The press conference by the San Bernadino Sheriff’s Office indicates that the police on scene were San Bernadino Count Sheriff personnel, not LAPD
The weapons they displayed are not burned, and are not consistent with having been through a fire. They keep talking about a “pyrotechnic chemical agent,” but if those weapons displayed were the actual weapons from the cabin, there was no actual fire.
The original post will remain up. I don’t send mistakes down the memory hole.
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I have a question about the recent killing of the ex-LAPD fugitive in Big Bear, California. (Like all criminal suspects, his name will not be repeated on this blog)
The LAPD is the city police force for the City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, not surprisingly, is located in Los Angeles County. The two counties touch, but they are emphatically not the same.
In California, a city police officer has jurisdiction only within the city. Outside his jurisdiction he has the same rights and powers as an ordinary citizen, unless the Sheriff gives consent. The only special thing about being a city police officer outside your jurisdiction is that you can still carry a gun. The only thing that would have permitted the LAPD to operate in San Bernadino County is if the SB Sheriff-Coroner gave them permission.
How is it that the LAPD was apparently the lead agency in an attack on a cabin outside of Los Angeles City, in another County? Why wasn’t the San Bernadino Sheriff’s Department in charge of that scene? The SBSD has been contracted to provide law enforcement to the city of Big Bear Lake since 1981.
This is wholly aside from the question of why the LAPD burned down a house around a fugitive rather than surround him and wait for his surrender. That strikes me as murder, plain and simple. I just want to know if the murderers were also outside of their jurisdiction. If the San Bernadino Sheriff-Coroner gave permission for the LAPD to act like they did, then he’s just as guilty.
We’ve been hearing about LaRue Tactical’s decision to limit local law enforcement sales to things that can legally be purchased by law-abiding citizens in that locality.
That’s a great gesture on their part. But what about the big firearm companies? GRNC is asking the three that supply duty pistols to the NYPD to step up and match LaRue’s committment.
With nearly 2.5 Million guns sold to law-abiding citizens in January alone, the non-LEO non-military US market dwarfs police sales. These companies know who buys their guns. Let’s get them to choose a side.
GRNC provides the text of the letter and the three email addresses. All you have to do is cut and paste. Let’s see if we can bury these three manufacturers in email. Let’s see if they will stand up for our Second Amendment rights!
Here’s a measure of how out of power the Dems are in North Carolina. The biggest spokesman that they could come up with for the launch of Senator Kay Hagan’s re-election campaign is the Mayor of Charlotte.
Drubbing is an understatement. The NC General Assembly has a 2/3rds majority for Republicans in both the House and Senate. The Governor is a Republican who won with double digits. NC was the only “battleground” state that Obama couldn’t win. By any measure it was a crushing defeat for the Democrat Party.
Let me tell you how Kay Hagan could ensure her defeat. She could come out for any of the gun control proposals being floated. The gun owners of this state, having been lulled to sleep by constant lies that Obama wasn’t anti-gun, are awake and pissed off. We can’t find an AR or an AK for sale anywhere in the state because people bought them all up. Normal capacity magazines are basically unobtainable. Ammo is GONE. The people have voted with their money, and they aren’t voting FOR gun control.
So how does that square with the NC Democrat Party supporting gun control? Call Senator Hagan and ask her if she is marching with the anti-gun NC Democrat Party. Ask her how we can trust her not to turn against us immediately after her re-election? Ask her to publicly denounce all of the gun control proposals her party is proposing, and denounce it now. You can contact her office by phone (on Tuesday) at 202-224-6342. Email her here.
Now watch the original video as posted by Congressman John Barrow (D-GA)
Note the two words missing
to help stop a lynching.
We always knew that CSGV was pro-lynching. We just never knew that they were willing to be up front about it. We’ve got news for you Gun Grabbers. You don’t have a monopoly on news distribution any more. We can and will spread the truth about your lies.
He makes believe that if we just liberated ourselves from the Constitution, we could get the work done. If we had no standards, no limits on the Government, no actual governmental structure, we would be able to get things done. Why is it that tyrants everywhere seem to conflate “the good of the people” with “government getting things done?”
That’s not a claim, Mr. Seidman. That’s a personal guarantee. Your unswerving loyalty to the Constitution does not protect me. It protects you. Because as long as you are sticking to the rules that we’ve agreed upon, I have to stick to those rules as well. The moment you decide to ditch the Constitution and start making up the rules as you go along, the rest of us will feel free to make up a few rules of our own. I can assure you that you won’t like them.
When might makes right, as surely it will when we have no Constitution to describe the limits of our government, I will take great pains to be among the mighty. Best for all concerned that we keep muddling along under the Constitution, alert for would be tyrants on either side who wish to exceed that document’s authority. It’s much safer that way.
People have First Amendment rights. They can pretty much say whatever they like about whatever they want. I’m cool with that. In fact, I’m pretty proud of that. But let’s ignore the Constitutional argument and just look at the practical argument.
As far as I’m concerned, we need to keep him right where he is, reminding American firearm owners with his outrageous disarmament advocacy just exactly why we had a Lexington and Concord in 1775.
Truth.
Of course he has the right to be a complete and total douche bag. Even complete and total douche bags have Constitutional rights. But beyond that, by being exactly who he is, Piers Morgan is providing us a service. He’s reminding us of why our forefathers shot the Kings men and sent his officers home.
Most anti-gun people are sophisticated enough to avoid outright calls for citizen disarmament. They know that calls for gun bans cause the rest of us to get mad and fight. Piers Morgan, not being from around here, says openly what the gun grabbers are thinking. He screams and shouts from his well defended ivory tower, compounding stupidity with sneering condescension. He has turned himself into the perfect representation of everything that regular Americans hate while at the same time dragging the gun grabbers out from under the rocks into the light.
Regular Americans get pissed off when someone claims to be their moral superior. Regular Americans get a bit upset when obvious foreigners lecture us about how much better it is overseas. Piers Morgan has managed to hit all the buttons at once. Probably because he’s so busy being culturally superior that he hasn’t even bothered to learn anything at all about American culture. He probably doesn’t even think we have a culture.
So yes, let’s ignore the fact that Piers Morgan has a Constitutional right to be a complete and total douche bag. From a practical standpoint he is the gun grabbers worst enemy. We should let him stay just for that reason.
I will never understand how he was able to keep his cool. I think I would have spent the whole show screaming at the women for being unthinking, irrational idiots.
Maybe David French is right. We inhabit parallel universes. They think gun control is cost free, we think it’s benefit free. Once again we’re wrong because the Left can’t understand us and doesn’t want to. Once again we’re to shut up and do what we’re told.
Listen to the whole thing. Watch how a news report is turned into a complete propaganda package. Lies, deceptive statements, ominous music.
According to the InfoBabe, we’re hiding behind “that Constitutional Right to bear arms.” I wonder how she would react to being confronted with information that doesn’t conform to her prejudices? Someone should tell Today presenter Georgie Gardner that if she’s going to interview the author of the failed Starbucks Boycott as some sort of expert, she might as well start interviewing third tier regional gun bloggers like me as balance.
But hey, Elliot Fineman finally found someone ignorant enough to put him on TV in the mistaken impression that he was a player in the gun debate. Today Australia, tomorrow Taiwan?
UPDATE: For extra added fun, you can reach The Today Show (Australia) on Twitter HERE. You can also tell Georgie Gardner exactly what you think of her hatchet job HERE. Feel free to forward this link. Like I said, if they are willing to interview a complete non-entity like Elliot Fineman, they should be willing to interview me.
“And you have by far the worst rate of gun murder and gun crime of any of the civilized countries in this world.”
It’s both disingenuous AND racist. Let’s look at the Wiki page “List of Countries by Intentional Homicide Rate.” Taking that data, organizing it and turning it into a bar graph we get this.
See that little red circle? That’s “murderous” USA compared to everyone else. We barely beat out Turkmenistan for 108th place.
That graph is hard to see, so here’s all the graphs.
Countries with homicide rates 20 or above per 100K
Countries with homicide rates 10 to <20 per 100K
Countries with homicide rates 5 to <10 per 100K
Countries with homicide rates 2 to <5 per 100K
Countries with homicide rates 1 to <2 per 100K
Countries with homicide rates <1 per 100K
I’ve helpfully colored in the USA at 4.2 murders per 100K. You should also bear in mind that our rate of 4.2 is not just murder, but murder and non-negligent homicide. It’s an entirely different discussion when we start comparing how different countries report their data. (TL/DR version: Japan lies as a matter of police procedure)
Piers Morgan is being disingenuous when he points solely to “gun murder” and “gun crime.” We as Americans don’t care if a murder is committed with a gun or a knife, or with “personal weapons.” Dead is dead. I’ll be happy to accept 4.2 per 100K rather than worse in 107 other countries.
Piers Morgan is also a racist when he says that any country with worse murder rates is not civilized. Like Miguel says, perhaps Piers longs for the days of British Imperialism, where Englishmen went abroad to force other “uncivilized” nations to be more like (Formerly Great) Britain.
Let’s take Piers Morgan EXACTLY at his word. He only wants to talk about GUN murder. Here’s a graph of the Wiki data from “List of Countries by Firearm Death Rates.” I’ve organized it by firearm homicide rate, highest to lowest.
For those of you who can’t read tiny print, let me make a list of all the “Uncivilized” countries that Piers Morgan dismisses.
El Salvador
Jamaica
Honduras
Guatemala
Swaziland
Colombia
Brazil
Panama
Mexico
Philippines
Paraguay
Nicaragua
Zimbabwe
Costa Rica
Uruguay
Argentina
Barbados
United States
Hell, some of those places are so civilized that rich white folks go there on vacation.
Near as I can tell, the majority of these countries they are modern representative democracies.There are a few hell holes on the list, but taken as a whole, the only difference between most of these countries and the USA is the fact that the USA is majority white. So when he says we have the worst “Gun Murder” and worst “Gun Crime” rates of any “Civilized” nation, what he’s really saying is that we’re the worst in that category for “white” nations. He sees civilization strictly in terms of race. If that’s not racist, I don’t know what is.
I dare Piers Morgan to go to each of these countries embassies and tell them that he thinks that they are “uncivilized.” If he’d film it, his network would be able to make Super Bowl level advertising rates on his program. Everyone would tune in to watch an annoying racist prick get his ass kicked.
This post will be in two parts. First the straight news.
Grass Roots North Carolina President Paul Valone did an interview with WTVD-11 Raleigh presenting the idea that teachers should be allowed to carry concealed in classrooms. Strangely it’s not the usual hatchet job.
You know my opinion. When the next (and there WILL be a next) mass murderer shows up at a school, I want him to catch a bullet. I don’t particularly care if he catches a bullet from a uniformed police officer, a concealed carrying teacher, or some gang banger who happens to be at the right place at the right time. I want him to eat lead.
Now to the second part. (Rant alert, Language Warnings in effect)
Who the fuck does Rosa Gill think she is talking to? Does she think we are all stupid? How the hell could an armed teacher “add to the chaos” of a school shooting? Let’s look at this logically. We have two options.
Option One, the Rosa Gill option: The mass murdering asshole shows up with a gun and proceeds to mow down children and adults until he runs out of ammo, runs out of targets, or runs out of patience. Total body count limited only by his imagination and his endurance. When the cops show up or he just gets tired of killing he shoots himself. Afterwards the mass media spends weeks telling everyone every single detail of his life turning him into a sick famous anti-hero.
Option Two, the Sane option: Every person who even thinks about mowing down school children has to worry that he might get shot dead before he really gets started. Instead of being free to slaughter with impunity, he has to worry that as soon as he gets started he might get shot. He has to worry that he will die and the only mention he will get is a footnote in the story while the teacher, principal, guidance counselor, or janitor spends a week being a national hero.
Let’s be fucking real here. My gun is a .45ACP Springfield XD. I carry it with 10+1 with a spare 13 round magazine. For those whose math skills are as bad as Rosa Gill’s logic skills, that adds up to 24 rounds. If I was to haul out my pistol and fire every single round and every single round hit and killed a person I still couldn’t kill as many people as that disgusting creature killed in Newton. It is not humanly possible for me to have increased the chaos.
Let’s look at what’s really going on here.
Now, there’s this about cynicism, Sergeant. It’s the universe’s most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you’re not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace
Miles Vorkosigan, Borders of Infinity, by Lois McMaster Bujold
This is why the Left hates guns with a screaming passion. If you and I can use a gun to make the world a safer place, then so can they. Yet people like Rosa Gill are too scared to take any responsibility for their own safety or for the safety of the children in their class. Rather than confront their own cynicism and cowardice they loudly proclaim that YOU are the problem. They demand that we accept that NOTHING can be done to cover up for the fact that they know in their hearts that THEY are too scared to lift a finger to defend their children.
We know what the Principal of Sandy Hook Elementary did. We know that she paid with her life for our calculated decision to ban her and people like her from carrying a gun. She probably never even thought of it before that fateful day. She might have even been violently against guns. But I want you to imagine that you had the ability to stop time 2 seconds after she realized what was going on in her school. If you had the ability to stop time, offer her a gun, and tell her how to use it against the killer, do you honestly think she would have turned you down? Can you imagine her saying “nope, no guns. I’d prefer that the children died and I die with them?”
Fuck no.
UPDATE: Grass Roots North Carolina need financial assistance to keep the fight going for gun rights in North Carolina. If you’d like to help out, here’s the donations and membership link. Tell them you liked Paul’s message.
