FAKE [?] CONFESSIONS OF GUN OWNER?

[Tarn_Helm]

The LA TIMES is running a lame "article" about a "guns-for-money" program that is supposed to be making Bell Gardens or Los Angeles County residents safer:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/confessions-of.html

The title of the article is based on the remorse of a wildeyed, murderous gun owner caught in a love triangle and bent on bloody revenge--you know, like all the rest of us insane gun nuts are.

The "confession" supposedly came from a dude who caught his Haina cheating on him, bought a gun, had second thoughts, and then gave the lil' cuete to the local Padre to turn in to the local Jura.


Yeah, right.

If that stupid propaganda story isn't fake, I don't know what is.

And did the LEO track down Mr. Ladykiller to verify that Mr. Ladykiller had not changed his mind and slaughtered his 'b!tch' with a cuchillo or some improvised weapon?

No, the story doesn't include any mention of anything as salient as that.

But anyone who has ever been to the City of Bell Gardens (or Cudahy) on a weekend night knows that taking 19 guns off the street will have exactly NO effect on the number of shootings there: that place is a freakin' war zone infested with gangs and plain old paisa narcotraficantes.

Guns for money---HAH!

I hope the cops there are careful with that "guns-for-money" program--criminals don't like competition.


The only tactic that could make that area fit for human habitation would be about 24 straight hours of clusterbombing.


Where's a "Tom Ludlow" when you need him?!

[Greg-Dawg]

Why so angry?

[Tarn_Helm]

Why so angry?

The idea that LEAs should be buying guns from the public because a disarmed populace is somehow safer is false and irritating.

It sends a very insidious message to the mass of gun-ignorant people out there who know nothing either of the relationship between the maintenance of freedom and civilian exercise of the right to bear arms.

In fact, it denies that relationship.

That angers me.

Yes.

[dwa]

this sounds an awful lot like a sublime song

[M. Sage]

this sounds an awful lot like a sublime song

"I don't practice santeria
I ain't got no crystal ball
I had a million dollars but I'd
I'd spend it all
If I could find that heina
and that sancho that shes found,
Well Id pop a cap in sancho
and Id slap her down"

Yeah, that was honestly the first thing that popped in my head, too.

[FastFinger]

Cudahay is one of those odd fiefdoms that pepper south L.A. Several municipalities that are 1 - 4 square miles, they seem to be under state or federal investigation every other week, usually corruption involving the elected officials and their friends and families. Even their law enforcement departments are suspect. That sort of stuff is common, institutionalized even, south of the border, but seems to be taking hold around here now. Free trade and all that...

[bubbagump]

The LA TIMES is running a lame "article" about a "guns-for-money" program that is supposed to be making Bell Gardens or Los Angeles County residents safer:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/confessions-of.html

The title of the article is based on the remorse of a wildeyed, murderous gun owner caught in a love triangle and bent on bloody revenge--you know, like all the rest of us insane gun nuts are.

The "confession" supposedly came from a dude who caught his Haina cheating on him, bought a gun, had second thoughts, and then gave the lil' cuete to the local Padre to turn in to the local Jura.


Yeah, right.

If that stupid propaganda story isn't fake, I don't know what is.

And did the LEO track down Mr. Ladykiller to verify that Mr. Ladykiller had not changed his mind and slaughtered his 'b!tch' with a cuchillo or some improvised weapon?

No, the story doesn't include any mention of anything as salient as that.

But anyone who has ever been to the City of Bell Gardens (or Cudahy) on a weekend night knows that taking 19 guns off the street will have exactly NO effect on the number of shootings there: that place is a freakin' war zone infested with gangs and plain old paisa narcotraficantes.

Guns for money---HAH!

I hope the cops there are careful with that "guns-for-money" program--criminals don't like competition.


The only tactic that could make that area fit for human habitation would be about 24 straight hours of clusterbombing.


Where's a "Tom Ludlow" when you need him?!

HAHA! You think Bell Gardens is bad!?

Cudahy, Maywood, South Gate, Bell, and Huntington Park make Bell Gardens look like a playground!

[N6ATF]

Bell, home to radio jammer Jack Gerritsen:

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/09/19/100/

[Bruce]

I wonder if Bell Gardens P.D. went through an FFL holder and wait 10 days for their 19 transfers? Did they complete 4473's for their transactions per Federal law? I don't recall there being any LE exceptions in the sales laws.