I told you
I’ve mentioned that in the last couple of weeks that there is a two-pronged front going on for the gun control movement. One is the assault weapons ban canard and the other is the assault on castle doctrine. Kevin spotted another case of the latter:
Intruder fatally shot
Fatality third in Escambia since ‘Stand Your Ground’ law passed
Law enforcement and attorneys say the local nurse who fatally shot an intruder at her Navy Point home Saturday would have been protected by state law before the “Stand Your Ground” law passed.
Then Kevin asks: Then why mention the “Stand Your Ground” law at all?
The answer, like the assault weapons ban canard, is association. Say “Stand your ground” in stories where people get shot enough times and people will correlate the two. The assault weapons ban canard keeps picking up some force too:
Dade cops seeing more assault rifles
More homicides in Miami-Dade have been committed this year using assault-style rifles, but whether that means more of the weapons are on the streets is unclear.
Which is it? Are they assault rifles (medium power, select fire weapons) or assault style weapons (made up)? More:
Although most killers still use handguns, police report the use of assault-style rifles — the AK-47 and its cheaper cousin, the SKS — is on the rise.
AK-47s have been banned since 1986 and heavily regulated since 1934. The SKS is neither an assault rifle, nor an assault weapon. And it’s no so much the cousin of the AK as it is the AK’s jilted ex-lover. More:
• During the first six months of the year, at least nine homicides handled by Miami-Dade detectives were believed to have been committed with assault-style rifles. That’s up from only one last year during the same time period, the department said.
• This year, the Miami Police Department’s homicide unit has handled 10 deaths attributed to assault-style rifles — including the June triple murder. That’s up from six during the same time period last year.
Uhm, is nine or 10? And is it six or one? I don’t understand what they’re saying here. Either way, those numbers hardly seem staggering.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office hasn’t detected a sharp increase, but it has noticed a ”bit of an upswing” in crimes involving shotguns and long guns over the past few months, according to BSO spokesman Elliot Cohen. He said it’s too early to draw any conclusions.
”The last couple months there has been a higher than normal level of incidence with shotguns and long guns,” Cohen said. “Anecdotally, it’s something our detectives have noticed.”
That’s what I figured.
The spate of murders comes nearly two years after legislators allowed a federal ban on certain assault-style weapons to expire — but whether that means more are on the streets is difficult to gauge, law enforcement officials say.
And there’s the blame.
I’ve noticed this trend quite a bit in the last two weeks, enough so to make me think that it is not entirely accidental.
Via Nimrod.
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:18 pm
My mom’s family is in Escambia County, and my uncle is a police officer there. Many towns there are small towns, and there are people who live on dirt roads miles from civilization, with wooded areas.
You break into a house there at your own risk. I know maybe a dozen people that live within reasonable walking distance of my grandmother’s house, and I know for a fact every single one of them owns at least two hunting rifles. These are people who treat guns like tools, every day objects, not a bunch of hoplophobes.
It’s also not that they’re paranoid — they are hunters, there’s lots of areas to hunt and fish, and tons of wild animals that may be a threat, plus stray dogs that may jump on kids/other dogs.
Of course the DA there isn’t going to prosecute people for self defense. He’d be essentially giving up his job.
Just thought I’d comment, seeing as how I’ve spent a lot of time in the area.
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
They were probably BLACK shotguns.
Shotguns with wooden furniture are “legitimate” sporting arms. If it’s black with synthetic furniture, it’s clearly an “assault-style” weapon.
It’s designation is dependent upon how scary it LOOKS to people who don’t know jack shit about firearms.
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:01 pm
It looks like Miami-Dade County Police are different from Miami City Police, so that’s why there are two differing sets of numbers
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:20 pm
It’s designation is dependent upon how scary it LOOKS to people who don’t know jack shit about firearms.
That’s pretty much what the AWB was, yep. We can profile guns but not people.