Bloody Damned Hypocrite

How does he get by doing anything from a DC address?

[Via Vinnie and Raven's Beak]

BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE

ACADEMICS FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT
IN SUPPORT OF THE RESPONDENT

Per David Hardy, it's now online.

Go. Read.

Waiting to Get Shot

On the newspaper’s Web site, Ms. McNichols said she had looked up to see a police officer shot in the head, then saw the gunman shooting at a public works official. “After that, I was on my stomach under the chairs,” she said. “I laid on my stomach waiting to get shot. Oh, God, it was a horror.”

Hey, just give 'em what they want.

[Via Brillianter]

Enforcing Existing Gun Laws with NRA's Rachel Parsons

An NRA representative agreed with Conley, and more.

"We think that cities should take it a step further and prosecute these people in federal court and send them to federal prisons with longer sentences, and no parole, no plea bargains," said spokeswoman Rachel Parsons.

Thanks, Rachel.

Just so I'm clear: When I went to that NRA California/DoJ Registration Fest a few years back, and tore up their form and told them that was the only one they'd get from me, and then retained ownership of my previously lawfully-purchased firearm in defiance of the new edict, is it NRA paid management's position that I should have gone to prison with no parole or plea bargain had I been convicted as a "gun felon"?

As opposed to following NRA paid management's contention that "honest, law-abiding American[s]" would turn in their guns? Where you even provide the escort service?

And it's in my interest to support "The Winning Team" why again?

[Via 1894C]

A Wolf in the Fold

Thirdpower gives us the his take on AHSA's Heller brief...*

Judas Bob warned us it was coming.

David Hardy characterizes it as a "'false flag' operation."

Why would anyone deliberately choose an acronym that began "AH"...?

[*Via Say Uncle]

Pro-Gun Democrats Sign Heller Brief

Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester are among nine Senate Democrats who signed the brief.

Daniel Barnett sent this to me, and added "Be sure to listen to the MP3 accompanying the article as well. Would that the Democratic Party could clone this guy - that would be one way to give Feinstein and Schumer a permanent case of heartburn."

No question, it would be an improvement, but I do note GOA gives Tester a "B" and Baucus a "D." I don't know why, so if you do, feel free to educate us.

I know Daniel is reaching out, and I don't want to discourage that--but my problems with his party as a whole is I just can't figure what part of their platform even remotely respects the clear limitations imposed by this. Of course, I could say the same thing about the modern "Big Tent" Vichy Conservative faction that's taken over the Republicans, too.

As an aside, note the characteristic ignorant assumption of the "Authorized Journalist" reporting this story:

They want the court to rule the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to own guns for their protection.

How the hell are these morons supposed to be watchdogs for Liberty when they don't have a clue as to what rights are?

The Snitch Militia

Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law.

Ah, "public/private partnerships."

Well, it's The Progressive, so I'm going to take that last line with a grain of salt. But I'll also hold onto some other grains in various measures...

[Via SameNoKami]

Meanwhile, Over at the Cult of Set...

How does a cult figure, in the eyes of some something akin to a messiah, make the transition to a political frontrunner - president even - where disappointment will soon crush what seemed to be a journey to a promised land?

Looking into the faces of a more than 16,000-strong crowd in a basketball stadium in Hartford, Connecticut this week, the Mandela magic I'd seen before was there too. Black and white, and the youth; they appeared in a state close to rapture watching Obama speak. Here and there one could see women crying and the some men wiping away tears too.

I'm surprised nobody was speaking in tongues and rolling in the aisles.

This wasn't a political rally, it was a gathering of Thulsa Doom followers.

I talked about the mindlessness here, where I neglected to mention one of the YouTube commentators credited Obama with giving her the strength to flush her cigarettes down the toilet. Can the laying on of hands be far off?

These are, of course, the first people to bristle and hiss like the snakes they worship at any hint of Judeo-Christian values in the public discourse. If it doesn't issue fatwahs, worship Gaia, or revel in the carnal, it deserves no tolerance...

Obama is not a political phenomenon. He's a mystical one. And that ought to scare the hell out of us.

300

The Saturday event organized by Democratic state Sen. Don Perata had enough funding to take in 300 guns for $250 a piece but ran out of money as people arrived to turn in trunkloads of assault weapons.

This...is...OAKLAND!!!

Earlier in the day, two men were fatally shot outside a house in East Oakland, bringing the city's homicide total this year to 16.

I guess their killer didn't hear about the "buyback"...

[Via Jeffersonian]

We're the Only Ones Setting Our Sights on You Enough

When peaceful protesters gathered in Lima, Ohio last month to denounce the SWAT raid in which police shot and killed 26-year-old Tarika Wilson, and wounded her one-year-old son, the local police department apparently stationed snipers from the same SWAT team on the roofs of the buildings overlooking the protest. It’s been six weeks, now. And we still don’t know what happened in that house, or why the unarmed woman and her child were shot.

The Agitator presents a "Police Militarization Roundup," featuring the finest in "Only Ones" vs. The Rest of Us citizen-scopin', door-smashin', flash-bangin' fun. At least that's what the vet in the video says they looked like they were having...

[Via RyanMG]

The Revolution Has Been Cancelled

From reading the comments I see a lot of chest thumping and calls for action. This reads like so much keyboard commando nonsense. Refighting the American revolution is not going to turn the tide, even if it could be won. The mob has become far too accustomed to bread and circuses to want such a change. This slavery has daycare, convenient shopping, and basic cable.

Brillianter has an "Awkward" moment.

It would be easy to get upset with his conclusions here, but when you consider the sorry state of most of our countrymen, including most "activist" gun owners, I'm afraid that would be a bit like killing the messenger. Still, I don't buy into the defeatism--we have no idea what the future holds, nor what will happen if there is a huge disaster--natural, economic, political-- precipitating areas of anarchy, with the attendant need to find out what we're made of, and with the leadership examples and pressures to organize that would necessitate...

This Day in History: February 11

You cannot conceive what a weight these kind of people are upon the Service, and upon me in particular, few of them have any knowledge of the Branches which they profess to understand, and those that have, are entirely useless as officers, from their ignorance of the English Language. I wish it were possible to make them understand, when Commissions are granted to them, that they are to make themselves Masters of the english Language in some degree, before they can be attached to any particular Corps.