I think chilling is the best word to describe it.  The woman who is being attacked is very distraught about having to kill the intruder.  Note how the 911 operator helps her through it.  That’s the difference between Oklahoma, and say, Indiana, where they’d rather you just get killed.

A ‘tax’ holiday for those looking to purchase firearms.

Under such legislation — let’s call it the Gun Insurance Act of 2009 — every American would be required to buy some kind of gun. Those who cannot afford even the simplest weapon — say, those whose 2009 annual income is less than twice the federal poverty level — could be issued $500 vouchers that would be valid only at gun shops or gun shows, and would have to be used before the 2010 Census. (Just think: What a stimulus to private enterprise all these gun sales would provide, and how many new gun-selling jobs would be created!)

How would the law be enforced? Census takers could verify that everyone they count has a weapon in working condition, and those census takers who survive could report all non-complying Americans to the FBI so it could notify local police departments, which would issue citations for whatever fines Congress chooses to impose. (Note that this proposed legislation would not require creating any new bureaucracy, public option or death panels.) Of course, illegal immigrants would not receive vouchers, would not be required to buy guns and would not be counted in the Census.

Legal gun ownership by law-abiding citizens brings a dramatic reduction in violent crime. The city of Kennesaw, Georgia, took the novel step of passing an ordinance requiring heads of household to keep at least one firearm in their homes, as reported in this article by Chuck Baldwin of Campaign for Liberty. The law went into effect in 1982, and produced 74% and 45% reductions in violent crime over the next two years, respectively. Despite its population roughly tripling over the course of fifteen years, Kennesaw only had three murders during that time, and two of them were committed with knives.

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Everything we currently do wrong with health care, and will do even worse if the Democrats have their way, is done right with food. It is vastly better to feed the desperately poor by giving them food stamps to spend in a capitalist grocery store, than to shuffle them off to some kind of State-controlled supply dump. It’s not as if no one ever tried to control food production with collectivist politics. The primary result was mass starvation, every single place on Earth it has been tried. Why is anyone foolish enough to think those collectivist policies will work better when applied to health care?

“Every woman in America should shoot a gun,” said Mrs Ferns, who has more than 20 in her home collection.

She added “As long as the woman is a legal and law-abiding citizen I feel they should at least have a basic education in firearms safety.”

When I took my Conceal & Carry permit class, they had a poster with a picture of President Pantywaist on it with the caption “Gun Salesman of the Year”.

You see, gun sales have been through the roof since BO won the election.

And last month was a banner month for gun sales in the U.S., with over 1,000,000 new guns purchased – a 12% increase over 2008. I’m thinking gun manufacturers are not participating in this “economic downturn.”

August’s additions bring the number of guns in America to over 355 million, or roughly 1.7 for each resident.

AmmoLand has the full story.

I got my new Taurus revolver on Monday. It’s called The Judge. Taurus claims that the name comes from the fact that so many judges carry The Judge with them into the courtroom for personal protection. That sounds made up to me.

Questionable name mythos aside, The Judge is totally awesome. For the uninitiated, what makes The Judge so interesting is that it takes both .410 Shotgun Shells and .45 Long Colts as ammo.

The specific model I got will additionally take either a 2 1/2 or 3 inch shell.

The small size plus the firepower/destruction ability of a shotgun make The Judge the ultimate home protection weapon. No need for perfect aim, no fancy semi-automatic mechanism to jam- just point in the general direction of the bad guy and pull the trigger. Rinse. Repeat.

Sure it may not kill the bad guy, but if he’s somehow still a threat after 5 shotgun blasts, that’s what the 9mm is for.

Below, a silhouette target with the result of 10 rounds. Also, a close up of the face. (click the pictures for larger images)

Oh, and in related news…

Glendale, AZ is an interesting suburb on the Westside of the Valley. After a 6 month stint in Glendale, I don’t think I’d move back.

ShotSpotter is acoustic surveillance technology that the city employs to detect gunshots.

The system relies on an acoustics-based, GPS-equipped system that automatically locates the origin of the shot and notifies authorities. A series of acoustic sensors picks up the sound waves of a muzzle blast that radiate outward from the barrel in all directions.

Acoustic Triangulation
ShotSpotter uses 10 to 12 sensors spaced evenly throughout each square-mile section of the city it’s covering, and each sensor is capable of hearing the sound of gunfire within a 2-mile radius.

1. A shot is fired somewhere in the city. Sensor 1 picks up the sound of the shot.
2. One second later, a second sensor picks up the sound waves of a gunshot. If sound in this city travels at about 0.21 miles per second, we now know that the shot was fired approximately one-fifth of a mile farther away from Sensor 2 than from Sensor 1.
3. To figure out which of these two points is the location from which the shot was fired, we need to find a third sensor that picked up the sound of the shot. A third sensor, located to the south of Sensors 1 and 2, picked up the sound waves a half-second after Sensor 2 detected them. This would put the origin of the sound about one-tenth of a mile farther from Sensor 3 than from Sensor 2.

Source: Howstuffworks

…is a town in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 394 at the 2000 census. It is located along the Virgin River (for which it is named), not far from Zion National Park. The elevation is 3,550 feet. It lies on the route of State Route 9.

So what inspired a post about this town (aside from the school-girl giggles name)(Virgin… hehehe)?

In May (or June depending on our source) 2000, they passed a law which required every homeowner to keep and maintain a gun. This was apparently highlighted in Fatty McLardasses’s 2002 film “Fatting for Columfat“.

Source: inspired from my Trivial Pursuit calendar and blatantly plagiarized from my BFF.

There is only one gun store in Mexico. It’s located in Mexico City and is run by the Mexican Army.

Mexican citizens who wish to purchase a gun must get a permit from the military and submit to a medical and psychological exam. Processing time for permits is four to eight months, and the permit must be renewed annually.

Each owner can have up to 10 guns, but only 2 can be handguns. The amount of ammunition that can be purchased is also regulated. Some types of ammo are restricted to no more than 200 rounds every six months.

Yet despite these extensive gun control measures, Mexico outranks the United States on every measurable statistic related to violent crime and murders. And these statistics don’t even include the recent surge of violence in Mexico since 2006. (Unfortunately there isn’t a tab for comparing beheading statistics…)

Mexican citizens used to have a constitutional right to bear arms, but the government decided to change that in the 1960’s. In 1995 they created the one store solution that exists today.

The situation in Mexico now is arranged so that only the corrupt government, corrupt police force, and criminal organizations have the guns.

A citizen who wants to protect himself or his family has the choice of breaking the law and illegally obtaining a firearm, submitting to a prohibitive government bureaucratic process, or sitting quietly and waiting to be beheaded.

Next time you hear a member of our current administration in Washington DC talking about reigning in these crazy gun owners, think about Mexico. Should we really be looking to Mexico as a template for anything?

And before it gets brought up, let me debunk the fallacy that loose gun control laws in the US contribute to violence in Mexico…

Think about that for a second. Even if a crate of so-called “assault weapons” were legally purchased in the US via “loose gun control laws,” how did they get to Mexico? It’s not legal to bring them there. So anyone bringing guns into Mexico would be breaking the law.

It is illogical and disingenuous to claim that more gun control in the US would have any impact on Mexico. Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and President Feckless, I’m looking in your direction.

I’ll end by letting the NRA sum it up. They have a little more experience in this fight than I do, so they have the edge on eloquence:

“Mexico has very strict gun laws, which clearly have done nothing to prevent criminals and drug cartels from obtaining firearms, and it’s left many of the honest residents of Mexico defenseless,” said Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association.

“I don’t think anybody could argue that Mexico’s gun-control laws have been an effective crime-fighting tool.”

Indeed.

Source: AZ Central

Update: Fox News also takes on the myth of guns from the US entering Mexico.