More than Expected

Leave it to the collectivists, literally in this case, to put a spin of not just success, but huge success, on a program that suffered a 20% drop in volume from last year and doesn't look like it can sustain itself as an annual event.

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...

The Sipsey Street Neighborhood Watch

This is probably going to be a recurring feature, a way to bring updates. It'd be simpler if you just bookmarked the blog and went there every day, but I'll be an occasional nag just in case.

Refuse to Cooperate

A Liberal Gets It!

A Common Language of Resistance

Beyond the Internet and Talk Radio: A Call for Creating New Committees of Correspondence

Will Book Tour for Food

Have laptop and sleeping bag, will travel.

We're the Only Ones Nationwide Enough

[A]ll qualified off-duty and retired law enforcement are allowed, by federal law, to carry a concealed gun for personal self-defense irrespective of state law.

Because as we've proven time and again on this site, the "Only Ones" are just so damn much better than the rest of us.

[Via DJK and Andre]

The Few, the Proud...

...the San Jose "Only Ones."

Watch the video.

Good grief.

A Solution to Too Much Paperwork

Gun enthusiasts said it would deter crime. Gun-control advocates said the measure would increase it, spawning needless deaths.

But Minnesota's permit-to-carry handgun law appears to have done neither, according to an analysis of state crime statistics. Instead, it has accomplished something else entirely in the five years since it was enacted: It's kept clerks at sheriffs' offices hopping busy with paperwork.

So we can stop with the forms and fees and dispense with this permission nonsense, right?

Now that it's been proven (yet once again) the Dodge City scenario is a lie, we know peaceable armed citizens don't need supervising. And those who aren't peaceable don't get permits anyway.

As for crime not being deterred, I don't see where the data sets they're citing would show that one way or another. But here's what we do know: we don't need to demonstrate how many fires are deterred by equipping buildings with extinguishers and sprinkler systems to know that they'll be in a better position to remain standing should one break out.

It's Good to be the Prince

Prince Andrew spent four days in Tunisia with his friend Tarek Kaituni, who has a gun-smuggling conviction, a spokeswoman for the British royal confirms.

Eh. What do we expect?

His older brother is big on Algoreism, while his royal nephew took one RAF helicopter to visit the Royal Squeeze and another to go to a stag party.

Every time I hear Charles open his krovvy rot, I'm reminded of what Thomas Paine knew a couple hundred years back, and what anyone who worships "royalty" is too incompetent at self-determination to grasp:

[T]he idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet laureate.

Besides, why settle for mere kings when you can use good old American know-how and vote yourself a Lightworker?

I Wholeheartedly Agree

I am proud that we have one of the few police services around the world that do not regularly carry firearms and I want to keep it that way.

Me too, Jacqui, me too. Now if we could just do the same for places like Chicago, New Yor...

If they Can't Shut Us Down as 'Unauthorized Journalists'...

...they'll shut us down as "Unauthorized Lobbyists."

Well, we were all hoping for change, weren't we...?

How Many Blogs Does the World Need?

Those ancient debates about whether the Internet lowers journalistic standards and drags the Mainstream Media into the slime have become irrelevant. For a large chunk of the electorate--the young chunk--the Internet has become the major source of information.

Obviously, it's not a question of need, but one might ask the same thing about "Authorized Journalists," particularly when the first blog leftist Time cites in its Top 25 is the fascist HuffPo.

Eric Holder willing, we'll continue occupying our little corner to bring to light what you won't see in the public/private partnership media. And Eric Holder not willing, I suspect we'll be getting...uh...creative at "guerilla marketing" by then...

[Via Joe G]

We're the Only Ones Increasing Our Caseload Enough

A sex-crimes prosecutor in California has pleaded not guilty to tying up and raping a colleague while threatening her with an ice pick and a handgun.

Note that while this is "alleged," what it proves beyond argument is that one of these prosecutors is either a monster or a liar.

It also shows that when you're an "Only One," you can't be too "picky." And I do apologize for that.

[Via Mack H]

This Day in History: November 24

Capt William Hubbel of Col Webbs Regiment, tried at a late General Court Martial for "behaving in a low, scandalous, and unofficerlike manner" -- The Court having acquitted the prisoner The General orders him to be released.