A Matter of Time

Gun purchases would be limited to one per month and anyone selling a gun would have to get a background check on the prospective buyer under gun control plans an Illinois House committee endorsed Wednesday.

If one gun a month is good, wouldn't one gun a year be better?

Just asking, because if you buy into the "logic"...

Common Tyranny

Standing next to a combat rifle that is 5 feet long, weighs 35 pounds and can blow holes through armor a mile-and-a-half away, Gurnee Police Chief Robert Jones wonders why civilians still can legally buy this weapon in Illinois.

Ah, it's our old friend Burt Constable.

Yeah, chief, letting Illinois cops be "The Only Ones" who can deploy such a weapon sounds like a great idea.

And "Reverend" Oldershaw: Don't you have more important things to worry about that will better contribute to "the common good"?

More Gun Shops Cave In to Bloomberg

"It was going to cost $50,000 in attorney's fees," said Rick Morketter, manager of Dick's Pawn, of North Myrtle Beach. "We wanted to take the path of least resistance."

Unless the gun shops take it on themselves to organize and amass a legal war chest to ward off these kinds of attacks, they will continue.

I understand the stores are caught between a rock and a hard place. That said, I refuse to buy a gun where an appointee for that tyrant is going to "monitor" the transaction.

And just for the record, guys, when you settle with Bloomberg, you're admitting to the world that you're "the worst of the worst...immoral...irresponsible...[and] bad apples."

One other thing: Bloomberg would not be able to do this were he not aided and abetted by Judas privateers, in this case, the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and the James Mintz Group.

The "Only Ones" Fever

It looks like Cryptic Subterranean's caught it. Good. We need an incontrovertible body of evidence to throw the argument that "police are The Only Ones who should have guns" back in the face of any who use it.

Here's another twofer courtesy of Jay.Mac:

• We're the Only Ones Vacant Enough

and

• We're the Only Ones in the Mood for Love Enough

We're the Only Ones Two-Fisted Drinking Enough

This wasn't any barfight caught on tape. An angry man pummels a much smaller female bartender. As it turns out, he's a Chicago police officer and late Tuesday night he was taken into custory [sic].

Chicago--isn't that where "The Only Ones" will arrest a citizen who they find with a handgun?

[Via Cryptic Subterranean. I've also gotten links to other reports on this story from Paul G, and got this one from 45superman.]

Pokey Get Your Gun

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When my daughter is 10 and 11, and especially in the teenage years, I want to be there with a gun.

Gee, Pokey Poke, I thought you'd given up your violent ways. Most of us manage to raise children without threatening their friends and dates with weapons, which is a crime, by the way.

Just out of curiosity, how is it you're not prohibited from buying one?

[Via Cryptic Subterranean]

This Day in History: March 22

Hoping to raise sufficient funds to defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War, the British government passes the notorious Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, including everything from broadsides and insurance policies to playing cards and dice.

And if course, now that we have "representation," we elect people to do this to us.