Jeff Pittman

What happens when you play with your thing

Off-duty police officer accidentally shoots himself. (includes video) And be sure to pick up the donuts…. Happens all the time. Another report indicates that a correctional officer in Fairbanks, AL, negligently shot himself and his 12-year-old daughter this week. The father was carrying a 40-caliber pistol in a holster on his belt when he and his daughter were going to […]

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Whites & Hispanics 25X more likely to be shop by police

A new scientific study from Washington State University-Spokane suggests that black offenders are erroneously shot by police officers less often than Hispanics or Whites. According to the study, officers were 25 TIMES less likely to erroneously shoot unarmed black suspects than they were unarmed whites, and officers hesitated significantly longer before shooting armed suspects who were black, compared to armed

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Protests in Black and White

Did you hear about the protests in San Francisco this week after a cop shot a man who was armed with “only a pellet gun/replica gun?” No? Maybe because the dead guy was white. Protests of defensive wrongdoing don’t hold water when (a), the defenders were justified, and (b) the protesters are bigots.

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No criminal charges for John Hinkley, Jr.

Federal prosecutors say they will not pursue criminal charges against John Hinckley, Jr. in last year’s death of former White House press secretary James Brady, who Hinkley shot and paralyzed in his 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan. Brady’s 2014 death was controversially ruled a homicide related to injuries received in the 1981 shooting. The US Attorney’s Office for the

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Jonathan Perloe’s gun-grabber quote

“It’s time to stop calling the efforts of the gun violence prevention movement ‘gun control.’ Contrary to gun rights absolutists who call us ‘gun grabbers,’ we are for reasonable regulation of firearms that keeps guns out of the hands of dangerous people. We also believe in balancing public safety against individual rights with restrictions on highly lethal weaponry such as

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