Part of God's Plan

An American pastor who was sentenced to more than three years in Russian prison on Monday for smuggling hunting ammunition into Russia is confident that "what’s happening to him is part of God’s plan"...

Perhaps.

But it's also part of the plan that you're now a convicted felon, that is, a prohibited person, albeit it is a foreign felony. Say, couldn't promoting Christianity count as a felony with our good friends in China and Saudi Arabia?

No matter, because it's part of the "Vote Freedom First President's" plan that all foreign felonies be used to disqualify American citizens from firearms ownership.

And it's part of "conservative" Supreme Court "Justice's" plans that such foreign laws apply here. *

And it's part of NRA management's plan that all felons be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for "illegal" gun posession.

So much for the original plan, at least as far as the Framers were concerned. As for God's plan for Mr. Miles, I'll leave that between them.

* Ain't it curious how the "liberal" justices ruled in Small v US? And we're told the reason we must hold our noses and vote for McCain is because of his judicial appointments?

We're the Only Ones "Dirty Dozen" Enough

Under pressure to increase their numbers, the Army and Marine Corps are sharply raising the number of recruits with felony convictions they are admitting to the services.

So they'll be giving M16s to "prohibited persons"?

If we ever suffer a major natural or induced catastrophe requiring military control, their inclusion among "The Only Ones" should make for some interesting dynamics.

Still, this give me an excuse to segue into this, from one of my favorite "guy" movies:

One: down to the road block, we've just begun
Two: the guards are through
Three: the Major's men are on a spree
Four: Major and Wladislaw go through the door
Five: Pinkley stays out in the drive
Six: the Major gives the rope a fix
Seven: Wladislaw throws the hook to heaven
Eight: Jiménez has got a date
Nine: the other guys go up the line
Ten: Sawyer and Gilpin are in the pen
Eleven: Posey guards points five and seven
Twelve: Wladislaw and the Major go down to delve
Thirteen: Franko goes up without being seen
Fourteen: Zero-hour, Jiménez cuts the cable, Franko cuts the phone
Fifteen: Franko goes in where the others have been
Sixteen: we all come out like it's Halloween.

Guns at Work

Jennifer Freeman of Liberty Belles weighs in.

WRSA REMINDER

Western Rifle Shooters Association will be holding a two-day Basic Rifle Markmanship Course -in Coeur d'Alene, ID, this Saturday and Sunday. Click on the title link for details.

Preying on the Weak and Stupid

It's extraordinarily unwise to allow ANYONE off the streets, no matter how insane, to buy a firearm that fires a 7.62x54mm cartridge for so low a price. That gun is cheaper than most pistols are, and can down a mountain lion with one shot. Plus, that rifle is often equipped with a bayonet. (a folding one)

Check out his slogan: "Preying on the weak and stupid."

Yeah, that's what gun control freaks do, Crabby, although it sounds like there's a bit of projection going on, particularly with the "stupid" part.

This is the main reason I can't stomach most forums--the prevalance of ignorant opinions, combined with a totally unmerited sense of authority, makes me despair for the reasoning abilities of many of our countrymen.

[Via SaMael]

Colum Lynch, Authorized Journalist

Scott G wrote the WaPo reporter who filed this story, wondering how a US government UN diplomat could have an AK-47 in his office. Here is the reply:

From: Colum F Lynch <lynchc@washpost.com>
Date: 2008/4/21
Subject: Re: Banged up AK-47

It is an A47 on a plaque: a gift from General Petraeus and the members of the multinational force. I've seen it and Ambassador Khalilzad has displayed it in a prominent site, on the wall of the living room of the residence. I'm sure it is not loaded, and I suspect it has been rendered inactive.

I'm delighted reporter Lynch's firearms expertise surpasses that of the late Col. Jeff Cooper, so that Rule One can be ignored and dismissed with such certainty, especially considering the firearm in question was never personally handled and examined.

What are your qualifications again, Colum?

As for what you "suspect," Colum, is that the extent of your nose for news? You really don't think there would be a story there if your suspicions (what known facts did you base them on again?) were unfounded? You're not in a position to ask a few questions and find out for sure?

And even if it has been somehow disabled, you're sure it wouldn't fall into one of those intentionally arbitrary areas continually and deliberately exploited by BATFU to determine whether it's readily restorable and subject to NFA jurisdiction?

"Authorized Journalists." Is there anything they don't know?

Yeah, We're Back in Kansas

Kansas Governor Signs Two Pro-Gun Bills into Law!

Ultimately, the only thing that will really protect RKBA is a gun owner willing to resist confiscation by force. As for enhanced privileges and immunities for those who do the obedience dance, whatever.

It is what it is, and very little of that resembles "shall not be infringed."

[Via Zachary G]

There's Something Happening Here*

What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

JPFO tells us what's happening.


[Via Ron W]

* "For What It's Worth", Buffalo Springfield

"An NRA Member and Hunter"

An NRA member and hunter who has had a gun since he was "a kid," Dean said he supports the Second Amendment and students’ rights to protest, but not the intended outcome of the SCCC. Dean said trained officers, not unskilled students, should respond to any campus emergency.

"I don’t want to see someone use a weapon under stress and not hit their intended target. The educational environment is not the place for firearms," he said. "Our police response to any place on campus is under two minutes."

Right.

We'll save you.

We're "The Only Ones."

Chief, you just told the world you support the Second Amendment. Then, out of the other side of your mouth, you endorse citizen disarmament. Care to tell us what you think "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" means? Care to tell us how ensuring defenselessness among the most physically capable segment of the citizen militia enhances "the security of a free state"? Care to tell us why anyone should believe a word you say?

Yeah, you're a hunter and an NRA member and a disarmament enforcer. Something for everyone to love! Why, you're a regular one man good cop/bad cop routine, aren't you, Chief?

I'd say pick a side, but it's evident you already have, and the wrong one at that.

Look Who's Rooting for Gun Control

David Boeri reports that William Celester (Deputy Superintendent, Boston Police Department) has been accused of sexual assault by a female employee of the Police Department.

This is the felon-for-gun-control I was talking about yesterday in the "shameless plug" for my new Guns Magazine column. The title link goes to an old incident I hadn't known about.

But of course, none of this concerns those rooting for citizen disarmament at all.

[Via Gun Law News]

This Day in History: April 22

I think it proper to observe, that when I had got some miles on the march from Boston, I detached six light infantry companies to march with all expedition to seize the two bridges on different roads beyond Concord. On these companies' arrival at Lexington, I understand, from the report of Major Pitcairn, who was with them, and from many officers, that they found on a green close to the road a body of the country people drawn up in military order, with arms and accoutrement, and, as appeared after, loaded.

Looks Like the Fresh Meat Has Arrived

I think weapons should be only allowed for police and army, the people who are in charge of protecting a country, unfortunatly, the NRA lobbies o much with politician, and has too much power. One day you will need, for the safety of all of you, to separate yourself of your guns.

C BOSSY, A french student who doesn’t like weapons…

Really?

This isn't a set-up? Or one of our guys being cute?

If you choose to reply, please remember you are representing gun owners in front of an audience inclined to judge us all by your words. As tempting as following initial instincts might seem...

Aborting the Exhibit

Shvarts will not be allowed to install her project unless she admits she did not try to inseminate herself and induce miscarriages and promises that no human blood will be displayed in her exhibit...

“That said, Yale does not encourage or condone projects that would involve unknown health risks to the student,” Storr said.

Wonder where they got that idea?

Well, we're making progress with the "Lux" part, but I think we still have a ways to go with "Veritas." Right now it's tough telling where the most repellent effluvia is discharging from--the administration or the monster they helped create.

We're the Only Ones Diplomatic Enough

At his residence at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, Zalmay Khalilzad displays a banged-up AK-47 assault rifle from Saddam Hussein's arsenal: a souvenir from a war Khalilzad supported and a regime he helped topple.

It doesn't say if it has been rendered inoperable. If not, we might ask he why can he have one and Wayne Fincher cannot. Not that I'd expect the craven opportunists at BATFU to go after anyone with actual power.

And no, this is not a case of diplomatic immunity, where we give foreigners special "Only Ones" powers and ability far beyond those of mortal sovereign citizens.

This guy works for "The Vote Freedom First President."

[Via KABA Newslinks]

Rational Thinking

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World

Well then, we'd better all disarm. Some wacko might try to hoard when things get really tight.

A Conservative Estimate

Clinton met with the Tribune-Review's editorial board, including Scaife, last month. Afterward, Scaife wrote an editorial titled "Hillary, Reassessed," declaring how impressed he had been by the former first lady.

"Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her," Scaife wrote.

Yeah, just like "conservative" Faux News' owner Rupert Murdoch.

Anybody else tired of these frauds playing them for suckers?

A Case Study in Pictures

The "professionals" have made it clear that police are "the Only Ones" who should be armed on college campuses.

Let's explore that with a school shooting from not so long ago, at a university that agrees with that policy, Case Western Reserve. [Really? You can't even have kitchen utensils?]

Understand that it took the police seven hours from the initial sound of gunfire to gain control of the situation.

Understand that the initial armed responders fled the scene, allowing the assailant to take control of the building:

Then you can see campus police arriving on the scene. They throw themselves at the wall, scrambling for cover as Halder starts shooting at them

Halder was firing so aggressively, according to Sergeant Daniel Stein, that he and his partner retreated outside behind some parked cars to check each other for bullet wounds.

You can see what happened for yourself. Go here and click "Launch."

Let's begin our little photo essay joining "Dateline NBC," already in progress:

What would you do--hide or run? Pick up a phone to call for help or stay as quiet as possible?

Note the assumptions. Defending yourself isn't even considered worth mentioning.

So let's see what the people who do have guns are doing while the unarmed people who depend on them--the ones hiding and running and calling for help and staying as quiet as possible are doing just that--for hour, after hour, after hour...But before we do, let's get a bit of media bias out of the way:

Note the voice-over for the scary gun picture 2 minutes and 50 seconds into the video: "...a volley of automatic gunfire..."

The killer was reported to be armed with a 9mm Cobray semiautomatic pistol.

OK, on to our montage. Can you spot what all these pictures have in common?



In fairness, not all the cops stayed protected. According to MSNBC, these guys arrived 20 minutes after the shooting started and entered the building "under the gaze of an entire city":



Meanwhile, those inside had to wait another six-and-a-half HOURS for the situation to end.

Because what did we see when the "Only Ones" did initially encounter the armed lunatic? Look quickly--it's at 12 minutes and 19 seconds into the 12 minute and 25 second video, and only lasts a few seconds:


Really? That's what they teach when you have a clear shot and vice-versa, to immediately TURN YOUR BACK on your assailant and run?

Well, it worked. They were safe. Anybody want to trust that it will also work for you?

What's amazing is how far this country has strayed from its founding principles to where we are even having this debate.

Educating Joedy

Police response was faulted, not school policy which is designed to prevent such occurrences.

Yeah, that design worked great.

I guess some minds are just unopenable.

In the Spirit of Bipartisanship

From Sherrod Brown:

Thank you for expressing support for an amendment to S.2483, the National Forests, Parks, Public Land, and Reclamation Projects Authorization Act, that would allow loaded firearms in United Stated National Parks.

Passing legislation that allows states to override federal jurisdiction over carrying firearms in federal parks sets a precedent that implies it may be appropriate for the federal government to override state jurisdiction over other gun carrying laws. I do not think it is appropriate for Congress to override the separate jurisdictions of state and federal government. As I consider the implications of promoting state jurisdiction over gun carrying laws in federal parks, I will keep the views expressed in your letter in mind.

Hmmm:

...implies it may be appropriate for the federal government to override state jurisdiction over other gun carrying laws...

Well, let's see:

...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Now consider William Rawle, whose "View of the Constitution" was the constitutional law text used at Harvard and Dartmouth until the mid-19th century. George Washington wanted Rawle to be the first Attorney General.

His take on the 2nd Amendment:

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give the Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under a general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any pursuit of an inordinate power either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.

So yeah, no sh**, Sherrod.

But don't be too hard on him. In the spirit of "bipartisanship," democrat Brown is simply supporting the position of our republican "Vote Freedom First President."

I wonder if "this administration" feels the same way about the rest of the Bill of Rights?

And they say there are no stupid questions.

Shameless Plug: The Root of the Problem

“Boston anti-gun group leader [is a] disgraced police director,” reads the Boston NOW headline, announcing the opening of the first satellite office for the Washington DC-based Reaching Out to Others Together (ROOT).

“The group says it doesn’t expect its local leader’s past, which included a stint in federal prison, to be a distraction.”

What? An anti-gun group headed by a felon?

"The Root of the Problem" is my Rights Watch column for the June 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine, on sale now at firmly-rooted newsstands throughout the Republic.