- Honesty
is the best policy will screw up your life. When what you’re being honest about is firearms. Powerfully sad article from Nicki Kenyon at JPFO.
- The above is also an example of what can happen when you entrust government with your rights. So is this. Activist, denied “shall-issue” carry permit, needs help fighting back. (H/T MWD)
- Target security officer spots shoplifter. Takes standard action. Turns out shoplifter is a cop. Guess who gets fired?
- Carjacker forces way into vehicle with gun. Intended victim grabs it and shoots him. (This is also a case of another carjacker flummoxed by a stick shift. Gadzooks, you’d think if you’re going to steal vehicles you’d at least learn to drive them.) (H/T New Jovian Thunderbolt)
- The curious case of passive voice in reports of police shootings. Radley Balko says what has long needed saying.
- Former cop confirms what the Living Freedom Collective said in Rats!, the anti-snitch book.
- Eighteen things highly creative people do differently.
RE: Freeman’s CCW fight- Based on precedent, he’s probably going to lose. The law gives the police chief a lot of wiggle room, and historically the court have deferred to them on denials nearly 100% of the time. But at least he hired the right attorney; Nappen is good. Probably his best bet is simply to make the legal challenge so expensive that the town convinces the chief to issue. That’s what I had to do.
Could have been worse, though. My first trip to the state house some years back was prompted by a bill to change RSA 159; so that the chief could not only arbitrarily deny a license, but unilaterally (without any due process or recourse) declare the license applicant a terrorist.
On that article about honesty, I have a slightly different take on it. One has no obligation to be honest or forthright with criminals and thugs. Lying (if you think it best, considering the consequences for being caught) or saying nothing to them does not make us a “nation of swindlers”.
Oh, and anybody with their kids still in government schools, needs their head examined. If they run into problems, well, maybe they were asking for it…
Derrick Freeman, how free are you, if you are begging permission to carry a gun?
On that carjacking:
“Fontana attempted to start the car but got frustrated because the vehicle was manual and he did not know how to drive a stick shift…”
Now, that’s funny. It just strikes me as hilarious. I guess carjackers had better check out the transmission type before doing their thing…
“I am invoking my right to silence, and decline further comment without the presence of legal counsel.”
I know that is the lawyer-approved verbiage, but I just don’t see myself saying it. What’s wrong with just saying nothing, period? The interrogators are not trying to straighten out facts or get to the bottom of things. They don’t care if you actually did the crime. They just want your ass in the slammer. They continually lie to get that to happen. Why cooperate at all?
Oh, I found this article about how war is becoming different. May have applications in the US pretty soon…
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/11/ukraine_s_do_it_yourself_war
Something for the link pile: RealID Act strikes again, in Kentucky.
I’d actually forgotten about that. One assumes in the current climate that it doesn’t apply to illegal aliens. (And no, I don’t mean that as a comment on immigration policy, just that double standards irritate the stuffing out of me.)
I really liked this quote
“We teach children to respect their teachers and school administrators. We trust these adults in authority to carry on the lessons we teach our kids at home – to supplement the message about honor, honesty and integrity.”
I hope the author doesn’t really believe that about trusting those adults. My daughters learned early on, the hard way, that teachers and school administrator types are not to be trusted.
jed — and “Alaska, Arizona, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma and Washington,” too. Sigh. And having to have “security” personnel escort residents of those states into meetings, etc. … jeezus, what lily-livered cowed and cowering cowards people have become (or are willing to pretend to be).
Re: Honesty
Just because one is honest does not mean one has to volunteer information.
Living in Penn., she should’ve been aware of NJ’s hostilities toward gunowners and, in general, know which states she is allowed to carry guns in. It’s called Reciprocity. For those of you who don’t know. Not all states recognize all the other states CCWs.
Massachusetts and NY are surprising. I would’ve thought they’d be at the forefront of jumping on that bandwagon.
I looked up Mr. Derrick Horton, and he appears to be the type of individual who would abuse a CCW permit. He is a loose cannon who seems to confuse belligerence and self-ownership.
When the NJ cop ran the PA persons drivers license they would most likely have found out she has a carry permit. So she would have been screwed anyway.