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Category: Society

  • Shot vs. Shot & Killed – The Miracle of Modern Medicine

    This post was originally drafted in April.  Bare with me… very current story cited below. I’ve mentioned before that the shooting to death ratio appears very low to me. Crime stats over at Crime in Chicago suggest that in 2011 2,217 were shot, with 441 dead – 19.9% (ratio of 5:1.)  So far in 2012…

  • 5 Found Shot in French Alps

    NOTE:  This is a story from 09/05/2012 that was stuck in the “draft” folder.  Still as timely as ever. French authorities say five people, including a teenage girl, have been shot in a forest in the Alps. All five were initially reported to be dead. The teenage victim is now reported to be in critical…

  • Obama Voters’ Gun Problem

    Obama voters are killing each other Chicago’s murder numbers have hit that magic 500. Baltimore’s murder toll has passed 200. In Philly, it’s up to 324, the highest since 2007. In Detroit, it’s approaching 400, another record. In New Orleans, it’s almost at 200. New York City is down to 414 from 508. In Los…

  • How Liberty Dies

    People who wanted a little bit of security in lieu of liberty.

  • Armed Guards at Schools… Common

    Nationwide, at least 23,000 schools — about one-third of all public schools — already had armed security on staff as of the most recent data, for the 2009-10 school year, and a number of states and districts that do not use them have begun discussing the idea in recent days. via NYTimes.com. NRA proposal not…

  • Obama’s Daughters’ School Has 11 Armed Guards

    The school, Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, has 11 security officers and is seeking to hire a new police officer as we speak.   … If you dismiss this by saying, “Of course they have armed guards — they get Secret Service protection,” then you’ve missed the larger point. The larger point is that…

  • Gun Background Checks Jump in Illinois

    Illinois State Police information provided to The Associated Press shows that 12,557 checks were conducted through the state’s Firearms Transfer Inquiry Program between Friday and Tuesday. There were 6,870 checks during she same period a year earlier. via Chicago Tribune. Jump?  Nearly double!

  • Woman Attacked With Human Feces Filled Sock

    A woman riding the Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue Line in Oak Park told police she was last week attacked by another passenger wielding a sock filled with human feces. “He had a sock full of his poop on me,” the 21-year-old college student told the Pioneer Press. “It was everywhere; on my face, my hair,…

  • Pearl High School Shooting: Oct. 1, 1997

    I am not insane, I am angry.  I am a cross dresser.  I killed because people like me are mistreated every day.  I did this to show society, push us and we will push back. … All throughout my life, I was ridiculed, always beaten, always hated.  Can you, society, truly blame me for what…

  • On Newton CT

    I wrote this as a comment on the Chicago Tribune story: While our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Newton CT the sad reality is that 18 children and 6 adults killed is what we in Chicago call the “Second and Third Week in July” every year. Where is our national media…