For When Words Fail

From OKC Police: Meth-Smoking Mom Delays Abused Child's Medical Care, June 23, 2011:

Police collected evidence from the LaQuinta Inn after the toddler was taken to Children's Hospital.

Police said the child had numerous bruises and an injury on the base of his skull.

A family member said the boy had lye burns on his throat, face and eyes, signs of sexual abuse, bleach poisoning, and at one point, was hanging from a ceiling with a dog collar.

From OKC Drug Addicts Prostitute Toddler For Meth, June 24, 2011:

She has been accused of allowing two men to rape and abuse a 3-year-old boy in exchange for drugs.

From London protesters: 'Behead those who insult prophet', February 3, 2006:

Placards calling for anyone who insults the prophet Mohammed to be beheaded have been waved during an angry protest outside the Danish Embassy in London.

Surah 2:191:

And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.

Surah 9:5:

So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

From Dad kills 20-yr-old for talking to boyfriend on cellphone, June 3, 2011:

The girl's boyfriend has her heart-rending screams recorded on his cellphone. However, he could not muster the courage to approach police.

From Luby's Massacre Remains Among Nation's Worst Mass Shootings, April 16, 2007:

(April 16, 2007)—Fifteen years ago last October, 35-year-old George Hennard of Belton drove his pickup truck through the widow of the Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, got out and opened fire on 80 terrified noon-hour diners with a pair of semi-automatic pistols.

Armed with a Glock 17 and a Ruger P-89, Hennard worked his way methodically through the restaurant, sparing some and killing others.

The gunfire continued for an agonizing ten minutes until four police officers arrived and opened fire on the gunman, leaving him wounded and cornered.

For people who can be reasoned with, there are words;
for people who can't, there's Smith & Wesson...

and Kalashnikov.

(With this post, I begin a new label: Firearm Ownership.)