And if they had known that their son’s cooperation would be used as evidence against him, they would have hired a lawyer at the beginning and exercised his right to remain silent. via KDVR. Their son is 11. He drew a picture at school. Later that night the police show up at his home: “She [...]
Breda points out this story of a guy who is on an open carry mission. She points out his mode of dress. I’d like to focus on this though: On Monday, I asked how he had just made it past the two security guards at the entrance with the gun, a Hi-Point C-9 pistol that [...]
This is already over the blogs, so you’ve probably already read about it. If not, make sure you check out this description before you read on. Contrary to what I was taught in High School journalism class, the reporter seems to have trouble reporting the How, What, Why, Where, and Whens of the story. So [...]
The guys with the beer and .357 revolver in this picture are: A) Average NRA members B) Racist Tea-Partiers C) Rednecks D) Police officers; the guys who are more responsible and trusted that you and me so that they can legally carry firearms any where they want; the guys you tell your kids to find [...]
…from laughing so much reading this list of negligent discharges (via SayUncle). Look there are two types of gun owners, those that have had an ND and those that will. I had an ND and I admit that freely. 20 years or so ago when I was a noob and hadn’t had the 4 rules [...]
TOR: What is it good for? Thwarting statist weasels like these: The House Republicans’ first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing. A House panel chaired by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin is scheduled to hold a hearing tomorrow morning [...]
According to Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes, a passerby stopped a Kirksville Police officer and said they had seen an individual acting erratically in a truck in the Wal-Mart parking lot shortly before 2:30 p.m. The passerby believed the individual had a gun to his head. via Kirksville Daily Express. It wasn’t a gun. [...]
A robot met its end near Coors Field tonight when the Denver Police Department Bomb Squad detonated the “suspicious object,” bringing to an end the hours-long standoff between police and the approximately eight-inch tall figurine. via The Denver Post. We have become a nation of colossal pussies. Bruce Schneier is right, we do need a [...]
The US has lost confidence in the Mexican army’s ability to win the country’s drugs war, branding it slow, clumsy and no match for “sophisticated” narco-traffickers. via Borderland Beat The narco-traffickers smuggle up to $39 billion in cash across the U.S./Mexico border while we confiscate $41 million. That’s not even a decent tax rate. [...]
In an update to this post, it appears that a judge has issued an arrest warrant for Jevon Hughes. Not for the arson that put an innocent child in the hospital, but for the alleged kidnapping that happened a few days before. The News 9 story has “gun” all over it. But the police didn’t [...]
