El Rushbo Shilling for Rambo

How ironic it is that the fictional John Rambo is so much smarter than the real-life Sylvester Stallone...

We talked about the film's release yesterday.

Now the pistolero tells us Sly got a ton of free publicity for his latest foray into pornographic bloodletting from "conservative champion" Rush Limbaugh--you know, the guy out there hawking Mitt Romney, the "weapons of unusual lethality" candidate...

Everybody's got the neocon fraud the establishment media feeds us as "conservative thought" figured out, right?

Box office figures for yesterday aren't up yet--here's hoping the twenty-something male demographic this atrocity is aimed at has better things to spend money on...guns and liberty would be nice...

Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet...

A gun ownership rights advocate says if the Bush administration has its way, any court in the country would be able to overrule the U.S. Constitution and ban guns for law-abiding citizens to use for self defense or even hunting.

Just in case all the "sportsmen" lining up in a gun store to grin like dolts and shake hands with John Edwards think their hunting guns are safe...

If the "Vote Freedom First President" has his way, his democrat successor, whoever she is, will have the last roadblocks removed.

[Via SameNoKami]

We're the Only Ones Turning a Blind Eye Enough

Madison officials have fired the police supervisor of the midnight shift after officers under his watch were accused of inappropriate relations while on duty.

A hearing ended at about noon for Sgt. Tim Heiden, who police have accused of failing to monitor officers during their shifts. The officers have been accused of theft, stalking and meeting with prostitutes and felons.

Because, you know, "The Only Ones" are so superior to you and me in terms of character, judgment, trustworthiness, morality..all that stuff.

That's why "Chief Jakubson is a respected member of...[the] International Association of Chiefs of Police..."

You know, the GloboCops who teamed up on a report with the Joyce Foundation that funds all those subversive citizen disarmament efforts...

[Via Declan]

We're the Only Ones Dealing Enough

Three more New York City police officers have been suspended without pay and stripped of their guns and badges in a widening police corruption investigation that involves paying confidential informants with drugs, officials said on Wednesday...

Because of problems arising from the scandal, prosecutors have moved to dismiss 80 criminal cases because the officers caught up in alleged wrongdoing were considered critical to successful prosecutions, law enforcement officials said. A hundred more potentially tainted cases are being analyzed, officials said.

Read the whole thing. It's just disgusting.

Only New York "Only Ones," Bloomberg's enforcers, keeping and bearing arms... And remember, don't you dare lift a finger...

Be warned. The biggest street gang will brook no competition.

Where the hell are the feds in this, and why don't they maybe do a no-knock dynamic entry, and seize the Brooklyn South Narcotics bureau building under asset forfeiture...?

[Via Declan]

The UK's "Spiralling Problem"

The spiralling problem with gun culture was highlighted by figures that show 28 firearms crimes are committed in England and Wales every day.

Couldn't they have a lie-in or a buyback or something--you know, something that's been proven to work...?

There were 10,182 firearms offences in the year to the end of September compared with 9,755 in the previous 12 months - an increase of more than 400 crimes, or more than eight every week.

And those are just the crimes that were reported, mind you. If businesses are only reporting one in eight 8 crimes, what do you think the chances are those living in or around the criminal subculture have a higher rate?

Or that the ones being reported are properly accounted for?

"Spiralling" indeed. Like down the drain and into the sewer.

[Via Paul W. Davis]

A Cautionary Tale

On January 19, 2008 I had a negligent discharge of my pistol. It's a Rock Island full size 1911. .45 ACP loaded with Federal Hydro Shok ammunition. This round utilizes a 230 grain jacketed hollow point bullet...The bullet entered my right inner thigh above the knee and exited the calf a couple of inches away lower and more to the rear of my thigh on my thigh.

A first-hand account and it ain't pretty, but is is sobering. Photos are included (just a warning to the squeamish).

Let's be careful out there.

[Via 1894C]

Red's to Get its Day in Court

Why that should have ever been an issue is beyond me, but that's the position the masters have us in.

Anyway, Ryan seems happy, so I'm happy for him.

Now let's just hope the judge will let him argue the law.

The Other Badness in the Bill

From Joe Merchant:

One of the local TV stations did a story on upcoming gun bill hearing. In the story, they misreported some info (I know, shocking). I've seen this bad info popping up on gun blogs, and have tried to fix it.

Here's the skinny: This law is all kinds of bad, but part of the minor stuff is that it requires all retail gun dealers to provide trigger locks. KMTV reported that it mandated the USE of trigger locks.

The problem is it's not part of the bill and diverts needed attention from the real threat...The GunViolence Commission. Take a look at
http://joemerchant24.blogspot.com/2008/01/break-down-of-lb958-ashford-crime-bill.html
and see if you can help me spread the word that we need to drop the fuss over trigger locks and focus instead on the other badness in this bill.

Academics for the Second Amendment Need Your Support NOW

A WarOnGuns guest editorial by
Thaddeus Fendon

To all my friends who are 2nd Amendment Supporters:

Check out:

http://academicssecondamendment.blogspot.com/

These are the original scholars who were defending the 2nd amendment many years ago, long before the "individual right" theory became widely known. They created the foundation of scholarship underlying the legal arguments in our favor today.

Unfortunately, as of today, they have raised only $10,529.58! If this is all the 2nd Amendment is worth to gun owners then we deserve to and will lose it. Hope your chains rest lightly ...

If there is any good news, it's that small amounts of money will actually matter to this organization and your contribution is tax deductible. They are continuing on with their effort to file a brief to the Supreme Court regardless of the support they receive.

This is a critical moment in history. The Supreme Court will decide if the Second Amendment recognizes an individual right and whether that right is deserving of the same level of judicial protection afforded to the other rights recognized by the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments).

Are you tired of your Second Amendment rights being a second class citizen? Ignored, inferior and constantly infringed by tens of thousands of municipal, state and federal outrages? A situation the Bush Justice Department legal brief to the Supreme Court has supported. A situation the NRA has tolerated and even been partly responsible for creating. (For example, the machine gun laws from the 1930s and the 1968 Gun Control Act).

This is your one chance to support people who are trying to change history instead of funding the NRA Executive Director's golden pay package. This chance will probably not come again for a long, long time. Prospects for a pro gun president are nil, and the new President will be appointing more Supreme Court Justices. We cannot afford to put less than a maximum effort into winning this case.

From the founding of our country to today, many have given their lives in defense of our freedoms. I'm just asking you to give money.

Oral arguments begin on March 18. Briefs to overturn the ban are due Feb. 4.

The hard work in preparing briefs is being done right now. Don't delay.

Thad

This Day in History: January 26

The Connecticut Committee of Safety learns that enlistments for service in a regiment to be raised in the western counties of the colony would suffer if the designated colonel for the regiment came from an eastern county; they therefore accepted the resignation of the colonel.