Brady's Peter Hamm Issues Lethal Threat

In a series of exchanges today between some gun bloggers and the Brady Center’s mouthpiece, Peter Hamm, Hamm threatened to shoot one of the bloggers.

The threat was issued at Sebastian's, against SayUncle.

What I don't get is why everyone is so quick to dismiss this as a lighthearted joke. We know the evil this citizen disarmament fanatic enables, and we've seen how much benefit of the doubt his side offers when a much less direct and more obviously tongue-in-cheek speculation is tendered.

It's really part of the elitist mentality Hamm and those like him represent--that some are afforded more consideration and different treatment than others--you know, the whole "Only Ones" thing. He wouldn't presume to "joke" about shooting a politician or celebrity, would he, and expect not to elicit an armed response and interrogation, but a pro-RKBA activist is fair game?

It's not my call, but if he'd said that to me, I'd file a police report and let them be the ones to determine the true level of threat after the requisite--and publicized--investigation.

I, Homegrown Terrorist

SEC. 899A. DEFINITIONS.
`For purposes of this subtitle:
`(1) COMMISSION- The term `Commission' means the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism established under section 899C.
`(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.
`(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
`(4) IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE- The term `ideologically based violence' means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social beliefs.

And we all know advocating the so-called "insurrectionary theory" of the Second Amendment, that is, saying We the People should take up arms and resist, meaning shoot and kill tyrants and their agents, is "extremist."

So if we react to an outrage by reminding our countrymen of Jefferson's "Tree of Liberty" quote, or cite the Declaration of Independence, or even worse, the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking up Arms, what risks will we now assume? After all, we've (OK, I've) already experienced first-hand the "respect" Jane Harman's minions have for the First Amendment.

She truly is one of the most arrogant and odious members of Congress, one who married into power wealth, and as a supporter and volunteer for her opponent, Susan Brooks, I witnessed first hand the outright election fraudthat went unresolved and that resulted in Harman's initial elevation to the House:

In California's 36th Congressional District Republican Susan Brooks lost by 812 votes to Democrat Jane Harman, with absentees providing the margin of victory. Brooks workers compiled a detailed list of more than 2,000 apparently invalid votes. As Reader's Digest put it, ''findings indicated that of 5,292 absentee ballots from 20 Venice precincts that went overwhelmingly for Harman, 1,337 (26 per cent) had been cast by voters whose addresses on the rolls turned out to be abandoned homes, empty apartments, vacant lots.''

As an aside, I note one of the co-sponsors is that snake Dan Lungren, former California AG, "assault weapon" ban enforcer, and "moderate republican" of the Schwarzenegger stripe, on whose watch the confiscation of firearms from "law-abiding" citizens began.

We've just recently seen our government's heavy-handed approach to categorizing "terrorists." We've even seen the FBI float the criterion that "defenders of the US Constitution against federal government and the UN" should be reported to the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

On 10/24, this treasonous bill was "Referred to Senate committee: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs."

I guess we're about to find out how serious we all really are.

[Via Les K, who pointed me to View from the Porch]

We're the Only Ones Hoist by Our Own Petard Enough

The police chief's wife filed a temporary restraining order against him under the state Prevention of Domestic Violence Act.

As a result, the police chief in this seaside resort is not permitted to carry a gun.

And let's see: wifey throws a fit at school resulting in a disorderly conduct 911 call, she falls into the ocean, she's "pretty much suffering a nervous breakdown," and yet the catch-all system where disarmament orders based on unproven, highly motivated complaints are de rigueur in domestic disputes...

In fairness to her, maybe he's the reason she's so stressed out. The point being, without due process, we've allowed the precedent of infringing first and verifying second to become the unquestioned "law of the land."

Ah well. The chief spent a career, among other things, enforcing New Jersey "gun laws" against non "Only Ones," and enjoying a privileged status that any of us would have been destroyed for emulating. It's tough for me to sympathize.

We're the Only Ones Touchy-Feely Enough

A suspended Marysville police officer is accused of molesting or propositioning 14 girls ages 12 to 17, including mentally ill, mentally retarded and injured children.

Good grief.

[More from "The Only Ones" Files]

[Via Declan]

This Day in History: October 27

Those who have long too successfully laboured to inflame my people in America by gross misrepresentations, and to infuse into their minds a system of opinions, repugnant to the true constitution of the colonies, and to their subordinate relation to Great-Britain, now openly avow their revolt, hostility and rebellion.