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Update: Master Chef contestant with bi-polar disorder commits suicide, lawyer blames gun.

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Guy looses to a blind chef, is diagnosed as being bi-polar, kills himself because he hadn’t sought proper medical help. His lawyer however, says it’s because he got a gun off the street. Not that he couldn’t have used a common chef’s knife to slit his own wrists or throat. But that wouldn’t be because knives are so easily available…Then he’d just a sick person who killed himself.

“It is overwhelming to think that with proper, intensive treatment, Joshua may still be with us,” his lawyer, Lisa Butler, said Sunday. “He was a jewel with so much talent to offer this world. But, in his state of mind, he turned to the streets for a gun and easily got it.”

via ‘MasterChef’s’ Josh Marks loses ‘battle of his life,’ commits suicide – CNN.com.

It get’s better…Joshua Marks apparently became suicidal after being told he was schizophrenic.

“That’s not what I am, that’s not what I am,” he told his mother, the lawyer said.
“He was very distraught by this new diagnosis,” his mother said. “He was just coming to terms with having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but he just couldn’t handle this new diagnosis.”

via ‘MasterChef’s’ Josh Marks loses ‘battle of his life,’ commits suicide – CNN.com.

Yup, it’s the gun that’s the problem here…

-Gary

Hickenlooper to Bloomberg: Shut up and stay out of Colorado…you’re not helping!

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OK, that’s not exactly what was said. The except below is exactly what was said by Hickenlooper in a recent interview with USA Today.

“Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems,” the Democratic governor said in an interview with Capital Download, USA TODAY’s weekly video newsmaker series. “They don’t really like outside organizations meddling in their affairs, and maybe the NRA gets a pass on that.

via Colo. governor suggests gun-control groups stay away.

Hickenlooper made the statements above in an interview about looming recall efforts against Evie Hudak. Hudak famously or infamously dismissed/contradicted rape survivor Amanda Collins during Collins’ testimony before Veteran and Military Affairs Committee meeting. Collins explained that had she been able to carry a gun, she might not have been raped but, Hudak insisted Collins was better off being unarmed saying, “…statistics are not on your side.” Hudak went on to say that had Collins had a gun the night she was raped, Collins’ attacker would have taken her gun from her and used it to kill Collins. Even if Hudak has statistics on her side, common sense says there is little to be gained from publicly rebuking a rape victim and basically telling her, “You would have been raped anyway…having a gun just would have meant, he’d kill you too.” For all the talk of a Republican “War on Women,” Hudak (a Democrat) doesn’t seem to be interested in helping women much at all and is as sexist as it gets. There just might be enough steam left in the recall engine to burn her to the ground.

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BREAKING: CA Gov. Jerry Brown VETOES SB 374 Semi-Auto Ban, 6 Other Gun Bills

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BREAKING: CA Gov. Jerry Brown VETOES SB 374 Semi-Auto Ban, 6 Other Gun Bills.

 

From the Firearms Policy Coalition: California Governor Jerry Brown announced his official rejection of 7 gun control bills passed by the Legislature last month. The vetoed laws include SB 374, a ban on semi-automatic rifles authored by Senator Darrell Steinberg. It’s not a complete victory as a ban on lead ammunition for hunting among other anti-gun bills did pass.

It’s no secret that California policies on guns are often later tried on the national scale. Where firearm freedoms are concerned, California has been on a long slide downhill since the 1960s when they passed a ban on open carry because of the Black Panthers. The fact Brown vetoed what amounted to an all out ban on all modern firearms may be a glimmer of hope for what many of us would rightly consider a lost state

-Gary

May be issuing gun permits to the blind isn’t as crazy as it sounds…

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Blind man beaten on camera in Philadelphia while bystanders watch | abc13.com.

ABC 13, KTRK asks what would you do? The Philadelphia Police Department is dumbfounded as to why no one stepped in to help this blind man as he was beaten. Well, it really shouldn’t be a surprise. We’ve told people not to get involved. “Leave it to professionals,” they say. And sadly, if you do step in and the bad guy happens to be Latino or black, you’re a racist unless you too are black or Latino…unless your name is George Zimmerman in which case, you are really screwed.

No, it’s in your best interest to let that guy get the snot beat out of him and/or watch him die from a safe distance. Calling 911 might get the fire department and EMS here to scrape the victim onto a gurney or into a bag so the blood can be blasted away by fire-hose but, the beating itself will most likely be over before the police arrive. They might catch the guy as he’s leaving but, all of that assumes someone actually bothers to call 911 which is sometimes an adventure onto itself.

While we’re at it, pop-culture says you should be sure to be a crappy witness that only gets half the story for your Facebook post. Record only that half of the incident on your cell phone before you post it on YouTube. But again, whatever you do, don’t get involved. That’s what the police are for. They will show up just in the nick of time with a SWAT team to kick the bad guy’s butt.

People don’t like to hear it but, we as a nation are doing our best to become a society of obedient sheep unable and unwilling to defend themselves and dependent on their favorite political shephard. No one stepped in to help because we are told over and over again to just leave it to the professionals. All too frequently, people trade their privacy and personal freedom (especially the freedom to defend ourselves by any means necessary) for “safety” the government cannot and is not interested in providing.

The harsh reality people consistently, willingly fail to accept is, WE ARE ON OUR OWN! The police do not have a duty to protect you. Ridicule Iowa for allowing the blind to carry a gun if you like but, chances are, the blind man in the above video could have used the Braille method to aim his gun and shoot this criminal off of him! It may be that issuing gun permits to the blind isn’t as crazy as it sounds.

MILLER: D.C. police chief covers up giving Dianne Feinstein illegal ‘assault weapons’ – Washington Times

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Cmdr. Williams emailed Mr. Mentzer to put a “bug” in his ear that the police would “prefer that no mention of the fact that the weapons came from D.C. or were recovered by MPDC in the official language or speeches.” Mr. Mentzer replied, “By not mentioning where the weapons came from, we open ourselves up to the same charge against David Gregory.”

via MILLER: D.C. police chief covers up giving Dianne Feinstein illegal 'assault weapons' – Washington Times.

Gee guys…Conspire much? Two faced no good for nothing…Bah! I can’t begin to write/type what I’m thinking. ‘Tards all deserve to be dragged through the street, stoned in the square, and quartered at dawn!

-Gary