Wheeler admitted to fatally shooting 28-year-old Charles Roberson on May 3, 2009, in the parking lot of her Verdant Drive apartment complex in southwest Atlanta, the news release said.
However, she said she believed that she had the right to do so under the “stand your ground” law.
Wheeler said she thought her brother was in danger when she heard an argument outside. She left her apartment with a gun and opened fire, grazing a nearby woman before arguing with the man who was arguing with her brother earlier, prosecutors said. As the argument escalated, Wheeler shot Roberson in the head. She said she believed Roberson had a weapon and she was in danger and had “no duty to retreat,” authorities said.
Witnesses testified that Wheeler was the aggressor.

via Atlanta woman using ‘stand your ground’ defense found guilty… | www.ajc.com.

Damn  it… there goes the Narrative.

So I get a radio call from Super-Visor to return to the office most ricky-tick or fast of whatever slang he is using this week.  When I get there, see this older guy siting askew in a chair. Super-Visor announces all seriously that the gentleman was attacked and robbed in our parking lot and that he barely made it to the office requesting that paramedic be called (only paramedics? Ding!)

I interview the gent and he explains that he was walking on his way home cutting though our parking lot when he got attacked from behind. he fall flat on his face, kept getting pounded and felt how somebody ripped his wallet off. When he came to, he saw 2 Bravo Males walking away: one with jeans and a red shirt and the other with black pants, black shirt that had “I heart NY” on the chest area (Ding!)

“Sir, which way did they go?” I ask. “I don’t know. I didn’t see them” (Ding-ding-ding!)

Police & paramedics arrive and they start doing what they do while I give the guy a deeper examination. I have to say that we must give a bonus to our grounds-keeping people because we have the cleanest parking lot in South Florida because the brand new shirt the victim was immaculate and without a single speck of the usual dirt and debris….so by know it is not longer Ding! but Quasimodo doing Carol of The Bells at Notre Dame.  I pull Super-Visor to the side and inform him that the guy is full of bovine excreta and probably some junkie wanting a free fix from the paramedic. Super gets all huffy and puffy saying I shouldn’t be so judgmental and cynic.  Of course, not five minutes later, paramedics tell us the guy shows no signs of attack and he is probably faking it up to get a shot of morphine,  courtesy of the county.

They loaded Mr. “I’ve Been Attacked and I don’t know where they went” in the “boolance” (Yes, I read them blogs too, Where do you think I got the Sumdood?) and left our place.

Knowing that I had my first Sumdood (2) made me feel warm/fuzzy even if it was not that sexy. Now where do I get my patch?

Hat Tip to @BigFatDave

I know Moms are trying to do the Superman thing here, but unfortunately on a woman it is  associated with dark smoky rooms, pole dances and dollar bills on a garter.

My case in particular, the song “You can leave your hat on” by Joe Cocker sprang immediately to mind.

More rehashing of old gun control scare memes:

You have to admit they are crafty in their misdirection.  They cite the DOJ study and although they don’t show you the study, let’s say it is truthful for argument’s sake.

What is the argument from Everytown? That people legally carrying guns in bars will inevitably lead to Wild West shootouts. But that is not what the study says, just that 40% of convicted homicides were drunk. Now you can be drunk in your house and murder somebody, or at church (them communion wine), at a state fair, in your front porch, boating, etc. And also it does not say that they were killed with firearms, it says homicides in general but all of the above is conveniently ignored by Everytown.

And the #1 reason they mention the DOJ study? I am guessing they could not find an event where a citizen legally carrying a concealed or open weapon in a bar, got drunk and starting to shoot out the place.  Or if they did, (I don’t recall any off-hand) it was such an off beat occurrence it would make them a bigger laughing-stock.

“Well” says Ms. Gunsense “At least it is only a minority of redneck states that allow guns and alcohol.”

Storm in a teacup.  And we are the ones allegedly peddling fear.

“The gun rights lobby has to wake up and realize we need to lead, not follow,” the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation and the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms told Guns.com in an interview at the at the NRA’s 143rd Annual Meetings and Exhibits in downtown Indianapolis last weekend.

Gottlieb’s desire to strike a deal on an enhanced background check measure that would cover private sales made over the Internet and at gun shows is based on the premise that fighting UBCs is a losing battle over the long run.

via Gottlieb: Gun rights lobby needs to lead, not follow on background checks (VIDEO).

We had a nice discussion about this in Facebook yesterday.  Although he might be somewhat right, the timing and the wording could not be any worse.  The issue is that for many of us, the mentioning of the words Background Checks is immediately associated with the infamous Manchin-Toomey-Schummer Universal background bill that was Rosemary’s Baby trying to be passed as the Gerber Baby.  And it does not help either that Mr. Gottlieb was also involved temporarily in that spawn and his reputation was tarnished by it.

The comment also feels defeatist. Yes, Bloomberg has many millions and a great PR company, but he just simply does not have the numbers as in people backing his side. And yes he has the Media but unless they hire the best hackers to create millions of Facebook and Twitter personas, they are only so many who can come up and take over Social Media.  It is not gonna be an easy fight, but I know we will win it. Just look at the different legislatures, how many Anti Gun bills were presented and how very few passed compare with pro-gun bills that did pass. 

 Mr. Gottlieb should have waited till he had a firm proposition to present to all of us and not some generic platitude. We have a good base in what was the Coburn Amendment which is a good first step.

I may touch ion this later.

Collegiate Hissy Fit.

The young fella shouldn’t have been pushed away like that. Instead he should have been placed on his tummy, had his butt spanked and sent to his room without supper.