Selfish Gun Owner Murders Bear

While this happened in our neighbor to the north, it does definitively illustrate why we can't loosen the rules in our National Parks!

Why not join with "the voices of experience," that is, government pensioners, in wishing this man had died instead?

Hey, "The green blood still runs deep."

What are these people, Vulcans? Anyway, that's obviously more important than someone else's red blood.

Lightworker

Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment.

I'm not quite clear on this: What's the difference between a Lightworker and a Daywalker?

I've said before:

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

Isn't it telling how those who are overtly hostile to traditional religion embrace their new demigod with the fervor of Luciferian theosophist zealots?

[Via SIH]

We're the Only Ones Conniving Enough

"We will investigate if the leaders of the prison were conniving in this," Paulo Gomes, a state prosecutor, told reporters.

I guess "a plasma TV, a DVD player, $172,000 in cash, gym equipment, two refrigerators and a couple of guns" could conceivably get into a prisoner's cell without "Only One" cognizance...we're not quite sure how, but give us enough mon...uh...time, and we'll figure something out...

And bear in mind, the people who can't even keep guns out of cellblocks tried to ban them in the nation as a whole.

[Via Zachary G]

Competing Interests

In a recent speech to the National Rifle Assn., McCain portrayed himself as a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment. But his past statements show that he thinks that some NRA positions "actually threaten the interests of law enforcement," said Dennis Henigan, legal director of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. "He was conspicuously silent on those when he spoke to the gun lobby."

We don't really want to look too closely at that, and what it implies, do we?

It might compete with our interests in reassuring ourselves via rationalizations.

The March of Folly

I guess the irony is lost on these people...

Meanwhile, Over in Sarah Brady Paradise...

A man who police said "was tired of life" drove into a crowd of pedestrians Sunday and then went on a stabbing rampage in Tokyo's top electronics and video game district, killing seven people and wounding 10, authorities said...

A witness told NHK the suspect dropped the knife after police threatened to shoot him.

So I guess he wasn't really all that "tired of life" after all.

Funny how someone with a gun is what it takes to stop these things, isn't it?

[Via SameNoKami, James Bond and AvgJoe]

Coming Out of the Gun Safe

Called "open carry" by its supporters, the movement has attracted grandparents, graduate students and lifelong gun enthusiasts like the Jensens...

...Police acknowledge the practice is legal, but some say it makes their lives tougher.

Yeah, jobs can be tough. That's why they're called jobs.

Considering the source, this article was surprisingly balance, but I actually found some of the comments more interesting than the article--in terms of revealing ignorant leftist hatred and bigotry against gun owners.

So much for tolerance and diversity.

As I wrote before:

I also belong to a group that is forced by social prejudices to keep a low profile--often times to hide my choices and practices lest I suffer disapproval and ultimately, life-threatening persecution by the state.

I am a gun owner and I live a gun owner life style.

I don't know if I was born with a tendency to be this way, or if it was an acquired disposition. All I know is, I don't see why I should be forced to change. Truth be known, I like owning guns, and am happy with who I am. I hope I suffer no repercussions by "coming out of the safe," but I just can't hide the truth any longer.

We gun owners have been living and working among you. Our kids go to school with yours. We may be your doctor, or minister, or your child's teacher. We may even work in city administration, or the courts, or on the police force. And we are sick of being abused for simply being who we are, all because of hoplophobic prejudice and fear. We don't see any reason why we should have to put up with it any more.

You'd think the gunbashers would grok that.

[Via Plug Nickel Times and Jeffersonian]

We're the Only Ones Dictatorial Enough

Two weeks after a shooting at Seattle's Northwest Folklife Festival, Mayor Greg Nickels reportedly plans to announce restrictions Monday on concealed weapons on city property.

Nickels' office declined to offer any details about the executive order. A news conference was scheduled at the Police Department with Nickels, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske and state legislators...

Essentially, my understanding is that Mayor Nickels is going to announce an (executive order) pertaining to prohibiting weapons on city property...

...Executive orders are directives to city departments. They do not require City Council approval. They typically don't apply to the general public, but to the policies and actions of city employees, agencies and properties.

Any attempt by a city or county to ban guns outright in public parks -- unless it exempted holders of permits to carry concealed weapons -- would be illegal under state law, which pre-empts local governments from enacting gun laws that are stricter than state codes...

What's with these big city mayors passing illegal laws--that is, ignoring laws they don't like to impose edicts they intend to enforce against We the People? We saw it recently in Philadelphia and we saw it earlier in San Francisco, where they demonstrated they're "The Only Ones" who can break the law with impunity. If anyone else even rhetorically suggests it and they make real clear how strongly they disapprove.

[Via Rick R]

This Day in History: June 8

Lord Dunmore flees the Governor's Palace to the ship Fowey docked at Yorktown.