The Uninvited Ombudsman Report - No. 49

Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report”

1- Hero Joe Horn

The lamestream media told you:

Joe Horn, a 62-year-old Texas man, was cleared by a grand jury of murder charges in the shotgun slaying of two men on his property. Horn, who loaded his shotgun while on the phone with a 911 operator, clearly said he was going to kill the young men, and then the sound of his shots were recorded and replayed incessantly, creating a controversy.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

News reports generally failed to mention that the two dead criminals, caught red-handed burglarizing Horn's neighbor's house, were in the country illegally. News media policy is to ignore or avoid the illegal immigration aspects of crimes when possible, because they believe it might expose a stereotype, create a stereotype, or is not important, though nearly everyone who reads their tripe believes it is very important. Reasons for the difference in opinion are unclear.

Texas has robust "Castle Doctrine" laws protecting homeowners and the innocent, and making things tough on home invaders even if they aren't illegal aliens committing crimes here. Horn said on tape that he knew of those laws, and the officer on the other end of the line acknowledged the laws were in place, but tried in many ways to convince Horn to do absolutely nothing and let the burglars rob his neighbor.

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2- Guns Kill Criminals

The lamestream media told you:

FBI figures for 2006 show 10,177 homicides that involved guns, proving conclusively once again that guns are evil and should be outlawed. Only 195 of the killings, or 1.9%, were deemed "justifiable" by the Bureau, meaning a criminal was shot by a citizen in self defense or with other legal justification.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

It was not known at press time how many of the gun-related homicides were criminals killing each other, which according to some experts would be a good thing.

Some of the criminals shooting each other could be seen as self-defense shootings, except any criminal with a gun cannot claim self defense, even if his drug buddies are trying to kill him. Most “gun deaths” are actually war casualties, in the government-funded war on some drugs. Maps showing gunshot demographics can be found here:

http://www.gunlaws.com/GunshotDemographics.htm

If guns save just one life, according to some experts, it would be worth it. With 195 people alive today because they were able to defend themselves, the proposal to leave them defenseless, condemning them to death, is seen as controversial. The moral authority to require those people to die could not be found in a search of the available literature, from the Bible to the U.S. Code.

Why 195 heroes who survived assaults by murderous criminals have not been featured on front pages across America, or given awards in pompous ceremonies, could not be determined at press time.
No independent corroboration of the low FBI statistic for self-defense shootings is available. The numbers of shooting homicides that were gang related was not available. The number of shooting deaths that had a racial component was not released, but interactive maps assembled by The Baltimore Sun indicate a tremendous lack of diversity in urban homicides, at least for that town. Nebraska, Montana and many other states do not report the problem that large urban inner-city communities do, for reasons that were not clear at press time. Discussion of possible demographic inequalities in U.S. murder rates is not allowed in "news" media, since it might be insensitive or identify stereotypes.

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3- Dangerous Brady States

The lamestream media told you:

The Brady Center gun-control group has issued its list of the states with the best gun laws, and we give them prominent coverage of this each year without checking for accuracy, the net effect of their custom ratings, or what they consider the “best” gun laws to be. We’re just “finding truth and reporting it,” since the Bradys did say what we said they said.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

GeorgiaCarry.Org Member Barre Bollinger was intrigued by the Brady Center’s state ratings. A score of 100 is Brady’s highest possible score. Here is what Barre had to say.

“I ran some numbers today on a sample of the Brady scores vs. the ten safest states in the Union. Brady scores are from their own site. Violent crime stats came from a U.S. Census Bureau 2004 report, and include number of murders, forcible rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults per 100,000 population.”

Not one of the ten safest states has a Brady score over 12 out of 100, with the scores ranging down as low as a 2! Safe states fail the Brady test miserably, or maybe, the Brady test identifies unsafe states, news reports didn’t say.

The chart is available for your use, along with extensive commentaries. Brady’s top-rated state is California (meaning its gun freedoms are the lowest), but California (at 552 violent crimes per 100,000) ranks number 41 -- in the top ten for most crime-ridden states. http://tinyurl.com/6mox5p
The news media was unavailable for comment.

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4- Gun-Free Suicide Soars

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Despite Lack of Guns, Japanese Suicide Rate Soars: Japanese professionals in their thirties are killing themselves at unprecedented rates, as the nation struggles with a runaway suicide epidemic. Newly published figures show that 30,093 people took their own lives in 2007 -- a 2.9 per cent increase in a year -- leaving the country as the most suicide-prone anywhere in the developed world and rendering government efforts to combat the problem a failure...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4170649.ece

“Suicide is a cultural phenomenon, and for the elderly, a medical issue. It has almost nothing to do with guns," said one knowledgeable observer. Japanese in large numbers throw themselves under trains.

The mediocre Hollywood movie “The Happening” recently featured guns as a convenient suicide tool for people forced to kill themselves by angry plants (maybe mediocre is too kind), but it did include one scene, designed to be horrific, that showed two legitimate self-defense shootings to protect homeowners from belligerent children trying to force entry into a private house during a disaster.

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Contents:
(searchable by item number)
1- Hero Joe Horn
2- Guns Kill Criminals
3- Dangerous Brady States
4- Gun-Free Suicide Soars
5- Global Whining Idiocy
6- Battery Funding Scam
7- Golf Hides Shooters
8- Schooling Problems Identified
9- Smokers Cost Less
10- Saddam’s Uranium Unloaded
11- No D.C. Handguns

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