August 2011 – Page 7 – Shall Not Be Questioned

Tell a Lie Often Enough …

Daniel Vice, the Brady Center’s senior attorney, tells New Jerseyans:

But our countryâ€™s weak gun laws allow traffickers and killers to stockpile guns in states with weaker laws and smuggle them into our communities. In New Jersey, strong laws make it so much harder for criminals to get firearms that guns flood in from states with weak gun laws at a rate seven times higher than the number of crime guns trafficked out of the state.

That’s funny, because in the country I live in this practice is a felony. So I would like to understand how our “weak guns laws” are allowing criminals to “stockpile guns” in states with “weaker laws.” In all 50 states, it’s a felony for criminals to have a single gun or round of ammunition, let alone stockpile them. I’m afraid the weak laws they are speaking of are laws which allow them to be sold at all. One reason firearms are trafficked into New Jersey is that New Jersey only has a relatively small number of FFLs compared to most other states. There are few legal channels in the Garden State, so criminals do what the law abiding can’t, go out of state.

Ammunition Matters, Even for Pistols

Joe Huffman has an interesting report on accuracy of various kinds of ammunition fired out of a pistol. While I would not claim to be an expert IHMSA shooter, at those ranges, I’ve noticed that some ammo hits more than others. Seems especially noticeable in rimfire calibers.

Canadian Academic on Guns

Exurban Kevin finds some choice quotes from a Canadian academic that might be surprising to you.

Strategy for California

Gene Hoffman talks about his plan for getting carry in California. Their plan is quite sensible, I think, and likely to succeed. One though on my mind lately is how long the other side is going to keep playing games before they just accept the way things are going to be.

In the history of civil rights in this country, it hasn’t been unheard of for the Supreme Court to expand a right more than they had initially been willing to because of the intransigence of government officials who tried to navigate around Supreme Court rulings. So in the end, the game playing could benefit us.

Too Many Windows

Clearly we need to do more to restrict access to windows:

New research finds that nearly 5,200 kids are treated in an emergency department each year after falling from a window. That’s 14 kids a day, according to a study published Monday in the journalÂ Pediatrics.

We’ve allowed these dangerous devices to infect society for entirely too long. They must be restricted. It’s common sense. For the children.

Surprised It Took Him This Long

Rahm follows in the footsteps of Daley, and joins MAIG.

Lemonade Freedom Day

Uncle has been touting Lemonade freedom. It seems a lot of people who don’t know how to mind their own business have been arresting and/or fining kids for selling lemonade. Glad to see we’ve solved all the big problems.

The Source of the Blacklist Controversy

Looks like it may have been something over at Weer’d Beard’s, which he explains here. So ultimately the explanation is they got played by MikeB? That’s pretty funny. MikeB is essentially a troll, and not something I’d even remotely take seriously. I find him to be a very entertaining troll, however, and whipping up a controversy out of something like this, I have to admit, takes talent, and a keen ability to recognize a sucker.

Mystery of the Missing Garlic

Two stores we’ve been to lately have been mysteriously out of garlic. When it was Giant, I just wrote it off as typically crappy service that they wouldn’t have any out on the shelves or even in the back in inventory. But Wegmans was out, too. That’s just not cool when they are out of something we use so often.

I came home to the wonders of Google to find out if there was some kind of garlic shortage. Considering that it auto-filled “garlic shortage 2011,” I didn’t expect to find news about moderating prices and rebounding production. So what gives? If garlic production is actually going up, and prices are going down, why are the stores out of garlic?

Help a Blogger Out

Captain America is up for the Most Valuable Philly Blogger hosted by a local news outlet. Go vote for him in the “Local Affairs” category.

Because it’s certainly not city leaders who want to talk about issues residents who shoot up ambulances or how fire-related deaths and injuries are on the rise since the city has been slashing public safety budgets to keep up the rest of their spending.