"How does it feel to get robbed with your own gun?" There is one Washington resident who can answer that question.

Courtesy of KOMO News:

A local man was robbed by an acquaintance with his own gun while trying to sell it to a friend of the acquaintance earlier this month in Mukilteo, according to the Mukilteo Police Department. 

According to police, the victim took a ferry to Mukilteo with a 21-year-old acquaintance from Oak Harbor, who happens to be a convicted felon, in order to sell a gun to a friend of the acquaintance. 

The victim and acquaintance met the buyer, a 23-year-old Everett resident, in a parking lot near the ferry, and the buyer agreed to purchase the gun for $1,000, according to police. 

All three men decided to go to the buyer's apartment so the victim could show him how to clean and reassemble the gun. On the way, the acquaintance reportedly put a live round into the gun's chamber and pointed it at the victim's head. 

According to police, the acquaintance asked the victim, "How does it feel to get robbed with your own gun?"

The other two men then took the victim's cell phone and kicked him out of the car before warning him not to call the cops.  

Damn if only the good guy with the gun had not sold the gun to the bad guy, making him a bad guy with a gun, who then used it to rob the good guy, now without a gun, of all of his stuff.

You know it is almost as if guns place too much power in the hands of people who should not have such power, and allows them to then victimize others who would usually feel safe from such aggression.

But hey, we're the greatest country on earth and according to the NRA the 2nd Amendment keeps it that way, so that's just silly talk. Right?

Right?

Official U.S. to Allow Gay Soldiers

Gay Soldiers

WASHINGTON - The United States military (U.S.) officially opened for another. Yesterday (22/12), President Barack Obama signed the bill (bill) which contains a lift restrictions on gays and lesbians in the military. With the inclusion of 49-year leader's signature, the official bill becomes law.

The first time gays and lesbians can devote ourselves to the states Uncle Sam's military, particularly Army (AD), with the open. Yesterday a number of gay activists and Democrats witnessed the signing of the historic. White House deliberately rented a large hall in the Office of the Ministry of the Interior.

"The day has arrived!" exclaimed Mike Almy, as quoted by the Associated Press. Men rank of major Air Force (AU) was fired four years ago after the discovery of orientation differences. He welcomed the ratification of the Act which marks the end of the DADT policy, alias Don 't Ask, Don' t Tell (do not ask, do not say) that. Now he and his men could re-join the military. This time without having to hide their identity.

New York Will Lose Two House Seats, and New Jersey One

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

WASHINGTON — New York will lose 2 of its 29 seats in the House, while New Jersey will lose 1 of its 13 seats, because of population shifts reported by the Census Bureau on Tuesday. 

The last time New York had 27 House seats was in the early 1820s, when the chamber had 181 seats. 

The census figures usher in a once-a-decade process in which state legislatures must redraw boundaries for Congressional districts on the basis of population changes. There are 435 seats in the House. 

Redistricting is a highly political exercise in which House members count on old friendships, alliances, favors and lobbyists as they seek to persuade leaders in state capitols to keep their districts relatively unchanged to ensure their re-election.