Another hard earned lesson about predators

It would appear India hasn't learned a thing from the last lesson that disarmament taught: predators seek out the easiest prey:

KISHANPUR, India — Tigers have killed at least three children and four adults in north India in recent weeks, officials said Friday, forcing frightened villagers to stay indoors while forest rangers search for the wild cats.

The FOX News headline on this piece is titled: Villagers Cower as Tigers Kill at Least 7 in India.

Got that? They "cower," like good little victims.

So what is being done by their government to prevent further attack?

Authorities wielding guns combed villages surrounding the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in the state of Uttar Pradesh, from which seven tigers are believed to have strayed. One of the tigers is believed to have killed at least four people in the last two weeks, including three children between the ages of 8 and 15.

Armed men are looking for the tigers. It's that simple. Humans with rifles can stop tigers; or gunman.

Yes, the Rangers are actively looking for the beasts, and will try to take them with a tranquilizer gun, if they can, but what about Abu the farmer who isn't trying to find a tiger, but just wants to tend his fields without the risk of getting his throat torn out by a fierce animal? Oh, he's not trusted to carry a rifle. Too bad.

Villagers in the area are keeping their children home from school and have stopped tending their fields for fear of the tigers.

"Please help, a tiger has eaten up my nephew and the forest department is doing nothing to protect the villagers," said Lakhan Singh in Tanda village, roughly 95 miles southeast of the state capital of Lucknow.

It sounds to me like it's time for Singh to do what's necessary for he protection of his family. Damn the Indian government for forcing him to make that choice; it's telling that they place the blame at the feet of the people that they claim to represent:

K.K. Singh, a senior forest official, said the conflicts were due to villagers encroaching upon the tigers' land.

It's all their fault.

Their choices? Go outside and get eaten. Stay inside and starve. Carry a rifle so you can safely harvest your crops and not get eaten, and get arrested and jailed by a Ranger - who's carrying a rifle so that he doesn't get eaten. Great logic!

Regime change folks.

On "Gun Free" Mexico

Their strict laws that disarm the citizens don't seem to be stopping the violence:

According to Mexico's attorney general, 6,616 people died in drug-trafficking violence in Mexico last year.

A high percentage of those killed were themselves criminals, but many law enforcement agents battling organized crime were also murdered. The carnage continues. For the first 22 days of this year the body count is 354.

My emphasis. Taking guns away from the citizens does not make one bit of difference in the violence equation.

I do know that the media has been slurping up the BS that the ATF has been shoveling for sometime in regards to the preposterous idea that drug cartel members are sneaking across the border, illegally buying guns from gun shows, and sneaking back into Mexico to fight the government. This piece of fiction has been going on for some time, and I commented on it yesterday over at Snowflakes in Hell.

So just what kind of weapons are the cartel guy using? How about these:

A report by retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the former drug czar, makes similar observations. "The malignancy of drug criminality," he writes, "stretches throughout the U.S. in more than 295 cities." Gen. McCaffrey visited Mexico in December.

Here is how he sees the fight: "The outgunned Mexican law enforcement authorities face armed criminal attacks from platoon-sized units employing night vision goggles, electronic intercept collection, encrypted communications, fairly sophisticated information operations, sea-going submersibles, helicopters and modern transport aviation, automatic weapons, RPG's, Anti-Tank 66 mm rockets, mines and booby traps, heavy machine guns, 50 cal sniper rifles, massive use of military hand grenades, and the most modern models of 40mm grenade machine guns."

OK, night vision and encrypted communication equipment can be purchased readily almost anywhere in the world, but I don't see too many helicopters, submarines, mines, RPGs, anti-tank rockets, heavy machine guns, grenades, or 40mm grenades at gun shows. Actually, I've never seen any. Ever. One could find .50 caliber rifles at a gun show, but you have to pay a premium price for one, which tens of thousands of Americans happily do because they use them for fun, target shooting, competition, and hunting.

So in short, Mexican laws against civilians owning small arms is having no impact on the absurd amount of violence in the country, and it would seem likely that the government should be looking into it's own ranks to find out where the bombs, grenades, rocket launchers, and machine guns are coming from.

Machete in a knife fight

Manatee County Sheriff's Office says the suspect reached over the store counter with the knife and told Pham he had five seconds to hand over the cash from the register.

Deputies say Pham reached in a hiding place under the counter for a machete and whacked the suspect on the arm cutting him badly.

The suspect ran out of the store without the money leaving a trail of blood.

Apparently, size does matter!

Armed DC citizen shoots mugger

Actually, no. The citizen was an off duty DC cop, so he was allowed to carry the small protective device that enables an individual to effectively stop an attacker. It's OK folks; he was "authorized."

Now, DC Councilman Jim Graham is shocked, SHOCKED, that this attack would happen in such a "prosperous" and "optimistic" neighborhood. I'm sure it would not have been such a "real setback" or "real disappointment" had this happened in a poor neighborhood; one where he's not so "engaged in the issues."

On the side, this would be the second DC police shooting in two days, and this particular incident reminds me of similar ones from last year in which the robbers got copious copper injections from cops.

But I thought paying your taxes was patriotic?

This would be the second time that DC Councilman Marion Barry has been busted for not paying taxes. I would like to add that this is his second time getting caught; no doubt he's been evading taxes his whole life.

The first time he was caught he popped on a drug test at the court hearing for pot and cocaine use. And notice that DC has been giving him breaks from the start for everything that he gets in trouble for.

This man is a crook, and DC residents keep putting him in office. Why?

On the liberal love affair with Che

I don't understand the love affair either. Greg Gutfield of The Daily Gut has a piece in Fox News this morning that should start your day out with a chuckle. A taste:

"According The Washington Times, after a screening of the film, Benicio granted an interview to the film press — who are usually a mass of celebrity ass-kissers wrapped in a cocoon of anti-Americanism."

Just like fresh air.

Read the whole thing.

Zombies ahead

Be advised: in Texas there is an apparent zombie threat.

Arm yourselves accordingly.

More Bow & Arrow violence

When is California going to pass legislation that addresses the dangers of Bow violence? I mean, if we just banned bows, and let's not forget to ban those armor piercing assault arrows, then criminals wouldn't be able to get them and hurt someone. Right?

It's common sense. For the children!

Britain's gun-free utopia

I just found this video on the Brits staging the largest peaceful protest that the country has ever seen to tell their government that they want their gun rights back. I'm sure it's too late:


The part about the magistrate telling Tony Martin that he shouldn't have shot the burglers, but instead should have just shouted for help made my jaw drop.

[H/T to the VCDL-ALERT]

Anti-gun Hartford Mayor a crook

Wow. The members of "Mayors Against Illegal Guns", a gun banning group of mayors, seem to be getting themselves busted for a crime about every week now.

This time it's Hartford, CT mayor Eddie Perez.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez surrendered to state police Tuesday on bribery and other charges related to home renovations done by a contractor who has performed millions of dollars of work for the city.

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A state grand jury has been investigating possible corruption in city government for 15 months, and it looked at $20,000 in kitchen and bathroom renovations at Perez's home done by city contractor Carlos Costa

Yeah, this Eddie Perez:


He would have you believe that he is the sole arbitor of your 2nd Amendment rights; that you can't be trusted to responsibly handle a firearm, so he must make the decision to take them away from you.

Saving you from yourself, and all that.

Maybe he should have just payed attention to the plank in his own eye?

DC Examiner and gun safety

So I was scanning the news networks this morning trying to pick through the abundance of sensationalised/fabricated/factually bankrupt news articles when I happened to look to the top of the page while at the DC Examiner website:


It's good to know that the newspaper takes firearm safety seriously!

Government fail

I got up this morning to find out that every school or official government function was closed due to snow. Here in Northern Virginia, we receive an email at work warning us about the weather and telling us to look to Quantico to see if they're closed. If Quantico is closed, we're closed.

Well, whoever makes the call to close the base must have a hell of a hangover, because the roads are treacherous, and there are cars wrecked and overturned everywhere in the wake of this snowfall, and the base is still open. Not only that, but until a few minutes ago, you couldn't even get on the Quantico website to check to see if the base was closed, or even delayed.

Next time, spare me the email telling me to look for guidance at your non-functioning crap website that takes ten minutes to load on a good day. I'll make the freaking call myself since you can't muster the courage to close up shop on the first significant snowfall that we've had in three years.

On an angry note: to the stupid pompous woman in the SUV who was riding my bumper as I was getting ready to merge onto I-95 this morning - yeah you; the one who decided that I wasn't going fast enough so you swerved around me and cut me off AS I WAS MERGING ONTO THE RAMP - thanks for endangering the life of my eighteen month old daughter so you could get to work five minutes faster. It's probably wrong to say, but I was definitely looking to see the mangled wreckage of your car on the side of the highway so I would have some vindication that idiots like you get what you deserve. Sometimes I just hope for some Darwinism.

It used to be that Virginian drivers were competent to drive in the snow, but now that Al Gore stopped the snow in our area with his freaking global warming, we haven't had any, so now Virginians loose all control in any inclement weather and go about spinning and careening off the roads and flipping over; cars wrecked everywhere. What a shame.

He loves me, he loves me not - differing professionalism

The Agitator posts on an armed citizen's encounter with Alexandria, Virginia police.

The citizen reports on a police officer who is illegally parked. Responding officer declines to give a ticket, and even states that he would probably cite a non-LEO for a similar offense. Big shocker there, but the officer said he wasn't concerned when the citizen informed him that he was open carrying.

The illegally parked officer decided to then follow the citizen and make a stink about open carrying. He actually tried to deny that he was following the him, despite being caught on camera. Good on the citizen for not leading that man to where he lives. A cop who is bold enough to park illegally, then follow you around for calling him out on it, then make up silly excuses for "not following" you when confronted, is probably bold enough to stash a bag of pot in your car at night and then bust you for it the next day.

On another note, it would seem that there is still some disparity in how OCing is treated in Virginia. That one cop is totally at ease with someone lawfully carrying a weapon is refreshing, but being followed by another is unacceptable; not to mention creepy. That it happened without tasers or bloodshed in Alexandria is surprising, and says that word is getting around that Virginians OC.

I say this as I had a discussion last night with my brother who is now lawfully OCing, and my other brother can apply for his CCW; not that I'm a fan of asking the courts to dispense rights by issuing a paper card. There is some concern that my brother may get harassed for OC. It's possible, but I've never had anyone even notice me when I OC. Not a peep from anyone, ever, although I notice people OCing sometimes.

Good thing I stay the hell out of Alexandria. I don't go too far North of Woodbridge these days; there's something nasty in the water up there.

Another random shooting in Miami

This gunman was masked, and used a AK47; no doubt a semi-auto variant. That doesn't stop the mayor from calling it a "weapon of war."

Nobody seems to know what the motive was, but I have to point out that the victims were gambling in front of a grocery store at ten at night in a town called Liberty City. If the town's name doesn't ring a bell, then click here; not that it really means anything.

A creepy cold case solved

This story is truly unique. A Virginia woman confesses to a murder from 1967, and then dies of kidney failure two months later.

There's quite a story in there, if you find that sort if thing interesting, and it very well may end up as a country music song one day; perhaps Reba McEntire.

Random shooting in Portland

Two people were killed when some suicidal scumbag decided that his last act before offing himself was to take others with him.

Why can't these people just go off and quietly kill themselves in the woods?

As you are probably unaware. . .

. . .due to the press again not doing their job, This Ain't Hell notes that President Obama skipped on the privilege to be amongst our nations greatest living heroes at the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball in order to hang out with Kanye West, Cheryl Crow, and Marc Anthony.

Standing up those honorable men and women to hang out with celebrities was not the best way to start his first day.

Obama sells lots of rifles

Fighting For Liberty notes that black rifle manufacturers are reaping the benefits from an Obama administration.

Update on National Park Carry

I posted Wednesday on a news article that I found about National Park Carry, and how the press is hinting that President Obama may try to stop/repeal/infringe on the law.

SailorCurt and Mike W. of Another Gun Blog think that it's too late to change, and I thought as well.

Well, I found another article from yesterday at ABC news that raises doubts as to the resilience of the new law, but also gives me hope that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar may be watching gun owners backs.

Would he consider reversing a decision made in the final weeks of the Bush administration to allow people to carry loaded firearms in the national parks, a U.S. Park Service employee asked, noting that park rangers already face a variety of dangers.

"We'll take a look at that ... I don't have an answer on that right now," replied Salazar, recounting that on his Colorado ranch "I always had a sense of comfort when I had my gun with me."

If he really is pro-gun, then he would be the only appointment by President Obama that I know of that is. Also consider that he is a Democrat, who are not known to be very gun friendly. If he is able to just drop the new law into the shredder, than I don't hold a lot of faith in the strength of the. law.

Note also that Associated Press Writer H. JOSEF HEBERT, the writer of this article, subtly implies that citizens that carry guns are dangerous. Think I didn't notice that? This sort of poor reporting by the mainstream news is precisely what is giving bloggers such momentum. Thanks Joe!

Correction: It looks as if a "U.S. Park Service Employee" posed the question, but note that the employee was not specifically quoted. It could be manipulation by the reporter, or the employee really is an idiot.

Obviously, Boston needs a six month waiting period for gun purchases

So this guy would have been powerless, just like his poor neighbor that he victimized.

I could never live in that state.