I do need to start buying tickets for the Lotto and the PowerBall.

I SO WANT!

We have two cases

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Was William Brown an Open-Carry Casualty?

“He shot at the other guy first. Apparently he missed, then the other guy returned fire striking him about 12 times. It’s not for me to judge the amount of rounds that were fired. I don’t know if the amount of times he fired his weapon is of any circumstance at this point,” Vance told WLBT-TV’s Cheryl Lasseter.

via Was William Brown an Open-Carry Casualty? | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS.

Sounds more like he was the victim of self-inflicted idiocy and lack of accuracy. But that obvious fact sort of interferes with the intention of the writer to come down on Open Carry which has to be the true evil.

And then we have:

ROME, Maine (WGME) — State Police say 44-year-old Christopher Dennison is an intruder but we caught up with Dennison’s family at his home in Livermore Falls and they say he’s no criminal, just a dad trying to help his family make ends meet.

“He didn’t deserve to die,” said his wife Cherie Thibault. “I know he shouldn’t have did what he did, but he did it for us.”

Thibault and her son Jesse tell CBS 13 News they knew what Dennison was doing in Rome Saturday night.

“This guy approached him on going to scare, possibly beat, up, not kill somebody, and he would pay him, and pay him quite a bit of money,” she explained…

….Police say Dennison, wearing a black ski mask and armed with brass knuckles, burst through the front door at about 8 p.m. Saturday and that’s when the homeowner, Richard Duffy, fought back.

“The homeowner was armed, fired shots, and Dennison died of multiple gunshot wounds,” McCausland said.

via WGME 13 – News – Intruder shot to death in Maine home invasion. (H/T to Guns Save Lives)

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In an economy as bad as we are having, we should understand and support when some low life decides to actually get up and do a job. And we should not be all uppity and criticize it just because it is illegal and can cause grave bodily damage or even death to the intended target…… I think I am about to have a stroke or at least a nasty migraine.

And the worst part is that they are not coming up with a lame excuse or trying to appear stupid: They firmly believe in what they are saying. We are now collecting on decades of lack of personal responsibility and not applying the proper correctives but giving everybody “another chance” so the concept of consequences is diminished to almost nothing…till the consequences become extreme as in dying for being stupid.

HOPKINTON, NH (CBS) – Two men who allegedly broke into a Hopkinton, New Hampshire business on Tuesday morning were killed in a massive explosion, officials said.

The State Fire Marshal says that the men, identified as Lucas Bourke, 21, of Allenstown and Ethan Keeler, 21, of Epsom, were using an oxy-acetylene blow torch to try and cut into a large safe inside a workshop at New Yard Landscaping on Farrington Corner Road.

That safe contained a large amount of commercial-grade fireworks, which exploded.

via Two Suspected Burglars Killed When Blow Torch Ignites Fireworks In Safe « CBS Boston.

Sorry, I know it is not very Christian of me, but I can’t help but laugh.

Darwin, you merciless bastard. 🙂

Even a cursory reading of the law reveals that the Stand Your Ground statute has nothing whatever to do with the Self-Defense Immunity statute, other than having been adopted by the same session of the Florida legislature.

Indeed, the legislators have simply cloaked their desire to re-impose criminal and civil liability on law-abiding people, who act in genuine self-defense, under the guise of “fighting” Stand Your Ground. In doing so, these feckless legislators merely reveal the duplicitous nature of their actions.

via Florida | Stand Your Ground | Senate Panel | Trial Lawyers.

Andrew Branca does a much better job of explaining this latest load of crap. Next the Florida legislature will pass a law demanding rape victims to pay for free condoms for Sexual Predators.

Got a glimpse of this yesterday. I did not pay much attention, but it kept bothering me. I remembered that Evie Hudak was a Colorado State Senator that dismissed rape victim Amanda Collins when she was giving testimony against the new Gun Control initiatives that eventually were forced down in that state.

Now, this is a double failure on the Moms as they have been pushing their BS since October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

First MDA Fail: Ms Hudak had this to say to Ms. Collins:

“I just want to say that, actually statistics are not on your side even if you had had a gun. You said that you were a marshal arts student, I mean person, experienced in tae kwan do, and yet because this individual was so large, he was able to overcome you, even with your skills[*]. And, chances are that if you would have had a gun, then he would have been able to get that from you and possibly use it against you….”

They are so compassionate it makes you puke, doesn’t it. And let’s keep the misogynistic concept that women are incapable of being responsible and able to defend themselves, shall we? My Body, My Choice except when it comes to Self Defense.

Second MDA Fail: The woman in the picture is not Evie Hudak.

This is Evie Hudak:

You may want to check her website if you don’t believe me.

Do notice that at the moment of this screen cap, over 1,300 people liked the post and 56 made comments. Not one of the comments pointed out that the photo was not of Ms. Hudak and actually this comment takes the win:
The fertilizer of Astroturf is Ignorance. Unfortunately, there is an overproduction of it.

They can call, but I call BS:

What can we do? Perhaps someday the Supreme Court will allow broader restrictions on gun ownership and use, but for now the court is stymied by the anachronistic worldview of the Second Amendment.

via The Strength to Care | America Magazine.

Hilarious idea, specially when it comes from an organization that is supposed to follow the teachings and mandates of that anachronistic book called The Bible. But America (magazine) is one of those “orders” from the Liberation Theology who had no problem with Che Guevara or Child Perverts or any of the many Liberal causes that have nothing to do with being a good catholic.

And By The Way: These are from the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding Self-Defense:

The legitimate defense of persons and societies is not an exception to the prohibition against the murder of the innocent that constitutes intentional killing. “The act of self-defense can have a double effect: the preservation of one’s own life; and the killing of the aggressor. . . . The one is intended, the other is not.

Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to insist on respect for one’s own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow:

If a man in self-defense uses more than necessary violence, it will be unlawful: whereas if he repels force with moderation, his defense will be lawful. . . . Nor is it necessary for salvation that a man omit the act of moderate self-defense to avoid killing the other man, since one is bound to take more care of one’s own life than of another’s.

Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others. The defense of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.

Now that we have that out-of-the-way, can these people get back to call the bingo game?

UPDATE: David of Musings Over A Pint had already covered this subject from an earlier fumble from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

There are about a million types of people in Miami: billionaires and day laborers, porn stars and conservative Jews, and just about every nationality on the planet. But when you really think about it, there are just two kinds of people in this town: The ones who are from Miami, and the ones who aren’t.

Plenty of people move to South Florida to start a new life in the sun and on the sand. But until you’ve lived here a while, learned a few things, and passed a few tests, most locals won’t accept you as a “real” Miamian.

Wondering what you’re missing? Here are ten telltale signs you’re not from Miami.

via Ten Signs You’re Not From Miami.

So frigging true…. #9, #8 & #4 are the ones I use the most to detect those damn foreigners…mostly people from Broward and Palm Beach Counties.