L.A. City Council To OK Gun Warning Signs

L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks says he wants to put signs up at gun stores to remind people guns are dangerous.

He also wants to put the language into "contracts", presumably the bill of sale.

I sent him this email to get specifics and will post any reply:

Can you please email me the text of the proposed ordinance requiring gun stores to post a sign?

When will the first reading be?

This is like the forced confessions of times gone by (Admit that you're a witch!), administered by one-sided politically-driven consensus. Naturally unmentioned are DGUs where no one is shot or killed, or the fact that cops have significantly higher suicide rates than the general public--will they receive the same warning notice with their department-issued weapons? And it's not like we haven't seen "The Only Ones" have their share of "accidents," intentional and otherwise.

We all realize, of course, that there is no rationality to this action, other than to commit another official hate crime against gun dealers and gun owners, and the fact that we by and large represent a demographic politically on the other side of the spectrum from Parks and his Council co-conspirators plays no small part in this. Milosevich committed "ethnic cleansing" and the world condemned him for it. These anti-freedom bigots commit ideological cleansing--every bit as dangerous when carried to its ultimate potential--and they're applauded for it.

We'll see if the gun stores fight this--I know I sure would--not only because no group of men should have the power to force you to endorse a political ideology, but also, practically, because such warnings would be tantamount to an admission of guilt in a lawsuit where one of the criteria is respondents "knew or should have known" about potential dangers. To comply with this would be to enter a suicide compact. Under compulsion.

Parks, of course, is the former Chief of LAPD. If he had the first clue as to how to reduce crime and violence, he'd still have the job. Fact is, this incompetent has continually done just the opposite, and made a career for himself disarming peaceable citizens who live in the most dangerous neighborhoods.

I'd like to share a telling email exchange I had about 5 years back with LAPD:

DC: Chief Parks has been a vocal opponent of citizen concealed weapons carry reform. After he leaves the department, will he retain authorization to carry concealed or will he be prohibited from doing so just like ordinary citizens? I would like an official statement so that I can pass it along to other citizens concerned with this issue.

LAPD: Thank you for writing to the Los Angeles Police Department, www.lapdonline.org. For more information on your request, please contact the Los Angeles Police Commission at 213-485-3235.

DC:Actually, I would prefer to have a statement in writing. Why won't you answer a simple question?

LAPD: Police officers in the state of California by state law are authorized to carry concealed weapons after they retire unless otherwise restricted or prohibited. However, for an official statement you will need to contact the Los Angeles Police Commission.

The guy's a tyrant and a hypocrite. Big surprise.

Call Me a Doctor

SayUncle links to a clip that nicely illustrates the deception employed and relied on by the Bradys. I wonder how many TV-hypnotized subjects will look at the white lab coat and automatically attribute authority to the human stage prop wearing it?

What's Another Word for "Joan M. Quigley"?

New Jersey could become the nation's fifth state and the first in nine years to make it illegal for people to buy more than one handgun a month.

Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley, a Democrat and sponsor of the legislation, represents Jersey City, which like other cities in the state has struggled against street gangs and gun violence. "I personally can see no reason why anyone would want to go out and buy guns in multiples," she said.

And you're willing to impose your personal belief system on everyone else under force of "law," meaning you'll have your agents destroy their lives if they don't bend to your will.

Tell me, Joan, exactly how would you define the word "tyrant"?

Well, lookee here:

On June 8, 2006, Quigley and Assemblywoman Linda Stender proposed banning the sale of Ann Coulter's book Godless: The Church of Liberalism in New Jersey. They issued a joint press release, calling on "..New Jersey retailers to ban the sale of her book throughout the state."

A few days after Quigley and Stender's press release was issued, it was edited on the New Jersey Assembly Democratic Majority website. The word "ban" was replaced with the word "boycott" in two instances (in the title and in the third paragraph)...The original text of the press release can viewed on several websites.

Revising history is an old Stalinist trick, which is about as good a description for Comrade Joan as I can come up with.

I guess when you don't have a Second Amendment, there's really no need for a First. Or any of the others...

Canadian Inmates Running Asylum, Eh?

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says changes to Canada's gun laws could include a system to give those close to a gun owner a channel to express concerns about that person's mental health...

He referred to the case of a Quebec psychologist who killed his wife and two daughters last fall.

So guys like Dr. Nutzoid here will be the arbiters of whether or not other Canadians should have a gun...?

All for One and None for All...

I got the following reply from Chief Ken Swindle about a news report that his department donated $1,000 to the All for One Tuscaloosa "gun buyback":

We agreed to help pay for weapons if they bought more than the $500.00 that they had to purchase guns. They only bought nine so we did not give them any money. There was no money given so that answers you next two questions.

The money that I had offered to use was donated to the Department to be use in a safe neighborhood project. It was not affiliated with any Federal program.

So the "report" from the "authorized journalist" was factually in error. Funny how he couldn't be bothered to dig any deeper into his own story.

This Day in History: February 14

A Patriot militia force of 340 led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke of Georgia defeats a larger force of 700 Loyalist militia commanded by Colonel James Boyd on this day in 1779 at Kettle Creek, Georgia.