You want to see reasoned discourse?

THIS is reasoned discourse Hi Readers — Here’s another question that arrived in th email. It began, ”Can we talk about gunplay for a few minutes?” Happily, by “gunplay” they writer didn’t mean, “What’s the upside of random shootings?” But rather, “Is it okay for kids to play around, pretending to shoot each other?” While it drives me crazy when one of my sons puts his hand up to his brother’s temple and pantomimes “Pow!”, I totally love it when they get out their Nerf guns and run...

posted @ 2/20/2010 12:44:40 PM | Feedback (2)

Effective! We should do more programs like this!

Number of shell casings collected by COBIS as of January 1: 258,700 Number of crimes solved because of COBIS as of January 1: 0 Sounds close to my percentage of dating success in high school. Stolen in its entirety from Gunspoliticsny.com

posted @ 1/12/2010 3:50:31 PM | Feedback (5)

Correlation does not equal causation

But damn if it doesn't jump up and down, pointing its fingers and going "Pssst! Look over THERE" With just two days left in the year, according to preliminary numbers from the police department, the District has had 138 homicides compared with 184 at the same time last year, setting up the city to record the lowest number of homicides since 1964, when 132 were reported killed. Now, nowhere in the article does it mention the fact that thugs now had to take into consideration that...

posted @ 12/30/2009 11:44:16 AM | Feedback (5)

It's like they've been lying to us all this time

The Anti's always tell us "More guns = More Crime". Are they right? Most emphatically, no Preliminary statistics released by the FBI for the first half of 2009 show that violent crime continues a downward trend that began in 2006. The figures show crime falling in all categories–robbery, aggravated assault, motor vehicle thefts, etc.–with murders down a remarkable 10 percent from the previous year.

posted @ 12/23/2009 9:53:45 AM | Feedback (6)

Blood in the turnstiles

A year ago, my native home town of Atlanta decided that people with CCW's were ok to ride mass transit carrying their weapons. And just like every other time the law abiding are allowed to exercise their rights, nothing happened. It's almost like the anti-gun forces are lying to us.

posted @ 12/15/2009 8:25:53 AM | Feedback (3)

Not accidental, either

Howard Nemerov points to this interesting statistic Since 1984 there have been over 122,000,000 firearms purchased by civilians, and yet somehow the accidental firearms death rate has plummeted 71.4%. How can that be? The Brady Campaign and their ilk constantly tell us that more firearms means more accidental deaths. They fight at every turn to prevent programs like Eddie Eagle from being taught in schools. Which makes sense in a way. People like Dennis Henigan and Paul Hemlke can't really...

posted @ 10/29/2009 1:37:29 PM | Feedback (13)

Must have been going to the wrong gun shows

I was always under the impression that the easiest way to obtain fully automatic weaponry was to go to gun shows and simply pick one up (look for the "Free Stinger Missile with Every Grenade Launcher" sign). We are told over and over and over how easy military grade weaponry is to obtain. Seems like some wannabe terrorists didn't get that memo Mehanna had “multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in shopping malls,” Acting U.S....

posted @ 10/23/2009 10:28:11 AM | Feedback (5)

We train more, they do better

Sherriff Greg White speaking about armed civilians faring better in hit potential than police and why they should be allowed to be armed on a college campus. Let that sink in for a minute. Never mind, don't let that sink in, let that STAIN your thinking. Hat tip Clayton Cramer

posted @ 8/15/2009 1:26:31 PM | Feedback (0)

Doing all the hard work

So I don't have to! Linoge lays out some hard numbers disproving the myth that more guns = more deaths, and he does so using a simplified graph. Granted, with the brain trusts that invaded my comments the other day, even lines drawn in crayon might be a bit too complex for some people to comprehend. Which, of course, is good news for the Brady Campaign.

posted @ 7/31/2009 8:15:24 AM | Feedback (3)

So much for 'easy kill' weaponry

'Fully automatic' gun fire and only 12 wounded? One of which was wounded by a car. But, I thought guns made killing so easy? It's almost like you have to aim the things or something. Hat Tip War On Guns who is probably correct that the 'fully automatic' thing is bogus.

posted @ 7/6/2009 11:38:58 AM | Feedback (7)

We gather here today to mourn the passing

Of yet another gun control myth. Sarah Brady Paradise, where the formerly Great Britain used to be, has much lower gun ownership, yet an astonishingly higher violent crime rate. It's almost like the anti-gunners telling us that gun control will reduce crime is a lie or something.

posted @ 7/2/2009 12:27:59 PM | Feedback (4)

Do we really need Lloyd Garver?

I've dealt with Lloyd before. He has the standard talking points for a Flat Earther and wonders if we need guns in churches. He should ask Jeanne Assam if she needed hers, I guess. Now, Lloyd writes in a bit of tongue in cheek style (the dude wrote scripts for Frasier!!!!), so much of what he writes should be filtered through that lens. I know I write sarcastically, so that doesn't automatically rate dismissal. Lloyd's logical flaw, however, is that gun = violence. Automatically. There...

posted @ 7/2/2009 9:28:58 AM | Feedback (1)

Why that genie ain't going back in the bottle

Shotguns. Easily made from common materials found in a prison. Tell me exactly how forbidding me to own a firearm, making me wait 3 days, requiring licensing, or limiting what I can own that would have prevented this? Hat Tip Mad Rocket Scientist

posted @ 6/26/2009 5:07:50 PM | Feedback (1)

How effective gun control looks

"We see probably an average of between 10 and 15 people who get shot or stabbed every night," Dr. Dennis said. Want to blame lax gun laws? Good luck with that Ten to fifteen shootings and stabbings every night, at one hospital? Baghdad might be safer than that. This is the city with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. All guns must be registered--and re-registered annually--with the Chicago Police Department. The vast majority of semi-automatic...

posted @ 6/25/2009 10:53:51 AM | Feedback (1)

Getting the jump on things

In this case, an attacker with a gun TAMPA - About a month ago, Audry Sauceda was carjacked and fought back. He stuck a gun in my side and told me to get out of the car," Sauceda said while sharing her story with FOX 13 on May 15. "And I pulled out my gun and stuck it in his face, and told him, he needed to get out. He screamed and jumped out of the car." A gun isn't a magic totem that prevents criminals from attacking you, especially with concealed carry. A firearm...

posted @ 6/19/2009 8:52:15 AM | Feedback (0)

Gun myths – The militia is no match for tanks

I beg to differ We took up arms from the police forces who deserted their units, broke into the Patriotic Guards arms caches (some sort of communist reserve force), joined forces with a few Army units that refused to obey the order to fire upon the civilian population, kicked Ceausescu out of his palace and on Christmas Day 1989 shoot the bastard and his wife dead. From someone who was there.

posted @ 6/9/2009 6:38:21 PM | Feedback (6)

Tomatoes, proof, and logic

Did you know that tomatoes were once considered poisonous? Up until the end of the eighteenth century, physicians warned against eating tomatoes, fearing they caused not only appendicitis but also stomach cancer from tomato skins adhering to the lining of the stomach. To prove they weren't, a Colonel ate an entire basket of tomatoes in front of a crowd of people As the story is told, it was Colonel Johnson who on September 26, 1820 once and for all proved tomatoes non-poisonous and...

posted @ 6/9/2009 9:56:41 AM | Feedback (15)

Now how did that happen?

I thought the crooks were supposed to take the guns away from their victims. Man wrestles gun from intruder in Pittsburg home invasion The male homeowner said he was awakened and came out of his bedroom to investigate the noise. He said he was confronted by one man with a sawed-off shotgun and a second man with a handgun. He wrestled the shotgun out of the suspect's hand, and the man fell on him, he said. The second suspect then reportedly shot at the victim's wife but did not hit her....

posted @ 4/24/2009 3:54:05 PM | Feedback (4)

Nailing the point home

It doesn't matter if you ban guns, those willing to commit murder will just find new and creative ways They have now released an X-ray of the 27-year-old's skull and neck, which shows it was filled with 34 nails. "Post-mortem examination results revealed Mr Liu was shot repeatedly to the head with a high-powered nail gun. Similar types of nail guns can fire nails up to 85 millimetres long," Detective Inspector Mark Newham of the Homicide Squad said in a statement. Now, the...

posted @ 4/24/2009 1:52:38 PM | Feedback (10)

Real science – Hypothesis FAIL!

So, yesterday I did a science experiment. To be a real experiment, I had to develop my hypothesis on what I thought would happen then run it. My experiment was to go overly-armed to a large crowd of people. My hypothesis was that the multiple pistols I was carrying would cause me incur a sudden onset of psychosis and start shooting children in the head at close range. Since guns cause crime and murder, I had to assume that several guns would definitely put me over the edge. Unfortunately,...

posted @ 4/16/2009 12:05:21 PM | Feedback (15)

Gun myths – The "easy" conversion to full auto

Something that's been pissing me off lately, especially concerning the recent shootings in Oakland, is the old wives' tale that keeps being passed around like gospel that semi-automatics are easily converted to fully automatic. We hear the countless references to 'drop in conversion' kits you can buy right here on the Interweb Tubes (of course, sans an actual link that would show the kits and their availability). We're told that any yahoo with a Dremel and a #6 ball-peen hammer can take...

posted @ 3/30/2009 9:45:02 AM | Feedback (20)

Facts. Why can't they just stick to the narrative?

Poor Brady Campaign. Nobody will vote for their positions and their canards of "Blood in the Streets" and "Wild West Shootouts over the Last Rutabaga At Kash-N-Karry" never come to fruition. At least there's always the fact the vast majority of heat of the moment murder sprees are from normal, average people who just snap and grab a readily available gun. Right?

posted @ 3/27/2009 8:43:26 AM | Feedback (4)

Another law would have helped

This is why I scoff at gun laws CLEVELAND — The 17-year-old accused of killing James Rubin, 17, will be arraigned Tuesday by Juvenile Court Judge Peter Sikora. The case will then be sent to adult court, when The Plain Dealer will report the teen's name. James R. Rubin, of East 101st Street, was shot in the head about 6:20 p.m. March 17 while walking in the 6700 block of Bayliss Avenue. Witnesses told police that multiple shots were fired from a moving car. One witness said the shooting...

posted @ 3/24/2009 8:39:37 AM | Feedback (0)

Quote of the day

From Reason, regarding the Brady Campaign's blood dance The kid in Germany whacked 15 people with a 9mm Beretta handgun. VaTech was 32 dead with a 9mm Glock (he had a .22 handgun, too, but I don't know if anyone was actually killed with it). So this demented hillbilly with his "assault weapons" couldn't match the work of two young men with common handguns. So what was proved this week about the extra danger from "assault weapons" again?

posted @ 3/12/2009 3:21:26 PM | Feedback (3)

Seeing the light – almost.

When Pat Guan wrote an article about concealed carry in 2003, he got an earful from a passionate Second Amendment supporter. Fast forward 6 years later, and Pat has come to a conclusion we all here know Well, Missouri went ahead with it and as far as I can tell not one of us from Illinois has been shot, justifiably or not, by one of those pistol-packers. Hardly any Missourians have been shot by them either, reconfirming the experience elsewhere that concealed carry seems to be neither a...

posted @ 3/5/2009 8:45:06 AM | Feedback (2)

Another Brady Campaign meme failure

So, I'm at Walgreen's drive through trying to pick up my prescription. The guy in the other lane apparently didn't have insurance and couldn't afford the medication he was trying to get. When the lady informed him that he'd need to pay for it in full, he popped a gasket, screaming obscenities that his Walgreen's card somehow should pay for it. The pharmacist behind the bullet proof glass (and with this ass clown, I see why they have it) was trying to calmly explain that the card didn't pay for...

posted @ 2/1/2009 5:13:49 PM | Feedback (5)

Gun myths - CCW holders will just shoot each other / innocents

Three shooters, one target. No innocents harmed. It's almost like the Brady Campaign lies about this stuff.

posted @ 1/21/2009 1:32:29 PM | Feedback (1)

Gun buy backs - a great idea

I've heard other gun bloggers claim that you can't buy back something that was never yours to begin with. Since this kind of story seems to be commonplace, maybe they are trying to buy back their own weapons FRUITLAND PARK - Lake County Sheriff investigators said they are looking for a man who stole a detective's gun from the trunk of his unmarked patrol car early Sunday morning. According to the sheriff's office, a woman and her husband awoke at about 4 a.m. to the sounds of a car alarm and...

posted @ 1/12/2009 11:24:10 AM | Feedback (1)

That's some serious PSH, eh?

Imagine someone finding a crème brûlée torch. Now, imagine that person realized the torch was filled to the top with lighter fluid. Now, imagine that person is a reporter and writes up an article and screams there was a "fully loaded flame thrower" found. This is just as bad In a city where there are too many illegal guns comes the story of one weapon that's truly frightening - and it was apparently ready to be used. Toronto Police have recovered what they at first believed to be a fully...

posted @ 1/7/2009 10:32:19 AM | Feedback (8)

I had greater success rates in high school

This is a hoot. Brady background checks for 2006 - 8,209,900Total number of convictions from felons trying to buy guns - 73 That's a whopping 0.00009% I wonder if maybe, just maybe felons don't normally buy their guns from a retail store?

posted @ 12/27/2008 8:13:38 PM | Feedback (11)

Yet another common misconception

Not sure where I was at, but one of my news alerts lead me to a blog post that yammered on and on about gun nuts and how we were basically psychopathic idiots who put guns in front of everything else. Normal stuff, but one thing stood out in my mind. The author accused the NRA / GOA / CCRKBA / {insert random firearm group here} of not caring about freedom of speech or any other constitutional protections since it didn't actively push them. It's a logical fallacy that just because someone...

posted @ 12/15/2008 11:07:34 AM | Feedback (5)

Banning toothpicks

Let's say there was a spate of toothpick stabbings at local nursing homes. Out of 23,319 nursing home patients in one city, the spate actually only involves 5 stabbings (and really only 2 people doing the stabbing), but apparently a spate doesn't require that many instances to be considered an epidemic. Anyway, the local meeting of miniature despots council members meet and decide that the best way to keep toothpicks out of criminals' hands is to force registration of said timber based dental...

posted @ 12/5/2008 12:50:07 PM | Feedback (7)

102,000 rounds per minute

Did you know that was the rate of fire of a Micro-Uzi? Apparently neither did this dickhead attorney "A Micro Uzi is made by and for the Israeli Armed Forces and is intended to meet the operational needs of Israeli Special Forces," Hampden District Attorney William Bennett said in a news release. "It is not a hunting weapon. It has a rate of fire of 1,700 rounds per second." Wow. That would pretty much mean the barrel was packed with moving bullets, tip to butt. One hell of a bolt carrier...

posted @ 12/4/2008 1:15:51 PM | Feedback (6)

A common debate

Mad Rocket Scientist emailed me last night with a link to this story regarding the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Speaking of the comments, MRS says A common debate, played out in a predictable fashion The article itself was primarily about the actual rarity of terrorist attacks (24x7 news coverage amplifies the effect, yet terrorist attacks are still rare) and the security measures that fail to prevent them. However, the comments took on a life of their own. Let me summarize JohnMcLane- This...

posted @ 12/4/2008 11:02:01 AM | Feedback (8)

Intent is non-transferable

Meet Gustav. Gustav is a 4th generation piano wire maker. Using the skills his father taught him (and who's father taught him), Gustav painstakingly crafts some of the most beautiful piano wire known to man, used in only the best concert pianos in the world. His handiwork is known not only for the perfect pitch they produce, but also for their strength and durability. Now, meet Timothy. Timothy is being garroted by one of Gustav's piano wires (Middle C, in fact). Instead of Gustav's intent that...

posted @ 12/1/2008 8:17:53 AM | Feedback (8)

Weapons grade ignorance

Mad Rocket Scientist goes toe to toe with an individual armed with a lethal sense of stupidity. Speaks RS and soon enough I found myself in discussion with a person who, well, I think this says it all: That decision reflected right wing dogma that ignores the availability issue and attempts to divert the desire to address the root of the problem by arrogantly prescribing that "criminals" are the problem. I mean, wow... I can't even begin to consider how to argue with something like that....

posted @ 11/26/2008 8:16:12 AM | Feedback (7)

7 other miracles Obama will not be able to perform

Ah, gun bigot and all around compulsive liar John Rosenthal (who may also be a child molester, he probably hasn't been caught yet, but I can't confirm that) brings up 7 magical, fairy tale dreams on how The One can stop "gun violence" from day one of his rule administration. #1 Mandatory criminal background checks for all gun sales Basically, ban private sales. This is the ever failing but never giving up strategy of closing the mythical gun show loophole. Of course, they have a point. If...

posted @ 11/12/2008 12:39:23 PM | Feedback (3)

Mark my words, this is part of a conspiracy

Certain phrases can be used repeatedly over and over in negative situations to apply a negative connotation to them. BOSTON (AP) — Boston Police investigating an armed robbery lifted a man out of a wheelchair and found he was sitting on three guns, including two with high capacity magazines and one with a laser sight. High capacity magazines, laser sights... Ooooh scary stuff. I'm telling you, this is a coordinated conspiracy against gun ownership. By constantly associating certain key...

posted @ 11/3/2008 6:30:10 PM | Feedback (7)

Minds of their own

This email just showed up from my Google watch The gun did the killin' - Luckily, there was no human being that pulled the trigger. The gun itself did all the dirty work. And that's why we need to ban them.

posted @ 10/14/2008 4:37:34 PM | Feedback (4)

A perfect description of a firearm

I've been saying the same thing for a long time But at the end of the day it will still, basically, be a gun. Lumps of metal driven by expanding gas will fly out of the end at high speed, and make holes in things or people which they hit. Again, a firearm is a simple device. It is a tube, enclosed at one end with a projectile that is expelled out the other by means of pressure. You can use PVC for the tube, a sack of nails for the projectile, and lighter fluid for the propellant and create a...

posted @ 10/9/2008 9:08:20 AM | Feedback (1)

Smart guns = stupid idea

Which has no bearing on the quarter million the taxpayers have to spend to show exactly how stupid it is The Department of Justice has awarded a $254,889 federal grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology so the Newark university can continue developing its child-proof "smart gun" technology, members of New Jersey's congressional delegation announced today. NJIT has spent the last nine years on a "dynamic grip recognition" technology that can identify gun owners based on how they squeeze...

posted @ 9/11/2008 8:12:24 AM | Feedback (7)

Wanna make a bet someone has the wrong term here

Why do I have the feeling the weapon in question was not automatic in nature? Sheriff's deputies records show the victims called 9-1-1 sometime around 9:30 p.m., telling emergency operators they had been robbed at gunpoint. One man held the victims at bay with his sub-machine gun, while the other suspect pistol-whipped the man with a Desert Eagle .45 caliber handgun and demanded his jewelry, the victims told deputies. Being that machine guns are highly regulated and these two oxygen wasters...

posted @ 8/15/2008 9:28:41 AM | Feedback (12)

Like I said, when you really want to close your tab on Life

You'll pay your check any way you can It listed the possible cause of death of Mr Phyall as ‘complete transaction of the neck’ and ‘chainsaw wound to the neck.’ Luckily, Mr. Phyall didn't have access to a firearm because that could have rendered him suicidal.

posted @ 7/16/2008 8:05:44 PM | Feedback (0)

Suicide tools

So, there's a lot of hand wringing and PSH over the fact that over have of gun deaths are suicides. This is news? If I remember correctly, a well known blogger brought this up a long time ago. Glad to see I'm well ahead of the media in this regard. Funny though that the media wants to put the blame at the tool. No doubt about it, a firearm is a very, very effective tool to use for suicide. Nail clippers are very effective for trimming toenails, but you don't blame the nail clippers for...

posted @ 7/2/2008 6:58:27 PM | Feedback (0)

Here, shoot me again

Here's some Grade-A Stupidity. You could have easily used a mannequin or something else to illustrate that point. To use a live person is the epitome of dumb. As firearms enthusiasts we should always strive to promote a good image. Shit like this doesn't help. The sad thing about this video is that it does illustrate, quite stupidly in my opinion, a few myths of guns that have been propagated by Hollywood and the entertainment industry. First, being shot with most any firearm isn't going to...

posted @ 6/11/2008 9:22:09 AM | Feedback (3)

What gun owners have to deal with

I think this is one of the most ignorant things I've read on gun ownership to date Do proponents of gun ownership really feel they are protected simply by owning a gun? It seems to me that to be really protected one would need to have the gun accessible at all times. Maybe we’ll eventually have to return to the Wild West and carry guns in holsters. It could make for a booming gun holster business. They could be designed for men and women and come in various colors and designs. They would have...

posted @ 4/30/2008 8:10:33 AM | Feedback (9)

So much for the blood in the streets

One of the common talking points of the PSH crowd when it comes to promoting the ideas of Castle Doctrine and Self Defense laws is that people will simply shoot their neighbors and use the excuse of being "in fear of their life" and simply walk free. John Gutmacher points to why this isn't the case The question was squarely answered as applied to an "unreasonable" belief in the recent case of Hill v. State, 33 Fla.L.Weekly D. 1038 (Fla. 3DCA 2008), where the appellate court held that there is...

posted @ 4/29/2008 9:47:03 AM | Feedback (1)

Quote of the Day - Machine gun edition

From John R. in the comments here From a strictly practical point of view, if someone's goal was to inflict fatal injuries, a shotgun is a much more ferocious weapon. Machine guns have better PR.

posted @ 4/22/2008 7:52:18 AM | Feedback (1)

Why the police shouldn't be the only ones with guns

Because they tend to abuse them more than the average citizen OCEANSIDE, Calif.—An 8-year-old boy who was with his mother when both were shot by an off-duty San Diego police officer in a parking lot confrontation was hit once in the leg, police said Tuesday. The boy's mother, Rachel Silva, was hit twice in the arm, said Oceanside police Lt. Fred Armijo. Both were hospitalized after the shooting but have now been released. The officer, Frank White, fired five shots during the March 15...

posted @ 3/25/2008 8:27:00 PM | Feedback (3)

Well, it bears repeating

I've said it over and over, but alas it is my duty to continue to do so. Guns are not difficult to make objects Police are receiving an urgent warning: be on the lookout for an old-style gun that's apparently making a comeback on the streets. The concern? It may be impossible to tell if someone is carrying the gun. Experts say this gun is so small it can be hidden in a belt buckle, necklace or even a flashlight. And what's even scarier – the gun can apparently be made at home. Emphasis mine....

posted @ 1/10/2008 7:55:32 AM | Feedback (5)

30,000 lies

I hear it all the time. The blood dancers scream "30,000 people die each year from violent firearm deaths!!!!!" It is repeated so often that most people probably take it for a fact. I'm here to kill that rumor once and for all. And I'm going to do it using the CDC's data itself. Go here to start. It's the WISQARS Injury Mortality Reports, 1999 - 2004. For question 1 1. What was the intent or manner of the injury? (Select one) Choose All Intents For question 2 2. What was the cause or...

posted @ 12/29/2007 10:27:10 AM | Feedback (4)

Jolly ol' gun-free England

Well, it's not gun free if people get shot Despite the outlawing of handguns and clamping down on other firearms in 1997, after the massacre the previous year of 16 school children in Dunblane, the gun menace continues to escalate in the UK. Gun-related murders rose by 6 per cent to 53 in England and Wales, according to official figures for the year ending June 2007. Emphasis mine. Think about it. It's not like the US where you can find a gun shop every 10 miles. It takes a small act of God to...

posted @ 12/16/2007 10:04:49 AM | Feedback (5)

Gun myths - Guns are difficult to manufacture

The gun bigots like to tell us that gun crime would lower if we made it near impossible for anyone to get firearms. It's not like you can just make a gun out of a pipe or anything, right? Wrong A 22-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man built a home-made firearm at the weekend and used the weapon to kill himself, police said on Monday Police spokesperson Captain Khephu Ndlovu said the man had built the gun with a steel pipe at his Umlazi home on Saturday. "The gun was seized and is now being kept at the...

posted @ 11/26/2007 9:40:50 AM | Feedback (6)

Gun myths - If everyone was armed, there would be massive shootouts

Blood in the streets, OK Corral, yadda yadda yadda. Pick your cliche. However, this young gentlemen proves that to be a lie Me; "In my case, I carry both here in Israel and Stateside in Connecticut. Although, admittedly, the style of carry and the weapon selection is vastly different between those two locations." Herb; "Yeah, I'll say! You sure don't see kids walking around with automatic weapons in New York!" Me laughing; "Sure ya do! They're just breaking the law there. There's a big...

posted @ 8/30/2007 11:35:52 AM | Feedback (2)

Guns don't kill people, Wüsthof cutlery kills people

Knife crime doubles in 2 years - Times Online THE full extent of Britain’s violent crime epidemic, which yesterday claimed the life of another teenager, is revealed in shocking new figures that show the number of street robberies involving knives has more than doubled in two years. Attacks in which a knife was used in a successful mugging have soared, from 25,500 in 2005 to 64,000 in the year to April 2007. The figures mean that each day last year saw, on average, 175 robberies at knife-point...

posted @ 8/20/2007 9:10:15 PM | Feedback (12)

Layers of editorial fact checking. LAYERS!

Here I am thinking I'd like to get a 50 BMG or a S&W Model 500 when I should just host a gun buyback and score something much better Joe Darnell of South Bend said he gave away his 32 mm revolver because it was a gun that his son had found underneath the front seat of a second-hand car he once bought. Darnell said he had never used the gun his son gave him a decade ago, and he keeps another one anyway -- a 16-gauge shotgun -- for "home security." Bob Beals of Mishawaka said he bought a 22...

posted @ 8/20/2007 8:28:37 AM | Feedback (4)

Lying by numbers

Insty makes a little crack about it, but the problem is the uneducated really think that 500 rounds of ammunition constitutes some sort of armory. Go to Wal-Mart's sporting section and you'll see that you can pick up a 550 count box of Remington .22 Long Rifle bullets for about $11. I know, I just bought two of them. So, in my closet at home right now there are ~1100 rounds of .22, ~700 rounds of 7.62x54R, 200 rounds of 10mm, as well as having enough components to make a few hundred more...

posted @ 7/19/2007 2:24:31 PM | Feedback (3)

I am proof

Uncle responds to a challenge Jake Drew: "How does a gun make anyone feel safer? Please – I dare anyone out there to explain it to me. " They don’t make me feel safer. The actually do make me safer. Feelings have nothing to do with it. I left a comment, but it wasn't published. Maybe Jake just didn't get around to it or that my single incident proves him absolutely wrong. I will never go into details because it was not a pleasant experience and nothing to boast of, but I personally have...

posted @ 6/27/2007 2:00:20 PM | Feedback (5)

Gun myths - the .50 sniper rifle

Abso-friggin'-lutely priceless A prominent Illinois gun control advocate found himself tongue-tied after he was caught telling something other than the truth about a popular brand of target rifles. The gaffe came during a Wednesday press conference hosted by Sen. Dan Kotowski (D-33) in support of several gun control bills. In his address, Kotowski pointed to a rifle staged as a prop for the event and described it as being a “military” weapon. What Kotowski did not know was that Mr. Mark...

posted @ 4/3/2007 11:54:26 AM | Feedback (1)

Gun Myth - "It just went off"

I get tired of hearing that phrase or seeing it printed in the paper. Guns no more "just go off" than a stapler "just happens" to spit out a staple. Guns no more "just go off" than a camera "just happens" to take a pictures. Guns no more "just go off" than Britney Spear's hair "shaves itself". All of these items require some sort of mechanical pressure and action to do their thing. Yes, there are instances of mechanical failures, and those are truly accidents, but 99 times out of 99, guns go...

posted @ 3/25/2007 4:02:45 PM | Feedback (1)

Gun Myths - Gun control laws reduce violent crime

Because we all know, criminals obey the law These and other weapons-related findings comprise one chapter in a 180-page research summary called "Violent Encounters: A Study of Felonious Assaults on Our Nation's Law Enforcement Officers." The study is the third in a series of long investigations into fatal and nonfatal attacks on POs by the FBI team of Dr. Anthony Pinizzotto, clinical forensic psychologist, and Ed Davis, criminal investigative instructor, both with the Bureau's Behavioral...

posted @ 2/16/2007 10:19:53 AM | Feedback (0)

I hope my daughter is like this when she's 13

Informed, and sarcastic. Exactly the way they should be. There's hope for Canada yet! Hat Tip The Smallest Minority

posted @ 2/5/2007 10:31:36 AM | Feedback (0)

Think guns can't protect you from the Government?

Many, many times. Before Adolph Hitler came to power, there was a black market in firearms, but the German people had been so conditioned to be law abiding, that they would never consider buying an unregistered gun. The German people really believed that only hoodlums own such guns. What fools we were. It truly frightens me to see how the government, media, and some police groups in America are pushing for the same mindset. In my opinion, the people of America had better start asking and...

posted @ 2/1/2007 1:46:49 PM | Feedback (2)

Gun myths - Guns don't help protect you

Really? Here's several hundred stories that say differently. Yes, I'm turning this blog into a Gun blog. Because there are a lot of hoplophobes out there that need to be slapped around with as much hard logic as possible. Not that it will help as most anti-gun people are emotional about guns and no amount of logic can defeat illogic.

posted @ 1/26/2007 10:49:47 PM | Feedback (3)

Gun myths - Plastic guns

That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me! You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it cost more than you make here in a month. - Bruce Willis, in Die Hard 2 (1990) Now, Hollywood isn't renowned for it's portrayal of reality, but I cannot believe how many people still believe there is such a thing as a 'plastic pistol, undetectable by x-ray machines'. Most of the time when people talk about "plastic" guns, they are referring to...

posted @ 1/18/2007 3:46:37 PM | Feedback (0)

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