Notes from the Resistance...
A Boston police officer sent a .40-caliber round speeding through the hip of a fellow officer early yesterday morning in West Roxbury as the two argued over whether he was sober enough to drive...Maybe Mayor Menino can figure out where he got the gun, and join forces with Mike Bloomberg to sue the supplier...
A Toronto police officer did not draw his weapon when he saw Jeffrey Reodica swing at him with a knife because he "froze up" just moments before the teen was fatally shot by his partner, a coroner's inquest heard yesterday.So how will The Only Ones save us if they're too paralyzed by headlights to even save themselves?
Assembly hopeful Joel Tyner has accused incumbent Assemblyman Joel Miller of telling an "outrageous falsehood" when he denied receiving money from the National Rifle Association.I'm still waiting for a politician with the stones to publicly and angrily scourge an opponent for daring to infringe on the right to keep and bear arms--and to educate their constituency on what that right means. Instead, most of these weasels take the money but then try to hush it up and hide it from the general populace.
On this day in 1776, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, British Commodore Sir Peter Parker notifies General Henry Clinton that he will land on the South Carolina mainland the next day on the flood tide, if the wind blows from the south.
You've opened my mind and given me understanding of assualt rifles. You've clarified the issue for me greatly and eliminated the grey area I had with this issue.So does this mean you're going to publicly correct the record with your readership after telling them such firearms are "justifiably maligned"?
Guns sure are a touchy subject, and I suppose I should follow up this article...Yes, we can't hunt without guns, but likewise, we can't hunt without game...It sounds like he still puts "sport" on one side of the scales and "rights" on the other, as if they somehow have comparable weight. Besides, it's a false alternative to claim you can't have both. Freedom produces more...
The money comes from a Joyce Foundation grant, and grants from such local agencies as United Way and the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois.So I guess until United Way comes up with a policy prohibiting its local chapters from engaging in subversion, the safest course is to find a more worthy charity to support. Otherwise, you just might find your contributions working to erode your freedoms.
The former South African president has told how he buried the weapon on the farm where he was hiding at the time.So when they came for his gun, he defied them and kept it hidden.
He and other ANC leaders were later arrested on the farm, and were jailed for their work against apartheid. Mr Mandela was freed in 1990.
AHSA seems to want the middle ground, to be pro-gun and pro-conservation.It's no secret I have my differences with current NRA management, but I'd be more interested in saving hunters from surface-deep writers like Bill Schneider. I posted the following and encourage you to add your thoughts:
Good grief, Bill, I can't believe anyone could write anything this ignorant unintentionally. Ten minutes worth of research would have told you all you needed to know about AHSA--assuming you don't know perfectly well what they're about.
And as for being a "new group," where have you been? Pro-Bill of Rights activists have been warning gun owners about them for almost a year now.
AHSA's president, John Rosenthal, founded "Stop Handgun Violence," and is as big a gungrabber as you will find. Their Board of Directors include honchos from Crime Guns Solutions, ex-BATF careerists who worked to give ammo to the gun maker lawsuits. CGS exec Gerald Nunziato had this to say:
"“If it wasn'’t for criminals, there wouldn'’t be a gun industry in this country. The only people [NRA and other gun-rights groups are] protecting are criminals."
AHSA has ties with a democrat consulting group, DCS, whose clients included Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers.
[Robert] Ricker may as well change his name to Judas--here's what he said about the gun lawsuits [when he] worked for "the gun lobby":
"We'’ll be able to show that what these lawyers are actually after is money."
Now that he's betrayed the people who put his name on the map, he's become an "expert witness" FOR the gun lawsuits.
So was he lying then for money or is he lying now for money--and either way, how can anyone believe a thing he says?
As for the machine guns and hunters LIE, c'mon, Bill, if you don't know the "assault weapon" ban covered semiautos, you really have no business making public commentary on the matter until you do some learning. The confusion between the two types of firearms is intentional deception proposed by Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center, who stated:
"The semi-automatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons - anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun - can only increase that chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons."
Besides which, maybe you can show us where the Second Amendment, that is, the right of the People to be the final guarantor of their own liberty, concerns itself with mere sporting purpose (which, by the way, was one of the rationales employed in Nazi "gun control" laws)?
David Codrea
The War on Guns
http://waronguns.blogspot.com
On this day in 1775, Congress issues $2 million in bills of credit.And they've never looked back.
Flexible full-body protection that could save our troops' lives and limbs is at the top of the list for many researchers and technology companies. One such product could soon make its way to Iraq. As this ScienCentral News video explains, the secret ingredient is a liquid that could turn lightweight material into full-body armor.This is a very exciting development.
Two people were killed and another injured yesterday after a shootout between prison officers and FBI agents investigating their alleged involvement in a corruption scandal at a Florida jail.So what is a non-Only One supposed to do when there are no "Good" Only Ones around to protect them from the "Bad" Only Ones?
The gunfight began when the agents arrived at the Federal Correctional Institute in Tallahassee to serve arrest warrants on six prison guards suspected of supplying drugs and alcohol to female inmates in exchange for money or sex.
Is the ongoing cost of the registry not commensurate with the benefits? What about the fact that police across Canada access the gun registry 5,000 times a day? Why are police forces across Canada massively in favour of the gun registry?Oh, OK--the cops want gun registration so it must be "good."
On this day in 1779, Spain declares war on Great Britain, creating a de facto alliance with the Americans.
Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte declined yesterday to prosecute a state trooper who fatally shot an unarmed man in 2005, despite a judge's report three months ago finding the trooper had engaged in "wanton and reckless conduct" that "amounted to criminal negligence"...Let's you and me shoot a driver in the back of the head and see how quick DA Conte is to drop the charges. But then, we're not The Only Ones.
The average leader of a Chicago street gang is 43, and more often than not he lives in the leafy suburbs of Cook County.Yep, let the animals loose and disarm the victim pool.
He typically has been convicted of murder...
Advice on how to fight back...
*Limiting handgun sales to once a month and banning .50-caliber sniper rifles...
More than 28 000 South Africans lent their faces to the worldwide Million Faces Petition calling for tougher controls on the international arms trade, campaigners said yesterday.And they are in some illustrious company.
On this day in 1782, Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States after six years of discussion.Looks like it didn't take them all that long to start acting like politicans...
Even by NRA standards, this is a bad idea -- not just divisive but downright dangerous. Does the gun lobby really want to remake America in the image of Iraq? The proposal was apparently motivated by the lawlessness in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, but if there aren't enough cops to patrol the streets, then hire more cops. When individual citizens, even "law-abiding" ones, decide to go it alone, the result is anarchy.As The Pistolero told me when he sent me this link: "I thought I had seen it all, until I saw this."
