The Riddle of Steele Part Two

Michael Steele is currently leading in the poll.

Let we who have had enough of anti-gun RINOs change that.

I put in for Ken Blackwell.

I understand Saul Anuzis gave a GOA interview, but I haven't listened to it yet--I've just been too busy to look, so feel free to educate me.

Ditto for all the other candidates. Anybody gets any dope on 'em, chime in.

For right now, please go and vote and knock Steele out of the lead.

[Via David R]

Ask the Candidates

I want an unequivocal statement from each candidate on the right to keep and bear arms. I should note that Mr. Blackwell looks good*, and Mr. Steele's bizarre advocacy that "society should draw line" about the right to own semiautos** makes him about as acceptable to gun owners as Barack Obama.

And to think it almost didn't get posted due to objectionable language!


Hey, look--go here, and then go here.

Do you really want the RNC to select its chair without significant input from gun owners?

I really don't get it--I'm accused in some quarters of being a Threeper Terrorist, yet here I am trying to effect a political intervention and everyone else is apparently silent or oblivious.

Even more frustrating--it would appear counting on regular readers to spend one lousy minute doing something like this is apparently too much to ask. It truly makes me question if I'm wasting my time here.

Will you go here, right now, and submit your own question? Because we're out of time--the debate is tomorrow.

Or will you just throw sand on the idea and tell me why it's not worth even a moment of your time?

UPDATE: 45superman reminds us to vote for pro-RKBA questions to increase the likelihood of their being asked.

UPDATE 2: I put out a plea on Examiner.com.

Please help spread the word on this.

UPDATE 3: The neocons like Patrick Ruffini want us to think mere "policy" like the 2nd Amendment is not important because the Chair has no say in that. BULL. The GOP as a party must take a pro-Bill of Rights stand starting at the top. If they don't, the hell with them. If I want a democrat, I can vote for a democrat.

If the GOP becomes the Party of Ruffinis, it can just die.

Gun Talk Radio Reminder

I'll be on Tom Gresham's Gun Talk Radio today... [More]

I hope you can join us.

Tell a friend?

Making the Grade

North Dakota experienced only two murders in 2008. Both were stabbings. [More]

Which probably explains why the Bradys consider ND gun laws such a grave threat to public safety...

Compare that, to say, the most anti-gun city in the Brady's Number One state...

What's amazing is how such stark reality has no effect on fanatics.

What Samuel Sutter Thinks

Does carrying a gun illegally make you a danger to the public?

Bristol District Attorney Samuel Sutter thinks it does... [More]

Thing is, Samuel Sutter wasn't there--with "a person" I know very well--who lived in LA, where "ordinary" citizens can't get "permits"--but who defied the law and saved his family from multiple assailants--simply by producing his "illegally"-carried handgun and causing them to retreat without his having to fire a shot.

He was no danger to the public. The people he scared off were.

My same "friend" had earlier taken to carrying a gun--"illegally," and knowing and resenting like hell being forced to make a choice that involved risk of punishment and being treated like a criminal from those whose only legitimate function is "to secure the blessings of Liberty." He did so on advice from two police officers who were responding to a death threat against him--officers who let him know they couldn't protect him, they couldn't respond to an attack until after-the fact.

But Samuel Sutter works in an environment where he has regular police protection. Samuel Sutter has the status and connections that turn "may issue" into "shall issue."

And don't get me started on "illegal" possession of "high-capacity guns."

If it were up to Samuel Sutter, my "friend" and people like him would be dead.

Samuel Sutter is, in essence, a state-sponsored terrorist. Samuel Sutter can go to hell.

And the thing is, if the punishment is increased, so too will be the desperation of an otherwise peaceable citizen to escape the "legal" consequences. What kind of "justice" system pushes good people to the breaking point for simply defending their lives?

WRSA Grid-Down Medical Course

Lancaster, PA - February 7-8

This two-day (16 hour) course of instruction will prepare the motivated outdoorsman to treat life-threatening and function-threatening medical conditions in the wilderness without access to classical EMS and medical resources. [More]

Good stuff to know when there are no other options...

Meanwhile, Over in Sarah Brady Paradiso

Felice Anno Nuovo! [More]

And I'm sure you were wondering...

[Via Fimvit]

This Day in History: January 4

During the American Revolution, the Queens Bridge was used by both the American and British forces. At this spot in what is now known as Boundbrook on January 4, 1777, General Washington made the decision to abandon any intention to attach New Brunswick. Instead he moved his troops to Morristown for the winter, thus ending the victorious Trenton-Princeton campaign. [More]