In Brighton:

A Brighton man shot and killed a 44-year-old registered sex offender who attacked two women in their home early this morning, officials said.

According to Dist. Atty. Gen. Mike Dunavant, David Fleming charged into the home of two women at about 3 a.m.

Fleming bound the women but one escaped and ran to a nearby home. Dunavant said Fleming, who lived in Munford, intended to rape the women.

The woman who escaped went to the nearby home of Keith Ingram for help, Dunavant said.

Ingram, carrying a .40-caliber handgun, ran to the house and found Fleming attacking the other woman, officials said.

When Fleming tried to attack Ingram, Dunavant said Ingram shot Fleming once.

Tipton County Sheriff’s deputies and Brighton Police officers found Fleming dead on the front porch of the home.

Three cheers!

And this guy will be included in all the gun violence statistics parroted by anti-gun groups.

Update: In comments, Bruce notes the recidivism rate is now 0.

The annual gun control push in Illinois is even boring the Sun Times: Daley unveils annual gun control legislation (note: they’ve since changed the title but here’s the original headline). It’s the same wishlist Daley tosses out every year with the same failed policies in place elsewhere. Of course no mention in the article that Illinois ranks ninth out of 50 in the Brady Campaign’s gun control rankings. But good to see the press note that:

After joining the mayor for his annual gun control news conference at police headquarters, State Sen. John Cullerton (D-Chicago) acknowledged that none of the bills would have prevented Steve Kazmierczak from opening fire on Valentine’s Day afternoon in a crowded NIU lecture hall.

Yeah, we know.

In Illinois, there’s a bill to make ethical and moral considerations a requirement for handgun ownership. How does one decide that?

County workers accidentally burned down a woman’s home. However, the county will only reimburse her for $100K despite her property being assessed at $230K. She volunteered to let two county trucks dump brush on her property. They knocked over a power line that caused the fire. And this is beautiful:

Don Stallions, who heads the Risk Management Department for Blount County, said the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act protects the government from being sued out of existence.

Well, after displaying such incompetence, is that necessarily a bad thing?

“The government used to be immune from law suits,” Stallions said. “People need to realize that the government isn’t like a business. When you sue a business, you get money that was generated as profit by an income-producing company. When you sue the government, it’s the people’s money you’re dealing with.

Really? There was a time when we couldn’t petition the government for a redress of grievances? You know, first amendment and all that?

“The Tort Liability Act allows counties in Tennessee to do business. Without it, our counties wouldn’t be able to function.”

Do your employees really screw up so much that that is an issue?

Stallions said Blount County has had numerous property damage claims in the past, but none that he can recall involving a claim on an entire home.

I guess so.

Via Ben.

Seems to be the question. Over at CrimeFileNews, they think so:

The NIU gunman was well known by government authorities. He was confined to a Chicago mental institution for a year after refusing to take anti-psychotic medicine was unruly and engaged in strange behavior such as cutting himself. He later joined the Army but was tossed out after basic training for psychiatric reasons. The gunman was off his required medication and his rocker for two years prior to the shooting.

In order to buy the four firearms in Illinois, Steven Kazmierczak had to lie on four separate #4473 Firearm Transaction Forms, and his Illinois Firearms Owners Identification Application. That FOID process takes months to complete. Once the FIOD was received Kazmierczak could not take delivery until he had endured the mandated waiting periods for the guns he had already purchased.

I’m not certain but it seems plausible. After all, he could have been voluntarily committed for a year (though that is unlikely). If it was involuntary, then he was a prohibited person. And his discharge from the army could have prohibited him, if it was dishonorable.

In other news, stupid headline: Police finding dark side of man who killed 5 on Illinois campus.

It’s looking like I will end up owing Sean a beer after the primary but I’ll get it back in the General.

If people, like recent Obama shill Sean Braisted, keep pointing out that Obama does actually have substance, then people will start realizing the messiah err Obama is basically a socialist.

A history of the case!

No, it is not a Mister Winky, it is a hoohoodilly.

Buckmark

Shots from FN’s writer’s shoot, via GunPundit.

I’m hearing rumors that Boxer and Schumer are fixing to introduce some gun control bills. I haven’t seen any press coverage. Anyone else?

Much like inventing assault weapons, the anti-gunners continue to invent new issues. The latest seems to be guns that are not black, which is funny since the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons mostly affected the black guns. And the media parrot the line. CNN discovers guns and paint; PSH ensues.

David Hardy has an interesting study up of the Violence Policy Center and its funding done by Nemerov. It is here. The VPC is not people.

Sportsmen for Obama looks at Obama’s gun record while a state senator.

Hillary Clinton wants to have one.

Well, we here at SayUncle had a lively discussion about compromise. And more here, here, here, here and:

Ahab

Rob Allen

Sebastian

Dixit Insipiens

Good starts for your summit.

Remember, wanting a weapon for self-defense in a national park is just crazy talk.

The ugliest feminist I’ve ever seen takes issue with KDT and substantially misses most points, including calling Dr. Helen a misogynist. Fun ensues.

I thought metrosexuals had better attention to detail than that? I mean look at their hair!

Unlike Al Gore, who is the cult of no personality

Ya know, I thought the same thing. And Vernon Reid is a total bad ass.

Another state is looking to make data on who has a handgun carry permit off limits to reporters.

Obligatory thanks to Christian Trejbal, the Sandusky Register, and the Tennessean

R. Neal:

Is it just me, or were the Daily Show and the Colbert Report better without writers?

I concur. Well, on The Daily Show. I don’t watch Colbert anymore.

The other day, I was listening to the old MP3 player. I noticed that a few songs sounded, well, different. Not a lot, just a bit. It was pretty neat. Then, I realized I had put the left headphone in the right ear and the right headphone in the left ear. So, when I wanted a bit of something different, I did that. Then the RIAA called me to tell me that I wasn’t enjoying their product in a manner their lawyers approved of and that I need to knock that off or they’ll sue me.

Or, you know, to proofread.

Just now, I was going back reading some posts. I found I quite often just forget to type words or type them too many times.

A reporter laments the loss of weeks of wall to wall coverage after a mass shooting.

How many must die before we ban the scourge of Counter-Strike?

Ya know, it’s interesting that government regulation (often said to inhibit or destroy the free market) often creates free markets.

Clark Garen, who was apparently not admitted to the bar for basically being a dick*, wants to take your guns:

1. Create a one year period for the United States of America to purchase at fair market value all guns and firearms, including hand guns, rifles, and even antique guns and rifles from domestic private ownership.

2. Prohibit and criminalize the domestic sale of guns and firearms, whether new or used.

3. Seize and destroy any gun or firearm found after the termination of the purchase period without compensation.

4. Prohibit and criminalize the domestic possession of a gun or firearm after the termination of the one year purchase period.

5. Provide exemptions for governmental law enforcement agencies, the armed services, and bona fide museums.

Come and get them.

* Note: Lest ye think that is just hyperbole. Check this out:

The committee’s written decision is remarkable in two respects: first, despite quite overwhelming and uncontested evidence, the committee declined to affirmatively find anything morally redeeming about Mr. Garen whatsoever; and, second, the committee failed to factually find in an explicit and objective fashion that Mr. Garen had ever committed an immoral act. Rather the committee’s adverse recommendation was ostensibly based on subjective “feelings” and “doubts” rather than objectively verifiable reasons and facts. So as not to deprive the reader of the flavor of the committee’s written decision I have attached it verbatim, as an exhibit

So, yeah, no lawyering for you because you’re a dick.

The lawyer who filed the class actions suits against gun makers, William S. Lerach, has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit pay in the amount of $7.75 million following his guilty plea of conspiracy to obstruct justice.

I forget where, but I think it was over at Aunt B.’s joint, I was engaged in a lively discussion with a bunch of people who said stuff about how an armed good guy couldn’t stop a mass shooter. I linked to instances where, you know, an armed good guy did stop a mass shooter. They just ignored that, of course. Then someone said that having a gun is useless because no matter how much training you have, if someone just decides to walk up and shoot you, you’re dead. Well, good thing for Robin Adams those people are wrong.

Update: here’s the post. Thanks to MadRocketSci.

Or they’ll tell you stop calling or they’ll arrest you:

A Central Florida woman whose 17-year-old daughter was killed in a murder-suicide apparently committed by her ex-boyfriend said the teen was told by police to stop calling for help or she’d be arrested.

Police said Clay Coffner shot his estranged girlfriend in the head outside her DeLand home Friday before turning the gun on himself.

Hall’s mother, Sherry, said her daughter was concerned about Coffner and informed police.

In fact, Hall said her daughter called police so much that on Jan. 15 they threatened her.

“The police officer said if you call us one more time on him, I’m going to arrest you both,” Sherry Hall said. “So, the day she died, she knew she couldn’t talk to police. So, she handled it herself.”

Video of the Boberg XR-9.

They communicate differently!