Monday, February 11, 2013

School ‘safety’ logo contest illustrates utter hypocrisy on gun imagery

But here’s the hypocrisy: Students are encouraged to depict guns if it is useful to an anti-gun agenda being promoted by the government. But if a student simply draws a gun, has a gun photo on a laptop, has a gun-shaped piece of paper, wears an “offensive” t-shirt or even points a finger, they’re likely to run afoul of the school’s “zero tolerance” policy and find themselves suspended. That makes actually having a toy gun extra-double bad. And if bubbles are involved, the “adults” in charge may just brand your five-year-old a “terrorist threat.” [More
This evening's Gun Rights Examiner entry looks at an effort at the government indoctrination camps Eric Holder might term "Brainwashing Jr."

Parents, don't let them do this to your precious children. And by all means, do have yours enter the contest.

‘Essential Liberty’ is a thriller with characters deserving of a deeper look

Overall it’s a good adventure story that actualizes some of the darker ambitions being put forth by those bent on citizen disarmament, and the coercive motives and methods Olive establishes, and the way “The List” could be used to prioritize targets for special “Collections” teams and cow others into compliance, give his narrative a feel of authenticity. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner review shares some impressions on a novel I recently read that forced me to look beyond some knee-jerk preconceptions.

Today's Five-Minute Activism Task

Sign the petition.

Mark Walters has been promoting this on "Armed American Radio."  They're shooting for over a million.

I did.

You can too, and also tell your friends. 

All the News that's Fit to Slant

NBC will be featuring a week-long anti-gun crusade masked as "Authorized journalism". [Read]

These are the people who couldn't find Gunwalker if they sent a reporter to Phoenix.

ALERT – New Jersey Dems Launch All Out Attack on NJ Gun Owners – ALERT

Please plan on coming to Trenton Wednesday and Thursday...to attend hearings and voting sessions! [More]
Yeah, I know, I know...

An Institute of Higher Learning

Wolves to be 'educated' not to kill sheep [More] 
So I guess this means no sheepskin when they graduate...?

[Via Steve T]

90%

Isn't that the same figure they used for U.S. guns and Mexican cartels? [Read]
The Release Detail with links to the actual poll can be found here.

What they never seem to establish is what understanding the respondents actually have of the issue, and who told them what they "know."

Via RufX2, who notes:
The NRA, if it truly means to stand its ground against the real remaining issue coming out of the no-crisis-left-unused moment of Newtown, ‘universal background checks,’ needs to be more vocal as to why they should not be imposed on the individual citizen, or if so, how that would work to not result in recordation. Both of these approaches would serve to forestall the avalanche of the Bill of Rights amnesiacs and media encouraging of a generalized policy; one that they know, once enacted, will allow the unelected wonks to write the rules.

Unheard Voices

Convenient, that.  Let your few supporters speak while the overwhelming/overflowing opposition is left standing in a line that stretches down the hall and stairs. [Read]

An Inconvenient Truth

Note how many in the post's comments will have none of it.  So much for egalitarianism. [Read]

Five Days to Go

I know this post will reach thousands. Can they count on more than a handful? [Read]

I don't know what else to do. I've made literally dozens of appeals for this project and contributed myself.  

Good grief, the minimum pledge is only $1.

Call For Emergency Patriot Support

From the Second Amendment Foundation:
URGENT: Obama has officially launched his attack against guns. It is imperative we collect as many resources as possible to brace for this fight that could last well into this year. We will need funds to fight this attack on the Second Amendment in Washington, DC and in every State House that proposes anti-gun legislation. WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW! 

SAF is facing severe financial cash shortage and will not be able to continue to respond to anti-gunners without your immediate help.

Let the Games Begin!

The new law would outlaw all semiautomatic weapons, criminalize anyone who has more than 500 rounds of ammo, and require a permit to buy ammunition in the future. California, which already has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, is also looking at a proposal which would call for the immediate confiscation of 166,000 registered modern sporting rifles. [Read]

Yeah, well, good luck with that, seeing how just one guy can tie up and put those who would be attempting the confiscations into innocent bystander panic-shooting mode..

We looked at some videos here and here on this last week.

[Via WRSA]

As He Resolutely Wet His Finger and Stuck it Manfully in the Wind

At least he's not the "obliged" Donnie Harrison, but I note he didn't say anything about actively protecting the citizens either. [Read]

What the hell good is a sheriff who will just stand by and watch it happen?

Principles of Business

I like the ones I see from LaRue Tactical, especially in this time when others are showing their true colors (yellow). [Read]

UPDATE: GRNC wants to get other manufacturers on the record.  Also note Kevin Wilmeth's concerns in  comments -- I'm going to have to leave it up to comment posters to hash this out as I just won't have any time today to delve into this.  I'll try to moderate as quickly as I can get to things.

[Via Dave Licht]

Offending Delicate Sensibilities

A Detroit gun shop has pulled its Osama bin Laden skeleton targets after an outcry by the the Council on American-Islamic Relations. [More
Here. Take your pick.

[Via Darrel W]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise...

A mother was forced to stand at a police cordon and watch as her 16-year-old son bled to death after he was stabbed to death with "swords" in a busy central London street. [More
Thank goodness no evil guns were used.

[Via Jess]

Revitalization of the State Militias

With his newest book, The Sword and Sovereignty, Edwin Vieira, Jr., has given us a magisterial work that meticulously documents the history of the early American Militias and why similar units must be revitalized today if we are to adequately confront our disintegration as a society and restore the republic that the Founders gave us. [More]
Oath Keepers presents a must-read review of what sounds like a must-read book.

Campus Answers to Gun Violence

Sorry, they don't include anything that would actually stop an armed attacker in his tracks. But if you think weeping with girls and putting on a play will help, Lee Pelton here is your guy. [Read]

An Imperfect Solution

“I’ll be working with them on what I like to call ‘peaceful fund-raising,’ ” Sprague said. “It’s not a perfect solution, that’s for sure, and I wish I could have done more.” [More] 
Seeing as how he defines "'the problem' in our society" as "scary Republicans and self-satisfied Blue Dog Democrats," one can only wonder what he thinks "a perfect solution" would be.

Gun Owners Can't Conceal Anger

Way to frame a headline to create an ominously emotional image in reader minds there, Philadelphia Daily News. [Read]

Framing the Terms

Christopher Jordan Dorner is an example of a 'law-abiding' gun owner who turns violent. [More
Yeah, this rogue ex-"Only One" is obviously our fault.

"So Long As"

“The state won’t have power to intervene on its own. Individuals are free to use alcohol as they see fit so long as both spouses agree to it...He estimates that Missouri alone will save over $180 million in the first year if the marriage rate improves by a mere 10 percent.  [More]
And we all know how much a marriage improves when the state is invited into it.

[Via Jess]

A Taxing Idea

One way to accomplish this goal is to establish a voluntary registration system for all privately owned firearms. Those who chose to register their guns would receive a card that would entitle them to purchase — tax free each year — as many bullets for each of their guns as any reasonable gun owner could use. Just show your card and a picture ID, and there would be no tax on bullets for your quota, which could easily be monitored by the same computer systems that verify the right to purchase a gun. No one would be required to register, but not doing so would make bullets much more expensive. Of course, criminals and others who are not permitted to own firearms would probably not apply for the discount, but if they did, knowing who owned a particular gun would help law enforcement track down those who illegally use them. And, for those who insisted on buying clips that held more than 10 rounds, the tax should be much higher. [More] 
And this guy's a law school dean.

You Went Full Feyerick

You never go full Feyerick. [Read]

It's not just the gun issue in which "Authorized Journalists" shine.

Update to Marine Parade Rifle Column



I’d like to address some of the common objections appearing in comments to Saturday's GRE column.
 
My attention to this story came from an email list run by and for Marines.

The rifles are NOT being carried in bolt open position.  The bolts have been removed. You can tell because the operating rods are in the forward position.

The rifles in the 2009 inaugural, as shown in the last slide show photo, did not have the bolts removed.  

The issue of parade rifles carried by honor guards being disabled in a different fashion under previous administrations, such as having their firing pins removed, is not being argued here, although it should be—not that it didn't happen, but that it does.  But that’s not the thrust of this article. Here’s what is:

Unlike in 2009, in the 2013 inaugural parade, someone in authority made the decision to change that and order the Marines to march with visibly disabled guns.