Saturday, October 14, 2006

Methinks Bob Ricker Doth Protest Too Much

I'm the Executive Director of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA)and AHSA has neither fequested [sic] nor received funding from the Joyce Foundation. You need to check your facts and not just regurgitate NRA lies!
Posted by: Bob Ricker at October 13, 2006 03:26 PM
Yeah, Bob, I'm sure you're an expert at detecting regurgitated lies.

Also see: "Beware of Moles"

[Via SayUncle]

We're the Only Ones Exempt Enough

Mayor Miron wouldn't tell us if he had his gun with him during the interview today, but he says it shouldn't matter. He's experienced, he's licensed, and he says carrying his gun around town hall is perfectly legal...

[B]ecause town hall is across the street from the high school it's technically in a school zone, which could be a problem. But the town charter makes the mayor the chief law enforcement officer, so he says he would be exempt.

Talking about protecting himself and others notwithstanding, the guy lost me the minute he started waving licenses around, and judging by the comments from some of the citizens, I have no sympathy for them. But I'm exempt because I'm the Only One? I guess we'd better start calling the mayor "Your Lordship."

NOTE: I had problems viewing the story's accompanying video using Firefox, but was able to watch it using IE.

We're the Only Ones Combating Crime Enough

Police in Cape Town have opened a murder docket after a police inspector allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend at her flat in Worcester in the Boland.

[A] police spokesperson, says the on-duty policeman who works for the crime combating unit, then drove two kilometres away from the scene, and shot himself with his service pistol.

Just think how much worse things would have been had non-Only Ones been armed.

Physicians Heal Thyselves

Dr. Bruce Barker, a 50-year-old physician for Kaiser Permanente, was the key witness in the trial of Marvin Washington, who was accused of illegally possessing a gun outside the Holly Courts public housing project, where he lived, in San Francisco.

Barker testified that he had been at the housing project on the afternoon that Washington was arrested, and had seen a cellular phone -- not a gun -- in his right hand. But prosecutors said the story was impossible...

Prosecutors said a housing project security officer had reported hearing gunshots at about 5 p.m. and had seen Washington running with a gun toward the office...

A doctor working for Kaiser Permanente helping to cover up a "gun crime"? Not the same Kaiser Permanente that gets awards from Women Against Gun Violence?

It's Those "Other Purposes"

On Sept. 28, key rights guaranteed by our Constitution, plus the central tenet of the Magna Carta, were nullified by an act of Congress – specifically, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, "to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes." It's those "other purposes" you have to watch out for.
Theoretical question: If guns are banned and confiscation begins, and some Americans engage in coordinated defiance and resistance, will they be classified "unlawful enemy combatants"...?

[Via Stieger]

Campus RKBA Roundup #3

With all the furor going on in America's Dairyland over a proposed measure to make their schools less of a target for the disaffected and disturbed, I bring to you this week's Campus RKBA Roundup...

The Mad Hatter presents "The Cheesehead Edition."

This Day in History: October 14

In the early morning hours of October 14, 1780, a contingent of approximately 350 Patriot troops from the North Carolina and Virginia militias engages a group of British Loyalists, numbering between 400 and 900, at the Shallow Ford crossing of the Yadkin River in North Carolina.