Carnac Speaks!

A shameless opportunist who won't hesitate exploiting this to attack the rights of his overwhelmingly peaceable countrymen...

Anyone want to place bets?

UPDATE: Here's the felony complaint.

When the Silos are Depleted

California's three major public pension funds are underfunded by more than half a trillion dollars...[More]

This has inspired me to come up with a new saying that sounds like it ought to be an old one:

When the trough is empty, the hogs go feral.

Be a heck of a thing, wouldn't it? In so many ways...

GRE Round Up for Apr. 6

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Inner City Gang-Rape

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Firearms Freedom Act still picking up steam

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Obama exposed? Did Michelle let the cat out of the bag?
Arizona gun rights still moving along


Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

Foolproof Control

"It does stop people from coming out and acting the fool"...[More]

Perhaps.

But it hardly seems effective at stopping much else.

So much for a disarmed surveillance state being the answer. Not that those who rule have sufficient incentive to get the question right--yet.

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

[Via CF]

Freedom from Fear

“People should be free from the fear and the potential for violence firearms represent,” said Democratic Assembly Member Lori Saldaña of San Diego, in a statement. [More]

So Lori's plan is to ensure if they do encounter the potential for violence firearms represent, they'll be absolutely paralyzed in helpless terror! Right before they're killed.

That's because like a good California Marxist, she knows the function of government is to rule and tell people what they can and cannot do.

See, when you can command a massive police presence to protect you from the repercussions of your actions, you don't need to worry about whether the peasantry can protect itself. I'd say something about the potential for violence their firearms represent, but we all know California "Only Ones" would never abuse the privileges of authority.

Boy, that ABC 10 I-Team: top drawer propagandists, no? They have me so convinced Lori's a champion of human liberty, I'm ready to start waving the red, white and green...

Hey, any bets some on "our side" will blame the open carriers for making this happen?

[Via William T]

AZ FFA

I've been occupied with other matters, so I'll rely on Dustin's Gun Blog to give us a summary of the Arizona Firearms Freedom Act and the Arizona State Firearms Preemption Act, signed into law by Gov. Brewer. [Read]

Here's what I have written about this effort:

• Website offers rallying point for 'Firearms Freedom Act'
• ATF to Tennessee: We're above your law
• ATF to Montana: 'You will respect our authoritah!'
• Gun groups fire back at feds with Firearms Freedom Act lawsuit
• Don't surrender so quickly on Firearms Freedom Acts
• NRA to Firearms Freedom Act supporters: You're on your own
• New Hampshire 'Firearms Freedom Act' threatens government violators with criminal penalties
  

UPDATE:

Kurt Hofmann and Chris Woodard have more in their Gun Rights Examiner columns. Click on their name links to read their commentary.

We're the Only Ones Blacked Out Enough

There exists dash-cam video of Masters' shooting. There are also police interviews of other witnesses, and the police report itself. But the public and the press are as unlikely to see any of those as they are to learn the officer’s name. That's because the Fairfax County Police Department—along with the neighboring municipal police departments of Arlington and Alexandria—are among the most secretive, least transparent law enforcement agencies in the country. And local political leaders don't seem particularly concerned about it. [More]

So what will it take to make them "particularly concerned"? And why should we be "particularly concerned" about them?

[Via Mama Liberty]

We're the Only Ones Seasoned Enough

During the arrest, the officer placed a pepperball launcher on top of the cruiser.

The officers drove off with the launcher still on the car and it fell off somewhere in route to jail. [More]

Cool. I'm sure they've made some kids very happy. Let's just hope the recovery effort doesn't end up "following department protocol," where only one side goes home at the end of their shift...

[Via William T, who writes "Finders keepers, sez I..."]

The Failed State

W-III send this link along with the following commentary:

This report...is most assuredly worth the read. The report answers some questions about drug trafficking in Mexico and just how uncommitted the Mexican government is to stopping it. Also says something about the so-called US/Mexico gun problem as well as illegal immigration, but you’ll have to read between the lines for those two. Confirms what I‘ve been saying for some time as to whether the Mexican government is actually a friend of the United States.

Is 'Gun Safety' Prescribed by Kaiser Permanente Based on Science or Politics?

The "Safety Guide" is a tool for promoting that agenda, and a useful one, because it carries the weight of perceived medical authority, to which many simply defer without question. Being a peer, Woolley doesn't have to, and he demonstrates how the "defensive value of guns" is "glaringly omitted" from the tract, that their "deterrent value is ignored," that some households have higher risks than most, that claims are carefully worded to produce a desired reaction, that evidence is inconsistently evaluated, and that the whole damned effort smacks of a legislative, rather than a medical agenda. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column diagnoses an epidemic of hoplophobia in the medical community and isolates a likely pathogen.

Open wide, say "ahhh" and share the link?

This Day in History: April 6

On April 6, 1778, a large party of British, mostly "Greens" and "Highlanders," landed on the south side of Shark River Inlet and destroyed both salt works there. The troops were reported to have been 135 in number; while they were at work on the second building, they were surprised by a body of 15 mounted militiamen, who routed them so badly that the British sank two of their own flat-bottomed boats in re-embarking. [More]

GRE Round Up for Apr. 5

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Matt Mead, deceptive with so called “rumor control”
Casper store, no guns allowed resolved

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Ohioans For Concealed Carry Fun 'n Gun a great success

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

Safer Streets 2010: Why are Militias armed?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Second Amendment March two weeks from today

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Educating the Illinois public about defensive handgun carry

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

You Got Nothin', Paul Helmke

Nothin' but insults, and conflation. [Read]

And the thing is, you know it.

Do you listen to yourself?

Jeez, now it's not just OKC we "zealots" are celebrating, but somehow John Wilkes Booth and Virginia Tech are stirred into the mix you're trying to tar us with?

Too many in our country are fueled by hatred, resentment and guns.

Stop with your hatred, resentment and unhealthy fixation on our guns and your problem solves itself...

Calling Interference

Well, what else would you call it?

On the plus side, it may explain why the antis are getting more shrill and desperate in their attacks.

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Acting with Reckless Abandon Enough

A motorist was left with little recourse after police grabbed his truck and stranded him, alone, on the side of the road in a dangerous Mesa, Arizona neighborhood -- even though he had not done anything wrong. US District Court Judge David G Campbell issued a preliminary ruling last Friday that Ted Mink, 47, had no right to sue the city over his treatment at the hands of the police. [More]

Of course, if someone did the same thing to judgy-boy here, he might amend his opinion that such actions don't "go beyond all bounds of decency."

Of course they do. And you have to wonder at the sadistic type of "Only Ones" who would do this to another human being--under color of law.

The other thing, judge: Ultimately, it's not you who gets to decide what's "intolerable."

[Via William T]

Too Many/Too Much

The information shines a spotlight on an issue every urban area in Florida struggles with: too many criminals carrying too many guns, creating too much danger...[More]

The solution...?

Increase restrictions against you and me...?

[Via Ed M]

Questions

Anthony G. Martin notes there are more of them than there are answers. [Read]

We're the Only Ones Doing an End Run Enough

A member of the Iowa National Guard has learned it is not exactly a good idea to run through a farm field near Cedar Rapids in full combat gear with a rifle. [More]

Yeah, God forbid you do anything to approximate real-world conditions.

The first time you run with full gear and a rifle, we want it to be a brand new experience.

That's the "Only Ones'" version of "exactly a good idea".

One other thing, Lt. Fitzpatrick--you say he "didn't use...moxie..."

For some reason, Inigo Montoya comes to mind...

[Via Carl S]

Gun Extremist Home Owner Endangers Self and Others!

Didn't this foolhardy non-professional know that if you use a gun you're either going to shoot an innocent bystander or else the attacker is going to take it away from you? [Read]

What the hell is wrong with these gunloons?

Just give the intruder what he wants. Isn't that what the "experts" say?

[Via Mama Liberty]

It May Not Be Relevant, But...

...I notice this wasn't a Starbucks...[Read]