3 Boxes of BS

Okay folks, I’ve been trying to avoid Sparky but somethings just aren’t meant to be.

First up is the comment he left here, which I’ve approved (minus the link to his site) to show that I’m not making this up.

My thoughts and prayers are with you too, Bob. Or at least they’re with your wife, for you I’m still hoping you shoot yourself in the foot – just a graze. (please smile at least, man)

Does Weer’d mean his wife is sick too? I may have seen that before but I forgot. Same goes for her. I am a believer and I believe that lots of prayers and good wishes do lots of good.

This “believer”, this husband and former Marine  tries to pass off a wish for me to injure myself as a joke. Sorry Sparky, it isn’t funny — not at all. It really fits in with the meme “Why are anti-gun advocates so violent”.

And by the way, how many people think his well wishes are sincere or just another attempt to troll for blog hits, eh?

And exactly what I have done MikeB302000 to deserve such an injury? Sought to protect my rights, protect my family, protect my wife or enable her to protect herself ? Or do you think that someone who had 4 procedures in a month, is currently undergoing chemotherapy should be forced to fight hand to hand against anyone who wishes her harm?

It shows your true nature when you can not even sincerely wish well of my wife without showing what a hypocritical piece of trash you are.

Second is a blog post he did at his place regarding a 69 year old grandmother who defended herself from a violent thug.

This young man was wounded quite seriously. He could easily have been killed. What if his intentions were not to rape and murder but just to steal the microwave and slip back out the door? In that case, and I know we can’t know that and the lady was within her rights to defend herself, but if the kid wasn’t really a lethal threat, the response was excessive. Am I right?

Wouldn’t there be a middle-ground approach too? How about telling the burglar, “I’ve got a gun on you, turn around and get out.” I know that offends all you letter-of-the-law guys who fantasize about just this kind of opportunity, but putting aside all that macho nonsense for a minute, wouldn’t it have been better if granny had scared the kid away instead of shooting three times at center of mass?

Let’s take this putrid comment in sections, eh?

MikeB302000 seems to be saying that a person’s property doesn’t really belong to them if a criminal wants it. How is that reasonable or sensible?

but just to steal the microwave and slip back out the door?

Think about that….people shouldn’t interfere with criminals if all they wanted was property. Never mind that at 69; it might be the only way she had to cook or that she would have to chose between medicine and replacing property.

Hey Sparky, is there a list of property it is acceptable for a thug to steal (TVs, DVD players, etc)  and a list of property (prescription medicines, family heirlooms, etc) that we can use violence to protect?

Nope, Criminal Enabler MikeB302000 doesn’t want people to stop thugs.

This young man was wounded quite seriously

Maybe if he didn’t want to be injured severely; he shouldn’t broken the law.
The homeowner isn’t a mind reader, she doesn’t know the thugs intentions.

Maybe MikeB302000 would rather the homeowner be subjected to treatment like this:

After Green suggested that Stewart change his life by reading the Bible, he began choking her. She said he ordered her to pull up her T-shirt so he could see her breasts, then unzipped his pants and fondled her while he masturbated.

“He choked me where I couldn’t breathe,” she testified. “I thought he was going to kill me.”

Next MikeB302000 consistently advocates for forgiveness and multiple chances for criminals while calling for single strike laws for gun owners.

These aren’t my words, this are MikeB302000‘s words — all the while wishing harm on me — not serious harm, just a grazing wound.

I really wish this was an aberration for MikeB302000 and his fellow criminally enabling, anti-rights advocating gun control friends — but it isn’t. Neither is the type of crime in either story. Thugs will seek to prey on senior citizens; both for fiscal gain and their own warped goals.
I really wish stories like the one in Fort Worth were uncommon but they are not.

Hey Sparky, can you tell everyone just how a home owner is supposed to know which thug breaking in is JUST a THIEF and which is a RAPIST or MURDER? Or does the homeowner have to wait for the thug to start the rape/murder before defending themselves?

People like MikeB302000 want to deny people the right to defend themselves — note the outcome in the two different stories.

The Senior Citizen who had the firearm – unharmed.
The Senior Citizen who had a baseball — molested in her own home

It leaves no doubt in my mind which side MikeB302000 is on  and it isn’t the side of the senior citizens looking to protect themselves.

Please join the discussion.

Edited to Add

all you letter-of-the-law guys who fantasize about just this kind of opportunity

By the way Sparky, when you owned firearms — legally, were you a “letter of the law” type who fantasized about shooting people?

Is there where you developed your extensive experience with fantasies or was did it develop when you broke the law to own firearms?

There is an increase in problems at night with small gangs roaming around looking for the right prey…

Incidences of “wilding” have increased and people have talked about it on the controversial unofficial blog of the Chicago Police Department, (see More Wildings) www.secondcitycop.blogspot.com

Great blog/site if you’ve never read it.

Coming back to the John Hancock to pick up my car at around 9PM, I noticed several little bands of four to five juveniles walking around sizing up people as they walked down the streets. Luckily we were already in our car, but I could sense that these “gangsta wannabes” were up to no good.

Have you heard about the incidents of “wilding”?

Most people haven’t, even in Chicago — it isn’t getting much coverage.

Wouldn’t you like to have more then a little bitty can of pepper spray with you if approached by 4 or 5 “gansta wannabes” ?

Chicago police say they responded to a fight, the assault of a jogger, and a gang-related shooting all within about three hours Monday night along the lakefront between Fullerton and North Avenues.

Six teens and two adults were arrested.

Most people would, but seeing how this is Chicago — forget about it.

Too bad average citizens don’t have the same rights as the law enforcement officers do

Do you now need a .357 Magnum to walk down the Mag Mile? Maybe a compact .45 or a high-capacity 9MM “just to be on the safe side” is more what you should have. Even the police are telling each other that they better “carry large caliber” off-duty and not be caught unarmed.

Please join the discussion.

Subtitle — a lesson in Victim Selection Failure.

McKINNEY, Texas — A gunman who pulled into a suburban Dallas police station parking lot with a trailer loaded with explosives, set fire to his pickup truck, then started shooting at the building was apparently hoping for a massacre, police say

He was armed or as most of the reports say “heavily armed”

Investigators found an assault rifle, a shotgun and a handgun on Sharp.

Sharp may have intended to lure people from the police station so that he could shoot at them from a field across the street where he had taken position, Kowalski said. He also may have intended to kill them by blowing up the trailer, he said.

Or does the intent?

Weer’d Beard has been running a series of posts about violent deaths where the instrument of choice was not a firearm.

I decided not to send this one to him but post about it myself. My excuse is that it happened here; like on the roads I travel on. My wife works off of West Lancaster and Rosedale. We travel on 287 occasionally. I work north of down town, heck I was on the streets of down town last week for jury duty.

The story starts out grim — a man kidnaps and kills his ex-girlfriend’s mother.

Police had been searching for Robertson since College Station police alerted them that he was suspected of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend’s mother from a College Station Walmart and stabbing her.

The body of the mother, 59-year-old Anne Toliver, was later found in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 4000 block of Camp Bowie Boulevard.

Later, officers found Toliver’s body. She had been stabbed multiple times, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office.

Notice how he avoided the other cars and aimed directly at the police car — even when the cop tried to get out of the way?

Officer Kerry Gober was treated for injuries at a hospital and was released Sunday, police said.

Robertson remained hospitalized Monday under police guard. In addition to a capital murder charge, he faces a Tarrant County charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with Gober’s injuries.

I hope the police also charge Robertson with reckless endangerment for every car on the road and definitely for the 6 cars he passed while driving the wrong way. I believe if he had brandished a firearm at 6 people passing by he would have been charged, don’t you?

Violent thugs will find a way to be violent thugs; either with or without firearms. Making firearms harder to obtain and carry for everyone else only gives the advantage to the thugs. Really makes you wonder if that isn’t the goal of the gun controllers.

Please join the discussion.

but not the one some people thought.

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The local big box sports store advertised the Sig Sauer SP2022 Basic  in 9MM on sale for $400.

Since I’ve been looking for something to shoot Falling Plate competitions, I thought this would be a good starter pistol.

Not sure if I’m going to try to carry the  Sig, it is larger but considerably more than the Taurus Millennium Pro PT-145

Range report will have to wait until temperatures drop below triple digits — I’m crazy not insane.

Now, the decisions really start. Accessories are needed once the fund starts growing again.

Via many people on the blog roll, comes this article from the Philly Enquirer.

It has become a disturbingly familiar workplace scenario, statistically rare, but occurring often enough to have a ritualistic feel.

And that underscores a central reality for employers and the labor and employment lawyers who advise them on how to handle workplace conflicts: Identifying the one-in-a-million person on the verge of committing mass murder is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

“My husband is out there. I don’t know how he found me.  I’m struggling as it is, now he’ll completely cut me off.”

“Excuse me for a moment.”  I step out of the conference room.  From inside the managers office, I call the reception staff in.  Everybody gets a quick briefing.  I ask them, “Any questions for me?” Only one: “Do you have your gun?”

Always.

You see, I don’t expect an office shooting. I don’t hold my breath because of what a visitor may do.  And yet, the vast majority of my practice is bankruptcy, domestic, and criminal/traffic law.  None of this is “happy law.”  Few people are happy to see me.  And so, I will not leave my safety to the whims and emotions of those who walk through the door.

I return to the conference room.  I need to wrap this interview up.  Her mind is not here anymore and we both know it.  I also need to be up front.  Ready.

R. Stanton Scott — Thank you.

If you hadn’t  tried to convince me the Heller decision didn’t look at the Founding Father’s intentions:

He apparently believes that the majority opinion in the Heller decision as a whole and see which side actually relied on evidence of the Founders’ intent. case, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, depends on the intent of the “writers of the Constitution” for its analysis and legitimacy.  But the sources cited in Scalia’s opinion show no such thing.  Instead, they depend on interpretations of contemporary dictionaries, State Constitutions, and later interpretations of these documents, along with Scalia’s interpretation of the interpretations.

I would have never found The Constitutional Sources Project (aka Consource) — (emphasis mine) from their press page.

Founded in May 2005 and launched on the Constitution’s 220th birthday, ConSource, also known as the Constitutional Sources Project, is a non-profit, public organization aimed at creating the first, free, comprehensive, online library of Constitution-related source materials including authoritative transcripts and high quality images of the original documents.

ConSource can be used by anyone. Users include the sixth grader to the Supreme Court justice. ConSource contains a fully searchable database of source materials for the United States Constitution. This free online repository allows users to access all of these founding documents in the same place and in a short period of time. In addition to being able to search the documents, they are available via collections or via links as they relate to the Constitution.

Current collections include James Madison’s handwritten notes of the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers, the Anti and Pro-Federalist Papers, state ratification debates for nine states, the Bill of Rights’ legislative history, the papers of George Washington and George Mason, pre-1787 state constitutions, charters, and bills of rights, constitutional precedents. ConSource will eventually contain texts and images for all constitutional sources from Antiquity to 1992 when the 27th Amendment was passed.

This site is going on my favorites, my blog roll and every other place I can keep it.

Feel like I’m in pretty elite company using this site

U.S. Supreme Court justices on both sides in the landmark D.C. v. Heller gun rights case resorted to original documents in making their case about the meaning of the Second Amendment. But they used a little-known digital resource to get there, a project whose mission is to digitize thousands of Founding-era documents that shed light on the original meaning of the Constitution…
The Court’s opinions don’t actually cite the project’s Web site as the source, but Updike has a pretty good idea that it’s where at least some of the documents were found by the justices and their clerks. She actually “trained” Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito Jr. on navigating the site, which enables them to click on different clauses of the Constitution and find relevant documents.

Looking around I found several early versions of the 2nd Amendment such as this one

17. That the People have a Right to keep and to bear Arms; that a well regulated Militia, composed of the Body of the People, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe Defence of a free State; that Standing Armies in Time of Peace are dangerous to Liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided as far as the Circumstances and Protection of the Community will admit; and that in all Cases, the Military should be under strict Subordination to, and governed by the Civil Power.

Notice in this one (and many others) the Right of the People comes first, then the militia as a reason.

Or how about this one

Yet Mr Madison has inserted, in his amendments, the increase of representatives, each State having two at least. The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

Please join the discussion — after you take a look at Consource, of course

Oh, and if you don’t hear from me today — it’s because I’m serving on jury duty.