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Monday, December 17. 2012

Monday morning links

Spam University


The Third Annual Nigerian Email Conference


HESCHMEYER: Radical feminism waging the real war on women


Reid vs. the filibuster


The Coming Regulatory Black Hole - Thousands of new proposed regulations, delayed by the election, will be issued over the next few months.


I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother


Gun Crime Soars in England by 35% Where Guns Are Banned


Surprise! 40% Of Democrats Own Guns


Media Sets Gun Control Narrative, Shuts Down Mental Health Debate


Volokh: A Thought Experiment Related to School Shootings


Fund:



Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings ever had taken place in either Britain or Germany.


and


Economists John Lott and William Landes conducted a groundbreaking study in 1999, and found that a common theme of mass shootings is that they occur in places where guns are banned and killers know everyone will be unarmed, such as shopping malls and schools.



At Jacobson:



 I sometimes wonder whether black Americans would be happy or disappointed to know how little most white Americans think about race. And more and more, I think they’d be disappointed. Or mad.



Green Grift: Solar Firms Under Investigation for Inflating Costs


ObamaCare Will Bring Bureaucracy, Endless Rules And Coercion, But Improve Nothing


'Israel and 1938 Czechoslovakia are similar'


"Israel Through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner,”


Muslim Country With 25% Slave Population Elected VP of UN Human Rights Council


What North Korea's Rocket Launch Tells Us About Iran's Role

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Re: Gun crime in England
Those "new figures" are from very nearly 10 years ago -- January 2003 if the date prominently placed on the newspaper article they are quoting can be believed.

One clue might be the "opposition" Tories complaining about it -- they've held the prime minster's office for a couple of years now, and are unlikely to be complaining about the actions of themselves in government.
#1 DOuglas2 on 2012-12-17 07:52 (Reply)
The English comparison is poor in other ways. If true we have 1.3 million gun related crimes. (and millions more people). still we have 0.00417 crimes per person, they have 0.000118 gun crimes per person. Thats about 35 times more here.
#1.1 acheapbuzzard on 2012-12-17 12:19 (Reply)
Yes, but one can do apples-to-oranges comparisons, or apples to apples.
All privately owned firearms in the UK require government permission, for which "good reason" must be given. And then a law passed in 1997 banned all private possession of handguns and semiautomatic rifles. Over the course of the next five years as people's ownership certificates expired all legally owned handguns and non single-shot rifles were confiscated.
This in an island nation where all packages, people, and vehicles entering by air, sea, or chunnel are subject to search by customs.
So it is a bit counter-intuitive that our rate of gun crime would soar by 35% in 2003

I suspect that the sudden new popularity of this ancient article in what seems to be America's favourite tabloid newspaper is that people are asking the question "what happens when you ban guns".
#1.1.1 DOuglas2 on 2012-12-17 13:55 (Reply)
So is it really that easy to destroy our constitution? Could one crazy person take away our 2nd amendment rights? Could another crazy person take away our 1st amendment rigfths or our 4th amendment rights, etc.? Is it that easy? If so, why? There is the gist of the matter. It is that easy as it regards the 2nd amendment because there is amassive opposition to our right to own guns some very open about their views and others more secretive and hidden. There is a massive movement right now that has been awakened to do exactly that, take away some of our essential constitutional rights. Watch for the predictable; the politicians who we know oppose guns and the weasel worded politicians who got elected by claiming to support the 2nd amendment. But don't ignore the many left wing groups with strong ties to socialist and communists all over the world. Groups whose dedication seems to be to their foriegn sponsers and are only here to spread that foriegn influence. Why would they be opposed to our ownership of weapons? To make our country safer? Obviously not since the evidence shows private ownership of guns reduces crime and deters mass shooters. So to what end do they seek an end to gun ownership in the U.S. ???
#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2012-12-17 09:46 (Reply)
Yes, it really is -- will be-- that easy to destroy our constitution. Look how easy it was to destroy the Episcopal Church. Less than 10 years. Do not doubt yourself. The dirty girls of Seattle and others in their network are organized, trained, and dedicated to destroying our constitution. After all they have almost eradicated marriage as we know it. Which brings me to another item. How can women who spend 24/7 protesting their grievances against men--any white man--how can these women raise a "well adjusted" white male son? When I look at the feminist females I know. Women who have spent the last 25 years building their lives around the idea that all men and all male ways of thinking are evil--these women have sons who are nearly completely ****ed up ! Their daughters are the revers--absolute sociopaths without self restraint of any sort. But, I don't suppose the MSN will cover this aspect of the story.
#2.1 faculty wife on 2012-12-17 10:53 (Reply)
Sheesh! Have you forgotten how long they have been working at taking the 10 Commandments out of the system of legal philosophy. They have almost completed this goal also.
#3 another one on 2012-12-17 10:55 (Reply)
Given the first two links, I thought this was Doc Mercury's posting.

Dems and guns: Talking the talk, not even thinking about walking the walk.

"Jacobsen": As the post is by Joel Engel, I used quote marks. Interesting article. Later he refers to someone calling him a racist after a series of e-mails not racist in nature, that someone saying one could see he's black from his pic on his website. To which he says that someone could have seen Joel is black the same way. I looked, and found no pics of him on his website. So---I dunno.
#4 Sam L. on 2012-12-17 11:55 (Reply)
Our representatives have done everything in their power to suppress investigation of the governmental contrivance formulated to justify gun taking: Fast and Furious. Our borders are open, our cities are cesspools, our border states are working models for implementation of the Cloward-Piven or Strain theory, our treasonous msm refuses to properly inform us, our principal institutions have been undermined by the nonsense of multiculturalism, PC, diversity, and inclusion; our police cannot protect us. Now our representatives wish to hasten our deaths by taking away one of our few remaining strengths that scares the living hell out of them. I don't think so. If our government can pick and choose which laws it will enforce, I see no reason for us to do otherwise. At this time in our history we are governed by psychopaths who don't care one whit about any of us, but can produce that “heartfelt” teardrop at a moment's notice.
#5 Thalpy on 2012-12-17 12:35 (Reply)
Re: Israel today and Czechoslovakia of 1938.

My old friend and mentor, Tommy Mandl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Thomas_Mandl) of blessed memory, had often made the point that the Palestinians are the Sudeten Germans of the Near East, and that they are being used as a (willing) weapon against Israel in the same way.
#6 Michael J Kubat (Link) on 2012-12-19 13:50 (Reply)

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