Looks Like the Fresh Meat Has Arrived

I think weapons should be only allowed for police and army, the people who are in charge of protecting a country, unfortunatly, the NRA lobbies o much with politician, and has too much power. One day you will need, for the safety of all of you, to separate yourself of your guns.

C BOSSY, A french student who doesn’t like weapons…

Really?

This isn't a set-up? Or one of our guys being cute?

If you choose to reply, please remember you are representing gun owners in front of an audience inclined to judge us all by your words. As tempting as following initial instincts might seem...

Aborting the Exhibit

Shvarts will not be allowed to install her project unless she admits she did not try to inseminate herself and induce miscarriages and promises that no human blood will be displayed in her exhibit...

“That said, Yale does not encourage or condone projects that would involve unknown health risks to the student,” Storr said.

Wonder where they got that idea?

Well, we're making progress with the "Lux" part, but I think we still have a ways to go with "Veritas." Right now it's tough telling where the most repellent effluvia is discharging from--the administration or the monster they helped create.

We're the Only Ones Diplomatic Enough

At his residence at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, Zalmay Khalilzad displays a banged-up AK-47 assault rifle from Saddam Hussein's arsenal: a souvenir from a war Khalilzad supported and a regime he helped topple.

It doesn't say if it has been rendered inoperable. If not, we might ask he why can he have one and Wayne Fincher cannot. Not that I'd expect the craven opportunists at BATFU to go after anyone with actual power.

And no, this is not a case of diplomatic immunity, where we give foreigners special "Only Ones" powers and ability far beyond those of mortal sovereign citizens.

This guy works for "The Vote Freedom First President."

[Via KABA Newslinks]

Rational Thinking

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World

Well then, we'd better all disarm. Some wacko might try to hoard when things get really tight.

A Conservative Estimate

Clinton met with the Tribune-Review's editorial board, including Scaife, last month. Afterward, Scaife wrote an editorial titled "Hillary, Reassessed," declaring how impressed he had been by the former first lady.

"Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her," Scaife wrote.

Yeah, just like "conservative" Faux News' owner Rupert Murdoch.

Anybody else tired of these frauds playing them for suckers?

A Case Study in Pictures

The "professionals" have made it clear that police are "the Only Ones" who should be armed on college campuses.

Let's explore that with a school shooting from not so long ago, at a university that agrees with that policy, Case Western Reserve. [Really? You can't even have kitchen utensils?]

Understand that it took the police seven hours from the initial sound of gunfire to gain control of the situation.

Understand that the initial armed responders fled the scene, allowing the assailant to take control of the building:

Then you can see campus police arriving on the scene. They throw themselves at the wall, scrambling for cover as Halder starts shooting at them

Halder was firing so aggressively, according to Sergeant Daniel Stein, that he and his partner retreated outside behind some parked cars to check each other for bullet wounds.

You can see what happened for yourself. Go here and click "Launch."

Let's begin our little photo essay joining "Dateline NBC," already in progress:

What would you do--hide or run? Pick up a phone to call for help or stay as quiet as possible?

Note the assumptions. Defending yourself isn't even considered worth mentioning.

So let's see what the people who do have guns are doing while the unarmed people who depend on them--the ones hiding and running and calling for help and staying as quiet as possible are doing just that--for hour, after hour, after hour...But before we do, let's get a bit of media bias out of the way:

Note the voice-over for the scary gun picture 2 minutes and 50 seconds into the video: "...a volley of automatic gunfire..."

The killer was reported to be armed with a 9mm Cobray semiautomatic pistol.

OK, on to our montage. Can you spot what all these pictures have in common?



In fairness, not all the cops stayed protected. According to MSNBC, these guys arrived 20 minutes after the shooting started and entered the building "under the gaze of an entire city":



Meanwhile, those inside had to wait another six-and-a-half HOURS for the situation to end.

Because what did we see when the "Only Ones" did initially encounter the armed lunatic? Look quickly--it's at 12 minutes and 19 seconds into the 12 minute and 25 second video, and only lasts a few seconds:


Really? That's what they teach when you have a clear shot and vice-versa, to immediately TURN YOUR BACK on your assailant and run?

Well, it worked. They were safe. Anybody want to trust that it will also work for you?

What's amazing is how far this country has strayed from its founding principles to where we are even having this debate.

Educating Joedy

Police response was faulted, not school policy which is designed to prevent such occurrences.

Yeah, that design worked great.

I guess some minds are just unopenable.

In the Spirit of Bipartisanship

From Sherrod Brown:

Thank you for expressing support for an amendment to S.2483, the National Forests, Parks, Public Land, and Reclamation Projects Authorization Act, that would allow loaded firearms in United Stated National Parks.

Passing legislation that allows states to override federal jurisdiction over carrying firearms in federal parks sets a precedent that implies it may be appropriate for the federal government to override state jurisdiction over other gun carrying laws. I do not think it is appropriate for Congress to override the separate jurisdictions of state and federal government. As I consider the implications of promoting state jurisdiction over gun carrying laws in federal parks, I will keep the views expressed in your letter in mind.

Hmmm:

...implies it may be appropriate for the federal government to override state jurisdiction over other gun carrying laws...

Well, let's see:

...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Now consider William Rawle, whose "View of the Constitution" was the constitutional law text used at Harvard and Dartmouth until the mid-19th century. George Washington wanted Rawle to be the first Attorney General.

His take on the 2nd Amendment:

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give the Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under a general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any pursuit of an inordinate power either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.

So yeah, no sh**, Sherrod.

But don't be too hard on him. In the spirit of "bipartisanship," democrat Brown is simply supporting the position of our republican "Vote Freedom First President."

I wonder if "this administration" feels the same way about the rest of the Bill of Rights?

And they say there are no stupid questions.

Shameless Plug: The Root of the Problem

“Boston anti-gun group leader [is a] disgraced police director,” reads the Boston NOW headline, announcing the opening of the first satellite office for the Washington DC-based Reaching Out to Others Together (ROOT).

“The group says it doesn’t expect its local leader’s past, which included a stint in federal prison, to be a distraction.”

What? An anti-gun group headed by a felon?

"The Root of the Problem" is my Rights Watch column for the June 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine, on sale now at firmly-rooted newsstands throughout the Republic.

We're the Only Ones Tearful Enough

Orange County Court Judge Robert Freehill said he was torn about what punishment best fit Heatherine Tomlinson's crimes yesterday, but in the end, he heeded her tearful plea for mercy.

Freehill sentenced the former county correction officer to five years' probation for the felonies that got her fired: Identity theft, possession of stolen property and five counts of forgery, all arising from Tomlinson's December 2006 booze-buying spree with someone else's credit card. She found the card at an ATM.

Thanks, Judge Bob. I'm sure you'll have plenty of mercy left over if any non-"Only One" comes before you charged with the heinous crime of possessing the means of unlicensed self defense. Just let us know how hard you want them to cry.

[Via Declan]

We're the Only Ones Buddy-Buddy Enough

A Tulsa police officer is now suspended with pay. He's the subject of a criminal investigation.

Police Chief Ron Palmer says Officer Buddy Visser was relieved of duty Tuesday afternoon. Visser is being investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.

...In 2000, Visser and his wife, Officer Lori Visser were fired after being accused of pulling over a car while off-duty and in personal cars, and pointing guns at the people inside.

In 2001, an arbitrator declared the Visser's were wrongfully terminated and ordered them back to work.

What? You're not supposed to use "the Buddy system"? You mean the perks of being an "Only One" don't include a little extra money-making on the side?

[Via Jeffersonian]

This Day in History: April 21

That hearing of an insurrection in a neighboring county, he had removed the powder from the magazine, where he did not think it secure, to a place of perfect security; and that upon his word and honour, whenever it was wanted in any insurrection, it should be delivered in half an hour; that he had removed it in the night time to prevent an alarm, and that Captain Collins had his express commands for the part he had acted; he was surprised to hear the people were under arms on this occasion, and that he should not think it prudent to put powder into their hands in such a situation.