#Gunmen

[rayz-gamma]

(GURREN LAGANN) 2007

One of my favorite top 10 mecha anime series despite it's short run compared to other series like Gundam and it's decades long pedigree. This series caught me by surprise and never disappointed when it released in america.

[jeydeearr]

"The Assassin, Sweeper, and Marksman"

Day 17 of drawing whatever the hell I want because this year's Inktober prompts suck.

[brunnerman59]

[loiterer87]

Finished this at three in the morning, because of work. Bleh. Anyway, day late but let's talk about Orden Ogan and their immortal mascot, Alister Vale! 

A German Power Metal band formed in 1996 by two guys named Sebastian. The name meaning The Order Of Fear using the German 'Orden' and the old Celtic word for 'fear'. The band's albums all follow a loose concept about Alister Vale, a cursed immortal throughout the ages.

Here, I've done Alister during his time in the Old West, chronicled in the 2017 album, Gunmen. Power metal with an old western kick? Why not! Other timelines explored have included a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter and a science fiction dystopia where ai wipes out most of humanity. So fun subjects then... 

I've also heard they've got a couple of comics out about Alister and his travels, so I may have to track them down...

[trioxina245]

Iron Horse Gunsmoke, paperback cover by Victor Prezio, 1965

[viagginterstellari]

Dallol, 2018

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The district recreation club was the social center for the slum boys what the Y. M. C. A. was to their fellows at a slightly higher level of the social structure. At the age of fourteen, Williams was as tall and strong as most boys of sixteen or eighteen; and because of his fistic powers and general toughness was soon on terms of intimacy with members of the notorious Tanner Smith mob, which was then staging its last fight for control of the district (they lost out to the equally notorious Madden mob, which still controls that and other districts of the city). With other members of the mob, Williams took part in the various gangster activities; robbing freight cars, wharves, warehouses; exacting financial tributes from local store owners whom they terrorized with threats of bombing and other atrocities; but mainly in voting illegally and terrorizing non-Tammany voters on election day; and at other times terrorizing strikers or their employers (whichever side paid the most), and fighting with and raiding the headquarters of the Madden mob. Williams proved a valuable recruit and was soon as dangerous and skillful with a knife, club, or gun as he was with his clever fists.

Gradually he began going in with other gangsters for the more remunerative crimes (pay-roll robberies, safe-cracking, hold-ups, and the like); and before he was eighteen Williams was "keeping" a girl in a Broadway apartment and getting initiated into the night life of the city. His mother and sisters remained at the old home on West 49th Street, but Williams did not neglect them. He had long ago dropped even the pretence of legitimate work; but he contributed regularly and generously to the support of his mother and sisters and visited them almost daily.

Before he was twenty, Williams had been arrested a dozen times as a suspect in the various gangster killings and other activities of the city; but never did he serve a day in prison after appearing in court. The usual procedure (which the gangsters themselves preferred to formal arraignment and trial) was as follows: after a killing or robbery, the detectives would arrest and bring to headquarters any gangsters whom they could find, subject them to an intensive third degree (often beating them unmercifully), and then turn them loose when the beatings had failed to elicit evidence connecting them with the crime in question.

This was all a part of the regular routine of Williams's life; and while he took it as a matter of course, he had seen so much of corruption among detectives, district attorneys, and even judges that he came to have a strong hatred for representatives of law and order. Wise to the ways of the under-world, a shrewd and clever criminal who never worked except after laying carefully-thought-out plans, it was not until Williams tried to operate in a strange city, with gangsters he did not know, that he got into serious trouble.

In 1918, at the age of twenty, he was asked to come to Boston with three other gangsters to steal the pay roll of a large corporation. It was to be the Christmas pay roll, estimated at $60,000. Through some carelessness of the local tipsters, the information was inaccurate; so that Williams got only a comparatively small pay roll of $15,000, in the seizing of which he shot an armed guard who attempted to draw his gun. Because of the shooting (although the guard did not die for two years) and because of the prestige of the corporation, there was a great hue and cry about the crime. One of the Boston gangsters was arrested on suspicion.

Fearing a long prison term for himself, he implicated Williams and three other men. In spite of this, it is doubtful that Williams could have been convicted. The books of a New York firm of longshoremen showed that Williams and his pals had been working in New York on the day of the robbery! Thus did Williams plan his crimes before he went to work. But the man who had implicated him was persuaded to turn state's evidence; so, in spite of the efforts of a former district attorney, who had been paid a retainer of $3,000 to "fix" the case, Williams and his pals were given ten to fifteen-year terms in the state prison (the crooked ex-district attorney, by the way, was later disbarred and sent to prison at the time when two other district attorneys were disbarred and removed from office). The informer, as it happens, was killed within a few months.

Williams, as I came to know him in the prison, was in many ways a fine character. He was entirely reliable and honest with his friends, deceitful and treacherous with his enemies, and utterly without fear. He would never steal or harm poor people; he would select his victims solely from among the moneyed classes. From one point of view I have always found certain gangsters to be, on the whole, the very highest type of criminal. Although there are many hangers-on of a much lower grade in gang circles, the real gangster is in many ways a fellow who lives strictly up to a stern though predatory code of his own. I liked Williams, personally, better than any other criminal I have ever known.

But he was definitely antisocial in his attitude toward law and order and reformation. While he would admit the theoretical necessity of laws and policemen, he had seen so much of corruption in the ranks of law-enforcement officials that he knew himself to be no worse than many of these, and far better than some. He took the cynical attitude. "What the hell," he would say. "Everybody's out for the money. Get it, long as you don't have to take it from some poor bastard that can't afford to lose it. But get it. Once you've got it, nobody cares ---- where you got it."

When he left prison, after serving a little more than nine years, he merely became more cautious, going in for the bootleg and night-club racketeering which had developed during his years in prison. I met him in New York in the autumn of 1931. We were discussing the state of affairs in regard to unemployment and the slackness in racketeering profits. "It's pretty tough," said Williams. "I've got my apartment and my mother's home to keep up. My two sisters are married and their husbands haven't had work for months. There's not much money in the rackets, the way things are nowadays." I asked him, in view of this, how he was able to keep up his own establishment and his mother's and also help his sisters keep alive during the current depression.

"There's only one thing to do," said Williams. "I'm doing it, and so is almost every one I know. Grab a gun and go out and steal!" In his various attitudes and general character, Williams was typical of his kind of criminal.

- Victor F. Nelson, Prison Days and Nights. Second edition. With an introduction by Abraham Myerson, M.D. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1936. p. 85-88.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Beheaded gunmen and fishermen displayed in Hanoi, northern Vietnam

French vintage postcard

[1five1two]

'The Watchers'. Eric Bowman.

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Patrick 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

July 13,1940

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

13 Luglio 1940

[gurutrends]

JUST IN: Gunmen Attack Herders in Plateau State, Kill Several Cattle

JUST IN: Gunmen Attack Herders in Plateau State, Kill Several Cattle The Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Ibrahim Babayo Yusuf, reported that the attackers stormed the area and opened fire indiscriminately, forcing the herders to flee and abandon their cattle. Yusuf said the incident had been reported to Operation Safe Haven, the security outfit in…

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[rightnewshindi]

भाजपा विधायक ने लौटाए दोनों गनर, मोबाइल फोन किया बंद, अधिकारियों में मचा हड़कंप; जानें पूरा मामला

भाजपा विधायक ने लौटाए दोनों गनर, मोबाइल फोन किया बंद, अधिकारियों में मचा हड़कंप; जानें पूरा मामला #UPNews

Uttar Pradesh News: नौ अक्टूबर को लखीमपुर में हुई मारपीट में ऐक्शन न होने से नाराज भाजपा विधायक योगेश वर्मा ने सुरक्षा में बढ़ाए गए दो गनरों को वापस लौटा दिया��� पुलिस अफसरों को इसकी जानकारी मिली तो हड़कंप मच गया। अधिकारियों ने गनर को फिर वापस विधायक के पास भेज दिया है। अधिकारी विधायक को मनाने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं। उधर विधायक का फोन बंद है। वह अधिकारियों से नहीं मिल रहे हैं। बीते बुधवार को अर्बन…

[head-post]

Gunmen killed 20 miners in Balochistan

Attackers stormed a coal mine in Balochistan province and surrounded the workers before opening fire, according to Pakistani police.

Militants killed 20 miners and wounded seven others in an attack on a small private coal mine in southwestern Pakistan late Thursday night, police official Humayun Khan Nasir reported.

A group of armed men attacked the Junaid Coal company mines in the Duki area in the wee hours using heavy weapons.

The attack took place east of the city of Quetta, the capital of the troubled Balochistan province. The perpetrators also fired rockets and grenades at the mines.

Balochistan, Pakistan’s southwestern province bordering Afghanistan and Iran, is the country’s poorest and least populated province. Rebel groups waged a separatist insurgency there for decades, complaining that Islamabad and the richer Punjab province were unfairly exploiting their resources.

The Pakistani government also tried to use military force to end the insurgency.

The Interior Ministry this week warned the country’s four provinces to step up security measures. Separatist groups and the Pakistani Taliban could be planning attacks in the region, according to the report.

The warning came as Pakistan is set to host the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summit in the capital Islamabad next week. Senior Chinese representatives will also attend.

Read more HERE

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"“THE FUTILITY OF CRIME"," Toronto Star Weekly. May 28, 1938. Page 50. ---- W HEN THOMAS "SHORTY" BRYANS is hanged June 30 for the murder of Norman Ford, Canadian police will write "finis" they hope to the most amazing saga of crime in the history of the Dominion's desperadoes… the story of the "Red Ryan gang."

Only one member of that reckless band of bank-robbers which Norman Ryan led "over the wall" of Kingston penitentiary in one of the most daring jail-breaks on record is still at large, and he, police, say, is going straight.

Edward "Wyoming" McMullen was shot at Blaine when he was "wanted" by Ontario police for the murder of Edward Stonehouse of Markham. Andrew Sullivan was shot and killed in Minneapolis. Red Ryan was shot and killed with Harry Checkley in Sarnia. Bryans was released from Kingston penitentiary May, 1937. Nine months later he was convicted of the murder for which he is under sentence of death.

When Ryan died in a liquor store he had tried to hold up in Sarnia, he had just unwittingly written the epitaphs of all of his gang in a book he titled: "The Futility of Crime."

NORMAN RYAN Killed at Sarnia

ANDREW SULLIVAN Killed at Minneapolis

HARRY CHECKLEY Killed at Sarnia

EDWARD MCMULLEN Killed in Blaine

THOMAS BRYANS Sentenced to hang

[theafricanmedia]

Gunmen kill one, abduct two in Nasarawa http://dlvr.it/TCRgKJ