OKC police chief wants tighter gun lawsOf course he does.
For his part, Patrick Henry agreed that the provision granting power to Congress to call out the militia was a potentially fatal flaw in the document. "In this great, this essential part of the Constitution, if you are safe, it is not [because of] the Constitution, but [because of] the virtues of the men in government," he wryly observed. "If gentlemen are willing to trust themselves and posterity to so slender and improbable a chance, they have greater strength of nerves than I have."William N Grigg shows how the militia of We the People has been replaced by what the Founders feared.
Unfortunately, the 1911 had/has a design flaw that is mechanical in nature. It excludes the use of a shooting method with the 1911 that is natural, fast, automatic, and accurate, and that in turn, may prove fatal to a user.I occasionally need to reiterate that this is a gun rights blog, not a gun blog. This is such a time, and I am providing this link without further comment.
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Knife violence in London is now running as high as gun warfare in some US cities, it is claimed today.Well then it's obvious. They need more gun and kitchen utensil control.
One of Britain's leading trauma surgeons has told how one in three of his trauma patients is now a stabbing victim.
Smyrna gun shop owner Jay Wallace ended his current courtroom fight against a New York City lawsuit on Monday, saying that the trial was unfair and he accepted a judgment against him so he could appeal to a higher court.I was disheartened this morning to learn of this through Bloomberg's press release, which paints a very different picture of surrender--figures he would rely on misleading and omitting important facts to paint himself a media victory.
"I wasn't getting a fair shake here in this court, so why should I continue?" Wallace said after the morning's legal action.
On June 3, 1775, the Provincial Congress of New Jersey resolved .... "taking into consideration the cruel and arbitrary measures adopted and pursued by the British Parliment and present ministry, for the purpose of subjugating the Americal Colonies to the most abject servitude .... the inhabitants of this Province be forthwith properly armed and disciplined for defending the cause of American freedom ...
Police say an off-duty officer has shot and killed an armed man who grabbed the officer's wife and their 3-year-old daughter in a Bronx elevator.Very good.
AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.The robots aren't in disguise anymore.
Los Angeles County prosecutors won't file felony charges against actor Dennis Farina for having a gun in his luggage at an airport earlier this month.I wonder if they found me with a handgun at LAX and determined it was not registered with the state of California if they'd figure "there wasn't enough evidence"? Particularly if I was taking it with me to handgun-free Chicago.
If all it took was closing a couple of shooting ranges to stop gun-toting Yanks from coming to our city, maybe we should have shut the doors on these clubs years ago.
HEAVILY pregnant Angelina Jolie has revealed she and partner Brad Pitt keep guns in their new French home to protect their growing family.Huh.
The grandson of a prominent anti-gun campaigner has been arrested after she was found stabbed to death at a flat in West Yorkshire.
This is so much like this I can't help but wonder if they were composed by the same creature.
His arguments in a nutshell: The answer is not more guns, the "Only Ones" are the only ones because they are so highly trained, and armed non-"Only Ones" will confuse these highly trained "Only Ones." Also, all young people are a bunch of irresponsible drunks.Though the deception left some teens temporarily confused and angry, if it makes even one student think twice before getting behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated, it is worth the price, said California Highway Patrol Officer Eric Newbury, who orchestrates the program at local high schools.Government's function is to secure the blessings of liberty, not wake anyone up, and certainly not lie to citizens to achieve its objectives. But good job teaching young citizens to never trust authority figures, Eric, particularly "Only Ones." The biggest lesson here is the ends justify the means, and if cops can lie to get what they want, why shouldn't we be able to?
“When someone says to me, 'Oh, my God, you're traumatizing my children,' I'm telling them, 'No, what I'm doing is waking them up,' ” said Newbury, whose father was killed by a drunken driver.
We are now compelled to raise an Army, which with the assistance of the other colonies, we hope under the smiles of heaven, will be able to defend us and all America from the further butcheries and devastations of our implacable enemies.But as the sword should in all free states be subservient to the civil powers and as it is the duty of the Magistrates to support it for the peoples necessary defence, we tremble at having an army (although consisting of our countrymen) established here without a civil power to provide for and controul them.
Chelsea Clinton: 'We need to do more with gun control'Coming from a privileged elitist who's enjoyed tax cow-funded armed bodyguards all of her life...
In his apology last week, acting ATF director Michael Sullivan conceded the agency had distributed 242 engraved multi-tools.BATFU lied?
Previously, the agency maintained none had been distributed.
Heather Squires’ blood alcohol content that night was 0.00...She hadn’t had a drop to drink...
[H]er husband, Jason, is a DUI attorney based in Mesa.
A few months before Heather’s arrest, in fact, he helped a client beat the rap for extreme DUI at a jury trial...
The officer who arrested the guy? Bond Gonzalez — the same cop who would arrest Heather Squires.
The upper assembly of the Fabrique Nationale Herstal SA (FN) FNC rifle is classified as the receiver of the firearm for purposes of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, and the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53.
According to the criteria that ATF applied to figure out the "Upper" is the "receiver" according to the law for an FNC, If the same criteria were applied to the AR-15 / M-16 the "upper" must be the "receiver" not the lower.
Would this impact the NFRTR if the ATF ever does apply the same criteria at some point to the AR-15/M-16?
Ten-year-old Bradley Geslak was suspended from school this week for bringing a Memorial Day souvenir to school.Well, I'm sorry, Bradley, but I look at your picture, then I look at this picture, and it all looks pretty terrifying to me...
...a priest...may not endorse candidates nor engage in partisan campaigning... Fr. Pfleger’s remarks about Senator Clinton are both partisan and amount to a personal attack.So in other words you're admitting that Snuffy has been violating the mandates under which St. Sabina enjoys its tax exempt status? Something other churches have been penalized for?
A former Chicago police officer charged with being part of a ring that falsely arrested and stole from drug dealers has detailed how the operation led to a plot to kill two colleagues, according to interview excerpts released on Friday.And isn't "elite Special Operations Section" really just another way of saying "Only Ones"?
Most stabbings are with kitchen knives, says police chiefSee, that's the problem--there's no bottom limit. There are people in our societies who cannot be trusted with the simplest of things.
The Continental Congress resolves that "no further expedition or incursion ought to be made… against or into Canada."
In an effort to crack down on gun violence that last year alone killed or wounded more than 2,000 Angelenos, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and top law enforcement officials unveiled a plan Thursday that would allow officers to evict gun-wielding gang members from apartments and seize their cars.
And we all know "gang" is such a precise legal term that it could never be aplied to "Homegrown Terrorists."
Per StreetGangs.com:
Black Gangs: LA Bloods: There are about 75 Blood gangs in LA CountyIn a rational world, these would be considered occupying armies. For this idiot Villaraigosa to actually think his stupid edicts will impact these hard cases one bit would be laughable if the consequences of mandating good people be defenseless to such predators were not so outrageous. He, of course, knows better, and that makes him an evil political opportunist, willing to crush anybody's liberty if it means more power for him.
Black Gangs:LA Crips: There are about 200 Crip gangs in 21 cities and places in LA County
LA Surenos: There are about 500 Hispanic gangs from the Valley, to East LA down to South LA
LA Asian: The fastest growing street gangs in LA County with about 20,000 members.
18th Street Gang: Considered by some to be the largest gang in Los Angeles.
Up to two-thirds of the people ICE arrests have never received deportation orders, frequently because their presence here is lawful. By ICE's own admission, the bureau has mistakenly detained, arrested, and even deported not only legal immigrants but also U.S. citizens. Those caught up in recent home raids include Adriana Aguilar, a citizen living in East Hampton, N.Y., who was sound asleep with her 4-year-old son when ICE officers stormed into her bedroom, pulled the covers off the bed, and shined flashlights into her face before interrogating her.
Yes, we must address the problem of illegal aliens, and there is no doubt Slate is not the most unbiased of sources. Still, who thinks "Only One" wide net stormtrooping is the best way, and if we tolerate it here, what else might it be used for?
What hasn't it been used for already?
[Via ryanmguard]
State Police Investigator Tom Miller says he does not think there "was any malice here."Then drop this nonsense at once and let the guy go.
An FBI agent from Phoenix was indicted in Los Angeles on 18 charges that accuse him of having an affair with the wife of a man he was investigating.Some may say he made a mistake, but it's only a boner if it's unintentional. I know he wanted to penetrate the operation and do a bang up job, positioning himself to tail his suspect, but this screw up could really be a blow to all Phoenix federal "Only Ones."
If previous FEMA and FBI lists are any indication, the Main Core database includes dissidents and activists of various stripes, political and tax protesters, lawyers and professors, publishers and journalists, gun owners, illegal aliens, foreign nationals, and a great many other harmless, average people.You know--"Homegrown Terrorists."
“How do you know it wasn‘t a real gun?” asked Guy, a security agent with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, who also declined to provide his last name.
Well, Guy, you could always look at it.
If it's one of these it is. If it's one of these, it isn't.
The Canadian Air Transport Security Agency? Is that anything like the WGA?
And I'm not your Guy, Buddy.
[Via Jason A]
It was at this point that the second shooter, the Reno resident, produced a concealed handgun and proceeded to fire upon Villagomez who succumbed to his wounds. The Reno resident was in possession of a valid Concealed Carry Permit issued through the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office.See, that's why we need to ban guns in establishments that serve alcohol. It does not serve our purpose to limit the slaughter we so count on to advance our ends, and successful armed defenses actually work against our goals.
After further investigation...the decision was made that the shooting of Villagomez by the Reno man was a justifiable homicide...
An acting watch commander demanding "activity" in front of an entire roll call worth of witnesses? Could you define the "activity" desired lieutenant?I'm going to start paraphrasing the last line from "Chinatown" when dealing with Chicago.
That the several Militia Companies in this county do provide themselves with proper Arms and Accoutrements, and hold themselves in Readiness to execute the commands and Directions of the Provincial Congress, and of this committee.
ATF Dedicates Its New National HeadquartersWe talked yesterday about the grand unveiling.
Award-Winning Design Incorporates Latest Federal Security Standards
Obama campaign dumps 'Hillary supremacist' priest
Minister who served as Dem candidate's faith adviser said Clinton thought being white entitled her to victory
Snuffy Pleger seems out of control when even Thulsa doesn't want anything to do with him. He starts out doing a bad impersonation of Frank Gorshin impersonating James Cagney. Then he devolves into a cross between Adolf Hitler and Elmer Gantry.
I don't know how much more blatant Snuffy and Trinity United need to get in shilling for a candidate though, in order to get Americans United Against Non-Marxist Religion's attention--or the IRS's.
Any way you look at it, this guy acts like an unhinged, self-loathing white who would fit in great with these lunatics. And notice how hard he tries to talk in a way he thinks this audience will respond to--then notice how his accent and demeanor change when he's got a "mainstream" audience. What a Pfoney Pfraud. And tell me, with his adopting that street persona, he had no idea what "snuff out" meant.
He's crossed the line. I know Cardinal George was afraid to rein him in and demand obedience because Snuffy threatened to take his congregation and go home, but he has become such a national embarrassment that the church can no longer look the other way. Since American Catholics have not done their job to repudiate one of their clerics using his position in the church to spread racist hatermongering and covetousness, it's time for the Vatican to lay down the law--up to and including excommunicating their rogue if he does not submit.
[Via HZ]
U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and used the information to try to hack into Commerce computers...See, because government officials are "The Only Ones" who can be trusted with laptop data, to the point of assigning themselves authority to inspect yours...
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The Lautenberg amendment with the Barr language is strong protection for women and children.On October 12, 1996, you sent a letter to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, claiming you "improved" the Lautenberg language so it could not be struck down by the courts, stating:
Under the Lautenberg language -- which was cleared up through my amendatory language that was adopted -- there was no consistent definition of "crime of domestic violence," and therefore the entire provision would have been declared unconstitutional. My language corrected this deficiency by setting forth the common elements of the crime that would apply to everyone.On Mar. 6, 1997, your editorial, "Don't Wink at Violence," was published in USA Today. In it, you wrote:
[Lautenberg] is important and worthwhile legislation, and we cannot allow its effectiveness to be reduced.Despite the fact you then voted for Lautenberg as part of an omnibus spending bill, there are those who would like to hear your reasoning. I'm among those.
Rosanne Cash was all in black yesterday, but not because it was the fave color of her dad, Johnny. The country songstress and 32 others dressed in mourning for a noon demonstration at Times Square, where they remembered the Virginia Tech tragedy by lying down for three minutes — the time it took Seung-Hui Cho to kill 32 students and himself. The demo, attended by Mayor Bloomberg, was organized by protest site easyguns.com, a grass-roots group started by Washington Philharmonic cellist Abby Spangler.
British supermodel Naomi Campbell has been charged with a string of offences after allegedly assaulting a police officer at London's Heathrow airport, her lawyer said Thursday.
And lookee here--a whole big section on this head case's "acts of violence."
Assault...assault...assault...assault...
Good grief.
No wonder she doesn't want people having guns --particularly those in her employ. She's afraid they might be just as violent and out of control as she is. Or at least inclined to defend themselves.
Projection seems to be a recurring theme with people who don't trust others to be responsible with freedom, doesn't it?
We’re glad the agency is now setting the record straight and, hopefully, will provide accurate, honest and straightforward information in the future.This is more on the "Always Think Forfeiture" fiasco, and it is unintentionally revealing.
That they are perfectly united in opinion and determined to pursue the most effectual measures, and to use the whole force of the Kingdom, if it be found necessary, to reduce the rebellious and refractory provinces and colonies.
"I wanted to do the right thing and turn it in because I didn't want kids finding it and getting hurt," Gibbons said. "But the police wouldn't come get it from me. They wanted me to deliver it. I was enraged."No concern if she knew proper handling procedures to be able to do that safely?
Waterford police have arrested a Waterford High School student for allegedly falsely reporting someone was at the school with a gun.What?
While leaving my breakfast place this morning, I noticed the following sign in a window:
It offers a $125.00 dollar reward for every working firearm returned to the 14th District Police Station.
That wouldn't be my breakfast place any more, and I'd be sure to let the proprietor know why. I'd be tempted to go there with a large party of fellow gun owners, sit down, and just before ordering, conveniently "notice" the sign, take offense and leave--just so he realized how much money was walking out his door.
I not only personally let foolish business owners who post "No Guns" signs know why they're not getting my business, on substantial purchases I've actually sent them copies of receipts from their competitors--along with a note explaining how they blew the sale.
[Via Less]
An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by an English scrap metal dealer is expected to fetch close to a million dollars at auction after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner's bed.And it's not only got the Cult of Set two-headed snake symbol, but like Thulsa himself, it's two-faced.
I was in court today (I'm a criminal defense attorney) and noticed two ATF agents. One was a "gun crimes task force" guy, and the other was some kind of "Project safe America" agent. Whatever that is.Yes I can. But not being an "Only One," and a BATFU "Only One" at that, I don't think it would have ended well.
Anyways, I wish I could've taken a pic, but the courtroom was off limits to cameras, and I didn't want to risk a picture with my blackberry.
Here's the problem: the ATF agent was standing in front of the Judge, with his Glock holstered on his thigh, but unstrapped, and he had his hand on the butt of his pistol the entire time he was talking to the Judge. Seriously. I didn't know whether to take that as a threat to the Judge, but I was tempted to ask him to remove his hand from his weapon and secure it.
Hope that that made sense to you. I was just dumbfounded that he had his hand on it like he was going to draw. Of course, I had to disarm to go to court, but.... oh well.
Can you imagine if that were you or me?
Police said they made the arrest after receiving an anonymous phone tip that he was selling drugs.The caller contacted police at about 10 a.m. Tuesday to report that he had purchased drugs from a teacher at the high school named Abbott who kept a gun in his car, police said.This story just isn't adding up.
Representatives from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Memphis-based community groups, public officials, local law enforcement and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the non-profit trade association for the firearms industry -- today jointly announced a major campaign to reduce significantly the illegal straw purchases of firearms in Memphis.
“Oh! A clown suit!” all proclaim, prostrating themselves and genuflecting before the one true God. “Why, if he’s wearing a clown suit, it must be all right! We know that clowns want only the best things for our children, and of course clowns must go through rigorous training and certification in order to be granted, by the powers that be, that most sacred privilege of wearing the clown suit! Surely, if he’s wearing a clown suit, he is in the right, and they are the evil doers, they are the ones who have transgressed, and, indeed, they must be punished.”I'll accept that metaphor...
We, for our parts, are determined to live free, or not at all; and are resolved, that posterity shall never reproach us with having brought slaves into the world.
"It didn't matter the rifle in question had not been intentionally modified for select fire, or that it did not have an M16 bolt carrier or sear, that it did not show any signs of machining or drilling, or that that model had even been recalled a few years back," said a commentary in Guns Magazine on the case against David R. Olofson, of Berlin, Wis.
By the time Rep. Chenoweth introduced her bill, there were 11 original cosponsors -- a significant number indeed. Consider that the other leading bill to repeal the Lautenberg gun ban only had one original cosponsor when it was introduced earlier this year. That bill, introduced by Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA), would only repeal the retroactive part of the gun ban, leaving the ban in place for the future.[Emphasis Added-DC]Really?
Rep. Barr shows support for Lautenberg ban.We've seen the best the Republicans are offering us--this is all the LP can muster? We are so screwed.
In early March, Rep. Bob Barr endorsed the concept of the Lautenberg gun ban, calling it "important and worthwhile legislation." Barr's comments appeared as an editorial in the March 6, 1997 issue of USA Today, where he called for only a limited repeal of the Lautenberg ban. While he opposed the retroactive part of the ban, Rep. Barr endorsed the underlying principle behind the Lautenberg gun ban, stating that,This [Lautenberg gun ban] is important and worthwhile legislation, and we cannot allow its effectiveness to be reduced.Unfortunately, this was not the first time that Rep. Barr has expressed his support for the underlying principle behind the Lautenberg gun ban. On September 28, 1996, Rep. Barr issued a memo on his Congressional letterhead stating that:The Lautenberg amendment with the Barr language is strong protection for women and children. [Emphasis in the original.]And then on October 12, 1996, Rep. Barr sent a letter to the editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, again saying that he had fought hard to "improve" the Lautenberg language. He noted that because of his amendment, the Lautenberg gun ban could now pass constitutional muster and not be struck down by the courts. Barr stated:Under the Lautenberg language -- which was cleared up through my amendatory language that was adopted -- there was no consistent definition of "crime of domestic violence," and therefore the entire provision would have been declared unconstitutional. My language corrected this deficiency by setting forth the common elements of the crime that would apply to everyone. [Emphasis added.]Rep. Barr was also one of the Representatives who voted last September in favor of the Lautenberg gun ban as part of the omnibus spending bill (H.R. 3610).
The above statements would seem to indicate that Rep. Barr is content with only repealing the retroactive nature of the ban, and thus, leaving the gun ban in the federal code in perpetuity.
State legislators should reject the National Rifle Association’s incessant demands to water down sensible gun-control laws.
In the organization’s latest assault on common sense and public safety, the NRA is pushing for a change in state laws that would allow anyone to carry a gun in a motor vehicle as long as it is in a case and unloaded.
Six teens were struck and wounded in that Monday shooting, police said, but that told only half the story of violence in the area. An additional four people were wounded in four unrelated shootings in another part of Harlem.
See, this kind of stuff isn't allowed. I don't know how much clearer Bloomberg can make things.
Maybe he ought to send some of those undercover private dicks from the James Mintz Group over to infiltrate the gangs--and then he can sue 'em. I'm sure Judge Weinstein will give him all the support he needs. He always has...
"Mayor Thomas Menino is telling these kids to pick up guns and turn them in," she said just before the arraignment. "Is this what's going to happen to them?"I'm sorry--I was trying to think up a slogan and thought it might help inspire me.
..."They just kept beating him and beating him and beating him," Lewis said. "I only stepped in when he said, 'I can't breathe!' "
...Just after midnight on Sunday, they wrote, officers went to the scene following a tip that someone fitting Rivers's description had a gun.
We could generate public interest in the program by holding a contest for a slogan. Here is my idea: "Report a Gun - Make a Few Bucks." What's yours?Contests? I LOVE contests!
How about:I could have thought of others, but there are so many to choose from!
"Got a Gang Rival? Let Us Do Your Dirty Work For You?"
Governor Rod Blagojevich has been sent legislation that would require a stiff prison sentence for a person convicted of giving a gun to a minor who then goes out and commits a crime.Yeah--make it even more illegal--that'll fix things. Good job, Kwame Raoul. No wonder you're a great man and we're not.
Clearly, firearms should not be made available freely and openly, no questions asked, to anyone wishing to purchase one.
Why not?
And "reasonable measures"? Who gets to decide that?
Perhaps the author could include an end note to show where authority for such infringements is delegated? What in his own research makes him think such edicts slow the monsters among us down one bit, and why did he not see fit to recognize government usurping such undelegated powers as a primary reason for needing an armed citizenry?
I'm not trying to pick a fight here. What I'm trying to do is stimulate a discussion. How do you protect "shall not be infringed" for the rational, mature and whole among us?
I've said before that anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian. That's true, but the freedoms in our society--or perhaps the misapplication of them?--guarantee there are some among us who can't be trusted with matches and butter knives.
So what do we do? Cede that permissions and prior restraints are reasonable? Or cede that one of the costs of freedom is that some will abuse it at times, and at times with terrible results?
My own thought is that the more free society is, the better protected it will be, and the more incentives will be in place to address problem individuals. But I admit my hypothetical ideal is not the society we are currently living in.
What are your thoughts?
[Via Mindful Musings]
Fresh ADVICES from the AMERICAN ARMY.
Camp at Cambridge, May 28, 1775.
YESTERDAY a Party from the United American Army was ordered to take the Cattle, Hay, &c. from Noddle's and Hog Islands. While executing their Orders, they were attacked by a Number of the King's Troops from Boston, in an armed Schooner, a Sloop, and 8 or 10 Boats belonging to the Men of War: A brisk Fire began about Four o'Clock, P. M. and continued most of the Night, then ceased a little, and at Dawn of Day was renewed, by which Time Capt. Foster, with two Field Pieces from this Camp, joined our Troops, when a heavy Fire from the Shore on the armed Vessels put them into great Distress. The Schooner's Decks were cleared, and she drifted on the Ferry-Way at Winesimet, where our People sat Fire to her, and she was soon blown up, and destroyed. Sixteen Four-Pounders, and six Swivels, were taken out of her by our People. The Sloop was disabled, and obliged to be towed off by the Men of War's Boats; the Remains of them are returned to their Den. Our People had none killed, three wounded, but none of them dangerously. The Number of killed and wounded of the Enemy not known.
Printed by J. Carter.
And for all of you Second Amendment watchdogs, I'm not talking about guns like my late grandmother's .38 special, which she kept loaded in a nightstand by the side of her bed, despite the crippling arthritis in her "trigger finger."
I'm talking about tens of thousands of illegal semiautomatic handguns and assault weapons in the hands of young men who'll start blasting just because they think someone looked at them funny.
Our obvious answer: Seal all gun show sales loopholes, requiring checks on every purchaser. And reinstate the U.S. ban on assault-gun purchases that Congress, under gun-lobby pressure, let expire in 2004.It's their not-so-obvious answer I'm worried about. You don't think they'll stop there.
A British student has been arrested in the US for attempting to buy a gun for a dare using fake ID, US police said...That sounds like as good a reason as any to call in the bomb squad and evacuate two blocks of apartments on the other side of the Atlantic for five hours, doesn't it?
Mindful of the 2007 Virginia Tech University massacre and gun violence in general, Gov. David Paterson has proposed a sensible package of legislation to limit access to firearms.Apparently it involves an anti-defense zealot and a victim who proved utterly incapable of defending herself or others cutting memorial ribbons, which at least should make memorializing future sets of victims inexpensive.
Parents were left horrified when a hook-the-duck stall at a fair gave ball-bearing guns as prizes to children.Good grief.
Musician Tricky has blamed hip hop for the rise in knife and gun crime across Britain.
Funny--I have the same access to it as everybody else, and I haven't stabbed or shot anybody.
Effects aren't the same as causes, Trickman. You might instead want to look at the type of culture that produces a demand for what you got, and then look at what produces that type of culture.
As for your Bronx/UK comparison, interesting, but I wouldn't know. I expect to keep my distance from both.
A Dallas County sheriff's deputy had his gun, uniform and handcuffs stolen Sunday morning at his home in Rochester Park.
"Do we as a society value safety or do we value a hobby that creates danger?" Mr. Miller said, endorsing the recommended crackdown. "That hobby directly results in people being shot and killed on the streets of our city."Take note, "sportsmen"--see what happens when you trivialize a right?
We tend to think today, those of us who reflect back on it at all, that the War Between the States was simply a war of big battlefields and stirring changes, banners held on high, et cetera, ad nauseum. This reading of the war tends to convince us that it could never come again. But a closer reading of history reveals that this was not simply a war between the states but a war within the states, a true civil war of former friends and neighbors, made all the more ghastly by the nature of the personal associations of the combatants. Understand that, and then the spectre of its recurrence seems much more possible. Read, and learn.Yes, do so.
Word is circulating that a number of ATF supervisors, from field up to high HQ levels, Assistant Directors and such, are being effectively suspended (effectively, but without using that term) while higher powers look into their competence and allegations of abuse and/or fraud. The Inspector General is said to be taking a role, and some of those involved in matters like Red's Trading Post are under the microscope.Good. Somebody's figuring out that over-the-top arrogance results in a spotlight, and as we've noted before on occasion, the floorboard dwellers hate that. Let's keep it shining and focused, at each and every opportunity. To paraphrase Rhett Butler, they need to be illuminated, and often, and by someone who knows how.
There's a lot of good agents out there, who're perfectly reasonable toward firearm owners and honest in their work.Sorry, Mr. Hardy. I've always held you in high regard, and still do, but that's a point I will not cede. The very existence of the agency is an affront to the Bill of Rights. One can not be part of the institution and claim fidelity to the vision of the Founders. It just can't be done.
I am of the opinion that when once these rebels have felt a smart blow, they will submit...No doubt there are some who still feel that way.
Mariners are being warned of a growing threat from pirates around the world after attacks on shipping rose by 20 per cent over the last year.And unsurprisingly:
Four of the six Somali pirates arrested for kidnapping a French luxury yacht are related to Somali President Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed, the French weekly Le Point reported Monday on its website.We're dealing with Barbary pirates--aided, abetted, harbored, and in many cases directed by corrupt thugocracies. Commodore Decatur showed us how to deal with that, but I guess the lesson has been forgotten.
Hoses against weapons. Trembling behind hatches. Everything but standing up on your sea-legs and fighting. How about just opening fire on them?It seems to me we're missing a lemons-out-of-lemonade opportunity here, to not only take care of the problem, but to turn it into a profitable bounty-hunting/ship capturing venture. Perhaps if privateers operated under Letters of Marque and Reprisal when American interests are involved...
The IMO's Captain Hartmut Hesse says armed guards on ships "will only increase violence, it will not deter the pirates."
The IMO guide Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships, cautions "The carrying and use of firearms ... is strongly discouraged. [It] may encourage attackers to carry firearms thereby escalating an already dangerous situation, and any firearms on board may themselves become an attractive target for an attacker. The use of firearms requires special training and aptitudes and the risk of accidents... is great."
...Agreeing with Captain Hesse, and chastising Lloyd's List for editorially suggesting otherwise, is Captain John Dalby of Marine Risk Management, a "maritime asset recovery and protection" company. While admitting "It is the sailors... who are being kidnaped, beached, set adrift ... or summarily killed," he warns that "only tragedy will result from inexperienced people trying to fight fire with fire. Leave intervention and reaction to those who are best equipped and trained for it."
A British Navel surgeon visits an American encampment and notes that the Americans are "a drunken, canting, lying, praying, hypocritical rabble without order."Which really ought to give us hope, if you think about it.
