2nd AmendmentAmerican people have the right to protect their families against criminals and unwell individuals who may seek to harm them. Business owners have the right to protect themselves and their establishments. Constitutional Concealed Carry reciprocity is strongly supported. Access to firearms is “essential” in times of crisis.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Blessings of Liberty Matter
And in case you were wondering:
I guess Joe Biden would tell us she "ain't black."
Daily Defense
I'll be joining Armed American Radio host Mark Walters this afternoon at 4 Eastern to talk NRA "turncoats" and a novel plan to help mitigate the mess.
To join in, find a station near you or listen live from the AAR website, or do so from the AAR Facebook page, where you can also watch Mark and chat with other listeners.
UPDATE: As listeners heard, there were tech issues and an old program played in the first segment, but they recovered and we had 3 segments to talk about the NRA lawsuit and a chance to include affected members as intervenors.
A Spree Grows in Brooklyn
NYPD commissioner blames surge in gun violence on Brooklyn saying perpetrators from the borough are responsible for half of the shootings across the city [More]
I love it when they point fingers at each other.
Hack Attack
Hacker targets Utah Gun Exchange, revealing usernames and emails [More]
Let's hope the suspicions about who it is proves true and that investigators can take the creep behind it down. Bonus points if it's an anti with an agenda rather than just a criminal opportunist (sorry, that's redundant, isn't it?).
Sgt. Esterhaus has a reminder for us.
If This Doesn't Scream 'More Gun Laws!' I Don't Know What Will
11-Year-Old Girl Who Starred in Anti-Gun Video Killed in Drive By Shooting [More]
What does it tell us that she riding in a car driven by "the intended target"?
Just Not Getting It
I look at the comments on my latest AmmoLand piece, there, on social media and here, and the vast majority are not addressing its contents, but rather they are just reacting to the headline and going off on a tangent that does nothing to address and advance the ideas being proposed. If that keeps up, it means this infant will die forgotten in its crib without even being considered by people in a position to make things happen.
That's very discouraging, especially since this is a unique idea that has precedent behind it.
Maybe this guy on Reddit can explain in a way I apparently failed to:
Please read it before dismissing it based on headline but I will attempt to give a short representation:
This is not to stop the lawsuit or defend Wayne. Quite the opposite: it’s to defend the organization from Wayne and the State.
This is a letter from George Douglas, an Alabama attorney and NRA Life Member, about the urgent need for members to file on behalf of themselves and the membership generally.
The gist is that if the leadership is guilty of the charges, the membership cannot trust the leadership or the NYAG to adequately represent the membership and interests of the non-profit. Additional representation of member interests is required to ensure any money misappropriated is returned to the members/organization.
To do this, we need some members and some allied legal representation that can practice in New York to file for intervention in the suit.
There is a good set of points that follow each other but a couple highlights of the line of reasoning are as follows:
“3. That the proper remedy for those wrongs, if they are proven, is not the dissolution of the NRA but recovery of the misspent funds from the individuals for the NRA as an entity, not for the NYAG or the State.
4. That because of the inherent conflicts of interest between the individual defendants and the NRA as an entity, the NRA must have separate counsel who are not chosen by the individual defendants.”
Mr. Douglas has volunteered to help with research but getting some legal assistance licensed to practice in NY is key, along with members willing to help.
Also:
Please read my earlier comment if not the link. This isn’t about stopping the claims, but ensuring member interests are protected while the courts evaluate those claims.The NRA as an organization should be sever able from WLP and especially so if claims are with merit (which many of us suspect they are to at least some degree). Given that, killing the NRA because of WLP is throwing out the baby with the bath water. We can all agree that a better functioning NRA is better than killing it.
Is anyone willing to help?
Here's another interesting thought from an email I received earlier this morning. I hadn't gotten this far in analyzing specific items of damage to NRA members resulting from its dissolution, but the email sender pointed out that if that happened, all Life Members would lose the value of the membership they paid for and the tangible and intangible future benefits which would flow from that.
That would also seem to apply to anyone having time remaining on five-year memberships.
Speaking of 'Clinging to Guns and Bibles...
The US Gun Culture That Has Saved Europe Didn’t Happen in a Vacuum [More]
Miguel A. Faria, MD. reminds us that American exceptionalism had its roots in a way of life that many who disparage it are clueless about.
And This Just Says It All
On evictions, Adolfo Bermudez spoke to the crowd in Spanish. “We are fighting for something that is our right,” he said. "A home." He said he’s speaking today before those without a voice and “those hiding in basements.” [More]
Translation: Foreigners have a right to come here and enslave Americans.
And everyone against that is a racist.
[Via Mack H]
This Is What Happens When You Elect Marxist Thugs
Portsmouth police announced criminal charges Monday against a bevy of public officials and activists — including state Sen. Louise Lucas, leaders of the NAACP, the city’s top public defender and a School Board member — stemming from a June protest and vandalism at the city’s Confederate monument that left a man seriously injured and much of the statue toppled ... Lucas’ attorney, Don Scott, said she was already in Richmond on Monday to prepare for the session. He called both the charges and the timing of their announcement a politically motivated attack against Black leaders in Portsmouth who have been fighting for criminal justice reform. [More]
In other words, they can do whatever they want and if you object, you're a racist.
The silver lining is if convicted of a felony, those infringements she's so intent on creating will hoist her with her own petard.
[Via Mack H]
Open Fields
Months prior, in 2018, the Tennessee landowner removed a game camera secretly strapped to a tree on his private land by wildlife officials in order to monitor his activity without apparent sanction or probable cause. Repeat: Hollingsworth’s residence was searched by U.S. government and state officials, dressed to the nines in assault gear, seeking to regain possession of a trail camera—the precise camera they had surreptitiously placed on his private acreage after sneaking onto his property at night, loading the camera with active SD and SIM cards, and zip-tying the device roughly 10’ high up a tree—all without a warrant. [More]
Securing the Blessings of Liberty again, I see...
[Via MM]
And the Winner Is...
Wyandotte County election board certifies win for 19-year-old [More]
Yeah, about that...
[Via bondmen]
Tales of the Bizarro World
Bi-State spent a million dollars on studies designed to make the system safer. One of the recommendations was to disarm security guards. [More]
And now "he was attacked and pushed from the platform where he may have suffered serious injuries."
What can I say but "Metrolink"...?
And "You Paid For It"...?
[Via bondmen]
That's a Big 'If'
If you are truly sincere about a serious discussion, then you need to openly examine the role Democrats have played in our state’s history on this issue. It is time to be transparent. A first step in addressing these issues is for Democrats to acknowledge that it was your party who carried out those past discriminatory policies and injustices and who built those monuments and hung those paintings. [More]
I'm finding Alinsky Rule 4 just as useful as Rule 5.
To Ourselves and Our Posterity
Contra the National Interest: Biden-Harris Immigration Platform [More]
Not that national and state gun groups seem interested...
Meanwhile, Over at the Ministry of State Security...
Former CIA Officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma Arrested and Charged with Spying For China [More]
So this means he won't be able to compare notes with Pelosi's guy?
You'll have to forgive our domestic spooks for letting it go on so long. They've been preoccupied with priorities.
[Via Michael G]
It's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Disney confirms its first bisexual lead character, who is also multi-cultural [More]Did someone say "agenda"?
And how soon until Walt's name is removed?
Where's Myron?
I received the following email last night that raises an interesting question:
It has been six days since a "51 year-old man" was screaming in front of the White House that he was going to kill someone, then reached into his pocket, pulled something out, took a shooter's stance/crouch and was shot twice in the torso by the Secret Service.
Then, for the past 5 or 6 days, NOTHING. His name was released, Myron Berryman, and we know he used to live in Dayton, OH. But no photo has been published, and we still have no idea if he was black or white.
Is this going to be like the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Hotel shooting - no investigation and no video, ever?
Any thoughts?
He's right about no news. In re further identifiers, this is pretty much what's out there.
Why the lack of follow-up?