school was arrested for bringing a gun to school. Adams was detained by school security after he was seen with the gun and then arrested by Newtown police who were called to Newtown Middle […]
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