A jury that saw surveillance video of a homeless man stabbing a 16-year-old girl and several others who subdued him at a Pittsburgh Target store was expected to begin deliberating his fate on attempted homicide and other charges.

But the defense says the man, 44-year-old Leon Walls, is mentally ill, was hearing voices and isn’t legally responsible for the rampage on March 25, 2013.

Allegheny County prosecutors played the video at trial Wednesday.

The jury was expected to begin deliberating after hearing closing arguments Thursday morning.
Police say Walls grabbed the girl by the hair and dragged her away from her family before stabbing her in the chest and arm.

Walls then used her as a shield as others tried to stop him, cutting several of them in the process.

The girl has recovered.

And guess what? Target is suing Michael Turner, the man that stopped the knife attack and kidnapping.

Target says Turner and his friends caused ‘unreasonable risk of harm to others’ when they pursued and ultimately helped capture the attacker.

Really Target? Tone deaf much? Or maybe plain blind about the PR optics on this one. You just said to your customers “We at Target don’t give much of a damn about customer safety and we rather see you bleeding.”

I don’t care what the corporate lawyers said, you just don’t step on the stupid gas pedal even if you are “legally” right.

You made WalMart look nicer safer. Not a small achievement.

Alexis Nicole stopped by for a photo shoot today. Gremlin took an immediate liking to her. I can see why — she’s a very impressive and multi-talented young lady.

Source: My favorite photo of the day | VolkStudio Blog

And as bonus, Gun Grabbers’ head are exploding all over the place.

“Timmy, you stay here and watch the other kids climb up the stairs. If it starts to rain, park underneath with the blind girl.”

Maybe I am missing something, but that looks downright cruel. The mirror cannot help much either.

And stop laughing, you freaks!

After spending hours debating with this woman (Liberal Hippie Queen ‏@andreajmarkley) , I can tell you it is a dark and scary place filled with myths, contradictions and a contempt for other who do not toe the line.

This tweet called my attention:

Whatever conversation was in progress had already advanced past the initial post and I joined with a question. (Note: I will post select indicative parts as it was a long exchange, including some idiots chiming in)

Get it? We need more laws, but they can be enforced only when it suits them even if they don’t work and if you point out the fault, you are worrying about stupid shit. I guess she missed the whole  Equal Protection class.

This one is a beauty:

Smarter people than us Gun Owners, of course meaning her and her kind. She doesn’t even register the bigotry of her statement or her support for an intellectual caste system where they control the Untermensch with their benedictions from above.

This one is a beauty and following up on her last comment:

I admit my jaw not only dropped, but it started to dig an oil well. How deluded you have to be to say (write) that out loud? Wait, it gets better.

She links to a Media Matters article that propagated the Shannon Watts lie that the last NRA Annual Meeting was a Gun Free Zone. You gotta give it to Top Mom Demands, that lie of hers still has legs.

We ended up with the latest article of faith of the Gun Grabbers: Universal Background Checks.

And if you have been a reader of this blog for a time now, you know what’s coming next and her answer is….just read it:

Now get a load of that way of thinking, these are fellow that want us dead or in prison just because we own guns. But a dangerous felon who breaks the law and is nice enough to provide the evidence for his prosecution on his own handwriting on an ATF 4473 form is not a cause for concern for this “better” of us. Do you think I am kidding? Read the following:

And there you have it folks. You have a gun, even if you are law-abiding, even if you are in the military or Law Enforcement, you are worse than a felon.  This idiot actually believes that the criminal intent on getting a gun will somehow quit his life of crime because he did not pass a background check because he is a felon. But those of us who passed the background check when buying guns (and again when we got our carry permits) are the truly dangerous menaces to society and should be removed from it.

She firmly believes what she spouts. She might be in the fringe, but she is not alone and unfortunately sometimes that kind of mentality gets elected, twice.

Yes, ask me again when I am planning on relinquishing my weapons at the orders of  “Betters” like her.

There is more crap from her that I did not include. I may do another post later in the week with some of her “best of the rest” (and her fellow helpers) tweets.

To say that Protest Easy Guns is “way out there” is selling them short. They make CSGV Laddites look like Buddhist monks on Valium.

Since they are not giving explanations, can anybody tell me what do they mean by Gun Range Loophole?

Aspirin…I need aspirin.

And don’t forget: The bad guy got away.

Source: Guns on the bus: Still a bad idea – Chicago Tribune

A long editorial from the folks at the Chicago Tribune condemning the idea of allowing people with Concealed Permits to carry in public transportation. They cite the case of a grandmother in Detroit who used her gun against a critter that attacked her. She shot him several times, missed and the guy indeed ran away.

The Editors of the Tribune go through the usual primrose patch of “ZOMG! She could have killed someone! Bus Full Of Nuns and Orphans! Blood of the Innocent” as excuses not to allow good people be armed in buses (not a word about criminals already traveling with their guns) and somehow, to cap their long-winding discourse, they say that the lack of a dead body or a bleeding troll waiting for an ambulance proves concealed carry does not work.

Well, in their defense, they do make money when bodies fall to the ground. I am somewhat surprised that they don’t use red ink to print the “news.”

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) — A deadly shooting in Charleston is now believed to have been an act of self defense, according to police.It happened Saturday afternoon in the 800 block of 6th street on the city’s west side. Police say a man with a gun on him attacked a woman. They say after strangling her, she grabbed his gun and shot him once. The man died at the scene.

Source: UPDATE: Deadly Shooting in Charleston Believed to be Self Defense

Once again reality beats Bloomberg-Sponsored University “studies.”