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A FEMALE protester has been shot in the face on the opening day of the 2011 duck shooting season in western Victoria this morning.

Activist Julia Symons of Melburne suffered pellet injuries to her face, teeth and hand in a accidental shooting at Lake Buloke, 12km east of Donald in Victoria’s west.

Witnesses say Ms Symons, aged in her 20s, was waist-deep in water when she was shot by the hunter, believed to be aiming at a low-flying bird.

Ms Symons was conscious when she was carried from the water by fellow protesters of a duck rescue group.

They said she still had pellets lodged in her face, and one of her teeth had been shot out.

She was taken to Horsham Hosptial where she is in a stable condition.

via Duck protester shot in face | Herald Sun.

Sweet mother of Jesus… Stupid is indeed international. OK, you don’t like Duck Hunting and oppose it actively but, why would you go in and stand in front of a bunch of people armed with shotguns? Narcissistic need to be the hero or some stuff like that?

Oy!

It has been a lovely week of admissions from our counterparts:

Although I heard that the actual ratio is something around 9:1 or 10:1.  It is good to see they are not as effective as they tout themselves to be.

I can give you a song and dance why not I am not watching the trial but I am not in a literary mode. However I am following the day-by-day summary made by Legal Insurrection. They are doing a superb job in my opinion.

Go read (with selection of testimony videos) and start making your own conclusions.

Hat Tip goes to @KurtSchlichter

If you please, drop by and add your signature to the petition.

Florida Open Carry Petition.

Every signature we collect makes Japete cry and Ladd get mental hemorrhoids.

“I wish you guys would … have talked to us/CeaseFire about this before moving forward,” Fascitelli said in an email to King County Executive Dow Constantine and a Mayor’s Office staffer. “The overwhelming research shows that buybacks generally don’t work well and are a waste of resources and are mocked by the NRA.

“We will be lucky to get a few thousand or more guns back, … many of which don’t work too well in a country where there are almost 2 million guns,” Fascitelli continued in an email provided to seattlepi.com following a public records request. He went on to wonder why the buyback supporters “do kneejerk standalone stuff” instead of a coordinated campaign.

Responding to Fascitelli’s email – though not to the CeaseFire president directly – McGinn Chief of Staff Julie McCoy described Fascitelli’s concerns as “ridiculous” in an email to other Mayor’s Office staff.

via McGinn’s office ignored leading gun control group in buyback effort – seattlepi.com.

So you have a Gun Control group admitting that Gun Buybacks are a waste, the chief of staff for Seattle’s mayor calling them ridiculous…. and they actually have no idea how many guns are in this country.

Shall we tell Ceasefire that it is not 2 million guns but some 300+ millions in the hands of civilians in the US? You know, that is a boatload of Gift Cards right there. Make mine from Bownells or MidwayUSA.

We are living in the Brave New World.

Reader Amiee Staggs left a comment on an old post and that bounced on my head to something Kathy (Cornered Cat) Jackson mentioned in a post about being polite in her Facebook page which now I can’t find but went something like this: For Safety’s sake, you can be impolite.

My hometow (OK, homecity) is hyper-violent. It is 103 murders per 100,000 people violent. Ladies and Gents, that is warfare casualties we are talking about. In fact a radio station every Monday morning used to run a section called “Parte de Guerra”  (War News) in which the announcer would give us the number of murders that happened from 6:00 pm Friday to 6:00 am Monday plus the highlights of the most impressive cases…and this was a Rock station, not an all news station.

So it is easy to say I was not the most refined and polite of gentlemen while living there. When I moved to the US, I was shocked and suspicious at the people being so nice and private and I swore they were setting me up for some heinous stuff. Eventually I came to realize that they were indeed nice good people being genuinely polite and I sort of relaxed…a couple of bits. I am still not a gregarious people and I don’t invite people over my house as that privilege is reserved only for those who have passed the test of my trust. And as you can imagine, interlopers are welcome even less than that. On the strange occasions that I open the door for people other than the Postman or UPS (gun goodies or Amazon Goodies? of course I am opening!), I make a quick assessment and I am short and less than friendly with my response followed by a door slamming.

I want the reputation of being the impolite ***hole down the street. I want people to know that the fat bearded bastard that lives in the white house is somebody that may be a good idea to leave alone. If the word spreads far enough, maybe some idiot meth-head will re-think his initial plan about breaking in looking for pawnable stuff in my abode. And maybe the reason that I fly a Gadsden flag on my back porch 24/7 is to scare some Liberal idiot also living in my neighborhood who is gonna believe the lies told about Tea Party members and how violent they are and tells friends and visitors who even after getting stupidly drunk and in the mood for mischief, will re-think hard the idea to break into my property to play some idiotic prank that may end up with a 00 buckshot tattoo in his chest

Will all this image give me 100% protection from bad stuff happening? Nope, but it helps lower the percentages some and in cases, a lot. There is never one single approach, no magic bullet, no secret Aztec herbal medicine that will cure all the nastiness out there. Bad attitude and barbed wired is a better combination than just bad attitude.

And for those moments when nothing seems to work, you can go for the Advil in 9mm.

PS: The one with the real deficit in people skills is SWMBO. You really don’t wanna cross the Southern One.