It's The Gun, Stupid!
I've found it necessary to come out of my self imposed hybernation due to the recent rash of insanity relating to the use of guns. I just can't keep quiet anymore.
Thursday night my entire state was glued to our TVs as a wild west shootout took place in a nice New England town. The people of Greenland lost a police chief and 3 other cops are in the hospital with gunshot wounds. You can follow the story here on our local news http://livewire.wmur.com/Event/Armed_Officers_Respond_To_Greenland_Situation?Article=0
It always gets me when the news tells us we can get live updates on a story about someone being killed by a gun. Am I supposed to be waiting for you to say he's alive? CNN would most likely call this a "developing story". What's to develop? The guy is dead, the shooter is dead, 4 cop families and a community are in shock and the neighbors who complained about the drug house will finally be able to let their kids outside.
This is not a developing story CNN. It is not a story. It is just another tragic chapter in our capitulation to the lies of the killing industry.
That's what I've decided to call the gun industry from now on. The Killing Industry.
That is what they make. Instruments for killing. A gun, a rifle, an assualt weapon, these are not created to maimor temporarily stun the victim like the stun guns of the SciFi I read. Gun are made to kill and they have one purpose which is to kill. Oh I Have friends who shoot at the skeet club we hear all weekend and some people really do shoot targets. But those are side lines and practice for the true purpose of a gun. Killing.
A guy like Zimmerman doesn't buy a gun to scare people. It doesn't even cross the mind to shoot at someones legs and take them down because the point of the gun is to kill the other person. Disagree with me. Tell someone else.
But the real reason I'm writing again is that this has been one heck of a great month for the NRA. The asshats who tell us that guns don't kill.
It wasn't a gun that killed Chief Maloney, it was a crazy drug dealer who would have easily created as much havoc with a knife.
The family of the 3 year old Tacoma kid left in the car to kill himself with the loaded gun under the seat, they are very glad that guns don't kill. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/boy-3-kills-self-with-gun-in-car-at-wash-gas-station/1#.T4tvdNUeBAM
Just last week, the 6 year old kid in Maryland and his family were sure lucky that Guns Don't Kill. http://dcist.com/2012/04/charges_filed_in_accidental_shootin.php
Guns are enablers. They make a person feel invincible. They have only one purpose.
I am so sick of this continued stupidity in America. All because a powerful lobby gives generously to both Republicans and Democrats. I'm sure someone will remind that this is a battle not worth fighting. The anti-gun crowd gave up years ago as the successful Brady bill lapsed into history. Why do politicians who also hate guns give up and roll over like dogs? Because they like the NRA money so much? I think not. I think it's because they are scared of the people with guns who actually use them to shut people up.
Therefore Bill Cosby is wasting his time speaking the truth. No politiican is going to agree with him. They are wimpy asses.
Here is the truth spoken by Mr. Cosby many times when asked what he thought about the Trayvon shooting.
"The Gun! Trayvon Martin case is about guns not race" ... "When you have a gun, you may not realize it, but you put it on your person and you mean to pull (the trigger) and kill somebody."
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Lately, the biggest buyer of guns is women. They want protection. Criminals can always get guns from somewhere so if they can get them to commit crimes with, why shouldn't the rest of us have what we need to protect ourselves from them?
Fact is, the more guns citizens have, the lower the crime rate. Where is crime the most rampant? How about cities run by Democrats who impose the strictest gun laws. Crime is lowest where there are open carry laws.
If you don't like long lines at the airport for TSA security patdowns, you might want to eliminate the TSA and all the security checks by issuing everyone who flies a gun that shoots rubber bullets or plastic pellets. Anyone who pulls a gun or a knife to threaten a flight attendent would have second thoughts when a dozen guns are aimed at him.
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“In reality,” Bloomberg said in a speech before the National Press Club last week, “the NRA’s leaders weren’t interested in public safety. They were interested in promoting a culture where people take the law into their own hands and face no consequences for it. Let’s call that by its real name: vigilantism.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-the-nra-pushes-stand-your-ground/2012/04/15/gIQAL458JT_print.html
The fact is the more gun regulations are dismantled, the more violent our country becomes. (a WELL-REGULATED militia, anyone? -- being necessary for the security of our country)
Nice to have some discussion here again.
Let's take a look at the idea of people taking the law into their own hands. After a crime is committed or during one, the police are called. How often do they stop a murder, rape, robbery or other illegal activity? If you're confronted with a burglar, robber, murderer or rapist, it's up to you what happens next. Do you really think you have the time to call the cops and wait for them to arrive? If not, you are either going to be a victim or you're going to defend yourself. If you don't defend yourself, who will? You have the right to defend yourself. Where is it written that you have to be a victim when confronted with a bad guy? If you have a gun, how likely is it you're going to end up being a victim? If having a gun and defending yourself prevents you from being a victim, how is that taking the law into your own hands and being a vigilante? It isn't.
Reality check: taking the law into your own hands and being a vigilante means taking upon yourself the role of the police by going after the bad guys after the fact. Protecting yourself is what you're supposed to do and the second ammendment to the Constitution prevents the government from infringing upon the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
I was afraid the furry guy was sick or worse; glad you're ok.
This story is tragic; my sympathy to the police chief's family. (Eternal be his memory.)
Unfortunately, criminals can always get guns; laws don't impact them. Case in point, the criminals in this NH story obviously had no respect for the law , because they were involved in lethal fire with police.
I will be curious to find out what kind of verdict and sentence NH Progressives give to the murderer.
and he killed his woman friend too.
Yes, criminals may always have guns but most gun deaths are not by criminals. They are caused by loved ones, babies and crazies. A few are by power jerks like Zimmerman.
The criminal argument is just NRA bullshit meant to brainwash middle Americans.
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... I miss the comfort of my gun - levels the playing or assault field. I do have a heavy cane which I can swing with leathal force, or reach the lightswitch with.
Information Security for E-businessmen: Just a Couple of Ideas plus articles and information on Security
If you constantly deal with bank or electronic accounts, it must be your worst nightmare--to wake up and learn that you are a bankrupt. Some crook stole your personal data and all the money you have been sweating blood for years has flown to somebody else's account. Almost everybody must have heard that such a tradegy is called identity theft and millions of people in the USA alone suffer the same every year. Poor consolation for its victims, isn't it?
Unfortunately, businessmen frequently are targets for identity thieves, especially online. Lots of articles on identity theft, "how-to-avoid" tips, and scary stories about the victims circulate through the Web and other media. The authors remind people again and again that they should be cautious when giving anybody their private info as well as care for their PCs' security. But in spite of all their effort identity theft is still the most rapidly growing crime.
Software developers are doing their best, too. They can't be of much help if somebody plainly looks over your shoulder and writes your credit card number down. It's for you to take care and never reveal your personal info to anybody who asks for it. What they can do is to create new solutions to the urgent problems like data stealing. Keylogging spyware--the very programs that make lots of such crime possible--are pretty much written about lately. These programs secretly monitor everything users do on their PCs.
Keyloggers are used--by themselves or as a part of a virus or a Trojan -- much more widely than PC users think; it is an open secret that the lion's share of identity theft that happens online is because of keylogging spyware. The losses caused by stealing PINs, logins, and other valuable data, are well comparable with the damage from viruses. Actually, if a virus or a Trojan contains a built-in key logger module (and it often does), the end user finds himself in a pretty tough situation. The problem is that most anti-keylogging programs warn users when it is too late. The data have already been captured and sent. Why does it happen?
Almost all anti-spy software existing at the present moment works using the same scheme: spy program is detected and then blocked or eliminated. Detecting viruses or spy software is the crucial step of the whole process--all the protection depends on whether the anti-spy software is able to detect as many spies as possible. Signature bases which all these products depend on, is actually the "list" of signatures ? small pieces of spy programs' codes. Anti-virus or anti-spy program actually scans the system and compares its codes with those in signature bases. So, in this case only the spies whose signatures already are in the base will be detected and eventually "caught". As long as anti-spy software is regularly updated and the system doesn't come across some unknown spyware product, everything is all right.
The problem is that lots of programs which could be used for stealing data are not included into signature bases right now. Some of them will never be.
There is good deal of people capable of creating something brand-new spy, unknown to anti-spyware developers. The period of time when a new spy already exists, but the updates have not been released yet, is the very time when hackers make their biggest profits.
Spy programs can be created for the specific purpose, such as industrial espionage, so they will never be represented in the base. Moreover, some monitoring programs can be used as spy programs as well, though they are not always included into signature bases. As we can see, a signature base is the weak spot of anti-spy protection; it is, so to speak, a joint in the armor. Information thieves also know about it New Jersey Devils Jerseys .
Fortunately, software developers are constantly looking for new solutions. One of the new trends in anti-spyware developing is not to use signature bases as means of detecting spyware. There is three basic advantages in such an approach. First, the product gets rid of its the least reliable part; second, there is no so urgent need for updates anymore; and last, but certainly not least-?the product becomes capable of blocking the destructive activity of even unknown spyware. To read more about this new approach follow the link in the signature.
When products of such a kind become widespread, there would be much more problems for hackers in future. However, there is no guarantee that no innovative spy software appears in response.
Whether we like it or not, all malware "evolves" very quickly; new schemes are being developed, and new software which online criminals create and utilize becomes more and more malicious and "selective". New keyloggers as well as keylogger-containing viruses and Trojans Martin Brodeur Premier Jersey , appear all the time; the losses these programs may cause to a business are enormous. That is why in some businesses there is an acute need for separate anti-keylogging protection.
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