The Wandering Minstrel

An armed felon can walk in with a loaded gun and take charge . . .

Gunman Robs Turner’s Gun Shop

(September 22, 2008) A robber fired a shot into a ceiling and took a bag filled with 10 to 15 guns from a Redondo Beach store this morning, police said.

The robbery at Turner’s Outdoorsman at Hawthorne and Redondo Beach boulevards occurred about 10:45 a.m., police Sgt. Phil Keenan said.

The man pulled a gun and demanded the employees remove guns from a display case and put them in a bag. He fired a bullet into the ceiling “to confirm his adamancy” in robbing the business, Keenan said.

The gunman walked away west and out of sight.

Nobody inside the business was hurt.

“It’s very concerning when a confirmed bad guy has 10 to 15 more handguns,” Keenan said. “He is not going to use them. He is probably going to sell them.”

The robber was described as Asian, 20 to 25 years old, wearing a black baseball cap, a Pendleton sweater, and possibly tan pants.

Yet another instance of just how well gun laws are working to prevent violent crime.

Update: These guys must have a very slow learning curve:

In 2001, three gunmen robbed Turner’s in Redondo Beach, beating a cashier in the head with a gun. They escaped with $300 and six handguns.

Inspired by the NRA-ILA RSS feed.

This is the result of trying to keep the shots on target while shooting the three rounds in under two seconds. First, two to the chest followed by quickly aiming at the bridge of the nose and firing.

Maybe it’s not as bad as we are all led to believe . . .

From Drudge:

DOW UP 40 POINTS IN PAST MONTH…
UP 18% PAST 5 YEARS…
UP 44% PAST 10 YEARS…

Last week, I got a comment asking (in broken English) why this site doesn’t support multiple languages. Since the comment was non-sequitur to the topic of the post, I shrugged and deleted it. But then, I wondered just how many international visitors I get on the blog. I found a doodad on sitemeter that tells me just that - USA visitors outnumber, by far, foreign visitors. If you include the UK and Jamaica, which are English-speaking countries, then 80 percent of the hits on this blog speak English.

I figure it’s not worth the effort for the return it might bring. Besides, if some dudes in Moscow want to read my crap they can use Yahoo Babel Fish:

This is quite interesting (emphasis added) . . .

“[Barack] Obama… blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the ‘trickle-down’ economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend. But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street’s most revered institutions. Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties. The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but ‘predatory.’ Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the ‘90s by Clinton and his social engineers.” —Investor’s Business Daily

Democrats these days are behaving like little kids that broke something, who shift blame to a sibling or the dog.

Hat tip to The Patriot Post.

UPDATE: Related post at RWN: Financial Crisis - Dems Try to Rewrite History

The last time I looked, the only Ideal food in there was fruit - and a day old at that.

The rest is ‘eat at your own risk . . .’