Left Rudder

It was the work of one man.

Sebastian Sassi. SiFu Sebastian Sassi.

Muay Thai expert, Okinawan Jiu-Jitsu Master, Boxing champion.

Libertarian candidate for Congress:

Sebastian Sassi, MarylandShallIssue. Sebastian will discuss his pro-gun organization, dedicated to enacting “shall-issue” legislation. He will also discuss his recent battles with the Maryland State Police to obtain a concealed-carry permit while single- handedly driving out drug dealers from his neighborhood.

There’s Something About Mary

This is the story of two Marys. Both are in their early 60s, heavyset, with curly reddish hair. But for years they have worked on opposite ends of the same issues. Mary McFate is an advocate of environmental causes and a prominent activist within the gun control movement. For more than a decade, she volunteered for various gun violence prevention organizations, serving on the boards of anti-gun outfits, helping state groups coordinate their activities, lobbying in Washington for gun control legislation, and regularly attending strategy and organizing meetings.

Mary Lou Sapone, by contrast, is a self-described “research consultant,” who for decades has covertly infiltrated citizens groups for private security firms hired by corporations that are targeted by activist campaigns. For some time, Sapone also worked for the National Rifle Association.

For years the gunloons have told us their interpretation of the Second Amendment protected civil rights. Yet, it seems the NRA and its dupes will happily violate everyone else’s rights in order to provide easy access to criminals and the mentally ill.

Imagine: let’s say the position was reversed; that the Brady Campaign placed a spy in the highest levels of the NRA. Can you imagine the hue and cry from the gunloons? Why, they’d be demanding lynch mobs and vigilante justice–just as soon as they could pry themselves from their LaZBoy recliners. And after they had something to eat. And after watching the “24″ rerun.

Bush name may adorn sewage plant:

SAN FRANCISCO - A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush’s years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.

The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

Supporters say the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind.

DC crime rates should now drop to zero as the clueless dupe, Dick Heller, finally manages to register his gun on second attempt.

The clueless dupe:

“It’s one of my favorites,” he said of the blue-steel revolver. “It’s like the kind Matt Dillon used to use on ‘Gunsmoke.’ “

That’s what this is really about: Dick Heller fantasizes about being a cowboy.

Not so much:

A few people went through the entrance marked “gun registry applicants” to pick up written information on how to legally own a gun in the city. But by 9:30, no one had no one brought an actual weapon, or — except for Heller — asked to register one

Speaking of the clueless dupe, Dick Heller, he can’t manage to obey the simple regulations needed to register his firearm:

Heller, accompanied by his puppetmaster an adviser, was met on the steps of the building by a cluster of camera crews and Lt. Jon Shelton, head of the firearms registration unit. In an animated discussion, police explained to Heller that he needed to show officials the guns he wanted to register — and allow them to be test-fired — as part of the registration process.

Chuckle.

Go to a gun show sometime. Chances are excellent you’ll run into the folks peddling this mythology. It is now being used by drug dealers and murderers.

Birds of a feather.

On Pg. 90, MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, British crime statistics. Gun (No)Facts takes on the British Crime Survey (BCS):

The BCS has been reporting a declining crime rate in the UK while police reporting has shown an increase. The BCS has routinely been criticized because it under reports crime due to the following factors:
• Murdered and imprisoned people do not answer surveys.
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• Some crimes are not surveyed when victims are below age 16.
• Does not include crime against institutions (bank robbery, etc.).
• Crimes are recorded at final disposition (conviction/acquittal), leaving many crimes completely unreported.480
These deficiencies are so significant that even the British government does not believe the accuracy of the BCS.
“[T]he BCS did not record ‘various categories of violent crime’, including murder and rape, retail crime, drug-taking, or offences in which the victims were aged below 16. The most reliable measure of crime is that which is reported to the police. We’re facing over a million violent crimes a year for the first time in history.” 481

First, the BCS does not undercount crimes; it most likely overcounts them. Because most crime is not reported to the police, surveys like BCS give a much more accurate estimate of the total number of crimes than police reports.

Second, the factors mentioned by Gun (no)Facts are accounted for in recorded police reports.

Third, stating the British Government has no faith in the accuracy of the BCS is ludricrous. Even Gun (No) Facts cite demonstrates this:

Today’s BCS figures show the longest period of falling crime for 106 years, with a 5% drop on 2002-3 figures, and a 39% decrease since 1995. It is measured by 10,000 random interviews on the public’s perception and experience of crime.

Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI:

Mueller said communities will have to determine their own license programs. As a former Marine who served in Vietnam, he said “I tend to believe weapons harm people and more often than not they harm the people carrying them.”

But what does a former Marine officer, criminal law lawyer and prosecutor, and FBI director know? Better to leave issue related to guns to book keepers at Casey Tool & Machine and halfwits.

Hey, that last sentence was redundant.