Man decapitates passenger aboard Greyhound bus in Manitoba

Grisly:

Garnet Caton, who was sitting in the seat in front of the victim, said he saw the attacker stab his seatmate, a young man sleeping with his headphones on.

Caton said he heard a “blood-curdling scream” and turned around to see the attacker holding a large “Rambo” hunting knife above the victim, “continually stabbing him in the chest area.”

“He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times,” said Caton.

“Like, just everywhere, arms, legs, neck, chest, guts, wherever he could swing it, he got it,” said Olmstead.

“It looked kind of like a scuffle or an argument, you know, and then somebody’s, like, ‘Knife! Knife! Run!’ so I was running up the alleyway, slapping people telling them to get going, move, get off the bus. I got pushed over, some lady got pushed over, I was just making sure everybody was OK, and we all got off the bus,” said Olmstead

As panicked passengers fled the bus, “the attacker was over top of the victim … continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point,” Caton said.

Even more grisly:

“When we came back on the bus, it was visible at the end of the bus he was cutting the guy’s head off and pretty much gutting him up,” said Caton.

The attacker ran at them, Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut as he tried to slash at the trio.

When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle, Caton said.

“While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us,” said Caton.

Police arrived “about 10 minutes after the attack began.”

The A-Team has the best of both worlds: Lots of evil fully-auto weapons AND no one ever gets hurt.

In case you haven’t heard, Kim Du Toit is giving up blogging effective the end of November.

I’m going back to the farm, metaphorically speaking.

Man Shoots Mountain Lion

A late report of a mountain lion that was treed by a rancher’s dog and shot near Oral, in far southwestern South Dakota.

The incident took place July 17 when Alan Burg was about to start his pickup and go to work.

After spotting the lion in a tree near his house, Burg shot it with a rifle.

I’ve been pointing out mountain lion incidents for years.

Noted some time back:

A hiker in Southern California used a rock to fend off a mountain lion that was attacking his son. Others have fought back successfully with sticks, caps, jackets, garden tools and their bare hands.

Rocks, sticks, jackets. As I said in January, that’s not fighting back. That’s desperation. Carry a gun, friend.

Unfair to use a gun on a mountain lion? Exactly.

Mexico’s drug cartels target bystanders: In Sinaloa, carnage brings widespread terror

The killings here — a massacre of eight people who were not suspected of drug-trafficking ties — punctuated a vicious turn in Mexico’s drug war, a savage conflict between rival cartels and the federal government that has taken more than 7,000 lives in the past 2 1/2 years.

In the past, cartels have killed their rivals, as well as police and public officials. Occasionally even family members have been slain. Yet in recent weeks, an increasing number of innocent bystanders have been gunned down by suspected drug cartel hit men here in Sinaloa, a cartel stronghold on Mexico’s Pacific coast, as well as in the brutally contested drug corridors along the U.S. border.

The drug-related violence near the US border is getting worse, but I fear it’s really only beginning. As it grows, we’ll be seeing more of it spill over onto our side of the line, and we’ll be hearing more about how US guns are creating the carnage.

Then there’s

Three days before the massacre in this town, cartel assassins killed 11 people in three daylight shootouts in Culiacan. Among the victims were two college professors who had the misfortune to be waiting in a car repair shop when the shooting started. Cartel members also are blamed for holding hostage dozens of customers in a Mazatlan shopping center and firing bazookas into a Culiacan neighborhood, though no civilians were killed. [emphasis Murdoc's]

Bazookas? Did those also come from the States?

Obviously someone worth listening to:

I mean, you’ve got to be some kind of fucking idiot to read my original post and decide you can demand open discussion and tolerance.

And he deletes the comments he doesn’t like. Whaah.

I wish we could get more people aware of guys like this. He does more to hurt his cause in a few sentences than a legion of gunbloggers could in a year.

Via Uncle. Sebastian has a screenshot of the deleted comments.

Who looks like they’re “playing dumb”?

Juneau man shoots bear who enters home

A Juneau man shot and injured a bear who he says had entered his residence.

Local police haven’t identified him.

They say the man shot the bear in the face with a .45 semiautomatic handgun.

Officers have been unable to locate the injured bear.

Deveoping: At least 7 people injured by gunfire in church

WEST KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – At least seven people were injured Sunday morning, two seriously, when a man opened fire inside a church in West Knoxville Sunday morning, according to NBC affiliate WBIR-TV.

The shootings happened at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church on Kingston Pike. One witness said police had arrived and the suspected gunman was in custody, according to WBIR-TV. Church members told the television station they did not know the man or his connection, if any, with the church or its members.

Some guy apparently entered the church during a children’s presentation of “Annie” and opened fire with a shotgun. No kids are believed to have been hit.

There is little in the way of official news on this so far.

Chicago continues to enforce gun ban
Says court ruling doesn’t apply…I think they’ll learn that the US Constitution applies to Chicago, too. And when they do it will probably set a precedent that underscores the Heller ruling better than anything the NRA could do.

Second Amendment News Roundup
Liberty Sphere’s always-excellent linkfest.

Legally owned (but illegally held) firearms to be destroyed
Police agreed to temporarily hold firearms for safekeeping, refuse to return them.

It’s the 1930s All Over Again?
Why is it always the 1930s? If it’s not the Great Depression it’s the Gestapo. In both cases, of course, not so much.

Crushing dissent
Boy, don’t give public officials in New Hampshire dirty looks.

I’ve heard of lazy, but damn
Washington state Democratic congressional candidate sends body doubles to public appearances.

Here’s a tip for all the ‘progressives’ out there
So many don’t understand that racism works both ways.

Arkansas Recalls License Plates
Apparently the letter combination of ‘NGR’ on a license plate is offensive.

Gun owners show their metal: About 40 stroll for 2nd Amendment
If I had known about this I might have joined. The article points out that they were “mostly white men.”

I’m Glad They Arrested This Monster!
Rampaging 10-year-old with a bean shooter apprehended and charged with assault.

Here are six reasons I’m wary of gun buybacks
Eric Zorn on tomorrow’s scheduled buyback in Chicago.

McCain Sleight on Assault Weapons
Apparently McCain voted for the eventual passage of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act after it had the assault weapons language attached to it.

Texas Students Joining Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
Chapters at 24 institutions and 150 members

Friday Linkzookery
More links at Murdoc Online

I’ll finish today’s Great Britain triple header (see the earlier stories here and here) with one that should make us feel a bit better about things across the pond:

War veteran, 88, foiled knife-wielding intruder by grabbing him and forcing him out of his home

Threatened by a knife-wielding junkie who burst into his home and demanded money, 88-year-old war veteran Jan Babik did not flinch.

Instead, the steely pensioner responded by grabbing the raider, trying to shake some sense into him and then chasing him out of his home.

Babik was born in Poland, captured by the Soviets, and sent to England in 1941 as part of the amnesty after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war. He served as an RAF radio operator during the war.

He said the intruder “wasn’t a very athletic man.”

That’s awesome.