"The National Parks Service has announced it will not challenge a court order that temporarily stops the late-term Bush administration policy of allowing CCW-permit holders to carry in National Parks."It won't be pitchforks.
...How many abuses and usurpations need we endure before people take to their pitchforks? [More]
Four people were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Thursday when a driver hurtled his car into a crowd at a parade, narrowly missing an open bus carrying Queen Beatrix and members of her family. [More]You know what we need for cars? Licensing and registration.
The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter's body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users' easy access to the "Forward" button, there are now nine photos of the accident scene, taken just moments after Nikki's death, circulating virally on the Web. In one, her nearly decapitated head is drooping out the shattered window of her father's Porsche.[More]But God forbid you should take a picture of "Only Ones."
An investigation had revealed that the images, taken as a routine part of a fatal accident response, had been leaked by two CHP dispatchers: Thomas O'Donnell, 39, and Aaron Reich, 30.I can't imagine seeing a beloved child like that. I can't imagine soulless ghouls considering it entertainment. It is a perverted cruelty I cannot fathom.
BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.Just so you know where some would like to lead us.
There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent. [More]
Should schools ban starter's pistol?Oh, for the love of...
They don't fire bullets, but deadly symbolism triggers call to keep them out of high school track meets [More]
A British vacationer is being hailed a hero after he thwarted gun-toting pirates attacking a cruise ship — by throwing a deck chair at them. [More]The unreported crime on the high seas is he could not throw lead at them.
A New York City police officer accused of raping an intoxicated woman after helping her home “had sexual intercourse with the physically helpless victim as she lay face down on her bed, having previously vomited multiple times,” the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, said Tuesday in announcing charges against two officers. [More]There's something about a passed-out drunken woman reeking of vomit that just really does it, isn't there? Just knowing that by virtue of being a New York "Only One" she couldn't lift a finger even if she was capable of it...?
I've had two people independently contact me to tell me to approach Bitter in private about this.Ship operators should instead explore non-lethal solutions, said Jeff Pierce, Washington-based executive director of Maritime Police International (MPI). MPI is a global security organization whose membership includes former U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and law-enforcement officers.Right, Jeff. And there's no financial incentive for you to say that, is there?
Arming civilian maritime crews “is a very bad idea unless there is enough firepower to repel the pirates effectively and repeatedly…not something that merchant crews are capable of doing in most instances,” Pierce said.
“Many insurance companies either forbid weapons or dramatically increase rates for ships with weapons on board,” Pierce said. The insurers “have historically told crews to surrender peacefully and to let the insurance personnel handle the situation. ... Arming crews has always been a concern within the industry due to the potential for mutiny.” [More]
So with people worried about things like...uh...basic survival, and their "leaders" looking for new ways to wring even more out of them, how is it the state has $500,000 laying around for the SNUG program ("that's 'guns' spelled backwards")? And how are they going to blo...uh...allocate it?Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the transparent fraud that is "gun control." It's just so obvious.
"The money would be used to provide intervention in hospitals, to hire people to talk to gang members who are shot, right in the emergency room to keep them from retaliating."
You're kidding, right? Tell me you're kidding. [More]
I want to form a Company for my Guard. In doing this I wish to be extremely cautious; because it is more than probable, that in the Course of the Campaign, my Baggage, Papers, and other Matters of great public Import, may be committed to the Sole care of these Men. [More]
Olmsted Township police chief charged with public indecencyReally? Because that gives me a dilemma when I go to the Olmsted Township "Only Ones" Service Department website.
Rangers say McNeeley was partially undressed, kneeling on the ground. [More]
Sailors and Marines along the beach at Mayport began moving the crowd away from the water Saturday afternoon as the amphibious assault vehicles approached across the waves...
During the past week, the troops - Marines from the U.S. and six countries in Central and South America, as well as soldiers from Canada - worked together at Camp Blanding, fast-roping out of helicopters, firing weapons and sharing tactics..."The only difference in identity" said Lt. Col. Jorge Garcia of Colombia, "is in the color of the uniforms. We have the same objectives." [More]
Really?
You're all Oath Keepers?
I recently signed up to attend the 2nd amendment blog bash <http://www.2ablogbash.com/> thinking it would be a good opportunity to network with other AZ bloggers as well as bloggers interested in gun rights, and learn more about the issue.Imagine that! They think poorly of all the GREs? There are now 14 of us, you know, all of us our own people representing our own views. Do they even think poorly of the GREs repeatedly invited back to Cam & Co.? Or just of me? And they'll take that out on one of the writers in any of 60 venues across the nation because of it? Talk about guilt by association.Because I'm not a dedicated gun rights blogger, I was asked to provide my bona fides, and so gave them links to my resume and main website. Even though I've been a blogger since 2003, live a mile from the AZ border, worked on the Marine base for three years and spoke at Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Council in 2005, I was still denied access.
Their reason?
They think poorly of Examiner gun rights guys, so therefore I can't be counted on to behave myself in public. Sheesh!
Since the Gun Rights Examiners I've read all seem to be decent people, I really don't get this. So maybe some of you can give me the skinny on this direct -- don't want to bother the main list with my petty issues.
THX!
2009 Registration ClosedReally? And it just now came to a head? And I shouldn't take it personally, despite what a complete stranger to me said on our Examiner board? What a relief!
Registration has now been closed. Following the Mitt Spammers, Sarah Stalkers, and an email I received warning me that people were asked to submit fake registrations, I have been forced to close it early. The demands on the server and my time to sort out the real from the fake are just too high.
Prosecutors have cleared an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer whose high school pal, after a night of drinking and partying together on South Beach, grabbed the officer's gun and fatally shot himself in the head.Not just an "Only One."
Officer Francisco Fernandez's conduct was ''reprehensible'' for allowing his drunk friend, Miguel Angel Martinez, to play around with his loaded Glock pistol on June 16, 2008, prosecutors said in a final memo released Tuesday. [More]
A Scituate police officer has been placed on leave after he was charged with shoplifting from a Weymouth Stop & Shop where he worked part-time. [More]Obviously more trustworthy than you and me. That's why he's an "Only One" and we're not.
The message is clear, but what the heck does Bill Cosby have to do with genocidal tyrant apologist Bob Astles, or the message promulgated by the Black Star News?
Just this. It's publisher/editor-in-chief, Milton Allimadi, proudly proclaims he "co-founded The Black Star News in 1997 with some savings and with seed money from Camille and Bill Cosby."
Since he bears partial economic investment responsibility for inflicting these people on us, and since the message they promote appears in direct contradiction to the one he preaches, I don't think it's out of line to ask Mr. Cosby if he wants to continue having his name associated with this paper. I think it's fair to ask him and how he likes his "seed money" being used to poison minds in the community he is trying to help with this kind of obscene, hateful nonsense. Because supporting Amin is obscene, as is showing public respect for and promoting the opinions of a twisted creature who does. [More]
I shall be obliged, if you will, agreeable to the requisition therein made, order out one thousand of the Militia of your State, to continue in service, Four Weeks from the time they join the Army. I mention four Weeks, because I think by your late Militia Law, you cannot insist upon their Service for a longer term at one time. But if it can be prolonged, I could wish it might be for six or eight Weeks. [More]
Gail Buckner is also looking at a charge of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. [More]They sound like all-around quality folks, don't they? An "Only One" married to a felon--interesting dichotomy going on in that household.
Barack Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has advocated a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet that would require opposing opinions be linked and also has suggested angry e-mails should be prevented from being sent by technology that would require a 24-hour cooling off period. [More]Chains we can believe in. The weird thing is, it's like they're trying to be outrageous.
The suit asks for $75,000 in damages, and seeks to force the two companies into implementing measures such as arming crews, providing security guards or using alternate shipping routes to protect other sailors. [More]Good for him.
U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Duggan ruled that Detroit Police Officer Tyrine Wheatley, who the jury determined testified falsely against Morningstar, was immune from civil liability because he gave testimony in his role as a police officer and the prosecutor did not rely on Wheatley's false testimony in deciding to charge Morningstar. [More]So you're immune from civil liability by law if you perjure yourself in your capacity as an "Only One"?
Duggan said in a written opinion that Schwarzberg's trial performance was "somewhat less than commendable."So the city attorney plays fast and loose, too?
"The concept might not be a bad concept, but I think there are a lot of flaws," Sen. Tom Libous, whose district includes Binghamton, said of the five-year license renewal plan. [More]It's a terrible concept, Tom. You'd think someone with an A rating from NRA would realize that.
A Moscow district police chief opened fire on the street and in a supermarket early Monday, killing three people and wounding seven others — four of them critically, Russian investigators said. [More]They do it here, too. But the "Only Ones" myth persists...
"Comment: I suppose it's not possible that you are, simply, wrong?"Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explores the foundations of prejudice: ignorant closed-mindedness and arrogance.
"Editor's Note: No" [More]
April 28, 1777 at Norwalk, Connecticut - Maj. Gen. William Tryon made his way to Compo Hill, close to where he would board his ships. Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold's men formed up for an attack, but 400 British troops, led by Gen. ?? Erskine charged them with bayonets and the Americans scattered. Tryon's men boarded the ships and sailed off. The 2-day encounter had cost the Americans about 60 casualties, including 20 dead. The exact British losses were unclear, though they had at least 60 dead. Conclusion: British Victory [More]
Orlando police Chief Val Demings is threatening to sue one of her critics for creating a Web site that criticizes her performance. [More]Here's the website she objects to. Looks pretty First Amendment-protected to me. Love the reward ad...
In a regional breakdown of potential terrorist threats, the report notes that Hampton Roads and the Richmond area each have two historically black universities. Although it doesn't cite them by name, the apparent reference is to Norfolk State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University in Petersburg and Virginia Union University in Richmond.
University-based student groups "are recognized as a radicalization node for almost every type of extremist group," the report says. [More]
More "Homegrown Terrorists" to justify "fusion center" budgets?
In a way, I can see Hampton U being singled out. What they promulgate is pretty terrifying.
Still, it wasn't supposed to be this way in Richmond.
[Via Bill Hicks]
Investigators said Cartwright was not a war veteran, but Spooner said the Florida National Guard soldier was interested in militia movements and weapons training. [More]Here we go...
Hands Of [sic] My Guns! Gun Supporters Abuse Black Star News Editorial...By the NRA?
Now we are convinced these postings are being coordinated. [More]
Yeah, that's the only reason millions of us own semiautos. Because we're a bunch of psycho cop killers and deranged school/workplace shooters.I have used weapons since I was big enough to carry one, and now own two handguns, four shotguns and three rifles, two with scopes. I use them carefully, for hunting game from our family woods and fields, and occasionally for hunting with my family and friends in other places. We cherish the right to own a gun and some of my hunting companions like to collect rare weapons. One of them is a superb craftsman who makes muzzle-loading rifles, one of which I displayed for four years in my private White House office.
But none of us wants to own an assault weapon, because we have no desire to kill policemen or go to a school or workplace to see how many victims we can accumulate before we are finally shot or take our own lives. [More]
The FBI memorandum describes a pattern of corruption among a group of Philadelphia narcotics officers: false information used to get search warrants, planted evidence and perjured testimony, thefts of drugs, cash, and valuables from dealers. [More]No doubt "just a few bad apples." Right?
A British agent left top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America when she lost her handbag while on assignment.Cue the Bond theme...
The drugs liaison officer lost a computer memory stick said to contain a list of undercover agents’ names and details with more than five years of intelligence work. [More]
Police were questioning the man...[More]I guess the "Authorized Journalist" missed the irony...?
Under Hampton's student code of conduct, your second item says: "To respect the dignity, feelings, worth, and values of others. Each member of the Hampton Family will respect one another and visitors as if they were guests in one's home. Therefore...to possess weapons such as knives or firearms...is strictly prohibited and is in direct violation of the Hampton University Code, on or off campus." Do you believe mandating a human being be defenseless respects his dignity, feelings and worth?
If he or she believes otherwise, do you believe such a mandate respects their values?
What's with "off campus"? Are you saying student gun owners will be expelled?
And how effective do you think this code was in ensuring these and future victims would be at a disadvantage to their assailant? [More]
I just finished reading another hand-wringing attack on the right to keep and bear arms over at Black Star News. It prompted me to leave a comment, which I'd like to share with you here, especially since there's no guarantee they will post it:...[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at guns and race--and wonders why someone writing under a banner of truth and empowerment resorts to falsehoods to promote individual helplessness.
On April 26, 1777, an icy, wind-driven rain ripped across New York State’s farmlands shaking the boards of the Ludington family mill as a messenger arrived with news—nearby Danbury, Connecticut, was under British attack and burning. Within minutes, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, daughter of an American colonel, mounted her horse, ready for a forty-mile ride through treacherous terrain to alert her father’s troops. [More]
Crooks in Contra Costa County, CA can breathe a sigh of relief:And surprise! Somehow, they'll still have the resources to go after you and me if we choose to arm ourselves against these creeps they're allowing to roam the streets. Although there is a way you can contribute to the sheriff's reelection campaign...Misdemeanors such as assaults, thefts and burglaries will no longer be prosecuted in Contra Costa County because of budget cuts, the county's top prosecutor said Tuesday. [More]
I took the liberty in a Letter of the 11th. of February, to inform your Honorable Board, of the Augmentation Congress had Resolved to make to the Army they voted to be raised in September; and to solicit your attention and good Offices, in promoting the raising of your proportion of these latter Levies. I trusted, that I then urged such reasons for the measure, and so clearly shewed, the Quota assigned to your State to be just, that your Interest would have been exerted to fill them up, in the same manner that it was to fill up the 15 Battalions, first voted. Finding this not to have been the case, and being assured from a variety of combining circumstances, and intelligence not to be questioned; that Britain, this Campaign will strain every nerve at home and abroad, to effect her purposes; I beg leave again, to repeat my solicitations upon this Subject, and to entreat, that you will take the matter under your most early and serious consideration and give every aid you shall deem necessary and conducive to compleating two of those Corps with all possible expedition; [More]
This is essentially the old McCain-Lieberman gun show bill from eight years ago (S.890), in slightly lighter form.
"Gun show promoters" must register with the Attorney General and maintain a register with the signature and identifying data of all "vendors." (carefully examine the definition of vendor.)
"Vendor" is ANYONE who offers for sale/trade/etc a gun at a gun show, whether the person has a fixed location (e.g. table holder) or not (e.g. a guy walking around the show with a firearm for sale/trade).
The requirement for an FFL-conducted background check (NICS check) apply "if any part of a firearm transaction takes place at a gun show." For example, you see a gun you like, offered by a private seller (non-FFL), but you don't agree on a price. Later in the week you call the guy and make another offer. THAT transfer must be done through an FFL. This could be stretched to include just SEEING a gun offered for sale, because the initial contact was at a gun show.
FFLs, in addition to the existing paperwork requirements (new forms as specified by the AG, and a new "bound book"), must report to the Attorney General within 10 days, all transactions processed at a gun show. Unlike a storefront FFL, who must simply maintain the records for examination by competent authority, gun show transfer data must be sent to the AG.
Federal felony penalties apply to any violation, procedural or otherwise.
Man who fled sex conviction for abusing female inmate in Swedish prison found working at Sheridan Correctional Center under real name [More]So, isn't rape a big part about how "Only Ones" keep inmates in line...? Seems like he brought some valuable experience to the job...
www.CleanUpATF.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to returning integrity, accountability and decency to the management of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE or "ATF").I know some folks who have a better idea.
With President Barack Obama’s Cabinet reading like a “who’s who” of gun-ban advocates, it’s difficult to say which member is the most anti-gun. That is, until you meet Arne Duncan. [More]Good article by Dave Kopel. It really shows what kind of anti-American freaks the head anti-American freak surrounds himself with.
Let's "transform that concern into action" and see how this will work in practice. Let's take a look at what will happen to a gun owner minding his own business and not breaking any laws...[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column demonstrates how the implementation of "Kumbaya" requires the threat of deadly force as we revisit the actions of an official who really ought to be reported to the authorities...
That Great Britain will exert every nerve to carry her tyrannical designs into execution, I have not the smallest doubt; her very existence as a nation depends now upon her success: for should America rise triumphant in her struggle for independence she must fall. It is not to be wondered at therefore, after she had departed from that line of justice which ought to characterize a virtuous people, that she should descend to such low arts, and dirty tricks, as will forever remain a reproach to her; none of which has she practised with more success, and I fear with more dangerous consequences to our cause, than her endeavours to depreciate the continental bills of credit. [More]
Legendary firearms instructor and pundit Jeff Cooper put it best. "In my opinion," he said, "neither money nor greed ... is the root of all evil. The root of all evil is envy. The non-coper hates the coper, and thus the non-shooter hates the shooter. [More]Personal inadequacy and hatred explains what we see about as well as anything else.
Throughout history, despotic regimes and brutal collectivist systems have crushed their civilian populations' backbones, burning to death their freedom and liberty, and using tactics of intimidation and terror against anyone they suspected of harboring "deviant" thoughts. However, these attempts at cowing the people they rule over almost never succeed, because one of the most deadliest unintended consequences of despotism, is that it will create entirely new and terrifying fighting arts and methods of resistance amongst the oppressed. [More]That's what can happen when you make people outlaws?
As college professors, we want to reduce the odds of a Virginia Tech massacre happening on a Texas college campus. That's why we encourage the Texas Legislature to allow concealed carry on the state's college campuses. [More]In the mean time, I'd just ignore the damn legislature, but that's me.
It's important that we know what's on the horizon, but it's critical we pay attention to what's here now. And I mentioned a third international danger in last Friday's column that's not getting much attention: The DDTC.We've heard a lot recently about the threat of international treaties to the right to keep and bear arms. How many of you knew such mechanisms are already in place? Today's Gun Rights Examiner column tells us about them, and about how George Bush played a key role in ensuring a negative outcome.
The DDTwhat?
It stands for Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, and the threat is masterfully summarized by Robin Taylor of the US Practical Shooting Association, who tells us "It's not about Trade, it's about Control." [More]
I think this move so probable, as it will give them access to a part of the Country most notoriously disaffected, that I desire you will post a Body of Militia of the State of New York, on this side of the North River, in such place as you shall think most safe to prevent them from being Surprised, and at the same time proper to intercept Skinners Corps, if they should attempt the above mentioned route. [More]
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California has ruled that the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms is "deeply rooted in this nation's history and tradition" and long has been regarded as the "true palladium of liberty," so it therefore must be applied against state and local government weapon restrictions as well as federal gun limits. [More]Yes, I know you know that because we've already talked about it here.
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has stated that it is legal in Wisconsin for citizens to carry guns openly in a peaceful manner. However, Chief Flynn is ordering his officers to “take down” citizens, “put them on the ground” and disarm them, and “then decide whether you have a right to carry it.” [More]Here's more substantiation.
