The Real Gun Guys

E-postal Match Update

Apparently I tied for first place with Conservative UAW guy for the Rimfire with Optics division in June’s contest. Coolness!

Thanks to Sebastian at Snowflakes in Hell for hosting a truly challenging match this month!

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Barr Posters

Here are a couple of entries in David Codrea’s Bob Barr poster contest. Click them to bigify.

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The Precious Little Angels

Remember the retired Marine who shot the two hoodlums in Florida a while back. Apparently the family of one of the hoods, now deceased, think he shouldn’t have “taken the law into his own hands” while he was being forced into the restroom for only God know what.

Isn’t this the way it always is? Please! The two little angels broke the law and paid the price. Sorry for your loss, but sudden death is a hazard of being a criminal. Good shooting Marine!

According to Plantation police, two armed men barged into the Subway at 1949 Pine Island Road shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday, demanding money from the employee behind the counter. When they tried to force John Lovell into the bathroom, he pulled out a gun and shot both men, police said.Donicio Arrindell, 22, was shot in the head and later died at the hospital. Fredrick Gadson, 21, was shot in the chest and ran from the Subway, but police found him in hiding in some bushes on the property of a nearby BankAtlantic.

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Gadson’s grandparents told Local 10 on Thursday that Lovell was wrong for pulling the trigger.”He should not have taken the law in his hands,” said Rosa Jones, Gadson’s grandmother.Her husband, Ivory Jones, also condemned the media for its portrayal of Lovell’s actions.”I don’t condone what they did, (but) I definitely don’t condone the news people making him out to seem like they’re making a hero out of this man because he shot somebody down,” he said.

(h/t) Days of our Trailers

Technorati Tags: John Lovell, Plantation, Florida, Subway, Marine, Donicio Arrindell, Rosa Jones, Ivory Jones, Fredrick Gadson

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Today’s Funny

…or not so funny, as the case may be.

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My Rights Are Not A Loophole

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Chocolate City

An all together not unexpected editorial on the Heller ruling from a different perspective. An anti is an anti is an anti, or so it would seem, regardless of their background or social station.

Some excerpts:

It’s a ruling that’s bound to bring more bloodiness to Chocolate City.

Last week, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s three-decades-old ban on handgun ownership. Not surprisingly, National Rifle Association types, people who have long been oblivious to the body counts in urban America, hailed the decision as a victory for the Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms.

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But just as the justices didn’t imagine that the Founders envisioned gun ownership as a right only for militias, I’m sure the Founders didn’t envision the crack cocaine trade. Or Uzis and Magnums. Or crime-ridden communities in which people wouldn’t have to defend themselves against foreign invaders or the forces of a president-turned-despot, but their fellow citizens

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Arthur Kellerman, a professor of emergency medicine and public health at Emory University, wrote in the Washington Post about how his studies had revealed that guns kept in homes were 12 times more likely to wind up injuring a member of the household than an intruder or another bad guy.

He also cited Justice Department statistics that show that far more guns are stolen by the bad guys to commit crimes than are used by the good guys to prevent them. In Atlanta, he said, a study of 197 home-invasion crimes revealed only three instances in which the inhabitants got to their guns before the intruders did.

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Last year, for example, I wrote about a single mother who, after being concerned about the rise in burglaries and homicides in her community, purchased a gun. What she didn’t count on, however, was that her young son was going to be more fixated with the gun than any would-be criminal.

She kept catching him trying to get to the gun. She continued to move it to places where she figured he couldn’t get it. But he finally did get to it — and fatally shot his younger sister while playing with it.

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Then there are the people who are living in such frightful conditions that they literally believe in shooting first and asking questions later. Many times, that means elderly people who’ll wind up shooting the neighbor who comes up on their front porch at night to hand them a piece of mail that wound up in the wrong box.

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I hate that the NRA’s narrow pursuit of preserving gun rights is making it nearly impossible for places like the District, which is plagued with urban violence, to take the steps necessary to stop gun violence.

And I worry that District officials and officials throughout the nation are going to have a tough time stemming the tide of illegal guns because of their single-minded focus.

Wow, so many anti-right talking points in such a short editorial. From the founders not envisioning modern weapons, to Arthur Kellerman’s flawed and discredited study, to holding up one irresponsible mother who left her gun out where her son could get to it and implying this is what will happen because of the ruling, to the old shooting the mailman canard, to the public health angle; this editorial is chock full of anti-rights chocolaty goodness.

I wonder if the author would react the same way if the ruling denied him/her the right to vote or the right of free speech.

After all, it’s for the children, and if it saves one life, right?

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Comcast

This is the end of day two without internet access. I’ve been forced to “jerry rig” a temporary net connection (DADT) so bandwidth is still an issue.

I will be back at full strength once Comcast gets it’s act together.

-Yuri

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One hour 36 with out…

One hour 36 with out the net. Comcast says we fix by this afternoon. We will see. Hopefully if it does get fixed out I will be able to ___ something. If not well, what can I do. This is Yuri ____. listen

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Plaintiff in San Francisco Gun Lawsuit is Gay

In an interesting, and I think appropriate move, the man at the center of the new lawsuit targeting San Francisco’s gun ban law is gay. As a group, this minority is beset by violence from without and definitely need a means to protect themselves. It’s not an orientation issue, it’s a human rights issue. I wonder how the left is going to react to this one?

SAN FRANCISCO — Using the new judicial muscle provided by the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the right to bear arms, the National Rifle Association and another pro-gun group sued San Francisco and its housing authority on Friday to invalidate a ban on handguns in public housing. The lawsuit said the ban violated the Second Amendment and “renders responsible, law-abiding adult public housing residents especially vulnerable.”

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In an interesting turn in a city known for its embrace of gay rights, the chief plaintiff in the suit against the city is a gay man living in a public housing development, owned by the federal government, who wants to have a gun to protect himself from potential hate crimes.

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A city of about 725,000, San Francisco has 12,000 residents living in public housing, all of whom are required to sign a lease that forbids a broad variety of weapons, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, automatic rifles, BB guns, as well as nunchucks, brass knuckles and stun guns. This blanket ban was begun in 2006, and the penalty for violation of the lease is eviction.

In the case filed on Friday, an anonymous gay man said that stipulation had deprived him of “any effective means of self-defense.”

The story goes on the describe the horrors of living in the “gun plagued” projects. They quote a guy who says it’s not hard to get a gun there. If so, it makes me wonder why they haven’t been evicted if this is the case.

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Hey, Sorry about not…

Hey,
Sorry about not posting anything but the internet is out here at the real gangaizer(?) bunker. So, hopefully it will get fixed here as soon as possible, and posting will resume at that point. Hey, hope you’re having a good day out there and … listen

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