I cut the hell out my thumb for father’s day, so there will be just light stuff for a few days.
At any rate, here’s a couple on gun control and the idiots that want to take your guns away are really desperate.
They’ve pretty much lost the argument, but that won’t stop them from trying o piece meal legislation down our throats.
There oughta be a law!
Howard Nemerov
The Associated Press reports that a shooting occurred yesterday at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Jimmy Schlager, a criminal with “an extensive criminal record dating back to 1972,” killed two victims and wounded two more before killing himself.
And now for the rest of the story
It’s illegal for a convicted felon to possess firearms. (U.S. Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 44, Section 922, Subsection d) That didn’t stop Schlager. In California, it’s illegal to carry a loaded firearm unless you have a concealed carry license. Since Schlager was a convicted felon, he didn’t qualify.
Anti-gun assembly member travels with armed security escort
David Codrea
Oakland’s KTVU.com has posted a video of an open carry debate hosted by the Commonwealth Club in the East Bay city of Lafayette. At the end of it, we learn that CA Assembly member Lori Saldaña, author of a bill to ban the practice of open carry in California, travels under the protection of an armed security detail.
Click here to watch it and then come on back for a discussion.
The first thing that strikes me is how the media frames terms, and correspondent Debora Villalon crossed a line from objective reporter to editorialist when she characterized citizens carrying firearms as “flaunting their right to pack heat.”
Truth, Lies and In Between 