We're the Only Ones Tommy Udo Enough

Video showing a woman being pushed down some stairs by a police officer that led to a battery charge against the woman has prompted calls for charges against the officer. [More]

Yeah, that and lying about it and filing false charges makes an eight-hour suspension seem about right, wouldn't you say?



What is this, "Only Ones" imitate art?

Incidentally, if you didn't hear it, Richard Widmark passed away last week. Sadly, my appreciation for his work as a classic American film actor is tempered by disappointment in his real life support for citizen disarmament:

...Widmark often portrayed killers, cops and Western gunslingers. But he said he hated guns.

"I know I've made kind of a half-assed career out of violence, but I abhor violence," he remarked in a 1976 Associated Press interview. "I am an ardent supporter of gun control. It seems incredible to me that we are the only civilized nation that does not put some effective control on guns."

Which I guess means he preferred the advantage going to psychotics on both sides of the law who push women down stairs.

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When Thulsa Met Nelson

He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning... like Mandela is.

Well, uh, yeah...

They're both commie cult figures.

Was there ever any doubt?

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Hundreds of Chicago Public School students are expected to converge on the James R. Thompson Center Tuesday morning, urging state legislators to enact stiffer gun laws after a student was killed in the parking lot of the Simeon Career Academy on Saturday.

More than 400 Simeon students will be bused by the district to attend the protest outside the Thompson Center, which houses Illinois state offices. Students from other schools such as Jones College Prepatory High School are also expected, officials said.

Ah, an appeal based totally on emotion by the most ignorant and inexperienced among us, designed to further restrict unalienable rights! And "Public Schools chief" Arne Duncan makes the agenda clear, just in case anyone needs something to throw in the face of those who call the "slippery slope" paranoia:

[W]e know the cure for this public health epidemic—getting rid of guns.

Of course he means for someone else go about that task.

And, of course, they somehow have the money for this at a time when "The state is looking at a $750 million deficit" and the state board of education is slashing funds for education while pouring them into pork projects. You'd at least think they'd pour some of it into the lambs they're exploiting in a shameless propaganda display worthy of Joseph Goebbels.

Remember the line from The Blues Brothers, "I hate Illinois Nazis"?

So many, from legislators to educators to an apparent majority of the stupid, dependent and herdlike Eloi electorate are worthy of that contempt.

Oklahoma Colleges Welcome School Shooters

After strong protests, Oklahoma Senate leaders decided Monday to shelve a bill to allow military veterans and others with firearms training to carry concealed weapons on college campuses.

University presidents, faculty members and students had loudly opposed the measure, which sponsors said would improve campus security. Educators said it would have the opposite effect.

University of Oklahoma President David Boren had argued the bill would hurt recruitment of students and faculty. It also would pose a dilemma for police trying to determine whether a person wielding a weapon was a "deranged gunman or someone who thinks he is doing good vigilante work."

Well, yeah. Besides, how are you going to be considered as a potential Bloomberg running mate if you don't view self defense as "vigilante work"? And as long as we can keep our recruitment efforts unsullied by icky guns, we can always get fresh bloo...uhh, replaceme...uhh, new students and faculty.

But don't worry, Okies--particularly those of you who can demonstrate training, dicipline and a track record in proper firearms use. If any school shooters do show up on one of your campuses, David Boren'll stop 'em. He or one of those "university presidents, faculty members and students" who presume authority and competence to make such choices for you.

Victims of Discrimination

During the past three weeks, a network of about 30 black women bloggers have been blistering Sharpton and the local NAACP for coddling the black teenagers accused taking a neighborhood woman at gunpoint into her West Palm Beach home, raping her and forcing her to have sex with her own pre-teen son.

Earlier this month, Sharpton stood in front of the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office with local NAACP officials and relatives of the accused Dunbar Village rapists to complain that these teenage boys are victims of racial discrimination.

Yeah, no wonder Snuffy pal Al and the NAACP (shouldn't that be NAAPC?) are such disarmament advocates. Poor little misunderstood guys never had a chance.

You know what we need?

A "rap" version of Gee, Officer Krupke.

NRA: Arm the Teachers!

FAIRFAX: Reversing almost nine years of policy advocacy, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has repudiated his earlier pronouncement that "we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel."

"I was wrong," LaPierre now writes in the April 1 issue of "America's First Freedom Magazine."

This would be stunning news, if true. Click on the title link for more.

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Later May Be Too Late

If we believe that the Declaration of Independence is correct and we are "endowed" with "unalienable" rights, including the Second Amendment, then those rights come from a source beyond and superior to the state and as such can only be relinquished to the state by our own craven acts of mental and physical capitulation.

This is quite simply a brilliant analysis that needed to be said and now needs to be read. Go and do so, and share its url far and wide.

Well done, Mr. Case, and thank you.

[Via Ron W]

NJ Intent on Destroying Sarco

Sarco Inc., one of the nation's largest wholesale and retail suppliers of firearms and parts, is in danger of losing its state license to sell weapons because of alleged lax security measures.

Sarco's state license to operate was supposed to expire on Monday, but a Superior Court judge in Morristown last week extended the license until this Friday, when he said he would hear arguments on whether Sarco owner Charles Steen should have it renewed for another three years.

I've been holding up commenting about this thread from Gunboards.com since the weekend. I wanted to verify it before spreading what might just be a destructive rumor, so I called Sarco yesterday morning. The lady I spoke with told me the person I needed to talk with was unavailable, so I left my information and requested a call back, which never happened. Considering their legal position, it's understandable that they'll want to keep their cards held in close.

This news story confirms what was discussed on the forum--a former employee stole around 50 firearms. Gee, no wonder missing guns are "showing up in places they shouldn't." And now it looks like bigger thieves are set on victimizing the supplier again. The police state of New Jersey seems to have found a way to influence the national supply chain and destroy a business they hate, all in one stroke.

There is one silver lining: they could not have obtained a better attorney for navigating the labyrinth of New Jersey "gun laws."

[Via John R]

A 50/50 Chance

[WARNING: VULGAR LANGUAGE ADVISORY]

I popped my trunk to show him what I'm workin' wit',
first I showed him the Teck
I told him Niggas give these shits respect
but you don't want this, Man
these shits is known to jam
this is a little smaller here,
and a little more common, 9 Millimeter Ruger
16 shots, hollow points will go through ya
and this? this here? this is a 12 gauge Mossburg kid,
two shots and you can wet like half a block
this shit here gets my dick hard,
it's a Calicko, it holds a Hundred shots
if you can't kill your beef with this you need to stop
c'mon, pick somethin' now nigga, you know it's hot

So here's the dilemma for "hip hop artist" 50 Cent.

Which gungrabber does he vote for, Barack or Hillary?

Why not flip a fitty cent piece?

Why anyone would want this guy's vote is beyond me--as is why his political wisdom is considered newsworthy. That they come into play at all speaks more of engineered societal degradation than it does anything else.

And every vote so influenced cancels one of ours.

This Day in History: April 1

General Greene will march with his Brigade this Day for Providence, and if I find that the Enemy are at Rhode Island, I will soon join him. Governor Cooke will forward this to you, and will inform you whether this Alarm is well founded or not. If it is you must repair to Providence with the Troops under your Command. If it is not, you will proceed on your March to New York.