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The NAACP's race card rant.

All is not lost, apparently

Sebastian has a story about a judge who ruled that the police just can't keep a gun on you as long as they want:

"Reinhart gave no indication that he was armed or dangerous," Crone wrote. "Nevertheless, with the laser sight of Deputy's Coney's gun prominently fixed on him, Reinhart was ordered first to kneel with his hands behind his head for a period and then lie face down on the ground for an additional period of time while waiting for the second police officer to arrive. Reinhart was then handcuffed before he was searched twice. We believe that a reasonable person in Reinhart's position would not have believed himself to be free to leave but instead would have considered his freedom of movement to have been restrained to the degree associated with a formal arrest."

About time someone ruled this way.

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First instinct: Use force

Another instance of the po-po using force first, and asking questions later:

Michelle Schreiner's blood sugar was dangerously low when a friend called 9-1-1 and Gresham police and paramedics arrived to find her holding a syringe full of insulin.

The officer ordered Schreiner -- who was dropping in and out of consciousness and was having trouble speaking or moving -- to drop the syringe. He shot Schreiner with a stun gun before handcuffing her and allowing paramedics to treat her.

Yeah, the first signs of diabetic-fucking-coma will get you shocked into coherence every time! There's more at the link.

One of these days, a relative of someone needing medical help is going to be there when said someone gets tased (or roughed up or handcuffed) before anyone helps them, and that relative will be armed, and will take matters into their own hands.

And I won't have any sympathy for the officer.

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Seen at HotAir ...

... this headline about Dems losing their shit:

...I’ll enjoy video snippets like this, which shows another Democrat House member losing his temper in the face of public anger with their agenda.

Video at the link, and though short, worth watching. I wish I could see the extended remix version.

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A sad tale .....

In my area, a victim of probable idiocy:

A three year old girl has died after being shot in the chest earlier today at a house on Tinsley Place of east 23rd Street. Chattanooga Police Spokesperson Sgt. Jerri Weary has not said who shot the gun.

Another report indicates that a sibling fired the shot from a weapon found in the home.

Right now, I want to let the gentle reader know that I have all the sympathy for the mother, who was home at the time. This is tragic any way you slice it.

But as Kathy Jackson says at The Cornered Cat, 'Childproof ...... isn't'. And that's the reason that I've endeavored to educate my 5 year old about my firearms (she's thoroughly uninterested in them now).

Many years ago in my hometown, a similar incident happened, fortunately not resulting in any deaths, though a young girl was injured. It seems that a young boy pulled the drawers out of a chest of drawers, stair-step fashion, and climbed up to the top drawer, where he found his mother's loaded .25 auto.

Obviously knowing nothing about the 4 Rules, he shot his sister.

But what moved me to write a fairly scathing letter to the editor was her statement to police that guns had no place in the home, and she urged other parents to get rid of their guns.

As tactfully as I could, I unloaded on the mother .... basically laying responsibility for the incident at her feet by doing nothing to ensure the safety of her children with regards to the firearms in her house.

I pulled no punches .... and no one responded that I was in any way out of line.

Read The Cornered Cat .... it's definitely worth your time. And say a prayer for the family of the little girl who was shot.

And for God's sake, teach your kids about firearms and firearms safety.

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Tazers are NOT non-lethal

Just ask Phillis Owens .... oh wait .... you can't, 'cause she's dead:

Owens died after taking a hit from a deputy's stun gun. At the time, she was reaching to again pick up a handgun she had put down earlier during tense negotiations with Clackamas County sheriff's deputies.

I'm not sure that I blame officers so much for this one .... what I will fault is the general protocol of officers.

I'm an Andy Griffith kind of guy, but then, I've lived in smaller towns all my life. The sheriff grew up with residents, as did his deputies. So it evades my understanding that law enforcement sees a gun, and assumes 'bad guy' (and yes, I understand officer safety and all of that).

An 87 year old woman, upset because someone is operating a backhoe in her yard, and no one tries to talk to her?

It just makes me shake my head .......

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Only One® convicted

The transit officer who killed Oscar Grant in a subway has been convicted:

A Los Angeles jury convicted a former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Thursday of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform.

I'm not sure that any murder charges are appropriate, so all's well that ends well.

I also note this burst of common sense from the prosecutor:

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley indicated that she was "disappointed and frustrated," because "this was not the verdict we sought."

"The case is a tragedy in every respect. Oscar Grant should never have been killed at the hands of a sworn officer," O'Malley said.

Of course, this is Los Angeles .....

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JPFO Alert

Will American gun makers be patriotic this time?

Another small victory

Gov Jindal allows firearms in church:

Governor Bobby Jindal has signed a law that will allow churchgoers to carry guns into house of worship.
The bill will allow persons qualified to carry concealed weapons to bring them to churches, mosques, synagogues or other houses of worship.

But here's the part I'm confused about:

Pastors, or other heads of the religious institution, are required to announce the presence of such weapons, either verbally or in weekly newsletters and bulletins.

Seems like there might be a few fine-print disclaimers appearing on the back page of church bulletins ..... or on the marquee's out front!

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Knowledge

Mike V at Sipsey Street puts some knowledge on us about Lord Acton:

No doubt the responsibility in such a case is shared by those who ask for a thing. But if the thing is criminal . . . the person who authorises the act shares the guilt of the person who commits it. . . The greatest crime is Homicide. The accomplice is no better than the assassin; the theorist is worst. . . Crimes by constituted authorities worse than crimes by Madame Tussaud’s private malefactors. . . Murder may be done by legal means, by plausible and profitable war, by calumny, as well as by dose or dagger. . . The responsibility exists whether the thing permitted be good or bad. If the thing be criminal then the authority permitting it bears the guilt. . .

RTWT

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The NRA are at it again

This time, they're supporting a suit against the City of Chicago:

Fairfax, Va. -- The National Rifle Association is supporting a lawsuit against Mayor Richard Daley and the City of Chicago's newly adopted gun control ordinance, which violates the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago

So I wonder, does this mean the NRA are supporting financially, or that they're in favor of the suit?

My guess is the latter.

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Will wonders never cease

Dave Hardy at Of Arms and the Law links this article from the Daily Kos, wherein liberals are admonished to live up to their labels:

Liberals can quote legal precedent, news reports, and exhaustive studies. They can talk about the intentions of the Founders. They can argue at length against the tyranny of the government. And they will, almost without exception, conclude the necessity of respecting, and not restricting, civil liberties.

Except for one: the right to keep and bear arms.

This article is a doozy ..... you really need to RTWT.

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