David Carlson shot and killed a wanted rape suspect after heavily-armed teams of police chased the violent cirminal out of the woods near his home. Witness Carmine Ferrera saw the shooting, and said that what she witnessed wasn’t murder.

New York State, of course, doesn’t have a Stand Your Ground law, and so instead of giving Carlson a key to the city for his service to the community, he’s being charged with second degree murder.

via Hero kills fugitive rape suspect… but since it’s New York, he’s been charged with murder.

If you still have any doubts that the determination if retreat has been properly achieved will be left to you to decide, you may wanna check your thoughts again. Go to the article and make sure to click and read all the links.

Two things stand out:

Police searched the woods all day with heavily armed teams but didn’t find him.

and

The shotgun killing of the fugitive, though, is something that has to be prosecuted, according to Bernard Brady, a long-time veteran criminal lawyer in Orange County.
“New York is not a ‘stand your ground state.’ There is a duty to retreat, especially if you’re armed and the other person isn’t.

So, you have several teams of cops armed to the teeth chasing after a known violent criminal and in the process raising the level of concern in the neighborhood to near panic and that is OK. Homeowner radically stops the violent criminal and he is indicted with murder.

When some idiot argues about how good a law Duty to Retreat is, shove his ignorant face on this article. If you live in Florida, allow me to remind you that there is a bill at the State Senate level wanting to screw around with our SYG. Make sure the compromising RINOS in the legislature understand that we will not tolerate any changes and that what happened in Colorado should be a warning.

According to police, Reed was found by officers just after 1 a.m. on Sept. 27 walking down Forest Avenue near Woodfords Corner wearing a camouflaged bulletproof vest and carrying an assault rifle with a scope and laser site. He was carrying a total of four magazines for the assault rifle, containing 120 rounds of ammunition, and had a handgun strapped to his ankle, police say………After an investigation, he was subsequently charged with Class D threatening display of a weapon. When state police arrested Reed on that warrant in Lebanon on Friday, they allegedly discovered illegal narcotics in his possession and tacked on charges of Class D illegal possession of hypodermic apparatus and Class E possession of schedule Z drugs

via Heavily armed Portland man a public safety concern, not constitutionally protected, police say — Portland — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine.

Rule One for OC: Don’t be a dick. This is one of the reasons it takes forever to have a successful case to take to a court challenge.

So owning 7 firearms (4 pistols, 1 shotgun, and 2 rifles) is evidence of terrorist activity? The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI warn state and local law enforcement agencies to look out for people in possession of “large amounts” of weapons and ammunition, describing the discovery of “unusual amounts” of weapons as a potential indicator of criminal or terrorist activity. Is this just the Obama administration’s effort to make gun ownership difficult and costly?

via John Lott’s Website: Obama administration thinks owning 7 firearms is evidence of terrorist activity. Is this just the Obama administration’s effort to make gun ownership difficult and costly?.

This memo from DHS/FBI warns LEOs of the possibility of terrorist or criminal activity for seeing too many guns at once:

Let’s say that there is the good probability those people arrested were prohibited persons or had the guns where shouldn’t and leave it at that. But I will disagree with John Lott a bit on the conspiracy thing coming from the White House and I will say that is a question of Tribal Thinking gone exaggerated. We are talking here about a bunch of LEO bureaucrats that have never interacted with the shooting community. Let’s face it,, 4 pistols, two rifles and a shotgun for two people is nothing to write home about within our tribe.

True story: Some years ago I was attending a loose 3-gun match at a private range with at least another 20 shooters plus significant others. Somebody got injured (but not shot) and paramedics were requested as a precaution. The first on the scene was a local cop, barreling down the small parking lot and getting out of his car with grim determination. By this time, the person had already been initially treated, we told the officer so and I pretty much ignored him as we kept joking with out victim. After a few moments the cop left and a minute or so later, paramedics arrived and took the person away.

I went to where my wife was and I saw her with a Cheshire cat smile on her face. I asked what was that about and she told me that the cop had almost crapped his pants. Apparently once we told the cop everything was fine, he proceeded to look at the scene with more detail. The first thing he apparently noticed was that we all were carrying holstered sidearms and his eyes got big seeing so many people packing and then he saw of EBRs, shotguns, loaded magazines and boxes of shotshells. My wife said that the cop placed his hand on his gun (more a reassuring subconscious act than actual thought) and took a couple of steps back, looked again, turned around, got in his car and left.

It must have been a shock for that officer to find out that it was not his tribe (LEO) the baddest, coolest kids in the block with all the toys and I understand the initial reaction to be somewhat panicked even when there were not even the thoughts of hostility from us or even annoyance. Maybe by now he has figured out there are good guys and gals out there with lots of guns and ammunition so even if he does not belong to our particular tribe, he understands that we are not a hostile one.

The problem arises when you have a tribe of morons like in DC which are only taught that they are the top dogs and anybody else with some amount of firepower MUST be a potential enemy of the state, no thinking needed nor learning about everybody else’s tribe. Give them power, infuse with politics and now you have a recipe for potential conflicts that can get way out of hand or self-fulfilling in their own idiocy. All of the sudden three guys going to compete at a 3 Gun match are potential terrorists because they have more weapons and ammunition in the back of the truck than the local Fed Tac team has back at headquarters.

The war on ignorance continues…. We don’t get to rest.

Dear Leader has ordered:

And now that the government has reopened and this threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists, and the bloggers, and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict, and focus on what the majority of Americans sent us here to do, and that’s grow this economy, create good jobs, strengthen the middle class, educate our kids, lay the foundation for broad-based prosperity and get our fiscal house in order for the long haul. That’s why we’re here. That should be our focus.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/10/president_obama_wants_you_to_ignore_this_blog.html

So I made this little badge…. feel free to copy, manipulate, change and use in your blog or other social media that the President may not want the rest of America to access.

BEHOLD THE FUTURE OF GUN CONTROL! THE ARMATRIX iP1 SMART GUN!
(Insert celestial chorus of angels singing the praises of modern technology)

I really do not know where to begin with this thing. Wait, I do know: TEUTONIC FAIL!

The specs are as follows:

• .22 LR calibre, 10 round magazine
• electronic magazine disconnect
• different operating modes
• an operating distance of up to 15 inches
• integrated grip and drop safety
• color-coded operating mode, patented mechatronic
  interface for additional applications (e.g. camera)
• tested and approved by ATF

A ten plus one gun in .22LR will make it the favorite of Police departments everywhere and I am sure that even the Navy Seals already have them in use somewhere in the world….[snicker] OK guys, seriously, even with a Government mandate, this thing is not gonna sell as a defensive weapon which is your market.

The idea of a two-part smart/safe gun is not new. I remember reading about one gun for police work in an issue of Popular Mechanics back in the 70s and it consisted of a ring with a magnet that disconnected some lever inside the gun and made it ready to use. The iP1 system is via RFID activated by a watch

Smart System consists of an active RFID watch that is responsible for gun access and use. Microchips in the watch and in the gun communicate with each other. A smart system will only shoot if it is within the range of this watch. It is possible to release the safety mechanism via the active RFID watch activated by means of a PIN code. As soon as the gun loses radio contact with the watch – e.g. i fit is knocked out of the shooter’s hand or in case of loss, theft etc. – it automatically deactivates itself.

Hmmm, what could go wrong? So it deactivates itself once the distance between the gun and the watch surpasses 15 inches? So that means I either wear the damn watch on the wrist of my strong hand or forego strong-hand only shooting. But what if you get an injury and have to shoot weak handed? Oh sh**! Oh hell, I know! I can enter the PIN number and release the blocks! Yes, I can totally see myself doing that during a shooting.

Of course, if you happen to go down and your significant other or partner picks up your gun to defend herself, he better start dragging your corpse or else the gun will go in automatic shutdown. If he has a tomahawk, he can chop your wrist off and take the watch with him to safety.

And,of course the whole system is up and running 24/7, no need for human intervention in times when you really don’t have the time, right? Go check the video.

Use your imagination and figure out what else will go wrong with this thing. About the only good thing is that HK will no longer have to bear the shame of having the worst idea for a handgun, namely the P7.

I have a headache now…

Update: I went back to the Armatix site to read about the other security devices and found this very joyful tidbit of information that will surely makes us so safe and happy:

With stocks currently numbering 650 million, handguns definitely belong to the mass-produced product sector. There is no doubt that smart electronics will go on to conquer this sector. Legislators in many countries are working on binding provisions to pave the way for new technologies. Armatix’s mechatronic solutions for securing handguns, revolvers and rifles are already charting the course that the entire industry will follow in the years to come. The advantages in terms of safeguarding shooters and their environment are much too obvious to be disregarded on a wider front in the near future

Once equipped with chip-based intelligence, weapons and weapon systems can be networked with computers. In this way, it will be possible to log the use of arms and ammunition in detail, flexibly control this use, and evaluate it in multiple dimensions.

Although obviously a practical impossibility, the idea of remotely controlling the operation of existing personal firearms, the fact that a group of idiots developed the idea of such system that can be available and accessed by either the government or some criminal hacker does not make me warm and fuzzy.

Lets face it: If there is one place in the Commonwealth of Virginia where these “Gun Safety Advocates” could not be any safer from violence, this is the one. Have you noticed that they never protest in places where “Gun Violence” happens?
Eventually they will wise up and organize a quick demonstration somewhere peripheral to a high crime neighborhood….but only if protection by armed security or police is present and in force (and well outside the cameras) to show the world they are “butching” up.

In the meantime, the true causes of violence will go unmolested and people will continue to fall at the hands of criminals because we have idiots that go for the flash and not after the hard substance of taking the predators out of our streets.

But what can you expect from bored housewives? Have you sen the ratings of OWN? There is nothing good on TV and Book Clubs are so 20th Century.