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Police chief accidentally shoots himself in the leg

Police chief accidentally shoots himself in the leg after giving gun safety lesson.

Mumbai photographer wanted gun; Police would not engage

Mumbai photographer: I wish I'd had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back - World news, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk.

But what angered Mr D'Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back. "There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything," he said. "At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, 'Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back."

Commenter Points Out Board of Supervisors Backsliding by Pushing Revocation Remediation Over Self-Defense

Sup. Bates Doesn't Want CCW Revocations To Wrongly Impugn Permit Holders - OC BLOG (CA), Part of the Red County Network.

Here we go with the back slide! The Board of Supervisors is allowing Sandra Hutchens a way out. Instead of doing what is right and firmly standing up for gun rights, along with the protection & crime reduction CCW permits are proven to provide, the Board is now discussing ramifications of revocation. That's a far cry from a week ago when they performed their little dog and pony show to keep the voters on their sides. You see, the NRA is powerful. It's full of people that stand up for their rights: that scares politicians into doing things they sometimes don't really want to do. Folks, this Sheriff is anti-gun. Her actions prove it. She fibbed when she promised prior to her appointment that she would revoke only those with permits that were given as political favors (haven't found too many of those). She fibbed when she first stood in front of the Board and didn't know the CCW stats in her own department. It is time to spread the word about her. All reasonable people who can read scientific studies know that CCWs reduce crime and enhance safety of all residents. Forty of fifty states allow concealed weapons for ANY citizen with a clean record and training. The results from those forty states have been stellar. Do

CCW Resolution Passed by Orange County Board of Supervisors (final version)

Final version of OC BOS resolution is here (.pdf): Download Oc ccw bos resolution

(It's a start.)

Video of Historic Orange County Board of Supervisors Meeting on CCW

Almost 250 concealed carry proponents attended the 11/18 meeting of the Orange County Board of Supervisors to advocate liberalized CCW issuance.  I recommend viewing Attorney Erik Hart's moving account of how he came to CCW (01:15:00).  See video here.  [If that link ceases to function, go to: www.oc.ca.gov/supervisors/supervisors.asp, and then click "Board Meetings On-Demand" in left menu.]  Click link to play AFTERNOON SESSION of 11/18/2008 meeting.

Why We Have an Electoral College, and a Congress

This is a rare moment in history when the electoral college matters.  Congress must scrutinize its vote clearly, beginning now.

Putin Acknowledges Saakashvili's Testicular Fortitude

Putin acknowledges Georgia President Saakashvili's testicular fortitude, as AFP reports:

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened to hang Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili "by the balls" during the August war in Georgia, a report not denied by Putin's spokesman said on Friday.

Obama Supporters Banned from Communion until Penance

AP reports:

"Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."

Child Abuse: Kindergartner Expelled for Toy Gun

WND reports:

A kindergarten student a toy gun in Tennessee has been lumped together with a high schooler who allegedly assaulted a classmate, a fifth-grader who was accused of writing a "hit list" of potential victims and another high schooler who brought a loaded gun clip to school – and all have been expelled.

Mission Viejo: Kidnapping of Girl Foiled by Screams

OC Register reports:

MISSION VIEJO A would-be kidnapper let go of a 5-year-old girl after he heard the screams of a woman who ran out looking for the child in the courtyard of a condominium today, authorities said

Disturbing Video Shows Need to be Alert

Video here.

Lake Forest: Another "Rare" "Take-Over Style" Robbery by 3 Robbers

Pregnant customer forced into contractions.  Does B of A care enough to arm/train its tellers?  Teller pistol-whipped and had to get CAT scan.  This story does avoid the term "rare" found in previous such stories.  Also, the story judiciously avoids the term "gunmen," using "robbers" instead.  From OC Register:

At 9:13 a.m. Monday, the three men walked into the Bank of America in the 22000 block of El Toro Road in Lake Forest, in a small shopping center.

"They came in saying, 'This is a robbery' and asked for a manager," Amormino said.

An assistant manager of the bank identified himself and one of the men grabbed him and pointed a handgun to the top of his head, Amormino said.

The three men ordered bank employees and five customers to the floor as one of them grabbed the assistant manager by the collar and moved him to the back of the bank, all the while holding the gun to his head, Amormino said.

"He tried to get him to open the vault but was unsuccessful," Amormino said.

The man then told the assistant manager to open a cash drawer and give him the money.

A second man jumped over the counter and pointed a gun at a male and a female teller while telling them to take cash out from drawers. The man then hit the male teller, who is in 30s, in the head, Amormino said.

Meanwhile, the third man appeared to keep an eye out at the door of the bank.

The customers remained on the floor during the course of the robbery,

Dr. Lott Analyzes Apparent Voter Fraud in Minnesota

Statistical anomalies betray apparent voter fraud in Minnesota's crucial Senate race, which may give Dems effective filibuster-proof majority--Fox News.

Communist Party USA Hails Obama Victory

WND has it.

A Serious Proposal for Electoral Reform

Every republic which has ever existed has engaged in electoral discrimination on the basis of age.  In the United States for the past several decades, this has taken the form of blocking minors up to age 18 from voting.  I propose reversing this entirely.  Why not prohibit adults from voting, and entrust only minors with this essential civic duty?  It is their future that is at risk, and such a regime should be family-friendly.  I have every confidence that it would lead to the best result possible: My daughter's 2nd grade class at Serra Catholic voted for McCain over Obama, 18 to 5.

Anti-Gun Agenda Announced by Obama Team Hours After Winning

NRA-ILA: "Yes We Can . . . Ban Guns"--Obama Announces Gun Ban Agenda Before The Final Vote Count Is In

Friday, November 07, 2008

Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business:  "Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent." Perhaps no other firearm issue has been more dishonestly portrayed by gun prohibitionists. Notwithstanding their predictions that the ban's expiration in 2004 would bring about the end of civilization, for the last four years the nation's murder rate has been lower than anytime since the mid-1960s. Studies for Congress, the Congressional Research Service, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found no evidence that gun prohibition or gun control reduces crime. Guns that were affected by the ban are used in only a tiny fraction of violent crime-about 35 times as many people are murdered without any sort of firearm (knives, bare hands, etc.), as with "assault weapons." Obama says that "assault weapons" are machine guns that "belong on foreign battlefields," but that is a lie; the guns are only semi-automatic, and they are not used by a military force anywhere on the planet.  "Repeal the Tiahrt Amendment." The amendment--endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police--prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone other than a law enforcement agency conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. Anti-gun activists oppose the restriction, because it prevents them from obtaining tracing information and using it in frivolous lawsuits against law-abiding firearm manufacturers. Their lawsuits seek to obtain huge financial judgments against firearm manufacturers when a criminal uses a gun to inflict harm, even though the manufacturers have complied with all applicable laws.  "Closing the gun show loophole." There is no "loophole." Under federal law, a firearm dealer must conduct a background check on anyone to whom he sells a gun, regardless of where the sale takes place. A person who is not a dealer may sell a gun from his personal collection without conducting a check. Gun prohibitionists claim that many criminals obtain guns from gun shows, though the most recent federal survey of convicted felons put the figure at only 0.7 percent. They also claim that non-dealers should be required to conduct checks when selling guns at shows, but the legislation they support goes far beyond imposing that lone requirement. In fact, anti-gun members of Congress voted against that limited measure, holding out for a broader bill intended to drive shows out of business.  "Making guns in this country childproof." "Childproof" is a codeword for a variety of schemes designed to prevent the sale of firearms by imposing impossible or highly expensive design requirements, such as biometric shooter-identification systems. While no one opposes keeping children safe, the fact is that accidental firearm-related deaths among children have decreased 86 percent since 1975, even as the numbers of children and guns have risen dramatically. Today, the chances of a child being killed in a firearm accident are less than one in a million.

Do Guns Reduce Crime?

From Dr. Lott's website, here is new research on shall-issue laws; here is transcript of recent Intelligence Squared debate on whether guns reduce crime; here is audio of same debate.