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A Good First Step

Why looky here:

Clamping down on straw purchases would stem the flow of illegal guns into the city.

A good first step would be to enact a state law limiting handgun purchases to one a month per buyer.

And what did our good pal Tom Ferrick Jr. have to say about "straw purchases"?

No one is pretending that this one-handgun-a-month ban is the cure-all, but it is a start.

This is actually a dusting off of an old argument. I first wrote about it seven years ago, in "Smart Guns–-Dumb Lawsuits":

But for the gun controllers, that's not all bad-- because based on results, each tragedy provides a new opportunity to exploit, a new press conference to hold, a new law to enact, or a new lawsuit to file. They'll propose further restrictions under the bald-faced pretense that it's "a good first step." They won't tell you that there are already over 20,000 gun laws on the books at the federal, state and municipal level that are consistently ignored by all but the law-abiding.

"A good first step...…" the clueless segment of our victim pool populace will drone back at the proposal of law number 20,001.

A good first step to ensuring this lie will be a non-starter is to be aware that it's being employed--and to expose it as a coordinated talking point whenever it is used.

Defer to the Brainwashed, Poll Concludes

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have a tough time convincing Canadians it's time to completely scrap the country's expensive gun registry program, a new opinion poll suggests...

The poll of 1,001 Canadians was conducted May 9 to May 11, with a 3.1 percentage point margin of error, 19 times out of 20...

The support is strongest in Ontario and Quebec where 71 per cent and 76 per cent of respondents respectively said they were in favour of maintaining a gun control system.

What a surpruse. Urban constituents, that is, liberals, want more gun control. And we all know how individual rights ought to be defined by the majority--particularly a majority addicted to government influence and control in all aspects of their lives.

In a related poll, a majority of sheep prefer grass...

We're the Only Ones...Hey, Has Anybody Seen My...

A gun that was apparently stolen from a New Haven police detective was used in a December shooting, according to records obtained by the New Haven Register.

So much for useful idiot Tom Ferrick Jr's. contention that keeping guns away from you and me--and giving special advantage to the police at the expense of the people--will cut "gun violence."

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

On Cutting "Gun Violence"

Politicians against gun control are to blame for violence committed by reptiles? I guess that's easier to sell than the truth: that mad dogs are the inevitable result of the socialist incubator useful idiot Tom Ferrick Jr. and his ilk demand.

This would be easy to fisk if it wasn't so damned difficult to stomach this police state apologist's loathsome opinions. How does someone become this bent?

The liar calls one-gun-a-month schemes "a start"--as if "gun control" in Philadelphia is a virgin subject that's never been tried before.

There can be no peace between us. He and his kind won't allow it.

Molon labe, Tom, you despicable wretch.

You can't take back your words. If history recalls you at all, it will be as an obscure collaborator and enemy of freedom.

More Civility From the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Taking his own lyrics to heart -- shoot back, but don't get shot -- will mean federal prison for a Calgary rapper who fired into a crowd.

But we all know our enemies are guns, not sociopathic reptiles attracted to the thug culture, right, Cass?

Welcome to Brady Paradise!

A loaded handgun was found in the county jail Thursday night, the second time a firearm has been brought into the building's secure areas since September.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

And don't you just love the way this "report" assumes the suspect pool should be limited to inmates?

Carolina Tarazona, Propagandist

Joanne Sanabria, Victim's Mother: If you don't have a badge, if you're not in law enforcement, there's no reason you should have a gun.

I know Carolina Tarazona calls herself a "reporter", but Good Lord...

These Saltatus Cruoris mouthpieces for a state monopoly of power don't even pretend to present both sides any more, do they?

Technical Difficulties

This just in from TriggerFinger:

I had a multiple, simultanous hard drive failure that killed my web and email server. I've managed to put together a replacement but since my time has been at a premium lately it's taking a lot longer than I would like to recover the data from backups and get everything working again.

I'm hoping to have everything minimally functional Monday. Email should be back up right now, and I'm working on websites next, followed by source code repositories.

Feel free to post this email if you feel your readers would like to know where I've been.

So patience. Check back on Monday and rest assured that a legion of highly trained TriggerFinger technical professionals are working 'round the clock to bring you your daily fix of cutting edge liberty-oriented commentary and analysis.

2nd Amendment Saturday

Failure to adhere to the Constitution, through suppression of an enumerated right, whether by law, law enforcement's abuse of ambiguous policy, intellectual dishonesty among the judiciary and legislative branches, abuse of emergency situations to further an agenda, and radical misinterpretations of the word People and Infringed, in a better world, would be followed by petitions, and possible litigation thus resulting in the empirical recognition of such right.

Free Constitution presents his weekly offering.

Bring in the Mounties!

The federal government has launched a probe to find out who leaked details from an auditor general's report.

The New Democrats say that's not good enough and want the Mounties to investigate.

See, the issue isn't that government wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on a bureaucratic boondoggle that only punishes the law-abiding. The issue isn't that contractor improprieties point to corruption and cronyism. The issue isn't even that criminals have stolen firearms from targeted list victims.

The issue is somebody told the people about these outrages.

This Day in History: May 13

Connecticut land speculator, politician, jurist and Patriot Eliphalet Dyer dies on this day in 1807.

I Just KNOW This is Going to Work

County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the effort would attack gun violence as part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods, which can result in federal prison time for those who commit gun crimes.

"I know this is going to work well because we actually have dollars committed from the state," Worthy said.

Yeah--throw "government" money at it. That always fixes everything, doesn't it? Comments worthy of a statist functionary, Kym...

After all, the Bush administration, with NRA playing cheerleader, has "devoted over $1 billion" to Project Safe Neighborhoods, and we see how well it's worked in Richmond and Philadelphia.

Scots Hire Squirrel Czar

THE Scottish are so concerned about the rampant growth of the Grey American squirrel population, that they are using taxpayers money to employ someone to deal with the problem.

Or as Dennis Walker writes, "You all realize there wouldn't be a story if the Scots could give every 14-year old boy a .22 and some shooting lessons..."

Gestapo Gun Laws

Most upsetting are incidents like the one in Paarl where a robber was arrested and a firearm seized. It was found the gun had been handed in to the police by its legal owner and had subsequently ended up in criminal hands.

Here's a South African who truly gets it. Great letter.

So Much For the Gun Registry...

Two firearms delivered to an Oshawa residence have gone missing and are assumed stolen after they were left in plain view on the porch, police say...

Det. Const. Steve Rhoden said the sporting goods store in Calgary sent the guns with a notice requiring a signature upon delivery. But Rhoden said that when the package arrived in Canada Post's hands, that signature requirement wasn't followed though.

Government. Is there anything it doesn't do well?

We Want the Right to Be Tyrants

"What I’m going to try mostly to do is convince the legislature to let Philadelphia have the right to pass its own gun laws. We had that, when I was mayor, up until 1996 – then they took it away from us. I’d like them to give us that right back," Rendell said.

Translation: We want government to have the right to eradicate individual rights.

And here I thought Rendell was our pal.

This Day in History: May 12

After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina.

It's Not About Guns

The former Liberal government "broke every rule in the book" when it signed a $273-million computer contract for the federal gun registry -- now the subject of a "stop-work" order -- and never reported the costs or terms of the deal to Parliament, a longtime Conservative gun-registry critic alleges.

It's about political connections, cronyism, cushy deals, corruption and incompetence. In other words, typical government operations.

And individual rights be damned.

Shots Aren't Preceded By "Dear"

NRA wants us to send letters to UN officials protesting their plans for global gun control, and have prepared cut and paste letters for that purpose.

It's hardly the "shot heard 'round the world" Wayne is painting it to be, but OK, I'll send those tyrants a warning letter.

Still, I'll be damned if I call either of them "Dear" or "Honorable."

It's not about controlling the UN. It's about controlling treasonous US representatives.

Yes, I'm all for getting the US out of the UN. And I'm also for getting the "gun lobby" out.

[Via Jed]