The opinion piece released on Thursday argues that Taser use is a public health issue, and Canadian officials should not be relying on the manufacturer, Taser International, or its paid research to determine if stun guns are safe.Oh, good grief. Why dredge this up again?
A judge has ruled that the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office must change its autopsy findings to remove all references to the Taser stun gun as a contributing cause of death in the cases of three men who died during encounters with county law enforcement officers.Because we all know tasers have proven themselves 100% safe and reliable. "The Only Ones" and corporate lawyers tell us so.
In one of those cases — the August 2006 death of 28-year-old county jail inmate Mark D. McCullaugh Jr. — the judge ruled the manner of death must be changed on the official autopsy report and death certificate, from ''homicide'' to ''undetermined.''
This two-day (16 hour) course of instruction will prepare the motivated outdoorsman to treat life-threatening and function-threatening medical conditions in the wilderness without access to classical EMS and medical resources.This latest offering from Western Rifle Shooters Association will be held in Brookings, OR over the May 17-18 weekend. It looks like the information presented is extremely important and valuable--and something most of us need training on. If you can at all make it, do so.
American gun owners, especially those licensed to carry concealed handguns, are urged to comment on a proposed Interior Department rules change that would allow concealed carry in national parks and national wildlife refuges.I'd have just said "Americans," but the important part is they're using their long reach to encourage us to make our views known now, during the public comments period.
Those attending the 2008 NRA Annual Exhibits at the Kentucky Expo Center will have a unique and special opportunity this year as the Supreme Court considers the meaning of the Second Amendment in the DC vs Heller gun ban case. The Second Amendment Films booth (#1551) will have two notable independent Second Amendment scholars in attendance, David T. Hardy and David E. Young, both of whom have links to the Heller case.
David Hardy, attorney, author, and producer will be promoting his new documentary film, In Search of the Second Amendment, which is available on DVD. In addition to authoring the sourcebook, Origins and Development of the Second Amendment, and many law review articles advancing the individual rights nature of the Second Amendment's protection, David Hardy is a co-author of the amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in the current DC vs Heller case by Academics for the Second Amendment, and he attended the oral arguments before the Court.
David Young, historical scholar, editor, and author will be promoting his new definitive history of the Second Amendment, The Founders' View of the Right to Bear Arms, as well as The Origin of the Second Amendment, the complete Constitutional Era document collection that he edited and published. Mr. Young's books have been cited to the U.S. Supreme Court a total of fifty-five times in various briefs filed in the current DC vs Heller gun ban case, and his document collection was extensively relied on in prior appeals court pro-rights decisions leading to the current case.
Anyone attending the NRA Annual Exhibits who is interested in the Second Amendment's history or the legal ramifications of the current DC vs Heller case before the U.S. Supreme Court will be able to ask questions and discuss their points of interest with these two independent pro-rights Second Amendment scholars, each of whom has a completely different background. David Hardy, legal professional, views the entire subject from a legal perspective, while David Young, historian, relies entirely on period historical sources.
Second Amendment Films will be selling DVD copies of David Hardy's new documentary, In Search of the Second Amendment, as well as copies of David Young's new book, The Founders' View of the Right to Bear Arms, and his document collection, The Origin of the Second Amendment, at NRA Exhibits Booth 1551.
For anyone attending the 2008 NRA Exhibits, stop by, have a chat, and pick up the very latest and most complete Second Amendment related information available anywhere.
David T. Hardy's URL is: http://www.armsandthelaw.com/
David E. Young's URL is: http://www.secondamendmentinfo.com/
The sanguinary Zeal of the ministerial Army, to ruin and destroy the Inhabitants of this Colony, in the Opinion of this Congress, hath rendered the Establishment of an Army indispensably necessary. We have accordingly passed an unanimous Resolve for thirteen thousand six hundred Men, to be forth with raised by this Colony; and proposals are made by us to the Congress of New Hampshire, and Governments of Rhode Island and Connecticut Colonies, for furnishing men in the same proportion. The sudden Exigency of our public Affairs, precluded the possibility of waiting for your direction in these important measures; more especially, as a considerable Reinforcement from Great Britain is daily expected in this Colony, and we are now reduced to the sad alternative of defending ourselves by arms, or submitting to be slaughtered.Hell of a choice.
"A man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard KiplingThey Died Gallantly
"With daylight fading, the relief effort was broken off and the men of the 8th Cavalry were ordered to get out of the trap any way they could. Breaking into small elements, the soldiers moved out overland under cover of darkness. Most did not make it. The bitter fighting which . . . raged over five days saw many heroes and many memorable sacrifices, but it . . . stands (as) the most painful chapter in the proud history of the 1st Cavalry Division. On November 6 (1950), the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment ceased to exist as a unit, but died gallantly. In all, over (600) men of the 8th Cavalry were lost—almost one-third of the regiment’s strength—in the initial attacks by massive Chinese forces, forces that only recently had been considered as existing only in rumor." -- "8th Cavalry Regiment," WikipediaIf I believed in reincarnation, which I don't, I might wonder if in a previous life I was an S-4, a supply officer. If so, it wasn't for a well-provisioned army, but for one with a frayed shoestring of a supply line. You know, maybe Washington's ragged Continentals at Valley Forge, or "Skinny" Wainwright's on Bataan. I think this because I am always mindful of the old army motto that lieutenants worry about tactics and generals worry about logistics. I'm not a general, but I worry about supply and how that applies to the armed citizenry of today, and tomorrow. I worry because there's always some idiot like Alabama State Senator Rodger Smitherman who reminds me of it. But more about him in a minute.
United States Department of Defense
No. 510-07 IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2007
Soldier Missing in Action from the Korean War is Identified . The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is Corporal Pastor Balanon Jr., U.S. Army, of San Francisco, California. He will be buried May 3, 2007, in Arlington National Cemetery . . . In late October 1950, Balanon was assigned to L Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Calvary Regiment, then engaging enemy forces south of Unsan, North Korea, near a bend in the Kuryong River known as the Camel's Head. Chinese communist forces attacked the 8th Regiment's positions on November 1, 1950, forcing a withdrawal to the south where they were surrounded by the enemy.The remaining survivors in the 3rd Battalion attempted to escape a few days later, but Balanon was declared missing in action on November 2, 1950, in the vicinity of Unsan County. In 2001, a joint U.S.-North Korean team, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated a burial site in Kujang County, south of Unsan County. A North Korean citizen living near the site told the team that the remains were relocated to Kujang after they were discovered elsewhere during a construction project.The battle area was about one kilometer north of the secondary burial site. Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from the JPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA and dental comparisons in Balanon's identification.
Pastor Balanon, a Filipino boy who always wanted to be a solider, was born in the Philippines on 4 May 1928. Had he lived -- had he and his comrades had sufficient ammunition -- Balanon would have been 80 years old this week. Balanon was from a military family. His father, Pastor Balanon, Sr., served in the U.S. forces in the Islands before, during and after WWII, and retired in 1954. Two of Pastor's brothers were soldiers. His sister was an Air Force officer. During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Pastor Sr. was active in the guerrilla movement. Once, both father and son were arrested by the Kempetai, the Japanese police. Pastor Jr. was hung by his hands and his father was buried alive up to his neck. Their only hope was to credibly deny any knowledge of what the Japanese were seeking. Neither father nor son talked, and they were eventually released."Some very interesting laws are being passed. They don't name me; they don't say, take the guns away from the niggers. They say that people will no longer be allowed to have (guns). They don't pass these rules and these regulations specifically for black people, they have to pass them in a way that will take in everybody." -- Eldridge Cleaver, 1968.
"History does not take place in a vacuum. Historical events, be they great or small, do not exist in isolation, but are a product of the age during which they occurred. Often times, the reasons why a particular historical incident turned out the way it did can be readily located, while for others, the causes may be more difficult to locate. In both cases, one rule still holds true: that the events of the past cannot be separated from the era when they occurred." -- Scott Ellsworth, "The Tulsa Race Riot."
Meet Rodger Smitherman. An Alabama State Senator, Smitherman was born in Montgomery, Alabama on March 2, 1953 and is in his fourth term in the Senate. According to his campaign bio:"He graduated from the University of Montevallo with a B.B.A. degree and with honors from Miles Law School with a Juris Doctorate Degree. Senator Smitherman and his wife, the former Carole Catlin of Birmingham are the parents of four children: Rodger, II, Tonya Renee, Mary Elaine, and Crystal Nicole. He is a practicing attorney, a member of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, and the Birmingham Bar Association. He is a Democrat and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church."
"If manufacturers had to comply with bullet serialization, NSSF estimates that it would take almost four weeks to manufacture what is currently produced in a single day," said NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane. "This massive reduction in ammunition would translate into substantially lower sales and profitability, and ultimately force major ammunition manufacturers to abandon the market. In turn, there would be a severe shortage of serialized ammunition and all consumers, including federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, would be faced with substantial price increases. Ammunition will go from costing pennies to several dollars per cartridge." The domestic small arms ammunition industry, utilizing modern manufacturing processes and distribution practices, produces between 10 and 12 billion ammunition cartridges a year at already low-profit margins. The three largest domestic manufacturers (who collectively account for the vast majority of the market) produce an estimated 20 million rounds of ammunition in a single day. Ammunition manufacturers could not serialize their product without hundreds of millions of dollars in capital investment to build the new factories that would be needed in order to meet the requirements of bullet serialization. At the same time, hundreds of millions of dollars of existing plants and equipment, and decades of manufacturing (cost-saving) efficiencies, would be rendered obsolete.Chris W. Cox, the Executive Director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, summed up the effect of bills like SB-541(and there have been many introduced in various states around the country in a coordinated attack on the armed citizenry) by quoting something Ted Kennedy proposed in 1974: "No Bullets . . . NO SHOOTING."
All gun owners are familiar with the 17th century maxim, “Keep your powder dry.” But if we expect to be gun owners in the 21st century, we have to update that to read, “Keep your powder—and all the rest of your ammunition—at all.” That’s because politicians who want to ban guns, but who don’t have the votes in Congress and state legislatures, are trying to achieve the same effect by banning the manufacture, importation, sale and possession of as much ammunition as possible, and severely restricting the rest. . . All of these bills would prohibit the manufacture and sale of ammunition, unless the bullets and cartridge cases are marked with a code and registered to the owners in a computerized database. Most would also require gun owners to forfeit any non-coded ammunition they possess. For example, Arizona's bill says, “Beginning January 1, 2011, a private citizen or a retail vendor shall dispose of all noncoded ammunition that is owned or held by the citizen or vendor.” Tennessee’s says, “All non-coded ammunition . . . shall be disposed.” And in Pennsylvania, “An owner of ammunition . . . not encoded by the manufacturer . . . shall dispose of the ammunition.” These bills include no compensation for the loss of millions of rounds of privately owned ammunition. But that’s not the point. Nor is the fact that ammunition encoding hasn’t been tested, let alone proven. Nor is the fact that criminals would easily figure out the numerous, obvious ways to beat ammunition registration.Cox concludes, "The point of these bills is to prevent gun owners from having ammunition for defense, practice, sport and hunting. The fact that these bills are not gun bans is a mere technicality because, in practical terms, ammo bans are gun bans." We need not take Cox's word for this conclusion, for he quotes Ted Kennedy, speaking to the Senate in 1974: "If [banning handguns] is not feasible we may be obliged to place strict bans on the production and distribution of ammunition. No bullets, no shooting.”
(Source: http://www.nrapublications.org/oj/nobullets.html)
"Prohibiting Negroes, slave and free, from carrying weapons including clubs." Virginia Code, 1640 (Quoted in The Los Angeles Times, "To Fight Crime, Some Blacks Attack Gun Control," January 19, 1992)Among those who have written convincingly on this subject are Clayton Cramer, "The Racist Roots of Gun Control," which first appeared in the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy, Winter, 1995 issue, available here (http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/cramer.racism.html) and William R. Tonso, "Gun Control: White Man's Law," also available on the web. I'm not going to waste time and space remaking the case here. My point is rather informed by the practical history of interest to a supply officer of the American armed citizenry. From my recent reading, the LAST person who ought to be advocating restricting the ammunition supply is black man who wishes to maintain his liberty.
"The only way for Republicans to ensure that Negroes would be able to organize to vote in November, and then actually do so, was through the same kind of military force the Democrats were using. . . Any black militia would be outnumbered and out armed by the shadowy white force now in place all over the state. . . The Democrats . . . had a challenge of their own . . .: if they were too brazen in seizing political power at gunpoint, or too open in preventing Negro political activity, it might turn the opinion of the North against them and force President Grant to deploy the Army. They were on safer ground if they made every incident look spontaneous, local and personal, rather than like part of a planned campaign." (Page 120)Absent black state militias, the freedmen were on their own. Lacking training, military arms and especially, a stock of ammunition, they were outgunned and eventually forced into the Jim Crow system, or killed.
For a few minutes in early morning, Mann also enjoyed the illusion that he and John Williams and the other blacks fighting from the buildings along Greenwood Avenue would actually defeat the (invading) whites, or at least turn them back across the tracks. The whites took heavy casualties on their first push before sunrise, when a cloud of Negro bullets greeted them and sent them scurrying in retreat. But Mann's hopeful illusions burned off with the morning sun when he could see that there was no end to the enemy. Kill one white and ten more sprang up in his place. The Negroes also didn't have the luxury of looting a dozen pawnshops and hardware stores (like the whites). Their bullets had been purchased for hunting and ammunition soon ran low. (p. 159)Deacons
In 1964, a clandestine armed self-defense organization formed in the black community in Jonesboro, Louisiana, with the goal of protecting civil rights activists from the Ku Klux Klan and other racist vigilantes. After several months of relatively secret operations, the group publicly surfaced in February 1965 under the name "Deacons for Defense and Justice." By the end of 1966, the Deacons had grown to twenty-one chapters with several hundred members concentrated in Louisiana and Mississippi. The Deacons guarded marches, patrolled the black community to ward off night riders, engaged in shootouts with Klansmen, and even defied local police in armed confrontations. When the U.S. Justice Department faltered in enforcing the Civil Rights Act, the Deacons' militant politics and armed actions forced a pivotal showdown in Bogalusa between the government and southern segregationists. Although the Deacons began as a simple self-defense guard to compensate for the lack of police protection, they soon developed into a highly visible political organization with a clear and compelling alternative to the pacifist strategies promoted by national civil rights organizations. They were not the first blacks to practice or advocate armed self-defense. Throughout the civil rights movement, African Americans frequently guarded themselves and their communities against vigilante assaults. But until the Deacons emerged, these armed self-defense efforts were almost always conducted by informal and disconnected covert groups that avoided open confrontations with authority and purposefully eschewed publicity -- in part because they feared retaliation and in part because they wanted to maintain the illusion of nonviolence in the movement. It was this public image of a nonviolent movement that ensured white liberal support in the North. . . Invisible to the broader public, clandestine self-defense groups had little effect on the Ku Klux Klan or federal policy in the South. The Deacons, in contrast, consciously built a highly public, regional organization that openly defied local authorities and challenged the Klan -- something that neither the Klan nor Washington could ignore." (pp. 2-3)The Deacons were careful, not only to arm themselves, but to amass credible stocks of small arms ammunition so that the right to keep and bear arms was not canceled after the first skirmish. Indeed, it was their ammunition purchases which convinced the FBI that they were serious. The thing is, by virtue of who he is and where he was raised, Smitherman must surely have heard about the Deacons. There was a chapter in Birmingham, and another in Montgomery. Is he really that ignorant of his own history?
Page 8 under legal notices. All claims for property must be made by May 25th or the property will be disposed of according to ..... . Has hundreds of guns listed - machine guns, everything. Bastards at BATFE.The photo presented above is just a screenshot to show you where the inventory begins. Go to the scanned page link to get a copy you can enlarge and read.
Edit link to scanned page - 450KB TIF File. In middle of page and then continues at the next column. You can zoom in to see detail.
Link to scanned page
A hearing into the firing of a state trooper accused of mistreating his police dog opened today with a video of the officer kicking the dog as it was suspended from the railing of a loading dock...Oh really? Yeah, you're a regular Cesar Millan, trooper.
Jones claims the episode on Aug. 8 was not mistreatment.
“Boston anti-gun group leader [is a] disgraced police director,” reads the Boston NOW headline, announcing the opening of the first satellite office for the Washington DC-based Reaching Out to Others Together (ROOT).
“The group says it doesn’t expect its local leader’s past, which included a stint in federal prison, to be a distraction.”
What? An anti-gun group headed by a felon?
After eluding law enforcement for a week, the former Jackson cop accused of robbing a downtown credit union last week has been arrested...Yeah, sure, "It is a testament to the scourge of crack cocaine in our society."
Epps was a six-year burglary detective and former president of the police officers union before being fired in 1999 after he tested positive for cocaine use.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, convicted last month of running a high-end prostitution service in Washington, hanged herself in a shed outside her mother's mobile home in Florida today, officials said.Right, fool me twice.
One of the escort service employees was former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, professor Brandy Britton, who was arrested on prostitution charges in 2006. She committed suicide in January before she was scheduled to go to trial.Or per this account:
This multi-talented woman, who was popular with friends and johns alike, was found hanged in her home on Saturday. Police do not suspect foul play in the incident...
I wonder what's going to become of that list they were talking about making public? It's not like any powerful, famous people with serious connections were on it...
Quite simply, I don't believe any government official saying these were both suicides. I may be wrong, I may have no evidence other than circumstantial coincidence, and it could in fact be exactly that, two sad, broken women unwilling to endure a looming ordeal, but I don't believe it.
The tragedy about that is I don't believe it because I have witnessed too many government lies. If I hadn't, I'd be less inclined to give conspiracy theories credence. But I have. We all have. To where I don't know who in power to believe any more. Boy who cried wolf and all. No corrupt, depraved or foul act committed under color of authority surprises me any longer.
I don't believe my government. How pathetic is that?
That's a hell of a thing to swallow for someone whose prime motivation for involving myself in the public opinion forum is that I love my country. If it didn't anger me so, and strengthen my resolve to help fix things, it would break my heart.
Meanwhile, nothing to see here, move on...
[Via Zachary G]
A woman who escaped from a Detroit prison 32 years ago has been arrested in San Diego, where she was married with three children and living under a false name, authorities said.Well, this'll do society a lot of good. Not to mention her family.
Since 1987, more than a million Floridians have received concealed-weapon permits. Should I be allowed to carry a gun, too?Yeah, that's the funny thing about life and death, isn't it? We're given brains and have access to resources, and then have to make free-will decisions, often with very little control of the situation we're thrust in.
It's a life-and-death responsibility with no experience needed.
Recent complaints to state officials pointed out that almost anyone who wants to carry a handgun to the movies, mall or church can do so. The shortcomings they cited include training that allows firing bullets without gunpowder, and passing students for merely pulling the trigger once or twice without ever loading or unloading a handgun.Well, that's not good. But there's no indication it was widespread and there's every indication it was a violation of rules, and that swift and sure steps were taken to self-correct and eliminate shortcutting.
After Grant fired three times Monday from the doorway of the King IGA grocery store, manager Marino Hernandez made a split-second decision not to fire back.Because, you know, trigger-happy non-"Only Ones" endanger everyone with their Wild West mentality...
We had over 500 shooters in fourteen states! If you can believe it California topped the list with the most shooters!It's at Wes Thompson's Piru rifle range.
It was so sucsessful here that the RWVA leased a range and now we have a home here on the west coast.
A college student apparently called 911 from her cell phone shortly before she was killed but a dispatcher hung up, failed to call back and never sent police to investigate, authorities said Thursday...No, of course not. It's not like they have a duty or anything. And at least the dispatcher was awake this time.
Norwick said he was investigating the incident and reviewing whether policies should be changed and employees should be disciplined. But he also said, "I don't think there's anything to apologize for at this time."
By May 2, 1775, Patrick Henry was on the move. Stirring the Hanover Volunteers to action with a fiery speech, they elected Henry their captain, and rode off to Williamsburg. So popular was Henry's action that by the time the Hanover volunteers got to Williamsburg, their ranks had swollen to 5,000 from the cheering crowds that lined their way. The powder was compensated twice over, and shortly afterwards, Governor Dunmore, fearing for his safety, ended up on board a ship in the York River.
The government argues that because of his guilty plea to misdemeanor battery Hayes is not allowed to own a gun. But Hayes and his lawyer disagree. They say it's not fair to apply a law that was passed in 1996 to an offense that happened in 1994. They also say Hayes plead guilty to a state misdemeanor battery charge, which is different from a federal domestic violence misdemeanor.
That would be "the government" that reports to "The Vote Freedom First President" who gun owners put in power.
If there were any justice, SCOTUS would rule for Mr. Hayes. Which is why I predict they will refuse to hear it without comment.
UPDATE: Eating my own words has never been more delicious. Mmm....mmm, that's good eatin'. (And I should have read the article I linked to more closely, because it says it too. My total negligence while trying to hurry on to something else.)
Thanks, Bill. Now let's hope they do the right thing and I can keep it down.
...mixing deadly weapons with whiskey in a bar...Y'know, if I was going to try and convince an audience that what I was proposing was "commonsense" and a "baby step," I'd try to moderate the zealotry--or at least take some hormones to rebalance my body chemistry.
...stash a loaded weapon in the glove box of the car...
...guns at shows — those open-air bazaars at which all sorts of weaponry is for sale to buyers who walk in off the street...
...the rule of guns...
Crime Stoppers has upped the reward for tipsters who provide information that helps control gang and gun crime in Tarrant County.
What, $1,000 and anonymity isn't enough? Perhaps the benefits haven't been communicated adequately:
Look, Fort Worth underworld, perhaps you're not clear on the opportunity being given you here...
You know your turf rivals are armed. Call in the tip, man.
Let the cops do your dirty work for you, put away the competition, and then collect a sweet $1250 in the bargain. Let "law enforcement" help you advance and solidify your position, and get rid of your enemies to boot!
Where's the downside?
There you go, Acting Chief Kneblick. Glad to help.
Several National Park Service employee advocacy groups and the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) are warning that the National Rifle Association-driven changes to the firearms safety and uniformity regulations in our national parks proposed today by the Department of the Interior will lead to confusion for visitors, rangers, and other law enforcement agencies.Right, and we all know how confused "The Only Ones" can get some times, and who better to define our rights than retired public "service" employees and vested "law enforcer" careerists partnered with neo-Marxists masquerading as Americans?
The coalition is urging concerned citizens to submit their comments on the proposed regulation change to the Department of the Interior by clicking here.
Yes--by all means, do so, and pass that link on to all interested in reestablishing a legally-recognized right to the means of self defense in national parks.
I'm serious. Please take a moment and do it now. Click on the link, enter a comment and then spread the comments page url far and wide. Let's inundate them with pro-RKBA rationality.
And thanks, Common Dreams, for the reminder that it's time to mobilize and overwhelm you.
Maybe we’ll eventually have to return to the Wild West and carry guns in holsters...Then it would come down to who is the quickest on the draw.Ricky Nelson? Hit it, please:
Mary Lou Akright
Leawood
Hello Mary Lou, goodbye brains...
Los Angeles Police Department officials announced Tuesday that they investigated more than 300 complaints of racial profiling against officers last year and found that none had merit -- a conclusion that left members of the department's oversight commission incredulous.Because we all know LA is the very model of tolerance and harmony between the police and "the community." I neglected to mention that two days ago was the 16th anniversary of proof of that.
It is at least the sixth consecutive year that all allegations of racial profiling against LAPD officers have been dismissed, according to department documents reviewed by The Times.
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice is urging the NYS Senate to pass legislation requiring semiautomatic pistols manufactured or delivered to any licensed dealer in this state to be capable of microstamping ammunition.Well doesn't it just figure: A Janet Reno protégé using her "official" power to run interference for a radical schlemiel board member of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.
...The bill, A9819A, was sponsored by Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel of Great Neck, cosponsored by Assemblymen Tom McKevitt of Garden City and Joseph Saladino of Massapequa.
The Committee of Sixty was replaced by a more representative Committee of One Hundred on May 1, 1775. By May 4, the city had four companies of volunteers. On May 15, the Continental Congress order the construction of a fort at Kings Bridge, the construction of batteries in the Highlands, and the arming and training of a militia.
The Committee of One Hundred was not for independence, but was instead opposed to Britain's laws which they considered unjust. The committee wrote to Governor Cadwallader Colden in May, 1775 "that though they are arming with the greatest diligence and industry; it is not with design to oppose, but to strengthen government in the due exercise of constitutional authority". In May, all inhabitants were asked to sign a Association. Anyone who refused to sign were to be called "enemies of this country". Some of the Loyalists were tarred and feathered. The committee disarmed all loyalists within its jurisdiction. The Committee of One Hundred was officially replaced by the New York Provincial Congress which first convened on May 23, 1775, but the committee continued to meet for a while.
When you call 911, you expect help immediately. Lisa, a Memphis resident, got anything but...Because we're "The Only Ones" in this room professional enough to use this phone, y'see...
The line goes silent. As Lisa continues to explain her situation, the dispatcher does not respond - not for just 15 or 30 seconds, but for one full minute.
Then, sounds of snoring can be heard on the line.
You can help babies in need have a brighter tomorrow! With every specially marked pack of Pampers that you purchase, Pampers will donate the cost of one vaccine to help UNICEF protect a woman and her newborns against tetanus*...
"The bottom line is that this protest is not going to change anything," said Jack Rogers, director of public safety at OSU. "The Oregon administrative rule overrides any provision for concealed weapons, and it is very unlikely that the Oregon University System will yield to any change on this subject."...
Rogers, however, doesn't believe that an average gun owner would know how to use deadly force properly in an extreme situation.
"We in law enforcement have gone through an extreme amount of firearms training," Rogers said. "We're the ones who are the professionals."
He also said that students who carry concealed weapons may not be knowledgeable enough to determine when to use deadly force and when to restrain. Rogers believes that firearms in a college environment have to be controlled.
"The bottom line is that we have well-trained and well-prepared staff here who know what the training is all about," Rogers said.
"[The use of deadly force] doesn't come lightly; it takes a tremendous amount of training to use deadly force."
Right.
This coming from the guy whose best advice is run or hide. If you can. He won't tell you to pray if you can't, because OSU is a public institution, and there's that "wall of separation" (that somehow doesn't keep the evil out)...
By your logic, Jack, all 48 states that have successfully implemented some form of concealed carry provisions must rescind them because--why is that again? Oh, yes, you're (and we knew this was coming) "The Only Ones."
Tell me something, Jack (your middle name wouldn't happen to be "Boot," would it?): If you're not an outright fraud, that is, if you truly believe that line of utter crap you just spouted to The Barometer, wouldn't such incompetence wielded by someone in authority amount to criminal negligence? Is not, in fact, calling someone who uses force to endanger other humans a "director of public safety" a perverse Orwellian oxymoron?
Where do we find the mentality that, with a straight face asserts evil little local edicts "override" unalienable natural rights? And where do we find the mentality that believes him?
[Via Cogito Ergo Geek]
The Philosophy of Liberty flash animation is a creation of the late Lux Lucre. I snarfed his entire Flash animation directory right after he died to ensure that it wouldn't be lost. It includes The Philosophy of Liberty in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, L. Neil Smith's "The Atlanta Declaration" in English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese, a rendition of the Zero Aggression Principle, and a few others.
Check it out at billstclair.com/luxlucre (the "Bill of Rights animation was missing at his site when I sampled it).
A CITIZEN who watched a cop illegally park, then walk into a Chinese restaurant to wait for his food, has issued the officer a series of citizen-initiated parking violations.Don't you just love the "Only One" rationale?
"If someone broke into your house, would you rather have the police be able to park in front of your house or have to park three blocks away and walk there?"There was no crime emergency, just personal convenience, and if there had been a break-in, you would be parking at the scene. We all know that and it isn't even a rational argument. But isn't it interesting, how your immediate reaction is to use a deceptive ploy to cover your tracks?
A 19-year-old clerk was killed Monday night after two men robbed the gas station where he worked, shot him and left him for dead in the middle of the street outside, Metro police said.Armed
A would-be robber at an Inglewood liquor store was shot and killed Saturday night after a customer opened fire, Metro police said.Not that it would do any good to show this to an anti-defense zealot--they'd just seize on what could have happened, as opposed to what did.
A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while
criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children.
...I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.
The gun industry should set its sights on a different target: certification.S'cuse me?
It should develop and adopt a private licensing and certification program fashioned on the highly successful scuba diving industry model to provide safety, legal, and marksmanship training to all gun owners and users.
No diver may fill their tanks or take part in recreational or professional diving trips without first obtaining a certification card from one of these private organizations.
Oh, I see.
No. I don't consent to be ruled by a "private" group, either. But I see you've managed to start a subversive new meme. If nothing else, it ought to make things harder for "those people," at least the ones in poorer, more dangerous communities who try to live by the rules.
And, it'll no doubt discourage many "fence sitters" from buying guns and ammo--possibly people who could have saved their lives--say--you never did say how many deaths you'd find acceptable with your little experiment here, because every benefit does have costs, you know.
I'm assuming you also have plans for those of us who own some of the 200 million guns already in circulation? And you can't forget those who reload.
Hey, have you figured out the economic impact to gun dealers? You may end up shutting more of them down than BATFU!
Y'know what, Mr. Media Conglomerate Mucky-Muck? What if somebody thinks we ought to treat the First Amendment the way you want to treat the Second, and make sure every Beckett subscriber/magazine purchaser has to undergo private certification before they can buy your trivial bread-and-circuses products?
Anything else, "hunter and gun owner" Peter A. Gudmundsson?
The technology alerts law enforcement officials to the location of gunfire within seconds with pinpoint accuracy, helping to reduce gun violence.How? The shots have already happened. By going back in time?
Honda has developed a crime rate detecting GPS that will search through local police records to alert drivers in real-time if they ever happen to drive by high crime areas...
Two students attending Eagan and Apple Valley high schools were expelled last week after buying souvenir swords during a spring break choir trip in the United Kingdom.So--do you think the outraged parents will organize and oust the board members? Good luck--most are controlled by the teachers' unions, and most parents don't care enough to get involved.
Flores said "Many of these people get CHL's because they are worried about their safety, whether it’s from a stalker, a case of domestic violence, or some other threat. Making their names, addresses and other records public might jeopardize their security.”
Good for Rep. Flores. I do wonder if legislation--assuming it passes--will override a judgment awarded under existing law: ex post facto 'n all that.
I still like this plan.
Here's my advice to snoops with a burning desire to know who has a gun:
Assume we all do. Conduct yourself accordingly and there shouldn't be any problems.
And by "snoops," I also mean the ones originally intended to secure the blessings of liberty. Why anyone thinks it's any of their business is beyond me, and this situation is only possible because gun owners made a special effort to put themselves on a list--one government controls and can access any time they want.
[Via Jeffersonian]
With one gun shop in Madison, another on the way in Franklin and his own custom gun manufacturing business, Uselton says he’s proudly “150 percent behind the Second Amendment.”Whenever I hear anyone claim more than 100%, I think about this, particularly 103%.
Uselton is especially fond of the phrasing at the end of the amendment, “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
...But there’s one issue where Uselton breaks the party line and that’s on the topic of perceived lackadaisical laws surrounding sales at gun shows.
“The place is crawling with ATF and TBI agents,” Goodman said. “At my shows, I’ve got a booth for the ATF...While this fellow here has a better grip on the top number possible, you have to wonder if he understands what the upper limit really means:
Santos said while he is "100 percent behind the Second Amendment," he also supports the new measure.[Via Charelton Hest]
All the ministerial intelligence concerning us is false. We are a united, resolved people, are, or quickly shall be, well armed and disciplined; our smith’s and powder-mills are at work day and night; our supplies from foreign parts continually arriving. Good officers, that is, well-experienced ones, we shall soon have, and the navy of Great Britain cannot stop our whole trade. our towns are but brick and stone, and mortar and wood. They, perhaps, may be destroyed. They are only the hairs of our heads. If sheared evere so close, they will grow again. We compare them not with our rights and liberties. We worship as our fathers worshipped, not idols which our hands have made.
A 38-year-old Rushville man is being held on $1 million bond after being accused of using a flashlight to beat a Mount Sterling man to death.
It was probably one of those semi fully-automatic ones.
I no longer have the ability to post on Keep and bear Arms board any longer having switch to Mac. I don't believe they know they have locked out a number of people because of this. If you some how could pass this on, thanks in advance. Yes I know I'm off topic to this story. (had to move to Mac because Vista sucks)Anyone else having Mac problems?
What I get when trying to post:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: 'oRSWordList'
/includes/subs_01.asp, line 241
Massachusetts Police Get Black Uniforms to Instill Sense of 'Fear'Really?
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.Here's the swearing in ceremony for Blackshirt Gauleiter Fitchet. Notice he pledges to uphold "the laws of the Commonwealth...the charter and ordinance of the City of Springfield...[and] the rules and orders of the police department..."
Conflicts over gun policy and over the meaning of the Second Amendment betray a deeper clash over intensely held competing cultural values, in which the cultural mythology of the frontiersman, often white and male, is pitted against the racial and class subaltern, African Americans in particular.All those victims of "gun violence"--and nary a victim of evil individuals who happen to share an inconvenient commonality to be found. This is one of the more intellectually dishonest screeds it has been my misfortune to read--but it was important to do so if for no other reason than to "know thy enemy."
