Concerning Guns, Hammers and Violence BY HERSCHEL SMITH

Concerning Guns, Hammers and Violence

BY HERSCHEL SMITH 
2 weeks, 5 days ago

H. Lee Sarokin, writing at Huffington Post,waxes emotional over the effects of gun violence in America, using the example of Trayvon Martin as the springboard.  Rather, he wants you to wax emotional.  The comments range from the delusional (e.g., more regulation would mean less gun violence), to the badly mistaken (people hunt with fully automatic weapons – can you imagine such a thing?).  Sarokin himself mixes in some bad statistics, or allusion to things that statistics in fact do not prove, but the beginning paragraph is the best part of the commentary.

When innocent people are gunned down in schools or offices or when someone like George Zimmerman shoots and kills Trayvon Martin, how do members of the NRA and gun-advocates truly feel? I really want to understand. I think I understand the desire to have a gun for self-defense or sport. But when a gun owner sees statistics such as these, how do they react?

“Statistics such as these” made me think of this sad and recent case near Orlando.

A tip to Crimeline has led to the arrests of two men in a brutal beating that occurred a week ago in the Midway community east of Sanford.

Julius Ricardo Bender, 18, and Yahaziel Isaac Israel, 19, face charges of attempted first-degree murder, burglary with assault or battery and armed burglary.

The victim, a 50-year-old Winter Springs man whose name has not been released, is on life-support at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Deputies were called to the area of Lincoln Street and Beardall Avenue about 6:30 p.m. March 26 to investigate a report of a man being beaten, Seminole County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Heather Smith said.

They found the victim in the woods on the north side of Lincoln Street.

According to arrest affidavits:

A witness told deputies he heard someone screaming for help and saw two men pull the victim from his vehicle. He said he watched as one man held the victim and the other beat him in the head with a hammer.

After they dragged the victim into the woods, the men drove away in his sport utility vehicle, which was later found abandoned about a half-mile away on Garbo Jack Lane.

Beaten into a coma with a hammer.  In fact, this isn’t as uncommon as one might think.  In March of 2012, Jun Hyuk Chang beat his father to death with a hammer in or near LA.  In July of 2011, Jean Simon beat his stepdaughter to death with a hammer in NYC.  In July of 2011, Tyler Hadley beat both of his parents to death with a hammer in Port St. Lucie and then threw a party with the bodies of his parents still lying on the floor.  In 2008, Clayton Jerrod Ellington killed his wife and two twin boys with a hammer in DeKalb County.  In November of 2011, Craig Stephen Frentzel was found beaten to death with a hammer in St. Louis.  In September of 2011, Benjamin Singleton was beaten beaten to death with a hammer in Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Then there was poor little Zander Martino who perished after being beaten with a hammer in Las Vegas.  From the very young to the old, Jessie James Durham beat his great-grandmother, 78-year-old Elizabeth Armismier, to death with a hammer in Campbellsville in February of 2012. Violence is even perpetrated against dogs and cats with hammers.

In order to obtain my concealed handgun permit, I had to give the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County permission to access all of my medical records.  Any admisions to any hospital for substance abuse or mental health issues would have been reason to have denied my permit.  I also had to have a background check and have many other records examined for the sake of public safety.

Given the easy availability of hammers – I can go to Home Depot, Lowes, or even Walmart and purchase a hammer with no background check whatsoever – I am calling for the increased regulation of carpentry tools.  Given the outrage of hammers and the fact that anyone can purchase them just about anywhere, what reasonable person could oppose such a thing?  And finally, studying these cases of beatings with hammers actually made me sick to my stomach.  I want to know how everyone feels about all of these senseless acts of violence perpetrated with the weapon to which we commonly refer as hammer?  How does it make you truly feel?

Source: http://www.captainsjournal.com/2012/04/05/concerning-guns-hammers-and-violence/

Trayvon Martin Shooting Unlikely To Change Gun Debate, Lawmakers Concede

Trayvon Martin Shooting Unlikely To Change Gun Debate, Lawmakers Concede: ""This package of common-sense gun safety bills would sail through Congress if it wasn’t for the special interest gun lobby," he said in a statement at the time. "It's time to put aside business as usual in Washington, and start considering the safety of our families over special interests.""


Spoken like an elitist NWO scum that Lautenberg "Duel citizen and Zionist traitor to America" is. Gun saftey? Nonsense! Gun safety from the mouth's of fascists is code for confiscation and victimization of the public (read: proles, slaves, middle and lower class wage slaves, lumpen, etc) at the hands of the criminal element created, trained, and sustained by the failed fascist racist gulag prison industrial complex. Would-be gun confiscatory regimes established by Lautenberg fascist pig in the pay of his master Bloomberg, the latter a high priest of the New World Order Neo-Liberal enslavement campaign. Lautenterd has no concern for American families who would only become endangered if such laws were passed. The absurdity that the America citizenry even tolerates this gerontocracy of traitors! America awake and smash the fascists!


Lautenberg is the lowest worm of the US political system (itself a decaying corpse of the 1950s era behaviorism). He feeds on tragedy, he is the corpse surfer par excellence. He rides the wave of dead bodies to a media conference where he injects fascist, slavish state-worship and demagoguery worthy of an orator of the Third Reich or Soviet.


“There are some surprising facts people should know,” McCarthy said in a statement to HuffPost last week. “I and many others who support reasonable restrictions on guns are not trying to take away anyone’s rights. We want to keep the most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the most dangerous people.”


Keep the most dangerous weapons out of the most dangerous hands? The most dangerous weapon is the one being used at any given time to injure or kill you. And it can take the form of a knife, a gun, a car, a piece of rope, anything. In this context she implies that we know who the most dangerous people are, but how can we *ever* know who the most dangerous people are unless we enact a fascist, Orwellian society of thought-crime and thought-policing that a priori disables the rights of the citizenry? 


And going still further, the most dangerous people are the bankers at Goldman Sachs and other large "financial" firms who have done more damage to this country than a thousand 9-11 "terror" attacks and a million bin ladens. Yet no one is calling on a collective crusade and deficit spending to drop JDAM bombs on the houses of bankers, or those who are making bankers, the latter of which are increasingly a kind of (financial) terrorist, and the robo-signed loan as a kind of financial IED.  


McCarthy does the other historical McCarthy justice by initiating her own modern era witch-hunt against civilian gun ownership and firearm rights. In the same breath she says that she wants not to destroy rights of the citizenry but also she wants to destroy the rights of the citizenry through. Who is diluted enough to believe in their cause and not see through the blatant lies of these NWO shills and traitor-scum? 


This huffpo gungrabber article is replete with the Loughnerized canards of "15 bullets in 31 seconds" jingoism. Well worth reading if you want a good laugh at a failed attempt to troll the bedrock decency of right leaning Americans. 


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CCRKBA to Bloomberg: 'Before You Disarm America, Disarm Your Bad Cops'

BELLEVUE, Wash., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- With the convictions of two former New York police officers, one a retired NYPD officer and the other an auxiliary sergeant, for drug offenses, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today suggested that anti-gun Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his sights set on the wrong people to disarm.

"Instead of disarming law-abiding American citizens," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "perhaps Mayor Bloomberg should keep guns out of the hands of some cops on his public payroll."

Former police officer Alfredo Rivera was carrying his department-issue 9mm pistol when he and then-Sgt. Rafael Jimenez agreed to move 10 kilograms - about 20 pounds - of cocaine to a buyer in the Bronx at a meeting in January 2010. Two months later, again armed with the same pistol, Rivera showed up at a Long Island warehouse picking up what appeared to be cocaine, and then transported it to the Bronx. Jimenez pulled a 127-month prison sentence and Rivera will be sentenced on May 18, according to an FBI press release.

"Bloomberg is running around the country, worrying about privately-owned firearms," Gottlieb observed, "while the city was issuing guns to dirty cops. The activities of Rivera and Jimenez are an insult to every honest and decent hard-working police officer in New York City. Bloomberg's national campaign against private gun ownership is an insult to every law-abiding gun owner in the country; people who wouldn't dream of running drugs like this pair of city-armed rogue cops.

"Mayor Bloomberg likes to hold all gun owners responsible for crimes committed by people with guns," he continued. "He routinely smears the reputations of reputable gun dealers because a few have, perhaps inadvertently, violated some gun regulation. By the same logic, he should be held responsible for crimes committed by sworn officers, including an auxiliary sergeant, who engage in criminal activity under the cover of their badges and guns.

"If Michael Bloomberg wants to attack criminal activity by armed outlaws," Gottlieb concluded, "we suggest he stick to his own turf and concentrate on his own people rather than citizens in other states. He's not their mayor, he's not their president and he's not their king. He's just become a big pain in their necks."

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms ( www.ccrkba.org ) is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.

SOURCE Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

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Oakland Cali Nursing School attack

A tragedy for those caught in the cross fire of a (purportedly) disgruntled student.  Will this tragedy take the mainstream media off the Trayvon Martin racial-unrest-fire flaming?

One youtube commentator points out:

" There is always something about April if you think about it:
Waco: April
Columbine: April
Virginia Tech: April
Oklahoma City: April
Now this..."

There does seem to be something about April in the US that brings out the worst in people.


Note the Irony of the kid who is giving an interview about the incident. Wearing a shirt "death for dessert." Probably will be edited out, awfully bad taste and timing.

Remind me never to live in Wisconsin

"Fascist Pre-Crime runs afoul state's inability to take rights away prior citizen felony-conviction. Impedes march of Nazi rule in America!"

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Milwaukee police call for concealed-carry changes

Habitual criminals would be targeted

By Gitte Laasby of the Journal Sentinel

March 11, 2012

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Milwaukee police are asking state legislators and gun rights activists to back three proposals police say would repair Wisconsin's concealed-carry law - among them: barring people with three misdemeanor convictions in five years from obtaining a concealed-carry permit.

The purpose of the changes would be to prevent repeat criminals from carrying guns, and stiffen penalties for those who do.

But one of Wisconsin's most prominent gun rights organizations says the proposals are too broad and could make it more difficult for law-abiding people to exercise their constitutional right to defend themselves with guns.

Police say they see three main problems with the existing law, which took effect in November and made Wisconsin the 49th state to allow concealed carry:

First, straw purchases - buying a firearm for someone who is prohibited from possessing a firearm - are a misdemeanor on a state level, not a felony as they are on a federal level.

Second, the requirements for a gun permit ignore the reality of plea bargains. Many habitual criminals legally qualify for, and could obtain, a concealed-carry permit because they were never convicted of a felony for which they were charged.

"Many of our career criminals don't have a felony conviction," explained Joel Plant, chief of staff with the Milwaukee Police Department. "They've been arrested for felonies, they've been charged with felonies, but because of necessity of the criminal justice process - and this is not a disparaging comment on the prosecution process or the judicial process - but because of necessity in our system, a lot of those felonies, many of those felonies, most of those felonies, are pled down to misdemeanor convictions."

Habitual criminals, Plant said, can carry a concealed gun with impunity from a potential of a felony charge unless they fire their guns.

Nik Clark of Wisconsin Carry, a gun rights group, said the problem seems to lie with the criminal justice system rather than the law.

"If he's got a problem, he needs to go talk to the (district attorney) and say, 'Why are you plea-bargaining these down to a misdemeanor that should otherwise be felonies?' That's a problem the DA needs to address," Clark said. "If these are serious offenses, they shouldn't be plea-bargained out. If you're not going to utilize the laws that exist, don't come asking for new laws that have the potential to infringe on the rights of law-abiding (people)."

Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said that because there is not enough court or jail space for every bad guy caught by police, plea bargains are necessary in urban jurisdictions.

The third problem, police say, is that regardless of how many times people carry concealed without a permit - illegally - the offense never rises above a misdemeanor.

"The sanctions they face are not significant," Flynn said. "No matter how many times they are caught with that gun, the charge is a misdemeanor. It's a misdemeanor for the first offense, it's a misdemeanor for a 10th offense. That's why I say they're more afraid to get caught without their gun than with their gun."

Police would like to change the permitting requirements and prohibit what the statute already defines as "habitual offenders" from getting a permit. A habitual offender is someone convicted of three misdemeanors in five years.

But Clark said the change is "exceptionally broad." He said police should specify which misdemeanors they would like to be considered when issuing gun permits.

"There's a whole bunch of things that are misdemeanors," Clark said. "Some of them I don't think are things that should preclude people from having the right to self-defense. There's a protester in Madison. He's protesting Governor Walker and he gets a ticket for obstruction. That's a misdemeanor. Let's say someone is very active politically and they want to go protest but when they do so three times - you know, politically active season here in Milwaukee and in Madison - and three times someone gets a disorderly conduct or a disturbing the peace, or any of those misdemeanors."

Clark said that, if the changes police request are enacted, law-abiding carriers could unknowingly or accidentally lose their right to carry.

"There's no other constitutional right where you're so close and have to dot every i and cross every t, where you're that close to ensnaring yourself unknowingly with a crime as the right to carry," Clark said. "The way (Flynn) describes these laws, it's just more of taking felonies and backing them right up to your constitutional rights.

"If they're not a felon and they want to turn that into a felony, it's turning Wisconsin into a police state instead of a state where people's rights are respected."

As far as making straw purchases a felony on a state level, Clark said that he doubts it would keep criminals from obtaining guns, but that his organization "wouldn't have any objections" because it's already a federal felony.

Flynn said that because the legislative session is coming to a busy end and it's an election year, he's not optimistic any changes could be made to the law this year. He added that when he makes statements about the concealed-carry law in public, police tend to get lots of "emails from people who only know how to type in capital letters and using exclamation points," but that once the dust settles he hopes to educate people on the importance of making the three changes.

"They have zero impact on the angry email writers," he said. "But they can have a direct impact on our crime rate if they are enacted."

A.T.F. Eases Rules on Gun Sales to Noncitizens - NYTimes.com

"The announcement drew criticism from some advocates of gun control measures, including Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, who said that it “defies common sense and puts Americans at risk” because it could make it easier for foreign terrorists to obtain weapons inside the United States."

New York and New Jeresy are just loathsome states, they have no right to be in the Union. Wherever there is fascism and a reduction of rights and freedom in America there is NJ and NY working to turn this country into gulag. This is a great success for legal aliens, and why not? Why do foreigners come to America if not to enjoy freedoms and protections from states not found anywhere else? The ATF was overstepping it's bounds, and should be sued to the point of being disbanded. The ATF is, like the DEA, goosestepping Hiterlite bureaus. New York and New Jersey are far greater threats to freedom than any enemy we have ever faced, they are the enemy within. New York and New Jersey are betrayers and usurpers of the constitution and it's time people in the rest of the US woke up to that fact. Instead of invading other countries, we need to be executing the politicians of these states and restoring freedom to their citizenry who are, as of those writing, little more than chattel slaves.

A.T.F. Eases Rules on Gun Sales to Noncitizens - NYTimes.com:

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State police: Gun buyback's aim goes beyond disarming criminals | The News Journal | delawareonline.com POLICY FAIL

State police: Gun buyback's aim goes beyond disarming criminals | The News Journal | delawareonline.com: "The state will give individuals a $150 prepaid debit card for a handgun, $200 for an assault rifle and $100 for shotguns and hunting rifles. Unused ammunition also will be accepted in plastic bags, but the state is only paying for guns, Coupe said."

Talk about policy fail!

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