We're the Only Ones Treating You Like Animals Enough

They treated us like animals. They were not there to protect and serve, they were there to search and destroy.

I guess I have to disagree here. If they'd treated you like animals, you'd be left laying in a pool of your own blood for hours--just like your dogs.

But they did treat you like terror hostages. Which is what you were.

Which makes Prince George's (Md.) County head "Only One" Michael Jackson a terrorist.

[Via Brian F]

Surprise!

Surprise weapons ban targets bow, blow-gun use

The Blow-Gun Menace must be destroyed! I wonder if it distinguishes between "assault blow guns" and "patrol blow guns"?

Here's the agenda.

Here's the ordinance.

These are the folks with nothing better to do. They really couldn't think of a safety workaround that doesn't involve a ban?

Somehow, none of this surprises me.

How Many Women Gang-Raped by Blacks Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?

I thought the political left said we couldn't joke about this kind of stuff--that it was taboo, that there is nothing funny about rape, that racial jokes are hate speech...but I guess it's OK now, because they're not only doing it, but defending it--hell, they say they're proud of it. And we all kow how funny and insightful America's beloved comedienne, Sandra Bernhard is.

Personally, I don't think her act is anything but pure hatred coming from a person with mental issues, "her large heart, her generous talent, and her big mouth" notwithstanding . She ain't "part of who" I am.

But she does help define part of who I'm not.

Unlike the left, I think women should be able to send aggressors fleeing.

And unlike the left, I think peaceable people of all races should be able to as well.

And religions.

And "persuasions."

But what would I know, being a right wing knuckledragger?

Where's the outrage from NOW? Or from race hustlers Jesse and Al? As part of my CUM ULLA SELLA IN PUGNO TABERNA philosophy, I'd like to see the left eat one of their own over this. Or be exposed for the hypocrites they are when the target is a conservative woman.

Ask the Expert

"It would be a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win"...

Ah, gee, Woody Allen, weren't you the guy who was bangin' your girlfriend's adoptive daughter and then ran away with her? And a judge called your conduct with another of her daughters, then seven, "grossly inappropriate"?

I guess you would know something about disgrace and humiliation.

A Dedication

The dedication page of my new book reads: To the man I had to shoot to save my life.

Susan Callaway shares a fascinating story about a first step on a journey.

Compare her mindset to those of doughy Oprah-watchers, Obama supplicants and sneering urban sophisticates who fear and disparage guns. What would have obviously happened to one of them?

Some of us will be familiar with her experience--the realization of threat, the tunnel vision, the decision not to freeze but to act, the after-incident shakes...

That emphasizes the training, awareness and mindset she has come to understand and now teaches others.

She mentions a booklet at the end--I hope she doesn't think I'm being pushy by bringing this up, but I've been privileged to see it and have encouraged her to develop it into a standalone that people outside of her classes can benefit from.

We're the Only Ones Imminently Threatened Enough

A Phoenix man who held an armed burglar at gunpoint in his home was shot several times by a responding officer, police said Thursday...

"We fire upon people when we believe there is a danger to ourselves or others," Thompson said. "So what exactly the officer was thinking, I would say yeah, that for him to fire he would have believed there was a danger, there was an imminent threat right there."

And we all know an armed citizen should always be considered "an imminent threat."

This is why we can't allow guns on campuses. This is why we cannot allow concealed carry. This is why we cannot allow open carry. Because how is a poor "Only One" to know?

If you think about it, this is why we cannot allow guns in the home, which not only is the scene for most domestic violence, but unlike alcohol-serving establishments where guns can be prohibited, it may contain both!

Dustin's Gun Blog has more.

Following Lynch Mobs on the Right

Still, it's really a wondrous, and repugnant, sight to behold the Bush-following lynch mobs on the Right melodramatically defend the Virtues of Privacy and the Rule of Law. These, of course, are the same authoritarians who have cheered on every last expansion of the Lawless Surveillance State of the last eight years -- put their fists in the air with glee as the Federal Government seized the power to listen to innocent Americans' telephone calls; read our emails; obtain our banking, credit card, and library records; and create vast data bases of every call we make and receive and every prescription we fill and every instance of travel and other vast categories of information that remain largely unknown -- all without warrants or oversight of any kind and often in clear violation of the law.

Here's another angle on a controversy that erupted here the other day. And yes, criminal privacy violations are wrong. I'd like to see more of us demand that it stop and that violators be held accountable.

Here's the train I can't hop on:

As despicable as I personally find the Palin hacking to be, it pales in comparison to the Bush crimes, because when someone runs for President or Vice President, they voluntarily cede vast amounts of their personal privacy, which is why they're required to disclose things like their medical records, tax returns, assocational history, and other financial documents...

The key word is "voluntarily." They don't have to run for office. The hacking was wrong.

I don't think it qualifies to be a part of a "lynch mob" if one's position is consistent, and there are numerous examples where I've strayed from the topic of guns to protest citizen surveillance and other intrusive police state actions.

A while back, a couple of you in "comments" asked why I don't branch from guns and cover more Liberty-oriented topics. In fact, I do, and you can find plenty of examples--heck, just yesterday we had a doozy. But I'm careful what I emphasize lest it drag me into a long and time-consuming debate. It's tough enough to get some of us to agree on the best way to proceed in protecting RKBA. I've actually had people chew me out and tell me where to go because they had always agreed with me before, and now felt betrayed that I was such an idiot when I touched the nerve of one of their other cherished beliefs.

And then I get the other kind, who'll complain if I wander from the reservation that they thought this site was supposed to be about guns.

To me, the keystone issue is guns, because unless we can defend ourselves and our ideas...

Like the saying goes, it's not about guns, it's about freedom. And what I do here and in my magazine columns is my niche.

So that's where I'll continue to focus, although occasionally I will pick up on whatever the hell else it pleases me to address. People who object to that can form a line and I'll give them every cent of their money back.

[Via Mama Liberty]

This Day in History: September 20

[A]t the Distance of about two Miles, the Enemy began to canonade, but did Us no Damage, We approached half a Mile nearer and then landed without Opposition in a close deep Swamp which extends to very near the Fort, here we formed and marched in the best Order we could towards the Fort to Reconnoitre, Major Hobby of Waterbery’s with a Detachment flanked the left Wing, and was Something advanced before the main Body when he was attacked in crossing a deep Muddy Brook by a Party of Indians from whom he received a heavy Fire, but our Men pushing on they soon gave Way and left us the Ground; in this Rencountre we had a Serjeant, a Corporal & three Privates killed and one missing, Eight Privates wounded, three of which died the ensuing night, Major Hobby shot thro’ the Thigh, Capt. Mead thro’ the Shoulder & Lieut. Brown in the Hand, these Gentlemen are all out of Danger—Night coming on & the Swamp almost impassible we drew our Men together & cast up a small Intrenchment to defend Ourselves in Case of an Attack in the Night.