…but my opinion of him dropped precipitously after he responded to Wisconsin Attorney General Van Hollen’s statement that carrying a gun openly in Wisconsin is protected by the state’s constitution, tadalafil view by asserting that HE and his officers decide what is a right and what is not:
He added, viagra usa discount “I want to stress to those who would come to Milwaukee to symbolically engage in their right to openly carry a weapon?.?.?.? that they’re going to confront police attention and we intend to have that confrontation in a safe way for all involved. We’re not going to start with the assumption that you are within your rights.”
It’s not an assumption, sir, it’s a god damn fact. The right to keep and bear arms is written into both the Federal AND the Wisconsin Constitutions. Cops enforce laws, they don’t make them up. Get your head out of your ass and start respecting the law you supposedly serve.
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April 24th, 2009
But, viagra usa drugstore as far as I’m concerned, sovaldi Jim Doyle is responsible for the death or injury of any law abiding citizen who was kept from defending him or herself because he twice vetoed conceal carry in Wisconsin.
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April 21st, 2009
In a wrong-headed blog post, viagra sales physician Bonnie Erbe of U.S. News writes:
It’s time America came to its senses again on gun control. Seven officers of the law being mowed down in two weeks is too many. Any is too many. But if you listen to the NRA, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Could Poplawski have killed these Pittsburgh police without all his sophisticated weaponry? Heck no!
Guess she’s never heard of bombs, huh?
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April 6th, 2009
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Attackers hacked to death scores of people who sought refuge at a Catholic church in remote eastern Congo the day after Christmas, officials and witnesses said Monday, and the Ugandan army and a rebel group accused each other of carrying out the massacre.>/blockquote>
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December 29th, 2008
…but when I read this headline:
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…I thought, “man, Guns for Gifts is a great idea!”
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December 7th, 2008
Sebastian D’Souza, viagra generic buy viagra the photographer who took this picture of one of the terrorists who killed hundreds in Mumbai, recipe said, “I wish I’d had a gun, not a camera.”
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.”
As the gunmen fired at policemen taking cover across the street, Mr D’Souza realised a train was pulling into the station unaware of the horror within. “I couldn’t believe it. We rushed to the platform and told everyone to head towards the back of the station. Those who were older and couldn’t run, we told them to stay put.”
The militants returned inside the station and headed towards a rear exit towards Chowpatty Beach. Mr D’Souza added: “I told some policemen the gunmen had moved towards the rear of the station but they refused to follow them. What is the point if having policemen with guns if they refuse to use them? I only wish I had a gun rather than a camera.”
The sentiment expressed by Mr D’Souza is why people like me react to mass shootings by calling for less gun control not more.
We know that the cops can’t always protect you.
Hell, in this case, they apparently didn’t even try.
Despite what many well-meaning people think, gun control is not a mark of civilization.
There’s nothing civilized about people kept defenseless by their government crouching in fear while armed men come to kill them.
Hat tip: Rustmeister’s Alehouse which referenced The Breda Fallacy.
December 1st, 2008
I’m less interested in the particular conclusion of this
news story on mass shootings:
The other statistic that emerged from a study of active killers is that they almost exclusively seek out “gun free” zones for their attacks. In most states, cialis canada cheap concealed handguns are prohibited at schools and on college campuses even for those with permits. Many malls and workplaces also place signs at their entrances prohibiting firearms on the premises.
Now some tacticians believe the signs themselves may be an invitation to the active killers.
The psychological profile of a mass murderer indicates he is looking to inflict the most casualties as quickly as possible. Also, the data show most active killers have no intention of surviving the event. They may select schools and shopping malls because of the large number of defenseless victims and the virtual guarantee no on the scene one is armed.
Than I am in the fact that the reporters apparently felt that they had to defend the source of their conclusion:
We have received many requests about the source for our assertion that most mass murders have occurred in otherwise “gun free” zones.
The experts are Ron Borsch from SEALE Academy in Bedford, Ohio and John Benner from Tactical Defense Institute.
A summary of Borsch’s study can be found here
We also conducted our own analysis of mass murders in the U.S. The vast majority occurred in schools or on college campuses where firearms are banned as a matter of state statutes. Others took place in post offices where firearms are banned as a matter of federal law. Most of the rest took place in shopping malls or other businesses where the owners posted signs prohibiting firearm possession by anyone including those with CCW permits.
In some states, like Ohio, those signs have the force of law and violators are prosecuted under the relevant statute. In other states, like Texas, the signs are considered trespass notices and violators are first asked to leave, then they are arrested for trespass if they decline (of course, if your weapon is visible, it’s no longer concealed and there are other potential legal consequences).
Based on data from the SEALE study, an analysis by TDI, and our own painstaking research, we are able to say definitively that most “active killer” shootings have occurred in so-called “gun free” zones. The experts who say they may be “invitations” are also John Benner and Ron Borsch who have six decades of law enforcement experience and training between them.
The Luby’s Cafeteria shooting in Killeen, TX in 1991 took place before Texas adopted its Florida-style CCW law. In fact, that mass murder of 23 people was used as an example by those seeking to enact the CCW legislation.
It is accurate to say firearms were banned in Luby’s at that time because there was no uniform concealed carry law in place in 1991. In fact, several victims and survivors had legally owned handguns in their cars at the time of the shooting.
While that shooting was not addressed in our story, it and others over the last 40 years were analyzed in our investigation.
As journalists, we are not interested in entering into the heated debate over gun control. We are, however, interested in reporting the facts. In this story, the facts point to the active shooters ignoring gun prohibitions and perhaps selecting those locations because they are “soft targets” where no resistance would be found.
It’s just common sense, folks: if you want to shoot as many people as possible, you go to where no one can defend themselves. You don’t attack the graduating class at the police academy.
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November 26th, 2008
Lots of organizations claim to be non-partisan when they clearly are.
But what do you say when an organization that almost everyone assumes is a Republican front actually endorses a Democrat?
The National Rifle Association is endorsing U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen today.
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Kagen, viagra buy shop an Appleton Democrat, remedy is running for re-election against Republican challenger John Gard of Suamico in the 8th Congressional District.
The NRA awarded each candidate an “A” for supporting the organization in key votes — Kagen in his first term in office and Gard, and the former Assembly speaker, during his long tenure in the state Legislature.
But being an incumbent has its benefits.
The endorsement always goes to the incumbent when everything else is equal, said Jeff Nass, an NRA member and president of the Wisconsin Rifle and Pistol Association.
People claim the NRA is a Republican surrogate, but how many times have you seen the National Organization for Women endorse a Republican?
October 14th, 2008