Month: October 2012

Man stabs pit bull in self defense.

The dog bit the worker in the groin and in the arm before that worker was able to fight back with a pocket knife

via Cops: Man stabs pit bull in self defense | News – Home.

Not long ago I covered dog attacks and what to expect. The video does not show the attack, but you can see enough blood to understand that it was not a love tickle.

 

Ballseye’s Boomers: A 2 Shot Pistol For Self Defense – I Think Not!

First of all, think about why you want a 2 shot pistol. My guess would be that you want it as a last ditch back-up gun or as a very concealable self-defense piece. In each of those cases, self-defense is the issue. If you want one because it looks cool, or because it looks like fun, or because it is something different – that would be another issue and maybe this post will bore you to tears. If you want it for self-defense read on.

via Ballseye’s Boomers: A 2 Shot Pistol For Self Defense – I Think Not!.

A very well thought out article. You could do worse reading other Ninja Stuff. To use a Stephen Hunter reference, a 2 shot would be a “Jesus gun.”  You can imagine why.

NYT Editorial shows the smarts of its readers.

The usual suspects are doing cartwheels about the New York Times Editorial: The Issue That Goes Ignored.

What is an amazing eye opener is the comment section. Some people are so blinded that they are willing to throw away all freedoms for this issue. The following are excerpts of some the comments in that article. Underlines are mine.

  • If you know anyone who is an outspoken advocate of the Second Amendment, you know the problem of trying to deal with these people with any reason and logic. You can’t. The whole country is being held hostage by the NRA.
  • Fewer guns=fewer dead people. Why can’t you Americans understand that?
  • Guns make people so mentally ill that they have become an irreversible problem in the US.
  • Gun control is an issue, like abortion, where the will of the large majority is successfully thwarted by powerful minorities driven by economic incentives.
  • The problem is not leaders who refuse to take a stand – the problem is an electorate that severely punishes them for doing so.
  • The problem starts with the 2nd Amendment, the NRA, and the way it is used. The 2nd amendment must be replaced with a modern amendment recognizing 21st century firearms and the NRA eliminated as a lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers.
  • Right – nobody has the spine to throw off the powerful and powerfully idiotic NRA, and that is a huge and damaging problem for everybody.
  • Sensible gun laws will elude us as long as the two sides remain separated and misinformed. Perhaps someone (Obama or Bloomberg?) will convene people from the two sides, people of good will and civility.
  • Mormons are so overjoyed at having one of our own running for national office that they will vote for Mitt, even if he comes out unequivocally against rapid-fire, cop-killing assault weapons!
    It could be an effective strategy for winning over some of the undecided.
  • The second amendment is a stain on the Bill of Rights. I ask the Commander in Chief to work to repeal the second amendment for national security!
  • Start by repealing the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. Then the conversation can start in earnest. Until we eliminate this (erroneous) idea that private citizens have some divinely-ordained right to possess firearms, we’ll continue to be lancing at windmills.
  • Let’s at least change the name of the 2nd Amendment to the Right to Annually Shoot and Kill 30,000 Americans Amendment, since that’s what is actually is.
    I knew all our gun-toting, scaredy-cat friends were worried about losing their hunting pastime, but it never occurred to me that they were talking about hunting humans.
    The United States of Guns, a shining, bullet-ridden city on a hill.

 

 

CSGV: But she did what you recommended!

Sad case in Casselberry, Fl where a Domestic case went full stupid & deadly.

Since it happened, the Cult to Stop Gun Rights Violence has been beating the ZOMGGUNS drum. If you read the article, the estranged girlfriend followed all the recommended steps validated by CSGV: She left the abusive idiot, moved away & got a restraining order. This is enough to be safe according to the “experts” but time and again we keep finding the bloody demonstrations that it is not.

A gun may have not prevented the situation, but at least she would have had the chance to do something. But if she had actually defended herself, the CSGV would have nothing to cry about and request more blood money from its followers.

Victimhood is not sexy.

 

Knife to a gun fight? We know the answer.

Detectives say the dog was startled and knocked over a sign blocking the sidewalk, and then Gallik got angry, yelling profanities, charging Cockerham and pulling out a knife. According to detectives, Cockerham took a step backward to create a distance between the two.

However, Gallik attacked him and threatened to cut his throat, detectives say. When Gallik charged him, detectives say Cockerham opened fire with a .38 caliber revolver that was in his pocket. Detectives say Gallik was shot once and died at the scene.

via Neighbors’ altercation ends with one shot and killed.

Some people are slaves of their temper or their ego. Either one can and will kill you.