Pass The Ammo

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year.

According to gun control supporter dogma—“more guns means more crime”—the number of privately owned firearms must have decreased 10 percent in 2009. To the contrary, however, the number rose between 1.5 and 2 percent, to an all-time high. For the better part of the last 15 months, firearms, ammunition, and “large” ammunition magazines have been sold in what appear to be record quantities. And, the firearms that were most commonly purchased in 2009 are those that gun control supporters most want to be banned—AR-15s, similar semi-automatic rifles, and handguns designed for defense. The National Shooting Sports Foundation already estimates record ammunition sales in 2009, dominated by .223 Remington, 7.62×39mm, 9mm and other calibers widely favored for defensive purposes.

Also indicative of the upward trend in firearm sales, the number of national instant check transactions rose 24.5 percent in the first six months of 2009 compared to the first six months in 2008, the greatest increase since NICS’ inception in 1998. Through the end of October, NICS transactions rose18 percent, compared to the same period in 2008.

More Guns Means More Crime? Hardly. In 2009, more guns meant less crime, in a very, very big way.

Source: NRA-ILA

Criminals work hard at violating you and your loved ones. Let’s work together to make it a safe working environment for all rapists, murders and offenders.

When butterballs are outlawed, only outlaws will have butterballs.

Ervin spotted a 53-year-old woman who was walking toward her car with groceries. He tried to wrest away her car keys, Smith said.

“The suspect attacked her and began beating her,” Smith said. “Her injuries are fairly serious.”

Some other shoppers witnessed the attack and called 911. Several ran to the woman’s aid, including a man with a frozen turkey… Read more »

The father has done what any and all fathers should do. He administered the proper sleeper hold technique to a rapist. There is sleeper hold, then there is proper sleeper hold. Proper sleeper hold means that they never wake up.

INDIANAPOLIS – A man who police said broke into a home with the intention of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in her bedroom died after a struggle with the girl’s father.

David Meyers, 52, was pronounced dead shortly after officers arrived following a report of a home invasion in the 3500 block of West 79th Street at about 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, police said.

Officers said they found Robert McNally, 64, on the floor with his arm around the neck of Meyers, struggling to hold him down. When officers told McNally he could let go, they found that Meyers was unresponsive.

The Marion County coroner ruled on Monday that he was strangled to death.

Indianapolis police Sgt. Matt Mount said Meyers had come into the home naked, except for a mask and latex gloves.

“He had rope, had a knife, had condoms, had a gag,” Mount said.

David Meyers

The teen awoke to find a naked man in her room and began screaming, alerting McNally, police said.

Meyers was a registered sex offender and was released from prison two years ago after he had served 10 years of a 20-year sentence for criminal confinement and sexual deviate conduct stemming from a case in Hamilton County.

As the old marine adage goes “if you’ve come to a fair fight, you’ve come unprepared”; I strongly believe that the father could have made things so much easier, by just having a gun.

You see, had the good guy had a gun to begin with, he would have eliminated some unnecessary risks and/or unpleasant experiences which I’ve listed here for you.

1. Getting cut by the vato. He did have a knife, and those things can put an eye out you know.
2. Being karate chopped. Maybe the offender knows karate. I know people who know karate, and being karate chopped is the last thing I would ever want to be.
3. Being urinated upon while the struggle ensues. The dude left his big boy shorts at home. You wanna wrassle with that loaded pistol flying in every direction? Another good way to lose an eye.
4. Upon their arrival, being discovered by the local police force, spooning with a naked dude who’s asleep in your arms. omg! teh ghey rumors will fly.

I’m sure there are plenty of more risks and situations that I wouldn’t want to take, but I’m too lazy to figger them out. Too lazy to wrassle nekkid bad guys. C’mon guys. Think about it. It’s so much easier to point and click the 1911. You still get a full nights sleep.

A fleeing liquor store thief opened fire on the Idaho State Police up in Bonner County. Big mistake.

I love the tight grouping shown in the window glass. That’s called gun control.

SANDPOINT - No criminal charges will be pursued against law officers who shot and killed a liquor store theft suspect who opened fire on them.
“What they did was absolutely by the book,” Bonner County Prosecutor Phil Robinson said on Wednesday.

Robinson declined to identify the officers who were involved in the shooting death of Mark Eric Betts on July 7 north of Ponderay. Idaho State Police conducted an investigation into the incident, but reports were not immediately available on Wednesday.

The voluminous ISP investigation, which included footage from video cameras mounted in police vehicles, served as the basis for Robinson’s determination that no criminal charges were warranted.

Betts, a 49-year-old from Hope, was accused of stealing two half-gallon bottles of Canadian whiskey and a bottle of liqueur from the state liquor store in the Bonner Mall and threatening a clerk with a small wooden club when he was followed out to the parking lot.

Betts fled north on U.S. Highway 95 with Ponderay Police and Bonner County Sheriff’s deputies in pursuit. The chase ended on Colburn Culver Road, where he rammed a police vehicle with his Chevrolet Blazer.

After coming to a stop, Betts was ordered to surrender, according to Robinson’s charging determination memo to state police. Betts, however, emerged from his sport utility vehicle and fired a round from a .380-caliber pistol at a uniformed law officer, the memo said.

Law officers returned fire and Betts was fatally shot.

“The use of firearms and force by the law enforcement officers was lawful and justified,” Robinson said in the memo. Read More…

JJ and I were discussing politics, Hillary, hate crimes when the fact came up that hate crimes are thought crimes, and therefore un-constitutional. So I looked around the innernets and found this great article on the subject. The domain was expired, but I pulled this article from a cached page. Good reading.

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
- Thomas Jefferson

A form of tyranny over the mind of man that Thomas Jefferson feared has taken root in America under the guise of the politically correct war on so-called prejudicially motivated acts of violence. In Washington, they call it Hate Crime, what it really is, is Thought Crime.

We all know the story of the dragging death of a black man in Texas, classified and prosecuted under this relatively recent category of crime. The story for public consumption on this concept is that some crimes are motivated purely out of hate for race, religion or national origin, and thus are somehow worse crimes than others that have the same result—although I’ve yet to have someone show me a murder that was committed out of pure love and affection for the victim.

If Moe kills Larry during a fight and Moe calls Larry a black SOB during the murder, somehow that is worse than if Moe kills Curly and says nothing. The fact remains however both Curly and Larry are dead at the hands of Moe. Under the Hate Crime Law, the prosecution of Moe for Larry’s murder can be treated differently and the punishment much more severe than for Curly’s murder. The difference here, according to the federal government, is what was in the mind of Moe when he killed Larry. What Moe was thinking however can only be found within the personal depths of Moe’s mind and nowhere else. Murder is an overt act but hate, by its very nature, stems from thought…an internalized process. What is “hate crime” then if not the ability of the state to determine and then prosecute man based on his thoughts? Read the rest of this entry »