Random Nuclear Strikes

Back with some more info on the weekend happening at the Tacoma Mall.

To start, it has been released that Maldonado called the local 911 call center on his cell phone right before entering the mall and opening fire. After telling the call receiver what he was going to do, they asked where he was going to do this, he replied

“Just follow the screams�

In contrast to all this, the now inmate Maldonado says that he didn’t mean to shoot anyone and was surprised when he was told that he actually hit six people.

Maldonado has been charged with four counts of kidnapping and eight counts of first-degree assault, instead of what I would think would be more appropriate attempted murder, and is being held on $2 Million bail.

According to a Farnham’s Quips link I found at the Heartless Libertarian’s place (he also has some more links on the story), it has been confirmed that Maldonado did have an AK but started firing with a badly maintained 9mm CZ pistol and switched to the AK only after a very brave individual attempted to stop him with physical force and was shot four times by Maldonado and the CZ malfunctioned.

The man who attempted to disarm Maldonado is the person who is in critical condition at a local hospital.

It is unconfirmed whether Maldonado actually hit anyone with rounds from the AK.
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The willfully ignorant enviro-nuts have been complaining about the numbers of salmon either staying stagnant or decreasing, depending on the location under observation.

They’d like to blame it on the damming of rivers or commercial fishing operations, but there is an answer to the problem that they don’t want to add to the equation,

Hunters in the U.S. Northwest used to slaughter sea lions, sometimes with machine guns, to sell to glue factories or to send their dried penises to China as an aphrodisiac.

That changed when Congress passed the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act outlawing the hunting or exporting of California sea lions and harbor seals. Since then, the number of sea lions on the U.S. West Coast where they live have climbed nearly 60 percent to about 300,000, according to the National Marine Fishery Service. Harbor seals are also more numerous

While individual sea lions and seals don’t take as many fish as a commercial operation, they absolutely take more than any private fisherman is allowed to, and when you have over a quarter-million of the animals eating half their weight in salmon every day, it has a tendency to add up, or should I say, subtract from the numbers of returning fish, especially when the predators don’t go after the ‘sick and weak’ but the prime adults.

Both the enviros and the state and federal Depts. Of Fish and Game refuse to acknowledge this or even consider that maybe, we should look at hunting these animals again, now that their numbers are up.