We're the Only Ones "At'sa Car She Go Fast" Enough

When the Italian police unveiled their state-of-the-art Lamborghini patrol cars, they cannot have been short of volunteers itching to take the supercars in pursuit of speeding criminals...What they apparently were not prepared for was a distracted motorist who pulled out of a petrol station without looking. [More]

Ah, the "O Solo Mios."

Still, it looks like my prediction didn't come true.

Bobbi-de-boopy?

A Member in Good Standing

I am a member, and I've passed this on to other members. Perhaps they may feel compelled to conversate with you, or perhaps not. As it is, we are confronted by naysayers all the time, and usually don't waste time arguing points with the close-minded. We are about action, and respecting other's opinions by letting them have them. If you are against gun control, then lobby your legislators. [More]

You respect my opinions by "letting" me "have them"?

Sonia P steps up to the plate in "Comments" to yesterday's GRE, to educate us all about the National Black Police Association.

Feel free to go educate right back.

Forget it Jake

It is, indeed, Chi-Town, where we create the problem, and then forbid you to do anything about it. The lunatics are running the asylum. [More]

I've typed in and discarded half a dozen comments--they are all inadequate. I guess Charlton Heston said it best.

We Can't Stop It

And neither can you, if we have anything to say about it. [More]

Besides, what have you got against misunderstood sea stewards?

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

We're the Only Ones Keeping Abreast of Things Enough

Allegretti, 47, pleaded guilty in 2007 to attempted intimidation and agreed to resign as a police officer over allegations that he pulled over two women on the Northwest Side and asked them to expose their breasts to avoid traffic tickets. [More]

So why wouldn't you trust him to be a field supervisor, out there enforcing parking lot rules, with semi-"Only One" authority...?

After all, it is Chi-Town...

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

The Boy Scout Motto

Be prepared. [More]

[Via Tony F]

Go Ask Alice

Common sense tells you a handgun is probably not even all that useful. Suppose an intruder sneaks past the doorman or jumps the security fence at night. By the time you pull the pistol out of your wife’s jewelry safe, find the ammunition, and load your weapon, Fifi the Pomeranian has already been taken hostage and the gun won’t do you any good. [More]

Then quickly forget everything she has to say on the subject of armed defense.

Alice is right about the difficulty ordinary mortals have getting carry permits in Furious Mike Paradise, but Goldman Sachs bigwigs are hardly ordinary mortals. So I'm sure the better-connected flimflam men, you know, the ones most responsible for incurring the wrath of their vict...uh...ruined individuals and tax cows milked for bailout money, won't alter their support for politicians who push disarmament policies one little bit.

Hell, they can afford it.

[Via M. Terry and Jeet]

About that Maniac in Seattle

Many of you sent me links over the past few days and I haven't weighed on on this yet. I'm going to base my new "Rights Watch" column for GUNS Magazine on it, plus, I wanted to see what my fellow GREs, particularly our man in Seattle, had to say about it.

Here's what they've come up with over the past few days.

From Dave Workman in Seattle:

A long history of crime should send a signal

A cop-killer is dead and now comes time for questions

From Daniel White in Cleveland:

Seattle cop slayings do not invalidate the idea of armed self-defense

From Howard Nemerov in Austin:

Four Lakewood police officers: Death by government

From John Longenecker in Los Angeles:

Gun Control: Answering the L.A. Times Editorial against guns.

In "the Enemy Camp"

You know, West Point. [More]

No wonder he thinks these guys are terrorists.

[Via Kurt Hofmann]

Would You 'Send a Gun to Defend a British Home'?

Sadly, outrageously, we learn that when the danger had passed, government trust in the people went away, and the people for the most part, obeyed in the "cleansing of firearms."

Thus today's sorry state of affairs. This is one hell of an historic account, and you won't find it anywhere else. Knowing it, how many American gun owners would be inclined to answer a similar call for help today? [More]

Most of us here have have heard about this story and seen the poster. Today's Gun Rights Examiner column introduces you to a source for many of the details you won't find anywhere else--a feature in a 50-year-old issue of GUNS Magazine. And I ask you to weigh in through a poll.

Also learn about next week's interview with the producer of "Not Without a Fight," and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

Tell a friend? The account should interest gun owners with an appreciation of history, and I'd like to see the poll get wide exposure.

Vanderboegh Update

OK, looks like I'm going to live a little while longer. [More]

Mike tells us what happened.

This Day in History: December 2

The importance of the North River in the present contest and the necessity of defending it, are Subjects which have been so frequently and so fully discussed and are so well understood, that it is unnecessary to enlarge upon them. These facts at once appear, when it is considered that it runs thro' a whole State; That it is the only passage by which the Enemy from New York or any part of our Coast, can ever hope to Cooperate with an Army that may come from Canada; That the possession of it is indispensibly essential to preserve the Communication between the Eastern, Middle and Southern States; And further, that upon its security, in a great measure, depend our chief supplies of Flour for the subsistence of such Forces as we may have occasion for, in the course of the War, either in the Eastern or Northern Departments, or in the Country lying high up on the west side of it. [More]