Category: Crime

  • Refuse to be a victim files

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    BAM! ELYRIA — The 70-year-old wife of a Lorain County Family Court judge meted out a little domestic justice of her own Tuesday afternoon when she fought off four robbers with her favorite saucepan. Ellen Basinski refused to be intimidated by a man and three boys who forced their way into her house on Columbus…

  • Quote of the Day – Strange Mentality Edition

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    I’m fascinated by the mentality that says that drug cartels that traffic in contraband won’t be able to get guns once they’re made illegal. – Les Jones Hat tip Say Uncle

  • Quote of the Day – Exempt Edition

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    Things being what they are, and for the point of this discussion, here in Florida you must apply for a Carries Concealed Weapon permit in order to have a concealed weapon on your person. Criminals are exempt from this licensing scheme, which is odd since that’s supposed to be the point of licensing or something,…

  • No wonder the Democrats are for higher taxes

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    Only the little people pay them. A second Obama appointee has been exposed as a tax cheat, and so far lacks the integrity to step down. HHS nominee Tom Daschle is behind about $146,000 in taxes, following Tim Geithner. The Democrats apparently think it’s fine to raise taxes on everyone else, and then just not pay them. Makes it…

  • Looks like Kim Rhode got her shotgun back

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    Via Snowflakes in Hell: The Riverside, California Sheriff’s Department has recovered four-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode’s shotgun. Police officials say the gun was recovered during a routine parole check. According to Rhode, the gun is in “immaculate” shape, although the competition stickers she had collected during her shooting career had been removed. “I can’t believe…

  • Another Illegal Mayor

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    JSOnline: Racine – Agents of the Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation arrested Racine Mayor Gary Becker at Brookfield Square Mall Tuesday and booked him into the Kenosha County Jail while seeking several charges including child enticement, according to the state attorney general’s office. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in a news release…

  • Quote of the Day – Prison Edition

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    Your job is not to treat all citizens as criminals because some people are irresponsible.  The solution is to put violent people in prison, rather than to turn the society at large into a prison. – Sebastian

  • Quote of the Day – Righteous Shoot Edition

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    When you are involved in a defensive shooting and the cops show up and they know the decedent by name, odds are good that it will be found a righteous shoot. – Tam

  • Quote of the Day – Responders Edition

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    Yes, because armed citizens are Zeroth responders. They can respond before the “first” responders can arrive. – EgregiousCharles Part of a fisking of an article claiming that armed citizens would be more of a problem than a help in another terrorist situation. RTWT.

  • When the victim knows the attacker

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    When I did the review of Every Handgun is Aimed at You, I said that one of the points he made was that guns are an ineffective protection because most violent crimes are not the random stranger attacking you, but often a family member, friend, co-worker, ex-lover, etc. It is more likely to be someone…