Notes from the Resistance
Do you think anyone who works for the government—not just the police—should be able to pull you over and detain you? And if a government employee who was never granted police powers assumes these powers unilaterally and clearly violates your constitutional rights, should you be able to hold them to account? Or should they be allowed to get off scot-free through “qualified immunity” merely because they work for the government? [More]
What’s the county engineer’s name?
[Via Michael G]
A jury spared Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz from the death penalty Thursday for killing 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018, sending him to prison for the remainder of his life in a decision that left many families of the victims angered, baffled and in tears. [More]
What do you think the odds are the ones who voted to spare him also support “gun control” and gouging out the unborn?
Drug-addled and mentally ill. https://t.co/KhbRxF3lW4
— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) October 13, 2022
This is the vibrant utopia Democrats have planned for you!
By the way, when total crimes per 1K, as opposed to homicides alone, is considered as a measure of national violence, Nationmaster.com ranks Iceland, Sweden, the U.K., New Zealand, Finland, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Austria, France, S. Africa, and Switzerland worse than the U.S. Ask yourself this: if America is less violent with guns than most of the civilized world without guns, then what are we debating? [More]
And if you take Democrat-controlled Bloomberg cities out of the equation, armed-to-the-teeth red demographic America is less homicidal, too…
[Via Keith B]
Surge in St. Louis homicides threatens to reverse progress made last year [More]
And no worries. The lawsuits against Kia and Hyundai are proceeding as scheduled. And we’ll be planning another gun buyback any day now!
[Via bondmen]
As an alternative to carrying a gun, Hemenway suggests women who feel threatened choose a different route or run during the day, in groups. If a woman feels she needs protection, “bear spray is much safer to use and just as effective as a gun would be,” he says. [More]
Sometimes, all you need to do is present… and he doesn’t seem to factor in multiple assailants.
I wonder how he’d fare…
Who’d pay good money to watch?
[Via Jess]
The Left’s Funny New Lie: It’s The ‘Red States’ With More Crime! [More]
Factor out what’s happening in Bloomberg cities and armed-to-the-teeth Normal America ends up pretty safe until some out-of-control Democrat starts acting up.
I wonder what would be revealed if someone juxtaposed red and blue areas against a corresponding Neighborhood Scout crime map…
[Via Michael G]
“Children’s Climate Trial” in U.S. Set for 2023 – The file includes stories about each plaintiff that describes how the climate crisis has impacted them personally. [More]
It can’t have anything to do with environmentalcase forestry practices, can it? And ultimately, assuming it’s lightning and not an illegal alien or a government worker with a hero complex sparking things off, isn’t Mother Earth herself to blame?
[Via Michael G]
California liquor store clerk dies after being assaulted with scooter by group of teens [More]
Ah, an assault scooter! This clearly calls for some commonsense scooter safety laws.
Who’da thunk scooter buybacks were a thing?
[Via William T]
2022’s Safest Cities in America [More]
I wonder if any inferences can be drawn noting the city rated safest is not part of the Bloomberg coalition and the one rated least safe is…
CNN commentator Errol Louis appears to mock concerns about rising NYC subway crime [More]
That’s easy for him to say. He takes Uber.
[Via Michael G]
‘If you live by the gun, you die by the gun,’ Family of Lubbock teen killed in weekend shooting speak on reality of gun violence [More]
He was 17, had two kids, and was hoping to graduate high school?
And these people think the issue is guns…?
[Via bondmen]
Mass-murder defendant tells court he doesn’t identify as himself – ‘Nor do I know anybody by that name’ [More]
It makes as much sense as anything else that denies reality. More, when you consider that in this case, it’s apparently confined to one lunatic, at least for now…
For some reason, “I’m a Little Teapot” just sprang to mind…
At the time of the ruling, attorney Stephen Stamboulieh advised that no appeal would be filed due to time, expense, and the unlikelihood of it succeeding. This could change that. A motion for reconsideration may now be feasible since Biden’s attorney Clark publicly acknowledged the investigation. [More]
With his lawyer publicly acknowledging an investigation, ATF’s “Hunter Biden privacy” claim at this point is demonstrably BS.
An Ohio man was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a pistol converted into an automatic weapon using a 3D printer that he later used in self-defense outside an IHOP restaurant. [More]
I wonder what would have happened if he’d ditched the gun and kept his mouth shut.
[Via Jess]
HORRIFIC SHOOTING CAUGHT ON CAM: I’ve learned the BRAVE security guard shot multiple times point blank Friday evening in the Greenwood neighborhood is NIGEL MOSS. He’s recovering in the hospital. Meanwhile, search continues for suspect. I’ve got a full report coming up. #Seattle pic.twitter.com/hnIe8GJJXE
— Jonathan Choe Journalist (@choeshow) October 10, 2022
I’m not a security guard, so if I feel compelled to draw, I’m not chasing and I’m not taking any chances. (Not that I could, as we’ve already publicly established that I don’t own any guns and never have. Nasty things, always going around killing people…)
It will be interesting to see when they catch the guy if he’ll claim self-defense. Breaking a credit union window hardly seems like legal cause for a private actor to escalate things to lethal force.
[Via WiscoDave]
Mexican government hack reveals military sold arms, received escort from Cartels: report [More]
And these are the corrupt m*********ing b@$tards suing U.S. gunmakers while our useful idiot quislings cheer them on.
[Via Jess]
Gun violence is dropping in Chicago as police credit new tactics, community investment [More]
In other words, there’s a temporary statistical drop and they haven’t got a clue as to why, but are ready to come up with excuses to claim credit.
When it goes back up — and it will– do you think they’ll admit those things don’t work, or just go back to blaming guns?
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chi-town.
[Via Jess]
Car thefts have skyrocketed in St. Louis in recent months, with city leadership threatening lawsuits against Kia and Hyundai for an alleged defect that makes certain makes of the cars easier to steal. [More]
That these kleptocrat morons are “city leadership” tells us all we need to know.
[Via Steve T]
“The victim indicated she was working in her office when a man came into her office, grabbed her, dragged her into a basement, and raped her,” Stanford’s Department of Public Safety said in a statement. “The victim does not want to provide a statement to law enforcement about the crime at this time.” [More]
Stanford University prohibits the possession of any of the following weapons or dangerous items on the Stanford campus: firearm, dirk, dagger, ice pick, knife having a blade longer than 2 1/2 inches (except for lawful use in food preparation or consumption), folding knife with a blade that locks into place, razor with an unguarded blade, taser, stun gun, instrument that expels a metallic projectile (such as a BB or a pellet), spot marker gun (commonly known as a “paintball gun”), compressed air (airsoft) gun, or any other weapons prohibited by California Penal Code Sections 626.10 and 626.9.
Then again, aside from the absurd and wholly prejudicial “Believe Women” weapon that the left employs to try and derail Supreme Court nominees, and with campus hoaxes being all the fashion for decades now, how do we know this even happened?
Law enforcement arrived at Zeldin’s home to obtain security footage of the incident from their home cameras, he said. He added that his daughters were “shaken” by the incident and that crime has run rampant in the state of New York. [More]
Unlike Hochul, he doesn’t blame the guns.
Now he’s within 3 percentage points of her, which just weeks ago seemed impossible.
And guess who is polling at 3% and what his position is on “vibrant immigration” with “two Ellis Islands on the Southern border…”?
I don’t suppose he’d care to take a little challenge…
[Via Michael G]
