The fatal crash of a Blue Angels jet during a practice run in Tennessee prompted a San Francisco supervisor to say Friday that the Navy’s aerial stunt team should be barred from flying over the city when it performs here during Fleet Week in October.
Supervisor John Avalos said he plans to introduce a nonbinding resolution by August that would demand that the team of six F/A-18 fighter jets fly only over the bay during its practices and air shows.“It’s about them crashing and hitting a building — a place where people live,” Avalos said. “It’s about the terror that they cause in people when they strafe neighborhoods. That’s something I hear about all the time when Blue Angels fly overhead.”
attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft.
“military aircraft strafed the village”
I have been at more than a couple of Blue Angel shows and I do not recall any strafing. I asked around and people who have also attended do not remember any bombs dropping or cannon fire destroying ground targets.
We all agreed that it may make the show even more popular and probably it should start strafing idiots in the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Staten Island in New York is going forward to spend $2 Million on vasectomies for deer to try and reign in their out of control population.
Anybody want to guess just how well a catch, snip, and release program will be? I’m pretty sure the correct answer will be “not at all.”
And they are going to spend $2 Million to do it.
“Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials have agreed that this is the fastest and most humane way to limit further growth of the Island’s potentially dangerous white-tailed population. ”
Well, it’s also the dumbest.
I have an idea for you. Most NYC parks are open 6:00 am to 1:00 am. How about auctioning off deer tags, good for use in Staten Island parks from 3:00 – 5:00 am, bow hunting only. You can even limit the bow draw weight to 50 lbs or so to limit the effective range of the arrows to about 50 yards. I bet NYC could easily take in $2 Million in tag fees on this. The meat could even be donated to local homeless shelters.
But I have a feeling that would just be too effective. Better to waste money on a worthless program in de Blasio’s city.
I can see this happening. Gore is still pissed he did not win back in 2K . He promises Hillary she will be pardoned if she quits and he becomes President by hook and most definitely by crook.
There are nearly twice as many guns in the average gun-owning household today as there were 20 years ago, according to new Wonkblog estimates based data from surveys and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In 2013, there were an estimated 8.1 firearms in the typical gun-owning household, according to these data. In 1994, the average gun-owning household owned 4.2 guns.
These numbers comport with what survey research has shown for several years now: the share of gun-owning households has been declining over the past 20 years and possibly more, according to numbers from Gallup and the General Social Survey. On the other hand, domestic firearm production and imports of firearms have risen sharply, particularly in recent years. If those numbers are correct, it follows that increasing gun purchases are being driven primarily by existing owners stocking up rather than first-time buyers.
I just love the way they try so hard to make it look like Gun Owners are an unimportant minority trying to shove guns everywhere to anybody. Does anybody has ever responded to an ATF poll asking how many guns do you own? Hell, has anybody even heard of that ever happening?
And when we are asked, we don’t have guns anymore, they were all lost in a tragic (insert tragedy here) accident alongside all the ammo. So, event the author admits his calculations are basically a wild-ass guess.
But even Gallup’s numbers show a decline in gun ownership since the early 1990s, from 54 percent of households in late 1993 to 43 percent as of this fall. And regardless of whether overall ownership rates are flat or falling, one thing that’s largely been overlooked is how more guns and fewer gun owners means that firearms are being concentrated in fewer hands than ever before.
According to the Census Bureau, there are 133,957,180 households in the US and assigning one gun owner per household, at 43% it gives us a total of 57,601,587 gun owners or 17.9% of the population. African-Americans are 13%, Hispanics are 17.4 and LGBT-ETC do not reach 5%. So I guess those minorities are unimportant too.
I wonder if Presumed Candidate Hillary will have the balls (Bill’s obviously) to tell the NAACP that they represent an unimportant minority.
This is Bonnie Schaefer, she is the owner of Westglow Spa and Resort and former CEO of Claire’s Stores, Inc. She is a member of the DNC Platform Drafting Committee. This means that she is responsible for helping to write the official list of positions that the DNC will be taking.
In this video she is saying, quite outright, that she doesn’t believe that anybody should own a gun.
She can walk her statement back by saying it’s just her personal opinion, but does anybody really believe that she would not try to codify her opinion into the DNC platform?
This is a very high ranking member of the largest political party in the country, says that her personal opinion on a matter is 100% diametrically opposed to civil rights protected by the foundational document of this nation and affirmed by the Supreme Court in several recent decisions.
Just saw this video in a Facebook channel. Chilean police chased armed robberies and the Body Cam of one of the officers not only records the capture but his weapon malfunctioning over and over.
At first I thought the malfunction had something to do with the cop trying to use the gun (Beretta 92) to break the window of the car (0:06), but after I saw him rack the slide a couple of times and not seeing ammo come out, I went as much frame by frame as I could till I saw this (0:18).
That did not look right, so I went to the safe and pulled my old Beretta clone, the Taurus PT-92. I unloaded & cleared, then locked the slide back and inserted a loaded mag and then an unloaded mag:
The angle on my pics is shallower, but still you can see there is a small problem there. If I were of a suspicious attitude, I would be inclined to say that the officer was carrying an unloaded firearm.
