May I Have the Envelope, Please?

The August Eloi Award goes to Pete Gitlin, of Phoenix, AZ.

Runner-up honors are shared by Penny and Pete Peters of Everett, WA.

Congratulations to Pete, Penny and Pete. Your Morlock masters are so pleased with you, they will eat you last.

Unless they're hungry and you're handy.

Scarborough Fair Update: 1st Report BS

Looks like the guy shot at the Canadian anti-gun barbecue wasn't what he was reported to be.

Looks like Natalie Alcoba and the National Post have some explaining to do about how, in their zeal to promote an agenda, they got the basic facts so thoroughly wrong.

This is a useful reminder to all--me included--about assuming that, just because something appears in the media, it bears any relation to the facts.

Do You Wear That License on Your Collar?

The Toledo Free Press is reporting that although a man with a temporary emergency concealed handgun license was not charged with a crime, police have seen fit to confiscate and hold his handgun (despite an Ohio law which suggests such action by the Toledo police officers was illegal).

What the state giveth, the state can take away--and they have a voluntary registration list with which to do it.

It also allows them to dictate the rules for carrying, most importantly including where they say you may not.

What other right must we petition for permission and pay for the "privilege" of exercising?

Unfortunately, most of the activist gun owner community has been seduced into believing this is progress. They have allowed the Constitutional bright line of "shall not be infringed" to be dimmed and diffused.

Only perceived "radicals" commit the heresy of suggesting that what we have might not be the progress everyone claims it is. Those who do must be prepared to endure wrath and scorn. The illusion of the Emperor's clothes is strong--all his ministers tell us how fine they are.

As my pal Steiger says (about much more than just this issue), "We've been conned. Bare-ass naked in the public square conned."

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