GRE Round Up for Apr. 14

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Howard Nemerov/Austin:

Concealed carry class sponsored by UT Students for Concealed Carry

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Taxing away your civil rights

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Philippine gun ban experiment fails

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Vitriol approaching fever pitch as 2A march looms

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

If 2nd Amendment rallies are 'threat to the rule of law,' then 'rule of law' needs threatening

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

We're the Only Ones...

...Always On the Beat Enough

Hughes says Dickerson was complaining about having to make a report on her day off and turned violent, "She got the gun in her hand and started beating me with it saying I am not worried about nothing, the police got my back."

...Unfulfilling Enough

The former deputy resigned on April 6 while under investigation internally for matters unrelated to the sex abuse allegations, Dickerson said. He said the department had looked into potential violations of six issues relating to truthfulness and fulfillment of required duties, Dickerson said.

...Assuming the Position Enough

Officer Dominic Lucero of the Fort Morgan Police Department has been charged in Denver with sexual assault on a child and sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

[Via FFFW]

We're Not the Only Ones...

A Cumberland County man has been arrested after being accused of conducting a traffic stop on a Fentress County woman and impersonating an officer. If that weren't bad enough, the suspect is also accused of offering not to take the victim to jail, implying money or sex to let her go. [More]

Then in all fairness, how was she supposed to know?

OK, cheap shot, uncalled for, not helpful, I apologize...

[Via Carl S]

We're the Only Ones Going to the Dogs Enough

It violates due process to transport a presumed innocent arrestee in the K-9 dog cage of the back of the police car with dog hair and dried urine and feces. [More]

Like they have to be told this? Seriously? Via a judgment?

Yeah, these are the "Only Ones" I want advising me of my rights...

Good grief.

[Via Mack H]

Trouble Is...

Trouble is, most people don’t know they have the right to say No, or they’re simply too nervous to decline... [More]

Trouble is, most people don't know they have a lot of rights, or they're simply too sheeplike to insist on them...

Even worse, the particularly foolish and unworthy have abdicated their rights, and insist that the government deny them to those of us who refuse to follow suit.

I guess this bill is a good thing and I'm just being a pill. I just don't get folks who think they don't have rights unless the government tells them they do, and having them spelled out for us by those with career incentives to keep us ignorant seems like a whole 'nother way for things to get screwed up.

Besides, what have you got to hide?

[Via Mack H]

"Where's the Big News Story About This?"

That's the question WarOnGuns correspondent retrotruckman asks about the attack on the Jindal aide and his girlfriend.

We're told:

Police wouldn't elaborate on the comments or a possible motive.

And there are conflicting reports that say they were or were not wearing Palin buttons.

If the attack was politically motivated, they should consider themselves lucky they aren't RKBA activists--my pointing out gun grabber and media complicity in spreading the meme that we are the haters brought me this diversity and tolerance wish:

Hope they shoot y'all right in the head - no different from an islamic terrorist

Taking a Breath

I think that's good advice. [More]

Which doesn't mean you should have to suffer from poisonous halitosis.

I'm remaining supportive of the RTC and OK. That doesn't mean I have to agree with everything I see coming out of either camp. Friends ought to be able to have different missions that complement the ultimate goal and still remain friends.

I had a heated and emotional argument with a relative the other day. That doesn't mean I wouldn't put my life on the line now.

Anyway, that's what I have to say about that. Anybody doesn't like it, take a few breaths and tell me about it on April 19.

People of Interest

"Beneficiaries" of Windy City "gun control," that is... [Read]

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

[Via Zachary G]

Police Gun Lock Program No Substitute for Knowledge

What I am against is people thinking that's enough, that a mere device is an acceptable substitute for training and knowledge of their particular circumstances, needs and level of preparedness. There's the quote attributed to Gene Brown that "Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools," and we find unintended consequences in life bearing that out. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column recounts the tale of an ingenious fool.

Also tune in later today to Trigger Sports LIVE! and meet a genuine extremist hater...well, OK, it's just me, but it still ought to be a fun show.

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This Day in History: April 14

Appointed by the Sultan to serve as Consul for all the nations unrepresented in Morocco, Caille wrote on behalf of the Sultan to Franklin from Cadiz on April 14, 1778, offering to negotiate a treaty between Morocco and the United States on the same terms the Sultan had negotiated with other powers. When he did not receive a reply, Caille wrote Franklin a second letter sometime later that year or in early 1779. When Franklin wrote to the committee on Foreign Affairs in May 1779, he reported he had received two letters from a Frenchman who "offered to act as our Minister with the Emperor" and informed the American commissioner that "His Imperial Majesty wondered why we had never sent to thank him for being the first power on this side of the Atlantic that had acknowledged our independence and opened his ports to us." Franklin, who did not mention the dates of Caille's letters or when he had received them, added that he had ignored these letters because the French advised him that Caille was reputed to be untrustworthy. Franklin stated that the French King was willing to use his good offices with the Sultan whenever Congress desired a treaty and concluded, "whenever a treaty with the Emperor is intended, I suppose some of our naval stores will be an acceptable present and the expectation of continued supplies of such stores a powerful motive for entering into and continuing a friendship." [More]