My local gun store opened at 7 a.m. this morning. By 8:30, they had sold 15 AR15 rifles, their entire inventory. Also, there are no magazines to be had, and they are running out of ammo. They also told me that calls to their distributors have revealed that all black rifles and their magazines will be back ordered for the foreseeable future.
I wonder how many of the people buying these guns today voted for Obama yesterday.
(I voted for Johnson.)
Being a post whore, there is a topic that is guaranteed to get hits: Sex. A recent study showed that women’s sexual appetite falls as a relationship ages, while the appetite of men remains constant.
This creates a bit of a question in my mind: For women, as the “shiny” wears off, her desire to have sex diminishes. Does this mean that this predisposes women to have an affair with a new male, who would presumably trigger increased desire, or does it mean that the man who has the same desire as he always had will be predisposed to an affair with a woman that still desires sex?
In other words, are we as humans biologically designed to preclude monogamy?
So we all know the four rules:
My question is this:
When is it acceptable to violate any given rule? For example:
A gun isn’t loaded when it has a chamber flag in place. In SWAT training, we have our firearms inspected to ensure that they are not loaded, a chamber flag is placed, and no loaded magazines or ammunition is allowed in training. We then spend the rest of the afternoon pointing guns at each other for training. This violates at least two, possibly all four, of the rules.
Every time you carry in a shoulder holster, you violate rule 2. Can you violate rule two if the action is locked open? If not, then how do you put your weapon in the case? Approach the firing line? Attach a suppressor? If you have a firearm that has the action locked open, and there is no magazine in the well, is it a sin to sweep someone?
For rule three, how can you disassemble your Glock?
My point is that there are times when the rules don’t apply. Where is that limit?
I used to be in favor of the death penalty. My opinion has changed over the past few years: I am in favor of the death penalty in theory, but after seeing the
innocence project and the Duke Lacrosse case, I am of the opinion that
our legal system is too corrupt to ensure that we are not executing the
innocent.
Maurice Patterson was convicted of murder in 2002 for a fight where the
victim was stabbed 14 times. Three people witnessed the fight,
fleetingly and in the dark, and a fourth witness claimed to have seen a
man with blood on his hand hiding from the police. All four witnesses
identified Maurice Patterson in a live lineup weeks after the attack,
but they only testified regarding these identifications after being
threatened with Contempt of Court.
A bloody knife was found near
the scene and sent to Orchid Cellmark for DNA testing. STR test results
excluded Patterson, indicating a mixture of the victim’s profile and an
unknown profile. Comparison to the State CODIS DNA database revealed
that the unknown profile belonged to a drug addict with a history of
violence. Though the State Police Forensic Science Center had been
notified that the sample included the victim’s blood, this information
was never directly communicated to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s
Office. Prosecutors continued with the case against Patterson regardless
of the exculpatory results.
Robert Wilcoxson and Kenneth Kagonyera served almost 10 years in North
Carolina prisons for a murder they didn’t commit before a three-judge
panel overturned their convictions on September 22, 2011, based on DNA
evidence proving innocence.
In this case, a man was killed during a home invasion, and police managed to secure confessions from the two defendants. Three bandanas and two pairs of gloves were located on the side of the
road near the Bowman residence and were collected by deputies as
evidence in the case. The bandanas and gloves found near the crime scene
were submitted for pre-trial DNA testing. Results excluded all six
co-defendants, however this information was never turned over to
Kagonyera or Wilcoxson’s attorneys.
Sure,
we have DNA and such, but when the system is so corrupt that
exculpatory evidence is “lost” or buried, we are executing the innocent.
That makes us all as a society guilty of murder.
So there is this category one hurricane heading for the northeast, and we are being subjected to a nationwide news blitz about how there will be death and destruction. I pointed out that there is a bit of hyperbole going on here, and I see comments about how the central pressure of the storm makes it a cat 4. You Yankees are smoking crack. It isn’t the minimum central pressure that is important in a hurricane, it is the sustained winds. As of this writing, Sandy has maximum winds of about 90mph. That makes it a Category One on the Saffir-Simpson scale. At Cat1, all we do here is evacuate trailer parks and beach fronts. New York panics and closes elevators, mass transit, the Stock Exchange, and tunnels.
In Orlando, when Hurricanes Charley (CAT4) and Frances (CAT3) made landfall in 2004, Walt Disney World closed for half a day. I thought New Yorkers brag about toughness! What does this mean? Why is this a bad thing?
In 2004, the fire department that I worked for had just hired a new chief. He was from New York, and as Hurricane Charley neared, the chairman of our department’s hurricane committee wanted to meet with him to discuss our disaster plan with him. His reply was that they got hurricanes in New York all the time, they were not any worse than a nor’easter, and he then left to attend a conference in New Orleans.
The town had major damage, power was out for two weeks, and he was unable to get a flight back. He had to rent a car and drive back. Making such a big deal out of a minor storm puts a false sense of security the next time a REAL hurricane nears, and that endangers lives.
This is what happens when citizens decide that they can do the jobs of the police: The cops, of course, claim that policing should be left to the professionals.
The answer to yesterday’s post:
If you look, every other complex has a different shape to the ‘P’ wave, and is followed by a compensatory pause, making them PACs. This means that the rhythm is Atrial Bigeminy.
Here is an interesting strip. This is an unusual find, and the first time that I have ever seen this particular rhythm. (Hint: It is NOT an AV block.)
Amazon’s customer service is horrible. I pay for Amazon prime. This costs $80 a year, and you are supposed to get free two day shipping on in stock items. On Thursday the 4th, I ordered two books that I need for work, and the items were listed as being in stock. I expected them by Monday the 8th. They haven’t even shipped yet, and the expected delivery date is now showing up as next Friday the 12th. I tried to cancel the order, and a reply by automated message said that I could not, because the items had already shipped.
So, I contacted customer service, and they said:
We normally obtain the books from a supplier who can
usually send it to us as soon as possible from the time your order is placed;
however; in this case, the supplier has taken longer than expected to make this
item available.Our reliance on suppliers and manufacturers for
information about their stock means that, occasionally, our database will not
reflect all changes.I’ve checked and it looks like
we’re waiting to receive more inventories for your book. Though we’re unable to
give exact date when we can obtain stock or ship your order at this time but
rest assured that we’re working with our suppliers so that we can try to have
your order shipped as soon as possible. I hope you’ll understand that we do our
best to ensure that all of our customer orders leave our fulfillment centers as
fast as we can.
It seems like the ATF is a bit angry at the 3D handgun printing project. They are giving the folks a hard time about it, and claiming that manufacturing a pistol without a manufacturers license is against the law, even if you have no intention of selling it. That is not in keeping with longstanding regulations.
In related news, the manufacturer of the printer has revoked the printer lease. I wonder if the ATF had anything to do with that.
The comments on the article are pretty stupid: this is all necessary to prevent terrorists from printing guns. As if you can’t already buy full auto AK47s made by hand in a cave in Afghanistan for $15.