Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Who Will Guard the Guards?

In other words, the trappings of state authority are all it takes to elicit trust? That seems a heck of a way to observe an unalienable individual right that's specifically posted off-limits to government infringement in "the supreme law of the land," don't you think? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...

Tell a friend?

And while you're at it, tell them I'm going to have some good news about the column I'll talk about next week.

We're the Only Ones Taking [Hic] You for a Ride Enough

A trooper was fired yesterday by the Maryland State Police after he was arrested on charges of kidnapping a man in his marked cruiser at a fast-food drive-through, then leading Baltimore County police on a drunken high-speed chase. [More]
So what's with the charges?

I mean, you let him just write an apology and do some "community organizing" after his last three drunken adventures...

And everybody caught that "Only Ones Bill of Rights" referral, didn't you?

Good grief.

[Via Rick P]

We're the Only Ones Puppicidal Enough

The dog ran out, and down Peeple's driveway toward the officers, at which point they shot it three times. Even the police concede the dog never attacked. They shot it as it was running toward them. [More]
I don't know what it is about "Only Ones" and dogs, but I'm starting to think that no certification in dog behaviors and handling ought to be submissable evidence as proof of negligence after stuff like this goes down.

[Via Thomas C]

Self Defense...

...it isn't just for NorteAmericanos...[More]

I'm glad the store owner wasn't charged, but am cynical enough to wonder what that cost him...

[Via Joe G]

We're the Only Ones Spared Enough

Judge Robert Neary conceded that former Orange County sheriff's Lt. Lloyd Kurth violated the public's trust by stealing a rifle from the evidence room he once supervised.

But when it came time to sentence Kurth Monday in Orange County Court, Neary decided that Kurth's crime was offset by the loss of his law-enforcement career and the public humiliation endured by the 42-year-old Goshen native. [More]
Lord knows Messrs. Fincher and Olofson endured no comparable suffering, and thus deserved their prison terms...?
After the trial, Neary dismissed more charges revolving around Kurth's alleged theft of two handguns. He convicted Kurth of stealing a hunting rifle.

Sheriff Carl DuBois said Tuesday that the public never got the complete picture of Kurth's misdeeds.

"This wasn't just one, isolated incident," DuBois said.
Still, he's already suffered as only an "Only One" can, right, Judge Neary?

[Via Declan]

10-20-Life?

Florida threatens criminals with up to life in prison if they use a gun, but few suspects in Orange County get such tough mandatory penalties even as the campaign to end gun violence enters its 10th year, the Orlando Sentinel has found. [More]
Now hold the phone--I'm all for throwing the book at any animal using force and weapons to threaten, harm or kill victims. But "use a gun" is a far cry from some loser hiding under his mother's bed during a drug raid...

The police state receives major sustenance from the War on (some) Drugs. As does violent crime from both sides of "the thin blue line." That's a separate issue, but I'll repeat something I've long maintained:

Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian.

Still, I'm sittin' here wondering how that guy got 23 days and Wayne Fincher got six-and-a-half years...

[Via Bruce Mills]

It All Depends on the Meaning of the Word "Cache"

Authorities seized a small cache of weapons and ammunition from the New Jersey home of New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress...

The Post, citing anonymous law enforcement sources, said a 9-mm handgun, a rifle and ammunition for three other guns — a .380, a .45 and a .40, the same caliber of gun Burress accidentally shot himself with — were seized during the execution of a search warrant at Burress' home in Totowa. [More]
OK, at least we've established an "Authorized Journalist" benchmark of sorts.

A "cache" is larger than a "spate." I haven't figured out yet how either compare with an "arsenal."

[Via W-3]

"All I Want is World Peace"*

A reigning Mexican beauty queen from the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck filled guns and ammunition, police said Tuesday. [More]
This can't be the whole story.

It doesn't say a word about those damned American gun shows...

One of the tough lessons we should learn when young is that physical beauty doesn't necessarily mean the mind isn't corrupted. Fortunately, in my case...

...:)

* From story comment poster sd74

[Via Brian F]

We're the Only Ones Jamming Traffic Enough

A former Utah state trooper suspected in a series of fatal rush-hour shootings near Dallas had an addiction to painkillers and a warrant had been issued for his arrest in connection with a recent robbery, according to Texas and Utah authorities. [More]
I guess if he had his certification revoked, he didn't qualify for nationwide "Only One" concealed carry...?

[Via Chris T, Zachary G, Joe G]

Better Things to Do

"What happens when all these people die out?" asks the president of Darien-based Friends of Animals. "Haven't their children discovered video games and better things to do than mutilate a deer?" [More]
Well, I suppose we could teach them to mutilate Zargonians...

[Via Skip]

We're the Only Ones Snowed In Enough

That leaves many drivers, including Seattle police, pretty much on their own until nature does to the snow what the sand can't: melt it.

The city's patrol cars are rear-wheel drive. And even with tire chains, officers are avoiding hills and responding on foot, according to a West Precinct officer. [More]

We all get what that means, right?

That political pustule Greg "Spiderhole" Nickels not only is fighting to illegally disarm people, but his city's policy hampers the "Only Ones" he trusts with guns from responding to violent crime.

How much more absurd and dangerous do things need to get?

This Day in History: December 24

By order of his Excellency General Washington, a Board of General Officers sat yesterday in Cambridge, and unanimously recommended the following Rations to be delivered in the manner hereby directed -- Viz: Corn'd Beef and Pork, four days in a week. Salt Fish one day, and fresh Beef two days. As Milk cannot be procured during the Winter Season, the Men are to have one pound and a half of Beef, or eighteen Ounces of Pork pr. day. Half pint of Rice, or a pint of Indian Meal pr Week -- One Quart of Spruce Beer pr day, or nine Gallons of Molasses to one hundred Men pr week. Six pounds of Candles to one hundred Men pr week, for guards. Six Ounces of Butter, or nine Ounces of Hogs-Lard pr week. Three pints of Pease, or Beans pr man pr week, or Vegetables equivalent, allowing Six Shillings pr Bushel for Beans, or Pease -- two and eight pence pr Bushel for Onions -- One and four pence pr Bushel for Potatoes and Turnips -- One pound of Flour pr man each day -- Hard Bread to be dealt out one day in a week, in lieu of Flour. [More]