tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33646217921939533292024-03-13T17:11:09.908-05:00Rantings of an Insane LibertarianBruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-5631314255707102042018-03-07T17:36:00.003-06:002018-03-07T17:36:56.928-06:00Swedish Meatballs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-84175941508098692642015-04-15T17:23:00.001-05:002015-04-15T17:23:17.838-05:00Why not to jury rig carboy stands<br />
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Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-2396663745562727642014-09-19T05:25:00.001-05:002014-09-19T05:26:03.280-05:00Charts and Graph from TTAG Post "Kristie Rivers is Incompetent"<div align="center">
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Gun Deaths<o:p></o:p></div>
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1991<o:p></o:p></div>
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142<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.29<o:p></o:p></div>
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1993<o:p></o:p></div>
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119<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.24<o:p></o:p></div>
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1995<o:p></o:p></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
93<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.18<o:p></o:p></div>
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1997<o:p></o:p></div>
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84<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.16<o:p></o:p></div>
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1999<o:p></o:p></div>
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51<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.10<o:p></o:p></div>
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2001<o:p></o:p></div>
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52<o:p></o:p></div>
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31<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.06<o:p></o:p></div>
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2005<o:p></o:p></div>
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59<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.11<o:p></o:p></div>
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2007<o:p></o:p></div>
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51<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.10<o:p></o:p></div>
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2009<o:p></o:p></div>
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40<o:p></o:p></div>
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0.08<o:p></o:p></div>
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2011<o:p></o:p></div>
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56<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.11<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center">
<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Year<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Gun<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Deaths<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Rate<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Fire<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Deaths<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Rate<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Drowning<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Rate<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Suffocation<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
Rate<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1991<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
142<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.29<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1,043<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2.16<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1034<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2.14<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
690<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.43<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1993<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
119<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.24<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
956<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.92<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
937<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.88<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
650<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.31<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1995<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
93<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.18<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
791<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.56<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
947<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.87<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
642<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.27<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1997<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
84<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.16<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
637<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.24<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
855<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.67<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
630<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.23<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1999<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
51<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.10<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
550<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.06<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
850<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.64<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
735<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.42<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2001<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
52<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.10<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
471<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.90<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
790<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.51<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
834<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.60<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2003<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
31<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.06<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
418<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.80<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
712<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.37<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
840<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.62<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2005<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
59<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.11<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
414<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.80<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
738<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.42<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
958<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.85<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2007<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
51<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.10<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
408<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.78<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
687<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.32<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1,182<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2.26<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2009<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
40<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.08<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
305<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.58<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
656<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.24<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1,082<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2.05<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2011<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
56<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.11<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
226<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
0.43<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
671<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1.27<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
1,098<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt;">
2.07<o:p></o:p></div>
</td>
</tr>
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Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-81704542766983699832013-11-26T06:41:00.000-06:002013-11-26T06:43:20.649-06:00Resolve to Practice Excellence<div class="MsoNormal">
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One of the prayers that I try to say every day (audio version available <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1499369/Resolve%20to%20Practice%20Excellence%20ver.%202.0.mp3" target="_blank">here</a>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Resolve To Practice Excellence<br />
<i>From the Vajraguru website</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Homage to the noble Manjushri<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seven Offices<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">With my voice and body and sincere heart, I pay homage to all the
lions of humanity present throughout all time and in all world systems in every
direction with none excepted, however great their number. The force of my
resolve to practice excellence brings all victors<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
clearly to mind; emanations of my body, numerous as the atoms of all universes,
bow down in perfect obeisance before them. All Buddhas, numerous as the atoms
of all Buddha realms, stand in a single atom, surrounded by their children.
Similarly, this host of victors stands in every single atom throughout the
realm of totality. To them I direct my devotion and faith.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sounds from an ocean of instruments of melodious speech sing of
the qualities of all the victors; the ocean of their qualities is never
depleted. In this way, I praise all the well-gone ones. To all the victors I
present and offer perfect flowers and holy garlands, sweet music, balms and
parasols, oil lamps, and fragrant incense. Moreover, I offer to all the
victors' elegant garments and the finest of scents, curative powders piled high
as Mt. Meru, all displayed in exceptional splendor. Vast and unsurpassable
offerings I create and present to all the victors. With a firm appreciation of
the practice of excellence, I render homage and offerings to all the victors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Overpowered by lust, hatred, and stupidity, I have perpetrated
much evil through my actions, words, and in my thoughts; all such evils I
confess completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">With great joy, I think of all the merit gathered by the victors
in all directions, the Buddha's children, and by the self-realized and the
partly and thoroughly trained ones. I rejoice in the merit of all sentient
beings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I urge that the unsurpassable Dharma wheel<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
be set in motion by all the lords, the lights of all worlds in all directions,
who have traversed the stages of enlightenment and attained Buddhahood, the
state of non-attachment and pure awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">With my hands folded in prayer, I beseech those who have
transcended misery, whatever be their concern, to abide for, as many eons as
there are atoms in all realms, for the benefit and happiness of beings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I dedicate to perfect enlightenment all virtue, however slight,
which I have gathered through homage, offerings, confession, rejoicing,
entreaty, and supplication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sentiments<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I present offerings to all the Buddhas of the past, and to the
Buddhas who abide in all worlds in the ten directions.<br />
May those who have not yet appeared as Buddhas quickly fulfill their aim, and
appear as fully enlightened ones demonstrating the stages of
enlightenment.<br />
May all worlds throughout the totality of space become vast and completely
pure, and be filled with all the victors and Buddha-children who have come into
the domain of the bodhi tree<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>.<br />
May all beings in all directions, however many there may be, always have the
joy of good health, and so that their hopes for enlightenment may be realized,
enjoy conditions favorable for the aims of the Dharma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Resolve to Maintain Bodhicitta<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">As I engage in bodhi<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
conduct, wherever I am born, I shall recall the training of former lives.<br />
While I experience birth and death in the succession of my lives, may I always
renounce the world of Samsara<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>.<br />
Emulating the training of all the victors and completing my practice of
excellence, may I, with purest motivation, engage in stainless moral conduct,
never weakening and free from fault.<br />
In the language of the gods, nagas, and demons, in that of the spirits and in
all the tongues of men, in all the languages of all beings, whoever they may
be, may I teach the vast and deep Dharma.<br />
With an appropriate gentle attitude, may I strive at the six perfections and
never forget bodhicitta<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>.<br />
May all unskillful actions and limitations of karma and emotionality be
completely washed and cleared away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Resolve to Establish Practice<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Free of karma, emotionality, and disruptive forces, may I act in
every realm of existence like the sun and moon unobstructed in the sky, or like
a lotus to which mud does not adhere.<br />
In all directions, the extent of the misery of evil existences equals the
magnitude of all Buddha realms.<br />
May I quench this misery, establish all beings in happier existences, and
through my deeds, bring true benefit to them all.<br />
Immersing myself totally in bodhi conduct, may I engage in action appropriate
to the dispositions of all, and revealing clearly this excellent practice,
continue it in all future eons.<br />
May I be forever in the company of those whose conduct is similar to mine, and
with aspirations identical with theirs, act in harmony in body, speech, and
mind.<br />
May I always come to meet those friends who wish to help me, who teach
completely this practice of excellence; may I never renounce those friends.<br />
May I continually look upon all victors, the lords who, surrounded by Buddha's
children, are really present, and in all future eons tirelessly present vast
offerings to every one of them.<br />
Upholding the sacred Dharma of all victors and demonstrating bodhi conduct in
all circumstances, may I continue this practice of excellence in all future
eons though my training in it be complete.<br />
As I circle through realms of experience, may I be filled with an inexhaustible
treasury of all the qualities of means, wisdom, samadhi<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>,
and the liberated state; may I accumulate an inexhaustible store of merit and
wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Resolve to Engage in Activity<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In a single atom are Buddha realms as numerous as all atoms; in
every atom in each Buddha realm abide inconceivable numbers of Buddhas amid
their children. I will watch them and emulate their bodhi conduct.<br />
Similarly, in every direction throughout the totality of space, an ocean of
Buddhas who appear in the three times and an ocean of their Buddha realms are
present in every atom.<br />
For an ocean of eons, I will watch them and immerse myself in bodhi
conduct.<br />
I will penetrate completely the speech of the victors, each word of which has
an ocean of the qualities of sound, a melody of purest quality harmonizing with
the wishes of all beings.<br />
With strength of mind, I will fathom the speech of the victors of all times who
set in motion the wheel of Dharma, bringing understanding to those who hear the
endless tune of the teaching.<br />
I will know what will come in future eons, and moreover, penetrate instantly
the phenomena of all times.<br />
I will embrace in an instant of awareness all phenomena in the totality of
times, and so immerse myself in bodhi conduct.<br />
I will see in an instant all the lions of humanity who appear in all times.<br />
And free in the knowledge that all appearances are fantasy, I will immerse
myself in the unceasing activity of the enlightened ones.<br />
In a single atom are clearly set all the Buddha realms in the totality of time;
similarly, I will set all the realms of the victors in every single atom
throughout all time and space.<br />
I will come into the presence of the Lords, the future Buddhas who appear as
lights in the world; who, by progressively reaching fullness, turning the
Dharma wheel, and passing beyond misery, demonstrate their achievement of
peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Resolve to Practice Without Limit<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Through the power of unlimited instantaneous miracles, and the
power of the vehicle which is the means to benefit beings completely, through
all the power of activity in totally wholesome qualities, through the power of
all-pervasive love;<br />
Through the power of the merit of total virtue and through the power of
transcending awareness, which leads to non-attachment, through the power of
wisdom, means, and samadhi, I will realize the power to attain
enlightenment!<br />
As the power of karma is washed completely away and the power of emotionality
is completely conquered, as the power of antagonistic forces are rendered
ineffectual, the power of my practice of excellence becomes complete.<br />
I will transform oceans of impure realms into utterly pure ones, and place
oceans of beings in a state of freedom; with the eye of wisdom, I will behold
oceans of Dharma and exercise oceans of awareness.<br />
I will engage in oceans of conduct with complete purity, fulfill oceans of
aspiration, and honor perfectly oceans of Buddhas.<br />
Thus will I act tirelessly for oceans of eons.<br />
All victors appearing in the three times have various aspirations while engaged
in bodhi conduct, and through their practice of excellence awaken to the
enlightenment of the Buddha. I, myself, will fulfill the aspirations of all
these victors!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">All my virtue I dedicate completely, that my deeds equal those of
the skilled one who is the bravest of the children of the victors, who is known
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excellent skilled one, Samantabhadra, and dedicate my virtue as he does - that
through this dedication my body, speech, and mind become completely pure, my
conduct stainless, and all realms completely pure.<br />
In order to engage completely in the virtuous practice of excellence, I will
carry out the aspirations of Manjushri.<br />
And in all future eons, tirelessly, I will bring all these deeds to
completion.<br />
My practice will have no limit and my capabilities will be unlimited.<br />
While I continue limitless activity, I will seek and attain the manifestations
of the enlightened ones.<br />
As boundless as the reaches of space is the totality of sentient beings.<br />
Boundless is their karma and emotions, and boundless too is my resolve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Great is the merit of offering to all the victors, for as many
eons as there are atoms, infinite jeweled realms in the ten directions and the
greatest happiness of gods and men.<br />
Far greater is the perfect merit of just once giving rise to faith after
hearing these royal words of dedication and turning one's mind to perfect
enlightenment.<br />
Whoever should recite this Resolve to Practice Excellence no longer experiences
the realms of misery, nor is influenced by evil companions; such persons
quickly come to see Buddha Amitabha.<br />
They gain all that is of worth and dwell in ease; in just this life all their
objectives are happily met; they quickly become just like Samantabhadra in
capabilities and manifestations.<br />
Whoever sincerely recites this Resolve to Practice Excellence quickly and
thoroughly purifies all evil committed in delusion, even the evil of the five
acts which ripen immediately.<br />
Whoever recites this Resolve to Practice Excellence will quickly become pure in
every way, will gain wisdom, beauty and distinctive signs, noble birth and fine
complexion, the respect of all beings in the three worlds, and will be
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Such a person will go swiftly into the domain of the bodhi tree and there will
sit to benefit beings.<br />
They will awaken to enlightenment, set the Dharma wheel in motion, and subdue
powerful Mara and his host.<br />
Buddha alone knows the complete results of holding, reading, or reciting this
Resolve to Practice Excellence.<br />
May there be not a single doubt that this resolve is the means to perfect
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Just as Manjushri, the hero of all beings, knows how to dedicate
virtue, and exactly as Samantabhadra does too, so do I dedicate completely all
this virtue and follow the training of such Bodhisattvas.<br />
With the form of dedication praised by all the victors appearing in the three
times, I dedicate completely all these seeds of virtue so that my excellent
practice will bring enlightenment.<br />
When the hour of death draws near, my limitations will be completely removed. I
will see Buddha Amitabha<a href="file:///F:/My%20Documents/Buddhism/Prayers/The%20Resolve%20To%20Practice%20Excellence%20-%20Annotated.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
and experience totally his Buddha Realm of Joy.<br />
I will fill my being with all the qualities needed to bring about the complete
fulfillment of all these resolutions to practice excellence.<br />
As long as worlds exist, I will work for the good of all!<br />
In the pleasing and excellent mandala of the victor, I will be born from a
beautiful and perfect lotus.<br />
In the presence of the victor Amitabha, may I hear his prophecy about me.<br />
After I have received this prophecy, may I, through the strength of my
intention, greatly benefit beings in all directions by unfolding myriad
emanations.<br />
Through the little virtue I have gathered by offering this Resolve to Practice
Excellence, may all virtue and aspirations for the welfare of sentient beings
be realized in a single instant.<br />
By such perfect and endless merit as accrues through the total dedication of
the practice of excellence, may all beings drowning in the river of misery
reach the perfect abode of Amitabha.<br />
This excellent and worthy royal resolution is derived from the sutra adorned by
Samantabhadra. It brings aid to all beings without limit.<br />
May all realms of misery be forever emptied!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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large and very old Sacred Fig tree under which Siddhartha Gautama,
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Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-64060126691296867722013-11-26T06:36:00.000-06:002013-11-26T06:45:06.355-06:00A Compromise Gun Bill That I Can Live With<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<li>Repeal the Brady Bill and do away
with NICS entirely. It was <i>supposed</i>
to keep felons from getting firearms but has failed miserably. The answer is
not to “tweak” background checks; the answer is to get rid of them entirely.</li>
<li>Repeal the Hughes Amendment to the
Firearm Owners Protection Act limiting ownership of full-auto weapons to those
made prior to 1986.</li>
<li>IAW the 1968 amendments to the NFA
there will be a 90-day amnesty registration period every year, from January 1<sup>st</sup>
through April 1<sup>st</sup> (or March 30<sup>th</sup> on leap years). The ATF
has 30 days to process any NFA transaction. Failure to complete a transaction in
30 days will result in the refunding of all fees to the transferees and
issuance of a default registration letter, stating that the NFA items in
question are legally possessed even if they are not entered in the NFRTR.</li>
<li>Any pilot or aircraft crew member who
is an honorably discharged veteran or possesses a permit to carry from any
state is authorized to carry a firearm on their airplane in any manner they
deem fit.</li>
<li>Repeal the Gun Free School Zone Act
of 1990.</li>
<li>Any schoolteacher, school employee
or school volunteer who is an honorably discharged veteran or possesses a
permit to carry from any state is authorized to carry a firearm in any school in
any manner they deem fit. Any school district which found in violation of this
law shall forfeit all Federal funds for a period of 6 months (for a first
offense) and not less than 1 year for subsequent offenses.</li>
<li>Congress shall deem that Article IV
Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution (commonly known as the full faith and credit
clause) applies to state issued permits to carry. Any state which fails to
honor the permits of every other state shall forfeit all Federal funds for a
period of 6 months (for a first offense) and not less than 1 year for
subsequent offenses.</li>
<li>IAW <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_v._United_States"><i>Coffin v. United States</i></a> a person who
is attacked in a place s/he has a right to be and who is not engaged in unlawful
activity has no duty to retreat and has the right to meet force with force,
including deadly force if s/he reasonably believes it is necessary in order to
prevent death or great bodily harm to him/herself or another or to prevent the
commission of a forcible felony and shall be presumed to have acted in
self-defense until proven otherwise. Law enforcement may not arrest an
individual for using deadly force unless they have probable cause to believe
that the use of force was unlawful.</li>
<li>The definition of “sporting
purposes” shall include <i>all</i> types of
sport and competitive shooting and <i>all</i>
“military style” and semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns are hereby deemed
suitable for sport shooting.</li>
<li>Any firearm or firearm accessory made
by a private individual for their personal use is beyond the authority of
Congress under its constitutional power to regulate commerce among the states.</li>
<li>“High capacity” magazines are
hereby defined as any ammunition feeding device designed to hold more than 150
rounds.</li>
<li>“Armor piercing” bullets are hereby
defined as any round which, when fired from a pistol with a barrel of no more
than 4 inches (not including recoil or sound suppressor) can pierce 1 inch of
HY-100 steel (or its equivalent) at 200 yards.</li>
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Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-36119041520038053082013-10-15T19:13:00.001-05:002013-10-15T19:13:57.735-05:00Steampunk Dragon gobletHere are some pictures of the Steampunk Dragon goblet that Di and I got from the Renaissance Festival this year.<br />
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<br />Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-29290844447047364282013-09-17T12:26:00.001-05:002013-09-17T12:26:16.231-05:00Photos from the Rimeling Center<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Lovely Viking stove</div>
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Susan, Rinpoche and Alison in Rinpoche's room</div>
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4: Hemenway
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5: Wintemute
GJ, Hemenway D, Webster D, Pierce G, Braga AA. Gun shows and gun violence:
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Richardson EG, Hemenway D. Homicide, suicide, and unintentional firearm
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7: Hemenway
D, Barber C, Miller M. Unintentional firearm deaths: a comparison of other-inflicted and self-inflicted shootings.
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CJ, Hemenway D, Clifton J, Brown DR, Simons RK, Hameed SM. The demographics of
significant firearm injury in Canadian trauma centres and the associated
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L, Azrael D, Miller M, Hemenway D. The effect of child access prevention laws
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EF, Hemenway D, Miller M, Azrael D. Batterers' use of guns to threaten intimate
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D, Hemenway D. Gun carrying and drug selling among young incarcerated men and
women. J Urban Health. 2006 Mar;83(2):266-74. PubMed PMID: 16736375; PubMed Central
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EF, Johnson RM, Hemenway D. Gun possession among Massachusetts batterer
intervention program enrollees. Eval Rev. 2006 Jun;30(3):283-95. PubMed PMID:
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20: Hemenway
D, Vriniotis M, Miller M. Is an armed society a polite society? Guns and road
rage. Accid Anal Prev. 2006 Jul;38(4):687-95. Epub 2006 Jan 24. PubMed PMID:
16434012.<o:p></o:p></div>
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21: Miller
M, Azrael D, Hemenway D, Vriniotis M. Firearm storage practices and rates of
unintentional firearm deaths in the United States. Accid Anal Prev. 2005
Jul;37(4):661-7. PubMed PMID: 15949457.<o:p></o:p></div>
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22: Miller
M, Hemenway D, Azrael D. Firearms and suicide in the northeast. J Trauma. 2004
Sep;57(3):626-32. PubMed PMID: 15454813.<o:p></o:p></div>
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23: Miller
M, Hemenway D. Unsupervised firearm handling by California adolescents. Inj
Prev. 2004 Jun;10(3):163-8. PubMed PMID: 15178673; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC1730094.<o:p></o:p></div>
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24: Hepburn
L, Miller M, Azrael D, Hemenway D. The effect of nondiscretionary concealed
weapon carrying laws on homicide. J Trauma. 2004 Mar;56(3):676-81. PubMed PMID:
15128143.<o:p></o:p></div>
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25: Hemenway
D, Miller M. Gun threats against and self-defense gun use by California
adolescents. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004 Apr;158(4):395-400. PubMed PMID:
15066882.<o:p></o:p></div>
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26: Cook,
Philip J., Jens Ludwig, Sudhir Venkatesh and Anthony Braga. (2007) Underground
Gun Markets. The Economic Journal. 117: F558-588.<o:p></o:p></div>
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27: Cook,
Philip J. and Jens Ludwig. (2006) The Social Costs of Gun Ownership. Journal of
Public Economics. 90(1-2): 379-391.<o:p></o:p></div>
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28:Cook,
Philip J. and Jens Ludwig (2006) Aiming for Evidence-Based Gun Policy. Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management. 25(3): 691-736.<o:p></o:p></div>
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29: Peters,
Joseph, Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig (2005) Gun Crime and Gun Control: The
Hawaiian Experience. University of Chicago Legal Forum. 2005: 55-90.<o:p></o:p></div>
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30: Ludwig,
Jens (2005) Better Gun Enforcement, Less Crime. Criminology and Public Policy.
4(4): 677-716.<o:p></o:p></div>
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31: Cook,
Philip J. and Jens Ludwig (2004) Does Gun Prevalence Affect Teen Gun Carrying
After All? Criminology. 42(1): 27-54.<o:p></o:p></div>
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32: Cook,
Philip J. and Jens Ludwig (2004) Principles for Effective Gun Policy. Fordham
Law Review. LXXIII(2):589-613.<o:p></o:p></div>
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33: Ludwig,
Jens. (2003) Evaluating Gun-Policy Evaluations. Criminology and Public Policy.
2(3):411-419.<o:p></o:p></div>
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34: Cook,
Philip J. and Jens Ludwig (2003) Fact-Free Gun Policy? University of
Pennsylvania Law Review. 151(4): 1329-1340.<o:p></o:p></div>
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35: Ludwig,
Jens and Philip J. Cook (2001) The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence
from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 22(3):
207-226.<o:p></o:p></div>
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36: Cook,
Philip J. and Jens Ludwig (2001) The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Gun
Violence. Harvard Health Policy Review. 2(2): 23-28.<o:p></o:p></div>
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37: Ludwig,
Jens and Philip J. Cook (2000) Homicide and Suicide Rates Associated with
Implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. Journal of the
American Medical Association. 284(5): 585-591.<o:p></o:p></div>
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38:Cook,
Philip J., Bruce Lawrence, Jens Ludwig and Ted R. Miller (1999) The Medical
Costs of Gunshot Injuries in the United States. Journal of the American Medical
Association. August 4, 1999. 282(5): 447-454.<o:p></o:p></div>
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39: Webster,
Daniel W., Jon S. Vernick and Jens Ludwig (1998) No Proof that Right-to-Carry
Laws Reduce Violence. American Journal of Public Health. 88(6): 982-983.<o:p></o:p></div>
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40: Cook,
Philip J. and Jens Ludwig (1998) Defensive Gun Uses: New Evidence from a
National Telephone Survey. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 14(2): 111-131.<o:p></o:p></div>
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41: Ludwig,
Jens (1998) Concealed-Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State
Panel Data. International Review of Law and Economics. 18: 239-254.<o:p></o:p></div>
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42: Ludwig,
Jens, Philip J. Cook and Tom W. Smith (1998) The Gender Gap in Reporting
Household Gun Ownership. American Journal of Public Health. 88(11). 1715-1718.<o:p></o:p></div>
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43: Cook,
Philip J., Jens Ludwig and David Hemenway (1997) The Gun Debate's New Mythical
Number: How Many Defensive Uses Per Year? Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management. 16(3): 463-469.<o:p></o:p></div>
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44: Webster,
Daniel W., Jon S. Vernick, Jens Ludwig and Kathleen Lester (1997) Flawed Gun
Policy Research May Endanger Public Safety. American Journal of Public Health.
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Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-45594827398510361812013-01-03T21:54:00.000-06:002013-01-03T21:54:21.641-06:00Gannett employees violating code of ethics?A few days ago a Gannett-owned rag in White Plains NY posted an online map/database of people with pistol permits. A few days later Des Moines columnist Donald Kaul came out of retirement to write a violent and threatening piece saying the NRA should be designated a terrorist organization, gun owners should be murdered by police for possessing "assault weapons" and GOP Congressional leadership should be dragged behind a truck.<br />
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In response, National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea's wrote a piece:<a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/gannett-requested-to-investigate-ethics-of-anti-gun-personnel" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank"> Gannett requested to investigate ethics of anti-gun personnel</a>. Inspired by his article, I submitted the following letter to Ms. Wall.<br />
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And no, none of what I wrote is hyperbole.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:50:05 -0800</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">From: </span><a href="mailto:bruce_krafft@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #2862c5; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:bruce_krafft@yahoo.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1357270900_5">bruce_krafft-at-yahoo.com</span></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">Subject: Ethical violations?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">To: </span><a href="mailto:bwall@gannett.com" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1357270782225_3901" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #2862c5; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; outline: 0px;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:bwall@gannett.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1357270900_6">bwall@gannett.com</span></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;" /><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1357270782225_3894">Dear Ms. Wall,</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1357270782225_3870">I understand that you, as Gannett's Chief Ethics Officer are who I should contact if I believe one (or more) of your employees has committed an ethical breech. Thus I am writing to bring two possible violations of Gannett's ethics policy to your attention.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1357270782225_3878">The first requires a little background; my best friend from my hometown, the man who was best man at both my weddings was a NYC cop for 25+ years, retiring in the spring of 2009. During his last few years he was with the F.B.I. and ATF, working undercover. I don't know exactly what he did, but apparently there are a bunch of very nasty people who are very angry with him. The kind of nasty who don't see it as overkill to rape and murder a man's family in front of him before they necklace him. His telephone, cars and home are all listed in his wife's maiden name, and he has worked very hard to stay off the radar. But, unsurprisingly, he has a gun permit and you White Plains paper just put his name and address out on the internet for anyone to see.</span></div>
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The second possible violation comes from Des Moines, Iowa of all places where columnist Donald Kaul has came out of retirement to write a horrific screed in which, because he disagrees with their suggestions to stop school shootings, he appears to accuse N.R.A. members (of which I am not one, by the way) of <span style="font-style: italic;">not caring</span> that 20 children were murdered in their school.</div>
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In his first bullet point he calls for designating the NRA as a terrorist organization, simply because they hold beliefs with which he disagrees. Isn't there something in your policy about being committed to diversity? Or is it only a commitment to diversity that you don't disagree with?</div>
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Also in his first bullet point he agrees that the Second Amendment protects an individual, civil and human right to own and carry guns, yet in his second he calls for the imprisonment and/or murder by police of those of us who chose to lawfully exercise this right (I'm sorry but I can read his statement "'<span style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px;">prying the guns from their cold, dead hands' thing works for me" as anything other than a threat.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1357270782225_3905" style="line-height: 24px;">Speaking of threats his last bullet point suggests that certain political leaders, simply because he disagrees with their political beliefs, should be dragged to death behind a truck unless they agree to abandon their principles. Again is this the sort of "commitment to diversity" your company tolerates and encourages?</span></div>
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Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-52150383425766798302011-12-14T00:40:00.002-06:002011-12-14T00:40:59.733-06:00So how would I lower crime?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">A commenter on TTAG, one Robert, asked in response to my <i><a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/bruce-w-krafft/taking-on-the-anti-arguments-one-at-a-time-part-1/">Taking on the Anti Arguments, One at a Time – Part 1</a></i>:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">"<i>Bruce, I think that you should elaborate on what you think would lower crime and why it would work. If you can both show why the anti’s argument is wrong and suggest a valid replacement, then you would have a rock solid position that no one could object to.</i>"<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Well Robert, keep in mind that as a good libertarian I believe taxes are theft, but given the current state of affairs in this country the first thing I would suggest is a tax increase.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Just as gas taxes (theoretically, but that's another post) pay for roads, property taxes pay for community services and the Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax goes for conservation and wildlife restoration, anyone who wishes to rely solely upon the police for defense against crime should have to pay a Defenselessness Tax to cover the increased costs to municipalities of protecting their sorry butts. Like property taxes the DT would depend in part on the area you live in, with residents of high-crime neighborhoods obviously paying more. There would be other demographic modifiers too, based on your job, how far you commute, size of the family, etc.. In addition, since these sitting-duck-nuts (usually shortened to 'duck-nuts') won't be able to properly perform their militia duty the federal government will levy DTs as well.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">For those duck-nuts with children, Child Safety Services would have to keep a close eye the family, since anyone who would not fight to protect their child may well display other abusive behaviors. Also, for the safety of the children, duck-nuts would be required to have extra-strong doors and windows with good quality (and expensive, unfortunately) locks and complete alarm systems. Some states would require safe rooms (sometimes known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_room">panic rooms</a>) where the children could retreat and be protected from criminals in the event of a break-in. You know, despite the expense and inconvenience, if it saves <i>just one child's life</i>, it will be worth it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">An alternative would be to require duck-nuts to get a Permit to Not Carry. Applicants' medical and mental health histories would be combed for possibly dangerous pacific tendencies. They would be required to take a minimum 8 hour PtNC class to learn about the legal and social ramifications and costs to themselves, their families and their communities, of choosing self-defenselessness. Many states would also require some sort of practical test as well, so the permit-holder can demonstrate their proficiency at being a victim.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Most states would be 'shall-issue' when it came to PtNC (although the anti-duck groups would fight such legislation tooth and nail, wailing about how with all the new, suddenly defenseless people around there would be "blood in the streets" as criminals cashed in on the bounty), some would be 'may-issue' and would require applicants to "show good cause" as to why they need a PtNC and Illinois and the District of Columbia would have a complete ban on not carrying. Some 'may-issue' states would effectively be 'no-permit', and the issuing authorities in those states would routinely refuse to approve permits unless the applicant was rich and powerful, a good campaign contributor or a personal friend or crony of the Chief or Mayor. There would also be some states with absurd <i>mala prohibita</i> laws, like requiring weapons be loaded with hollow-points, with fines of $1,000 <i>per round</i> for any FMJ found in your possession.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In addition PtNC holders would need to be careful when traveling, since just because your permit is good in your home state does not mean it is good in other states. There would be periodic attempts in Congress to fix the problem, but anti-duck groups like Mayors Against Invisible Guns, Citizens for a Safer Minnesota Through Superior Firepower, and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Criminal Violence would launch massive media blitzes about the "Craven Creeps on Your Streets" bill, talking about the "race to the bottom" with whatever state has the most lax PtNC requirements setting the standard for everyone else and asking "do you really want duck-nuts from all over the country wandering your streets packing <i>nothing?!?</i>"</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Newspapers with anti-duck editorial boards would file Freedom of Information requests to get lists of people with NC permits and would publish their names and addresses. After all, people have a right to know that their neighbor is a duck-nut, or that the parents of their child's best friend is a sitting-duck and will expose your child to the dangers of duck-nuttery. Some pro-duck groups would protest that making this information available exposes duck-nuts to possible discrimination and makes them targets for crime, but everyone knows that the pro-duckers have all "drunk-the KoolAid", and the media will feel free to ridicule them as spineless "white-necks". Indeed, duck-nuts would be one of the last groups about whom vicious stereotyping was socially acceptable, and media of all sorts would gleefully take advantage of that fact.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Pro-duck groups would fight legislative battles to keep PtNC information secret, but after all these are public records and the public has a right to know whether or not their neighbor or co-worker is an upright citizen or one of those craven duck-nuts. And no law on the books is going to keep some duck-nut's employer from firing them for not carrying a gun at work. After all, what you choose to do on your own time is your own business, but when you are on the clock you are a member of a corporate team and your actions (or inaction) will reflect on the company as a whole. There would be a huge court case arising out of a company in <st1:state><st1:place>Oklahoma</st1:place></st1:state> firing workers who were seen (perfectly legally) disarming in the parking lot after work.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Speaking of court cases, after literally decades of avoiding the issue the Supreme Court will finally rule that defenselessness is an individual civil right and that it is incorporated against the states. DC and Chicago (defendants in the two cases) would immediately erect every legislative barrier possible to prevent people from getting permits to not carry. They would argue that the Court only said that you have the right to be defenseless in your home, so your permit will only be good in your house and they can still mandate that you carry on the streets. Cops would still routinely stop non-carriers on the street to check their Permit status, all the while mocking them as wannabes (as in wannabe a victim) and possibly denigrating their manhood as well with comments like: What's the matter, you don't have big enough <i>cojones</i> to stand up for yourself? </div><div class="MsoNormal">Most citizens wouldn't particularly care about the self-defense choices others made but the anti-duck groups would be pushing for ever stricter laws to keep these "victim-nuts" away from schools, daycares, churches, libraries and especially parks where kids play. After all, why would you need to be defenseless in a park, and what kind of message does it send our kids when they see these duck-nuts just flaunting their victim status, as if it were normal.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In reality Robert, most people really don't care about the issue, and the vast majority of those who do care are either pro-gun, or their minds are made up and they don't care what the facts are.</div>Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-27662041589484808052011-12-14T00:37:00.000-06:002011-12-14T00:37:56.603-06:00Antis, Once Again, Conveniently Using Their Own Facts<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">Posted over at <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/bruce-w-krafft/antis-once-again-conveniently-using-their-own-facts/" target="_blank">The Truth About Guns</a>.</div>Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-85924070573563086702011-12-14T00:33:00.000-06:002011-12-14T00:33:57.977-06:00Taking on the Anti Arguments, One at a TimePart 1 is available on The Truth About Guns <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/bruce-w-krafft/taking-on-the-anti-arguments-one-at-a-time-part-1/" target="_blank">here</a>, part two is <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/bruce-w-krafft/taking-on-the-anti-arguments-one-at-a-time-part-deux/" target="_blank">here</a>.Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-7186146831043391292011-12-10T22:29:00.002-06:002011-12-10T22:29:33.254-06:00HR 822′s Chances are Better Than Advertised. Apparently.Read this post over at <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/bruce-w-krafft/apparently-hr-822s-chances-are-better-thank-advertised/">The Truth About Guns</a>Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-7068970377772058252011-12-10T22:25:00.001-06:002011-12-10T22:26:37.672-06:00Answering An Anti: “I would like strict gun control which wouldn’t impact on your lives much at all as long as you’re law abiding and mentally competent.”<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well that’s part of the problem, Mike…the definitions you are using. I often say that the devil is in the details and those particular details can get very devilish. When you couple the vague <i>mental competence</i> standard with the fact that (based on the number of <i>amicus</i> briefs in support of the petitioner in <i>Heller v. DC</i>) a large part of the anti community feels that a complete ban on handguns and a ban on any operable long guns is “reasonable,” you get guys like me concerned that, since I’ve taken anti-depressants, with a swipe of a pen I’ll have my rights removed . . .<br />
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I freely admit that I am “less than law-abiding”. I’ve got a serious lead foot and given my druthers I’d cruise the freeways at 90 – 100. Since troopers get <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">really</em> cranky when you blow past them at those speeds I usually keep it to 80 – 85.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I know you’re going to say “They’d never take your guns for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">speeding</em>” but the Chief of Police in Philly uses unpaid <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">parking </em>tickets as a “reason to believe that the character and reputation of the individual are such that they would be likely to act in a manner dangerous to public safety.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My second reason can be summed up quite neatly by a phrase <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Gun Rights Examiner</em> David Codrea coined: If a person can’t be trusted with a firearm then they can’t be trusted without a custodian. If someone is a danger to themselves or others, why aren’t they locked up? It used to be that laws punished <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">malum in se</em> behaviour, acts which caused damage to others like rape, murder, robbery etc..</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, however, we have all these <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mala prohibita</em> laws which are (supposedly) designed to <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">prevent</em> crime. To wit: a felon with a firearm is not actually harming anyone, there is no <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">malum in se</em> act, but it was made illegal to try and prevent felons from committing crimes with guns.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is what irritates me about the anti’s reply when people bring up the fact that these gun laws don’t work. The typical response is “Well should we legalize murder because those laws don’t stop all murders.” But laws against murder aren’t <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">supposed</em> to be primarily preventative (I said <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">primarily</em> I am well aware of the fact that some people are only alive because it’s illegal to kill them) whereas laws like the AWB, or ammunition bans, or felon bans <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are</em> supposed to be primarily preventative. They were passed in order to prevent <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mala in se</em> crimes, not punish them.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Can you really be that self-centered?</em>”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Absolutely I am that self-centered! I support liberty in all its aspects so that <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">my</em> liberties remain untouched. Thomas Paine was right on the money when he said “<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.</em>”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are you that paranoid?</em>”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not paranoid at all. On a personal level I am well aware that the vast majority of people I’ll ever meet are good, decent individuals, but the flip side of that is that there is a very small minority who are <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> good and decent individuals. It is to protect myself and those I love from those people that I carry. In addition, as people living in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina learned, in a disaster all bets are off.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On a broader level read my piece<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/bruce-w-krafft/just-because-youre-paranoid-about-gun-control-doesnt-mean-they-arent-really-out-to-grab-your-guns/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #743399; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just Because You’re Paranoid About Gun Control Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t Really Out to Grab ‘Em</a></em> to see why many of us believe that it is simple prudence and not paranoia to be concerned about legal attacks on our civil rights.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is it immaturity in refusing to be told what to do?</em>”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Okay now you’ve just confused me: what does maturity or lack thereof have to do with being a staunch believer in civil rights for all?</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Honest to god, I don’t understand you guys. You should be the loudest supporters of better gun laws like no private sales without a background check and such.</em>”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Interesting; most people capitalize the deity’s name but I suppose that really isn’t relevant here. What <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</em> relevant is that “us guys” pay attention and are aware of the continued pressure for incremental increases in anti-gun laws: Look at New York State and the gun show sting they just ran. New York has <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">already</em> closed the “gun show loophole”, every sale at a show is required to go through NICS, but the AG is trying to use the fact that some private sellers broke this law to tighten it.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As for the national “close the loophole law” you should read it sometime (it’s available <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.591:" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #743399; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>), paying special attention to the definitions. The way the law is written, gun show operators have to get a permit from the U.S. Attorney General for which they must pay “<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a fee for the registration, in an amount determined by the Attorney General</em>“. Yeah, I’m sure that Eric “Gunwalker” Holder would set a nice low fee. /sarcasm</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once you’ve got your permit, you have to “<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not later than 30 days before the commencement of the gun show, notifies the Attorney General, in writing, of the date, time, duration, and location of the gun show, and the identity of each person who will be a gun show vendor at the gun show</em>.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well that sounds pretty innocuous, right? You’ve got the list of people who’re getting tables, just send the AG the list, right? Except that in the definitions a “gun show vendor” is explicitly <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> limited to people with tables. A vendor is anyone, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ANYONE</em> “<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who exhibits, sells, offers for sale, transfers, or exchanges a firearm at a gun show</em>.”</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I go to a show, get my (visible) carry gun peace-bonded and start wandering around. Joe Schmuckatelli comes up to me and says “Cool gun! What is it? Can I see it?” I’m a friendly guy, I like talking guns with folks, so I pull my weapon from its holster to show it to him. The moment he takes it I am gang tackled by 5 cops who inform me that I have just “transferred possession of” a firearm without the required background check. I am now subject to 2 years in prison and a fine (not limited by the statute). -poof- there go my civil rights.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh, yeah, and because of my actions, the gun show operator is now subject to the same penalties: two years in prison and a fine. Naturally s/he will be barred from ever operating a gun show again.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So yeah, not a real big fan of these “close the loophole” laws.</span></div>Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-32245941856153075662011-12-10T01:25:00.003-06:002011-12-10T22:19:20.722-06:00The Truth Can Come Out In The Oddest WaysFirst of all we need to deal with some terminology issues. According to <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/crime/effective-gun-buyback-gets-179-weapons-connecticut-streets" target="new">Opposing Views</a>, the cities of Hartford and New Haven Connecticut recently held gun "buybacks" which took 179 guns "off the streets".<br />
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First of all, what is a "buyback"? Did the cops once own the weapons? If not, how can they buy them "back"?<br />
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Second is the statement that this "buyback" took 179 guns "off the streets". Why don't I ever find any of these guns lying around "on the streets"? I would be delighted to take them "off the streets", give them a nice place to live and generally treat them with the care and respect that fine machinery deserves.<br />
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Now we can move on to the truth that slipped out between the cracks of officialese:<br />
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"<i>'The success of events like these can be measured on more than one level,' said New Haven police spokesman Dave Hartman. 'The first is obvious -- 60 guns have been taken out of the picture no longer to pose a threat. And their destruction will see to that.'</i>"<br />
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"<i>Hartman said even a gun that is collecting dust in an attic can become deadly.</i>"<br />
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"<i>'If you lawfully have a gun in your home, <b>that doesn't mean it can't ultimately become a threat</b>,' Hartman said. ...</i>" <b><i>[emphasis mine]</i></b></blockquote><br />
Did you catch that? According to the Official Spokesman for the Hartford Connecticut Police Department any gun, even one that is "lawfully owned", <i>any gun</i> can become a deadly threat. While I hold the deepest respect for many cops, statements like this illustrate (and exacerbate) the growing "us vs. them" attitude that so many officers and departments are starting to exhibit.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/" target="new">The Truth About Guns</a> has talked about the <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/daniel-zimmerman/new-york-times-suddenly-notices-police-militarization/" target="new">increasing militarization of the police</a>, both in terms of their equipment and in the growing use of S.W.A.T. or other "dynamic entry" teams to serve what used to be routine warrants. This in the face of the fact that <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0JuSECuIrUI/S-io7Qa9b0I/AAAAAAAADGE/A2iflFtjLAU/s1600/law_enf_killed..png" target="new">law enforcement deaths as a percentage of the population</a> have been mostly dropping since a peak in 1930 (right near the end of Prohibition). There was another lower peak in the late '70s, then a steady downward trend (with a single spike on 9/11/01) until today the death rate for officers is the lowest it's been since 1875. On top of that according to <a href="http://thesocietypages.org/pubcrim/2010/05/11/law-enforcement-death-rate-is-falling-not-rising/" target="new">Public Criminology's</a> examination of the data "about 62 percent of officer deaths were felonious in the 1970s, about 54 percent were felonious in the 1980s, and about 46 percent were felonious in the 2000s."<br />
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So the question is: what do we do about this? And the sad answer is, I have no idea. I try to be respectful in all my dealings with the police (and as an aggressive open carrier I have had more than a few "moments of unusual interest" with them) but even within the Twin Cities (Mpls/St. Paul) metro area there is a huge variety of attitudes.<br />
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I was open carrying at a gem show once (while wearing a bright red shirt that said "SECURITY" in 2-inch high white letters) and had my permit checked by a Bloomington PD officer who, as he handed me back my permit, said "You know if we get a robbery call to this location, you're going to be the first one we shoot." Interesting Use of Force guidelines in that department I guess. A couple of years later at the same location (having learned some things over the intervening period) I showed my permit to one of the officers before the show opened and mentioned that the rooms could get awfully hot, so I might remove my cover garment. I din't get a threat this time but I did get a dirty look and a "that's what we're here for" type comment. Please note I did <i>not</i> tell him I would gladly leave my weapon in the car if he would guarantee me in writing that the Bloomington PD would protect me and accept full liability if anything did happen to me (a line I have used on other aggressively anti-gun officers).<br />
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On the other hand, my wife and I went to lunch at a little hole-in-the-wall we'd seen featured on the Food Network, and there were already two Saint Paul PD cars there before the place opened. So as a courtesy after we went in I found one of the officers and showed him my permit, again explaining that if I got hot I might remove my cover garment. He said something along the lines of "thanks for the heads up" and I didn't think anything more of it until the <b>six</b> SPPD officers (and yeah, the food really was that good) were leaving and one of them (not the one I'd shown my permit to) stopped at the table and thanked me for having a permit to carry. "It's guys like you who I can count on to have my back if it ever drops in the pot" he said.<br />
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If more cops had that attitude, or were even just respectful of my decision to be responsible for my wife's and my safety, it would go a long way to erasing comments like the one made by Mr. HPD spokesman.Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-63966522636160234792011-12-08T05:34:00.000-06:002011-12-08T05:34:55.466-06:00Who Wouldn’t Be for National Gun Registration?Posted over at <a href=http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/bruce-w-krafft/who-wouldnt-be-for-national-gun-registration/ target=new>The Truth About Guns</a>.Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-69370043220204325832011-12-07T23:36:00.000-06:002011-12-07T23:36:31.980-06:00"What's the Big Deal With Fast & Furious?"<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">The other day a friend asked me what the big deal was with the whole Fast & Furious/Gunwalker scandal: "Why is it a 'scandal' at all? Don't cops run stings all the time?" I told him that unless he had at least a half-hour I would have to get back him. I then sat down and started really looking at everything and realized I should have told him an hour, at least.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">The facts: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed suspected <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_purchase#Firearms" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">straw buyers</a> to purchase hundreds (estimates I've seen range from a few hundred to over 2,300) of firearms from Federal Firearm Licensed dealers which were then sent to drug gangs in Mexico. These facts are not in dispute. Despite what you may have read in the mainstream media there was no 'botching' of the operation. It was never intended for the weapons to be traced past the border. There was no coordination with Mexican authorities, and even the US Embassy to Mexico and the ATF agents working there <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/26/nation/la-na-fast-furious-cable-20110726" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">were kept in the dark</a>. Operation Fast & Furious did exactly what it was intended to do: It funneled guns purchased from US gun dealers to the Mexican drug cartels.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Let's be honest though, the acquisition of a few hundred or even a few thousand semi-automatic rifles by the cartels is a drop in the bucket when compared to drug war/military aid and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500202_162-57337289/legal-u.s-gun-sales-to-mexico-arming-cartels/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">direct commercial sales</a> from the US o the Mexican government. Given that <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-11/world/mexico.desertions_1_desertions-drug-cartels-gulf-cartel?_s=PM:WORLD" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">150,000 soldiers deserted between 2002 and 2008</a> it is safe to assume that a whole bunch of military grade weapons went with them and that most of those weapons wound up in the hands of the cartels. No, what makes this a scandal are the program's motivations, the moral and legal questions (including the DoJ's lies and cover-up) surrounding allowing these firearms to be shipped the cartels, and the unintended consequences of the program.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Taking those items in reverse order, let's look first at the unintended consequences of the program (we'll address the question of whether they were, in fact, unintended in the motivations section). One consequence is the Fast & Furious weapons linked to the murders of two American LEOs, <a href="https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=ppwc&cp=15&gs_id=39&xhr=t&q=border+patrol+agent+brian+terry&fp=d429988194a50268" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry</a> in Arizona and <a href="https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=fast+and+furious+ice+agent+jaime+zapata&fp=d429988194a50268" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">I.C.E. Agent Jaime Zapata</a> in Mexico. At least two (and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20122000-10391695.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">possibly three</a>) weapons found at the Terry murder site were weapons which had been sold to a straw purchaser under the auspices of Fast & Furious and the straw buyer who purchased the weapon which killed Agent Zapata had been <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20126494-10391695/gun-buyer-linked-to-federal-agents-murder-to-plead-guilty/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">under surveillance by the ATF</a> from before that purchase was made.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Another consequence would be the <a href="http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/10/attorney-general-in-mexico-200-murders.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">200-plus murders</a> of Mexican citizens that are linked to Fast & Furious weapons and the dozen or so violent crimes in the US which have been linked to Fast & Furious weapons. In fact ten of Arizona's fifteen sheriffs<a href="http://cronkitenewsonline.com/2011/10/ten-arizona-sheriffs-call-for-special-counsel-to-probe-operation-fast-and-furious/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">have called for a special prosecutor</a> to investigate Attorney General Holder and any other administration officials who may have been involved. In an <a href="http://youtu.be/IC2C2lIwNSA" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN</a> Pinal County AZ Sheriff Paul Babeu stated:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #333333;">"</span><i><span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial;">I'm fearful, not just my deputies, other officers, citizens in America that we're going to be facing the barrels of guns that have been put in the hands of the most violent criminals in North America and who's going to be held accountable for this?</span></i><span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial;">" </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As for the moral question: What kind of myopic <em><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-style: normal;">microcephalic </span></em>moral <i>midget</i> thinks it is okay to ship thousands of weapons to people who are arguably the most vicious criminals in North America?!? Criminals who routinely kidnap, torture and kill <a href="http://newsflavor.com/world/latin-america/drug-cartels-have-killed-at-least-161-mexican-police-officers-who-worked-with-the-u-s/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">police</a>,<a href="http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/04/body-of-kidnapped-mexican-prosecutor.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">prosecutors</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/17/two-ak47s-used-to-murder-mexican-lawyer-were-fast-and-furious-guns-sources-say/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">family members of officials</a>, <a href="http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/08/mexico-journalist-killings-raise.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">journalists</a>, and even <i><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/bloggers-drug-cartels-mexico-censorship/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">bloggers</a></i>? Criminals who leave dismembered bodies hanging <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/mexican-cartels-hang-disembowel-internet-snitches/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">from overpasses</a> for morning commuters to enjoy? The leaders of the ATF, DoJ and other complicit alphabet agencies simply can not evade their moral responsibility for some of these atrocities regardless of whether the cartels could have gotten the weapons without the ATF's help. On top of that you have the moral question of ordering gun shop owners to <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/11/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110912" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">complete suspicious transactions</a>, assuring them that the guns they sell will be traced and interdicted while knowing that was a lie. How do you think the man who sold the guns that killed Brian Terry or Jaime Zapata felt when he found out <i>his</i> weapons were responsible for their deaths? How about the dealer who sold the two AK-47s <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/17/two-ak47s-used-to-murder-mexican-lawyer-were-fast-and-furious-guns-sources-say/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">implicated</a> in the kidnapping, extended torture and eventual murder of Mario Gonzalez Rodriguez?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Now the <i>legal</i> questions surrounding Fast & Furious are spreading like ripples on a pond that's been hit by an artillery shell. We have, hell, they're not even allegations anymore, we have hard evidence (five memos addressed to Holder, from July and August of 2010) that AG Holder lied under oath to Congress when he stated in May of 2011 that he only heard about the operation "over the last few weeks", and was still lying when he offered a corrective statement "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">I probably could have said a couple of months"</span>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We have evidence that the ATF and DoJ both deliberately gave false replies to Congressional inquiries. There are indications that, despite their denials, high level officials in the State Department and in the Department of Homeland Security were read-in on Fast & Furious, and the furious tap-dancing that Secretaries Clinton and Napolitano engaged in before Congress has only <a href="http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/unsatisfactory-fast-furious-answers-fuel-cover-up-beliefs" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">fueled speculation</a> that they did know about Fast & Furious and are trying to distance themselves as far as possible from its consequences. Leaders of these agencies have stonewalled, dodged and obfuscated in desperate attempts to cover-up their roles in all the deaths and crimes associated with Fast & Furious weapons, apparently oblivious to the fact that they are (supposedly) answerable to Congress.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As for President Obama, despite his claims to have known nothing about Fast & Furious until the spring of 2011, we have <a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/11/red-alert-deputy-ag-behind-fast-and.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">visitor logs from the White House</a> showing Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler visiting the President four times between May 7 and May 19 of <b>2010</b>, which is about two months after <i>he</i> was thoroughly briefed on Fast & Furious and about two months before what <i><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/08/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20111009" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">The Los Angeles Times</a></i> called "the height of Fast and Furious" during the summer of 2010. Even though DAG Grindler was a not infrequent visitor to the White House, out of the 40 visits he made, those were the only times he met directly with the President.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Committing perjury in furtherance of a cover-up (even if it was sufficient to bring down the Nixon administration) is the <i>least</i> of the crimes committed during Fast & Furious. As lawyer David Hardy <a href="http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2011/07/did_fast_furiou.php" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">points out</a> in his blog <i>Of Arms & the Law,</i> Fast & Furious violated 22 U.S.C. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">§ 2778, the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/22/2778.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">Arms Export Control Act</a>. Unless, that is, Secretary of State Clinton was lying about her knowledge of and involvement with Fast & Furious, because only she has the authority to issue the permit that DoJ and ATF would have required to lawfully walk guns across the border. Furthermore, as Hardy points out, all the supervisors and decision-makers up the chain of command would be liable un</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">der <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000002----000-.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">18 U.S. C. §2</a> as 'principals' to the criminal act. The penalty (for both actors and principals) for violating the Act is a prison term not to exceed ten years, a fine not to exceed $1,000,000, or both, <i>for each violation</i>. Let's see now, 2,000 weapons is 2,000 violations . . . umm, carry the two, so that would be a prison term not to exceed twenty <i>thousand</i> years and/or a fine not to exceed two <i>billion</i> dollars for each and every bureaucrat involved, all the way up the chain to . . . acting ATF head Kenneth E. <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Melson?</span> </em>Attorney General Holder? President Obama? Thus it does become important to find out what each of these individuals knew and when they knew it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In addition to the Arms Control Export Act, James Stinebower (Former Navy Intelligence Officer, Professional Staff Member to the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Naval Attaché) <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-justice-dept-violated-us-laws/?singlepage=true" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">writes</a> that Fast & Furious almost certainly violated both <span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial;">the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_50_00001701----000-.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">50 U.S.C. § 1701</a>) and the Kingpin Act (<a href="http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/21/24" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">21 U.S.C. §§ 1901-08</a>), which was an extension of the IEEPA. Mr. Stinebower is in a position to speak authoritatively on this since he helped write the Kingpin Act. Furthermore the IEEPA explicitly applies to U.S. Government departments and agencies and permits no exceptions for law enforcement operations unless, prior to initiating Fast & Furious, AG Holder obtained a waiver from the Secretary of the Treasury, authorizing the op. Since Holder claims not to have even known about </span>Fast & Furious <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">until the spring of 2011 it will be rather difficult for him to now say he got the authorization.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On top of perjury and violations of the Trading with the Enemy Act, Sheriff Babeu pointed out in an interview with Fox-TV: <i>"<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">If somebody gives a gun to somebody knowing they’re going to commit murder, guess what we call them? We call them accomplices."</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> Indeed officials in the Mexican Government have <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/05/mexican-lawmakers-want-extradition-for-us-officials-responsible-for-botched/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">called for the extradition</a> of any ATF and DoJ officials who authorized or participated in </span>Fast & Furious<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">. Mexican </span>Senator Santiago Creel, the likely successor to President Calderone, suggested that officials should be tried in both the US and Mexico, stating "<i><span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial;">What can't happen is that this now ends on an administrative sanction, or a resignation. No, no, no. Human lives were lost here</span>.</i>" While some might think this is an overreaction, <span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial;">Fox News commentator William Lajeunesse <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/07/05/video-mexican-officials-want-fast-furious-officials-extradited-for-trial/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">made the comparison</a> of what the </span><span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial;">US</span><span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial;"> would do if we discovered that officials of the Mexican government had enabled and permitted thousands of kilos of pure cocaine to cross into our country, resulting in hundreds of deaths of our citizens. I think calling for extradition and prosecution of the officials responsible would be the <i>mildest</i> of our reactions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Now we come to the real meat of Operation Fast & Furious: what possibly could have motivated agencies of the United States Government engage in these activities? According to <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/17/nation/la-na-cartel-guns-20110717" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">an article</a> in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">"'Operation Fast and Furious was conceived to get some of the bigger fish down there,' said one official close to the congressional investigation</span>" and according to this story from CNN "<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">the ATF allowed people suspected of being straw-purchasers of weapons to sell their weapons, hoping to build bigger cases against Mexican criminal organizations." The only problem with this official story is how in Hades was it supposed to work? <i>National Gun Rights Examiner</i> David Codrea (one of the two men most responsible for bringing this story to light, the other being <i><a href="http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">Sipsey Street Irregular</a></i> blogger Mike Vanderboegh) explains it <a href="http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/project-gunwalker-becoming-a-major-scandal" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">this way</a>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; background-image: initial;">"You don’t let thousands of guns escape into the wild, totally losing control of them, and knowing they will be found at crime scenes and traced back to U.S. gun stores, and then think that following a trail between a small-level buyer and a smaller-level user is going to lead you to the crime lord."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Indeed, the official story reminds me of nothing so much as the S. Harris <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpallan/4633000725/lightbox/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">'then a miracle occurs'</a> cartoon, and like the senior mathematician in the cartoon we should all be saying to the ATF "I think you should be more explicit here in step two."</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff3db; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So if the official motivation is just plain silly, then why do it? There a several different theories floating around the internet, and like so many internet theories some are less plausible than others. One I would call the least plausible is that this was actually a CIA operation to strengthen the Sinaloa cartel because they were afraid <i>Los Zetas</i> were getting strong enough to actually topple the Mexican government. Left unexplained by that particular theory is why the CIA would choose to buy semi-auto rifles from border gun stores.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To my mind the most plausible theory is one being loudly derided by the antis as nothing more than paranoia: Operation Fast & Furious was launched to boost the ATF's statistics showing that an "iron river" of US guns was flowing into Mexico. This would then provide the Obama administration with the pretext they needed to tighten US gun control laws. Before my gentle readers accuse me of paranoia, let me point out that the "iron river" argument has <i>already</i> been used to <a href="http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/atf-multiple-long-gun-reporting-forms-sent-to-ffls" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">tighten gun sales regulations</a> in the states bordering Mexico and that Operation Fast & Furious itself has been used by Senator Feinstein to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/01/sen-feinstein-lax-gun-control-is-real-problem-with-fast-and-furious/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">call for</a> strengthening the ATF and stricter gun control laws. Also you can look back to before Fast & Furious hit the news and see the coordinated effort by the Obama and Calderone administrations to push for more gun control. By repeating <a href="http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/do-90-of-mexican-crime-guns-come-from-u-s" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">the lie that 90% </a>of Mexico's crime guns came from the US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/06/18-15" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">over</a> and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/18/report-doing-gunrunning/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">over</a> and <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/06/18/us-usa-mexico-guns-idUKTRE55H6FS20090618" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">over</a> and <i><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/19/obama-repeats-percent-stat-guns-recovered-mexico/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">over</a></i> and <b><i><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4937389-503544.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">over</a></i></b> the stage was being set to <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-16/politics/obama.latin.america_1_assault-weapons-drug-violence-illegal-immigrants?_s=PM:POLITICS" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">push</a> for<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1#.Tt9YNtSiG5I" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">passage</a> of a new Assault Weapons Ban. Yes it was called a renewal, but the <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6257/show" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">proposed legislation</a> was much stricter in its definitions and increased hugely the number of weapons that would be affected. Only in the face of strenuous opposition and the collapse of the 90% lie did Obama <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4951112-503544.html" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">cease his efforts</a> to get a new ban.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Operation Fast & Furious provides an almost textbook example of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">banality of evil</a>, and those who came up with the idea, the supervisors who implemented the plan and quashed dissent on the part of the street level agents need to go to prison. Period.</div>Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364621792193953329.post-77367442846117739372011-12-06T14:51:00.000-06:002011-12-06T19:26:00.184-06:00This Guy Don't Know From DepravityPosted at <a href=http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/12/daniel-zimmerman/jay-bookman-dont-know-from-depravity/ target=new>The Truth About Guns</a>.Bruce Kraffthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06335335927366243101noreply@blogger.com0