Boxer Tactical Daily Digest: A Guardian Epiphany, a DHS Breach and a Confession of Hoplophobia

The uncomfortable truth about gun rights supporters – sometimes they are right – Particularly uncomfortable given the source – the UK’s left-of-Bernie Guardian newspaper. “But these numbers have to be put in context. The number of self-defensive gun uses each year is fiercely debated, and the estimates vary widely. But there are roughly 300 million guns in civilian hands. Set 30,000 gun deaths, or even 500,000 gun victimizations, against 300 million. As incomplete and imprecise as much gun data is, the bigger picture is clear: most guns are not being used in crimes. Most gun owners are not committing crimes.” You know that had to hurt when she wrote that.

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Homeland Security employee caught with gun, knife at agency headquarters, officials say – “Jonathan Wienke, and analyst in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, allegedly carried the weapons into the building on the morning of June 9. Court documents filed by the federal government state that investigators have probable cause to believe Wienke ‘was conspiring with another to commit workplace violence, and more particularly may have been conspiring or planning to commit violence against senior DHS officials in the building.'” Hmm. He could have been planning a man-caused disaster.

Union Chief Calls For More ‘Militarization’ Of Local Police In Wake Of Mass Shootings – “’Critics questioned whether the responses using such equipment ‘seemed’ heavy-handed and whether the Pentagon should continue providing surplus gear to local police departments for free,’ Hofstetter said. ‘The mass murder in Orlando, San Bernardino, and other incidents where local police had to engage and trade gunfire with heavily armed suspects should put a rest to those criticisms.'”

Equal-Opportunity Bullets – “I have a confession. I hate all guns. I hate every gun from an AR-15 to a B.B. gun to a SuperSoaker. I have even grown a slight disdain for my once-favorite video games like ‘Call of Duty’ or ‘Goldeneye.’ I am well aware that I’m an anomaly or a glitch in the Matrix. America’s “gun freedom” is worshiped and has become synonymous with other ‘freedom’ propaganda like ‘religious freedom.'” It takes real chutzpah to put scare quotes around ‘freedom’ and ‘religious freedom’ but Mr. McLemore’s more than up to the task. 

Second bear hunt could be approved today – “Bears are amazingly tolerant and shy around people for the most part,” said Thomas Eason, (Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission) director of habitat and species conservation. ‘It’s when food becomes readily available (that) they get lured into human use areas. First they show up as sightings and they stay in that area because they’re being rewarded.’ The state has been getting more than 6,000 bear calls a year recently, compared to a few hundred calls a year a decade ago.”