Crime and Punishment: Oklahoma (& Texas) style!

[choff]

Arkancide in the financial industry, man kills self with nail gun, four shots to the torso, four to the head.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-0 ... gun-wounds

[GIThruster]

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/02/13/re ... their-guns

[ladajo]

I don't give a crap where I live. I have never registered my guns nor will I.

[GIThruster]

Interesting that reports like this so seldom include whether the nut was doing drugs at the time.

http://www.mrconservative.com/2014/02/3 ... t-justice/

[GIThruster]

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/115418- ... ght-loses/

[GIThruster]

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/116298- ... oon-enter/

[choff]

Then there was this story from the same page.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/116018- ... seriously/

[ladajo]

I watched the Mike Rowe clip, I think he gets it.

Key point he reinforced about mobility between classes. Both ways. All the time.

He is right to hit on the oft overlooked part of the Class Warfare proponent arguments, they imply(or believe) you are stuck in the class you are in.

In reality folks move left and right all the time on the scale. It is about effort and attention. Anyone can change their circumstance if they REALLY want to and that goes for better or worse.

[williatw]

More Guns, Less Crime

A new FBI report says that violent crime continues to fall nationwide, which might annoy liberals because gun purchases continue to rise.

In the first six months of 2013, murders fell by nearly 7 percent, compared with the same period in 2012. Aggravated assaults fell by 6.6 percent, and robberies are down 1.8 percent. "All of the offenses in the violent crime category—murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault, and robbery—showed decreases when data from the first six months of 2013 were compared with data from the first six months of 2012," according to the FBI. Overall, violent crime in the U.S. fell by 5.4 percent. Burglaries, larceny and auto thefts also decreased.

The left likes to link violent crime to the proliferation of guns in the country, so it's worth noting that the crime reductions described in the FBI report correlate with a steady increase in firearm sales. "Gun records checks, fueled by a post-Newtown boom of gun sales, hit a new high in 2013, and industry analysts expect ammunition to be the big seller this year as consumers catch up to all of those firearms purchases," reported the Washington Times last month. "More than 21 million applications were run through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System last year, marking nearly an 8 percent increase and the 11th straight year that the number has risen."

It's also worth noting that gun-ownership rates in the Midwest (39 percent) and South (50 percent) far exceed gun-ownership rates in the Northeast (22 percent), yet violent crime is down more in the Midwest and South than it is in the Northeast, according to the FBI statistics. And rural areas, where gun-ownership rates also are higher than average, saw a larger reduction in violent crime that metropolitan areas, where gun-ownership rates are lower than average.

Not that gun-control zealots, who are so certain of a causal link between firearms and violent crime rates, care about such details.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... 80048.html

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press- ... s-for-2013

[williatw]

Mom opens fire on home invaders in Detroit to defend children

WXYZ) - A Detroit mother opened fire Monday night when three suspects broke into her home.

Surveillance cameras caught it all.

The mother tells 7 Action News she "didn't have time to get scared." When she heard the door to her home on Woodrow Wilson being kicked in, she immediately warned the three teenage intruders and then opened fire.

UPDATE: Detroit Police Chief reacts, says, "She did the right thing."

One of the teens dropped a handgun on his way out the door. He then tried to get back inside the house a second time, but was again met with gunfire. Once again, he took off and all three were arrested shortly after the incident by Detroit Police.

Recalling the panic she felt, the mom says "I let them know I had a gun once they were in the house. They said no you don't so I shot off the first round. I wasn't feeling anything at the moment, I got scared afterwards."

We still don't know what they came to steal, but the mother was committed to protecting her two small kids at any cost with her loaded rifle.

Her daughter told her "Oh no mommy, I don't want them to take my piggy bank or my toys."

UPDATE: Detroit Police Chief reacts, says, "She did the right thing."

http://www.wxyz.com/news/chief-reacts-t ... -intruders

Now Detroit's Chief of Police is responding to the dramatic footage and the mother's actions.

"She did the right thing" says Chief James Craig acknowledging the mother gave a verbal warning prior to firing the weapon

http://www.wxyz.com/news/mom-opens-fire ... d-children

[williatw]

Washington state girl, 11, shoots cougar that stalked her brother

11-year-old Shelby White fired a rifle at an emaciated female cougar estimated to weight a paltry 50 pounds. The animal appeared to be following her 14-year-old brother, Tanner, into their home before she shot the life-saving bullet. It was the third such death of a cougar on the Whites' property in two weeks. Locals speculate the animals are starving and looking closer to humans for food.



A quick-thinking Washington state girl bravely grabbed a gun to shoot dead a cougar that was stalking her older brother.

Shelby White, 11, said she acted instinctively after spotting the skinny predator following Tanner, 14, as he walked back to their rural home in Twisp last Thursday.

The fearless hunter snatched her rifle, took aim at the deadly beast which was just 10 feet away, and gunned it down — saving her sibling's life.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1703614

[GIThruster]

http://www.nranews.com/cam/video/jessie ... co-feature

[williatw]

http://www.nranews.com/cam/video/jessie ... co-feature

Good post. The tape also indicated that she quit her job from Dominos ahead of being fired (for violating company policy against carrying a gun on the job). Guess the company doesn't want the potential liability; they would rather she was robbed (or possibly assaulted/raped), as some of the commentators on other links suggested, who knows what they (the robbers) full intentions were?

[williatw]

Gun advocates credit new concealed carry laws for sharp drop in Chicago murder rate

Chicago police are reporting that the murder rate for the first quarter of the year is the lowest it’s been in more than 50 years, which gun advocates are attributing to a concealed carry law passed in Illinois last year.

The first three months of 2014 have seen the fewest number of homicides since 1958 — six fewer than this time in 2013, and 55 fewer than this time in 2012, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.


Gun-rights advocates argue that concealed carry laws can reduce crime and keep the population safer. The state began accepting applications for permits in January.

“The facts are every time guns have been allowed, concealed-carry has been allowed, the crime rate has gone down,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican, just months before Illinois passed the concealed carry law in July 2013.

But Chicago Police Superintendant Garry McCarthy says the opposite is what’s reducing crime: police have recovered 1,300 illegal guns during the first three months of 2014.

Mr. McCarthy also attributed the drop in violence to better police training and community programs to keep kids off the street. Both the city’s top cop and its mayor, former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, have said they oppose the concealed carry laws.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... laws-shar/

[williatw]

Cops: No charges for man with concealed carry permit who fired at armed male

A 53-year-old South Austin man with a valid concealed carry permit was able to shoot at two men who tried to accost him outside of his home early this morning.

The incident happened about 2:40 a.m. on the 5400 block of West Van Buren Street, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan.


The man was walking from his garage to the front of his home when two males in hoodies appeared in a gangway between his home and the neighbor's home, Sullivan said.

One of the two men pulled a handgun from his waistband and pointed at the man who took out his own gun and managed to fire several times at the males, Sullivan said.

The males fled the area without being struck and the shooting did not result in any property damage, police said.

After the shooting, police responded and determined that the man was shooting in self-defense. The man had a valid firearm owner's identification card, a valid concealed carry permit and police were able to determine that he had completed a required concealed carry class and was properly trained, Sullivan said.

The man is not facing charges as police search for the two males, described as a tall male and a short male. Those two face charges.

As part of the application process, county sheriffs, state's attorneys, local police and the attorney general's offices are allowed to review applications that have been initially approved by the Illinois State Police.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014 ... ice-search