From Moms Demand via Twitter:

If you have been in the Gun Rights fight for any length of time, you know that Medical malpractice is a serious malady in our country. Shannon und her Band Of Brown Brassieres are losing it via an article by Media Matters regarding malpractice figures given in an episode of NRA News:

NRA News host Cam Edwards furthered the NRA’s attack, claiming that the “Institutes [sic] of Medicine” had issued a study finding that there are as many as 440,000 deaths per year due to preventable medical errors and commenting, “[m]aybe there’s an issue for the Surgeon General to take up instead of your gun ownership and my gun ownership, because it sure that appears doctors are a lot more dangerous than gun owners are in this country.”

In fact, the study Edwards cited was actually authored by a medical error-focused non-profit organization that asserts “we are patients looking after each other in a health care system that could easily kill us.” According to the Institute of Medicine’s “widely accepted” finding, 98,000 people a year die due to hospital errors.

So the number of 440,000 deaths per year is an exaggeration (and I think it is indeed) so the acceptable number 98,000 according to Media Matters and, of course Moms Demand Action.

Now, if we go to the Moms Demand website and check one of their many press releases we find:
So them evil guns are responsible for 30,000 deaths (They include suicides) and that is bad, but medical malpractice kills 98,000 people and that is good?

They are either really bad at math or really stupid or mentally disturbed individuals.

I vote all of the above.

PS: In case that Media Matters decides to memory Hole the article, here is a screen cap.

“Society does not win when the Government stoops to the same level as the defendants it seeks to prosecute — especially when the Government has acted solely to achieve a conviction for a made-up crime,” Wright wrote. He said the stings have done little to deter crime and instead are “ensnaring chronically unemployed individuals from poverty-ridden areas.”

via Federal judge blasts ATF stings.

And What the Flock is the Bureau of ALCOHOL, TOBACCO and FIREARMS doing drug operations for? Isn’t that the real of the DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION?

The new amended version of the bill is out and I think the next step is voting on it.  But don’t take my word for it as I am not close to an amateur of this stuff. The vote was YEAS 93, NAYS 24 on Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:35 PM. Next week goes to the senate for voting.

So far and reading with Non-Lawyer eyes: Twice in the bill the words “stand his or her ground ” appear.  Three times the wording “place where he or she has a right to be”. So pretty much there is no change to SYG that I can see. I did read a clarification

A person who uses or  threatens to use deadly force in accordance with this subsection does not have a duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground if the person using or threatening to use the deadly force is not engaged in a criminal activity and is in a place where he or she has a right to be.

I think it better defines the law and gets rid of a grey area that a prosecutor may have used to screw with people such as “Well, he was double parked and that is breaking the law” or some stupid crap like that.

Then “using or threatening to use” is mentioned 11 time in several combinations of defensive, deadly and non-deadly  force. I am guessing the legislators are making clear that threatening somebody with the ability/opportunity/jeopardy to do bad things to you in no longer a crime just because you said so and feel like screwing the life of somebody who refused to be a victim.

Also intact appears to be immunity from Criminal or Civil Action by the person, personal representative, or heirs of the person against whom the force was used or threatened.  The whole thing is new so it seems it is more protection for the Citizen.

Then we have:

A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures  for investigating the use or threatened use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the  person for using or threatening to use force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used or threatened was unlawful.

This was not prohibited before as far as I recall, but I guess the LEOs and DAs needed it in writing.

The wording “imminent commission of a forcible felony” also remain associated with use or threat of use of Deadly Force:
776.08 Forcible felony.—“Forcible felony” means treason; murder; manslaughter; sexual battery; carjacking; home-invasion robbery; robbery; burglary; arson; kidnapping; aggravated assault; aggravated battery; aggravated stalking; aircraft piracy; unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or bomb; and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual.

There is more stuff, but you have the link and you can go ahead and examine it. Again I am reading through no-lawyers eyes, but I really don’t see anything bad in the bill….. so we are paging Andrew Branca to tell me where I am wrong 🙂

 

NORRIDGEWOCK — Michael Smith went outside shirtless after being awakened Tuesday morning, yelling at a tree removal company to get off his property.

The tattoo of a pistol on his stomach was mistaken for a real firearm by employees of Lucas Tree Experts after, according to Smith, workers woke him up while they were cutting wood for Central Maine Power Co. The workers called police.
Tree workers called police earlier after they mistook a pistol tattoo on Smith’s stomach for a real firearm.

The workers thought they saw a gun in his waistband and called police.

Smith, who’d gone back to bed, was awakened again minutes later — this time by Maine State Police at his front door, backed up by a group of troopers with assault rifles in his driveway. They were asking him via a megaphone to come out of his house.

Smith did have a gun. It was tattooed on his stomach.

via Norridgewock man with gun tattoo wakes up to armed police | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME.

So it is not the nicest of tattoos, but I have seen worse.  But what caught my attention is that the Tree Cutting crews by law have the right to enter anybody’s property without the courtesy of a simple knock at the door to notify the home owner:

Smith, who works nights, said he was still asleep and was surprised to see a crew of workers from Lucas Tree Experts preparing to saw a number of trees around some power lines on his property…..Rice said that, in general, if a customer is unhappy with the work being done, tree crews are supposed to stop work, leave the area and call CMP. State law says that because such work is necessary to ensure the quality of electric service, the company is not required to give notice to customers.

Nice. [/sarcasm]

El gobernador del estado Aragua, Tareck El Aissami, anunció la captura de un ciudadano de origen chino (nacionalizado) en el urbanismo Calicanto, Maracay. “Vean lo que le encontramos en su casa”, dijo, mientras mostraban videos con una serie de fusiles, presuntamente encontrados en la casa del ciudadano y que el gobernador precisó “se tratan de armas para practicar airsoft”.

(The governor of Aragua state, Tarek El Aissami, announced the arrest of a citizen of Chinese origin (nationalized) in the Calicanto neighborhood, Maracay. “Look what I found at home,” he said, while showing a series of videos with guns allegedly found at the home of the citizen and the governor said “they are  airsoft weapons to practice.”

via Armas incautadas a ciudadano de origen chino – Protestas en Venezuela.

When all was said and done, they only found a real shotgun and a real pistol.  And the guy is going to prison for what is in the next pic:

It is now illegal in Venezuela to own more than 50 rounds of ammunition per year.  The guy’s “ganso” is cooked.

I had already covered the idiocy of nominating Dr. Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General, but since today appears to be the day the Senate gets on the nomination thing, Shannon and Assorted wives of MAIG are raising hell.

Nothing new here, but what caught my attention is one of the nuttier than usual comments in their Facebook page:

Dawn Herman Our doctors should have the right to know there are guns in are homes, just like they can ask about mental issues in the family.

Wait what? I must have missed that one in the Bill Of Rights.  The depth of idiocy running through the veins of these Moms is plain scary.  Just because they dress in a pretty white lab coat and have a Dr. prefixing their names does not give them the right to squat regarding my household or my family. And specially not a group that kill more people every year in the US than wars and just because they can’t seem to remember to wash their hands.

Florida continues to back its “Stand Your Ground” law according to a poll from the University of North Florida (UNF) released on Monday.

The poll finds more than 60 percent of those surveyed support “Stand Your Ground” with 41 percent saying they strongly support it and 21 percent somewhat support it. Less than a quarter–22 percent–strongly oppose the law while 7 percent somewhat oppose it.

The poll of 507 registered voters in Florida was taken from March 6-March 16 and had a margin of error of +/- 4.35 percent.

via New poll shows Florida backs ‘Stand Your Ground’ law | Sunshine State News.

You think that with the volume of propaganda and political pressure brought to bear on the whole state, SYG would be as hated as stale guava pastries or long lines at DisneyWorld. Even in the state that some enjoy calling Floriduh! we understand that the idea of giving an attacker first dibs to our blood supply is a very stupid concept.