Monday, April 02, 2007

Shameless Plug: Stand Free or Crouch in Servitude

Or what if I’m one of those policemen Commissioner Kelly doesn’t trust? What if I have no probable cause for a search warrant but I don’t want to let the Fourth Amendment get in my way any more than the Second does in NYC? Why not just call in the tip myself, and enjoy a toll-free bypass around the Constitution?

"Stand Free or Crouch in Servitude" is a rebuttal to the anonymous "gun tip" program endorsed by New York Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch, and my Rights Watch entry for the May 2007 issue of GUNS Magazine, on sale now at upright newsstands throughout the Republic.

BONUS: See page 84 to find out how you can win a Taurus PT 1911, Galco holster and Tops Thunder Hawke knife.

You Can Concealed Carry and You Can Open Carry, But...

A Sandusky man was charged with improper handling of a firearm even though he had a license to carry it...He was reportedly seen carrying his hand gun in his front pants pocket, even though he said he was trying to keep it out of sight.

I don't get what the "crime" is here. He can argue that he placed the gun on the dashboard to comply with the arrest by voluntarily disarming. And I love the way the "authorized journalist" describes the arrest protocol as "asking him to back up and drop to his knees before they handcuffed him."

What if he'd said "No"?

Do As I Say

SEAN COMBS has warned teenagers in Britain to stop the gun violence - because once they get involved with the wrong people, "there's no turning back".
You tell 'em, Daddy...uh...Diddy...uh...

Thank You, Stan

I do try.

Your check is in the mail.

No 'Dilemma' a Healthy Dose of Freedom Won't Cure

Lawmakers may have undermined public safety when they used creative financing to push through a proposal to speed concealed-weapon permit checks...

"We are in a dilemma," he said. "We are trying to figure out how we are going to absorb these cuts."

Most likely BCI will have to shift critical public safety resources to checking the backgrounds of Utah's soaring number of concealed-gun applicants, he says.

No dilemma at all. Stop this nonsense of permitting and recognize the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. If you want to know what really undermines public safety, it's you pompous jackasses acting like you have the right to authorize free citizens defending themselves.

It's simple. And you'll actually end up with more resources for preserving the peace in the form of an ever-present citizen militia that won't take a dime from your budget.

See how simple the Founders made things for us if we'd just listen to them?

We're the Only Ones Fantastic Four Enough

Cryptic Subterranean treats us to four "Only Ones" vignettes:
  • A RANDY cop is facing prosecution after raiding a brothel — and allegedly returning later for sex.
  • A legal expert says a judge's decision to find an off-duty Calgary police officer not guilty of drunk driving has nothing to do with favourtism [sic] of police officers and everything to do with the wording of the law.
  • A bizarre standoff in Wilsonville took place between police and a double-amputee and ended with the suspect in the hospital.
  • A father criticised a police force today for launching an investigation after his ten-year-old son allegedly called a schoolfriend “gay” in an email.
There. Don't we all feel safer now?

Books Don't Kill People

More than 1 million sheets of paper, a cache of unregistered books and a tunnel were found at a man's home after a fire that forced a neighborhood evacuation, authorities said Friday.

The peerless Vin Suprynowicz makes an analogy.

It's Official

It’s official: Airsoft guns and other realistic looking toy firearms are prohibited in Beaverton’s public places.

Fake gun control: to stop non-crimes. And anyone violating this edict is in danger of being shot.

It's official.

Here's a piece I did a while back that's kind of on topic...

[Via Paul G]

This Day in History: April 2

The Coinage Act, passed by the United States Congress on April 2, 1792, established the United States Mint and regulated coinage of the United States.