Wednesday, April 25, 2007

"Run Rights Rally"?

Black lawmakers are demanding a police investigation of a banner held at Tuesday's run rights rally in the state Capitol.
Zoinks! Did they pass out Scooby Snacks?

Notes to our side:
  • It's "hanged."
  • The Tree of Liberty has nothing to do with lynching, and it's certainly not "just a figure of speech."
Notes to Rep. Cruz:
  • You truly are dangerously incompetent.
  • I can't really disagree with Mr. Jefferson's "manure" analogy.

It May Not Be Enough?

Damon Wells and his home appear no longer safe.

The .40-caliber handgun that Wells carries legally for defense may not be enough to protect the 25-year-old man and his home in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
I should say, not, "reporter" Gabriel Baird. Don't you read your own newspaper?
Police took a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson firearm from Wells as evidence, the police report shows.
So now the poor guy's got a vengeful mob of thug apologists terrorizing him, and no way to protect himself.

It sounds like we as a society ought to miss young "Ace Boogie" as much as we will "Boonie."

A Chicago Story


Tom Mayhew sent me this picture of a different time altogether. This was Chicago! There were cops in the picture encouraging this--it was their idea!! And it was given favorable press in a California newspaper!!!

Today, tellers give up the cash just based on a note, without ever seeing a weapon. That's because so many banks are "No Gun Zones," and because so many among us have forgotten--or never knew--the responsibilities of free men and the way things are supposed to be.

"Good Citizens"

Holmgren said, "We're not saying that we want citizens to go out there and arm themselves and take the law into their own hands. We want citizens to be good witnesses, to be good report-takers and to identify suspects."

Defending yourself and your property is "taking the law into your own hands"?

We want citizens to be good Eloi.

Congratulations, Holmgren, you've left me with nothing to add.

[Via Cryptic Subterranean]

Department of Destroying History

Go over to Armed and Safe and read about the latest bit of BATFU stupidity and arrogance.

You just gotta shake your head and work for the day when these parasites will starve.

Good catch, Kurt. Good comments.

We're the Only Ones With the Right Hands Enough

Thieves broke into a Utah County Sheriff's vehicle early Tuesday morning in Lehi and stole two very dangerous assault weapons that authorities fear could be used in other crimes.

"We're very worried because we don't want any weapon getting into the hands of anybody in the public because, you are looking at a sawed off shotgun and an assault rifle," said Utah County Public Information Officer Dennis Harris as he looked at the damaged vehicle.
Left unsaid is why "peace officers" need what the antis continually describe as "weapons of war" and "killing machines." I woupldn't be surprised to find a "bullet hose" or two in there somewhere. But did you catch what Harris said? That's "anybody in the public," not just the thieves they provided this grand no-mental-health-or-criminal-background-check-required opportunity to.

Why?
In the right hands police said these weapons protect the public, but in the wrong hands they present a major threat.
And we all know "the right hands" are "Only Ones" hands.

[Via 45superman]

A Pro-Gun Neocon

By eliminating pistol purchase permits and allowing only those of us with a CCW to purchase a handgun, there will be no more guns sold legally to those with a history of mental problems who have not yet committed their first crime. And it should be some consolation to the gun control crowd that it takes about 90 days to obtain a CCW in North Carolina.
Good Lord. This is what Mike S. Adams considers a "rebuttal" to an anti-gun editorial?

[Via M. Terry]

Militia HQ Fire Declared Arson

Someone purposely set a fire that destroyed the office area of the Washington County Militia last week, County Fire Marshal John Jenkins said Tuesday.

Jenkins would not comment on what evidence led him to suspect arson at the structure southeast of Fayetteville. No other information will be released, he said.
Well, that was no surprise.

In a tangentially-related matter, Wayne Fincher's daughter has the following request:
Do you know where i can get a copy of the congressional hearings on the national firearms of 1934? Or the subcommittee hearings of the national firearms act of 1934? I'm trying to find a copy of it for my dad and I can't seem to find a copy of it.
They may only exist in an archive--information will be appreciated.

[Via Martin B and Connie F]

A Heavy Price

That lesson is this: if a suicide bomber walks into a crowded market in Iraq and blows himself up along with 32 innocent bystanders, it is terrorism. If the same thing happens in America, it is not. Americans — and by extension anyone in the country — enjoy a constitutional right to bear arms. However anachronistic this may seem to outsiders given that the days of frontiersmen and citizens’ militias are long past, there still remains a powerful lobby, funded by the weaponry manufacturers themselves, that defends what it claims is a fundamental right.
The Saudi Arabians lecture us on anachronisms. They say we'd be safer if we'd only disarm.

And no, a mass shooting is definitely terrorism, and some of us believe that hasn't gone unnoticed. My friend Russ Howard even has an ongoing bet that the next terror attack will exploit the very "gun free zones" this "editorialist" wants us to expand nationwide--anybody care to take him up on it?

[Via Bounty Hunter, via Little Green Footballs]

This Day in History: April 25

[Affidavit] No. 1.Lexington, April 25, 1775.

We, Solomon Brown, Jonathan Loring, and Elijah Sanderson, all of lawful Age, and of Lexington, in the County of Middlesex, and Collony of the Massachusett Bay, in New England, do testifie and declare, that on the evening of the Eighteenth of April, Instant, being on the Road between Concord and Lexington, and all of us mounted on Horses, we were, about ten of the Clock, suddenly surprized by nine Persons, whom we took to be Regular Officers, who Rode up to us, mounted and armed, each having a Pistol in His Hand, and after Putting Pistols to our Breasts, and seizing the Bridles of our Horses, they swore, that if we stirred another step, we should be all Dead Men, upon which we surrendered our selves. They Detained us until Two o'Clock the next morning, in which time they searched and greatly abused us; having first enquired about the Magazine at Concord, whether any Guards were posted there, and whether the bridges were up, and said four or five Regiments of Regulars would be in Possession of the stores soon; they then brought us back to Lexington, eat the Horses Bridles and Girts, turned them Loose, and then Left us.