from Alan Korwin’s blog…here Chicago’s very own…WGN…
…The media nationwide has its panties in a knot because a person showed up at an Obama protest bearing arms and wearing a white shirt and tie. Not just any firearm, but what they like to vilify as an “assault” rifle — an AR-15 typical household single-shot long gun. But to the media, it’s a menacing black gun. And it was worn by a black man, a fact they tried to hide. I took repeated calls for “news” interviews about this incredible occurrence…
Your hometown station WGN offered up these gems…
Chicago’s WGN couldn’t believe we have the right to keep and bear arms out here. I had to tell them most places have RKBA, a surprise to them in their little cloister. “Do people shoot each other on the streets a lot?” They actually asked that. These folks aren’t in a bubble, they’re in a vacuum, they get nothing. “With your new guns-in-bars law, which has created quite a commotion here in Chicago, are there shootouts in bars?” I’m not making this up.
Get it? Get it? “Do people shoot each other on the streets a lot?” Try this link. Gee I dunno WGN…do peopole in Chicago shoot each other on the streets a lot? Of course how could that be…nasty handguns aren’t allowed in Chi-Town. Why don’t you folks at WGN ask Mayor Dick?
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. -Churchill
What has gone awry in Britain? A complete loss of self-respect?…
Brit dad takes kids to park after school…a few punks block the swingset, he asks them to move so his daughter can swing…they grudgingly move, only to say something “horrible” to the daughter as soon as the dad steps away…all of which apparently leads to a personal trauma of epic proportions for Brit dad…
I have dreaded something like this since I became a dad. As a young man I got into fights but since having children I have tried to mellow, to demonstrate to my kids that violence is not the answer (and because I’m a 5ft 7in 42-year-old who never was particularly good at the whole scrapping malarkey). On the other hand, what message am I sending to my children by being pushed around? How can I tell my son to stand up for himself if I won’t stand up for him against bullies?
Life as a modern dad is full of these dilemmas. Working from home, I get to spend time with the children — and the dishwasher. As the son of a militant feminist, I was brought up thinking that this was A Good Thing. Yet recently I read a letter in The Times from a woman whose husband had lost his job; she found having him moping around the house all day very unsexy. Is there some deep part of my psyche that feels somehow emasculated?
So Brit dad summons up the stones enough to “confront” the punks and say “did you say something to my daughter?” Wow…coming up with that caused a major trauma did it? Eventually punks back down and say “no” they didn’t.
The Mayor of London recently advised Londoners — including his own four children — to walk away from trouble rather than get involved. But what would Boris Johnson do if someone picked on his children? I ask the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) what I should have done. The response is predictably anodyne: “The MPS recognises the concern residents have regarding antisocial behaviour. We work closely with other agencies to tackle the problem of youth crime. If anyone witnesses possible offences by youths, we advise them to contact police.”
The result? How about this video. You see it is best to walk away, just call the police. How could anyone stand by and watch this happen? This should tell you how…
Here lies my difficulty: were the youths committing an offence or simply being offensive? As I didn’t hear what they supposedly said maybe I should have backed off. But that’s what people do all the time: walk away, surrender our open spaces. The more I think about my actions, the more convinced I am that I did the right thing.
Gee? Yah think? So he is so conflicted he calls the police? Predictably they counsel pacifism…”antisocial behaviour” it is…I guess even more conflicted now our protagonist then…
Just to make sure, I consult the clinical psychologist Linda Blair, whose book The Happy Child is published next month. “By approaching those youths you were placing your needs before those of your children,” she says. “By walking away you would have been protecting them and also providing a role model for the future.
“In this sort of situation you need to breathe in, hold it, then let the air out of your mouth. Ask yourself: is my child in immediate danger? If the answer is no, walk away. If they are in danger, you will do the right thing every time to protect your DNA, to preserve your own genetic material.”
What?!? He calls a shrink…the author of yes, that’s right “The Happy Child” to get another opinion on what he did. Walking away would have been the proper role model don’t you see. Take a deep breath?! WTF? “Preserve your genetic material”!?!?!?!? Yes it’s funny but truly sad. Protect your genetic material are you kidding me?
Of course Britain has long since surrendered their right to own a handgun, and are well on their way to giving up the right to defend themselves much less their property or genetic material.
Self-respect, it’s a terrible thing to lose.
Dealing with “anti-social behaviour” apparently means surrendering the streets to every punk and hoodlum in sight. For God sakes don’t stand up to them, let evil win at all costs. Could this possibly be the same people who stood tall and alone during the blitz?
Britain has now given us this, yes the “anti-stab knife”, in a society that is now on it’s way to banning knives. How do you eat your boiled meat without a knife? Knife registration? Joking you say?
The first “anti-stab” knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon…It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives.
Do you think these Brit doctors want to ban surgical knives? Of course not, they are the only ones who can use a knife…not you commoners.
Police recorded more than 26,000 serious knife attacks in the financial year to March 2009, an increase of six per cent on the previous year’s total. The figures have brought calls for tougher punishments for youths caught carrying knives. Police leaders admitted last night that the findings demonstrate that knife crime is “spreading”.
David Codrea over at the War on Guns keeps pretty good track of the doings in Sarah Brady Paradise, where all is peaches and cream…er strawberries and cream.
In recent years governments have even felt it necessary to prevent the public from defending themselves with imitation weapons. In 1994 an English home-owner, armed with a toy gun, managed to detain two burglars who had broken into his house while he called the police. When the officers arrived, they arrested the home-owner for using an imitation gun to threaten or intimidate. In a similar incident the following year, when an elderly woman fired a toy cap pistol to drive off a group of youths who were threatening her, she was arrested for putting someone in fear. Now the police are pressing Parliament to make imitation guns illegal.
More here from a violent American. And speaking of violence?
Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed. Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa – widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries.
But never mind that, you still will get a Euro-lecture if you suggest there is anything fundamentally wrong with the Brit view on crime and punishment much less guns. Gun-crazed cowboys like Americans just aren’t sufficiently evolved to take the high road…and before you get too upity…the U.S. still has more homicides, a source of pride for Euro gun grabbers. You see it is better to be stabbed to death, and unable to defend yourself with an effective weapon, than having those nasty handguns around. Such the barbarians are we.
Think it can’t happen here? Why is it that schools punish everyone for “fighting” regardless of who started it, who the aggressor was or any consideration of right or wrong. Defending yourself is will not get you subjected to punishment in most American schools. Why do people stand by and watch a 90 year old man be beaten? I wonder. How could those people stand there? Because they have been conditioned to. Why do we stand by and watch horror and attrocity in the world? Because to do something about it would require some determination of moral rights and wrongs, verboten in the politically correct world.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! -Churchill
for well over 100 years the Brits have been steadfast allies, reliable and could be counted on to stand toe to toe in the defense of freedom…however their society has collectively lost its mind completely…
Golfers arrested after fighting off gang attempting to steal clubs
Golfers arrested after fighting off gang attempting to steal clubs …
According to reports, the players were about to tee off on the fourth hole of the course in Bromley, Kent, when they were confronted by a group of teenagers brandishing planks of wood.
Yes you get arrested for defending yourself….
Mr Walden said: “I cannot say who was at fault and who was not at fault yesterday.
Hmmm lessee, it’s a golf course…one group is on a tee box with golf clubs…the others are carrying planks of wood and attack them…so we arrest everyone…just can’t figure out whose at fault…cheerio
Not to mention that it is illegal to defend your home and your property there now too. Britain has been lost to leftist idiocy, I see no other way to put it.
Nagin, his wife and a member of his security detail have been quarantined in Shanghai, China,…
Because you see he is worthy of being protected…you aren’t? Who the hell is going to attack him in China? Some boob mayor of New Orleans? Who is he being protected from in China? I figure it must be his brother in law that gets a trip to China on the taxpayer dime.
June 3, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — Two men accused of killing a Chicago police officer were ordered held without bail Wednesday. Wednesday’s bond hearing was packed with officers from the 7th District where Alejandro Valadez worked the streets of Englewood. Prosecutors described both suspects as reputed gang members who were out to get revenge when they allegedly shot Valadez. Emotions were high in court as their family members fought back tears.
Shot him with what? No handguns in Chicago, just ask Reichsmarshall Dailey.
Within minutes of the shooting early Monday morning, police found a car parked nearby. On Wednesday in court, prosecutors said three guns were found inside it — a 40-caliber handgun, a 357 revolver and a 9 millimeter carbine rifle in the trunk.
Again…couldn’t have happened. “Carbine”!? What the hell is a carbine? I think the proper term is “assault weapon” isn’t it? Chicago 7 needs to get with the program.
You know it’s coming don’t you? I can’t disappoint you either…
Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis joined Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez after the bond hearing. Both called the shooting of Valadez, a three-year member of the Chicago Police Department, a wakeup call for common sense gun laws.
Yes common sense gun laws are the answer. What other gun laws do they need in Chicago? You can’t have one now? Fair question but you aren’t progressive enough if you don’t know the answer…the answer is that there needs to be no guns anywhere then Chi-town wouldn’t be victimized by such. Because you see…your ownership of handguns is the problem, not say Shawn Gaston…
Nevermind this…the problem is not enough common sense gun laws..
Alvarez says last month, Illinois lawmakers turned down a bill her office had drafted that targeted known gang members and would have kept Gaston behind bars.
Please pay no attention to what we actually do…just listen to our call for more common sense gun laws…
Police say Gaston and Walker are both convicted felons. In fact, Gaston has been arrested at least 13 times on charges including robbery and assault.
(CNN) — A six-hour lockdown prompted by a fatal shooting near a Virginia campus was lifted as police continued a search for the gunman. Students at Radford University southwest of Roanoke were told to lock their doors and stay inside early Friday, after a man was fatally shot in the chest in a residential area a couple of blocks away.
I guess you are relying on your ability to hide during the lockdown huh? If you weren’t a champion hide n seek player at age 9 I guess you are in big trouble.
Just to make sure we have the Radford University Student Code of Conduct….
45. Weapons
The unauthorized use, possession or storage of firearms, ammunition, weapons or realistic replicas of weapons on Radford University Property. Firearms are defined as any weapon that fires projectiles. Weapons include any object or substance designed or used to inflict a wound, cause injury or incapacitate. Paintball guns may not be used or stored on Radford University property without prior approval from the Office of the Dean of Students.
Yep, there it is. Trust me, you aren’t authorized…, the only onesare the only ones authorized, You aren’t allowed to have a replica of a chance either…I know I’d feel a whole lot better if I were forcibly disarmed while a gunman roams the area…this is a knee slapper here….
A spokesman for Radford University police told CNN that the shooter had not been captured and that investigators believed that neither the victim nor the gunman were students. He would not explain why police believed the campus was safe.
Yes he’s probably still out there…but trust us you’re safe… This is what they tell you in the macro sense of society as well. There are plenty of maniacs out there, but trust us…you’re safe…even though we have no obligation to ensure your particular personal safety. And in several places they tell you this and also tell you…”and oh by the way you cannot have a handgun either…” Say at like Radford University.
UPDATE: You know I wrote the “hide ‘n seek” champion stuff this morning, then all hell breaks loose in Binghamton, N.Y. Low and behold the hide and seek thing was prophetic…
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. They then spent two hours searching the building.
No, I’m not making it up….you really did have to be a hide ‘n seek champion to survive…the police get there and then wait an hour before going in to the building? What the hell? Yet we should stay disarmed and call 911?? No I don’t want officers gunned down…but isn’t that their job to go in and stop the killing with some more killing? I don’t ever want to hear the crap from the anti’s and other pants wetters about leaving things to the police…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Four Oakland, Calif., police officers were shot to death in two separate incidents involving one suspect near the Eastmont police substation Saturday afternoon, law enforcement sources said. The first shooting happened in the 7400 block of MacArthur Boulevard about 1:16 p.m. PDT when two motorcycle officers were wounded. What led to the shooting was not immediately known. About 3:20 p.m., two more police officers were hit in an exchange of gunfire with the suspect while trying to take him into custody in the 2700 block of 74th Avenue. That suspect was shot and killed.
Well, he’s a hero!
You also may not have heard what is really to blame here…
In response to the fatal shootings of four Oakland police officers over the weekend, two Bay Area politicians today announced plans to introduce legislation that would create a system for regulating and tracking assault weapon magazines in California. The announcement by state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, and Assemblyman Sandre Swanson, D-Oakland, comes four days after a wanted parolee gunned down four Oakland officers, two allegedly with an AK-47.
Well, welcome to Springfield, Illinois where State Rep. Andre M. Thapedi, a Democrat representing the 32nd District on Chicago’s South Side has introduced an amendment to House Bill 1966 that specifically prevents residents in the Englewood neighborhood from owning, selling, buying or manufacturing “any assault weapon or .50 caliber rifle.” He’s done some serious homework on this by identifying the specific zip codes – 60619, 60620, 60621, 60629, 60636 and 60637 – where the residents apparently cannot be trusted with these firearms while, apparently because every other zip code in the state was not included, every other Illinois citizen is free to possess these guns.
Just remember they are too busy with the economic crisis.
Posted in Sheer Idiocy on March 19, 2009 by Daggett
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners.
The Obammy went on and on about how tyranical and unjust Git’mo was. Why were these people not turned loose the absolute second he took office? If we have no right to hold them, just an evil vestige of the Cheney/Haliburton Administration, how do we have the right to “resettle” them anywhere? How do we have the right to put them in Europe? It’s odd that where they came from don’t want them back…but never mind t hat don’t look behind the curtain.
What’s also coming is that you, the taxpayer are about to pay these lovely gents a lot of money, buy them houses etc… Let’s see a show of hands, who wants one living next door? Obammy voters…let’s get the hands up.
European justice ministers met with Mr. Holder earlier this week and pressed for details on how many Guantanamo prisoners the U.S. planned to release domestically, as part of any agreement for allies to accept detainees. Mr. Holder said U.S. officials would work to respond to the questions European officials have over U.S. Guantanamo plans.
That’s what you country is fast becoming…a vessel to please European Ministers, hell European Ministers are running the show now. Do you think Holder will have some of these fine people move into a house next door to him?
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