Video report: MI pharmacist fired FOR DEFENDING HIMSELF!

Good grief:

I hope his suit is successful, because letting yourself be murdered because of a stupid policy is asinine. And what is it with targeting pharmacists anyway? From just a couple months ago: Obamaland: Pharmacist sent to prison for life for shooting armed robber. In Britain, it is routine to punish the victims for defending themselves against burglars and muggers (Good grief: Police demand residents not put up wires on windows - might hurt... THE BURGLARS!). It seems that that sort of weapons-grade moonbattery is infecting socialists on this side of the pond as well. Via the blog that bears that name: Life Sentence for Shooting Armed Robber in Oklahoma City

Business owners be warned: it isn't only armed thieves you have to worry about, but their fellow travelers running our demented legal system:

A controversial decision to send a pharmacist to jail for life for shooting dead a young man who tried to rob his store has caused a storm of protest.

Jerome Ersland was given a life sentence for the first-degree murder of 16-year-old Antwun Parker at an Oklahoma court last week.

Never mind that Parker and another punk burst into his pharmacy and pointed a gun at Ersland. How many urban juries or liberal judges are going to side with a white guy who served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force against a historically put-upon person of politically correct lineage?

I opined back then that fortunately, the disarming of our right to self defense hasn't made it's way to Michigan, with this as an example: Prosecutors won't bring charges against Warren homeowner who shot teen burglar

Warren Man Calls 911, Says He Shot Intruder: MyFoxDETROIT.com

Perhaps I was wrong. In the liberal Utopia, it only pays to be a violent criminal living on welfare and the plunder of honest citizens, as long as you keep voting for liberal Democrats.

UPDATE: A second thought on this. It strikes me as quite ironic that these pharmacists are being persecuted (and prosecuted) for defending their own life. Meanwhile, Obama and liberal bureaucrats are forcing them to dispense abortion pills to murder innocent babies against their conscience.

UPDATE #2: NY Couple Pleads Guilty in 4 Pharmacy Killings

 

Idiocracy: NC Governor Declares Every Concealed Carry Permit in eastern NC Invalid Due to Hurricane Irene

I feel dumber for having had to even read this bit of utter and complete idiocy:

Thanks to a brain-dead state law foisted upon us by a Democratic state legislature (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.7), every time the governor—in this instance, Democrat Beverly Perdue—declares a state of emergency, it is illegal from that moment onward to carry a concealed weapon until the state of emergency has been declared over.

14-288.7. Transporting dangerous weapon or substance during emergency; possessing off premises; exceptions. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is unlawful for any person to transport or possess off his own premises any dangerous weapon or substance in any area:
(1) In which a declared state of emergency exists; or
(2) Within the immediate vicinity of which a riot is occurring.
(b) This section does not apply to persons exempted from the provisions of G.S. 14-269 with respect to any activities lawfully engaged in while carrying out their duties.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Um - isn't a time of emergency precisely the time you would likely need to be able to defend yourself the most? More:

We've dealt with this bit of Democrat-generated stupidity before.

Governor Purdue made this declaration while the state was at work, meaning everyone who has a carry permit and lives east of Interstate 95 who was away from home instantly became a criminal by proclamation.

If we look at Google Maps, that means that a carry permit holder in Wilson dining at the Cracker Barrel is perfectly legal, but the permit holder a block to the east filling up on gas at the Kangaroo Express is now a criminal.

Since when do state bureaucrats or politicians get to suspend fundamental constitutional rights for any reason? Irene by the way is weakening:

HT: Instapundit

UPDATE: An update from Confederate Yankees: "I'd forgotten we were stuck with this crap last year as well."

Video Report: Judge Rules Against Chicago Handgun Law

Funny that these liberals protect abortion as the most sacred right in the US even though it is neither explicitly not implicitly in the US Constitution (had to be imposed by judicial fiat), but fight against the 2nd amendment that explicitly affirms the right to bear arms. At least the activist judiciary hasn't overturned it. Yet. From Obama's home town, a judge overruled the absurd and unconstitutional requirement of Chicago residents having to get shooting range training, but simultaneously banning shooting ranges in the city:

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

IN TEXAS, THE FASTEST GROWING GROUP APPLYING FOR GUN CARRY PERMITS? African-American Women.