Quotably, IMO, Tam's shootin' buddy comments: "...for many people gun skul is for playing dress up."
Libertarian thinking about everything. --Ere he shall lose an eye for such a trifle... For doing deeds of nature! I'm ashamed. The law is such an ass. -- G. Chapman, 1654.
Apr 21, 2010
Grandma with a gun again. Laugh or Cry.
The official reaction has begun, and Grandma Beatrice Turner -- who pulled a pistol, fired it, and scared off a thug who broke into her living room -- it s getting her hand subtly slapped by Des Moines bureaucrats in charge of diminishing public safety.
Let's start on a positive note, smiling approvingly at street cops who answered the call:
In most shootings, police confiscate the gun while they sort things out. Not on Tuesday. According to Turner, police helped her reload the handgun and left it in her possession. "There were about six officers here," (Beatrice. 89) said. "All of them were hugging me and telling me how brave I was."
That was about the limit of governmental good sense. County Attorney John Sarcone decided not to prosecute, but he couldn't resist a sniff of disapproval. He said homeowners shooting at home invaders was very, very unusual. He stopped short of giving evidence that he bestirred what neurons he possesses into making the connection between a low rate of blasting home invaders and the high incidence of home invasions, including many enhanced by beatings, murders, and/or your occasional case of rape, either planned or opportunistic.
However, Police Sgt. Lori Lavorato -- the department's shrieksperson -- deserves most of our scorn unless she's just mouthing idiocies under orders from Higher.
She "issued a caution about the use of deadly force."
The warning was, as you would expect, aimed at law-abiding folks, experience having shown that warning thugs not to use force tends to be a less-than-ideal anti-crime endeavor. Sgt. Lori continues:
Turner "took the course of action she felt she had to," Lavorato said. "By no means do we condone shooting at a burglar.
What do you condone, Lori? Maybe a call to 911 while the guy is ripping your stepins with one hand while holding a knife to your throat with the other as you hope the arrival of police will be somewhat more prompt than usual?
More: But she could have become a victim in a situation like that."
Lori, gol dang it, when it's Oh Dark Thirty and when a stranger has smashed in the door of your living room and won't leave even after you tell him nicely to get out or get his balls shot off you are ALREADY A VICTIM. Pardon me for shouting. I just feel somewhat strongly on the point .
Apr 20, 2010
Miss Senior Shooter of 2010
Or, The Second Amendment in Action:
Beatrice is 89. More to the point, she stands a chance to become 90 and more because she had a .22 handgun at hand in the wee hours today when a thug smashed in her front door. She requested he desist. He came on in and she fired. From here on the report isn't quite complete, but somehow he was still standing on her front lawn, apparently stunned, when cops arrived. His affliction was pharmacological rather than ballistic. He's in jail, charged with burglary.
Well done, madam. Everybody misses once in a while, and sometimes it's the thought that counts -- as in the thought penetrating this thug's drug-fuddled skull that, holy crap, this woman ain't kidding and maybe I better exit her living room.
Who ya' gonna bribe?
It is of course amazing to read that the federal government didn't get something right the first time. Washington has re-indicted the Smith and Wesson sales VP and 21 other arms dealers for being willing to bribe an African government official. (He didn't exist; it was a sting.) The move is of interest primarily to lawyers, but for you hard-core anti-government radicals, it's another small entry in your Washington WTFs journal.
We condemn bribery of foreign officials. However before we get all Huffington Posty about hanging these guys by their merchant-of-death thumbs, we ought to recruit some sentencing consultants who (a) have sterling reputations for integrity while at the same time (b) possess extensive experience in doing business with governments still at the juju level of linear logic.
The other thing that comes to mind is a question on priorities. Would the feds have better spent the money and man hours rooting out domestic bribers of domestic officials?
There is a delicious characterization there of newly minted integrity crusader Chris Dodd as "somebody playing a new and uncharacteristic role as he pushes his bill rewriting the rules of regulating Wall Street: 'In the twilight of his career, history and a touch of Catholic guilt have now pushed Dodd, the consummate insider, into the role of reformer: the old Senate telling the new that it must act to have any hope of redemption. Twice in the past week, Dodd has gone to the Senate floor to deliver hard-nosed lectures challenging those who would stand in the way of new financial regulations after the disastrous market meltdown in 2008'."
You see, Senator Dodd understands that since he is retiring from the Senate it is high time we ended the influence of big money on senators.
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