Irish homeowners can now legally use guns to defend themselves if their homes are attacked under new legislation.
The new home defense bill has moved the balance of rights back to the house owner if his home is broken into “where it should always have been”, say top Irish police.
The police association of superintendents and inspectors, the AGSI, stated that “the current situation, which legally demands a house owner retreat from an intruder, was intolerable”.
I’m thinking they only did it because in the UK it’s illegal to defend yourself and they had to be different from the fecking British.
If these had been real FBI agents what would have happened to the homeowner defending himself?
That’s a hell of a choice to have to make in the middle of the night. If they’re real cops, and you defend yourself you will go to jail if you live. If they’re not cops and you don’t defend yourself then you’ll probably be killed.
Of course if real cops didn’t do night raids then it wouldn’t be an issue, would it?
Good causes sometimes have bad consequences. Blacks, women, and other historical out-groups were right to demand equality before the law and the full respect and liberties due to any member of our civilization; but the tactics they used to “raise consciousness” have sometimes veered into the creepy and pathological, borrowing the least sane features of religious evangelism.
One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…} confirms that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…}.” I’ve been presented with enough instances of this recently that I’ve decided that it needs a name. I call this general style of argument “kafkatrapping”, and the above the Model A kafkatrap. In this essay, I will show that the kafkatrap is a form of argument that is so fallacious and manipulative that those subjected to it are entitled to reject it based entirely on the form of the argument, without reference to whatever particular sin or thoughtcrime is being alleged. I will also attempt to show that kafkatrapping is so self-destructive to the causes that employ it that change activists should root it out of their own speech and thoughts.
Read the whole thing. I think we’re gonna be using this a lot from now on.
Later in the comments of that post, ESR said this:
I’m still not interested in discussing the matter with kafkatrappers. Their tactics condemn them. The correct response to abusers and mindfuckers is not to try to understand their point of view, it’s to do as much violence to them as you can get away with.
Well, the police are fully engaged…dedicating themselves to stopping violence and helping the neighborhood feel safe again. They suggest that “whatever you do, comply with what the robbers want because whatever you have is not worth being shot over.”
And it couldn’t be more wrong.
You never, EVER, pay the Danegeld. You don’t give in to terrorists, you don’t pay the kidnapper’s ransom and you don’t give a mugger or rapist what he wants.
It’s wrong on an individual level and it’s wrong at an international level.
Paying them off or complying with criminal demands only ensures that there will be more. More muggings, more terrorism, more kidnappings and more crime.
“…not worth being shot over” assumes that if you comply that you won’t get shot. The reality is that if you comply you are far more likely to be injured or killed than if you resist.
We do not carry because we look for trouble, but because we cannot tell when trouble may come looking for us! You cannot make an appointment for a disaster, so it is the duty of a free man to be constantly prepared to meet Evil with disconcerting alacrity. It is not a light burden in terms of financial outlay, political liability and personal inconvenience, but a free nation cannot long survive if the citizens slough it off, as we have seen in the place formerly known as Great Britain.
I’ll add, you see the same behavior in the US where gun ownership is outlawed or so encumbered by regulation that it is effectively outlawed. People forget how to fend for themselves and how to defend themselves.
When it comes to packing heat, the I-Team found Texas lawmakers to be at least ten times more likely to have a concealed handgun license than the average Texas adult.
“I’ve had my concealed carry license for several years,” said Senator Kel Seliger.
Senator Seliger is one of the nearly 20% of state lawmakers who told the I-Team they have an active concealed license.
Gotta love that MSM lingo. “Lawmakers” and “I-Team”. No wonder no one reads their crap.
Meanwhile, the Fort Worth Startlegram is reporting on the upcoming push for open carry in Texas. As usual they uncritically report the most idiotic statement on the subject they can find.
“If you see someone with a holster on, are you just to assume this is a law-abiding person?” said McCartney, state president of the North Texas Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “Are you to assume this person is safe to be around your family? People don’t know this.
“It’s common sense thrown out a window.”
It must be a sad existence to be that paranoid.
Fortunately, most people don’t agree with the paranoid Ms. McCartney.
Jordan left the store with his iPad bag tied around his hand. Unreleased surveillance film shows two young men following him.
“The film shows them walking right behind me down the stairs as I was going out the store.”
A few feet from the doors to the parking garage Jordan felt a violent tugging at his arm. He looked down and saw a young man trying to grab his bag.
“He was almost sitting on the ground he was pulling so hard and it was still tied around my fingers; and it wouldn’t come off and then finally he gave it one big jerk; and that’s when he stripped the skin off my pinky and it went right down to the bone.”
Pay attention to what is around you!
“I hope you understand what you’ve done to my life and my family’s life for a simple piece of apparatus that’ll be junk in a couple of years.”
And that’s the point. THEY DON’T CARE. You are not a person to them. There is no guilt or shame and they will never understand what they did.
It’s business as usual in another UN refugee camp. This time it’s in Haiti.
Girls as young as two are falling victim to rapists who are preying on women and children left homeless by the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Rape is rife in the sprawling tent cities that have become home for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and men are demanding sexual favours in return for food and shelter, according to a report published today.
Send the women a crate of Glocks and a few cases of 9mm in the next airplane.
I guarantee the rapes would stop.
And all you people that think guns should be illegal in the US? Guns are illegal in Haiti. Go live there if you like it so much.
Gov. Daniels Signs Legislation Protecting Indiana Workers’ Right to Self-Defense
Fairfax, Va. – Today, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed NRA-backed legislation allowing employees to store legally-owned firearms in locked, private motor vehicles while parked in employer parking lots.
“A citizen’s individual, constitutional right to self protection does not stop when they drive onto their employer’s property,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA Institute for Legislative Action. “This common-sense effort has been a top legislative priority for the NRA, because it is good public policy for the more than 300,000 law-abiding permit holders in Indiana.”
HB 1065 prohibits employers from firing employees who safely and lawfully store a firearm in their privately owned, locked vehicle while on an employer’s publicly accessible parking lot. Indiana has more than a quarter-million Right-to-Carry permit holders, many of whom carry their firearm during their commute to and from work.
This law also prevents state or local government authorities from confiscating lawfully owned firearms during declared states of emergency, such as occurred in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
“This is a major victory for Indiana gun owners and workers who have been denied the right to protect themselves while commuting between their homes and their workplace,” concluded Cox. “On behalf of Indiana’s NRA members and gun owners, I’d like to thank Gov. Daniels for signing this important self-defense legislation into law.”
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Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military.
Now Texas doesn’t have an excuse for not doing the same.
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