Wow! 500 plus deaths! Really?

I was reading a story in the British papers about a 280 lb. ex-bodyguard killed by police while running around his neighbors property…naked. When I read that the cause of death was a police taser I was taken aback.  I’ve wondered about the chances of accidentally killing an elderly person with a taser, but a large (built like the Hulk actually) athletic man surprised me.

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Norman Oosterbroek on right.

Truth is, it shouldn’t have been a surprise after all…

Tased to Death?

Aug 13, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

Caught by Miami Beach police for spraying paint, an 18-year-old took a Taser shot to the chest and died—one of 500 such deaths since 2001. Winston Ross on the ‘nonlethal’ weapon of ‘first resort.’

Amnesty International says that since 2001 more than 500 people have been killed in the U.S. after being shocked by a Taser. Of those, more than 60 were listed by medical examiners as being directly attributable to the device; others had a cause of death unknown.

While I (usually) don’t accept everything that Amnesty International says as true, in this case I found a quote from the biggest manufacturer of Tasers that while they recommend not targeting the chest with their device, that is not often the policy of the numerous police departments that buy the Tasers.   Perhaps it should be.

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Postscript

 

What really drove Colorado recall vote — hint: it wasn’t ‘voter suppression’

For Morse and Giron, their fates were sealed on March 4th when they chose to divert from standard practice and ignored the hundreds of Colorado citizens who traveled to the State Capitol on the day that Senate committees were deliberating new gun-control measures.  They were turned away and not heard.

Among those citizens were 30 Sheriffs, who came to testify, but only one was allowed to speak.

No matter what you think about additional gun-control legislation, is it so unreasonable to listen to testimony from the very law enforcement personnel who will be charged with enforcing them?

For all the talk about safety and common-sense, shouldn’t we invite the perspective of the very people who spend every single day dedicated to keeping our homes, schools and communities safe?

And that’s the problem, Sens. Morse and Giron didn’t want to hear from anyone.  They didn’t want to let the process unfold and so they limited debate and restricted the ability of the people of Colorado from being heard.

Had that March 4th day not unfolded this way, there would have been no recall.

Instead, new laws that the majority of Coloradans opposed were imposed on them and the citizens weren’t even allowed to speak-out.

Color me shocked!

No, not really. I don’t try to talk to, let alone debate, the left because of this attitude.  They get going and next thing you know they are yelling and if you try to say anything that disagrees with them, they are screaming.  (Worst of all, if you get ticked and pop them in the bloviating valve they sue you)

So, have you heard the rumor (which I’m starting) that Diane Feinstein has lots of cages in her back yard and whenever she needs another gun massacre to counter a gun-rights win she releases one of her caged and rabid nuts with the traditional cry of, “Fly, my pretties, Fly!”.

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I’m on a no news strike!: Updated.

Not watching the news for the next 72 hours, it will take that long before the truth about the DC Navy Yard shooting rises from the shit muck.

As I commented not long ago, now is the time that liberals and progressives will implant in their brainless followers the “facts” that they want them to remember when this attack is brought up in the months and years to come.

How many idiots have you encountered that firmly believe that the AR-15  is an assault rifle (AR stands for assault rifle, don’t you know!) and that killed all those children in Newtown CT and MUST BE BANNED!!

Updated: Legal Insurrection agrees with me!

One lesson for mass killings: Don’t trust media reports for at least 24 hours

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Don’t forget Thursday is ITLAPD.

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Words not needed.

New York Subway

New York City Subway

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Drifting to the left.

Sire, the people are revolting…

King Louie, you said it! They stink on ice!

REPORT: White House Full of Vermin...

(Me) Sigh! Yes I know, but there’s three more years to go!

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At this point, everybody should probably change their Wi-Fi password.

Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world

If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi passwords worldwide.

Many (probably most) of these Android phones and tablets are phoning home to Google, backing up Wi-Fi passwords along with other assorted settings. And, although they have never said so directly, it is obvious that Google can read the passwords.

And if Google has your passwords and can decrypt them, then the Government has them.

computer logic

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Now THAT’S what I call a shit-eating grin.

The Epic Meltdown of the Gun-Grabbers

Written By : Michelle Malkin

Michelle-Malkin-1COLORADO SPRINGS — Quick, call the CDC. We’ve got a Rocky Mountain outbreak of Acute Sore Loser Fever. After failing to stave off two historic recall bids on Tuesday, two delusional state legislators and their national party bosses just can’t help but double-down and trash voters as dumb, sick, criminal and profligate.

Heh, Heh, Ha!

The problem for the gun-grabbers wasn’t that the voters were uninformed. It was that they were too informed. Voters paid close attention when state Democrats rigged the game during the legislative debate over extreme gun and ammo restrictions that will do nothing to stop the next Aurora, Columbine or Newtown. They watched fellow citizens being blocked from testifying, pushed aside for out-of-staters. They heard Morse accuse gun owners of having a “sickness in their souls.” They heard him brag to liberal zealots that he was ignoring their “vile” e-mail.

They rejected Giron’s sneering at grassroots organizers as “special interests.” They didn’t buy that their birth control would disappear. They weren’t swayed by shooting victim Rep. Gabby Gifford’s husband’s emotional appeals or distracted by Bill Clinton’s last-minute robocalls.

“What happened?” The reasons these petty tyrants lost are as simple as ABC: arrogance, bitterness and contempt for the people. As more and more self-empowered citizens are learning, you can’t fix this stupid hubris. But you can vote it out. (read the whole piece)

This sweetie reminds me of my late wife, she’d flash the same “eat shit” grin at me when she had put one over on me.  I saw that a lot.

This is still, Not A Gun Blog!

p.s.  Backs improving by the way, there’s hope for the fall.

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With everything going on what AP reporting on?

Friday the 13th: Would you board flight 666 to HEL?

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For superstitious travelers, that might be tempting fate. But Finnair passengers on AY666 to Helsinki — which has the 3 letter designation HEL — don’t seem too bothered. Friday’s flight is almost full.

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Doug: Watchword of History

“They who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

 

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: Umbrella Men: Neville Chamberlain and Barack Obama

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Colorado Recall, some thoughts.

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Fact: The groups opposing the recall of the Democrat legislators outspent the recall forces by 6 to 1. $350,000 from Mayor Bloomberg himself.

Fact: Not one of the new gun control laws passed by the Democrats would have prevented the Newtown or CO Theater massacres. These laws can only result in making criminals of 2nd Amendment citizens for possessing legally obtained devices.

I don’t live in Colorado, in fact I don’t currently own a gun. I do belong to the NRA because I believe they are effective in defending all our rights, all our rights because without the means to defend ourselves or resist tyranny we will cease to be free citizens.

I believe the true reason the liberals, progressives, multiculturalists are so adamant about disarming the American polis is that they can never finish their goal of changing this country while so many of us are still armed.  The Founding Fathers knew this, that’s why we have the 2nd Amendment, the NRA is quite correct when they say its the amendment that protects all the others.

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As for the Colorado theater shooting, did you know that the murderer drove by two other multiplex’s to get to the one that posted, “Gun-Free Zone”?defend_everything_with_guns

If you live in a place where it’s certain that someone will call the police if you are walking in your own neighborhood peacefully carrying a gun, then you are living in the wrong place.   I’m living in the wrong place.

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