Friday, February 08, 2013

Manhunt highlights enforcement weaknesses against determined resistance

One man has done this, and people are noticing. Aside from an attitude among panicky enforcers that appears to regard public safety as an expendable inconvenience when they perceive a real or imagined threat to themselves, people are noticing how much illusion and presumptions have to do with state power. For many, it is a “Behold, a god who bleeds” moment. [More
Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary pays attention to the man behind the curtain instead of the illusion on the throne.

Travel and We'll Arrest You and Kill You if You Resist. For Your Safety.

There are exceptions for ... news media. [More]
See, I wouldn't qualify. But "Authorized Journalist" talking point parrots on the other hand...

Gun Control is an Artifact...

...of self-serving, crusty, old rich white men, angry feminists and effeminate inner city dwellers who have never ridden a horse across a snowy mountain, sat up all night with a dog who has been bitten by a Copperhead, or plowed a row in a garden on a sunny day. [More]
The truth of that resonates. I've never done those specific things, but I've had reasonably equivalent experiences and know where he's coming from, plus I like the poetic imagery he conjures up.

The Last Letter

Not that it will do any good. [Read]

I feel the same way more often than not these days.

We're the Only Ones Seductive Enough

An Elmwood Park police sergeant has been accused of using his police powers to target women he could seduce, when he was supposed to be working. He also has been accused of targeting the men who are in those ladies’ lives. [More]
Did he use his "mind-boggling offensive weapon"?

[Via Neil W]

The 2nd Amendment: You Can't Defend What You Don't Know

[A]t the time of its ratification, what--exactly--did the founding fathers mean by “a well-regulated militia” or “shall not be infringed”?

David Hardy will be on I Spy Radio to explain:
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We're the Only Ones Mind-Boggled Enough

Here's another segment from that propaganda conference linked to in the post below. A gun is not a defensive weapons, and you "Only Ones" use it exclusively for offense?  I believe you, chief.  It also sounds like your mind must be all that hard to boggle. [Watch]

[Via Jeff H]

Whatever

Blahblahblah...[Watch]

The answer is "No."  Your move. 

[Via George S]

Now NRA Causes Lung Cancer!

Well why not? [Read]

We already figured out they're responsible for the nutjob who took the kid hostage in Alabama.

I was washing dishes the other night and shattered a glass tumbler when I accidentally dropped it on the floor.

Damned NRA!

I'll bet they're also responsible for my fountain pen leaking.

Let Me Get This Straight

His condition was caused by incompetent and negligent "Only Ones." [Read]

So his solution is to do what, exactly...?

We're the Only Ones Credited Enough

I don't know what the big deal of a federal agent lying on forms is.  [Read]

After all, experience hath shewn that when they do that, it's the ones they give the applications to who go to jail.

[Via bondmen]

Add-Ons Let Semi-Autos Fire Like Military Weapons

"Authorized Journalists" discover the horrors of bump firing. [More

These poor little lambs will wet themselves when they find out what you can do with duct tape  and shoelaces!

For some reason, the alternate headline "Strap-Ons Let A. Breed and Adam Geller Function Like Men" comes to mind...

UPDATE: Kurt weighs in.

Didn't Make the Cut

That's because you're insignificant. [Read]

Plus you're another lazy talking point parrot acting like he's discovered news.

No Thanks to the NRA

Oh really, so this is our fault? [Read]

This is all they've got.  And they know it.They simply cannot control their hatred. They're like malignant children, and not very bright ones at that.

Aaron Zelman Would Have Called this Putz a "Bagel Brain"

I guess you never heard about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Cohen? [Read]

I guess you just don't have the imagination to extrapolate that to what would have happened had such capabilities -- and most importantly, such convictions and will -- been more widespread?

Yeah,  someone who would be utterly helpless to protect his family depending on him to be a man finds such assertions "laughable."  Yours is the cowardly, deluded mentality that makes tyranny not only possible, but inevitable, and that you would extend your self-imposed impotence on men who are your betters -- at gunpoint by police state enforcers -- makes you a particularly contemptible sort of fool.  You should be hiding in shame rather than broadcasting that.

But thanks for confirming what some of us have been saying all along as a counterpoint to those lying about "common sense reasonable restrictions" to establish a beachhead from which they'll launch their next assault:
The liberal agenda once included confiscating handguns and abolishing the right to own one — never mind the right to carry one at all times.
It still does, but now you have to lie about it.  And you're right.  You've lost.

Because ultimately, the Second Amendment means what serious men with guns say it does. And you cloistered weaklings don't have anywhere near enough jackboots to throw at us and change that dynamic.

Fall of the Female Monopoly of Violence Nut

Here you have women cooperating with you, being generous with their time to give you special insights and the benefit of their experience, and the main thing people walk away from is you're calling them nuts. [Read]

And Betty Friedan could have taken a lesson from  Susan B. Anthony (assuming the quote isn't apocryphal).

What Bob Doesn't Want

If I had been sitting on that panel I would've emphatically replied, "No. I don't want some other dude with a gun in the room. [More]
And what exactly would you be prepared to do about it if "some other dude" just laughs at you and takes aim?

An Informed Opinion

Really, Elway, who gives a damn what you think about what free citizens ought to be allowed to own?  [Read

Your Lips to God's Ear

David Keene predicted failure for all congressional measures related to guns, including expanded background checks for gun purchases. [More]
I sure hope you guys start making the "or else" loud and clear, because it's looking like some aren't getting the message.

This Day in History: February 8

I have just received intelligence, which, though from a private hand, I believe is to be relied on, that a fleet of the enemy's ships have entered Cape Fear river, that eight of them had got over the bar, and many others were lying off; and that it was supposed to be a reinforcement to Lord Cornwallis, under the command of General Prevost. This account, which had come through another channel, is confirmed by a letter from General Parsons at Halifax, to the gentleman who forwards it to me. I thought it of sufficient importance to be communicated to your Excellency by the stationed expresses. The fatal want of arms puts it out of our power to bring a greater force into the field, than will barely suffice to restrain the adventures of the pitiful body of men they have at Portsmouth. Should any more be added to them, this country will be perfectly open to them, by land as well as water. [More]