Chronicling the depravities of the State.
The Firearm Blog brings some good news. Russia has bestowed its highest award, Hero of the Russian Federation, upon a man we all know and love, Mikhail Kalashnikov.
This was awarded on Mr. Kalashnikov’s 90th birthday. It’s good to see the man who invented the most popular rifle to ever exist is getting his due recognition.
We now know the killer in the Fort Hill shooting was using an FN FiveseveN. According to the media this gun is a “cop killer.” Well Massad Ayoob says not so much:
Now, I’m a little more on top of murders of police, and officer survival issues, than the average bear, and I’ve not yet found a case of a police officer being murdered with this particular handgun.
Some cop killer.
Hey everybody I have a very busy week so blogging is going to be very light. I’ll try to get some stuff posted Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. But Friday is an absolute no-go due to a friend’s wedding.
Says Uncle has another great article. It has been discovered that New York City experiences fewer murders on rainy days. I’m waiting for a law to move through New York’s legislation that will ban the sun to make everybody safer. Remember it’s for the greater good!
OK another story on the mass shooting at Fort Hood. The media is reporting that the killer used a 5.7 caliber handgun. Well for reference here’s a 5 caliber casing.
How the fuck did he carry that around base without somebody noticing?
When it rains it pours. Another shooting occurred only a day after the previous. This time in Orlando, Florida. Jason Rodriguez, 40, not a Muslim opened fire in the office building where it works killing one person. Police arrested him after he fled to his mother’s home (because gosh nobody will think to look there).
It’s interesting to note that neither of the two shooters offed themselves. That’s usually the first thing these psychos do when cornered by the police.
I don’t know as much about Canadian politics as I should but I do know they have a mandatory gun registration system. It’s been draining money and accomplishing nothing so they are looking into repealing it. The bill to repeal the gun registry just passed their House with a 164 to 137 vote. Go Canada!
Palm is certainly working on interesting ideas. WebOS, although lacking, is certainly interesting since you can write applications using standard web development tools. Well Palm has a new tool to make development easy.
Ares is a web based WebOS development tools. Apparently it’s supposed to make already easy development (seriously WebOS is dead simple to write applications for) process easier.
There aren’t many details on the new tool but Palm did give a live demonstration at this year’s Open Mobile Summit. From that it’s known that nothing needs to be installed on the machine you’re developing with (everybody runs in a web browser) and apparently things are all drag-and-droppy.
Anyways I just thought it was something interesting to bring up.
I’m sure you’ve already heard about the shootings that occurred at Fort Hood. Major Nidal Malik Hasan used two handguns to kill 13 people and injure another 28. He was an Army psychologist who was facing deployment to Afghanistan.
Details are still emerging but I can guarantee the anti-gunners are going to scream for more gun control on civilians even though Major Hasan is military. That’s just a prediction. Likewise the Obamessiah had a statement about this:
It is difficult enough when we lose these brave men and women abroad, but it is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on US soil.
You know what? Bring our men and women back home and they won’t face the first and probably not the second either. Seriously why are we sending our soldiers to fight in a God forsaken part of the planet where we have no business? Cripes!
Oh yeah I forgot one detail which apparently was important enough for the BBC to bring up right away:
Maj Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, a US-born Muslim,
Yup he’s Muslim which means we’ll probably be jacking up racial profiling against Muslims again. We need to keep our country safe and the only way to do that is to discriminate against an entire religion because a very very small minority of extremists of that religion have done horrible things. Oh yeah and their a minority in this country, that’s important to. You can’t persecute the majority after all since, well, they’re the majority.
Anyways that’s the story.
The BBC was also good enough to provide timeline of events in relation to the shooting. Some things are brought up.
First off the guns used by Major Hasan were not military issued so the anti-gunners are going to be dancing in the blood with this one. They’ll of course ignore the fact that they say military personnel should be allowed to still have guns since they are trained and so super human that they would never do anything bad with a gun… oh wait.
Likewise the BBC is reporting there was only one shooter while other venues reported multiple shootings. Generally I trust the BBC over American news sources. Either way Major Hasan is in custody and alive although with four additional holes thanks to one brave individual who hasn’t been identified (that I know of).
No sooner did I plan on posting the previous post (it should have went out some time ago) the power at work blew up. Hah! I love supreme irony.