Really. These are the exact people we need to keep guns out of the hands of. You know, because you can just plummet three stories and smash your head on the sidewalk as a defense mechanism when confronted with a crazed, knife-wielding rapist.

UPDATE:

While a gun would certainly be a better option than hurling yourself out a 3rd story window, in this case, bad decisions are clearly to blame. If you’re a woman, what are you doing inviting a bunch of drunken guys over at 2:30AM?

I’ll say this though … if she makes it through the fight for her life and manages to get that skull put back together, she’d do well with the reality check and just might turn into someone who realizes that self defense is a precious thing - just as precious as not being a complete idiot in the first place.

Shit. Just like all the other PSH. I’m ornery today, and I did not need to read this bullshit to set me off.

ON THE third day at his new school in Montgomery County, Maryland, my nine-year-old son came home and excitedly told me they had spent the morning practising code red and code blue.

Code blue, he told me, was when there was a threat outside the school. The school would be locked down, the blinds closed but lessons would continue.

I’m reading this and I’m thinking to myself … “this is being written by someone who’s over-emotional and completely clueless.”

Exhibit A:

“And code red?” I asked, horrified. “That’s when the threat is inside the school, Mum. That’s when we have to be really quiet, the teacher locks the classroom door, covers up the little glass window, turns out the lights and we hide behind the brick wall that divides the storeroom from the classroom.”

Exhibit B:

For a few moments, I wondered whether I had made the right decision in bringing my children to America. Such preparations for armed assaults at schools are standard practice in our school district after the Washington sniper incident in 2002 and the all-too-regular shooting rampages at universities and schools.

Over-emotional. Check.

Now, Exhibit C:

From an Australian perspective the answer seems straightforward: dramatically reduce the number of guns in circulation, as the former prime minister John Howard did in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.

Fucking clueless. Check. Bad people exist, and they find a way. Congratulations on your disarmament. I note you don’t mention the fact that Martin Bryant used weapons that he couldn’t obtain legally though looking up his name online reveals a lot of speculation as to where and how he obtained his weapons. Funny that - criminals not obeying the laws. And too bad all that legislation doesn’t discourage acts such as this:

Fourteen gang rapists have been convicted, or pleaded guilty, thanks to the courage of seven victims who testified for days in court as their tormentors smirked nearby, the men’s families threatened them and defence lawyers suggested they had enjoyed the rapes.

One of the victims held at gunpoint in a park, no less. Post 1996, of course.

Or this:

Police have named the man they are hunting over the fatal shooting in central Melbourne today.

He is Christopher Wayne Hudson, 29, a Victoria Police spokeswoman said in a statement tonight.

“No further details or a photograph of the suspect are available at this stage,” the spokeswoman said.

This was June, 2007. There is in fact something an armed citizen cannot do that a disarmed citizen can …

… die without any chance of fighting back:

A 43-year-old solicitor died during an act of “extreme bravery” after he was shot while trying to save a woman from Hudson in Melbourne’s city centre today, police have said.

It was indeed brave.

The solicitor was blasted in the chest at point blank range and died at the scene an hour later, despite the efforts of paramedics to revive him.

“It appears he has gone to the aid of the female … and was shot,” Homicide Squad Detective Inspector Stephen Clark said.

He said the man’s attempts to protect the woman, who was also shot, was an act of “extreme bravery”.

Detective Inspector Clark described the incident as “tragic”.

No, tragic is an Aussie exhibiting PSH with no hope of ever becoming better informed because of their own emotional walls and preconceptions. What happened in Melbourne wasn’t tragic, it was inevitable.

“Its a tragic, tragic set of circumstances and it does appear as though he’s been in the wrong place at the wrong time, he was trying to give assistance to the female,” Detective Inspector Clark said.

… if he was armed - just like if someone at NIU was armed … they would’ve been in the right place, at the right time. With at least a fighting chance to be more than a human shield about to slip into a body bag.

But I digress. This is about Aussie PSH at America’s ridiculous gun culture. On with the fun from Oz!

But in America, such a view (Liberty Note: taking away guns, that is) is heresy, and a violation of a citizen’s constitutional right to bear arms, enshrined in the second amendment. This view is not limited to the Republican Party; it is supported by many Democrats, as this week’s comments by the presidential candidates demonstrated after the North Illinois shooting.

Not only does this person not understand the basics of “criminal bad - break law”, but they don’t understand politics either:

Hillary Clinton was suitably vague: “I believe we should have a summit where everybody comes together, all sides of the issue. And let’s figure out how we can be consistent with the second amendment - which I wholeheartedly support - and do more to keep people safe.”

Sweetheart let me enlighten you … when Hillary says, “where everybody comes together” it really means, “I draw a line in the sand and you obey or I start shrieking.” There’s nothing “suitably vague” about a Clinton. You just haven’t been around the bitch long enough to get it. It’s okay. You’re missing the boat on quite a few things, quite honestly.

Barack Obama: “There is an individual right to bear arms, but it is subject to common sense regulation, just like most of our rights are subject to common sense regulation.”

Does the word “Pandering” exist in the Aussie dictionary? What about “doublespeak”? How about “Board of Directors” or “Joyce Foundation”? Just curious. How about, “dictatorial hellhole,” which is exactly what, “most of our rights are subject to common sense regulation” means, you idiot. Let me guess … you were graded with a purple pen in elementary school, weren’t you? Because, you know, “Purple stands out, but it doesn’t look as scary as red.” And clearly, the mere thought of a gun scares the soopershit out of you.

The Republican candidates have spent the campaign trying to outdo each other on how fervently they support the right to own guns because of the enormous clout the National Rifle Association has among the conservative Republican base.

You know, bullshit statements like that make me NOT want to join the NRA. It’s a spite thing for me. No, I’m NOT a part of the all-powerful “gun lobby” and I STILL want to own a pile of AK-47s for the inevitable zombie invasion, now fuck off while I count my ammo and sniff solvent fumes or I might get JUST PISSED ENOUGH to vote Libertarian in the next election, you woefully uninformed, vegemite-brained princess.

Of the remaining contenders - Mike Huckabee and John McCain - both claim to be unwavering supporters of the second amendment. Mr Huckabee wants a federal law that would clarify the right to carry concealed weapons and overturn restrictions in New York and Washington, DC, and he opposes a ban on assault weapons. Senator McCain also opposes banning assault weapons but has a more “nuanced” record on guns.

They’re both big-government statist pigs. One’s great on guns but wants to Bible-ize the Constitution, the other has a documented history of wiping his wrinkly ass with copies of the 1st Amendment. Nuanced.

“Liberty’s Nuance” would be eating dinner at a friends house, getting a bite of gristle in an otherwise good steak, and calmly wiping my mouth with a napkin, spitting it out, folding the napkin, and continuing on with my meal.

“McCain Nuance” would be eating dinner at a friends house, getting a bite of gristle in an otherwise good steak, and calmly standing on the table, yanking down his drawers, squirting out some runny-ass shit in the fruit salad to the horror of all on-lookers and saying, “FINE! You want to serve shit? I’ll SERVE YOUR GODDAMN SHIT if they want it!”

And assault weapons? You try and identify one.

The depth of feeling about the right to carry guns is reflected in the legislative action - or lack of action - that followed America’s worst mass shooting, the Virginia Tech massacre, which killed 32 people last April. The ability to buy a gun at a gun show without a background check is regarded as one of the failures of the system.

What system? Obama’s system? Sure, I’ll go with that.

Despite fervent support from anguished families of the victims, the Virginia State legislature failed to pass the bill three weeks ago, after two rural Democrats joined the Republicans in opposing the bill. So gun show sales continue.

Anguished families of the victims using the bodies of their loved ones as bully-pulpits to advance an anti-gun agenda that wouldn’t have made a damn bit of difference in saving the lives of their loved ones. No. I’ve had it with those families. Grossly misinformed publicity hogs looking to hijack the VA legislature into passing laws that the community does not want because they know it either doesn’t matter or doesn’t work.

The other major reform - expanding a federal database to include 2 million people who have been “adjudicated” by the courts as mentally ill, as well as former felons - was signed into law by the President, George Bush, in January. This database must be checked by licensed gun dealers (but not gun show sellers).

Wrong. Again. Not all that surprising except that people are reading this feces-laden tripe and swallowing it down in huge, ignorant, sloppy slurps.

The gun issue could also get more airplay later during the political campaign. So far Senator Clinton has not chosen to exploit Senator Obama’s tough-on-guns record in the primaries because she may well alienate as many Democrat voters as she wins.

Even if she doesn’t do so, the Republicans assuredly will in the general election, where states such as Virginia, Colorado and some of the south-western states will be battlegrounds between the major parties.

Of course that’s a total crock of penguin-poo in and of itself. Southwestern states will vote Republican because of McCain’s fruit-salad-soiling “nuance” as compared to Obama’s “tough on guns” support of the 2nd Amendment and common sense legislation of ALL our rights?

Do they grow them this stupid in Oz nowadays, or is this the exception to the rule? Hell, give me some reruns of the Crocodile Hunter and a Wiggles CD any day of the week over this ridiculous nonsense.

There. I feel better.

Note to self:

Do not neglect to check if AK-47 is loaded and then proceed to clean it while it’s pointed at Mom resting on the sofa.

Gainesville Teen: ‘I Shot My Mother’:

HALL COUNTY, Ga. — A Gainesville woman is dead after being shot by her son. Mary Bailey, 52, was sleeping nearby when her son discharged his AK-47 early Tuesday morning.

Hall County Sheriff’s authorities said the case is still under investigation but based on their preliminary investigation, they said it appears to be an accident.

“To make a long story short, I shot my mother,” Derrick Bailey told Channel 2’s Rachel Kim.

Derrick Bailey, 19, said out of boredom, he began to clean his AK-47 around 2 a.m. Tuesday. His mother, Mary, was sleeping on a sofa nearby.

“It was like a removing of the clip, then I placed it on the side. She was on the right side, and in my attempts to hold onto it, it went off. I didn’t even know it was loaded,” said Derrick.

The gun went off and hit Mary in the upper body.

Never point it at anything you aren’t willing to destroy. Like your Mom.

Keep your booger hook off the bang switch. While pointing it at your Mom.

Make sure there’s no round in the chamber when you’re going to clean it. While pointing it at your Mom.

Vulnerable schools need protection
Guns, training for teachers may be answer

It’s an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune, so perhaps I was holding out TOO much hope. Nevertheless, it’s a good start to see this kind of piece.

Thirty-nine students attend my American literature seminar this semester. Our classroom is the first one you see on the left, as you enter the unlocked humanities building.

If a psychotic gunman were searching for a tight cluster of multiple bodies — an easy target for seeking revenge, casting out demons, achieving immortality or whatever else his perverse purpose happens to be — he would find my classroom door wide open. He could assume a position straddling the threshold and blocking the exit, so that he could fire at the trapped students at will, reload his weapon and fire once again. We would be sitting ducks in yet another American schoolhouse tragedy.

But if I were packing a loaded automatic pistol in a shoulder holster beneath my jacket, we might have half a chance.

An actual logical argument from one of America’s liberal brain-washing institutions universities. I feel shock.

I am no Rambo. I am a middle-age English professor with no military background. But as an outdoorsman, I have a passing acquaintance with the use of firearms, experience which could be refined to a skill of safety and competence, with adequate training.

Years in classroom management in urban high schools, colleges and universities makes me attuned and alert to every individual, and their comings and goings in my classroom.

And because of the responsibility I feel toward my students, I would do whatever I could to protect their lives, even without a weapon. So why not arm me and give them a reasonable chance?

Commendable.

Two years ago, I wrote an essay expressing skepticism about arming school personnel. But that was before the mass murders at Virginia Tech, Louisiana Technical College and Northern Illinois University, among others.

My perspective has changed because the country is changing cataclysmically. The rash of cold-blooded serial killings on campuses is now less an anomaly than a wave of terror. It demands new initiatives to safeguard the lives of people seeking a college education.

Additional locks, and a text messaging system that says, “Hey, someone just had their brains blown out in Lecture Hall 1B. Run!” don’t do the trick. It’s good that those sorts of methods are being exposed as the janitorial clean-up tasks they are.

I remain adamantly opposed to permitting students to carry concealed weapons. The prospect of thousands of teenage and 20-something students carrying guns on college campuses is only asking for trouble.

I disagree and I think here is where the whole “misguided” thing falls apart. Why is it the argument comes up that every drunken panty-raider in a frat is going to be running around with a loaded pistol and no idea how to use it? Non-violent, responsible students will (for the most part) be the ones carrying. Just like the majority of adults carrying are non-violent and responsible. Someone respecting the law, going through the process, and taking the proper steps to get their conceal permit and know their weapon are not the same as some gang-banging thug who holds the damn thing sideways and can’t hit the broad side of a low-income housing complex in a 2 mph drive by.

But training and equipping seasoned adults, who also happen to be select and exhaustively screened college professors, is a hopeful solution.

Select and exhaustively screened? Booooooo! Now you’re leaving it up to the elites to determine who is worthy and that’s a damn slippery slope.

I am not suggesting arming all teachers. I have had many brilliant colleagues, who are my betters when it comes to teaching, who, nonetheless, do not inspire trust when they use the office paper cutter, let alone a 9 mm Glock.

Those are the same teachers who will undoubtedly wet themselves passing you in the hallway, by the way. So I don’t think there’s a chance they’re going to willingly or unwillingly be armed. They’ll quit first citing socialist principle and a hatred and unnatural fear of mechanical death machines.

Finally:

And I believe that, as a father, if I’m apprised that coach Jones in the gym building, and professor Maddox in the arts center, and Dr. Heinz in the science lab, have all volunteered for weapons training, because they wanted to protect the lives of my children, I would sleep a lot better at night.

Non-PSH. At least to some degree.

It’s a good start, but there’s a lot of work to do.

Someone carrying on a college campus - where there is a law against concealed carry - was able to stop a psycho intent on slaughtering anyone he got near?

How hard do you think they’d throw the book at the lawbreaker in spite of stopping the crime. Has there been a clear-cut situation like this in recent times?

If ever you read, “I support the 2nd Amendment BUT …” or, “I’m a gun-owner BUT …” or “I have no problem with guns BUT …” you’re about to hear a pack of lies from a slimy, sweet-talking statist thug who doesn’t respect your rights, liberty, or life. Period. End of story. There is no argument.

There is no “BUT” other than the stanky asshole writing the piece. There is no “kinda maybe” with the 2nd. You’re either all-in, or you’re Hillary or Obama. Anything else is “kinda pregnant” and that doesn’t exist.

Here’s the excellent shredding of this double-speaking, lying liar butt-nut over at Traction Control.

Police Settle Lawsuit Over Time Spent Putting On Uniforms

Lawsuits for getting dressed.

CONCORD, N.H. — Police in Concord have settled a federal lawsuit after the city agreed to start paying them to put on their uniforms before a shift and take care of paperwork and equipment afterward.

The police union had tried to get the department to change schedules after officers complained they were spending about 30 minutes of their own time each day gearing up and squaring things away. Now officers will get 20 minutes on the clock to suit up and wrap up for the day.

Why not demand compensation from the moment you wake up on a work day? How about the time it takes to set your alarm clock in the evening?

This is why I find it ridiculous:

The police union initially asked only for a schedule change and said it only brought the lawsuit when it believed it wasn’t being taken seriously.

Union bully. Nice.

You know, the whole NIU thing got me thinking about this whole “sue gun manufacturers” if some mass murdering idiot goes postal with a weapon that has their logo on it.

It’s a ridiculous premise. You can’t sue a bathtub manufacturer if some crazed psycho babysitter drowns your kids in it. You can’t sue a knife manufacturer if some crazy carves up your girlfriend with it.

But you know what I’d love to see? Why not allow gun manufacturers to sue the psychopath (or family of) for using their product improperly? After all, haven’t they then contributed to a loss of business/sales due to that improper use?

I know. Fat chance, but still, it would make more sense than something like suing Ford because someone drove one over your fence and into the living room of your house.