March 1959 Guns Magazine is Now Online

It is once again my pleasure to bring to Gun Rights Examiner readers a special treat. I've told you before how Guns Magazine, where I write the monthly "Rights Watch" column, posts their issue from 50 years ago on their website.

Here's the March 1959 issue, available as a free download. [More]

You owe it to yourself to check this out. You owe it to your friends to tell them about it.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs...

Patches, I'm Dependin' on You, Son...*

"Fortune favors the bold," and you'll look both bold and fortunate if you're bold enough to wear this and fortunate enough to get one.

Not quite the advertising spiel that'll sell millions of these?

S'OK--if , say, 3% of you reading this post order one, they'll be doing fine.

Show your proud affiliation and get what's sure to be a post-SHTF collectible. And I think I'll use this opportunity to coin a new term:

Threeperwear.

Go to WRSA to find out how you can show your membership in the Merry Band--sure to make you stand out in any surveillance. I intend to wear mine.

Oh, and what's this all for? Well, Random House isn't exactly beating down doors to publish "Absolved," and a book tour is something that needs to happen. Those of you who want to see this effort succeed--and who want to look smart in the field while it does--should need no further motivation.

Here's how to order.

* And I do apologize, but c'mon--it takes place in Alabama.

"Principles" Essential but Insufficient

The following is an email from "WD," a contributor to a small group I correspond with. He has given me permission to post it here. It is a constructive critique of the "Oath Keepers principles" we linked to the other day.

One of the aspects of our national and cultural institutions that troubles me is the shallowness of our shared social compact. The DOI principles elicited are not adequate to define the unique nature of our political and governing institutions which combine a multi-tiered republican social compact, the principles of British constitutionalism and the underpinnings of Natural Law (“Ordained by their Creator…”).

The fundamental problem in our country today is that no-one has a common [shared] sense of what undergirds the DOI principles, therefore, everyone is free to ‘interpret’ them as they see fit – including justification for the tyranny of simple majority rule (direct or representative). County counsel shut down your business - it is legal. State seize your property for failure to pay ever-increasing property taxes – it is legal. Federal BLM administrative rules change such that you cannot ranch on land you’ve held for three generations – times have changed. Your property needed for a World Biosphere or new city greenway or that big supporter property developer’s new project – oh well, should have thought of that when you voted for the losers last election.

There are limits; limits prescribed by natural law.

This idea is missing…

Else, our adherence to the tired shibboleths of the 2^nd Amendment, in the face of massive public opposition and “reasonable restrictions and compromises” becomes nothing but outworn obstinacy in the face of manifest, majority “consent of the governed”…

Mike Vanderboegh has more thought-provoking commentary springing from these correspondences.

"No Guns for Negroes"

Aaron Zelman, Executive Director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, has been at the leading edge of creative gun rights advocacy since he first became prominent in the movement in the mid-Eighties. He's working on a new project that takes the gloves off. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows us a guy who knows how to play hardball. Please share this with your friends, because he could use some teammates, and this tells them how to sign up.

This Day in History: March 7

How may possibly attempt this Town, and a Pack of sordid Scoundrels male and female, seem to have prepared their Minds and Bodies, Houses and Cellars for his Reception: but these are few, and more despicable in Character than Number. America will loose nothing, by Hows gaining this Town. No such Panick will be spread by it, now as was spread by the Expectation of it in December. [More]

Principles of Our Republic...

...for Oath Keepers. [More]

We're the Only Ones Sic 'em Enough

A man who was taking the garbage out at his job and was suddenly attacked by a Cookeville Police dog last year has filed a $2 million lawsuit against the police department. [More]

But isn't that the kind of training and response we've come to expect from the "Only Ones"?

Me, I say the guy's lucky he wasn't charged with felony assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.

[Via Carl S]

We're the Only Ones Strictly Enforcing Enough

MARTA police will strictly enforce all provisions of the law, the transit agency said. [More]

Even if it means enforcing non-existing laws for which they have no legal authority. And violating existing laws to do it.

Say, can I ignore real laws and make up my own and strictly enforce them too? Or is that the sole province of the "Only Ones"?

[Via GeorgiaCarry.org]

Why We Need to Disarm You and Me

Crawford served almost five years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, according to prison records. He was released in 2000, returned to prison on a felonious assault conviction and released again in 2007. [More]

And she marries him.

Nope, no consequences for poor choices here at all.

If only we had gun control.

[Via Kurt Hofmann]

Hyperbole

Across the tri-state area, homeowners are up in arms over property tax bills. [More]

No they're not.

They should be, but they're not.

[Via Avg Joe]

Pretty Funny

This video...

Michael Moore's meltdown had me laughing.

I see attempts by our side to use this medium, and they're too often derailed either through poor presentation skills or production values.

This Steven Crowder guy has talent.

I'm Willing "to Engage"

On February 18th 2009, Eric Holder, our first African American Attorney General gave a well-publicized speech in which he called Americans cowards for, among other things, refusing to engage in an open, frank dialogue about our race relations. [More]

It's called "projection."

The cowards are Holder and his co-conspirators in citizen disarmament who refuse to engage in open and frank dialogue about race and "gun control."

[Via Ron W]

Cotton Wood

Mike H remembers the Alamo. [More]

New Black Panthers Demonstrate Responsible Gun Use?

The Panther's affinity for Marxist dogma notwithstanding, their stand demonstrates the true meaning and power behind the Second Amendment's guarantee that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. But the incident also speaks loudly for how rights are selectively recognized by the authorities. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column continues this week's discussion on race and guns.

Also in this article: Alerts from Georgia and Nevada, and the latest commentary from my fellow GREs.

Please read and share it with your friends.

UPDATE: The lefties on Digg are burying our GRE articles to keep them from getting to the front page--this means when they succeed, they are literally denying that tens of thousands of readers get to see them--I'm not BSing--it's something we are working on among ourselves in our group correspondences. Because it's a social network that works that way, there is very little we can do to stop that if supporters of these articles don't help us keep that from happening by digging and sharing in greater numbers. It's just another one of those cases where simple inaction can mean the difference between success and failure.

This Day in History: March 6

Exchange of Prisoners, and which by their direction was transmitted to Genl. Howe, was founded on principles of Equality, in number, and in rank. From thence, no demand, as a matter of right, can be made of Genl. Lee's releasement, for any Officer or number of Officers of inferior rank. [More]

Just Like a Real Dictatorship

President for Life Obama. It has kind of a "Dear Leader" ring to it, doesn't it? [More]

And naturally, Serrano proves his loyalties in other ways.

With Friends Like These...

I took a screenshot of an ad on Drudge yesterday:

It clicked over to here:


...which is somehow affiliated with Newsmax.com, an ostensibly "conservative" site.

Thanks, guys. Nothing like implying an unfounded and hurtful conclusion about handguns. We really appreciate you reaching millions of people with that imagery.

And as long as we're segueing into stooges, is the advertisement photo you're using to make money with one with a licensing agreement?

Sir Theodore of the Pond

MPs' fury as U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy gets honorary knighthood for Northern Ireland role [More]

A title. How fitting for the Prince of Camelot and someone who was born to rule.

Of course, an American Patriot would decline on principle.

Go ahead, somebody say it.

We're the Only Ones with a Burning Desire Enough

A former Portland police officer convicted of shooting his wife more than a decade ago is in trouble with the law again. This time he was charged with arson. [More]

Sounds like just a hunk, a hunk of burning "Only One" love...

[Via Jeffersonian]

No Argument

I don’t know if I would have done anything differently in the situation [More]

This situation.

And I agree.

I don't think we should do anything different.