GRE Round Up for May 16

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow Gun Rights Examiners:

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• Author John Longenecker Explains How Gun Rights Make For Safer Streets (Part I)

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• UPDATE: Have SAF, NRA lawsuits pushed IL solons to reconsider concealed carry? 
• FLASH: WA delegation nearly absent from Nat’l CCW Reciprocity bill

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Concealed carry 'compromise' considered in Illinois actually abject surrender

The Best Defense

They're bound and determined to prove the adage true. [Read]

In the Can

Connecticut Citizens Defense League (CCDL) is now collecting canned goods at all of their meetings and events. [More]

Good idea.

When I was still living in LA, a friend at our NRA Members Council organized blood drives. Or you could adopt a highway, or do a women's shelter Christmas gift collection, or...

There are all kinds of simple ways to show people who we really are.

Thing Along with Mitch

I was under the weather this weekend and did not post--many of you sent me the story about the idiot subversive judge who said you cannot resist unlawful entry by police, and my first reaction was to see who was primarily responsible for elevating that wretched fraud to a position of power.

Turns out it was Mitch Daniels who foisted this judicial thing on us, and who offered this as his reason why: 

The governor said that from Judge David, he heard “the clearest expression of commitment to proper restraint in jurisprudence and deep respect for the boundaries of judicial decision-making. He will be a judge who interprets, rather than invents our laws.”

I'd hate to see who came in second.

Daniels has been OK on some RKBA stuff, but he's one of those "enforce existing gun laws" types rather than someone who actually understands the issue.

Vox Day has more, including:

And Daniels has thus far remained silent on the issue, when anything short of an abject apology for David's appointment combined with a demand for David's immediate resignation, and the resignation of the other two judges who sided with David, is absolutely necessary for him to remain a credible governor, let alone a president.

How can law enforcement tell if crime scene guns were ‘walked’?

"Are you telling me, Mr. Melson, that ATF has no records of the serial numbers and descriptions of the Project Gunrunner firearms that would enable any other law enforcement agency, domestic or foreign, to identify them in its own data bases as crime guns?" [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report  shows how Congress--and importantly, state attorneys general--may be able to crack open a jar of slippery electric eels.

Why not send the link to your federal and state representatives--and ask them what they intend to do to ensure that information is not being deliberately withheld from those investigating violent crimes...?

Swimsuit Competition

Lucky Gunner is having a beauty contest of sorts, and it looks like I'm in the running. You can vote here for all the various categories.

Thanks and all.  If I did this to be popular, I'd be writing about Justin Bieber. But what the heck, a nod is as good as a link, and they give both.

I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for. I'm leaning toward John Richardson, because he does a good job of bridging the oft-contentious divide between Threepers and Prags and getting needed information into both camps.  Yeah, what the hell. Done.

By the way, years back, I actually did buy a can of Olde Frothingslosh, "the pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom."

This Day in History: May 16

The present situation of public affairs demands your most serious attention, and particularly the great and increasing depreciation of your currency requires the immediate, strenuous and united efforts of all true friends to their country, for preventing an extension of the mischiefs that have already flowed from that source. . . .[More]

Onward

Blogger status indicates they have restored most of the dumped posts, but not for WarOnGuns (or Sipsey Street of Armed and Safe or...)

Perhaps I simply need to learn patience, but at this point I'm cynical that I will see it again.

Here's hoping I am proven demonstrably wrong.

And Today...

Until they get this Blogger mess fixed for good, I just can't see putting any more work into this site.

If you have not yet read today's GRE, here it is. Journey with us now to the mysterious Congo, a perilous trip made all the more dangerous by a Brady Four-Star rating.

As always, your sharing that link with millions will help keep the meager bowls of gruel for feral sons Uday and Qusay filled to the brim.

Yesterday...

...all my blog posts seem so far away...

Looks like the Blogger system catastrophe wiped out all of Thursday's efforts--a tech notice previously indicated this was temporary and they were going to restore things, so hopefully a day's labors have not been completely wasted...

Baywatch Theme

Don't you worry

It's gonna be alright

Cause I'm always ready

I won't let you out of my sight.

Not if you're paying me this kind of money I won't.


Remember this when we're told California is too big to fail--and because they're about to go under, they need us to rescue them.

An Accelerated Learning Program

Laura Dennis’ son Graham had a pen knife and a Leatherman that school authorities found while they searched a team bus before it headed to a game. He now faces jail time and damage to his permanent record. [More]

And if he doesn't want to go, oath-breaking armed state enforcers will threaten him with up-to-lethal force.

My favorite line:

Doug Edsall’s son Casey had a lighter he also used to fix his lacrosse stick.  The school classified it as an explosive device.

How "progressive" of them.

Education, domestic enemy-style...let us hope these kids learn from it, and never forget.

We're the Only Ones Who Can't Think Enough

NC sheriff defends drug arrest for tortilla dough...Duncan and his spokesman Lt. Randy Sorrells said they couldn't think of anything deputies should have done differently...[More]

And doesn't that just tell us everything we need to know about these dough-brained "Only Ones"?

[Via William T]

Unapologetic

Rather than being embarrassed by this and disavowing it, the Bradys are digging a deeper hole for themselves:

Hey, this is fine by me, in a strictly Sun Tzu kind'a way. I'd just as soon the fanatics who've turned their minds over to the Cult of Helplessness and State Worship remain ignorant of the true nature of those they attack.

I've met literally thousands of gun owners in my life.  I can't recall ever meeting one who worshiped guns--rather, we're the ones pointing out they are tools, even those we enthusiastically appreciate. The reverence is for the rights of free humans.

As for that "dogged support," I guess that explains why gun rights activists have been so quick to excoriate those in the industry who step out of line.  Just ask Smith & Wesson, or Ruger, or H-S Precision, or Dan Cooper, or...

Lie some more, Bradys.  It's all you pathetic subversives have.

License to Warn

Something about putting this message on a license strikes me as...I don't think "ironic" is a strong enough term... [Read]

[Via Mayor Joel Stoner]

First They Came for the Dove Hunters

Iowa Firearms Coalition warns against “a backdoor lead ban on the Dove Hunting rules” and provides contact information for the state senate and house.

Not a dove hunter? Don’t worry, the gun haters behind this will get around to what you are, unless you help stop it here and now.

Iowa gun owners: Click here and here and send a message.

Most Illogical

By this logic, the editorial board should also be an advocate for the Second Amendment. [More]

If they were using logic, they wouldn’t back individual defenselessness.

But this is the kind of lying crap they use to gin up hysterical hoplophobic emotions with.

Will your guns be registered in a global database?

While passage of an anti-gun global treaty by the Constitutionally-required congressional supermajority seems politically unfeasible at the present, an Obama victory in 2012, where he does not need to worry about reelection, could significantly amplify the threat—particularly if Democrat-Lite Republicans continue squandering the gains they made in the last election and alienating their core constituencies. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report processes some data regarding evil calculations.

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This Day in History: May 11

On May 11, 1779, Colonel Kovats gave his life in the American War for Independence while leading the Continental Army cavalry...He is the first Hungarian to give his life for American freedom and independence. [More]

The Safer Streets Newsletter and Commentary

You don't fight crime by chasing it, you fight crime by facing it. [More]

John Longenecker has a new edition.