There is something called Lethal Weapons Training Academy in McKean, PA, owned by C. Robert “Bob” McDowell.
Sean Sorrentino of An NC Gun Blog and his family attended over the weekend, and had to walk away from the class after the lead instructor repeatedly muzzled his students.
I don’t have time for extra holes in my body if they can be avoided. Unless you do, I’d suggest acquiring your training somewhere else.
James Holmes was mentally ill long before he went on shooting spree in an Aurora Colorado theater.
Jared Loughner was mentally ill long before he shot up Gabby Giffords and a host of others outside of an Arizona supermarket.
Seung-Hui Cho showed signs of mental illness well before Virginia Tech.
Adama Lanza was mentally ill long before he shot up Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In each and every one of these mass shootings, the mental health problems of the perpetrator was known long before their crimes. Clearly, if these dangerously mentally ill people had been institutionalized before they went on their rampages, more than 70 people would still be alive and more than 100 others wouldn’t bear the disfiguring scars of bullets and shrapnel.
And yet, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, is allowing the mental health industry to bully their way out of culpability.
President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden will host a mental-health conference at the White House on Monday but, after an outcry from advocacy groups, the administration is no longer billing the meeting as part of its effort to enact gun control legislation.
Just two weeks ago, the White House described the conference as part of Mr. Obama’s plan to reduce violence in the wake of December’s Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Conn. But on Friday, when White House deputy press secretary Joshua Earnest previewed the meeting for reporters, he never mentioned the words “gun violence.”
Instead, Mr. Earnest said the conference will address “how we can all work together to reduce stigma and help the millions of Americans struggling with mental health problems recognize the importance of reaching out for assistance.”
The meeting will include state and local officials, mental-health advocates, educators, health care providers, faith leaders and people who suffer from mental illnesses.
The head of a mental-health advocacy group who will attend the conference said the administration is making a conscious effort to downplay possible links between mental illness and gun violence.
I don’t care about “stigmas.” I care about preventable body counts.
A lot of money has been contributed to the continual campaign of Barack Obama by mental health industry profiteers who make billions on selling antidepressants to both those few souls who legitimately need them, and millions more who have been put on prescriptions by general practitioners that frankly don’t have the mental health training to make the diagnoses they do.
“Progressive” advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), spend a good portion of the 70s and 80s fighting for “patients rights” for the dangerously mentally ill.
They spent years to get the dangerously ill out of institutions, and they’re fighting like hell to keep them out to avoid admitting the failure of their policies.
The growing body count of the mentally ill using weapons? That’s not nearly as important as maintaining the illusion that mental health advocates didn’t make a mistake that has led to one massacre after another.
Bradley “I want to lop it off and be a girl named Brianna,” Manning’s espionage case begins today. The angry dwarf has already admitted to stealing and publishing 700,000 classified documents and posting them to WikiLeaks.
Manning has admitted to sending the material to WikiLeaks — an online, non-profit group that publishes secret and classified information from anonymous sources. He did so after accessing a supposedly secure government computer network, then downloading the information — Afghan and Iraq battlefield reports, State Department cables and video of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack that killed a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
The 25-year-old Manning said in a statement in February that he leaked the material because he wanted the public to know how the American military was fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with little regard for human life.
I covered the Apache gunship story after it came out. The long and short of it is that when you are embedded with a group of Iraqi insurgents openly carrying weapons fleeing the scene of an engagement with U.S. forces, don’t expect the Apache pilot to shoot around you with his 30mm.
Frankly, I wanted Manning to face a firing squad for his crimes, but life in prison will have to do.
$30 plus shipping for the softcover. Here’s the link. Hardcopy originals like the one’s pictured are going for $125 and up.
I’d suggest purchasing a copy for yourself and one to pass around to your friends.
To be fair, “Ghost” is pretty badass. Even as a statue of a mythical character.
@ComradeArthur I've go to blog that. I rarely LOL. I LOL'd on that one.
— Bob Owens (@bob_owens) June 2, 2013
I laughed, and laughed, and laughed…
Late last night the offices of Los Angeles-based independent game studio Robotoki were stormed by the Los Angeles Police Department after a curious designer pressed the building’s “panic” button, studio founder Robert Bowling told Polygon.
The 911 response ended in a tense showdown with a life-sized statue of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s Simon “Ghost” Riley, which the police mistook for a gunman.
Earlier today reports circulated that the studio had been the victim of a “swatting” prank, in which a third party tricks law enforcement authorities or emergency services by providing details of a made-up threat, triggering an emergency response dispatch to the target of the prank. Swatting pranks are not limited to 911 calls; swatters can spoof a victim’s phone number, obtain and use a victim’s personal information or hack phone and computer systems.
Bowling clarified that it wasn’t a prank, but the mischievousness of an unnamed designer that brought the LAPD to his door.
“Our studio is equipped with a ‘panic’ alarm in case of an armed threat, which was installed yesterday,” Bowling said. “One of our designers, who shall not be shamed, pressed it on his way out because apparently when boys find buttons that they are unsure of, their first instinct is to push it.”
Read on to the end. I’m just happy Ghost survived.
In a manner of speaking.
