Shot in the Dark

Tag: stand your ground

  • Thirty Years Ago On The East Side

    Hard to believe it’s been thirty years since Guy Harvey Baker – a Gulf War Marine veteran with, clearly, mental illness issues – killed officers Ron Ryan, Tim Jones, and a police dog named Laser (story from 2014). The PiPress had a fairly good retrospective of the events – with one crucial omission:    Ryan, 26,…

  • Calling All Davids

    Last week, we noted that the Strib had rejected an op-ed by Sarah Cade – a center-left African-American woman who happens to be a competition shooter, a friend of mine, and the owner of one of the most rightous ARs I’ve seen. By way of trying to outflank the Strib’s abusive monopoly on political opinion publishing, I posted her…

  • Twenty Years Ago On The East Side

    Hard to believe it’s been twenty years since Guy Harvey Baker – a Gulf War Marine veteran with, clearly, mental illness issues – killed officers Ron Ryan, Tim Jones, and a police dog named Laser.  The PiPress has a fairly good retrospective of the events – with one crucial omission:    Ryan, 26, was checking on a…

  • Ground Stood

    Citizen in Alabama shoots, kills man who was herding customers in a dollar store into a back room at gunpoint.  It seems like a no-brainer, right? Man with a gun is herding innocent third parties into a back room like a bunch of cattle. Well, in Alabama it is.  Alabama has a “stand your ground”…

  • Score Another For The Good Guys

    A woman with a carry permit breaks up a robbery at a Denny’s in Houston: At around 4 a.m. Thursday, a man who does not want to be identified, said his brother was robbed by six men with guns at a Denny’s off the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston. “I don’t know if it was…

  • Another Racist Law!

    In the his frankly bizarre speech in re the Martin/Zimmermaas case last week, President Obama asked: And for those who resist that idea that we should think about something like these “stand your ground” laws, I’d just ask people to consider, if Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground…

  • A Million Reasons To Celebrate, One Reason To Keep Working

    In 1987, Florida became the eighth state, and the first large state, to adopt a “shall issue” law requiring the state to issue carry permits to applicants with clean criminal records, no record of drug abuse or alcohol problems and no known record of violent mental illness. Next week, the state of 19 million people…

  • Right, Wrong, And Fearless Predictions

    For starters – the Thanksgiving shooting in Little Falls seems, according to what we know, to be a textbook case of how not to shoot in self defense. 64 year old Byron Smith allegedly shot Nicholas Brady, 17, as he came down the cellar stairs – and then allegedly shot Brady’s cousin Haile Kifer, 18.   He’s…

  • A Victory For The Good Guy – Provided It’s Not In Minnesota

    This one made the news over the weekend; in Phoenix, a 14 year old boy shot and gravely wounded an armed intruder who’d not only kicked down the door of his house while he was baby-sitting, but was pointing a gun at the kid: The boy was home with his three siblings, ranging in age…

  • It Took About Six Weeks Of Investigation…

    …for the prosecutor in Florida to charge George Zimmerman with Second Degree Murder. Corey also had a message for those who have been rushing to judgment on the case. “You cannot know what it’s like to launch this type of investigation and come to this conclusion,” State Attorney Angela Corey said during the press conference.…

  • Chanting Points Memo: “How Is A Bowling Ball The Same As A Spoon?”

    It’s a scenario that’s launched a thousand “miscarriage of military justice” stories and more than a few movies during and after three wars, now; soldier gets into difficult, ambiguous situation; soldier, believing himself to be threatened, shoots.  Judge Advocate General jacks the soldier up over an arcane technicality in the “rules of engagement”, adjudicated by…

  • NBC: “Curing Root Rot By Trimming Leaves”

    NBC identified and whacked a fall guy for the fraudulent, narrative-based editing of the George Zimmerman 911 call we talked about last week. NBC News has fired the producer it deemed most responsible for the airing of a selectively edited 911 call placed by George Zimmerman the night he killed Trayvon Martin. Sources at NBC…

  • Chanting Points Memo: With “Experts” Like This, Who Needs Enemas?

    Long before the Trayvon Martin shooting started dominating the headlines, gun law reform was in the news in Minnesota, and had already spawned a smaller, more “Barney-Fife”-y version of the disinformation mill that has been sweeping the nation these past few weeks. I and the rest of the Minnesota Second Amendment community have been playing…

  • Chanting Points Memo: The Law And The Leftyblog Fantasy World

    Hypothetically, here:  Let’s say that a Neo-Nazi – let’s call him “Tim Stevenson” – gives a rabble-rousing speech at a tiny meeting of neo-nazis.  He rouses the skinheads and flat-earthers present to a fever pitch of hatred against “N****rs, Kikes, Wops, Spics, F****ts, C**holics and Immigrants”, calling for their expulsion from the US – peacefully,…

  • Remedial Bonehead Legal Education

    As we grind on through the ongoing morass of the Martin case in Florida, it occurs to me that there’s an article I should have written a month ago, when the “Stand Your Ground” bill was wending its way toward Governor “I’ve Got Two .357 Magnums” Dayton’s dim-witted veto. It turns out a lot of…

  • Tomorrow: Time To Stand Up For Stand Your Ground

    Tony Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill – which would make legal self-defense a more tenable option for law-abiding Minnesotans – is coming up for another hearing in the Senate tomorrow. For the second straight day, I’m going to urge all Second-Amendment supporting Minnesotans to get on the phone.  These Senators are all pretty much in…