The spike after the handgun ban shows that the homicide rate had nothing to do with gun control. If it had, then the number would have gone down and stayed down.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Molon Labe Meme.
I’m more into the Romans than the Greeks, but here it goes:
I still prefer “over my cold dead fingers, Mr. President.” Good ol’ Charlton Heston was speaking about Bill Clinton back then. P.S. “Molon Labe” really means “Come and Take It” according to a commenter on Facebook.
State Trooper Banned From Having A Gun While Off Duty
The State trusts the trooper with a gun during the day, but when he punchs out, “sorry officer, no gun for you.”
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State Trooper Michael L. Keyes can carry a gun while on duty. When off duty, however, he is barred by law from possessing any firearms.
Keyes being banned from firearms off duty stems from a decision by the state of Pennsylvania’s Superior Court, based on events from seven years ago.
Keyes suffered from deep depression, tried to kill himself repeatedly by taking drugs, and was involuntarily committed for mental health treatment, reports The Patriot News. These factors weighed in to the decision made by the court on whether to allow Keyes to carry a firearm off duty.
The court’s ruling states that Keyes’ involuntary mental health commitment constitutes an unsurmountable legal barrier to his ability to possess a gun.
The federal Gun Control Act is at play in this decision. It bars anyone who has been subjected to involuntary mental health commitments from possessing guns. Expungement is not possible for Keyes’ involuntary mental health commitment record and so he cannot surmount the federal ban.
Infowars comments on the situation, stating an implication here that public officials have special status over private citizens, since Keyes can carry a firearm when he is serving the state.
President Judge Emeritus Kate Ford Elliott wrote that it is rational for Keyes to still be allowed a gun on duty because he is under supervision and observation of superior officers and his fellow troopers.
The Patriot News attempted to reach Keyes’ attorney, Joshua Prince, for comment on the case, but was unsuccessful.
Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/state-trooper-banned-having-gun-while-duty
Tell me, anti-gunners, why aren’t people who tried to commit suicide banned from driving cars, owning knives, going skydiving, etc? Could it be that suicide survivors don’t always attempt to kill themselves again?
New Gun Transfer Process in Illinois.
More nuttiness from the Land of Lincoln:
A law that goes into effect Wednesday will require individual Illinois gun owners to check their buyer’s credentials with state police before transferring ownership of their weapons, but key details of the new process still haven’t been announced.
….Beginning next week, Bond said gun owners will be able to call a phone number (which she said wouldn’t be made public until Monday) or use the state police website to check the buyer’s credentials and obtain an “approval number” that would be valid for a month. Then, after a waiting period of 24 or 72 hours, depending on what type of weapon was being sold, the transfer of ownership could proceed.
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Gun owners have long had to keep records of their private sales and check that their buyers have FOID cards, steps that don’t change under the new law. But if a buyer’s FOID card appeared valid but had been revoked, the seller would previously have had no way of knowing. Requiring the check with state law enforcement, supporters say, will provide a current record of whether the buyer has permission to own a firearm.
Pearson said he was dubious of the new law’s potential impact, but that he’d relay information on how to comply to his membership once he hears.
“I think it’s probably unnecessary,” Pearson said. “It’s, of course, aimed at people who transfer guns illegally. But people who transfer guns illegally are still going to transfer guns illegally. I can’t imagine too many gang members have FOID cards.”
Source: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-27/news/ct-illinois-gun-transfer-law-met-20131227_1_gun-owners-illinois-state-rifle-association-foid-cards
Do I need to state the obvious? Pearson just did it for me.
Sounds Familiar?
“Adolf Hitler should rightly be called the *real* father of universal healthcare, at least, in the western world. He was the first to regulate the healthcare industry for the entire population in Germany. Of course, the Soviet Union had a universal healthcare system already by 1921, but they were communist, the entire system was socialized. The abuse of the Soviet universal healthcare system, for example, to diagnose political dissidents as insane and confine them in hospitals, is yet another horror story of universal healthcare, when the Government dictates healthcare policy.”
Source: http://stop-obama-now.net/hitlercare/