Archive for June 18th, 2008

Problem Solves Itself

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Crook dies attempting a home robbery.

Looks like a 19 year old critter decided that appendix carry, sans holster, was the way to go. Upon breaking down the door to a house he goes to pull his gun and shoots himself in the gut, drops gun, runs off, and the police find him at 5:30am in a driveway.

Dead.

Republican Congressman introduces another Assault Weapons Ban

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Here’s he bill. I found it because Thirdpower mentioned it.

It does look like the same text as the 1994 AWB, right down to the grandfathering date.

I wouldn’t worry much about this. It looks like it’s just a little pre-election attention whoring by a few Republican members of Congress. They’re probably just looking for a sound bite to put into their ads for reelection.

DC Checkpoints Ended

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

That didn’t take long. I first mentioned them here.

They gave it up last week Thursday. Last week Wednesday there were 8 homicides not far from where the checkpoints were.

I’m not an expert in these things, but it seems to me if you’re looking to reduce crime in the area you’d start locking up the people responsible for it. Have they tried that yet?

Michigan Bank Robbery Stopped

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

This one has me giggling.

Some nutter walks into an eastern Michigan bank and hands the teller a note saying he’s got a bomb on him and he wants money. A customer gets wind of this, pulls a pistol on the man and informs him he’s not robbing the bank. Nutter responds that he’s got a bomb. Customer responds with, “I don’t care.”

Turns out the nutter didn’t have a bomb anyway, so that’s good. The customer with the concealed weapon made him sit on a chair until police arrived.