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Set Yourself on Fire? Let the Police Help! »« Good Guys 1 – Bad Guys 0

Good Guys 1 – Bad Guys 0

…and in Chicago no less. Story is here:

“An 80-year-old Chicago man shot and killed an armed man who broke into his two-story house in a pre-dawn home invasion Wednesday on the city’s West Side.

At about 5:20 a.m., the homeowner and his wife, also in her 80s, discovered the intruder entering their home through a back door. The homeowner, who had a gun, confronted and killed the burglar on the doorstep, police said. Cops said the intruder also fired his gun during the struggle.

“It’s a good thing they had a gun, or they might be dead,” said Curtis Thompson, who lives next door to the couple, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Neighbors described the elderly couple, who both walk with canes, as pillars of the community in Garfield Park, where home invasions have been all too frequent.

Their neighbor, Shaquite Johnson, told MyFoxChicago that the two are “heroes” for fighting off the attacker — and that the shooting means there is “one less criminal” walking the streets.
“They don’t bother no one, so why would anyone do that to them?” she said.

Relatives of the couple told the Sun Times that the man is an Army veteran, his wife a former nurse. Police said neither the man nor the woman was injured in the attack.

The assailant, who was described by police as being in his 30s, was found slumped on the back doorstep of the couple’s house, removed four hours after the shooting, the Sun Times reported.

No charges have been filed against the homeowner, but Chicago currently has a statute outlawing the possession of handguns. Its legality is currently being decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

A high-profile Chicago attorney has already stepped forward offering to represent the man pro bono if he faces charges for possessing a weapon.

“Self-defense isn’t just a right, it’s a duty,” said attorney Joel Brodsky. “If this man is prosecuted for saving his own life it’s not just a travesty, it’s justice turned inside out.”"

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-30 »« I liked a YouTube video — Wol…

I liked a YouTube video — Wol…

I liked a YouTube video — Wolverton IPSC 5/23/10 Stage One http://youtu.be/KCBuH1b9U8Y?a

Good Guys 1 – Bad Guys 0 »« Mexican President, Felipe Calderon Is a Liar

Mexican President, Felipe Calderon Is a Liar

Quoted from here:

“Not happy with interfering in our internal affairs by savaging Arizona’s new immigration law, the president of Mexico wants to shred our Second Amendment too. And the mayor of Chicago wants to help. There stood Mexican President Felipe Calderon before Congress, blaming America for the violence on his side of the border and, among other things, the guns that fuel the Mexican drug war that has claimed more than 23,000 Mexican lives since he took office in 2006. Rather than taking responsibility himself, he shoved the blame on America.

It would all stop, he implied, if America would reinstate a ban on semiautomatic weapons. The violence in Mexico, he said, “coincides, at least, with the lifting of the assault weapons ban in 2004.”

He repeated the canard that in the past three years Mexican authorities have seized some 75,000 weapons, more than 80% of them traceable to the United States. Rubbish on both counts.

First, Mexico sends only about one-third of its confiscated weapons to the U.S. for tracing. Of that third, many can’t be traced at all due to efforts to remove registration markings.

Fox News reported last year that according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico sent about 11,000 guns in 2007-08 to the U.S. for tracing. Of that number, 6,000 were successfully traced. And of that 6,000, only 5,114, or the famous 80%, were found to have originated in the U.S.

Do the math and you find that only 17% of the guns confiscated were actually traced to the U.S. So why are so few guns sent here for tracing? Because, as Matt Allen, a special agent with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, points out, weapons known not to be of American origin are not sent to the U.S. for tracing.

Ed Head, a firearms instructor in Arizona who spent 24 years with the U.S. Border Patrol, recently displayed an array of weapons considered “assault rifles” that are similar to those recovered in Mexico but are unavailable for sale in the U.S.

“These kinds of guns — the auto versions of these guns — they are not coming from El Paso,” Head told Fox News. “They are coming from other sources. They are brought in from Guatemala. They are brought in from places like China. They are being diverted from the military. But you don’t get these guns from the U.S.”

Calderon, who did not explain why the Mexican homicide rate was lower in 2007 and 2008 than in 2004, also did not mention the machine guns that originate from places like China, Israel and South Africa, or the 2,239 grenades seized in 2007-09 from places like South Korea and Spain.”

I liked a YouTube video — Wol… »« Teddy Roosevelt on Immigration

Teddy Roosevelt on Immigration

From here:

“We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.

But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.“

Mexican President, Felipe Calderon Is a Liar »« Anger South of the Border

Anger South of the Border

From Nobody Asked Me:

“At a news conference, the legislators said that Sonora, – Arizona’s southern neighbor, – made up of mostly small towns, – cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools that it will face as Mexican workers return to their hometowns from the USA without jobs or money. The Arizona law, which took effect Jan. 1, punishes Arizona employers who knowingly hire individuals without valid legal documents to work in the United States . Penalties include suspension of, or loss of, their business license.

The Mexican legislators are angry because their own citizens are returning to their hometowns, placing a burden on THEIR state government. ‘How can Arizona pass a law like this?’ asked Mexican Rep Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales. “There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona”, she said, speaking in Spanish. “Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and who were sending money to their families return to their home-towns in Sonora without jobs”, she said. “We are one family, socially and economically”, she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona.”

Go read the whole post, including the list of Mexico’s own harsh immigration laws.

Teddy Roosevelt on Immigration »« Keep It Classy Mayor Daley

Keep It Classy Mayor Daley

Story here:

“Irate with a reporter’s question on the effectiveness of the city’s handgun ban, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley offered to give a first-hand lesson following the shooting of an off-duty police officer.

“Oh, it’s been very effective,” Daley said, according to MyFoxChicago.com. “If I put this up your butt, you’ll find out how effective it is. If I put a round up your … you’ll know.”

Daley, whose comments came at a news conference on Thursday previously scheduled to discuss the city’s ban and a pending U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit challenging the law, became testy when a reporter questioned the ban’s effectiveness as the mayor held a rifle confiscated from city streets.

Jacquelyn Heard, Daley’s press secretary, later told the Chicago Sun-Times that Daley was somewhat exasperated because the individual asking the question — a reporter from the Chicago Reader — was “missing the point that unrestricted guns are a devastating issue” for the city.

“To illustrate the point, he offered what admittedly could be considered a less than ideal example, but it’s one that is a stark reminder of how destructive gun violence has been,” Heard told the paper.”

Anger South of the Border »« “Everyone Draw Mohammad Day”

“Everyone Draw Mohammad Day”

Keep It Classy Mayor Daley »« Not this Shite Again!

Not this Shite Again!

OMGITSTEOTWAWKIRFTHFELONSWITHGUNS! *runs screaming  for the mountains*

Story here:

“Felons, illegal immigrants and all others banned from buying a gun in the United States have a new alternative if they’re looking to get their hands on a firearm: Just buy a toy.

A FoxNews.com investigation reveals that a popular recreational pellet gun can be converted easily to a real semi-automatic weapon. And while the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is already aware of the issue, these “toys” — new, top-of-the-line airsoft rifles — continue to be sold throughout the country.”

Concerning the Leo Gonnuscio quoted in the article who claims that they can be easily converted, a quick search reveals this information:

Contact Info:	Kind Mountain Gunworks (503) 359-7601
Location: (see map below)	410 N 4Th Ave Cornelius, OR. 97113
Mailing Address:	Gonnuscio, Leonard Leo 410 N 4Th Ave Cornelius, OR. 97113

He also has a Facebook page here. Kudos to Len Savage for correcting the misinformation in the linked article (not that it helped.)

“Everyone Draw Mohammad Day” »« Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

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