Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Fast Track to Tyranny

Still, though, if cops can be forced to adopt this technology, laws mandating it for the rest of us are possible, too, and some will no doubt see that as a brilliant idea, with the government now given the capability of real time tracking of all privately owned guns so equipped. [More]
Kurt's latest JPFO Alert notes a high tech way to keep track exclusively of Only Ones -- for now.

Plus other insidious dangers are posed.

Anti-gun judge in Tea Party vs. IRS suit shows ‘moderate’ dangers to liberty

What it actually reflects is the destructive effect of Stupid Party compromises, the “kinder, gentler” and “compassionate conservatism” that’s been at the squishy RINO core of the Bush family political dynasty, beginning with old man. And this isn't the first time Walton has shown the stuff he’s made of. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there's supposed to be a difference.  Unless someone is conning us.

Going Full Hoplotard

He actually sounds like one of the smarter ones. [More]

Charges ought to be filed.  And I'd like to know more about him, starting with who and where he is.

Mental issues or not, we have a right to know about public dangers.

An Inconvenient Truth

According to this prejudiced zealot, one incident can be extrapolated into an all-encompassing generality, to tar all boys educated by hunters and NRA members with the sociopath killer brush.

Shall we see what a source that can hardly be accused of bias in favor of gun owners, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, has to say about boys who lawfully own guns with the approval of responsible parents?
Boys who own legal firearms, however, have much lower rates of delinquency and drug use and are even slightly less delinquent than nonowners of guns.
But...but...but... the narrative...

[Via Jamie E]

We're the Only Ones Spicing Up Our Lives Enough

An enraged cop has been stripped of his gun and badge, accused of luring a fellow officer to a Harlem corner and pepper-spraying him in the face. [More]
That's the old pepper!*

Somehow or other, I know in my heart we gun owners need to be held accountable for badge-on-badge crime, too.

*

[Via DF]

We Hate to Say We Told You So

But they did.

GRNC just sent out an open letter in re the armed robbery at the "No Guns" state fair to the mudhead responsible for giving criminals the advantage:


An open letter to North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler
Dear Commissioner Troxler:
So much has happened since last we spoke. Since then, as we both know, an activist judge sanctioned your willful misinterpretation of N.C.G.S. 14-415.23, allowing you to prohibited lawful concealed carry at the state fair. 
When concealed carry at the fair was under debate, GRNC pointed out that ostensibly “gun free” zones actually attract sociopaths and criminals who know potential victims are disarmed. Indeed, of mass shootings in the United States since 1958, all but two have taken place in “victim disarmament zones.” 
At a highly publicized press conference, you responded that you would have more than two hundred armed law enforcement officers inside the fair, to which we noted that your prohibition would still leave concealed handgun permit-holders defenseless in parking areas surrounding the fairground.
When your security chief, Joel Keith, was asked at yet another press conference whether disarmed fair-goers could receive armed escorts to their vehicles, he responded in the affirmative. Unfortunately, that promise was carried out only reluctantly, and only when people demanded it. Worse, the metal detectors you promised for fair entrances were used only sporadically, as numerous fairgoers have reported.
Sometimes, I hate to be right: Three of the people you purported to protect were robbed at gun point. That’s right, Commissioner Troxler; in case you haven’t heard, here is an early account from WTVD:
“Raleigh police are looking for two armed men who robbed three people at gunpoint late Saturday night near the North Carolina State University Club.
“Police say the victims were robbed around 11:35 p.m. as they were walking back to their vehicles on Hillsborough Street after leaving the North Carolina State Fair. Fortunately, no one was injured.
“The suspects drove off in a tan or cream-colored Lincoln. They're described as two black males, one wearing a gray-hooded sweatshirt, one wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and each armed with handguns.” [Emphasis added] 
Where were your law enforcement officers when these innocent people were victimized, Commissioner Troxler? What if the criminals hadn’t just robbed them, but murdered them as well? One of the suspects is in custody but, of course, that would be far too late to help the victims.
Consider that by holding press conferences and announcing to the world that fair-goers would be disarmed, you also declared open season on them by informing violent predators that their victims would be defenseless. Indeed, you and Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens should count yourselves fortunate that nobody was killed.
Even before our involvement, word of your failure to follow through on protecting the fair-goers you disarmed is spreading throughout the gun rights community nationwide. Perhaps you should convene another press conference … this time, to issue an apology.
Respectfully,
F. Paul Valone
President, Grass Roots North Carolina
P.S. I note from USA Today that the fair’s attendance was down nearly 20% from its peak in 2010. Could it be that gun owners decided to stay home?
Paul's a lot nicer than me.

I'd have begun my letter "Dear Sexy Tractor Man," with all the ridicule that invites.

Today's Five-Minute Activism Project

Courtesy of our co-lyricist/bass player, here is a fairly comprehensive list of Colorado media outlets to send "The Hickenlooper Blues" YouTube link to:

I'm copying and pasting her list from Hotmail and won't have time to format it to make it pretty, but all the required info is there, and that's what matters. If a link or edress isn't active, copy/paste.

Will you contact as many of these as you can in just four minutes today? And will you use the other minute to notify your friends, and urge them to do the same?

Complete Colorado:       completecolorado@gmail.com
9 News (Denver NBC):   newstips@9news.com
7 News (Denver ABC):   7news@thedenverchannel.com
CBS 4 (Denver CBS):       http://denver.cbslocal.com/news-tips/
FOX 31 Denver:                 tips@kdvr.com
KRDO (Springs ABC):       krdonews@krdo.com
KKTV (Springs CBS):        news@kktv.com
KOAA (Springs NBC):      http://www.koaa.com/pages/guardian-contact-form/
FOX 21 (Springs):              news@fox21news.com
KREX (GJ ABC):                  news@krextv.com
KKCO (GJ NBC):                http://www.nbc11news.com/station/misc/19459109.html
KJCT (GJ ABC):                   newsroom@kjct8.com
KRQE (Durango):              newsdesk@krqe.com

Valley Courier (Alamosa):             news@alamosanews.com
Aspen Daily News:                          http://www.aspendailynews.com/submit-news-tip
Aurora Sentinel:                               http://www.aurorasentinel.com/submit-news-tips-press-releases/
The Fairplay Flume:                         https://theflume-dot-com.bloxcms-ny1.com/site/forms/emailforms/emily_clingman/                 (Emily is the editor)
Boulder Daily Camera:                   sebastianm@dailycamera.com  (Matt Sebastian is the City Editor)
Brush News Tribune:                      homer@brushnewstribune.com
Colorado Springs Gazette:           http://gazette.com/newstip
Cortez Journal:                                  http://forms.bdmedia.com/index.php?template=newstipCJ&wrapper=html
Craig Daily Press:                              http://www.craigdailypress.com/submit/news/
Crested Butte News:                      editorial@crestedbuttenews.com
Denver Post:                                      http://www.denverpost.com/newstips
Durango Herald:                               http://forms.bdmedia.com/index.php?template=newstipDH&wrapper=html
Ft. Collins Coloradoan:                   NewsTips@coloradoan.com
Summit Daily:                                    btrollinger@summitdaily.com (Ben Trollinger – managing editor)                             
Citizen Telegram (Glenwood):   hrice@citizentelegram.com (Heidi Rice – Editor)
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel:    http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/news_tip
Greeley Tribune:                              rbangert@greeleytribune.com (Randy Bangert – Editor)
Gunnison Country Times:             editor@gunnisontimes.com
Haxtun-Fleming Herald:                news@hfherald.com
La Junta Tribune-Democrat:        http://www.lajuntatribunedemocrat.com/submit&subtype=news
Lamar Ledger:                                   editor@lamarledger.com
Ouray County Plain Dealer:          Sheridan@ouraynews.com  (Sheridan Block, reporter)
Pagosa Daily Post:                            editor@pagosadailypost.com
Pueblo Chieftan:                              http://forms.chieftain.com/news-tips/
Rio Blanco Herald Times:               bobby@theheraldtimes.com  (Bobby Gutierrez, editor)
Wet Mountain Tribune (Westcliffe):       http://www.wetmountaintribune.com/contact.asp

You have a job? So does she.

Five minutes.

Strictly Scrutinous

Workman weighs in. [More]

I still don't get why anyone but an anti would object. If the argument is such cases don't belong in court in the first place, I agree.

As Picard said to Riker, "Make it so, Number One."

If you can't, then sorry. If the threat is immediate, VLLA SELLA takes precedence as far as I'm concerned.

Feel free to educate me as to why that assumption needs to be rethought.

When Assault Dildos are Outlawed...

According to a lawsuit filed last week in Kane county, two employees dressed as clowns and wielding “adult toys” approached the victims and three other minor children in the business’ parking lot. One actor, identified by police as Robert Keller, 23, of Algonquin, had an adult toy in his hand that he began waving and poking the victim’s minor child with, the suit said. [More]
What kind of right-wing throwback would be against poking kids with faux phalluses? "Progressive" adults who have Evolved encourage and promote it.

One for the Road

Today, Governor Corbett signed SB 1239, which effectively changed section 3802, so that the maximum sentence that can be imposed upon an individual who, during a first or second DUI, refuses to provide blood or breath testing, is five years, which consistent with most misdemeanors of the first degree. Accordingly, those individual who are now convicted under the amended DUI Code will be prohibited under 18 U.S.C. 922 from possessing or purchasing a firearm, regardless of the sentence imposed. [More]
Well looky here!

I need a drink.

Less is Moore

My pistol permit allows me to "carry concealed." That's right, I can legally carry a handgun, and you wouldn't even know it. [More]
So why do you even have one?

Because the rest of your pussified diatribe is nothing but a lame cover for ceding all moral responsibility to defend yourself and your charges to the "Only Ones" if evil ever visits. If you'd be incapable in a school situation, why should you be trusted anywhere? Does something magical happen when artificial property lines are crossed?

And why should any parent who loves their children trust them with a useless, gutless excuse-maker like you?

If I were an FFL and you came into my gun store, I'd tell you to get the hell out, and I'd probably use a different word than "hell."

Zelman Partisans

"The Gun Writer" Lee Williams of The Sarasota Herald-Tribune just did a feature on the new group. It looks like they may soon be opening up for membership. [More]

WoG noted them here.  You can see what they're about for yourself here.

We're the Only Ones Collecting Enough

When officials in the tiny Town of Stettin in Marathon County went to collect a civil judgment from 75-year-old Roger Hoeppner this month, they sent 24 armed officers. And an armored military vehicle. [More]
Best job I ever had!

[Via Bluesgal]

I Guess He's Just Not "Black" Enough

From the people the Opposite Day "Progressives" tell us are incapable of racism... [More]

Hey, what's a gang to do when someone else muscles in on their turf?

[Link via Mack H]

LMTV

Liston Matthews, that is, in his crusade to oppose gun bans in Farragut parks...

Here are his recent Knoxville area television news appearances:


He ought to have a thousand gun owners standing behind him.

You can catch his own reports on the matter, as well as his other gun rights columns, here.

Flighty

I gotta say, I just don't see how anyone could be this oblivious. [More]

Still, I do miss the good old days...


[Via Florida Guy]   

The Waffle Louse

Do you think Hickenlooper’s waffling on guns will get him “unelected” as Colorado’s governor? Let us hear your forecasts in the comments section below. [More]
The Shooters' Log notices "The Hickenlooper Blues."

I'm glad someone is.  Have you taken a moment to help amplify the message?

An actual comment left on a gun message board: "I wish they would play that as a commercial on TV."

Us too, or at least mention it on the news (or barring that, bypassing the media with an internet saturation campaign), but some of us are doing more than wishing. Join us by spreading the word?

This Day in History: October 29

The troops are allowed to put Chimneys to their tents, and make themselves comfortable in them ’till their hutts can be built. [More]