WND: NAACP to governor: Declare martial law.
An NAACP official has demanded the governor of Pennsylvania call out the National Guard, suspend civil liberties and impose martial law to deal with a recent wave of shootings.
A woman is pulled from near the Center Street dam by construction worker Jason Oglesbee on Tuesday. A man who was with the unidentified woman died in the Des Moines River. A rescue team from the Des Moines Fire Department tried several times to rescue the woman but could not get close enough to her.
When seconds count, the sheriff is always minutes away it seems. Would be nice if these brave heroes had the ability to defend themselves and lower the risk to themselves and their families.
Law enforcement doesn't encourage untrained bystanders to get involved in crimes in progress, especially when the perpetrator is believed to be armed. But when attempted to flee, he was held down by three bystanders, including former Long Beach police officer and bar bouncer.... "They did an incredibly brave thing," .... The "will shoot bandit" has been considered armed and dangerous,
McMenacing? Cop Accused Of Pulling Gun At McD's - cbs4denver.com.
Denver police officer has been suspended after allegedly brandishing his gun at a McDonald's restaurant in Aurora after his order took too long to fill.
Here's more on the commotion yesterday that made my client late/cry/interested in taking my ccw class...wish i had more time to comment--schools shut down, irony that perp was school employee, so much drama/trauma/disruption to south oc and so avoidable if citizenry armed:
LAKE FOREST – An armed man, dressed in a dark suit and tie with a white collared shirt, robbed a check-cashing business this morning and took a customer as hostage, sparking an hour-long, high-speed chase through several South County streets, officials said.
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The suspect was identified as 39-year-old ... of Laguna Hills, a former Marine who used worked as a security guard for the La Mirada School District.
Prosecutors today charged an LAPD detective with premeditated murder in connection with the fatal shooting two decades ago of her ex-boyfriend's wife.
JERUSALEM – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official advisory council the head of an Arab American organization whose officials have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as "heroes" and opposed referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization.
Princeton Gun Scare Ends With 4 in Custody | NBC New York.
Police took four juvenile suspects into custody just before 11:30 a.m. None of the four suspects were students. One had a dark green toy gun in his waistband that school officials said could have been mistaken for a real gun.
TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - The first round of Toledo police layoffs, in which 75 officers were let go, may already be having an affect on gun ownership.
This new tack presents a danger as I need Airsoft to make my CCW classes convenient.
ORANGE – A college student carrying two airsoft rifles for a schoold drama production prompted a nearly three-hour search of Santiago Canyon College after someone reported seeing a man with a gun near school grounds late Wednesday. The report came just hours after school officials at UCI announced they were looking for a possible gunman dressed in camouflage. Like the Santiago Canyon College incident, the UCI report turned out to be a student with an air rifle.
Filing this under "Blue Helicopter Thinking" because of the Zoo siren. Looking forward to having Farrel's back.
Finally! Farrell’s reveals first O.C. location - Fast Food Maven - OCRegister.com.
Rumors have been floating for months about where Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour will land in Orange County. Today, the wait is over. Farrell’s will make its O.C. comeback at… .(insert big Farrell’s drum gong here) …The Shops at Mission Viejo.
Firefighters were on lunch break when wounded man came crashing through front door.
MOSCOW – A Moscow district police chief opened fire on the street and in a supermarket early Monday, killing three people and wounding seven others — four of them critically, Russian investigators said.
A reminder that rank and file cops are largely immune to the Blue Helicopter Thinking that afflicts politicians, appointed police chiefs (and appointed sheriffs), and too many Californians in general:
Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » AMONG THE COPS AND THEIR INSTRUCTORS.
People write to forums and blogs (sometimes this one, in fact) to call cops jack-booted thugs and insist that they all want to disarm law-abiding citizens. I wish some of those folks could have been here. They wouldn’t have found a JBT in sight. Only hundreds and hundreds of men and women who have sworn that oath to risk their lives for the public safety, and who take with the deepest seriousness their assignment to train others to do likewise.
Misdemeanors such as assaults, thefts and burglaries will no longer be prosecuted in Contra Costa County because of budget cuts, the county's top prosecutor said Tuesday.
Both men advocate allowing commercial seamen to use firearms to defend themselves from pirates. Most commercial ships sail the world unarmed, relying on “evasive maneuvers” and blasts from fire hoses to repel would-be hijackers, according to industry analysts.
Police heard no gunfire after they arrived but waited for about an hour before entering the building to make sure it was safe for officers.
When cosmetics alone can infringe constitutional freedoms, we're all in trouble. But that's precisely how the 1994 gun ban came about. The gun-ban lobby and national media lied with lockstep conformity by playing endless footage of fully automatic machine gun fire. They fooled the American people and the U.S. Congress into thinking they were banning "high-powered," "rapid-fire," "battlefield-bred" guns designed to "spray fire from the hip." None of that was true.
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That's how gun abolitionists claim Mexican gun laws are so strict that our "weak laws" (read: freedoms) are to blame for "fueling the violence" in Mexico.
Well, to believe that:
• You have to believe these butchers and beheaders break every Mexican law they want except Mexican gun laws, which they honor -- while they break America gun laws.
• You have to believe that Mexico's drug cartels, which possess the wealth and armies of nations, prefer American semiauto target and hunting rifles over fully automatic machine guns and any other military arms they want to crush opposition.
• You have to believe Mexican drug lords -- who make Forbes magazine's list of billionaires -- don't get large lots of weaponry on the transnational black market but instead choose to trifle with paperwork at U.S. gun stores.
• You have to believe that narco-terrorists who buy fragmentation grenades, grenade launchers, explosives, body armor, biometric security equipment, infrared surveillance technology and intelligence-grade reconnaissance gear will salute and obey a new American gun law -- if only we'd pass one.
A deputy ended up shooting him with a bean-bag gun at close range in a bathroom at the home. Momeni was struck in the head, resulting in the loss of his eye and brain injuries. The deputy had said she was aiming at Momeni's chest,
we called the FBI. The FBI has four ELF members on their most wanted list — four. But there's not a single person from a militia. Congressman Paul, do you believe this is some sort of a setup? I mean, why all of a sudden the interest in these militias?
Even digging a moat between the U.S. and Mexico wouldn't stop the flow of guns. Consider the experience of island nations -Ireland, Jamaica, and the United Kingdom- all of which saw murder rates climb after guns were banned. In the land of the disarmed, the one-gun man is king.
The study, carried out by the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) at Bristol University, suggested that lawyers have moved closer to average intelligence over the past 12 years.
Sunday, March 8: Look 17 degrees above the north, starting at 5:35 a.m. The station will be visible for 2 minutes at it moves to the northeast. Monday, March 9: Look 27 degrees above the northwest, starting at 6:02 a.m. The station will be visible for 4 minutes as it moves to the southeast. Tuesday, March 10: Look 12 degrees above the west at 6:28 a.m. The station will be visible for 4 minutes as it moves to the south. Wednesday, March 11: Look 19 degrees above the southeast at 5:24 a.m. The station will be visible for about 1 minute as it continues southeast. Thursday, March 12: Look 11 degrees above the southwest at 8:37 p.m. The station will be visible for about 1 minute as it continues to move southwest. Friday, March 13: Look 10 degrees above the south at 7:30 p.m. The station will be visible for 3 minutes as it moves to the east. Saturday, March 14: Look 11 degrees above the northwest 7:56 p.m. The station will be visible for 5 miles as it travels to the northeast. Sunday, March 15: Look 21 degrees above the northwest 8:25 p.m. The station will be visible for 2 minutes as it travels to the north.
"My experience Wednesday night made me feel safer living and working in New York than ever before
police had claimed the man provoked and attacked them in an elevator on Dec. 5. Contradicting the police report, elevator surveillance video shows three officers aggressively rushing and beating
chief economist at Wachovia, said the government's success so far in shoring up markets and reviving the economy resembled the pattern of police patrols. "At each corner where a policeman is stationed, we witness a decline in crime," he said. "In every market where the Fed focuses its liquidity facilities," credit conditions improve.
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Data released on Monday showed that Americans were rapidly rebuilding savings that they had run down in recent years when it seemed like rising home values and healthy stock markets would be enough to pay for retirement. While that may be good for the global economy, which many economists say has been over-reliant on U.S. consumption, "recession has never been successfully arrested with austerity," Citigroup economist
I say: Free the Recession! Let the markets adjust and punish those who should be punished, economically. Stop punishing innocent taxpayers and families.
What's going on in the Cherry Creek School District in Colorado? Not long ago, I told you about Marie Morrow, the 17-year-old high school student who was facing expulsion for leaving blocks of wood shaped like rifles in the back of her SUV at school. Marie, who's in the Young Marines, uses the wood to help her in her drill practice. As unbelievable as that story is, this isn't the first time Cherry Creek has made headlines for its inability to recognize a real firearm. Back in 2002, the school district suspended seven fourth-graders for turning their thumbs and forefingers into the shape of a pistol during a recess game of "army versus aliens." The elementary school principal asked all seven kids about the gun ownership habits of their parents, and eventually the school district ended up in court. Since the board of education and the superintendent have such a problem telling the difference between a firearm and a block of wood (not to mention a child's hand), I want to help. I'll pay for the board of education and the superintendent to attend a firearms safety course in Colorado. Taking the district to court hasn't helped. Maybe taking them to school will.
"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum." Holder said
What? A Marine with a .22 derringer?
WND: College ousts Marine for legally concealed gun.
A Marine has been arrested, suspended from college and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation for bringing a handgun and knife to campus – even though he holds a concealed carry permit issued by the state.
EBay has said it intends to ban trade in all knives, apart from cutlery knives, on its UK and Ireland websites. The ban will be implemented "as soon as possible" in order to provide a "safe" marketplace for its members, it said. EBay said the ban was the best measure, bearing in mind the "complex" laws surrounding knife sales in the UK.
NRA is looking for information from you to help protect your rights and the rights of others to keep a firearm in a personal vehicle. Please send us a copy of any memo, letter, email, policy manual or any other communication from your employer, which discriminates against you and other gun owners wishing to keep a firearm safely locked in a vehicle.
On Jan. 6, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois introduced federal legislation aimed at increasing license requirements and ownership restrictions for firearms. House Resolution 45, also known as Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, is named for a Chicago high school student killed on a public bus in May 2007 when another young man boarded and started shooting, Rush said. Holt used his body to shield a girl from the line of fire and was shot in the abdomen. Rush's legislation seeks to prohibit owning or selling a gun without a license issued by the U.S. attorney general's office. The bill also would make it illegal to keep a loaded firearm or an unloaded firearm and its ammunition where there are children younger than 18, according to the bill's text.
But the tricky part is determining whether a fake gun looks close enough to a real one to warrant an expulsion from school.
The state Sheriff’s Association doesn’t support the uncased gun bill. So what? Remember this? “If we allow conceal and carry, ‘Road rage will turn into assaults!’ ‘Domestics will turn deadly!’ ‘There’ll be more suicides!” The Minnesota Sheriffs’ Association “cried wolf,” but good legislation was passed, no one was hurt and more freedom for our citizens occurred. Now sheriffs repeat the mistake with their hype about the uncased gun proposal.
Not sure what this means. It sure looks like Pat Bates will not push for CCW issuance based on personal protection. She hopes the Sheriff will issue based on "unique circumstances"? Does our arbitrary & capricious Sheriff have time for all that soothsaying when she doesn't even have time to read John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" or any of his other works? (Sheriff admitted this to me at January GAC meeting.)
Supervisor Pat Bates' Fifth District Report.
After much debate, it is my hope the Sheriff will develop a CCW policy that truly recognizes the unique circumstances of each individual and their right to provide for self-defense in light of those unique circumstances.
Obviously, the only way to address unique circumstances is with shall-issue, either de jure shall-issue or de facto shall-issue. I hope this is what Pat Bates means, but I don't think so.
Supervisor Pat Bates' Fifth District Report.
I will continue to encourage the Sheriff to adopt a policy that is both transparent and recognizes the right of authorized citizens to carry a concealed weapon.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of authorized citizens to carry a concealed weapon, shall not be infringed."--Pat Bates
Thank you, Ms. Bates, for protecting the rights we enjoy as authorized citizens.
“I’ve been around long enough to know whenever someone tells me I have to make a decision right now, my response is no,” DeMint said. “That clears it up right away and I think more and more the Bush administration and now this administration knows that they’re not going to get a quick reaction out of Congress unless they create crisis and widespread panic. And that’s going to be their M.O. to get Congress to act.” Another senator, James Inhofe, R-Okla., explained the Bush administration used a similar tactic, under the direction of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, to get the $700-billion TARP bailout bill passed by Congress back on Oct. 4, 2008.
Front Sight Challenge on Your Computer | Ignatius Piazza | Front Sight Blog.
40 private citizens with no military or law enforcement background who have only received Front Sight’s training, battle it out against 40 seasoned law enforcement and military professionals. That’s right! Soccer moms, lawyers, doctors, businessmen, grandmothers and even a teenager with no training other than what they received at Front Sight go head-to-head against hardened SWAT Cops, Deputy Sheriffs, Army Snipers, Federal Officers and even a Secret Service Agent to see who is the best with a gun!
Now in hiding after being rescued from the hospital by a charity, Aamir is one of hundreds of Indian children deliberately crippled by gangs so they can earn extra money begging.
The Orange County supervisors’ weekly meeting today is in a sort of lockdown mode with large signs out in front of the lobby advising audience members that firearms are not allowed
Bungling German firemen have been branded the worst in the world after their own fire station burned to the ground. All six fire engines perished in the £3 million blaze in Syke and it took 250 firemen from nearby towns to finally bring the inferno under control.
San Francisco’s surveillance cameras in high-crime areas do not prevent violent crime, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California.
ANAHEIM – Two Anaheim women want millions of dollars from several cities whose police officers were involved in a shooting incident last June that the women say left one of them suffering from a bullet to the abdomen.
Video: LEO threatens to blow head off permit holder who fails to inform LEO of firearm:
Rodriguez died within the hour, the fifth person to have died in the city after being shocked by police since San Jose issued Tasers to officers in 2004. According to the human rights organization, Amnesty International, deaths like Rodriquez happen too often to be freak accidents. An Amnesty International report titled "USA: Less than lethal?" records 334 people have died after being stunned by Tasers in the U.S. between 2001 and August 2008, including 55 in California and 52 in Florida.
Dozens of Israel Police officers were injured by their fellow policemen on Thursday during a training exercise simulating violent civil unrest.
"As it turns out, we've not had any trouble with our gun permit holders-- they've got a near perfect behavior record," Rep. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains, told a House committee last week. Still, he defends his characterization of "a near-perfect record." "Their behavior records is better than our uniformed police,"
The hotel had metal detectors, but none of its security personnel carried weapons because of the difficulties in obtaining gun permits from the Indian government, according to the hotel company's chairman, P.R.S. Oberoi.
