Shooting in Brooklyn reveals a couple of problems.

via the New York Post:

A pregnant 34-year-old Brooklyn woman walking home with her child from school was fatally shot as she bravely shielded hers and other children when gunfire erupted on a Brownsville street today.
Bullets also struck an 11-year-old girl and a 31-year-old woman who was walking out of P.S./I.S. 298 with her own kids right after dismissal at about 2:35 p.m., authorities said.

1. The most obvious problem is that New York's strong gun laws and New York City's even stronger gun laws did not work. Licensing, registration, magazine limits, extraneous background checks... They all failed.

2. New York City's defacto prohibition on carrying firearms for self-defense ensured that the shooter had a target rich environment. The New York City government did their best to make sure that there was absolutely no chance that anyone could fire back and in turn force him to abandon his "mission".

3. Gangs are the problem, not people who go through the process of getting vetted and licensed to carry a gun, Mr. Schneiderman.

The first success of CA's open carry ban.

Thanks to CA's open carry ban, "untrained, unscreened, self-appointed vigilantes" can no longer carry guns. Only criminals can openly carry guns. Thank you, Dallas Stout, president of the California chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

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Congrats California for banning open carry.

You've made yourself a safer state.

Thanks to Gov. Moonbeam, street urchins such as the below are free to beat up people at their leisure without the fear of having their feelings hurt by seeing an openly carried gun.

"We don't need states like Texas, Arizona and Alaska telling us how to protect our people from gun violence."

Says Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, a Democrat, is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

My response: Likewise, the rest of the the United States (especially the free states like Texas, Arizona, and Alaska) don't need the likes of you and your fellow gun banners/controllers telling us what kind of guns we can own, how many rounds of ammunition they can have in them, and whether or not we can sell them without government intrusion. We also don't take kindly to you throwing due process in the shredder either.

The wages of Mexican gun control.

When you lose your right to arms, guess which right you lose next?

Tortured, disemboweled and hung from a bridge for tweeting: Couple killed by Mexican drug cartel as gruesome warning to bloggers who 'snitch' online:

A couple have been found hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo after being disembowelled and mutilated by attackers.

The motive for the gruesome attack was to warn social media users not to criticise Mexican drug cartels on the internet.

Next to the battered bodies was a sign reading: ‘This is going to happen to all those posting funny things on the internet, You better (expletive) pay attention. I’m about to get you.’

The Mexican people have been rendered defenseless in their own country, leaving them to live at the whim of the narco-terrorists. This is the CSGV's "monopoly of force" theory in action. Unfortunately, their theory does not take into account a corrupt and/or inept government such as the Mexican government.

When the pot calls the kettle black.

If I recall correctly, the gun banners/controllers are all for "states rights" (states don't have rights to begin with) when it comes to the latest anti-gun piece of legislation.

A Mexican city with a better understanding of the 2A than Chicago.

via CNN

Garcia, Mexico (CNN) -- Officials in a northern Mexican city plagued by violence say a new course will take a fresh approach toward protecting citizens: Training people to handle and shoot guns.

The aim of the approach, says Garcia Mayor Jaime Rodriguez Calderon, is putting a stop to crime in the 40,000-person city in Nuevo Leon state.

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Garcia's program is not the first citizen-defense proposal in Nuevo Leon state involving weapons. State lawmakers are also studying a proposal that would relax weapons restrictions there.

Take note Chicago: This is how you fight crime. You make it easier for people to protect themselves. Not harder by requiring a gun permit to go to the gun range, yet requring a trip to the gun range to get a permit.