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Sunday Feel Good Story
Chief Tango sends us today’s feel good story from Jackson, Mississippi when a homeowner heard his dog barking and went outside to find someone burglarizing his car; The owner of a home in the 1700 block of Tanglewood Cove told police he heard a noise about 6 a.m. and went outside to discover that a […]
Saturday feel good story
Chief Tango sends us links to today’s feel good story which comes from Houston. The details are a bit muddled, but it looks like it could have been an attempted carjacking foiled by the car’s owner, while three gunmen tried to turn their lives around by taking possession of it. From the Houston Chronicle; Police […]
Friday’s feel good story
From the Huffington Post comes our Friday feel good story about Robert Vann Marshall who thought an order of protection is just a piece of paper; At 1:27 p.m., he was released from jail. At 1:38 p.m., officers received a call from Marshall’s wife at their McMinn County home, during which she claimed her husband […]
Your Thursday feel good story
Chief Tango sends links to the story of a Melbourne, Florida homeowner who encountered four men trying to turn their lives around inside his home. Some of them had guns, but so did the father and husband; According to Melbourne police, three or four males — in their teens or early 20s — broke into […]
IL has a concealed weapon law; Governor threatens to cut off pay for legislators
Tuesday, the Illinois Legislature finally passed a concealed carry permit law by over-riding the Governor’s veto. House members approved the override without any debate on the floor. The vote in the House was 77-31 in favor of an override, with 10 representatives not voting. The Senate vote was 41-17, after some mild debate. A three-fifths […]
“Irresponsible” gun owners mapped – an app for that
Dominick sends us a link to the Washington Times which reports that some gumball, lecturer Brett Stalbaum, from University of California San Diego developed an application for Android machine thingies that allows you to put “irresponsible gun owners” on their map. Of course, the meaning of irresponsible is pretty ambiguous – and depends on what […]
Wednesday feel good stories
Two stories of youths turning their lives around this morning, both of them from North Carolina. UpNorth sends the first about a business owner who responded to to an alarm at his business where he discovered two youngsters trying to turn their lives around with a reel of copper wire worth about $4,940; Page says […]
Tuesday Feel Good Story
Chief Tango sends us a link to the last chapter of the Charles McLaughlin story, a young man who turned his life around by breaking into someone else’s home; [A] woman who lives in the home called 911 about 10 p.m. Sunday and said her boyfriend had shot an intruder. The woman told dispatchers she […]
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