In a statement, Emanuel says almost half of the guns recovered in Chicago come from outside Illinois. He says Chicago has to work with other cities to fight gun trafficking and pass federal legislation.
It is interesting that such important news as this was first reported on a Sunday afternoon. Moreover, the release still isn’t up on Emanuel’s City of Chicago website nor even MAIG’s website.
Chicago officials are also reporting that “more than 80 percent of murder victims last year were killed with a gun.” The victims must have been hanging around outside all those shooting ranges in Chicago. Oh wait, there weren’t any as the Chicago Gun Law forbid them and the 7th Circuit hadn’t ruled in favor of Rhonda Ezell until July of this year.
When I think of flash mobs of urban teens who have gathered to rob and cause mayhem, I think of large cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, or Milwaukee. I need to readjust my thinking.
Thanks to Doc Wesson’s Gun Nation Podcast, I found out about a flash mob in my hometown of Greensboro, NC in late July. While I have not lived in Greensboro for thirty years, I still have my late mother’s house there and visit on a regular basis. To say I was shocked by the news is an understatement. Greensboro’s population is in the mid-200 thousand range which puts it in the mid-size city category with cities like Buffalo, Ft. Wayne, Birmingham, or St. Pete, Florida. While I am biased, I think most would say it is a very liveable city and a number of corporations have moved operations there in recent years.
According to the report above, one man was injured in an attack and the Carolina Theater was vandalized – all within view of the Greensboro PD headquarters.
There are conflicting reports on whether this was actually a “flash mob” or not. The Greensboro News-Record contends it was not and they reported that GPD spokeswoman Susan Danielson denies that they had any reports of attacks or a flash mob. Obviously, Greensboro station WFMY-TV above believes a flash mob attack happened and so does former Mayor Keith Holliday who now runs the Carolina Theater.
Regardless of the conflicting reports, the potential for violence when large groups of youth suddenly converge on a location due to a call posted on Facebook or Twitter is there. Combine bored youth with a bad economy and the potential rises. The best advice given by people I respect is not to be in a location where the mobs would gather in the first place and, if you are, to get out as fast as you can. If it can happen in a Greensboro, it can happen in Knoxville or Richmond or other small-to-moderate sized cities.
NOTE: The title on the video above was put there by the person who posted it on YouTube. I had to use this version instead of embedding directly from WFMY-TV. I do not condone the equating of flash mobs with black youths. Violent youths come in all colors and all races.
American Defense Enterprises or A.D.E. thought they could fade away from the view of their critics by taking down the YouTube video that had people rolling their eyes and shaking their heads in disgust. However, as we all know – and teens and politicians forget this at their peril – once it is on the Internet, it is there forever.
Thanks to Jimmyjive98, their original video was preserved and, I might say, enhanced for all to see. It also has a more appropriate soundtrack in keeping with what they are doing.
In Part II of the Hannity special report on Operation Fast and Furious, FoxNews reporter William LaJeunesse examines who knew what, when, and where about Project Gunwalker within the Department of Justice.
As the former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Melvin McDonald notes, the current U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke was “obviously versed in it, told about it but this is a decision that is made in Washington and is made at the highest levels of the government.” It also should be remembered that before he became the U.S. Attorney, Mr. Burke was the Chief of Staff for Secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
Sean Hannity of Fox did a special report on Operation Fast and Furious (aka Project Gunwalker) on Friday. The clip below is from the intro section which begins with a very good montage of critical events in the scandal. It also features columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin discussing the scandal. If you only watch part of it, watch the montage. It is excellent.
Chicago resident Jesus Duenas has a FOID card and after the New Chicago Gun Law was enacted in response to the city’s loss in McDonald v. Chicago, he purchased a handgun legally. (As an aside, my guess is that his handgun was a Taurus Judge as the story mentions it fired a .410 shotgun shell.) However, at the time because he couldn’t find a range in the City of Chicago to get the required training, he didn’t get a Chicago permit nor did he register the handgun with the city. Of course he couldn’t find a range in the city because they were forbidden by law at the time!
Fast forward to March of this year. After neighbors called the police because of a party at his house, he was arrested when the police entered his home without a warrant in search of a firearm. When they asked him where his gun was, he showed them where it was in the bedroom in a locked case. His arrest was for being in violation of Chicago’s gun laws.
Yesterday, a judge in Chicago dismissed the charges against him. While he now has his Chicago registration card, the police are now trying to revoke it because he purchased the gun before he got the permit.
While the story doesn’t say anything about this, it is my impression that many in Chicago purchased handguns as soon as the city lost McDonald and enacted the New Chicago Gun Law. All they heard in media reports from the time was that the city now had to allow handguns and the onerous requirements to get a permit were glossed over. Of course, ignorance is no excuse but neither is creating so many impediments to lawful compliance that virtually no one could own a handgun legally within Chicago.
Bob Owens, the Confederate Yankee, was a guest of Cam Edwards on NRA News on Wednesday. He discusses the promotions or “lateral transfers” of Bill McMahon, Bill Newell, and David Voth to new jobs in Washington. In a wonderfully snarky aside, he refers to their promotions as the Peter Principle with white chalk outlines.
He also discusses an email exchange with ATF whistleblower Vince Cefalu about the promotions. Cefalu considers them lateral transfers to keep those who could speak out in Washington in ATF HQ so they can be controlled. Bob also mentions rumors that there is testimony that Operation Fast and Furious may be higher up the food chain than previously thought.
Cam Edwards interviews Prof. Joyce Lee Malcolm on the roots of the riots in the UK. Prof. Malcolm was cited in the Heller decision and signed on to amicus briefs in both the Heller and McDonald cases. She is a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law specializing in British history and British constitutional law along with self-defense and the Second Amendment.
Gunsite instructor Jay Tuttle demonstrates three kneeling positions to help you increase your accuracy while shooting a rifle. They included the braced, speed knee, and the double knee kneeling position.
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