Light Posting Still Continues

I'm dreading all the emails awaiting me...

A New Opportunity

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that nail gun injuries increased threefold in the past 15 years, with 13,400 nail-gun users seeking hospital treatment in 2005, compared with 4,200 in 1991.

So what's the problem? All these guys underwent mental and criminal background checks first, right?

No?

Hmmm...

Besides, why does anyone who's not a licensed contractor need such a dangerous tool...?

Imagine My Dismay!

Yesterday I treated my granddaughter to a Happy Meal from McDonald's. Imagine my dismay when the toy for my young child was a gun!

Horrors! If that's not enough to soak the old knickers, I don't know what is.

In reality, I suspect this is either something the local manager did on his own without authorization--or perhaps even BS that the paper never checked out before printing. McDonald's is a politically correct corporation, and their current promotional toys are themed on "American Idol"--without a gun in the bunch.

You Can Thank the Liberals for 2A

There used to be an almost complete scholarly and judicial consensus that the Second Amendment protects only a collective right of the states to maintain militias. That consensus no longer exists — thanks largely to the work over the last 20 years of several leading liberal law professors, who have come to embrace the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns.

That "scholarly and judicial consensus" was a modern fiction, invented by "liberals" in the first place. Here's what William Rawle had to say about that (and if you don't know who he was, you are shorting yourself on things you should know):

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give the Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under a general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any pursuit of an inordinate power either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.

Now there's no doubt that on the front of modern scholarship, the conclusions of self-described "liberals" such as Levinson and Kates and Tribe has been authoritative. But some of us came to our own conclusions without benefit of law reviews. And it is also the self-described "liberals" who are currently at the forefront of the disarming of America.

Here's the thing: "Conservative" is a relative term--what you want to conserve changes depending on the time and place, so in 1776, such a person would be called a Loyalist or a Tory. "Liberal" has a meaning that, if properly applied, pertains to freedom--you'll find many observers describing Jefferson as a "Classical Liberal." The problem is, as they have with so much of our language, the Orwellian totalitarianists have co opted and perverted words to serve their ends.

Don't let them get away with that theft. Reclaim our language and the power it holds. Then we'll all be able to agree that the liberals--that would be us--are the people to be credited with saving the Second Amendment.

This Day in History: May 8

We all arrived last Night in this City...The Militia were all in Arms, and almost the whole City out to Meet us. The Tories are put to Flight here, as effectually as the Mandamus Council at Boston. They have associated, to stand by Continental and Provincial Congresses, &c. &c. &c. Such a Spirit was never seen in New York.