This Has Nothing to do With Guns, Yet…
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 26 2010, 05:35 PMLooks like North Korea sank a South Korean Navy vessel. That is what we call “not good” in the national security studies community.
Gun Not Make Man Kill
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 24 2010, 12:59 PMTerrible story from China, where a former medical worker stabbed and killed eight young children outside of an elementary school. No guns involved. I guess that means gun-free zones like schools or China don’t stop murder at all, do they? Or does the fact this attack took place in a double-gun-free zone (a school in China) negate the gun-free-i-ness of the gun-free zone? Or do mentally ill people just ignore rules regardless of where they live or any laws they might violate by doing what the squirrels ask of them?
Cheapo Stuffo
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 22 2010, 07:45 PM
Amazon is marking-down shooting gear. I have known for some time how awesome Amazon is for books, diapers, home goods and other products, but I did not know it was this awesome.
Hat tip: Instapundit
Half Off on Guns!
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 16 2010, 12:56 PM
Well, half off a million-dollar gun. This is being spun as a sign of the times, but it’s more a sign of how insane it was to value the .45 ACP Luger based on Gordon Gekko’s line from a leftist screed against money.
Hat Tips to The Firearm Blog and Michael Bane.
Even When You’re Dead, They’ll Get You
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 12 2010, 02:45 PMI don’t envy so-called meter maids. No one likes to get a parking ticket, and most people are rather impolite to the ticket-giver. Still, stories like this hardly make one sympathetic to the profession.
An Education
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 11 2010, 07:51 PM
Why does the Department of Education need 27 short-barreled shotguns? Well, I had an inkling it was for internal affairs, and that turns out to be correct. A spokesperson for the ED Office of the Inspector General explained the OIG is “responsible for the detection of waste, fraud, abuse and other criminal activity involving Federal education funds, programs and operations.” So, Arne Duncan won’t be busting-in with a SWAT team to remove homeschooled kids or make sure there’s no pictures of guns in school. What the OIG will try to do, however, is find people stealing funds from the ED, pilfering identities of student loan recipients and other, largely internal, issues. The shotguns are meant to replace older and malfunctioning models already in the OIG’s inventory.
A professor of mine in grad school once explained that of the thousands of federal officials who trained at FLETC, the vast majority were there for “inward-looking operations.” That means most federal law enforcement officials are tasked with enforcing the law against other federal employees. We don’t generally associate the ED with law enforcement because the majority of people arrested by an ED cop probably work for the ED.
Still, those are some pretty tacticool shotguns for such purposes…
Unsere Restauranten müssen salzfrei sein!
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 11 2010, 02:32 PMNew York, New York…it’s a hell of a town. Angering chefs is almost asking for a night of the long knives, is it not?
Disappointment
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 8 2010, 02:42 PMAs you might have heard, we had Anton Chigurh’s suppressed shotgun from “No Country for Old Men” in the office last week. If you haven’t seen the film, you should. It is fantastic throughout every element of filmmaking. But, I discovered two things that came as a great disappointment to me as a firearms enthusiast. First, though the movie was set in 1980, Chigurh used a Remington 11-87, which obviously did not exist until seven years later. Second, the suppressor is fake. It’s just a big stainless steel barrel shroud. I suppose I always assumed this element to be more of a plot device than an attempt at realism, but given the film’s attention to detail in the scenery, this anachronism was a bit of a let down. And it would have been very cool if the suppressor was functional.
One Editorial Per Month
Posted by EdFriedman2, Mar 1 2010, 04:25 PM
In today’s Washington Post, the esteemed editors of the obsolete fish wrap have decided to incoherently attack the recent Virginia legislative effort to repeal the Commonwealth’s one-handgun-per-month law. The paper’s editors demonstrate a contempt for Constitutional rights, saying they “are not aware of any big problems that resulted from buyers being able to obtain only 12 handguns a year.” Well, for one thing, if a buyer wanted to buy a handgun for home defense the day after he bought a Luger at a gun show, he couldn’t, and that’s a big problem. I mean, come on Washington Post, are not the rights of the individual paramount? Apparently not when it comes to part 2 of the Bill of Rights.
The editorial also makes the claim that, “Research has shown that the gun a month limit has reduced by as much as half the number of Virginia firearms recovered in cities such as New York.” Let’s assume that the unidentified and uncited “research” actually does show these statistics. Why, then, is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg constantly attacking our great Commonwealth for being a source of guns used in NYC, long after the law became effective? Could it be that gun traffickers, like all other criminals, are not dissuaded by laws? That, perhaps, by their very intention to violate the law, laws making that violation illegaler merely infringe on the liberties of the law-abiding?
Here’s a thought experiment: How would the esteemed editors of the once-influential Washington Post react to a law only allowing them to publish one editorial per month? After all, the pen is mightier than the sword, which makes it more dangerous, right?
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