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Personally I’d like to see more green. Blue is a good start though.
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Summary:
- Murders total – 13636
- Murders with handguns – 6452 (47.32%)
- Murders with rifles – 348 (2.55%)
- Murders with shotguns – 418 (3.07%)
- Murders with unknown firearms – 1928 (14.14%)
- Murder with knives or cutting instruments – 1825 (13.38%)
- Murders with other weapons – 1864 (13.67%)
- Murders with hands, fists, feet etc.. – 801 (5.87%)
Summary of the 2009 crime statistics – HERE
List of Murders by state and types of weapon used – HERE
Can’t say I’m shocked at the results, nor the ranking of each individual state. Nice to see there was a decline in violent crime at least.
Saw this picture a while back:
I knew it was only a matter of time before It would surface as a tattoo:
Some people are pretty hardcore. I could never pull that off, even if I could somehow get over the whole it’s with you FOREVER thing.
I didn’t think people from Florida really had much of an accent, that they would pronounce it “Flawda” but who knows.
hehe classic that it’s a DEAGLE in the pic too.
Fairbanks, Alaska – A woman wants a face-to-face apology from two Alaska State Troopers who detained her for 20 minutes after they spotted her walking with a gun in her hand.
Beth Allard is a certified firearms instructor and the daughter of Joe Nava, a prominent local gun-safety and gun-rights advocate. She was carrying a snub-nosed .38-special revolver while walking on a dirt road near her mother’s house.
Allard said she kept the pistol pointed down with her finger away from the trigger, a method she frequently uses while jogging.
Full Story – HERE
Call me crazy, but I don’t think jogging with a loaded gun in your hand is necessary unless you are about to engage a target. I know someone is going to bring up the topic of bears or wolves, but really…. if that is the reason, she should be carrying something more than a .38 special.
Holsters are so cheap, she could pick up any number of styles that would still render the gun accessible to her within milliseconds.
If I saw someone jogging with a gun in their hand I’d assume that they were either chasing someone, or being chased by someone.
We won’t be crossing the Maryland State Police any time soon. As Anthony Graber recently found out, exceeding the speed limit and showboating on your bike can easily end with having a gun pulled on you, your personal property confiscated and a trip to the clink. Graber was enjoying the weather on his bike, admittedly speeding and popping wheelies, all the time recording his exploits via a helmet cam. When he slowed for a stoplight, a car pulled in front of the bike, and the driver exited the vehicle with a gun drawn, demanding Graber get off of his motorcycle.
Here’s where things go from bad to worse. Graber gets his citation and heads home, only to have the state police show up a few days later with a warrant for four computers, two laptops and his camera. Why? Turns out there’s a law against audibly recording someone without their consent. It’s a felony.
Full Story – HERE
The Video:
[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjjF55M8JQ[/youtube]
The problem I have with this:
- The car is unmarked, has tint, and is not even a regular police car model
- The officer not in uniform
- The officer did not immediately display his badge
- Took the officer a good 5 seconds to say “state police”.. and really why should that be believed?
I think it’s lucky the guy on the motorcycle didn’t freak out and take off, or else pull out a concealed gun of his own, because he probably would have got shot.
Also, I love how recording someone without consent is a felony… classic. :roll:
If the same thing happened to me, I would instantly think that the guy was some pissed off motorist that I cut off or something and that he was going to shoot me. I definitely wouldn’t have stuck around to find out what was going to happen next.
Right at the end of the video you see a marked Maryland State Police car, but no siren or lights appear to be on.
UPDATE: there is a 2nd video HERE… it contains a bit more footage before and after, but the sound is cut out so we can’t tell if the siren was on.
Was it really necessary for the officer to pull his gun, rather than just flashing his badge and telling the guy to turn his bike off? There doesn’t seem to be any sort of a threat that would warrant the gun coming out.
What do you guys think?