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You all know the UK is crazy.  We have talked about how even advertising guns in movies is a no-no.  Well, the UK continues to go crazy.  Because guns are so restricted, the UK citizenry has been kind enough to demonstrate (often) than you can also kill people with knives.  The UK response was to further restrict self-defense by beginning the process of entirely outlawing pointy knives.  In fact, the first “anti-stab” knife has just went on sale!  Yee Haw!

BUT!  If that wasn’t enough to make you laugh til you cried….  There is now yet another law in the UK.  If you write childrens’ books, and you want to visit schools, you have to register as a potential pedophile.  At your own expense, of course (via donttasemebro).  This made me laugh, until I realized how many US legislatures are now thinking what a good idea this is.

Story from Reuters.

Summary: first Tamiflu resistant strains of H1N1 have been found.  This is a big deal since it is pretty much our main anti-flu medication.  Oh well.

Twitter has been in the news a lot lately because it is one of the main ways information about the Iranian election protests is getting out of the country.  Protesters are being beaten in the street and many have been shot and killed by the volunteer Basij militia which was called out to quell the protests.

Neda was one of those killed. This is what happens when a government has total control over firearms.  This is graphic.

Looks like a lot of people in Iran are not happy with the recent election result.  I feel your pain.  In a hope to quell unrelenting protests in the streets of Tehran after an unrealistically fast and decisive vote count the Supreme leader of Iran issued this statement as part of his sermon laced with anti-western rhetoric.

Iran’s supreme leader sought Friday to end the deepening crisis over disputed elections with one decisive speech—declaring the vote will almost certainly stand and sternly warning opposition leaders to end street protests or be held responsible for any “bloodshed and chaos” to come.

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Let me translate that from Arabic to English for you.

If you don’t stop protesting the sham results then we will kill you and blam it on you.

That sounds like a pretty democratic country to me.  I do not know what the gun laws are in Iran nor could I find a reference that could give me a legitamate answer.  It seems unlikely that a government whose law enforcement kills protesters and whose supreme leader (unelected) threatens more violence is unlikely to have liberal gun laws.  These are the moments when the 2nd amendment makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

You may not have realized that June 4 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre in which the Chinese government gently put a stop to some student protesters by driving over them with tanks and shooting them — but at least you remembered the event.

Apparently (as per The Atlantic and BoingBoing), few Chinese remember the event at all.

So… censorship works… My favorite example:  Google “tienanmen square” on google.cn versus the same “tienanmen sqare” search on google.com.

If nothing else, the 300k search results vs the 2.7 million search results should give you a taste of what censorship is like… also, compare the results.

For example, this photo….

Doesn’t come up in the China search….  Please read the articles I linked to above.  During the event, it was very clear that we have a higher level of freedom because of the second amendment.  Now, reading that an entire 1+ billion population nation has essentially forgotten such a pivotal piece of their history, it is very clear the level of freedom that the first amendment provides.

Startled burglar pleads for his life

For the first time in recorded history a Desert Eagle was used in home defense.  I am a little disappointed that it was not a .50 AE, but this pistol, long admonished as a useless movie fanboy firearm, was used by Eric Stucky to change history recently.

A builder and woodworker by profession, Eric Stucky said he was on the phone in the basement about 9:30 a.m. when he heard the window to his back porch shatter. He said it took him about 20 minutes to figure out what happened.

“I’m being robbed,” he finally surmised.

Playing the role of detective, Stucky said he speculated the burglar left but would return after it appeared safe enough to enter. Playing the scenario in his mind, Stucky said he took his handgun from his nightstand and envisioned catching a burglar red-handed.

“This was kind of stupid,” he said, “but I took a shower. I left the music on, got out of the shower and dried myself off.” Then he waited.

About 10:30 a.m., Stucky said he peeked around the corner from his bedroom to see a large man climbing through the broken window. Returning to the bedroom, he said he heard a second person enter. He said one went to the second floor of his home and the other went into his office. Crouched on his knees, Stucky said the unarmed burglar in his office turned around to discover he was being watched.

As Stucky described it: “Then he started screaming like a little scared girl, ‘Please don’t shoot me, please don’t shoot.’ ”

While holding one burglar at gunpoint, Stucky said the second man broke through an upstairs window and escaped.

Basically I see this as a lesson on how not to handle a home invasion.

Here are a few lessons to be learned from Eric’ mistakes:

If you know bad guys are coming, call the police and get the hell out. The police get paid to deal with criminals and unless you have things that cant be replaced or family in danger it is not worth it.

For the love of God and all that is Holy, don’t take a shower while you wait for bad guys to return. Your stink might scare them off more than your big ol’ D’Eagle.

Grabbing your big ol’ gun and laying in wait for guys to break into your house may not look good to a jury.

Lastly, if you know where the bad guys are entering your home confront them there rather than allowing them enter unabated, wander through your home and separate thereby exposing yourself to possible armed assault from multiple locations.

I honestly think most beginning ADE student would have handled this situation better.

Story over at The Spoof.

-SNIP-”President Barack Obama, in consultation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has decided that the time has come to disarm the United States Military.

In a press conference at the White House, Obama said that “we have decided that the best way to stop the violence in Mexico with the drug wars is to cease weapons manufacturing and usage in this country….“-SNIP-

Sure it is a just a parody today, but, it rung just a little too true…..

Story ends with a great quote:  “Our rich Republicans have enough to provide for all of the people who want to come here to take advantage of our welfare and education systems.“  The best thing is, looking at Californians’ response to 1A, it looks like only the legislatures still belive that.  Somehow both Democrats and Republicans are beginning to think that we might just be overtaxing too much.

For those that watch these things, SCOTUS Justice Souter has resigned.

People probably remember that Heller v DC, the big second amendment decision that was decided last year, decided that firearm ownership was an individual right — by a NARROW 5-4 margin.

So, the $64,000 question you are asking yourself right now…..  Don’t worry.  Souter was on the dissenting side of that case.

Souter will be missed, but, it feels like he was anxious to retire and took the opportunity of a sitting liberal President in order to guarantee that his tradition, at least broadly, will be continued.

Rep. Ron Paul has a solution to the piracy problem in the waters off the coast of Somalia.  Hire private citizens to patrol the international waters and seize or destroy the pirates, their ships and loot for a bounty.

Story on Politico

Ron Paul talks about it around 4:10 min. in the video.

Barak Obama, President of the United States of America and leader of the free world greeted King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the recent G20 conference. When the President shook the hand of King Abdullah, the king whispered “XYZPDQ.” The President initially balked at the comment so the King looked down at the President crotch and whispered again “your fly is down Mr. President.” Obama then quickly bent over and feigned bowing to the King while he quickly zipped up his pants with his other hand. Good cover Mr. President.  You certainly wouldn’t want to embarrass and subjugate yourself and our whole country to a foreign monarch in front of other world leader by having your fly open.