Up to the Challenge

I defy anyone to “read” into the Amendment that a citizen has the right to carry arms, except to show up as a member of a “well regulated militia.”

Done, you fool.

We're the Only Ones Gone Wild Enough

A nude appearance in an "Girls Gone Wild"-style adult video sold on the Internet has cost a veteran police officer her job — again.

I know there's an "Only Twos" joke in here somewhere.

[Via Stan]

New York Times Logic

But many of the officers who help keep New York’s streets safe are in fact volunteers — unarmed, unpaid and, we learned this week, in some cases tragically and unnecessarily vulnerable.

Let's see, unarmed...vulnerable, unarmed...vulnerable.

I'm sure there's a connection here somewhere.

I know: Let's pass more gun control laws!

Me, a Pessimist?

I've seen a few posts around where people think I'm overly pessimistic in my assessment of the cops and guns poll.

Sorry, fellas, but your rosier outlook notwithstanding, I actually think the "2/3 wouldn't confiscate guns" belief is, well...naive. If ordered and threatened with termination and loss of benefits and pensions if they didn't obey confiscation orders, I doubt you'd see much adherence to theoretical principles volunteered to a magazine poll. And if we were talking about a martial law situation, where actual punishment would be administered for refusing to obey, I'm betting compliance would be just about complete.

So you're also overly generous to me in your assessment that I'm a "half empty" type. I think it's much worse than that.

It could be that I'm just cynical and negative. Perhaps.

Then again, perhaps not .

As the fundraising slogan goes, "Remember New Orleans."

Pokey Poke Does Front Sight

You have to endure a stupid commercial first, but here's a video where Pokey Poke says he got sniper training for his new movie Shooter" at Front Sight--he says he hit a target 2,000 yards away and that he's "a good shot."

He'd even be interested in doing a sequel.

So why is it a picture of Wayne Fincher in the paper is enough to spur BATFU into takedown mode?

I've got no beef against Front Sight--I have long admired Dr. Piazza's work and past support of RKBA. I do wonder how Pokey passed the criminal background check it is my understanding training applicants must undergo.

Remember, from my KABA article:

Marky, who had violated the terms of his earlier judgment, pled guilty to two counts of criminal contempt, each count carrying "a maximum penalty of ten years in a house of correction or ten thousand dollars or both." The Commonwealth's Sentencing Memorandum supported "the recommendation that the Defendant be sentenced to two years at the Deer Island House of Corrections, ninety days committed, with the balance suspended for two years."

And remember, at the time, the representative from the Suffolk County Clerk's Office for Criminal Business told me the Pokester was tried as an adult and his record has not been expunged.

[Via Red Dot]

Duncan Hunter on 2A

"The right to keep and bear arms is an absolute right of Americans to protect their families and their communities and their nation with firearms. In this age of post-911, Americans, I believe are comforted by the fact that our ability to resist terrorism is not limited to law enforcement or defense agencies but is also within the ability of all gun-owning Americans."

A Keyboard and a .45 saw a candidate's website lacking in information about his stand on RKBA, so he took it on himself to get things stated on the record.

Great job, JR, great leadership. This really illustrates how one man taking the initiative can get things done. It also demonstrates how blogger activism can bypass the information blackout we encounter when relying on "authorized journalists" to actually do something original and act like government watchdogs.

And in case you're wondering, GOA rates Hunter an "A."

This Day in History: March 21

On March 21, 1778, just three days after British Loyalists and Hessian mercenary forces assault the local New Jersey militia at Quinton’s Bridge, three miles from Salem, New Jersey, the same contingent surprises the colonial militia at Hancock’s Bridge, five miles from Salem. During the battle, the Loyalists not only kill several members of the Salem militia, but also two known Loyalists.