Wisconsin DNR bans guns that don’t exist

Every once in a while, some bonehead comes along and compares guns to disease. Here’s a fisking of the latest boneheads.

I think we should start considering teh st00pid a disease and get some grant money to study it.

State trooper pulls over ambulance that is transporting a patient. Confrontation ensues where officer chokes one of the paramedics.

Penn and Teller cannot do one of their signature tricks in New Jersey due to gun laws:

“You can’t do guns in Atlantic City,” Jillette lamented. “Even bribes couldn’t [help]. They get very jumpy about .357 Magnums in Atlantic City.”

Interesting. Quite a few states have exceptions in the law for dramatic expressions and entertainment. Guess NJ is not one of them.

Can you taste teh st00pid?

A man pulls a knife on another man. The other man simply let it be known he had a gun and the situation was defused. He gets convicted for having a gun on school grounds. The judge said that had the guy pointed the gun at the other man or, I guess, shot him, it would have been valid self defense. Pretty dumb. H/T Robb.

Remember that sign I made fun of? Well, in OH, police are asking banks to post that same sign. Via Guav who states the obvious: Why would someone about to rob a bank—which is already breaking the law—bother to comply with the law concerning hoods & hats?

Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998. He has flown numerous missions against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, including the longest combat mission in his squadron’s history. On that infamous September 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Fehrenbach was handpicked to fly sorties above the nation’s capital. Later he flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho, where he has passed on his skills to more than 300 future Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers. $25M has been spent to train this guy. But he’s about to be discharged because he’s gay.

Because it reduces cholesterol, it’s a drug. Via Robert, who says:

First of all, is General Mills a REAL General…or what? IF General Mills is a General, then he ought to order the FDA lined up and shot.

So, I asked earlier why they make me get a cashiers check as part of closing. So, at closing, I decided to ask. The title guy said it was required by state law. I asked if cash would have been OK and he said it would have been.

Also, we went to a local bank to close. The bank had nothing to do with the transaction other than, apparently, the title guy or mortgage lady rented a conference room from them that was convenient for us to get to. Heading into the bank, I was met with this sign that caused me to stop and laugh out loud:

From Misc

Wow. Relying on a sign. Why not put up a Robbing is Prohibited sign? And there’s the fact that their other sign prohibiting weapons does not appear to comply with Tennessee State Law which has requirements for signs prohibiting the otherwise lawful carrying of weapons by permit holders.

Regardless of that, I won’t be doing any business with BankEast.

Update: Heh:

Why didn’t they just staple a sprig of wolfsbane and a few cloves of garlic over the doorway while they were at it?

The TN AG says a ban on saggy pants is ‘Arguably Unconstitutional‘. One would hope so.

Pure brilliance:

Gun nuts love to say that if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. I actually don’t see why that’s a problem. It would certainly make it a lot easier to determine who the criminals are. If someone is walking around with a gun, and they aren’t a policeman, then they’re a criminal. Lock ‘em up.

Next, people with dangerous ideas will be banned. Like in England.

Clenched fist salute to ACK.

So, google goes green and uses goats to mow the grass. PETA has an issue with this.

Unfortunately for some, this guy. He’s taking his students to lobby for gun control. Note the tolerance.

No, it’s not. But kinda funny how there’s always just a smidgen of truth in the crazy.

So, you’re going to act like you shoot someone at the office as a gag. Pretty funny. Except for that guy who wasn’t in on it and cuts himself climbing the barbed wire fence to escape and then runs half a mile.

If true, pure lunacy:

Behind the wheel, you want the least amount of distraction possible. So why is a local transportation agency painting crooked lines on the road on purpose?

The Virginia Department of Transportation says it’s part of a safety campaign to get drivers to slow down in a high pedestrian and bicycle area. The 500 feet of zig-zagging lines are painted on the ground on Belmont Ridge Road, where it intersects with the Washington and Old Dominion trail in Loudoun County.

At Pith in the Wind, we’re accustomed to Jeff Woods’ inability to string two complex thoughts together and overall lack of general mental functioning. And we know they spend their time soiling their pretty panties because Republicans run the legislature in the state now. But they’ve reached a new level of stupid. Now, we have Pete Kotz stating that the Aryan Nation, which is having trouble getting new members, should try a bit of recruitment at the TN Legislative Plaza. The reason is because some legislators aren’t buying on to the token gesture of apologizing for slavery that does nothing but lead to political posturing.

Classy, eh?

AirSoft AK-47s, apparently. Oh, and they come from US gun shows, natch.

Bonus for ravenwood’s law too.

Update: Image changed. Heh. This was the first image she opted for.

Funny stuff:

Rightwing Terrorism apparently consists of standing around in a quasi-orderly fashion, waving signs, chatting with neighbors, picking up trash, walking back to the car, and going home.

And you protest because you’re a racist, of course.

Having blamed guns, NRA, right wing radio, ammo prices and the economy comes a new one:

The Link Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders

I’m sure some AP hack is on the scene investigating now.

Seen at R. Neal’s:

A friend stopped by his neighborhood market the other day and the guy at the register handed him this “report”.

It says there is a government plot to disrupt our economy and confiscate all private guns by Sept. 2009 so the U.S. can join the New World Order and adopt a global currency. President Obama was to seal the deal at the G20 summit in London. The back page lists several websites you should check out for more information “while you still can.”

I see the crazy talk is back. It has come full circle. I remember the good old days when the New World Order Black Helicopter guys said the same thing about the first George Bush. Looks like a combo of the Prison Planet/Infowars/Truther crowd. Anyway, this is some world class silliness and no one should encourage them.

Ok, we’ve gone from blaming guns, to NRA, to conservative radio, to 911 operators, to the economy. Now, ammo. If only ammunition was more expensive, people wouldn’t be committing these mass shootings:

The man who gunned down 13 people at an upstate New York immigration center fired 98 shots from two handguns in a little more than a minute, police said Wednesday, a gunslinging feat one expert said would make him a “new Rambo.”

Gun control advocates said if a man who complained about not getting enough in unemployment benefits could afford enough ammunition to repeatedly practice shooting and go into his killing zone with a satchel of bullets around his neck, new ways are needed to stem gun violence, including raising the price of ammunition.

Ballistics reports showed Jiverly Wong fired 87 times from a 9mm Beretta and 11 times from a .45-caliber handgun. If he bought the ammunition online, he could have paid as little as $40 for the rounds he fired.

Has the AP paid attention to the ammo price situation? Why, yes, they have.

Licensed to kill? Nearly every gunman in recent mass shootings had weapons permits

That’s the lede. But it’s false. In Alabama, there is no requirement for a weapons permit to own a gun. In Brady Ranked #6 NY, there is and the ABC piece posted a picture of the shooter’s permit. I don’t know about PA but the Brady Bunch says there is not permit required to purchase.

It would help DEBORAH HASTINGS, AP National Writer, if you actually looked up the laws you were reporting on. You know that, despite what you learn from sitcoms, not all states are New York. But at least you got one right.

In Fort Campbell, The US Army wants to register any soldier’s privately owned weapons. They also want to know if you have a carry permit.

Paul Helmke blames the right-wing NRA propaganda machine for going out and getting everyone all riled up and buying guns. They state the evil gun lobby perpetuated falsehoods about the anti-gunners and the Obama administration wanting to ban guns. And that was a lie.

But in the next breath, the anti-gunners say they want to ban guns.

Wait until Heller. Then release 80% the city’s inmates.

Kidding aside, they are not related. But that’s pretty stupid. And if I were in DC, I’d definitely go get another gun.

Gun Kills Five Children In Washington State. I guess they are magic.

That’s what they called a blogger so they could raid his house. Raided and computers seized. For criticizing bad cops.

Councilman Phil Mendelson on restoring gun rights to DC citizens:

It would be harder to arrest chronic criminals, because police would no longer be able to charge them with possessing unregistered weapons

Makes perfect sense.

Bob finds it a bit odd that someone isn’t too bright.

PETA kills 95% of adoptable pets in its care.

Al Gore is his own parody:

I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.

In fact, most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work. (In other words, his house looked the way most houses look about 1:45am when their inhabitants are distractedly watching “Cheaters” or “Chelsea Lately” reruns.)

The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.

I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.

Wow. Just wow.

Some major pants-shitting in Chicago over something that makes sense:

State Representative Annazette Collins found herself in the hot seat after she suggested that kids be educated about guns. She says downstate, children are educated about weapons at a young age….why not in more urban areas.

“Down state they teach you that guns are meant for hunting, for protection..here in the urban cities, all they see are guns on tv..and they gun down people.” said Collins.

When I was in high school, you took hunters safety as part of Phys Ed or ROTC.

Update: Richard Daley will need to change his Depends.

Tom points out that a story I linked to was not accurate. I would say it was my error except that, uh, it wasn’t.

I dig those fancy FN P90 Personal Defense Weapons you guys are using to defend your precious cargo. However, they’d be more effective if you actually had magazines in them.

Delegates wish to carry weapons without a permit because the permitting process they’ve put in place takes too long and is inconvenient when they decide they really need a weapon:

Controversy often inflames passions, and mindful of this lawless age and a propensity of some in society to go over the edge, a few lawmakers want the right to arm themselves without a weapons permit.

One sponsor of such a House bill, in fact, Delegate Mark Hunt, D-Kanawha, relayed a personal threat directed at him and his family, penned by the hand of a convict.

A self-described “monster,” the man behind bars warned of what he intended to do to Hunt and his children.

Hunt decided to leave nothing to chance and get a firearm, but was told he had to wait during a two-month concealed weapon application process.

Despite the written threat, the man was released, but authorities picked him up a day later.

Hunt is a co-sponsor of HB3248, aimed at adding members of the Legislature to a list of officials and others who are allowed to skip the waiting period and carry a firearm.

Delegate David Walker, D-Clay, the lead sponsor, says he has never been threatened, but if he were, wouldn’t hesitate to arm himself.

Living under the very laws you passed, that’s just for the little people, right?

Stealing guns from a gun show.

They all look the same, you know.

BTW, if Bush had done this, it’d be front page everywhere. Now that it is the chosen one, not so much.

Barack Obama, who likes to tell us he’s not anti-gun when he is, has de-funded the program to arm airline pilots.

Misspelled tattoos.

Presidentin is hard.

Campus police alert students of a possible gunman on campus. 80 minutes after the first reports. Good thing it wasn’t a real shooting.

So, in MD, there was a Stop The Violence Concert. 16 arrested as it erupted in, you guessed it, violence.

Way to win hearts and minds:

Thirteen-year-old Lane Dunkley just wanted to go hunting with his grandfather.
What he got was a lecture on politics.

[...]

But when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Barack Obama.

Reddy, a transplanted Californian — and former Marine — raised his hand.

According to Reddy and others in the room, Wolf called Obama “the next thing to the Antichrist” and ordered Reddy and Dunkley from the room. When Reddy refused, Wolf said he would not teach “liberals” and would cancel the course if Reddy didn’t leave.

Trying to hold up a gun shop. And:

Three offenders were in custody after an incident at Schrank’s Smoke’N Gun in Waukegan that ended with one offender being shot three times and flown by Flight for Life to a nearby hospital. An employee was also being treated at another area hospital.

Some idiotic mother in Texas (who is obviously from somewhere else) is upset that NRA’s Eddie Eagle program is teaching kids things that could prevent them from being killed:

“Not only do I think it’s inappropriate to provide this information to my 5-year-old, but this is a program published by the NRA,” said Nicola Howe, Samone’s mother.

The coloring book includes illustrations of handguns and rifles.

“Having pictures of guns that children color in I think is sending the wrong message,” said Howe.

So, it’s better to act like guns don’t exist? Educating your kids about what to do when the see a gun could save their life. Crapping your pants over pictures of guns doesn’t really help.

Seriously, gun permits. And now salaries of UT employees. I wonder if there will be a law to stop this, too.

First, Al Gore gave us the internet. Cheney turned them into the internets. Ted Stevens gave us the intertubes. Now, Biden: Do you know the website number? I thought this was supposed to be the technology administration?

You’ll recall that SF Mayor Newsom banned bottled water at the city .gov. Now, he’s been caught with a case in his vehicle. Hypocrisy.

In response to Mike Mallowe making this stupid comment:

Philadelphia Police officer John Pawlowski was not killed by Rasheed Scruggs — he was killed by the .357 pistol that Scruggs was using.

Phelps responds with:

C’mon guys, give him a break. He didn’t even write the article.

His computer did.

Heh.

Via email, I’m alerted to some blogger who’s totally losing his/her shit because the folks on the right now sound like the folks on the left sounded four and eight years ago. Seems some freepers are getting their ammo box, civil war, blah blah, talk on. Suddenly, Free Republic has become Democratic Underground from a few years ago with talks of uprising, planning for the worst, and stocking up on sweet, sweet ammo. Irony level is pretty rich because said blogger complaining about it has that whole V for Vendetta theme going on but is calling the secret service over harsh words seen on Al Gore’s Internets. Too funny. Also, the blogger says these people are talking assassination, which they’re not.

Any way, I don’t mind so much. The Bush years turned a lot of lefties into gun nuts. In fact, the picture that Mr. Fifth Of November Poser used was prominent on a lot of lefty, pro-gun sites. Looks like the Obama years will get a lot of righties back into the gun rights movement.

And to round out teh st00pid: That gun looks illegal, too.

Really? How can you tell?

Gee, breaking into a house you do not own is breaking and entering? Who knew?

I know papers are struggling and all but every time you turn around, some idiotic paper is publishing lists of handgun carry permit holders. This time, it’s The Arkansas Times’ Max Brantley. And the reason papers do this is to generate a buzz and traffic since such a list really has no redeeming value to anyone other than criminals. And the alt-weekly biz is in the shitter.

Perhaps the dumbest product idea I’ve ever seen.

OK, then: The initial question was posed by Peter Valdez of Salinas, who wanted to know why gun locks couldn’t be enforced in the city – forcing gang members to lock their guns in order to transport them.

Remember the drill team member that was suspended for having her non-gun in her car. The one she practiced drill with? Well, she’s back in school now.

For show and tell, kid brings deactivated grenade to school. Every body panic.

A drill team member was suspended from school for having a replica rifle in her car. You know, those replica rifles that drill teams march with. Yeah, those.

Meanwhile, college laundry room shut down, dorm swept, and bomb-sniffing dogs called because a loose 45 round was found. The original article contains this bit of reporting:

According to Sgt. Dennett, a student found the bullet in the washing machine while doing his laundry. 45-caliber bullets are used in assault weapons such as handguns, not larger weapons like hunting rifles.

Ok, then.

Indeed: The Idiocalypse has begun.

John Kerry says the trouble with tax cuts is that it gives all the little people freedom to do with that money what they want. Can’t have that. The government should decide what to do with your money.

What he said.

They’re on The History Channel all the time.

Major PSH from a group that is, and I am not making this up, protesting that ROTC offers arms training. Two things leap out at me here. One is that they really think military training is equal to criminal activity. And two that they don’t seem to think learning about arms is educational. Familiarity with arms is a skill that can save lives, in more ways than one.

Update: More from papaw:

Let’s face it, I’m a lucky man. I am lucky to live in a place where firearms are accepted and understood. Where I don’t have to repeat myself and where most folks understand the value in a firearm.

Image of a man walking the street with a gun and some other object, presumed to be liquor in South Dakota. PSH ensues in England. I can’t tell if it’s a liquor bottle or not but it doesn’t look like one. A quick map search reveals a nearby gun shop.

South Dakota ranks 46th in violent crime in the US and a violent crime rate of 172/100,000. In Britain, the violent crime rate is 2,300 and 3,993 per 100,000. And that’s with them cooking the books.

Now, compare that stereotype to one of bad teeth, horrible food, and subjects living in a nanny state where they can’t defend their own lives, I’ll take the guy with the rifle walking down the street any day.

HT to mad rocket scientist.

In PA:

City officials warned residents Tuesday to remove items such as upholstered furniture, trash and debris from their porches within 24 hours or face fines.

Like David said, that’s like ordering potential rape victims to wear burkas.

Say you do a post on guns. You get substantially everything wrong, including gun laws, types of guns, and everything else. Someone advises you of your error. You reply with:

I’ve been harassed by a commentor (sic).
So, I’ve had to pull the story.

And what a story it was. There can be no reasoning with some people.

Note: Believe it or not, there actually is a blog post buried under every annoying blog widget known to Al Gore’s Internets.

In what is truly a sign of the times, a coach has been fired because he did not apologize for his team beating another team 100-0. And, amazingly, the press article yammers on incessantly about the losers and how it was so bad and shameful that the other mean ol’ team just kept winning.

Idiots.

So, to Micah Grimes and his team: congratulations on your victory. Seriously, someone needs to tell this guy and his team that, you know, effort pays off.

Update: From comments:

Nobody made the other team stay. They could have forfeit after the 1st half. They chose to stay and play; that shows character and perspective. Punishing the coach for winning 100-0 is an insult to the losing team.

Indeed.

In New Jersey, 30 days does not mean 30 days.

Today, Al Gore dumped a whopping 1/64th of an inch of global warming on parts of East Tennessee. So, naturally, everything is shut down and people are freaking out.

Just in time for the inauguration. I’m guessing it will be as effective as a No Gun sign.

1930s video of a man testing bullet proof glass by shooting it. While his wife holds it.

Tom Ferda, a sports columnist of some kind, took issue with Codrea’s gun column. He displays his ignorance on the topic at hand and is then corrected. So, obviously, it’s us crazy gun nuts out to get him. In comments there, he asserts that:

The aggressive responses to my opinion and comment are the exact reasons many citizens want guns to be taken out of the hands of hard-core advocates–we fear you will use them just to get your points across.

Yeah, that makes sense. You use harsh words and have guns so, no doubt, you’re going to kill me for disagreeing with you. Perfectly reasonable. If you’re an idiot.

Man goes elk hunting. Bags feral llama. In other news, there are feral llamas?

In an effort to show the world how bitchin’ hydrogen fuel cell cars are, a rep decided to drive one to DC. Too bad he has a case of teh st00pid:

Massa drove one fuel cell car while a hybrid SUV towing an additional SUV followed along. Once he got half way, he switched to new fuel cell car. The empty fuel cell was then towed back by the first SUV. As he continued on his journey, the second SUV followed. Once Massa arrived in DC, the second SUV then towed the second fuel cell car back to NY.

Fit right in in congress.

So, you get mad that someone stepped on your foot. You get a shotgun and shoot them. Perfectly reasonable for a four year-old. In other news, a four year-old has access to a gun cabinet.

I don’t watch many movies. For a while, there were a couple of reasons for this. One is that, with kids, it’s not easy to find a couple hours to watch one. And the other more important reason is that movies these days suck. Bad.

Now, there’s a third reason. I used to watch the occasional movie on pay per view. However, Dishnetwork now offers its pay per view movies as limited. Now, I have a DVR. So, I record my pay per views to it. What limited means is that I have 24 hours from the time I start the movie to finish the movie or it disappears. Now, at my house, with kids running amok and other such distractions, I never watch a movie in one sitting. It took me, for example, three days to watch the last pay per view I ordered (300, if you must know; and that works out to 100 per day). We discovered this ordering a pay per view for the kids a bit back. I don’t understand the logic here. I mean, why 24 hours? It makes no sense.

So, no problem, we say. We’ll just record it and put on a DVD thereby outsmarting their plan. But now the movies are also protected against being recorded. Now that protection, I can understand but the 24 hour thing is retarded.

So, Dishnetwork has ensured that I and my family will never, ever pay for their pay per view movies again.

Death to who?

If you’re going to rob someone, don’t drop your gun. It might fall apart.

Bad enough when the police get the wrong address and bust through your door in their ninja gear. But it’s gotta be more bizarre when it’s firemen:

Deputy Fire Chief Greg Robbins said he directed firefighters Friday to what he thought was a vacant, city-owned home in the 800 block of Second Street to run training drills.

Instead the crew broke down the door at the home of Mike and Cathy Grosse, causing $1,000 in damage.

Oops.

Ya know, Santa checks his list twice.

Accidents at intersections in Houston doubled after the installation of red light cameras. But Mayor Bill White argued that the cameras’ presence prevented even more collisions and that the study proves the monitoring program is keeping drivers safe. That may be one of the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

If you rob a place using an airsoft pistol, guys with real guns may be a problem.

By seizing land:

Relatives of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 want the Bush Administration to seize the land needed for a memorial where the plane crashed in western Pennsylvania during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Great way to honor their memories.

He says don’t be selfish and help those who live in places where the basics needed for survival are missing. He said this from an extravagant mantle, on a gold throne with jewels, wearing a priceless gold cross, and some expensive clothes.

Good message there, chief.

A man notices that he wasn’t charged sales tax. He does the right thing and remits his tax ($1.50) to the Department of Revenue. The DOR then said he was a business and had to pay a 650 dollar fine—or face collections —AND criminal charges. It took an inquiry from the local news media to get it straightened out.

Incompetent big government, money grubbing pricks: making the world more libertarian one government form filled out in triplicate, shuffled, and stuffed in a bin no one ever reviews at a time.

Seen at Michael’s:

In a brief filed today, the American Civil Liberties Union is urging a Tennessee appeals court to remove a so called “paramour” restriction against a lesbian mother that is forcing her partner of 9 years out of their home every night the mother has custody and visitation of her children.

The trial court imposed the restriction on the couple even though the psychologist who performed the custodial evaluation in the case found the partner to be positive influence in the children’s lives.

May be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of.

Who knew being a dumb, cousin-humping redneck was a thought crime?

I was going to post a reply to this article but realized it would be a waste of time. But if you want to see some real PSH, flat out lying, and play a game of count teh st00pid then give it a read.

I’ve said before that teh st00pid could be fatal. Now, I have scientific proof:

High IQ test scores in early adulthood were associated with a reduced risk of death by homicide.

Judge takes meat cleaver to First Amendment.

Calling in gay. I would probably fire them. I mean, couldn’t you just let me know in advance that you’re going to be out on this day and take an appropriate vacation/sick day so I could plan accordingly? It’s nice to give notice when you know of an absence in advance. I support your cause but I got to manage too. Don’t be a dick for the cause.

How to carry a gun onto a plane:

Wanna carry a gun onto an airplane? It’s easy — just get any government ID (the cards issued to part-time assistant harbor masters on Cape Cod will do) and then tell the TSA that you need a “flying while armed” form. Not only will they let you bring your gun onto the plane, they’ll helpfully bring you into the cockpit (with your gun) and tell who who the undercover Sky Marshals are.

Guy is being charged for impersonating a federal officer and for embarrassing the TSA. Ok, I made the latter charge up. But that’s probably more what it’s about.

Ten year old arrested, fingerprinted for bringing a toy gun to school.

I’m away at an office at a secure and undisclosed location. I have a large window. All day, two stupid birds are repeatedly flying into said window. Every 8 seconds or so there are two thuds.

Cam rounds up national cases of teh st00pid. I mean, the new visitors’ center in DC got our national motto wrong.

Occasionally, a case of teh st00pid is fatal. Unfortunately, this was not one of those cases:

Police say Haggins put his pistol on a table, walked over to the man and snatched the bracelet. But while Haggins was taking the bracelet, police say another victim grabbed the gun and pointed it at Haggins.

Brantley Hargrove says Saxby Chambliss groped his granddaughter.

Aunt B. addresses the sheer dickheadedness involved.

Blue Trail Range needs your help since the local press is aiding in trying to shut it down. You can help here.

The tough blame their equipment.

Suddenly, Jesse Jackson Jr. believes in the constitution.

Like you and me, only better.