Los Angeles police offer gift cards to take guns off streets

Great. 
So if you live in LA, when someone breaks into your home, take aim with your trusty gift card and shout …FREEZE!

Comes in three denominations .22  .38  and .45 Caliber

Tomorrow's headline:

LA homeowner armed with gift card shot dead in home invasion

Los Angeles police offer gift cards to take guns off streets

LOS ANGELES | Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:22pm EST 

(Reuters) - Police traded gift cards for guns in Los Angeles on Wednesday, in a buyback program Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced as a crime-fighting response to the deadly shooting rampage in Newtown, Connecticut. 

Police officers handed out $200 grocery store gift cards to people who turned in an automatic weapon, and $100 gift cards to those who provided a handgun, rifle or shotgun.

Los Angeles has held an annual gun buyback since 2009, and similar events have been organized in years past in several other cities, including Detroit and Boston. Police in San Diego had a buyback earlier this month.

Some experts say the buybacks have little effect in reducing gun violence, but Villaraigosa touted the buyback program as one step that can be taken in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14 that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adult staff members.

The shooter, Adam Lanza, killed himself and also shot to death his mother at the home he shared with her, police said.

Los Angeles normally has its gun buyback in May, but Villaraigosa announced last week that the city would have this special buyback in response to the Newtown tragedy.

"There are a number of things we can do. This is just one of them," Villaraigosa said on CNN. "We've got to also address the culture of violence that we've got in this country."

At last count, the Los Angeles gun buyback had collected 1,366 firearms, including 477 handguns and 49 assault weapons, said Vicki Curry, a spokeswoman for the mayor.

The buyback ended at 4 p.m. local time, but a final tally of guns collected was not expected to be released before Thursday. In May, the city's annual gun buyback program collected 1,673 firearms at six locations, compared to two locations used for the program on Wednesday, Curry said.

At each of the locations where the buyback was held, a line of cars stretched around the block, Curry said. People dropping off their guns were asked to leave them in the trunks of their cars, where officers retrieved the weapons. Those surrendering their guns were allowed to remain anonymous.

While officials in Los Angeles and elsewhere have said the gun buybacks help keep streets safe, a 2004 report by the National Research Council of the National Academies questioned that conclusion.

Among the report's findings were that guns surrendered in buybacks tend to be old or inherited from previous owners, and not likely to be used in crime. Also, gun owners find it easy to replace their firearms, according to the report, which was titled "Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review."

Los Angeles police offer gift cards to take guns off streets

The Gun Did It

We have just witnessed another atrocity. This time in in Webster NY. A lunatic, William Spengler

set the home he was living in with his sister ablaze. He then called the fire department and laid in wait on a nearby hill. When they arrived he shot and killed two fireman and wounded two others. It is believed he also killed his sister. Eventually, seven houses were "totally destroyed" by the fire.

 This shooting occurred amid a renewed gun control debate after the December 14 elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 26 people, most of them children.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo described the Webster shooting as "horrific." And the state's attorney general called it a "senseless tragedy. I agree. Who wouldn't?

Feinstein, has said she will introduce legislation to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. BTW...people like Feinstein.. and Boxer supported the ban barring the ROTC from many college campuses. I also remember her being "outraged" over the White House Security leaks...and how she was going to "get to the bottom of it." We're still waiting.

That said lets talk about William Spengler. Just what kind of man is he? Well, for starters he is a convicted felon, which means he should never had guns to begin with. Convicted of what you say? He beat his grandmother to death with a hammer. Let me repeat that. He beat his own grandmother to death with a hammer. Nonetheless, in Webster NY, the gun did it. Not the actions of the parole board and the judge that set him free. The gun did it. I wonder if they could convince the fireman's families of that? This is like the hammer calling the rifle black.

The Gun Did It

Liberals... repeal that damn old-fashioned 2nd amendment!

I'll start with the 14th before I get to the 2nd amendment because I want to make a point. Since the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the constitution on July 9, 1868, the citizenship of persons born in the United States has been controlled by its Citizenship Clause, which states:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Now this... liberalism at its finest. They want to repeal the 2nd amendment. It's a "historical anachronism and should be repealed." Yet, merely amending the 14th amendment with just three words "of legal parents" as in..."All persons born of legal parents or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." How could any true American be against this? Of course, liberals want no part of it. This would put an end to anchor babies or as liberals see it... future constituents. According to a report I read 38% of the federal prison population are illegals. I wonder how many of those used a gun to commit a crime?

LAPD most wanted.

http://www.lapdonline.org/top_ten_most_wanted

See anybody with the last name Johnson on there?

The Founding Fathers were smart.

The Baltimore Sun

Repeal the Second Amendment

8:00 a.m. EST, December 23, 2012

What does the Second Amendment actually say? "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The Second Amendment has become a part of our history and culture. It was based on the English Bill of Rights of 1689, a measure that itself grew out of conditions between Catholics and Protestants in England more than 300 years ago.

The measure was adopted into our Constitution more than 200 years ago. But today the Second Amendment is a historical anachronism and should be repealed. We should no longer be the only industrialized country in the world that allows its citizens easy access to firearms. 

There are 300 million guns in the U.S. Britain today has very strict gun possession laws. In 2008-2009 it had only 39 fatalities from firearms, while the U.S. had 12,000. In Japan there were only 11 fatalities from guns during that period. Baltimore can have that many on a single bad weekend.

Do we need another Newtown? Another Aurora, Colo., Oak Creek, Wis., Tucson, Ariz., or Virginia Tech? Republican politicians insisted during the last presidential campaign that the prestige and respect of the U.S. had declined during the past four years. Our unthinking tolerance of gun violence may well be one of the reasons. I firmly believe that repealing the anachronistic Second Amendment will lead us to fulfill former President Ronald Reagan's hope for the U.S. to become "a beacon light guiding freedom loving people everywhere."

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They conveniently left out more people die every year from smoking, drinking, car accidents etc, then die from guns. I wonder why when Timothy McVey killed 168 people with a bomb made from fertilizer they didn't call for a ban on Scotts Weed & Feed? BTW...Why is McVey dead and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed still among the living?

Liberals... repeal that damn old-fashioned 2nd amendment!

The Immaculate Concussion

 Artist rendition of the "accident" 

This episode, in some circles is referred to as Benghazi Syndrome. Additionally, an acute case of temporary amnesia has set in. She didn't know who Bill was until she found a picture of  Monica in his wallet. 

Come on now. Tell me the Clinton camp didn't discuss the "accident" before it happened.

 Were there any witnesses to this so-called fainting and concussion? Any records of MRI's, X-rays, etc? Anyone interview the doctor?  If this happened in 2016 do you think she would be able to "pull herself together" to accept the nomination?

Classic Clinton

(Last time she tripped over that "Bosnian sniper")

Her husband ...Well..seeing is believing..

 Bill pimping... I mean campaigning.. for Barry.

Video 8

Pay particular attention to the last sentence.

(If  the clip won't play click the post title)

The morons he's talking to have a short memory.

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These two are so good they could join the comedy club circuit as the Quintessential  Liars.

Update:

Hillary admitted to the hospital with a blood clot. 

A Spokesman would not indicate where the blood clot is located.

The Immaculate Concussion

You'll throw away the Knob Creek

Now that Obama has gotten another 4 years to finish his job of ruining the country, to help us with our despair, I thought I would come up with a helpful suggestion so we could at least make it through the holidays.

I like Kentucky straight bourbon. I tried a lot of different brands but pretty much stuck with Knob Creek. Nonetheless, I was getting a little tired of it and ready for something different. I did a little research on the internet and the premier name that kept popping up was Woodford Reserve. It's rated as one of the best Kentucky straight bourbon's even though it's not the most expensive. I bought a bottle, poured a little in a glass drank it straight and I must admit... disappointed. That's when I put a few ice cubes in the glass and swirled it around a little. WOW!!! What a difference! I don't want to sound like a nose in the air snob connoisseur but the taste is reminiscent of warm buttery carmel with back notes of pecan and they achieve this without a hint of sweetness. Knob Creek (100 proof) has a harsh, burning, peppery, taste compared to the silky smooth (90.4 Proof) Woodford Reserve.

Also comes in several different variations

WARNING: This stuff is like crack. You'll throw away your Knob Creek. Also helps if you suffer, as I do, from "Barry Syndrome".

PS: If you serve this at a party they won't touch the vodka, scotch, rum, etc.

You'll throw away the Knob Creek