New Year's Gun Rights Resolution: Practice Daily Activism

Do something.

Every day.

Start today. [More]

Here's my last resolution. I think it's the most important one.

Will you join me in keeping it--and tell a friend?

All the other resolutions:

New Year's gun rights resolution: Attend an Appleseed
New Year's gun rights resolution: Know your representatives
New Year's gun rights resolution: Write letters to the editor
New Year's gun rights resolution: Join a gun rights group
New Year's gun rights resolution: Send a politician the gun rights questionnaire
New Year's gun rights resolution: Build a guns and liberty video collection
New Year's gun rights resolution: Take a new person shooting
New Year's gun rights resolution: Read Second Amendment books
New Year's gun rights resolution: Shoot a machine gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Support legal efforts to defend 2nd Amendment
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spread the word on Gun Rights Examiner
New Year's gun rights resolution: Go to a gun show
New Year's gun rights resolution: Boycott an anti-gun company
New Year's gun rights resolution: Buy a gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spend time with your loved ones
New Year's gun rights resolution: Teach your children about guns
New Year's gun rights resolution: Don't spread unverified internet rumors
New Year's gun rights resolution: Get formal training
New Year's gun rights resolution: Demonstrate for the Second Amendment
New Year's gun rights resolution: Demand ATF investigations
New Year's gun rights resolution: Do all of them

Who You Calling "Extremist"?

The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which tracks extremist organisations, says it has so far counted more than 300 patriot groups this year...[More]

So the Sarah Brady Paradise "Authorized Journalist" wants to call American patriots who believe in the Constitution "extreme," and then tell his readers with a straight face that we should consider SPLC to be "researchers," with the aura of legitimacy and honest brokerage that implies?

Stewart Rhodes asked both Mike Vanderboegh and me if we would talk to this guy--I see he he quoted Mike. He never contacted me, and I also got permission from a militia contact to pass his edress along, and likewise, he was not approached.

Well, Mr. Leonard, had you not been so hurried in your rush to judgment, you might have learned that supporting and defending "the supreme Law of the Land" is hardly the same as being "anti-government." I know you Eurostatists have a tough time wrapping your heads around the fact that an oath-breaking administration is not the same thing...

When it comes to fidelity to founding principles, we're not the ones in a state of armed rebellion--they are.

[Via Brian F]

It's the End of the World as We Know It...

...and The Survivalist Blog has a free e-book to help you deal with it. [More]

Not "All"

Just "some." [More]

Certainly not anyone who's a genuine threat.

Mumbai redux, anyone?

We're the Only Ones Tripped Up on Our Own Story Enough

Bailey had told authorities his truck was unlocked but his glove compartment was locked.

...That model truck doesn't have a locking glove compartment. [More]

Oops.

Well, as long as this "Only One's" gun is "on the street," maybe we can turn lemons into lemonade--no questions asked.

A Legal Commitment

HB 2249: Courts - As enacted, requires courts to collect to order the collection and reporting of certain information regarding individuals who have been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution; clarifies that a person may not obtain a handgun carry permit if the person has been "judicially committed to a mental institution" instead of "committed to or hospitalized in a mental institution"; requires that certain notice be provided to persons detained for evaluation or treatment; revises various related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 65. [More]

As opposed to just a commitment.

Will they also keep him from getting matches, fertilizer, box cutters...?

[Via Carl S]

Will Crossing Property Lines Turn Responsible Gun Owners into Violent Criminals?

The argument seems to boil down to if peaceable armed citizens cross certain property lines, our behavior changes. We degenerate into hot-tempered, conscienceless, out-of-control binge-drinking frat boys and drunken cowboys, ready to blast for any reason--or for no reason at all. Oh, and avenging vigilantes...that's what the antis are calling self-defense these days, isn't it? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks how people who can't be trusted with guns in prohibited locations can be trusted with them anywhere.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

Tell a friend?

This Day in History: January 1

As this day begins the new year The General orders a gill of spirits to be Served to each non-commission'd Officer and soldier; And to avoid the irregular and partial distribution of this Article (which has been a good deal complaind of) he expressly orders that no Spirits shall issue to any part of the Troops in future but in Consequence of general or special orders from Head Quarters. A deviation from this rule will be at the risque and peril of the Issuing Commissary. [More]

As regular readers know, I use this feature to bring us a daily entry from the Founding Era/Revolutionary War period as a way of illustrating the efforts and sacrifices made by those who bequeathed to us a Republic. I focused last year on 1777. This year we will look at 1778.