Any Port in a Storm

Citizens should arrive at the Civic Center with photo ID and try to limit their baggage as much as possible with only essential needs including prescription medication. No weapons, including firearms. This no firearm rule applies to those persons with Concealed Handgun licenses.

And leave the driving to us!

[Via Brian F]

"No Guns Allowed" in Action

Police were searching for the person who shot the manager of a Dairy Queen during a robbery attempt Tuesday night on the city's north side.

Plus they gave the robber what he wanted!

Any questions?

[Via Buckeye Firearms Association]

Terror at Hilton Head Island!

A 10-year-old Hilton Head Island boy has been suspended from school for having something most students carry in their supply boxes: a pencil sharpener.

The problem was his sharpener had broken, but he decided to use it anyway.

So they called the cops. They filled out a police report. They suspended him. And best of all:

The boy -- a fourth-grader described as a well-behaved and good student -- cried during the meeting with his mom, the deputy and the school's assistant principal.

HA! They broke him! That has to be done first, before the rebuilding can be done, you know.

They couldn't just throw it away, offer him use of one of their pencil sharpeners, and send him home with a note to his mom saying he needed a new one?

District spokesman Randy Wall said school administrators are stuck in the precarious position between the district's zero tolerance policy against having weapons at school and common sense.

"We're always going to do something to make sure the child understands the seriousness of having something that could potentially harm another student, but we're going to be reasonable," he said.

Bullshit, Randy. There was no "common sense" applied here. There was nothing "precarious" about this, nothing "reasonable." If you maintain otherwise, you're just an ass-covering liar, an enabler of insidious evil, and a punk.

"The school year has begun with zest!" exclaims Principal Jill McAden, who thought the hysteria also warranted a warning letter to inmate-in-training parents.

I'll say.

I did some checking on this school. It's "mission statement":

To ensure excellence in education for every learner that prepares each with the knowledge, skills and personal responsibility to succeed in a rapidly changing global society.

Which of course, means traditional American values are vulgar and regressive. Global values are where it's at. Just add a dash of "tolerance and diversity" (for everything that is approved for collective indoctrination).

One other thing, and I really don't give a damn if this "appears" sexist: the entire school is run by women, and "liberal" ones at that, I think it's safe to assume. In 10 minutes I found only four guys--two phys-ed teachers and a third and fifth grade teacher. It's part of the feminizing boys agenda--make them cry in fear of police authority for having a 3/4" x 1/4" pencil sharpener blade. If that doesn't work, if they still insist on acting out their natures, we can always prescribe psychopharmaceuticals.

And then, when a percentage of them finally snap and go apeshit violent after years of brainwashing, repression and chemical intervention, and when some of those use guns, why we can use that to further justify defanging, declawing and tranquilizing everybody else to fit into the new global order of things. Because you know they'd like all schools to be run like this.

The school, of course, is but a symptom. Primary fault must rest with the parents who allow this to happen, and who then side with the "authorities" instead of defending their young--the true sign that an animal has been domesticated.

Just like with our greater society--the fault lies with every one of us who is not engaged in guarding their own freedom. Thinking someone is going to come along and save us, and do the hard work, take the hits and pay the price for us, is lazy, cowardly and contemptible.

No wonder our masters think they can get away with just about any new outrage their Marxist little minds can dream up.

Kirk's Fate in Doubt

But that may not be enough in a year where home-state presidential nominee Barack Obama is generating huge Democratic enthusiasm at the top of the ticket.

Good. Mark Kirk deserves to go down in flames. And then pointed and laughed at as he skulks away.

Except aside from this blog, I've seen little interest on the part of district gun owners to punish him. So if they don't care, it's tough for me to--except to note that their apathy and refusal is what guarantees that Republicans can always feed them a nice steaming pile of "who else you gonna vote for?" with confidence.

And then their apologists can berate people of principle for voting their conscience, and accuse them of wasting their votes and enabling enemy victory.

A Qualified Political Response

Zargonian sympathizer Pamela Anderson finally weighs in on something she's competent to comment on.

Vanderboegh: Lies and Damn Lies (Without Statistics)

TO: Steve Richardson, Chairman, Gregg County Texas Democrat Party

re: Lies and damn lies (without statistics)

Dear Sir,

In a story on 5 September on the Cox newspaper wire, Jamaal O'Neal has a story entitled "Gun sales brisk ahead of election." In it a spokesman of your party, one Patrick Franklin, is quoted as saying "Republicans used the same tactic in 1992 when Bill Clinton ran for office. Barack Obama is not going to take people's gun rights away. That's not his intention. . . There's soon going to be a discussion in this country about automatic weapons. I think people would agree having an AK-47 on the streets is something that needs to be regulated."

Uh, if I might, let's fact check this amazing leap of lying legerdemain.

1. "Automatic weapons" also called "machine guns" (known to the ATF under the National Firearms Act as "Class III") are already tightly regulated, their possession without a license gets you thrown under the jail for ten years.

2. The "assault weapons" the limp-wristed Mr. Patrick is talking about are, in fact, Class I semi-automatic rifles, no different in function than a Remington semi-auto deer rifle.

3. With the passage of both the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, Bill Clinton was most certainly a gun-banner and Obama, with an even greater legislative majority will do the same, or worse. This despite the undeniable fact that gun control has been a losing political issue for your party ever since. How's that working out down there in Texas, eh?

It is not my fault that your party chose to vest its national leadership hopes in two of the most liberal mokes ever to come down the political pike, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Surely despite their words (and we gun owners have long ago ceased to pay attention to words in an election cycle, either yours or the ill-named "Republicans") they will once more deliver us gun control. It is in their liberal genes.

But to deny it in the press is mendacity to the nth degree.

Far better to shut up about it and hope the electoral sheep pay no notice, don't you think? So please thank Mr. Patrick for once again reminding us gun owners who pay attention to such things of the lying, gun banning Democrat party. Even cognitively dissonant gun owning Democrats ought to perk up at that.

Have a nice day.

Mike Vanderboegh
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126
GeorgeMason1776@aol.com

An "Assault Screwdriver"

...as opposed to a "Patrol screwdriver," I suppose...

[Via Mama Liberty]

His Reassuringly Outdoorsy Side

Their new "Meet Dion" short film ( thisisdion.ca)reveals the professor's reassuringly outdoorsy side; as he snowshoes and fishes with his trusty dog Kyoto, you almost begin to see him as the kind of guy you could swing by to pick up in your 4x4 early on some nippy morning in hunting season. Of course, once the footage runs out, you realize that before you could escape his driveway, Mr. Dion would start asking uncomfortable questions about fuel efficiency, and asking to see the registry papers for the contents of your gun rack.

Kyoto?

He named his dog Kyoto?

That's all I need to know.

Along with this. And this.

[Via Bruce Mills]

A Global Survey

The United States leads the world in economic loss from deaths caused by armed crime, according to a global survey released Friday.

I guess if you believe armed crime is the cause, and not a symptom of failed socialist policies like these one-worlders want to impose everywhere, you could make a case.

Note, as always, the collectivist gungrabbers employ the old one-way street tactic of not factoring in the other side of the productivity balance sheet with lives saved by armed citizens. Also note that the lowest rate of economic loss due to state-sponsored genocide is currently enjoyed by America's tens of millions of peaceable gun owners.

I can't help but wonder if there's a correlation...?

These lying sons of bitches are shameless and relentless in trying to con the childish and weak-minded out of their Liberty. And when you have "Authorized Journalist" co-conspirators like the Associated Press...well, let's just say we shouldn't be surprised when they try to undermine alternative media that tells you things they won't.

[Via Avg Joe]

Thirdpower has more.

Bob Barr Showing Leadership

Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president, has invited GOP Congressman Ron Paul to be his running mate in the upcoming election.

I know this says his presumptive running mate, Wayne Root is OK with this, but what about the LP delegates who approved the ticket? I don't pretend to know how that process works, but I'd assume party leadership is more than simply placing a crown on one's own head. I also find it more than curious that there is currently nothing about this on the LP website, or blog, or press release page.

So what reason could Barr have for doing this?

Oh, I don't know...

[Via Matthew Maynard]

We're the Only Ones Who Really Know How to Treat a Lady Enough

A Memphis police officer was charged with second-degree murder Wednesday after a short-term affair with a woman ended with multiple gunshots...

He has been suspended with pay pending an administrative hearing.

How many times must we demonstrate that "Only Ones" are more responsible and trustworthy with guns than you or I could ever hope to be?

[Via M.R. Jarrell]

A Pre-Announcement

My name is L. Neil Smith. I'm about to make an important announcement for Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. If you would send me any e-mail address(es) of folks you think might be interested, it would be easier, and I would appreciate it. You'll find material to establish my bona fides on Wikipedia.com, or at The Libertarian Enterprise or "The Webley Page."

If you're intrigued, you can reach him at lneilATnetzeroDOTnet .

UPDATE: I'm adding this based on some concerns raised in "Comments." For what it's worth, my personal policy is never to forward anyone's email address to anyone else without consent.

Another Notch

The ability for law-abiding citizens to be able to carry firearms in National Parks has moved forward a major notch today in the US Senate!!

While there are still many steps left to go, this bill passing out of a Senate committee by such a huge **bipartisan** margin (18 to 5!!) has got to send a very strong message to the Department of the Interior, which is considering updating its regulations to allow carry as well.

We shall see. Anybody know if they're going to being it to the floor before the elections?

Firearms Friday

First Hour will be Larry Pratt, interviewing me for his show 'Live Fire' heard nationally around the nation every Saturday. Larry is the President of Gun Owners of America and a great 2nd Amendment supporter. Hour two will be author, columnist and blogger David Codrea. He writes about, and defends our Right to Keep and Bear Arms everyday on WarOnGuns blog.

I'll be on The Michael Dukes Show tonight at 9:00PM EST. Scroll down the right side of his page and click on the "On Air" graphic link to reach the KFAR 660 AM Live Stream (allow a couple minutes in case you need to download their software to listen).

Somos Los Uniqos High Profile Enough

On Thursday, the 35 police were charged with attempted murder and drug crimes and moved from jail to a state prison. And it was just one of several cases of high-profile police corruption or misconduct this week.

Damned American gun shows.

[Mas de "Los Unicos" Archivos]

This Day in History: September 12

September 12. 1775
- The Second Continental Congress reconvenes in Philadelphia. Three new Georgia delegates join the deliberations.
- In London, Lord Dartmouth announces that 10,000 stand of arms and 6 light artillery pieces would be sent to North Carolina where Governor Martin claims a large body of loyalists would oppose the rebels with force.