1 Hour 36 Minutes

That's how long it took for a 911 police response to an armed robbery in Chicago.

Following an ABC article linked by Uncle on the spike in recovered guns in a City that bans them (even though that included toys and rusty junkers) , the station really puts the screws to the Chicago PD and their response time due to a shortage of thousands of officers.

This contrasts, though, with the CPD's reported decrease in crime this year. But as we've also seen, they've been caught ruling suspicious deaths as 'suicides'.

Do the 'Right' Thing? Go to Jail

Where the UK used to be comes this display of what gun control advocates want for the US:

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty"...

Prosecuting, Brian Stalk, explained to the jury that possession of a firearm was a "strict liability" charge – therefore Mr Clarke's allegedly honest intent was irrelevant.

Just by having the gun in his possession he was guilty of the charge, and has no defence in law against it, he added.

Here's the money quote though:

"The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant."

This is the end result of 'gun control' as endorsed by IANSA of which the Brady Campaign and numerous Joyce Foundation groups (among other organizations) are members.

This is their goal here with their UN 'treaties'.

That is their goal while supporting 'reasonable' and 'common-sense' gun restrictions that restrict no-one but those who try and follow the law like the citizen subject of the UK above.

Anyone who denies that this is their goal in the face of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary is either fooling themselves or supporters.

There are no other options.

Armistice Day

Today, November 11th, marked the end of WW1 in 1918.

How better to celebrate than with a little Hitler rap.

Reasoned Discourse

Remember when Dennis Henigan forgot to quote a significant portion of the Second Amendment while defending the DC handgun ban?

Remember when the Brady Campaign then began erasing the video and transcripts of said Freudian slip?

Well now they're taking it even further by putting Winston Smith to work for their Ministry of Truth. Kurt Hoffman, 45Superman of Armed and Safe, has informed me that they're trying to have the video removed from any other place that has it posted under 'copyright infringement'.

They certainly don't like it when their real agenda gets exposed.

Update: Kurt posted an examiner column on this and noted that the Brady Campaign themselves have a history of improperly using materials by Howard Nemerov.

Can We be a little Less Biased Please?

In their latest bit of anti-gun 'journalism', the Huffington post shows a bunch of pictures of guns with captions stating how bad they are. They use this statistic on the US:

America leads the developed world for murders committed using firearms, with a rate of 0.0279271 per 1,000 people, according to UN reports from 2000.

As I've shown before, 'developed' is a very subjective term. Bryan Miller tried something like that once and this was my reply:

According to an IANSA document, Mexico is considered "industrialized", is a member of the OECD, and has a higher per capita homicide rate than the US. 5+ vs 3.11. Both Brazil, Russia and South Africa are also considered "industrialized" (all are G8+5 members) but are not members of the OECD and have higher firearm homicide rates than the US. 21.07,(homicide around 20/100K) , 22.04.

They also use the murder number from Switzerland which I've proven to be faulty and artificially inflated.

But the real telling thing is that, instead of linking to the actual UN reports with its nice little disclaimer on comparing international numbers and the most current information available, they cite NationMaster which uses data TEN YEARS out of date.

'Authorized Journalism' at its finest. I'm sure there's no agenda. Right?

The Ft. Hood Blame Game

So as more of the story comes out, it turns out the Ft. Hood massacre had nothing to do with 'weak firearm laws' and everything to do w/ an extremist who was under investigation multiple times by numerous federal agencies over the course of his career.

Now the agencies are pointing fingers at eachother trying to blame eachother why they didn't do anything about someone who was actively courting terrorist contacts.

But instead the response by groups like the Brady Campaign is to call for the type of gun he used to be banned and to oppose legislation that has nothing to do with the tragedy.

That's the way these people roll.