“Well the answer you’re going to get from us at GOA is absolutely, it should be a part of scoring, and it’s something that we plan on including in our rating of Congress this next year, because as we've already discussed, if we don’t block this amnesty move now, before we get five, eight-million previously illegal aliens now voting 85 percent anti-gun Democrats, that’s the ballgame,” Pratt replied. “That’s it." [More]This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a development that may reshape the political landscape of the gun rights advocacy community.
Monday, March 02, 2015
Gun Owners of America to score amnesty votes in politician gun ratings
Mike McNulty, R.I.P.
One of the heroes of the Waco fights of the 1990s has passed away. [More]This is sad news. I had the privilege of corresponding and working with him to try in my small way to help him continue his great work. He wanted to put together a documentary on Fast and Furious. He also proposed a "sporting sequester" in response to Colorado's anti-gun edicts.
He was a brilliant man.
Anti-gunners memorialize criminals while trying to disarm law-abiding
“Even felons have a right to life and nothing justifies their murders,” GRNC elaborated. “But the fact that a criminal lifestyle is hazardous and not conducive to longevity has nothing to do with Second Amendment rights. Bloomberg and NCGV's attempts to use the danger inherent to criminal behavior as a rationale to attack the rights of law-abiding North Carolinians is misleading and outrageous.” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes collectivists applying collective guilt.
Rod Smith Shows Everyone His Big "But"
I have usually been, and according to some in my political party, have always been, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. [More]Now watch, he's turning around...
EWWWWW!
Why Didn’t NRA Head Say Anything About Amnesty Danger to Gun Rights at CPAC?
In his speech Friday before the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre discussed a host of issues impacting gun rights, declaring they all depend on each other. Curiously absent from his speech was any acknowledgment of the danger amnesty for illegal aliens with a “pathway to citizenship” would pose to continued government recognition of the right to keep and bear arms. [More]Joe Miller posted my latest GRE at Restoring Liberty.
Just Part and Parcel of Protecting Our Rights
The request, Gray said, is "just part and parcel of their (gun rights groups) attempt to intimidate people." [More]To paraphrase Rhett Butler, you deserve to be intimidated, often, and by someone who knows how.
What's the matter Rick, afraid someone will notice Bloomberg's wrist up your ass?
Vermont Update
We talked about a pending attack here.
Dean Weingarten lets us know that grassroots pushed out the Astroturf.
[Via Neil W]
Dean Weingarten lets us know that grassroots pushed out the Astroturf.
[Via Neil W]
So Much for THAT Trope
Border Agent Brian Terry statue unveiling ignored by Obama and Holder [More]I thought criminals always returned to the scene of the crime...?
The Willing Dead
Rick’s people surrender their guns to Olivia... [More]OK, the show just became officially unbelievable.
Yeah, It Appears That Way
Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox that the way the ATF is going about this “appears to violate the Administrative Procedures Act. [More]You don't say.
We're the Only Ones Crumbling Enough
This is pure evil totalitarian jackbooted police state thug tyranny. Unchecked traitors like these will make a defensive response to remove them as intolerable threats inevitable. [More]
This is the monopoly of violence state the government cultists rightly consider some a check and balance against, which is why they want to destroy them.
This was the power of that state, employed against a lone citizen. And they'd have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for that meddling wife and nephew.
Whistling "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" while ridiculing the victim of your thugs, eh Chief Culpepper?
Another Clint Eastwood movie comes to mind:
[Via William T]
This is the monopoly of violence state the government cultists rightly consider some a check and balance against, which is why they want to destroy them.
This was the power of that state, employed against a lone citizen. And they'd have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for that meddling wife and nephew.
Whistling "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" while ridiculing the victim of your thugs, eh Chief Culpepper?
Another Clint Eastwood movie comes to mind:
It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have.You crucifixion-deserving swine tried to destroy an innocent man. What you tried to do would have been equivalent to taking all he's got.
[Via William T]
Thinking Outside the Scope
From Bruce W. Krafft via email:
For those of you who have not yet heard, California Cartridge-Microstamp Law Upheld in Gun Group Loss.
I think the money quote from U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller is "Plaintiffs insist they have the right to determine the precise way in which they would exercise their Second Amendment rights," but that the insistence upon particular handguns falls "outside the scope of the right to bear arms."
Let's try this on for size: Suppose CA law was changed so that only blacks who had graduated from a whites only university or college could run for office. Then imagine a judge saying Plaintiffs insist they have the right to determine the precise way in which they would exercise their Voting rights," but that the insistence upon being able to vote for people of color falls "outside the scope of the right to vote."
We're the Only Ones Pensioned Enough
Lovett has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after being convicted of gambling and other federal corruption charges stemming from his time as chief. But he’ll still collect his $130,000 annual city pension. [More]My favorite line is from the councilthing who calls going after the pension "vindictive."
I wonder if "Ol' Thunderbolt" has been drinking again?
[Via Jake S]
Two Different Countries
Which one do you have a right to live in? [More]
And what happens when the one within metastasizes and takes over the host?
And what happens when the one within metastasizes and takes over the host?
Framing the Terms
Government haters remind me of adolescents pumping their chests to proclaim that they don't need mom and dad. [More]And economic fascists who deliberately paint adherents to Constitutional restraints as adolescent "haters" remind me of self-serving liars.
The New Paradigm
The problem is that a good number of them do fault us, for standing. For showing up in person and staring down those who would enslave us. For being uncompromising and refusing to back down. For being willing to sit silently in a steel cage, facing indefinite detention while being treated like the enemy. [More]There were colonists with real grievances against the king who thought the Sons of Liberty made them all "look bad."
They Thought They Were Free
So do most Americans. [More]
I've heard it said that whip-driven slaves of Egypt were more free, because at least they knew they were slaves.
I've heard it said that whip-driven slaves of Egypt were more free, because at least they knew they were slaves.
Taken for Granted
The 2nd Amendment Is Your Concealed Carry Permit [More]Goddammit, it is not.
It always bugs me when guys with reach spread that line around.
[Via Beulah G]
Stirring the Pot
Once the weather starts warming up, I'd expect the cities to start heating up. [More]
That'll be a great excuse to spook the sheep into demanding more "protection," won't it?
And as with everything "progressive," expect Opposite Day results as far as individual liberty protections are concerned. Because the guy behind the Ferguson report is also the guy who wishes he wasn't so restrained.
[Via bondmen]
That'll be a great excuse to spook the sheep into demanding more "protection," won't it?
And as with everything "progressive," expect Opposite Day results as far as individual liberty protections are concerned. Because the guy behind the Ferguson report is also the guy who wishes he wasn't so restrained.
[Via bondmen]
Pressure Can Make a Difference
I don't know if Scott Walker is sincere or just pandering. [More]
And I still don't see a recommendation from him on what should be done to reverse this government and plutocrat-created problem.
Still, Walker feeling compelled to state this reversal demonstrates an often-unrealized power that would manifest itself by an order of magnitude if gun owners just used it. That would even be enough to force a similar Damascus conversion from this guy.
And I still don't see a recommendation from him on what should be done to reverse this government and plutocrat-created problem.
Still, Walker feeling compelled to state this reversal demonstrates an often-unrealized power that would manifest itself by an order of magnitude if gun owners just used it. That would even be enough to force a similar Damascus conversion from this guy.
We're the Only Ones Mile-High Enough
Federal air marshals assigned to protect commercial flights across the U.S. were furtively pulled from their assigned flights so they could meet for sexual trysts... [More]Thus the need for them to pack a loaded piece...
That Depends on What the Meaning of the Word "Up" Is
NRA’S WAYNE LAPIERRE SPEAKS UP FOR GUN RIGHTS AT CPAC [More]More Kool-Aid, please.
Messin' with Texas
In the end, at least 20 officers corralled, searched and fingerprinted all 60 meeting attendees, before seizing all cellphones and recording equipment... [More]Understand compliance was gained only by intimidation with a continuum of force that went all the way to lethal if anyone dared to resist.
This happened a couple weeks ago and is only now gaining wider notice. I'm up to my neck in things right now and won't have time to look for updates -- if you know anything, let us know in comments?
This Day in History: March 2
Moses Harris who is the bearer of this, is the person recommended to me by Your Excellency in 1781, as one who could procure intelligence by means of the disaffected in the northern part of this state, and has requested of me to mention to Your Excellency that he intercepted the letters copies of which I had the honor to transmit you, he continued employed in procuring intelligence until the Autumn of that Year when he conceived It necessary for his safety to remove into dutchness County. [More]