Saturday, January 01, 2011

Does Ohio state gun law preemption do ‘violence’ to ‘home rule’?

Funny. I don’t seem to recall any of the anti-personal defense crowd recommending regional “home rule” carve-out exclusions to any of their dream edicts. They always seem to be binding everywhere…you know, one size fits all…

And by the way, what exactly "works in Chicago"? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes "home rule" begins at home, not at City Hall or the State House, and that the object is properly "self rule."

Also resolve to do something today. And tomorrow. And the next day.

Resolve to share the link--from your home to someone else's?

Friday, December 31, 2010

Ohio gun ruling must be followed up with police training

There’s more at issue than that—nothing less than the lives and safety of gun owners who are breaking no law—but are nonetheless being physically endangered by those sworn to uphold and protect the law. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes the biggest danger presented by open carry comes from "Only Ones" openly carrying in the service of the state.

Also catch the premier (well, at least en encore performance) of Gun Talk TV, and then resolve to do...uh...everything.

Resolve to openly carry the link to your friends?

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It's New Year's Eve and I'm prepping for a big family dinner, so that's it for today.  Sorry to all who sent me links.  I do note John Longenecker has a new Safer Streets edition out, and you can catch the latest from my fellow GREs from the sidebar links.

Happy New Year, everybody.  My older brother is bringing over some Spanish champagne (oh, excuse me, purists, "sparkling wine"), and James Towle sent me a cigar for Christmas that tonight will meet a fiery doom.

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One update I simply had to share: These evil subversives will be astonished if they keep pushing--or if they're not, we'll have failed. The only confusion is that which they intentionally create through lies and manipulation.

Translation is only needed to decipher the intent of these Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists: What they're saying is, we can't claim our rights because we don't understand them.  So somebody will have to define the lengths of our chains for us.  And they'll explain it in terms we can understand.

I guess until one of them disappears and is erased and a new explanation supplants the last one...

Thursday, December 30, 2010

GRE Round Up for December 30

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

We're the Only Ones a Real Chip Off the Old Block Enough

The bad apple doesn't fall far from the tree...[Read]

What a punk. 

But no, no special treatment here...

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Remorseful Enough

I'm...BAM! BAM!..so very sorry for your loss... [Read]

[Via Harvey]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Will there be a gun massacre in Ambridge? [Read]

Yeah, I know it's just a show, but it's one written to evoke emotional effects in its audience. And it does prove truth is stranger than fiction.

Because the real question is, if there were a massacre in a real village, who would be equipped to do a damn thing about it?

And we all know the answer to that question.

Note: I can't get this page to display in Firefox for some reason--perhaps my popup blocker is affecting it. I had to use IE to read the linked article.

[Via cycjec]

A Real Good Job of It

“I’m new and different,’’ he said in a soft voice. “But I realize that deep inside me there is still that ugliness, and I know that I have to deal with that and control that, and I’m doing a real good job of it.’’ [More]
Far be it from Massachusetts to try something new and different...

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Beating Out the Competition Enough

However, Clarke and an RCMP firearms-enforcement officer who initiated the raids and is named in the suit have both started side businesses pursuing the law-enforcement market, the same clientele pursued by Travis Bader's Silvercore Advanced Training Systems. [More]
I wish I could say "unbelievable." I really, truly do.

[Sorry, got this tip a few days ago and can't find the email to give credit]

The Obvious Solution

A woman was bitten on the face by another woman while her brother had his jaw smashed and arm broken in the second beating on Kaikoura streets in six weeks, a victim's partner says. [More]
Why didn't they just use a fire extinguisher?

I thought New Zealanders were made of sterner stuff...

[Via William T]

Down in the West Texas Town of El Paso...

Last month El Paso, a sprawling southwest Texas city of 700,000 residents, was named the safest city of its size in the United States for the first time, and it is on track to close out 2010 with just five murders.

But just over the shallow concrete trench of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, more than 3,000 people have been tortured, shot and blasted to death in gang warfare this year, clinching its grim reputation as the world's most dangerous city. [More]
Damned lax American gun laws...

[Via Ed M]

Mixed Ruling

John Richardson updates us on Woollard v Sheridan, a lawsuit challenging Maryland concealed carry law on Second And Fourteenth Amendment grounds. Considering it's Maryland, "a win and a tie" is something. [Read]

Dave Workman gave us an overview of the case a while back.

"Fork-Tongued Performance"

Kevin D. Williamson at National Review Online assesses the serpentine Andrew Traver, who sounds like he'd fit right in at the BATFU snakehole. [Read]

Still no word on this...

[Via Michael G]

UPDATE: Vanderboegh turns up the calypso music and explores the possibility he's in limbo...

Media disinformation on guns continues in Texas open carry hit piece

Or maybe you’re just…uh…making it all up...[More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a queasy, delusional lying hoplophobe.

You know, an "Authorized Journalist."

Also watch a 2010 Trigger Sports wrap-up and resolve to shine a light on shadow creatures.

Enlighten your friends with a link?

This Day in History: December 30

These characters must not slumber nor sleep at home in such times of pressing danger; they must not content themselves in the enjoyment of places of honor or profit in their own country while the common interests of America are moldering and sinking into irretrievable (if a remedy is not soon applied) ruin, in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. [More]
Yep.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

GRE Round Up for December 29

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Aaron Zelman, rest in peace

Goodbye, my friend.  What an honor it was to know you. I am so grateful for the work you did on behalf of freedom, and for the legacy you leave behind.

May we be worthy of it. [More]
Incredibly sad news I just learned of...

If you'll excuse me, I'm taking the rest of the day off to deal with my sadness.

Filibusted!

Progressives, liberals and left of center politicians have teamed up to radically curtail the rights of Republican Senators in the next Congress. They have a plan to “kill the filibuster,” so that they can establish a top down system of control next year in the Senate. [More]
Thanks, "true champion of the Second Amendment" Harry Reid!

[Via Mack H]

For the Children

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence today filed a brief in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas urging the dismissal of an NRA lawsuit claiming that teens and young persons ages 18-20 have a constitutional right to buy handguns from gun shops. [More]
But we're not "anti-gun" and we'll prove it:

We're all for "Only Ones" having them. Even those who are 18.

"Defending the Second Amendment"

...a time honored tradition of hunting...

...As a sportsman...

...Americans rightly deserve the option of transporting a firearm in a responsible way...

...give residents in states like Mississippi with concealed-carry permits the ability to carry their firearms in another state... [More]

Good grief.

And this is from a "champion."

We're NOT the Only Ones...

...thank goodness. [Read]