Lonsberry On One Result Of New York's Gun Ban
This is a complete copy of Bob Lonsberry's blog column of yesterday, January twenty-fourth. Bob writes a daily column on topics of interest to both himself and most of the general public; locally, regionally and nationally. Be sure to check his blog regularly!
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Here's the column:
WHAT THE POLICE CHIEF COVERED UP
Actually, I’m not clairvoyant.
I don’t even have x-ray vision.
If I did, I’d sit at the mall all day, holding up Olympic-style scores as
women passed.
As it turns out, information for stories I report is typically given to me by
other people. These people have different motivations. Some are spiteful, some
are angry, some want to see justice done or a full story told.
Sometimes I go to them, and sometimes they come to me.
Like yesterday, about the middle of the morning, when I heard about Congress
Avenue.
Someone was angry about what appeared to be an effort by the chief of the
Rochester Police Department to keep a story, for political reasons, from
becoming public.
So this person told me the story.
And I quickly got others to confirm the story, and concerns about the chief.
I reported the story, and later in the day the chief responded with a press
conference.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the chief, and think he’s doing a fine job. But,
sometimes, not telling a story is the same thing as telling a lie.
Here’s the timeline.
On January 9, as part of the governor’s State of the State presentation, the
Rochester police chief, in full uniform, stood before the assembled thousands
and called for a ban on assault rifles. Just before midnight on January 14, that
ban was rammed through the state legislature in an omnibus gun-control law that
made New York a nation-leading violator of the Second Amendment.
A hullabaloo ensued.
A BIG hullabaloo.
Then, a week later, on the night of Sunday January 20, two nearly identical
crimes were committed.
About 7, two young black men with a gun broke into the apartment of a couple
of University of Rochester students and robbed them of electronics.
About 5 hours later, at midnight, two young black men with a gun broke into
the apartment of a couple of Rochester Institute of Technology students and
attempted to rob them.
The two home invasions took place in the same neighborhood of the same city
on the same night.
In both cases, no arrests were made and no weapons were recovered. One was
reported by police to the news media. Not a word was said about the other one.
One led local newscasts, the other was known only to the victims, the
perpetrators and the cops.
The one the police reported was a story about bad guys winning. Two innocent
grad students get ripped off by a couple of home-invading street thugs.
The story the police kept quiet was very different.
According to police documents, here’s what happened. “S” stands for suspect
and “V” stands for victim.
“The S’s smashed a basement window to gain entry into the house and then
unlocked the back door to escape.
“The two V’s, RIT Students, were upstairs in their individual bedrooms when
V1 heard the sound of glass breaking. At first he wasn't alarmed, thinking that
it was a noise from his roommate's television. He then checked with the roommate
who denied the noise coming from his room.
“V1 went downstairs to investigate and was immediately confronted by S1 who
was standing at the bottom of the stairs pointing a black semi-automatic handgun
at him. S1 ordered him back up the stairs.
“Hearing the verbal exchange, V2 retrieved his legal (AR-15) rifle and
confronted the two S’s, who then fled out the back door. V1 went to his bedroom,
retrieved his legal 9 mm handgun.
“He then called 911 and waited for police to arrive.
“There were no city cameras in the area. K9 track and neighborhood canvas
both had negative results. Tech responded and processed the scene.”
That story the police department did not release.
This is the same police department that is hip-deep in a goofy Twitter
campaign to “open channels of communication” with “the community.” This is the
same police department that bought a smartphone app that lets residents bitch
about officers.
This is the same police department that lists transparency and open
communications with residents among its highest priorities.
One incident gets reported, the other gets covered up.
In the middle of a raging debate over assault rifles, the Democrat police
chief protégé of the Democrat lieutenant governor neglects to tell the community
that a law-abiding college student used a legal assault rifle to turn away two
armed home invaders.
Wow, what an ironic coincidence.
As assault rifles are being vilified by the chief, the mayor, the governor
and the president, as pundit after pundit claims there is no reason for citizens
to have military arms, a law-abiding 21-year-old quite possibly saved the lives
of himself and his roommate by brandishing a military-style assault rifle.
Two young college students, each with legal weapons that will be outlawed by
the governor’s gun ban, saved themselves from home-invasion thugs.
The assault rifle can no longer be sold in New York. The 9mm can only be sold
with a seven-round magazine, which doesn’t exist.
On that night, one set of college students were unarmed victims. Another set
of college students were able to defend themselves. One story was told, one
story was covered up.
And it appears to have been covered up in order to further the police chief’s
gun-banning politics.
That’s called “policing in the spirit of cover your political arse.”
Your mother called it lying.
But the home-invading thugs should take comfort. Thanks to the chief, the
mayor, the governor and the president, there will soon be a lot more disarmed
citizens ripe for the picking.
- by Bob Lonsberry © 2013
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
This'n'That; January Twenty-Third #2; WTF!?!
It All Depends....!!
Almost a year ago [Feb 18] in Rochester, N.Y., this alcoholic 'stoner'--high on booze [malt liquor] and [sleeping] pills--started her house on fire 'cuz she was pissed at a former sperm-donor!! She [Bobbie Kugler] lit his photo on fire and--in her drunken, drugged stupor--put it on a dresser with other flammables.... how dam' stupid is that?!?
The end result of her stupidity is that she managed to kill four of her kids--from three different sperm-donors--and injuring three others. After that, she was charged with 4 counts of felony assault, 4 counts of manslaughter; felony arson. Just yesterday Kugler--in Monroe County Court--was sentenced to 7 to 15 years in state prision; that's seven years for a total of NINE CRIMINAL COUNTS-8 of them felonies; more than likely she'll be out in 5 years, ready to destroy more lives she's brought into the world.
There's been almost universal outrage over the Sandy Hook murders of last months yet nobody seems too upset over this set of circumstances!!
Your comments?
Til Nex'Time....
Reference Lie-Barry:
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/165230/37/Arrest-Made-in-Rochester-Fire-That-Killed-Four-Children
http://rochester.ynn.com/content/top_stories/632341/sentencing-for-mother-who-set-a-fire-killing-her-children/
http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Kugler-To-Be-Sentenced-In-Deaths-of-4-Children/sh-pqkzDskCQfk4sXZYS9g.cspx
http://rochesterhomepage.net/fulltext?nxd_id=366672
Almost a year ago [Feb 18] in Rochester, N.Y., this alcoholic 'stoner'--high on booze [malt liquor] and [sleeping] pills--started her house on fire 'cuz she was pissed at a former sperm-donor!! She [Bobbie Kugler] lit his photo on fire and--in her drunken, drugged stupor--put it on a dresser with other flammables.... how dam' stupid is that?!?
The end result of her stupidity is that she managed to kill four of her kids--from three different sperm-donors--and injuring three others. After that, she was charged with 4 counts of felony assault, 4 counts of manslaughter; felony arson. Just yesterday Kugler--in Monroe County Court--was sentenced to 7 to 15 years in state prision; that's seven years for a total of NINE CRIMINAL COUNTS-8 of them felonies; more than likely she'll be out in 5 years, ready to destroy more lives she's brought into the world.
There's been almost universal outrage over the Sandy Hook murders of last months yet nobody seems too upset over this set of circumstances!!
Your comments?
Til Nex'Time....
Reference Lie-Barry:
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/165230/37/Arrest-Made-in-Rochester-Fire-That-Killed-Four-Children
http://rochester.ynn.com/content/top_stories/632341/sentencing-for-mother-who-set-a-fire-killing-her-children/
http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Kugler-To-Be-Sentenced-In-Deaths-of-4-Children/sh-pqkzDskCQfk4sXZYS9g.cspx
http://rochesterhomepage.net/fulltext?nxd_id=366672


Tuesday, August 28, 2012
This'n'That; August Twenty-Eighth #1; Crazy?!?
Are You Crazy?!?
You certainly are if you're even considering voting for Dorothy "Geeze-Louise" McIntosh Rodham Slaughter!! All that's necessary to confirm I'm right is to check her voting record.
If a bill would preserve and promote the Constitution, Mrs Slaughter primarily voted against it.
If a bill would specifically add to the ubiquitous controls on firearms of any type, Mrs Slaughter primarily voted against it.
The same position applies to jobs creation, federal tax code fairness, domestic petroleum and minerals discovery and production, infant death by abortion and a multitude of other topics. Well, you'll see when you check the aforementioned voting record.
On the other hand, anything--no matter how destructive to the American way-of-life--proposed by "Clown Prince" obama automatically gets the Slaughter vote! Remember, she's the complete nincompoop who attempted to 'deem' the obamaKare legislation voted upon by the House just on her word, even though no vote was taken! This 'deem and pass' approach was laughed out of the congress! Can a socio-fascist obamacRATic get any more communistic?!?
Alternatively, we of New York's 25th Congressional District, have (Margaret) Maggie Brooks, the current Monroe County (Rochester area) Executive. Those of us living in Monroe County, N.Y., know of Maggie's foibles, mostly that some of her underlings are of less-than-stellar character. Some underlings have been involved in kick-back schemes and some are currently residing--rent-free--with the State of New York.
What we don't know about "Geeze-Louise" far overshadows what we DO KNOW about Ms Brooks!! Few will disagree that we can do no worse than voting for Ms McIntosh Rodham Slaughter; we can do far better in voting for Maggie.
Til Nex'Time....
http://www.maggiebrooks.com/
http://www.votelouise.com/
You certainly are if you're even considering voting for Dorothy "Geeze-Louise" McIntosh Rodham Slaughter!! All that's necessary to confirm I'm right is to check her voting record.
If a bill would preserve and promote the Constitution, Mrs Slaughter primarily voted against it.
If a bill would specifically add to the ubiquitous controls on firearms of any type, Mrs Slaughter primarily voted against it.
The same position applies to jobs creation, federal tax code fairness, domestic petroleum and minerals discovery and production, infant death by abortion and a multitude of other topics. Well, you'll see when you check the aforementioned voting record.
On the other hand, anything--no matter how destructive to the American way-of-life--proposed by "Clown Prince" obama automatically gets the Slaughter vote! Remember, she's the complete nincompoop who attempted to 'deem' the obamaKare legislation voted upon by the House just on her word, even though no vote was taken! This 'deem and pass' approach was laughed out of the congress! Can a socio-fascist obamacRATic get any more communistic?!?
Alternatively, we of New York's 25th Congressional District, have (Margaret) Maggie Brooks, the current Monroe County (Rochester area) Executive. Those of us living in Monroe County, N.Y., know of Maggie's foibles, mostly that some of her underlings are of less-than-stellar character. Some underlings have been involved in kick-back schemes and some are currently residing--rent-free--with the State of New York.
What we don't know about "Geeze-Louise" far overshadows what we DO KNOW about Ms Brooks!! Few will disagree that we can do no worse than voting for Ms McIntosh Rodham Slaughter; we can do far better in voting for Maggie.
Til Nex'Time....
http://www.maggiebrooks.com/
http://www.votelouise.com/


Tuesday, August 14, 2012
This'n'That; August Fourteenth #1; Surprise!
Slaughter Has Surprised Me!
Congresswoman Dorothy "Geeze-Louise" McIntosh-Rodham-Slaughter has taken me completely by surprise!! The ol' bag has been in congress for the past two-and-a-half DECADES and has--in my memory--never gotten off her dead-ass and visited her district or it's voters. I take that back; she will visit the area if there's someone--the likes of C. Ellis Schumer, the Putz of Park Avenue--she can suck up to!!

Finally, the republicRATics have fielded a viable candidate--in Maggie Brooks--to contest the district (NY-28{now redrawn as NY-25}), and this has 'the ol' gray mare' shaking under her ill-fitting wig. Ms McIntosh-Rodham-Slaughter took the occasion to stand in front of the tv cameras--surprisingly without "The Putz of Park Avenue"--at the local Hickey-Freeman facility to whine--just like "Clown Prince" obama--that 'the lack of jobs is all Bush's fault!' While a socio-fascist in the same vein as the "Clown Prince;" while a fair-to-mostly-crappy legislator, "Geeze-Louise" is a terrific fundraiser and through that, actually represents those who donate: primarily the residents of New York City and the southern counties that surround it!!
Til Nex'Time....
Congresswoman Dorothy "Geeze-Louise" McIntosh-Rodham-Slaughter has taken me completely by surprise!! The ol' bag has been in congress for the past two-and-a-half DECADES and has--in my memory--never gotten off her dead-ass and visited her district or it's voters. I take that back; she will visit the area if there's someone--the likes of C. Ellis Schumer, the Putz of Park Avenue--she can suck up to!!
Finally, the republicRATics have fielded a viable candidate--in Maggie Brooks--to contest the district (NY-28{now redrawn as NY-25}), and this has 'the ol' gray mare' shaking under her ill-fitting wig. Ms McIntosh-Rodham-Slaughter took the occasion to stand in front of the tv cameras--surprisingly without "The Putz of Park Avenue"--at the local Hickey-Freeman facility to whine--just like "Clown Prince" obama--that 'the lack of jobs is all Bush's fault!' While a socio-fascist in the same vein as the "Clown Prince;" while a fair-to-mostly-crappy legislator, "Geeze-Louise" is a terrific fundraiser and through that, actually represents those who donate: primarily the residents of New York City and the southern counties that surround it!!
Til Nex'Time....


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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
This'n'That; July Third #1; August Dates
Save These Dates!
August 5-Rochester, N.Y.:
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August 5-Rochester, N.Y.:
The 52nd Annual Genesee Valley Anitque Car Society car show, at Roberts Wesleyan College, North Campus, 2301 Westside Drive, (not affiliated with the college) Rochester.August 10-12-Cortland, N.Y.:
The show is open to antique and classis cars, street rods, and trucks. Event will include a flea market and car corral. 9AM-3PM; donation-$3
For info, call (585)624-1071.
http://www.gvacs.com/
The 13th annual National Brockway Truck Show and celebration of 100 years of Brockway trucks, in downtown Cortland.See Ya there!!
Friday Evening: BBQ dinner; Brockway auction of parts, accessories, literature and memorabilia, etc-at the museum.
Saturday: 8:30AM Parade of 'all Brockway' trucks from the museum to downtown Cortland; trucks display: 9:30AM-3:30PM.
Sunday: Pancake breakfast at the museum.
For info, call (607)753-8463
http://www.brockwaytrucks.org/
Til Nex'Time....


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