Sunday Second Amendment Roundup

Store owner shoots robber in the head

Bedford Heights, OHIO -- "A store owner shot a robbery suspect in the head at 7:15 p.m. Thursday at the Northfield Food Mart, on Northfield Road, police said.

The robber later identified as Roddy Prophet, 27, of Maple Heights, walked into the store and demanded money, according to witnesses. A clerk ran from the store and the owner retreated toward the door as the robber grabbed the money.

Police said when Prophet started toward the door the owner shot twice striking him once in the head. Prophet ran from the store and collapsed in a parking lot two blocks away.

He was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center where he is listed in critical condition.

Police said the owner has a concealed carry permit.

The city prosecutor will determine if any charges will be filed in the case."

Rowdy Roddy got his just desserts, but since it went down in Ohio lets hope the store owner isn't harassed by an overzealous prosecutor.

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Soccer Moms Attending Taser Parties

And when that 220 pounder shrugs off the effects from those wimpy civilian-legal tasers, oh, lets say 5 or 6 seconds, here's hoping the soccer-moms have also attended Run Like The Fucking Wind parties as well.

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Rare robbery case brings cries of racism

LAKEPORT, Calif. - "Three young black men break into a white man's home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death — but it's the surviving black man who is charged with murder.

n a case that has brought cries of racism from civil rights groups, Renato Hughes Jr., 22, was charged by prosecutors in this overwhelmingly white county under a rarely invoked legal doctrine that could make him responsible for the bloodshed.

"It was pandemonium" inside the house that night, District Attorney Jon Hopkins said. Hughes was responsible for "setting the whole thing in motion by his actions and the actions of his accomplices."

Prosecutors said homeowner Shannon Edmonds opened fire Dec. 7 after three young men rampaged through the Clearlake house demanding marijuana and brutally beat his stepson. Rashad Williams, 21, and Christian Foster, 22, were shot in the back. Hughes fled.

Hughes was charged with first-degree murder under California's Provocative Act doctrine, versions of which have been on the books in many states for generations but are rarely used.

The Provocative Act doctrine does not require prosecutors to prove the accused intended to kill. Instead, "they have to show that it was reasonably foreseeable that the criminal enterprise could trigger a fatal response from the homeowner," said Brian Getz, a San Francisco defense attorney unconnected to the case.

The NAACP complained that prosecutors came down too hard on Hughes, who also faces robbery, burglary and assault charges. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty.

The Rev. Amos Brown, head of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP and pastor at Hughes' church, said the case demonstrates the legal system is racist in remote Lake County, aspiring wine country 100 miles north of San Francisco. The sparsely populated county of 13,000 people is 91 percent white and 2 percent black.

Brown and other NAACP officials are asking why the homeowner is walking free. Tests showed Edmonds had marijuana and prescription medication in his system the night of the shooting. Edmonds had a prescription for both the pot and the medication to treat depression.

"This man had no business killing these boys," Brown said. "They were shot in the back. They had fled."

This particular tale of woe has it all. Black robbers dead and thusly incapable of taxing bursting at the seams prison systems, the leader of the gang that couldn't steal straight charged with, gasp, being culpable for their demise, and an apologist black group whinging over the fact that justice was done and how the hell can THAT be since this is, after all, California.

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Rendell to personally push gun bills before Pa. House panel

HARRISBURG, Pa. - "Gov. Ed Rendell, hoping to inject fresh drama into the stalled debate over gun control in Pennsylvania, plans to personally address a House committee considering several bills he says are crucial to reducing gun violence.

However, the governor faces a steep challenge with the gun bills. The Legislature has opposed tougher state gun-control laws, and the National Rifle Association opposes the bills.

John Hohenwarter, an NRA lobbyist, said curbing gun violence will require tougher enforcement of existing gun laws and expanding outreach to troubled youth.

Rendell said both those aspects are important, but also called it propaganda to contend that laws are not enforced.

"State prisons are bulging," Rendell said. "Don't tell me it's because our justice system is weak. It's because there are too many guns out there in the hands of the wrong people and putting people in jail is one of the answers, but it's not the only answer."

Similar versions of all three bills met defeat in the House last fall. One of those bills, which would require gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms and create a state police database to track the missing weapons, was rejected by the committee on June 27. The measure was struck down by a 17-11 vote, with the help of five of Rendell's fellow Democrats.

Another bill would outlaw the purchase of more than one handgun every 30 days in Pennsylvania.

The third bill would let Philadelphia write its own firearm laws, and would allow any other county or municipality to do the same, if local voters approve. Currently, only the state Legislature can write such laws."

Okay, stop the music, stop the music...

Weepy Governor Ed knows damned well that there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of getting his constituents to fork over the bucks for new prisons. He's a dyed-in-the-wool old lefty who is far too beholding to the democrat party principles that require minorities to be home making more minorities, and NONE of his citizens want bad guys clustered together in THEIR neighborhood regardless of the pressing need for more houses of incarceration. Since getting the black community to stop killing one another is virtually impossible, all Ed is left with are meaningless gestures that will at least fool half of the voters into believing he's serious about stopping crime.

Refusing to face facts is what got Governor Ed and those like him into trouble to begin with. And one of those cold, hard, facts is the drain on civilization from the sub-species he and his ilk created in order to get and STAY elected.

John Lott has a list of Governor Ed's statements on gun control.

Thanks to my regular readers and all the fella's at Glock Talk who continue to send me hometown gun news. I truly appreciate each and every email from my brothers in arms, and don't feel in the least bit slighted if I can't get to a particular submission. Retirement has kept me far busier than the good old days of working for a living and there are only so many hours I can sit in front of the pc.

What I'm thinking of doing is creating a post like this every day and adding to it rather than posting different stories throughout the day, but we'll see how it plays out on my lazy ass. This is all important stuff, I know, and I do what I can.