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.

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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?

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.

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• Trustworthy,
• Loyal,
• Helpful,
• Friendly,
• Courteous,
• Kind,
• Obedient,
• Cheerful,
• Thrifty,
• Brave,
• Clean,
• and Reverent.

And President Obama shows how few of those he is….

President Obama will make historyas the first sitting president on a daytime talk show when he visits with the ladies of “The View.” But he’ll be missing out on another historic occasion — the Boy Scouts’ Jamboree marking the group’s 100th anniversary, right in the president’s backyard…

But the president will instead be traveling Wednesday to New York for a taping of the ABC show, as well as Democratic fundraisers and a stop in New Jersey

I would let you know in graphic terms how contemptible I find this decision —but I’m trying to keep it a PG blog.

Remember the shotingI talked about here in “The Importance of Not Jumping to Conclusions” — well it turns out that at least 1 of the principals involved has been involved in gangs.

Prosecutors said Yang Keovongphet, who was 16 at the time, was a member of the Bad Side Posse when he shot a teen described as a rival gang member in Seattle. Less than a month later, Keovongphet was involved in a second shooting, according to records.

In their request for an exceptional sentence, prosecutors wrote at the time that Keovongphet was a member of “a hierarchical street gang primarily devoted to criminal activity in which a member elevates his position by committing violent acts against rival gang members.”

The article later describes the details of the shootings. Ever notice that the tend to put the details of the shooting later in the story. I’m not sure why they do that but reading the details gives you a better idea of the type of person Keovongphet was.

On Feb. 27, 1994, when he was 16, Keovongphet shot a 15-year-old boy, described by police as a rival gang member, around 1 a.m. in the 5200 block of 42nd Avenue South.

According to charging papers, someone from Keovongphet’s group yelled, “what’s up, blood?” sparking an argument. Keovongphet pulled out a semiautomatic handgun and fired a round into the air and then fired several rounds at three youths, the papers say.

The victim was struck in the back, Seattle police said.

Words — disrespect — lead to a predator using violence to try to settle differences. Notice also that at 16, he was already carrying a firearm — guess the antis will try to claim without the firearm, he wouldn’t have been violent — but honestly isn’t it the other way around?

If he wasn’t violent; he wouldn’t have been carrying a firearm. He was already breaking the law — the firearm didn’t make him do that; it was a conscious decision on his part.

On March 4, 1994, Keovongphet, who had turned 17 a few days earlier, shot at two men installing a car stereo in a Honda in the 4400 block of 36th Avenue South. The two men were not hit, but four windows of the vehicle were shot out, according to a Seattle police report.

Less then 2 weeks later, we have another report of actions by Keovongphet — but in this case we don’t know what set him off but we know his response –criminal violence.

On Oct. 21, 1994, King County Superior Court Judge Robert Alsdorf sentenced Keovongphet to four years in prison for the shootings. He was given credit for 129 days served. The sentence was nearly twice that of a standard range sentence, court paperwork said.

Think about that — the standard range sentence for 2 shootings is only 2 years!!!! Want to reduce “gun violence” — how about keeping the violent thugs in jail longer?

Make it a deterrence not a badge of honor or respect to go to jail.

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but it works — BA Wa Wa Wa.

The robbery unfolded Wednesday when three armed men forced their way into a home occupied by a couple and a 2-year-old girl.

The men demanded money, ordered the victims to the floor and began searching the home.

Officer James Holmes, a police spokesman, says a fourth armed suspect suddenly entered the house and was shot by one of the other robbers.

All four bandits fled the home, dropping stolen items as they went. The wounded suspect was dropped off at a hospital. Holmes says his wound is not life-threatening.

I’m truly HA, HA, HA  sorry he he he that some one was hurt <chuckle> but what an appropriate ending to the story.

(H/T to Bill S. via email)

Asked about what could be done about security at police parking lots, Weis said police facilities have video surveillance but added that little could be done to prevent such attacks by people with little regard for human life.

“There’s really no level of security you can put up that will prevent a person like that from attacking someone,” he said.

Then why in the name of all that is Holy do you (and your fellow government employees) still try to keep citizens disarmed??

Think about that statement for a few minutes folks (give the antis a break, they need a few minutes – the slower ones always do).

If there is no level of security that will prevent an attack, why does the city of Chicago still try to make it nearly impossible for average citizens to defend themselves?

(H/T to Second City Cop — by the way, check out the comments. I’m not sure what appalls me the most – the crime there or the attitude so many of the cops have about citizens)

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