A Philadelphia man was sentenced to life last week for the murder of Jason Shephard. You probably didn’t hear about it in the news, though. Why? The murderer, William Smithson, is gay. He kidnapped Shephard, drugged him, and tried to rape him. When Shephard fought back Smithson killed him.
Where’s the media outrage over this senseless murder? You won’t hear any because the liberal media only care about such crimes when the victim—not the perpetrator—is gay. This was a true hate crime. The perp should have received the death penalty.
Despite “expert” security the hotels in Mumbai were an easy target for terrorists. Why is this so, when hotels have increasingly come under attack, particularly in Asia? The experts seem to be throwing their hands up.
P.R.S. Oberoi, the chairman of the Oberoi Group, said at a news conference over the weekend that he had directed his company’s hotels to step up security after the Islamabad bombing. The Oberoi banned anyone from parking in front of its hotel here for fear that a car bomb could destroy the glass wall at the front of the lobby, a risk at many hotels.
But those protections did not deter the attackers, who entered the Oberoi on foot.
Mr. Oberoi questioned whether any hotel could defend against such an assault.
Well, certainly not the Oberoi. Their “security” officers are unarmed! Now how does Mr. Oberoi expect his staff to protect his customers if they aren’t even armed? By the time the government could respond, the situation was already completely out of hand. All they could do is clean up the mess and count bodies.
There really is a simple solution: trust ordinary people. Fortunately, here in the U.S., most states do. The principle is enshrined in the Second Amendment and lived out by those of us who choose to carry arms (and further choose to live in states that allow concealed carry). A disarmed populace is nothing but a nation of victims. Would the attacks have been thwarted if there had been armed security officers and citizens? Not necessarily, of course, but it could have made a significant difference. An armed civilian may not survive such an attack, but it’s certain at this point that a couple hundred unarmed victims did not.
The officer was about to clean his gun after giving his daughter a safety lesson! Apparently he skipped class when they covered the first rule of gun safety: treat every gun as if it loaded (until you personally verify that it is not). Good grief! Now the gun grabbers are going to yammer away again about how unsafe guns are.
After a Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by a mob during yesterday’s Black Friday frenzy, police are trying to identify individuals from the store’s security tapes. I, for one, hope they’re able to do so and prosecute. I also hope the man’s family will sue Wal-Mart for a crippling sum. What has become of our society when retailers hype a sale to the point that saving a few buck is worth more than a man’s life?
Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
You’ve got to be kidding! People were actually upset because they couldn’t keep shopping? How unbelievably self-centered our society is becoming. What’s the value of a human life? “Uh, yeah, we just trampled that guy to death so we could save $10 on a Wii for Christmas. I mean, come one, I’ve been waiting in line all night and he was in the way.”
They should’ve just rounded up everyone in the store and ID’d them to make hanging prosecuting them easier.
After four days it appears the carnage is finally over, with a couple hundred killed and many more wounded in terrorist attacks on ten different sites in Mumbai. How is this kind of attack possible? If you’ve been following the news for the last few years, you already know that India has the second largest Muslim population in the world and is also the location of a very large percentage of Islamist terror attacks. What you may not know is that India is also an almost entirely disarmed society. Their citizens and foreign travelers are completely at the mercy of fanatics like those who perpetrated this atrocity.
Another UCLA scientist has been targeted by terrorists in the name of animal rights.
Activists with the group Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates claimed responsibility for the attack
Crimes like this really give you a good picture of the level of morality on the far left. Groups such as this value animal life far more than human life, in this case putting completely uninvolved people at risk since, the police note, they destroyed vehicles which didn’t belong to the scientist in question.
It really shouldn’t be impossible to track down the cretins who boasted about the attack on the web. Hopefully they’ll wind up in a cage of their own.
The patronizing tone of Europeans toward Americans for our stance on gun ownership shines through in a recent BBC article. Many here in the U.S. consider gun ownership not only as a fundamental right but a serious responsibility. Not so in Europe.
Top Gun [a shooting range and gun store in Houston] is the kind of business that simply could not exist in Europe – the staff wear holstered handguns both in the shop and on the shooting range. …
No area of American daily life makes this country feel more foreign to Europeans
I always find it amusing when foreigners appear shocked that the employees of a gun store would be carrying guns. Heck, in Arizona more than 1% of adults have concealed carry permits and open carry is legal and not terribly uncommon, so chances are very good that there are handguns being carried in every store (or other public venue) you visit. You often simply don’t know it because it’s not a problem because law abiding citizens don’t misuse guns.
England really should take notice. According to The Times Online, gun crimes have almost doubled since England banned handgun ownership. And the Dutch Ministry of Justice (Criminal Victimization in Seventeen Industrialized Countries, 2001) notes that
Many of the countries with the strictest gun control have the highest rates of violent crime.
Australia and England, which have virtually banned gun ownership, have the highest rates of
robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force of the top 17 industrialized countries.
The author does get one thing right. There are a lot of us who consider restrictive gun regulation as a first step in eroding our rights as Americans. I’ll take the American view of gun ownership any day.
Seattle’s mayor wants to ban guns from all city property.
“Our parks, our community centers and our public events are safer without guns,” Nickels said at a June news conference when he announced his executive order for the ban.
The problem is, that’s simply not true. Banning guns from city property won’t keep criminals from carrying. Witness the effectiveness of the gun ban at the Southcenter mall last weekend. Fortunately for Seattle residents, Washington has a state preemption law under which all authority for regulating gun ownership and possession resides in the state. So in addition to being irrational, the mayor’s order is itself illegal and unenforceable.
An annual boat parade dropped Christmas from its name, and lost about a third of its attendees, and at least one sponsor, in the process. Seems a “Boat Parade of Lights” just isn’t as popular as a “Christmas Boat Parade.” Kudos to Fireworks by Grucci for dropping their sponsorship. Despite the lower turnout,
Organizers say the parade still was a success.
I guess if you consider losing a third of your attendance a success. Assuming they continue kowtowing to political correctness, let’s wish them even more such success next year.
Maybe, but you really have to dig for it. The often violent reaction of the radical left over California’s passage of Proposition 8 comes as no surprise to many of us. Liberals like to propound diversity and tolerance, but there’s one group toward whom they refuse to extend those ideals: social conservatives. Tolerance, to the left, generally means lending an ear to all opinions except those based upon traditional morality. There is a small flicker of light here.
[Bill] Condon, the gay writer-director of “Dreamgirls” and a Film Independent board member, offered this retort to what he calls the “off-with-his-head” crowd: “If you’re asking, ‘Do we take discrimination against gays as seriously as bigotry against African Americans and Jews?’ . . . the answer is, ‘Of course we do.’ But we also believe that some people, including Rich [Raddon], saw Prop. 8 not as a civil rights issue but a religious one. That is their right. And it is not, in and of itself, proof of bigotry.”
He is, of course, correct. California is one of the most liberal states in the nation, and yet a majority of voters agreed that it was wrong for their courts to impose a redefinition of marriage. I simply cannot be convinced that the majority of Californians hate gays. They simply believe there is something valuable to retaining the traditional definition of marriage. Let’s hope against hope that the rational voices on the left, such as Condon, prevail.