Police Tuesday charged a 27-year-old man with trafficking in marijuana and with child abuse for having a 4-year-old and 2½-year-old in the house where police say he kept the drugs and for having a bowl of bullets in the open and chicken bones on one child’s bedroom floor.

Honestly I’m more worried about the drugs and the chicken bones. Little kids rarely eat ammo, and without a gun to shoot it, it’s pretty safe.

Suspect

Of course, loose ammunition in a bowl on the ironing board implies possession of a firearm that would shoot that ammo.

Now, loose ammo in a baggie in the bottom of your range bag indicates that you found some live ammo when you were picking up brass on the range.

An inmate escaped Saturday afternoon from Gaston Correctional Center in Dallas and was on the run for about four hours.

(Convict), 22, was noticed missing at 1 p.m. when prison officials conducted an inmate count, according to a communications officer with the N.C. Department of Public Safety.

He was captured at 4:45 p.m. walking along Dallas-Stanley Highway, about four miles from the prison.  He was possibly headed toward Stanley, said the communications officer.

It’s believed (Convict) escaped shortly before 1 p.m., going over a fence at the prison, according to information gathered from inmates.

The story goes on to say he was serving time for “Possession of a Firearm by a Felon.”

Convict

Just think, he was scheduled for release in October of next year! We won’t have to wait long for him to be out stealing from cars, stealing guns, and generally making a nuisance of himself.

Don’t you just love our “Justice” system?

Piers Morgan calls the IRS scandal “borderline tyrannical”

Joe Scarborough says his background checks argument “is less persuasive today”

and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) says, when asked if the scandals make people more wary of government demands on gun control,

“Absolutely – I agree 1,000 percent,” Mr. Manchin said on MetroNews’ “Talkline.” “People are saying, ‘Joe, we read your legislation, it makes all the sense in the world and we’re for that legislation – we’re just afraid government won’t stop there.’”

The gun control argument was never about guns, but always about control.

The firearm, though, is the ultimate emblem of individual sovereignty, so if you’re inclined that direction, protecting “gun rights” is essential. And if you’re by nature a collectivist, the firearm is the abhorrent idol on the enemy’s altar. This is why no amount of bleating about crime statistics ever seems to change anybody’s mind, on either side.

No one gives a crap about the crime rate. If the crime rate was infinite, I’d have a right to keep and bear arms. If it was zero, I’d still have a  right to keep and bear arms. To the gun haters, if the crime rate was infinite, I would need to give up my guns to bring the crime rate down, and if it was zero, well then I wouldn’t need a gun, now would I?

Nope, it’s always been about keeping We The People from ever having the means to resist their collectivism.

The idea that people might own something as dangerous and personally empowering as a firearm without society’s permission is what has always given gun-control advocates the fantods. That’s really what we talk about when we talk about guns: the power of the individual in relation to the collective, and the extent to which each of us needs to live by the permission of the rest. That argument is going nowhere, in all senses of the word.

That’s why I will never hand over my guns. I don’t exist by permission of the collective. I exist whether they like it or not. And if they object, I’ll be perfectly happy to shoot them until they either kill me or they stop objecting. But I won’t kneel to make it easier for them.

HT: Sipsey Street Irregulars

In March, Sgt. Bryant Willis had turned his patrol car around on a suspicious vehicle and was attempting to catch up with it when a man stepped into the roadway and shot at the police vehicle from behind.  No one was hurt in the incident.

So who takes a shot at a passing cop car?

Suspect

And it’s not even his first time as Felon in Possession. More like his fourth. And it looks like the first two had him serving his sentences concurrently. What is that, a sort of criminal “two for one” deal? He commits two crimes and only pays one time?

What’s the point of having laws at all if no one bothers to punish the offenders? The laws keep people like you and me in line, but the criminals, who are the people we are actually worried about, violate them and never get punished.

Hickory police arrested three men for a robbing a 50-year-old Hickory man on Thursday evening.

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Police were alerted to the robbery by a call from Frye Regional Medical Center, according to the Hickory Police Department. The victim, (Victim), was already at the hospital being treated for minor injuries including cuts on his lip and jaw and knots on his head. The injuries were from being punched by the robbers, according to the police report.

(Victim) was treated and released.

(Victim) told police he was robbed by five black men.  The suspects stole an undisclosed amount of money.

A witness identified three of the five and they are in custody now.

Suspect 1

Suspect 2

Yet the anti-gun people wonder why I carry a gun. They say I should be able to fight with my hands instead. How about they go 5 on 1 with a bunch of late teens to 20 somethings. I’ve got a gun so I don’t have to put up with that sort of foolishness.

Police on Wednesday night charged a third suspect in an April 18 holdup that turned into a shootout between robbers and the man from whom they were stealing at a Brook Knoll Place townhouse.

The intended victim applied the well known formula principle of “They’ll just take your gun away from you” and took a gun from one of the attackers and started shooting back.

And who were they?

Suspect 3

Victim

Suspects 1 and 2 got ventilated and had to got to jail by way of the hospital.

A Wake County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a woman early Friday afternoon when she threatened the officer and other deputies with a knife or machete, according to the sheriff’s office.

Note that the story says “officer and other deputies” plural.

“The caller said a white female had broken into her residence and was threatening to kill her with a three-pronged gardening tool,” Stevens said.

When deputies arrived at the home, the woman had already fled. The caller told the deputies the woman had managed to break in to the home next door at 6222 Melbourne Road, Stevens said.

The deputies went next door to try and persuade the woman to come out, but she refused. The deputies also learned that the woman was in violation of a domestic violence restraining order and was not supposed to be on the property at 6232 Melbourne Road, Stevens said.

The deputies forced their way into the home where the woman refused to come out. Once inside, the woman confronted the deputies with a “knife or machete,” Stevens said.

When the woman advanced towards the deputies, at least one of the officers deployed a Taser three times to try to subdue her.“But she continued to advance, and one of the officers fired his weapon,” Stevens said.

So crazy woman with a knife or machete attacks someone, with a “three pronged garden tool,” runs next door and breaks in to a home where she is barred from entering due to her 50B order, gets tasered not once or twice, but three times, and continued to advance on multiple officers, one of whom shot her dead.

But you should count on non-lethal force to protect yourself while you wait for the police to sort things out for you. Never mind that it might not be a woman. Never mind that the attacker might not be alone. Never mind that the attacker might be more interested in harming you than in going next door. Never mind that you might not have time to get the cops on the phone, much less the cops to your home on time.

I’ll keep my guns, thanks.

According to arrest warrants, on Tuesday (Suspect) stole $98 worth of items from the CVS Pharmacy on Grover Street, including four packs of batteries and two packs of Breathe Right Strips.

On the same day, she also went to the Dollar General Store on Fallston Road and took padlocks, Goody’s pain relievers, hair products, Fixodent, ear buds, Prilosec, Tylenol, and Glade deodorizer worth $276, according to the warrant.

What would drive a woman to steal such stupid things?

Suspect

Oh. Well that might explain it.

Two men accused of robbing and killing a Fort Bragg solider last month were found Thursday hiding in a closet at a home off N.C. 24, Fayetteville police said.

He was at a party when 4 thugs pulled guns and robbed everyone. They shot and killed the soldier.

Suspect 1

Suspect 2

Suspect 4

I’d say that we should drop them in the middle of Afghanistan, but they sound like exactly the sort of people who the terrorists would recruit.