GRE Round Up for January 3

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Ohio Supreme Court case strengthens Arkansas preemption law

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: A credentialed anti-gun position???

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Why the sky isn’t falling as New Year begins

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Urge Congressman Issa to investigate BATFE

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Media coverage of ATF corruption investigation developments nonexistent

You won’t find this story in any newspaper or network. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at dereliction of duty and betrayal by those entrusted to defend freedom.

If you agree that mainstream press coverage of the gun rights issue demands a counter-balance, please help me spread the word by sharing Gun Rights Examiner links with your friends via emails, and in online discussion boards, blogs, etc.

UPDATE: Had a Guns Magazine "Rights Watch" column due today that used up all my rant time--so unless something huge comes along, I'll be devoting the rest of the day to the demands of my other life, and expect to be back tomorrow.

This Day in History: January 3

Boardman escaped from the prison a third time on January 3, 1779; this time he made it back to America. [More]

Shania Twain wedding displays elitist attitude toward guns

But here’s the thing about the privileged Ms. Twain employing armed guards (lawbreaking or otherwise) in the first place—she’s a big advocate of infringements against those of us who can’t afford an armed security presence and must rely on being our own first line of defense. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column  notes those who've got theirs don't necessarily care if you get yours...besides, if you were anybody important, you'd have been invited.

Invite a friend by sharing the link?

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?

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...

GRE Round Up for December 30

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Does Ohio Supreme Court ruling send signal about Seattle parks gun ban case?

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Enemies of gun rights can't hide their hostility to Constitution

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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.

GRE Round Up for December 29

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:

• Anti-gun Florida Chamber of Commerce at it again!

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Biggest gun rights story of 2010 based in Bellevue, ignored by local press

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• CSGV renews push for 'microstamping'

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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.