A Huge Success!

So how did it go? And remember — news of the rallies had garnered plenty of free advance notice publicity from media outlets across the land.

ABC News put the throng at “about 150 marchers.”

My Rights Watch column for the January 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine is now online.

The Most Important Point

The gunman was killed by a member of the church's armed security staff before police arrived...

This is what we must focus on.

Yeah, But What About Before They Get There?

Boston cops have spent the past year undergoing specialized training on how to confront and stop a crazed gunman such as the teenage killer who walked into a Nebraska mall last week and murdered eight people in a shooting spree, BPD Commissioner Ed Davis told me.

Really?

And how does Ed propose to get his crack team on site before the killer has completed his mission?

Virtually Guaranteed!

But administrators insist the university's carefully crafted gun procedures virtually guarantee a gun-free room...

And if they don't...?

The Crappiest Place on Earth

There was a little less enchantment in the Magic Kingdom Sunday morning when a 63-year-old Pennsylvania woman was taken into custody for allegedly bringing a loaded semi-automatic into the park.

Hardly surprising.

Really Enforcing the Law?

Let's try enforcing the current laws, sentence gun-toters to full prison sentences- and make prisons a place they won't ever want to go back to.

Which laws would those be that we're supposed to enforce? If it's being a "gun-toter," then I know someone quite well who is guilty, and unapologetically so, and he and his family are still here as a result. If it's not registering a semiauto after California ordered it, well...

I'll ask this again: Isn't "enforcing the current laws" precisely what the government was doing at Ruby Ridge and Waco?

The subtitle of The War on Guns, "Notes from the Resistance," isn't just there for decoration. It's an underlying theme throughout. Me, I'm for repealing current gun laws.

[Via Voolfie]

Gun Free Zones T-Shirt

John Hardin has designed one.

We're the Only Ones Off Target Enough

“You take Olympic shooters, and they practice all the time, and they can hit a fly off a cow’s nose from 100 yards,” said Mr. Cerar, the retired commander. “But if you put a gun in that cow’s hand, you will get a different reaction from the Olympic shooter.”

It would seem "Only One" metaphors are also off a bit...

[Via Declan]

This Day in History: December 10

On December 10, Col. S.B. Webb and his regiment conducted a raid against the British-held Long Island. The raid was quickly broken up by some British warships. Webb and his men were eventually captured.