From the category archives:

Crime

Massachusetts: More stupid firearms laws

May 30, 2009

Massachusetts is at it again with more stupid firearms laws – laws that will do nothing to impact crime at all. While there are many things that I miss about living in New England – I am certainly not missing the idiotic “anti-crime” measures that the Massachusetts legislature attempts to pull off. I’m quite happy [...]

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DC v Heller

July 6, 2008

Someone asked me the other day why I hadn’t blogged about DC v Heller, the Supreme Court Gun Control case that was decided a few days ago. I replied – “Because it’s the outcome that I had always hoped for – and the one that I expected to see…” I’ve been an advocate of the [...]

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CSI: Target

April 4, 2008

CSI: Target from Forbes Magazine. Presented with a smile, but without comment…

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Washington Post: Target

January 29, 2006

From today’s Washington Post, presented without comment, but with a large smile: When arson investigators in Houston needed help restoring a damaged surveillance tape to identify suspects in a fatal fire, they turned first to local experts and then to NASA. With no luck there, investigators appealed to the owner of one of the most [...]

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Indiana State Police arrest teen suspect

November 14, 2005

As is appropriate, the Indiana State Police made the arrest in a case making national news today, as reported in today’s Indianapolis Star: A man wanted in the slaying of a Pennsylvania couple and the possible abduction of their 14-year-old daughter fled from Indiana state troopers at speeds in excess of 90 mph, running other [...]

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Use of Force

July 27, 2005

There’s been alot of yelling and screaming in the media about the Metropolitan Police in the UK shooting and killing a man recently because they believed that he may be a suicide bomber. And while I regret that they were wrong, they did exactly the right thing. Smash and others have posted of this as [...]

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Assault Weapons Ban a Crock

April 24, 2005

Over at Instapundit is this little ditty about the Assault Weapons ban: PERHAPS THIS IS BECAUSE IT WAS ALWAYS A CROCK, but The New York Times notices that ending the assault weapons ban didn’t matter: Despite dire predictions that the streets would be awash in military-style guns, the expiration of the decade-long assault weapons ban [...]

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Single Issue Voter

September 13, 2004

Until 9/11, I voted based primarily on one issue: gun control. So, based on that statement alone, in most years, I would not support Kerry simply because of comments like this: Kerry said renewing the assault weapons ban would not interfere with the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. Idiot. Please have him go back [...]

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