Wednesday, January 08, 2014
Stop the Threat Encore Presentation: Lunch Break
This week's crime scene: An armed citizen makes a decision whether or not to stop a burglary in process at his favorite donut shop while on a lunch break.
Hosted by James B. Towle with Special Guests: Kelly Muir, Rob Pincus, Steve Vandermolen
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Ringing in the New
The Senate Judiciary Committee will be introducing its first gun control bill on January 17, at 3:30 PM in Hearing Room F at the Capitol. This is the bill we told you was coming banning private transfers and starting the registration process. [More]So how about it, Oregon gun owners? Do you think OFF should have to make this all go away all by themselves, without any help from you?
Remember this? No, I don't suppose most do.
Well guess what? Bloomberg formed a well-funded and professionally-staffed lobbying action group in August, and if you think the state gun groups have been overwhelmed before, just wait 'till they try to keep up with the assault they'll be facing this year, especially while welfare parasite gun owners sit by the sidelines and let others do all the lifting.
Hey, maybe the do-nothings can be surprised when new laws are passed, and they end up standing in a line complaining...
Keeping Up Those "A" Ratings
In a chat session this month with the liberal magazine Texas Monthly, Cornyn revealed he and Lindsay Graham will introduce a bill strengthening the NICS federal gun owner registration database and place more Americans on lifetime gun ban lists. [More]Some in the "gun establishment" have been itching to use this as a sellout point since right after Newtown. I was privy to some insider conversations where the sentiment was our legislators have to give their constituents something. We know NSSF is behind it, and through a combination of carefully crafted weasel words here and tactical silence there, so is NRA.
I haven't seen the bill (I didn't find it yet on GovTrack) to compare how it actually reads against the allegations, but that doesn't change my position of not giving anything up through preemptive surrender. I don't care what it says, if it cedes an inch, then no.
They're feeling bold enough to do this because it's been green-lighted, and probably written, by the same genius minds who sold out "undetectable guns" and, years earlier, normal capacity magazines, a betrayal that would have given a distinct market advantage to positioned insiders.
Hey, remember when NRA was dragged kicking and screaming into promising they would score the Sotomayor vote? Lindsey? And Kagan? Lindsey?
How come they still give him an "A"?
Too bad some of us weren't successful at ginning up enough support when it was Holder's turn at bat, which was also good for Lindsey.
I'm sure I'll have more to say about this later.
January vBlast
FFLGuard has posted their latest video. [Watch]
If you're an FFL, watch and learn more. If you patronize an FFL you're interested in keeping around, show him this.
If you're an FFL, watch and learn more. If you patronize an FFL you're interested in keeping around, show him this.
CCDL Nixes "Blue Collar Republican"
I just received this press release from CCDL:
Groton, CT- January 8th, 2014 The Connecticut Citizens Defense League (The state's largest grass roots 2nd Amendment rights group) Is speaking out against Mark Boughton's official bid for governor. CCDL President Scott Wilson stated the following: "Gun owners in Connecticut are not going to accept or vote for candidates that support gun control; especially ones seeking the highest of State offices". Wilson went on to say: "Mayor Boughton is a coalition member of an active anti-2nd Amendment organization (MAIG) that claims to support sensible gun reforms. In reality the group, 'Mayors Against Illegal Guns' continually works to infringe on the rights of law abiding gun owners. The Mayor's statements about the recently passed gun laws, are also very troubling to gun owners in Connecticut".Hopefully, his collar won't be all that's blue.
Molon Labia
I've heard of snatching guns, but this is ridiculous! [More]
"Space aliens" indeed. Like they need those to make this unearthly weird.
Why am I reminded of the old joke about Princess Margaret, and the punchline "Find the keys to the Bentley and we can drive out"?
"Space aliens" indeed. Like they need those to make this unearthly weird.
Why am I reminded of the old joke about Princess Margaret, and the punchline "Find the keys to the Bentley and we can drive out"?
Meanwhile, Over in Dead Hugo Chavez Paradise
Former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and British ex-husband shot dead in robbery [More]And in case anyone is wondering:
The regulation of guns in Venezuela is categorised as restrictive.
In Venezuela, civilians are not allowed to possess machine guns, sub-machine guns, carbines, pistols and revolvers, be they automatic or semi-automatic. Civilians are only authorized to hold .22 rifles and shotguns.
Nappen Wins in NJ
Today the Superior Court Of New Jersey ruled that New Jersey Towns can NOT add requirements to the gun license process. [More]
The decision is here.
Good job, Evan Nappen.
Also in the Garden State: NJ2AS filed a brief challenging "justifiable need."
El Salvador gun 'study' repeats familiar pattern
The claim of a massive percentage is a familiar one to those who have seen the same technique used by the Obama administration and its supporters to justify tighter U.S. gun restrictions. After all, having U.S. guns recovered from violent crime scenes was at the core of Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking.” [More]Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes an old familiar scam routinely used by government and con artists (but I repeat myself): Using phony statistics to defraud the ignorant out of what is theirs.
You might want to have this playing in the background while you read it.
We're the Only Ones Repeating Enough
Authorities said at the time that authorities repeatedly ordered the teen to drop the gun and fired several shots after the teen did not follow their demands. [More]All in three seconds.
I repeat my challenge to all the "Only Ones" apologists: Yell at someone walking on a sidewalk with his back turned to you to drop what he's carrying and see if he doesn't turn in your direction to see if he's the one you're yelling at and to try to understand what you want.
I don't need to goose-step a mile in their jackboots before judging them.
When I was a kid, we lived in Tehran for almost five years -- my Dad was plant manager for a tire factory there. I routinely rode my bicycle around with my Daisy Model 99 strapped over my shoulder--and even discouraged wild pack dogs from approaching on a few occasions.
I enjoyed more freedom in the Shah's Iran than boys do today in the land of the Second Amendment. Think about that.
Drowning in Statistics
Workman throws some cold water on a hot topic. [More]
Some of it soaks an indignant Mom with predictable results:
Some of it soaks an indignant Mom with predictable results:
Spreading Like Kudzu
"Toys for Totalitarians"... [More]
Not bad for a phrase that made its first appearance two-and-a-half weeks ago.
Not bad for a phrase that made its first appearance two-and-a-half weeks ago.
The Lesser of Two Evils?
"[G]ood friend and business partner [of] Terry McAuliffe" Haley Barbour, and "Republicans" like him? [More]
Really?
A compelling case could be made that they're actually more evil.
Really?
A compelling case could be made that they're actually more evil.
This Day in History: January 8
On January 8, 1782, the South Carolina legislature met in Jacksonborough with Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene and his large Patriot army between them and the British army in Charlestown. [More]