More Proof that Celebrities are Special

Gwen Stefani carries a gun to keep other women away from her husband...

Good Grief.

Manic Depressives for Gun Control

Rosie O'Donnell says she began being treated for depression after the Columbine school shootings and hangs upside down for up to a half-hour a day to improve her mental state. [More]

And this head case thinks the rest of us are too unstable to be trusted with guns. Hers was another profile in "A Judgment Call," my Rights Watch column in the March 2005 issue of GUNS Magazine:

Who can forget Rosie O'Donnell ambushing actor Tom Selleck on her talk show, because he lent his likeness and support to the NRA? A Million Mom emcee, her most notorious proclamation came after the Columbine shootings, where she raged "Outlaw all guns, and put all gun owners in jail!" "I am one of the haunted," Rosie admits. "I think I have been depressed for years. It runs in my family, along with alcoholism and an absurd ability to deny the obvious."

Obviously.

We're the Only Ones Who Have Absolutely No Idea What We're Doing Enough

At least 30 states let some newly hired local law enforcement officers hit the streets with a gun, a badge and little or no training...

No one seems to know how many untrained recruits are on the streets. But the practice appears to be most common among small-town police forces and sheriff's departments.

So if they're untrained and unqualified, what does that say about those who advocate that police are "The Only Ones" who should be armed...?

[Via Paul G]

Hanging Separately

Regular WarOnGuns correspondent HZ sent me an email regarding the proposed Illinois gun ban:

I don't even live in the stupid state and I get so incredibly mad.

Sent this out immediately to 6 gun owners / shooters and this was the response ....

1 Hunter/Skeet shooter said it's not going to affect him.

1 SWAT-medic said he would be exempted

1 Air Force reservist mocked me to my face by saying, "Oh no! The G is coming to take my guns way! Oh no! Not my machine gun! ha ha" ..... etc. We then settled down to a lengthy discussion in which I was unable to convince him of anything. He said I am not educated enough to decide/comment on legal issues. Lawyers, judges and legislators do that for me ..... blah, blah, blah .....

1 Co-Worker is too busy getting a house built to call anyone

1 Co-Worker .... no response

1 Co-Worker called and emailed his state senator

These were all people that I thought were friendly enough towards gun rights. I've either shot with them or know that they own firearms. Living in the state of Illinois must be poisonous to the mind and to reason.

I fear we will be unable to keep this republic.

We are constantly admonished that criticizing those in the gun community can be divisive, that we must hang together...

Aside from the one guy who did the right thing, why would we want to have anything to do with the rest of these intentionally ignorant parasites?

This Day in History: March 8

On this day in 1782, 160 Pennsylvania militiamen murder 96 Christian Indians--39 children, 29 women and 28 men--by hammering their skulls with mallets from behind as they kneel unarmed, praying and singing, in their Moravian Mission at Gnadenhuetten in the Ohio Country. The Patriots then piled their victims’ bodies in mission buildings before burning the entire community to the ground. Two boys managed to survive, although one had lost his scalp to his attackers. Although the militiamen claimed they were seeking revenge for Indian raids on their frontier settlements, the Indians they murdered had played no role in any attack.