Random observations from the ADE community
If I were a 9th grade teacher I would use this as an example.
Regarding the story we posted about the 72 year old that shot at 4 suspects during an attack.
Here is the MSNBC story we already posted.
Compare that to:
This NY Post Story.
Planting evidence at a crime scene is a scenario you often see in the movies and hear about in real life. Guns and drugs are planted on innocent people so crooked cops can arrest them; fingerprints planted covertly on a glass to frame someone for a crime, etc. The list of B-movie scenarios is endless and include planting DNA evidence.
Nucleix, a company in Israel is hoping to sell a product that can distinguish real DNA from DNA in fabricated samples. To prove how easy it is fabricate a DNA sample they took a woman’s blood and separated out the DNA containing white blood cells from the red blood cells and replaced them with white blood cells from a man. The sample was submitted to a lab which analyzed it as if it were a normal mans blood sample. They also constructed a library of the 425 DNA markers used to distinguish individuals. By adding a combination of these markers to a body fluid sample they could mimic anyone’s DNA profile.
I find the whole thing interesting, but way too complicated for an average criminal. If an organization is bent on framing someone for a crime it may be possible.
Wow. DON’T FOLLOW THESE LINKS YET, but, GunPundit found a beauty of a story. over at MSNBC.
Here is the first part of the story… Read this first.
NEW YORK – The sidewalk outside the Harlem store still was smeared with blood Friday, and the glass on the door still was blown out.
Above the entrance, someone had scribbled the words, “Abandon hope all ye who enter here.”
Less than 24 hours after a deadly showdown at the shop worthy of a Clint Eastwood script, Charles “Gus” Augusto Jr. entered his store — oblivious of the inscription taken from Dante’s “Inferno.”
We all learned in pre-jr. high that the first 3 paragraphs pretty much tell the story. What do you think the horrible details are in this tragedy? Form an idea in your mind. Then read the story at MSNBC and Gunpundit’s analysis of it. Now ask, what do you know of your world and how much of what you know is shaped and decided by media bias. Reporting is truly dead.
For that matter. NY is really becoming a great place to live. Consider the story.
GunPundit has this right…
“If the bad guys had pistol-whipped everyone and gotten away clean with a few bucks, there would have been little or no new coverage. Little or no hand-wringing over “a sad day.” Little or no “mixed reaction.” Criminals pull this shit all the time every day.“
So, we are all used to the lies that gun control folk use to say why guns are bad and evil (guns cause crime, are never used in self defense, etc)…. I just learned a new tidbit that I thought I would share….
Did you know that burglars in the United States are less willing to enter occupied homes than burglars in other countries???
Emeritus professor Gary Mauser wrote a very letter to the editor describing the failings of the Canadian gun registry and strongly suggests that the government could more effectively fight crime by no longer wasting their time on this ineffective system.
Short summary… The rate of crime reduction has not fallen any faster since gun registration was inacted. Domestic violence and suicide remain at comprable levels, but, with other means being employed. And, of course, many countries with complete gun bans have significantly worse gun violence than Canada (e.g., Mexico, Russia)
Did you know that, in California, there is a law on the books that describes Criminal Storage of a firearm? If you keep a gun in your house in such a way that a kid can get at it, and they do, you can be found guilty of a misdemanor or even a felony.
Did you know that, in Louisana this week, a ten year old boy shot an intruder in the face with his mom’s gun thereby stopping an intruder and protecting his little sister?
(2 of the 3(!) assailants)
(via WarOnGuns — Easy Access to Gun by Child Leads to Shooting)
UPDATE: Apparently a 16-yo in Texas killed a home intruder this week as well… (via FateofLegions)
California Senator John Benoit is on the Senate Public Safety committee, where AB962 was just approved. He was on the “nay” side in a narrow 4-3 decision. This bill, as mentioned, now passes on to Senate Appropriations committee — if it gets by there, it moves to the main body for a vote.
You have heard several of us express our dissatisfaction with the bill and the negative impact it would have on our hobby/livelihood while being ineffectual in actually reducing crime. While it sometimes feels differently, we are not alone in this opinion — Senator Benoit’s office contacted us because he had written a piece recently that he thought would be of interest to our readership. His essay is now presented below:
Standing Up For The Second Amendment And Boy Scouts
By Senator John J. Benoit
Over the holiday weekend, I paused to reflect on the ideals that made our nation a beacon of freedom and the envy of the entire world. In 1776, the Founders pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to break away from Great Britain and begin an unprecedented experiment in self-government.
A decade after the well-armed Minutemen, militias of everyday settlers, and nascent American military beat back the greatest world power to achieve independence, the fledgling Republic would approve the Constitution and ratify the Second Amendment in the first ten amendments we cherish as the Bill of Rights.
The Second Amendment, “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” spells out a sacrosanct protection. More than a right to self-defense or to own hunting equipment, the Second Amendment is one of few safeguards against tyranny.
Landmark legislation, that I believe infringes on our Second Amendment protections, passed the Senate Public Safety Committee Tuesday on a 4-3 vote. As the Committee’s Vice Chair, I fervently oppose this attempt to chip away at the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
AB 962 would regulate the sales of handgun ammunition, effectively criminalizing the sale or transfer of more than fifty rounds per month. It then creates a cumbersome government scheme to grant ammunition vendor licenses to those who annually file their way through the red tape – for a fee of course.
Like other liberal gun laws, this will be ineffective because criminals never let the law stand in their way to begin with. I can’t see gang members lining up and paying a fee to become licensed handgun ammunition vendors. Instead, the bill will spur the black market for ammo sales.
Gun violence is a national tragedy, but disarming law-abiding citizens does not lower crime.
One unintended consequence of AB 962’s stringent requirements would limit the ability of Boy Scouts to earn the most popular merit badge, the Rifle Shooting Merit Badge. To earn this badge, Scouts are required to properly demonstrate safety procedures before firing their first round. They typically use more than 250 rounds per person per week for training and testing.
The bill defines “handgun ammunition” with a clause qualifying “notwithstanding that the ammunition may also be used in some rifles.” .22 rifle ammo can be loaded into pistols, creating a legal ambiguity that responsible organizations would be hesitant to cross. If approved, this bill will be a stepping stone towards regulating all ammo.
With these restrictions in place, the Boy Scouts could no longer buy and distribute the necessary quantity of ammo for firearms safety and shooting skills training.
Boy Scouts promote the principles of American democratic government and take pride in helping others. AB 962 tells our future military and law enforcement ranks that they’ll have to become a sharpshooter with less than two shots a day for practice. It subjects parents to criminal charges for transferring a box of ammunition to their child on the range.
The Founders endured centuries of British rule before deciding to right the “long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object.” AB 962 continues the long train of infringements on our individual Constitutional rights.
This radical legislation was narrowly passed in the Assembly and by the Senate Public Safety Committee, receiving “no” votes from all Republican legislators and a handful from across the aisle. It’s my hope that my Senate colleagues will join me in defending the rights of Californians and stop this far-reaching proposal from advancing to the Governor’s desk.
Senator John J. Benoit, a former volunteer fire captain and 31-year law enforcement veteran, is the first full-time public safety professional to serve in the State Senate since 1994. A past recipient of both the Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award (Boy Scouts of America, Three Peaks District) and Legislator of the Year Award (California Rifle and Pistol Association), he represents the 37th Senate District, which includes 18 of Riverside County’s 26 Cities. Further information regarding Senator Benoit is available on his web site at: www.sen.ca.gov/benoit.
It is easy to talk about the role of the 2nd amendment as a safeguard to enable self-defense, it takes a truly strong elected official to come forward, especially in California, and express their belief in the 2nd amendment as one of the safeguards against tyranny. Thank you for your strength, thank you for trying to protect our American traditions and our constitutionally guaranteed liberties.
At this point, I mearly wonder if Assemblyman De Leon (the author of AB962) spent as much time on creative ways of fixing the California budget as he has at trying to sneakily introduce gun control over the years, if we wouldn’t be running with a surplus, paying dividends to all California residents.
In the past this bill has died in the Appropriations committee. Please make your voice heard now…. The members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are listed here.
Tiberon is one of those nice little towns in Northern California were not much happens any you don’t hear much about. Yet they feel they have a crime problem that needs to be thwarted by recording each and every license plate from every car as it enters or exits the city limits.
Supposedly this will allow Tiberon Police to identify out of town thieves that prey on the trusting inhabitants who often feel so safe in their homes that they do not even lock their doors. I know how they feel. I too grew up on the outskirts of a quiet NorCal town where locked doors were uncommon. I can also vouch for the quick change in perspective that occurs when you move to a bigger city. You quickly learn that people are generally inconsiderate and selfish if you don’t know them. Even then your mileage may vary.
The real irony here is that the trusting naivete that leads one to leave their doors unlocked is the same mentality that expects government officials to do the right thing. I honestly think that some geeky government of police official saw the license plate scanning technology and thought they had a real winner on their hands. But where does the monitoring stop and how much privacy and freedom do you give up to be safe? We all have unofficial ID cards in the form of a drivers license. Why not swipe your DL every time you enter or exit a building, your house, your car, surf the internet, turn on a light, get food out of the refrigerator or go to the bathroom (1 or 2 swipes of course). Obesity could certainly be prevented through monitoring food intake and eating patterns. Perhaps the mandatory marijuana sensor that is installed in your house will trigger shortly before you log into your snack drawer and get some chips, no … Frito’s. And Joe has been on the pot with 2 swipes for way too long … get some Ex-Lax over there STAT. Actually I am starting to like this idea. We could have the world moving smoothly in no time. Just look how well its working out in England.
As reported in the LA Times, the LAPD Crime Map apparently has a large number of omissions (somewhere near 40%).
“Among the 19,000 incidents between Jan. 1 and June 13 that do not appear at lapdcrimemaps.org:
* 26 homicides
* 137 rapes
* 10,766 personal, vehicle or other nonviolent thefts“
A Denver police officer whose drive through order at McDonald’s was taking too long found a way to get his food faster – pointing a gun in the face of the cashier.
Now he faces felony charges. Hope that Egg McMuffin was good.
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