Notes from the Resistance...
Oprah Winfrey's expected announcement that she'll end her show -- and the prospect that she'll say goodbye to Chicago – has Mayor Daley placing some blame on the media. [More]You know, the media that made her one of the richest and most famous and powerful private individuals in the world...
Give me the words to explain this. [More]OK--you're a reason-impaired moron ruled by ignorance and prejudice. If only we can make "the streets" even more "gun free," this 15 shootings in one night crap will have to stop! And who better to look to for making that happen than Snuffy and Tim-Tom?
I needed some help myself.Admission is the first step--assuming you mean it. Which, based on the rest of your weepy rant, you must not. So continue ripping out your hair Carol Marin. But you might want to wash your hands first, so you don't get blood in it.
The report’s authors estimated about 1,400 black-market gun sales occurred each year in the Grand Boulevard-Washington Park neighborhood, “or about one sale per year for every 30 people living in this very high-crime neighborhood.” [More]Me, I think Tim-Tom and Jody the Brave ought to personally go down there and round 'em all up--and stick a bayonet up the butt of anyone who objects.
Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group. [More]He says while protected by taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards...and using more of that tax money to teach us how to speak Arabic...
[Via Michael R]
Daley: Send gun industry lawsuit to World Court [More]How about instead we send you to a citizen tribunal? I'd actually assign that more legitimate authority.
Retired Ill. Cop Pulls Gun on Officer on Traffic Stop...You know, from the caste Snuffy and Tim-Tom think are the "Only Ones" who should be carrying guns in Illinois...
Chittick still works for the Peoria Police Department as a civilian employee in the property room...[More]
Police found the two doormen, Dwayne Troupe, 22, and Ambrosio Silva, 28, were carrying guns, and on searching the building, found a woman with a gun, Zenobia Mills, 28, as well as five other handguns in other parts of the building. The three were charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon and other gun-related crimes, and are being held in lieu of bail at the Cook County Jail. [More]In gun-free Tim-Tom Paradise? Impossible. Besides, who would ever think to open a speakeasy in Chicago of all places?
Records show he was paroled in November 2008 from prison, where he had been held since 1985 for a murder a year before. He also was convicted in 2001 and 2005 of aggravated battery of a peace officer.
In the earlier incident, he assaulted at least two prison guards at Pinckneyville Correctional Center who tried to get him to remove personal property from his cell. Officials at the time said Cration had "an extensive history of violence, including ten staff assaults and one inmate assault along with five 'dangerous disturbances,' " according to an Associated Press story. [More]
So what could be more natural than to release this beast into the enforced victim disarmament zone that is Tim-Tom Paradise? Notice how the laws stopped him from getting a gun?
You didn't?
Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.
[Via An Illinois Voter from Second City Cop]
Too late, but here's the prime call list ...* Focused congress call lists like this should've been put together, distributed and posted on web sites weeks ago. But guys like Mark Levin were too busy advancing the allegedly perfect structural formula tweaks that are supposed to automatically save America without the need for focused organization and winning elections (as if having term limits since 1990 saved California!). Rush Limbaugh complained as always, but didn't lift a finger to organize an intelligent campaign. His staffers could easily have done it, but he didn't even bother to ask folks to mindlessly "call your representative" (even if your rep is Boehner or Pelosi). None of the conservative groups, Tea Party groups, gun groups or immigration sanity groups lifted a finger to organize and activate. None of the candidates for speaker lifted a finger. None of the 28 who voted against Boehner lifted a finger. And so we lost by four votes.* NAYLocal Zip DC phone Fax Local phone
Defiant police officers and prosecutors, however, saying they retain law enforcement discretion, have continued arresting and bringing cases against motorists like Mr. Patton found with unlicensed handguns...
In a report issued in February, the Texas affiliate of the National Rifle Association joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition “to spotlight unlawful, unnecessary governmental encroachment on average law-abiding citizens.”
The presumption of innocence does not make the person innocent.Uh, yeah it does, Mr. Rosenthal, legally, anyway, which is what you're supposed to concern yourself with. The burden of proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt rests with you.
"WHY NOT Have A Pro-Gun Law," is possibly the longest article we have ever published. It may well be also the most important article we have ever published.
The "call to arms" which ends the story, urging all firearms enthusiasts to write to the Director of the Alcohol & Tobacco Tax Unit,Treasury, Washington 25, D. C., to protest new revised federal regulations in the gun law field is a little like Paul Revere's "one if by land, two if by sea." Only now it isn't the "British are coming," it is the bureaucrats.
There has been some serious thought among Congressmen and Senators as to the activities of this branch of the Treasury which administers the federal gun laws. Some congressmen have been outspoken in expressing the view that the Treasury has been attempting actually to alter law, to make law, which is a privilege jealously guarded by the Congress. In "Why Not A Pro-Gun Law," the author brings up to date the present situation in anti-6rearms legislation.
We are now at a crossroads. For decades shooting enthusiasts have been complacent while lawmakers, directed by people who are not all well-intentioned by any means, have been chipping away at the edges of American freedom. Restrictive firearms laws are but one face of restrictive federal interference into American private affairs.
We exist in a republic which is supposed to guarantee liberty under law. When laws become destructive of these liberties, it is the right and duty of the people to alter or to abolish those laws, and to institute new forms of law which shall best effect their safety and happiness.
Old militiaman Tom Jefferson would doubtless applaud this paraphrasing of his immortal document, the Declaration of Independence. Fortunately, it is not too late. The revised regulations are not yet in effect as of press-time. A public hearing on the new revised regulations is scheduled for Tuesday, August 27, 1957, at 10:00 AM, room 3313, Internal Revenue Bldg., 12th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D. C. Any protests can be made in person there, and Eastern-area readers of GUNS may find their interests best served if they obtain complete copies of the regulations, read and understand their implications, and appear to register their protests in person.
Good rebuttal, Mr. Mann!
