Where Your Opinion Counts

I'm not sure if it really does, but these will only take a minute and you really have nothing to lose:

First, via Say Uncle, we have the No to HR 1022, "Assault Weapons Ban" Petition. Hey, look: That's me!



Next, via 1894C, we can go over to the Brady's house and play. (Yeah, they get your email--I gave 'em my Hotmail account--you can then either relegate it to your "Junk" folder or accept them to keep up with the latest lies from the enemy camp.)

And last but not least, you have weighed in on this week's WarOnGuns poll over in the left margin, right?

Defending the Indefensible

In Boyne's version of Utopia, there would be two kinds of people--police and military on the one hand, and helpless, cowering sheep on the other. The good news for him is that such places can be found in the world. The bad news is that there are quite a few people who, like me, will fight to the death before we see the United States become such a place.

Kurt Hofmann takes on a treasonous fool.

Underkill

The New York Times weighs in on the Zumbo affair with their typical sleight of mind:

“Assault rifle” is a much touchier term. It is generally understood to be the kind of gun that soldiers use in wars and terrorists use on the evening news. But the gun lobby despises “assault rifle,” considering it a false, scary label tacked onto perfectly legitimate weapons by people who want to take away others’ rights.

That is a debate for another day.

There's no debate about it. Straight from ther head of the Violence Policy Center:

The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

The Times goes on to perform a sin of omission:

“Excuse me, maybe I’m a traditionalist,” he wrote, “but I see no place for these weapons among our hunting fraternity.” He added: “To most of the public, an assault rifle is a terrifying thing. Let’s divorce ourselves from them. I say game departments should ban them from the prairies and woods.”

Until he wrote that, Mr. Zumbo was one of the most admired hunters in America...

It seems our integrity-saturated Times editorialist failed to mention the most inflammatory declaration Mr. Zumbo made:

I'll go so far as to call them "terrorist" rifles.

So after dismissing the designed confusion over firearm functionality created and exploited by their allies, and intentionally withholding Zumbo's most offensive statement from their readers, The Times goes on with this accusation:

The paranoia and gloating that Mr. Zumbo’s name has evoked on gun discussion boards like ar15.com and freerepublic.com speak for themselves.

For The New York Times, which has consistently fear-mongered over private gun ownership to call anyone else paranoid takes a lot of damn gall. But just for the record, yes, a gun ban here, a gun ban there, and a pattern for an agenda does emerge, and it's not all that hard to find the master plan--straight from "The Newspaper of Record's" co-conpirators.

[Via Tom M]

An Answer of Sorts

The reporter who wrote about the SWAT machine gun stolen from a car while the "Only One" it was assigned to "relaxed" at a sports bar has responded to my inquiry:

That’s a good question and one we discussed before the story aired.

I certainly see your point.

In the end, we decided that since this deputy did not violate any department policy, has not been placed on leave or reprimanded or charged with anything, the most relevant point was, hey, there’s this really dangerous gun and other serious SWAT gear out on the street. Watch for it.

But I’m glad you sent the e-mail.

I forwarded it onto a contact at the sheriff’s department.

It’s always worth re-examining things like this.

Thanks for watching.

And remember we need story ideas literally every day.

Tyler Lopez

That kind of begs the question as to why the "Only Ones" are the only ones who have the judgment and temperance to have machine guns available to respond to emergencies after they've been "relaxing" in bars, doesn't it? Or why the inequity of treatment: if it had been a non-"Only One," charges would have been filed, and we damn sure would know their name.

"Authorized journalists" are a lot like horses. You can lead them to water...

Kennedy Consorts with Child Molester

That's the slobbering murderer schmoozing at a Million Maoists Subversive Soirée with democrat darling Peter Yarrow on the right.

From "A Judgment Call," my Rights Watch column in the March 2005 issue of GUNS Magazine:

Folksinger Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul & Mary believes we need more gun laws. Performing at the 2004 Million Morn March rally urging Congress to renew the federal "assault weapon" ban, Yarrow's main emphasis in the gun control movement has been to protect children.

It's too bad he wasn't thinking about protecting them when he was convicted of a sex offense for molesting a 14-year-old girl--but perhaps it explains why he wouldn't want to make it easy for parents to own a gun.

These are the predatory misfits who think we should be disarmed?

We're known by the company we keep, right Bradyites?

Vol* is Angry

I am displeased with all the citizen disarmement proponents and enforcement thugs, and the fools who demand their existence.

To demonstrate my wrath, I will make the moon disappear tonight.

Beware--and repent.

And make sure you watch the skies tonight.

*

This Day in History: March 3

Silas Deane, Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, leaves for France on a secret mission on this day in 1776. The Committee of Congress for Secret Correspondence, consisting of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison, John Dickinson, John Hay and Robert Morris, instructed Deane to meet with French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, to stress America's need for military stores and assure the French that the colonies were moving toward "total separation.”