Part 2

I found a video that nicely supplements what I posted earlier today on Gun Rights Examiner. [More]

If you choose to share it with people, I won't mind.

We're the Only Ones Barred Enough

It turns out the beating of a man could be at least the second fight involving off-duty police officers at the same bar. [More]

See, this is why we can't let private citizens be armed in establishments that served alcohol.

Obviously, only the "Only Ones" can handle guns and booze together.

We're the Only Ones Backing Up Enough

Illinois State Police say they’re investigating how and why a southern Illinois sheriff backed over and killed his 87-year-old mother-in-law. [More]

What's this?

No charges have been filed.

Will there be? Involuntary manslaughter or some such? Or is this backup, "Only Ones" style?

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

From My Warm, Live Hands

The "Packin' Heat" hand warmer. What could go wrong if you pulled this out at a football game to get some warmth in those cold bleachers? [More]

My friend at Plug Nickel Times who sent this link to me doesn't care for it. I have to disagree this time. I want a world where people smile at this kind of stuff and ask to see it.

It's Off

Following publicized reports that the Army National Guard was planning a military training exercise on the streets of a rural Iowa town, the commanding officers have called off the mock "invasion." [More]

We talked about this yesterday.

An inside source I contacted told me:

David, these are normal exercises for the Guard. The Guard gets deployed more than active duty units nowadays, and a lot of their missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo involve searching for weapons smugglers in urban environments. This is nothing to be alarmed about, and it’s nothing weird.

WRSA still isn't buying the official line and give their reasons.

I have to say I respect my source, but then have to wonder how realistic the described exercises really are. I can't see politely looking over homeowner shoulders while they cooperatively open cabinets to be any scenario I'd expect to encounter in actual operations.

Forget it, Jake, it's Chi-Town

Former Chicago alderman sentenced to 4 years in prison

Arenda Troutman joins 'Hall of Shame of politicians,' judge says [More]

Good old "special protection" Arenda:

"Deserve it? Damn right. I should receive the protection I am receiving. I am an elected official. You're darn right."

Is there any Chicago politician who doesn't belong in a Hall of Shame?

And they say there are no stupid questions...

No Worries

A man wanted in the killing of his ex-girlfriend near Denver several days ago could be headed to the area, specifically McHenry County, police said today.

Police in the Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge, along with McHenry County sheriff's police, released photographs of Tyler James Martin, 36, who has been charged in a no-bond first-degree murder warrant in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend Tuesday night, police said. [More]

That's OK--it'll be alright.

Idiot obviously doesn't realize you can't carry a gun in Illinois.

Boy, will he be in for a surprise!

More Americans are Recognizing and Claiming their Gun Rights

There's something happening on Marco Island... And it isn't just a regional anomaly. It's nationwide... People are waking up to their gun rights... Yet despite clear evidence...how do the gunhaters spin it? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a phenomenon.

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Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners:

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Cleveland: Gun confiscation: can it happen again?

DC: DC City Council enables residents’ easy access to mail order handgun carry permits!

Denver: A thought experiment

Los Angeles: Gun control in churches, Part II: The Militia.

Milwaukee: Time to change our attitude about guns

Minneapolis: Dispelling the myth of “The Wild West”

St. Louis: Hunting rifles--the next 'sniper weapons'

This Day in History: February 21

On this day in 1777, George Weedon is promoted to the rank of brigadier general of the Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army.

Weedon was an innkeeper in Fredericksburg, Virginia, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, but had previously served as a lieutenant under George Washington in western Virginia during the French and Indian War. [More]

Patriots rise from the ranks of the people...