...with this.
So far, I've victimized all of my siblings.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
A Uniform Approach to Fighting Gang Violence
...in Norfolk schools.
Good grief. How many ways that this is just plain stupid can you think up?
Hey, when you're already $22M in the hole and have $15K to blow on willfully violating gun owner rights, what's the cost of some school uniforms?
UPDATE: Kent McManigal raises an excellent point:
Good grief. How many ways that this is just plain stupid can you think up?
Hey, when you're already $22M in the hole and have $15K to blow on willfully violating gun owner rights, what's the cost of some school uniforms?
UPDATE: Kent McManigal raises an excellent point:
We're the Only Ones Faultless Enough
Convicted last year of intoxication manslaughter for the death of her boyfriend, the 21-year-old daughter of a state district judge is suing the truck driver she ran into during a drunken driving crash.Here, Elizabeth Shelton--I'm getting you a subscription.
I wonder if being an "Only One's" daughter has anything to do with not only your wrist-slap, but also the way you turned out.
There's nothing more I can say that I won't regret.
[Via Avg Joe]
We're the Only Ones Quadruple Enough
A Prince George's County police lieutenant charged four times this year with driving under the influence passed out behind the wheel of a running police cruiser in one incident, had to be Tasered and pepper-sprayed in another and was at fault in a hit-and-run in a third, Laurel Police said yesterday.We talked about this Otis of "Only Ones" yesterday, but not about these details.
"It doesn't appear that he's going to be reinstated, obviously," said Maj. Andy Ellis, a county police spokesman.Is Andy what we'd call a master of understatement?
[Via Orygunner]
This Day in History: December 20
The Continental Congress orders a temporary cease-fire between the colonies of Connecticut and Pennsylvania in their dispute over conflicting land claims in the Wyoming Valley.
Friday, December 19, 2008
A Champion of Gun Control
We can learn all we need to know about this "champion" from a comment he made about the Clinton gun ban:Anti-gun Sen. Howard Metzenbaum complained that the Clinton ban didn't go far enough, saying, "until you ban them all, you might as well ban none." But, it "will be a major step in achieving the objective that we have in mind," he said.
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...
Tell a friend?
We're the Only Ones Cruella De Vil Enough
Add a two-year-old Dalmation to the ranks of dogs gunned down by police officers who considered themselve to be in "imminent danger" when the cops had no business being where they were to begin with.I wonder if the "Only Ones" have enough to make a fur coat with yet? Ya think?
If you haven't bookmarked fellow Examiner.com J.D. Tuccille's Civil Liberties site, you're missing out on some of the most insightful commentary out there.
Not Feelin' the Love...
...over at The Liberty Sphere.
I still note most don't link to WoG, and you know what? That's fine with me. From the content, sentiment, originality and insight I see on many Wogless blogs, I'd just as soon not meet with their approval. Besides, if I was going for popularity, I'd be writing about Paris Hilton.
So keep your chin up, Mr. Lloyd-Morgan.
Some of us appreciate what you do every day.
The Liberty Sphere has been totally ignored by some who have received nothing but constant attention by me via the links to their blogs.I know how he feels. When I first started WaronGuns, I found every "gun blogger" I could, gave them a sidebar link and tried to let them know it. Most ignored me, so I said the hell with it and established the reciprocity requirement explained in my sidebar "Link Policy."
I still note most don't link to WoG, and you know what? That's fine with me. From the content, sentiment, originality and insight I see on many Wogless blogs, I'd just as soon not meet with their approval. Besides, if I was going for popularity, I'd be writing about Paris Hilton.
So keep your chin up, Mr. Lloyd-Morgan.
Some of us appreciate what you do every day.
We're the Only Ones Who Won't Be Spoken Ill of Enough
Sheriff’s deputies and county Protective Service officers arrested two men and two women in the middle of the meeting when they stood and applauded a speaker who criticized Arpaio.At the next meeting, have someone speak in his praise, and have a few people stand up and applaud. See what happens.
Either way though, we need to understand that only "Only Ones" can express their sentiments at government meetings, which are there to "secure the blessings of Liberty." We can't have extremists thinking "governments derive their just powers" from just anyone.
[Via Lane]
Where's the Reasonable Suspicion of a Crime?
From Ed Stone:
David,
Please read this police report about an arrest of a person openly carrying a pistol for obstruction for refusing to identify himself and tell me what reasonable suspicion of a crime existing to detain this man and force him to identify himself.
This is not an incident I have previously reported to you, as it just happened. This is the same jurisdiction I wrote this letter and with which we have had other issues. Think they have it out for our members?
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What is in the water down there?
ED
Two More Questions
Paul W. Davis had a question about Antonin Scalia's reasoning in Heller.
He has a couple more about the Wayne Fincher case:
And here I thought our job as citizens in terms of responding to national crises was to shop...
He has a couple more about the Wayne Fincher case:
I think the Supreme Court ought to answer the following two questions:Do you really want to leave the United States without any in-depth defense, and a lightly armed, law-abiding citizenry unable to effectively resist an attacking force?
Are you willing to see the possibility of the United States invaded and overthrown because the body of law-abiding citizens, who wish to form lawful, unorganized militias for the sole purpose of community and national defense, cannot match the firepower of an invading army?
And here I thought our job as citizens in terms of responding to national crises was to shop...
We're the Only Ones Given a Pass Enough
DUI Arrest Is Officer's 4th This YearWould it be so terribly wrong of me to wonder if some kind of "Only One" favoritism is being shown here...? And why the county prosecutors and the truant arresting officer aren't required to answer some tough question...under oath?
...Two of the drunken driving charges against Lt. Kenneth W. Parrish were dropped by county prosecutors, one of them in a plea deal and the other when the arresting officer failed to appear for a court hearing.
[Via Andre D]
We're the Only Ones Federal Enough
[Note: You need to select "December 17" from the "Recent Editions" drop-down menu, then scroll down to 61: "Update On Procedures For Flying While Armed."]
And they're even more trustworthy!
[Via Michael S]
The new procedures do not apply to federal officers.Hah! There's "Only Ones," and then there's "Super Only Ones."
And they're even more trustworthy!
[Via Michael S]
High Anxiety
Transparent Government
The government has blocked Kenyan members of President-elect Barrack Obama's extended family from talking to the media.It's a good thing I'm not the suspicious type...
[Via Skip]
Free Government Money!
A Yorktown gun-rights advocate who sued Norfolk after his arrest at Town Point Park for openly carrying a handgun will receive a $15,000 payout to settle the federal lawsuit.We discussed this before.
I hope the citizens of Norfolk remember this when the city comes crying saying they don't have enough money.
They have enough to blow $15 grand knowingly and willfully violating citizens' rights. Plus whatever they spent getting dragged through court.
[Via Mack H]
Another Child Gun Death
A man walking his dog in Terrell on Wednesday fatally shot an armed 17-year-old robber, police said.I guess in today's politically correct environment I don't dare say something like "Waddup, Dawg..."?
[Via Tony G]
We're the Only Ones Assaulted Enough
Both the daughter and the father were arrested for assaulting a peace officer.Plainclothes "Only Ones" get the wrong house and assault an innocent girl, she struggles and her father tries to protect her.
Every once in a while I have no words--or the words I have are best left undocumented.
This is one such time.
Speaking of people who will do obscene things for money, that William Helfland certainly is a piece of work.
[Via Cycjec from The Agitator (be sure and read Comment #7)]
Junk Mail Folder
Y'know, if you're gonna try to scam me...
...at least spell "PayPal" correctly...
I once played along with a 419er--the correspondence abruptly ended after my "widow" sent him a newspaper clipping jpg reporting on how David "Kwaku Afriye" Codrea was found hanged in his cell following his arrest for suspicion of Internet fraud...and the authorities were now focusing on his Ghanaian co-conspirator...
...at least spell "PayPal" correctly...
I once played along with a 419er--the correspondence abruptly ended after my "widow" sent him a newspaper clipping jpg reporting on how David "Kwaku Afriye" Codrea was found hanged in his cell following his arrest for suspicion of Internet fraud...and the authorities were now focusing on his Ghanaian co-conspirator...
Question
From Paul W. Davis:
Wouldn't you just love to confront the "conservative justice" at a public forum and put that to him?
Is a D-10 bulldozer dangerous and unusual in the hands of an ordinary citizen, untrained in heavy equipment operations?
The answer is obvious. However, D-10 bulldozers are neither dangerous nor unusual, and very efficient, effective, and beneficial in the hands of the right person.
How does that operator get to be the "right person" if we constantly put forth that no one should have things that are "dangerous or unusual." After all, given Scalia's unusual interpretation of the Second Amendment, I would have to conclude that the following objects are "dangerous and unusual" in his hands having not demonstrated proper training and proficiency:
law books
A law degree
a pen
paper
a computer
"Dangerous and unusual" is a very loose term, that is so broad as to be construed to apply to virtually anything, if we ignore the PERSON involved, and that person's qualifications. What Scalia is saying here, is that even a TRAINED, QUALIFIED, INFANTRY MACHINE GUNNER, cannot, as a civilian handle a machine gun as a member of a non-government sponsored militia.
That kind of logic I can shovel out of the barn.
Wouldn't you just love to confront the "conservative justice" at a public forum and put that to him?
Not to Keep Harping on This, But...
A new report by the U.S. Army War College talks about the possibility of Pentagon resources and troops being used should the economic crisis lead to civil unrest, such as protests against businesses and government or runs on beleaguered banks.This has all kinds of potential for getting interesting...
[Via Jeet]
Meanwhile, Over in Sarah al-Baradi Paradise
Sadr City, the South Bronx of Baghdad, has always been a rough neighborhood. Needless to say, carrying a gun here is considered a legal, moral right. Today, American and Iraqi troops are trying to do the once-unthinkable, and take Sadr City's weapons away...Mission accomplished?
In this part of Baghdad, the government of Nuri al-Maliki has rescinded the old "one AK-47 per household" rule; unless a weapon is registered - or belongs to a member of the security forces - it will be confiscated.
But don't worry--it says they're going to use those search warrants we talked about...
[Via Plug Nickel Times]
This Day in History: December 19
Should the Force sailed from Boston be destined for Rhode Island I tremble for the Consequences, as the Colony in its present exhausted State cannot without Assistance defend the Island.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Tightening their Death Grip
The Los Angeles City Council approved a package of gun control laws Wednesday...Click on the title link and read this.
Then watch the video.
They say they intend this to be the model for the nation.
Anybody think these tyrants are interested in peaceable resolution, or will ultimately be moved by anything short of pure self interest?
Look at Bratton claiming .50 cal "Only One" primacy. And talking "Godzilla." What an ass.
And Villaraigosa--guy can't even control his own di...libido as he gets cover from the watchdog press...but he wants to control you and me.
Then there's Jack Weiss. "Make our day?"
Perhaps, Jack. Some of us lived through seeing LA paralyzed, ceding entire neighborhoods to the zombie hordes--and that was in response to acts of government. And guess what, Jack--I went about my business every day armed in defiance of you frauds. Don't think I was alone.
Imagine what an act of nature or mass destruction will do to your smugness. The only good thing will be to expose you and your partners in crime for the powerless wretches you truly are when you don't have a cadre of enforcers on immediate hand to do your bidding.
Meanwhile, "our side" is left with arguing the new edicts "either conflict with or are duplicated by state law." Which means even if we "win," it's OK if it comes from Sacramento? Even though every one of us knows what an infringement is, but that can't even be argued?
And here's the real chiller--telling a man he can't run for city attorney unless he divests himself of all affiliation from NRA. Everyone gets how Nazi-caliber evil that is, right?
That's more than an in your face to all gun owners. If you think about it, it's taxation without representation.
These evil bastards will make war on us ideologically, politically, legally and physically. They won't stop until they're stopped. They won't let us alone and they won't let us live in peace.
If you're looking for a democratic solution in Los Angeles, forget it. Majority rule says "No."
So it will be interesting to see where the legal challenge goes.
If that doesn't work, then what?
Appeal to Obama's Justice Department?
[Via Maureen and JPR9]
Criminals for Gun Control
Wait a minute...he wanted you and me to turn in our guns, but when it came to his own protection he kept "a loaded handgun in a master-bedroom nightstand"?
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...
Help me spread the word...?
Sweet Land of Liberty
U.S. soldiers will need search warrants in IraqMaybe we could get another joint military/LEO operation going where they can teach civil liberties to some of our domestic "Only One" observers...
[Via Mama Liberty]
Westgate Remains Safe...
...despite shooting...Sure it's safe. And Rule 19 proves it!
Say, you guys wouldn't want to guarantee that in writing, would you? Because I notice that even with those "seven Westgate security officers and 10 off-duty Glendale police officers," and with that "audio and video surveillance, and communications among officers" being "rock solid," you still couldn't do anything but react after the damage was done.
Maybe someone could take this card over to their security office and find out?
[Via Featherless Biped]
Disarmament as Castration
Gun nuts seem to react to proposed gun control legislation they way they would to emasculation.Or to rape.
That's because we know being disarmed renders you contemptible.
Funny, we can talk about physically resisting to prevent forced castration or rape, but talk about physically resisting disarmament around some, and all of a sudden you're a...a Vanderbot.
Back on topic, this guy has a pretty good response.
[Via Jason A]
A Reasonable Suspicion
“Simply put, a police officer needs reasonable suspicion of a crime before he can detain someone, and merely possessing a handgun is not reasonable suspicion of a crime,” says Ed Stone, president of the gun rights group georgiacarry.org and co-counsel for Mead. “In this case, the encounter went beyond merely detaining Zachary Mead for having a handgun; the deputy in this case actually seized the handgun and took it with him.”I guess that all depends on the meaning of the word "reasonable."
And "suspicion."
The Police Cruiser Loophole
A thief cut through a fence at the California Highway Patrol's Martinez office early Tuesday, broke into numerous cruisers, and made off with a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition, authorities said.It has the convenience of an all-night store, but none of the hassles. No background checks, no paperwork, and check out those prices!
And "Only Ones" Guns has convenient locations nationwide to serve you!
[Via Les K]
"Second Amendment Legal Guns"
"I wonder about our gun laws. Should we be harsher with our gun laws," said Ballard...Good grief.
"I'd like to look at gun laws, frankly. Penalties for illegal guns," said Ballard...
"I have no problem with second amendment legal guns. No problem what so ever on that. It's the illegal guns that are concerning," said Ballard...
The mayors of Fort Wayne and South Bend have signed on to an effort by New York's mayor to strengthen illegal gun laws.
And Greg, if you're looking for a "big hit," here's a clue: Gun control doesn't work.
[Via Mike H]
National Geographic Aims and Misses
National Geographic Channel ran a show last night entitled, "Gun In America." According to the program, there are millions of misguided gun owners across the nation. Why? Because your guns are supposedly more likely to harm you than to help you in an emergency.Besides, National Geographic has amply demonstrated why it's preferable that only governments be armed.
UPDATE: Stupid line of the year award...
We're the Only Ones Warning Enough
Tennessee Tyranny
Tennessee Firearms Association Alert (via email):
Just this simple cryptic message alone would probably prompt a full-scale investigation. Can you imagine if they started getting a flood of them?
UPDATE: SayUncle passes along word they've recanted.
Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc.I wonder what would happen if someone threw a monkeywrench into the works? Maybe filled out the forms with a bunch of fake information and buried them in checking it out? Or even simpler, just scrawling out a suggestion on what they can do with their gun owner registration scheme on the face of the form, and mailing it to Manager Lisa...?
Legislative Action Committee
Tennessee Department of Safety has started sending out letters telling firearms instructors that "effective immediately" they are going to be required to complete and fill out a "roster" that has to be faxed to the Department of Safety within 24 hours of the ion handgun permit certification class. http://www.state.tn.us/safety/forms/HGschoolroster200862408.pdf
This new roster collects information concerning the weapons used in the class including the owner's name and the serial number. Other forms filed with TDOS (including the certification form) has the make, model and caliber of the weapon.
Nothing in the statutes authorize or direct the Department of Safety to collect or require this information.
I would like to gauge the public response to the collection of this information and whether it enables TDOS or the state to start collection records detailing firearms owners and at least some of the specific weapons owned by them.
If you oppose this change, feel free to contact TDOS AND your state legislators.
TDOS contact information in on the TDOS web site
http://www.state.tn.us/safety/handgunmain.htm
The main contact, according to the state's web site is:
Contact Us:
Lisa Knight, Manager
1150 Foster Avenue
Nashville, TN 37243
(615) 253-5221
866-849-3548 (toll-free)
Just this simple cryptic message alone would probably prompt a full-scale investigation. Can you imagine if they started getting a flood of them?
UPDATE: SayUncle passes along word they've recanted.
We're the Only Ones Rounding Up Enough
An Ohio family whose members have served their friends and neighbors with food cooperative services involving bulk and discount supplies has been targeted in a raid by armed law enforcement officers wearing black fatigues who forcibly rounded up the mom and 10 children and held them for six hours.We were trying to confirm what happened here.
Still, aren't you glad Lorain County "Only Ones" have the resources to do this? Particularly at a time when they're laying off 20 deputies?
It must mean there's not all that much crime in Lorain.
That is, outside - their - police - department...
[Via Avg Joe]
How to Protect Yourself from Martial Law
If martial law is declared, your civil rights will no longer be recognized by the authorities; basic rights -- such as due process -- will no longer exist. How can you protect yourself...right now and afterward?Interesting. But I think the first and third suggestions may contradict each other.
[Via Jeet]
This Day in History: December 18
We have just been informed of a Circumstance, which, were it not so well Authenticated, I should scarcely think credible; It is that Col: Allen, who with his small party, was defeated and taken Prisoner near Montreal, has been treated, without regard to decency, humanity, or the Rules of War; That he has been thrown into Irons and suffers all the Hardships inflicted upon common Felons.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
'A Christmas Story' Revisited
We've talked about A Christmas Story House before, and their 25th anniversary event. I think the movie is an important one for gun owners for several reasons, obviously revolving around the Red Ryder BB gun.
Here's today's Gun Rights Examiner column.
I hope WarOnGuns regulars are helping to spread the word on these columns.
Virtual Unreality
Really, why do you need guns except to shoot a pigeon, or a deer? You're not a policeman. You can't ensure that you're children won't get hold of your gun. You can't hold yourself to be a responsible adult when you return home angry, drunk and volatile.I talked about this case yesterday in my Gun Rights Examiner column.
Just bury the damn thing, change the constitution and ban guns. Stop blaming violent video games and Marilyn Manson. Enough is enough. These tragic murders need to stop.
Silly me. I happen to believe balanced people can handle guns and music and video games. And that those who can't have no claim on my choices.
I don't think I could approach this UK gaming nitwit with anything even resembling civility. If you have the belly to engage him, go for it.
Feel free to grab him by the lapels and use your forehead as a club. Virtually, of course.
Straddling the Fence
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl allowed a city gun control bill to become law without his signature.So I don't suppose you could have intentional state lawbreakers arrested?
In a letter to council, Mr. Ravenstahl said the bill will be unenforceable and pre-empted by state law...
An Economic Stimulus Package
Two state lawmakers say they'll sponsor a bill to repeal state taxes on the sale of guns and ammunition in Oklahoma.Well, that would be consistent with "shall not be infringed."
Which kind of opens the door for questioning why we have what was supposed to be a taxing agency...
A Constant Disadvantage
Rising gun sales driven by females, retirees......But...but...but...
"People who have come in here before and never even looked at guns are now buying them."
That's not what Bryan told us...
I'm inclined to believe that the vast bulk of folks buying guns per recent gun shop owners' claims are repeat buyers, they already have guns at home.Poor guy's at a constant disadvantage, wouldn't you agree?
Attention All Fudds!
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan dismissed the notion hunting rifles and shotguns are not the type of weapons authorities need to be worried about, noting they can cause harm if poorly safeguarded or stolen by burglars.And what does "taking these off the streets" mean when this story is clearly about ordinary citizens removing them from their homes?
"Taking these off the streets is as important as the taking the handguns off the streets,'' he said.
Y'all still want to throw the rest of us under the bus?
Don't take my word for it that the government wants to separate you from your "sporting arms." Take Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan's.
Nickels Hides
That's because punk petty tyrants like Nickels, exhibit the same traits as most bullies when confronted by someone who won't back down and who has the capacity to back themselves up.Remember that.
Maybe someone could dig him a spider hole to hide in for future such occasions...?
A Tough Measure
The legislation would require all gun owners to receive five hours of safety training and to register their firearms every three years. In addition, they would have to undergo a criminal background check every six years.
Compelling state interest in action.
I wonder how many feral sociopaths this will stop?
Idiots.
They Hate Us Because We're Free
"They just go ahead and don't listen to any of the laws that are affecting anybody else. It's quite a problem when you got people next door required to get permits and the Amish don't have to get them," said Gary Olson, a county supervisor in central Wisconsin's Jackson County, where Borntreger lives.
Note the issue is not whether Amish housing is unsafe or not.
Putting aside for a moment the issue of the best means a community can employ to ensure structures are not a threat to their inhabitants or neighbors, the Amish choose to live in their own communities.
Who are they harming?
But the state must control all. They won't let you live in peace. They're intent to force themselves upon you whether you wish to deal with them or not.
I suppose, ultimately, if the homeowners wish to defy orders and shut themselves up in their traditionally crafted home, an angry state could send out armed enforcers to burn the place down around them.
Isn't that what we do with "cultists" in this country who want to be left alone?
Vermont, SC or "Only Ones" Carry?
This may not be the "No Permit Carry" bill the news article paints it to be, per Ed Stone .
Here's a discussion where some concerns have surfaced.
Here's the bill in question.
Your thoughts?
Here's a discussion where some concerns have surfaced.
Here's the bill in question.
Your thoughts?
We're the Only Ones Discouraging Alternative Transportation Enough
Any bets on whether the "Only One" or the bicyclist would have been indicted but for the video recording of what happened?
[Via Chris Horton]
[Via Chris Horton]
More on the Con-Con and a Rant
We talked about it here.
Chuck Baldwin explains why they're so dangerous.
I understand the Ohio vote has been delayed. None of the legislators saw fit to get back with me--I guess they thought I might be a bit peeved.
But here's a question for you, who come here regularly every day, because I presume you get some value out of it.
I asked readers to join me (I never ask for anything I don't give myself), to send an email. I even provided all the addresses.
How many did?
Apathy is the most frustrating thing I confront. It's a bigger threat than anything out there. And I have to wonder what someone will do if they won't even take a minute, literally, to send a simple email.
I've answered dismissals about "preaching to the choir" before, the first time, I believe, in my article "You Say You Want a Revolution?" published by GUNS AND AMMO back in 2001:
I'm also reminded of a quote from Mr. Churchill.
I bring this up because I see the vast majority of gun owners, maybe, say, 97%, dismissing "threepers," sometimes with great contempt. Just the other day I saw myself characterized with the words "spittle-flying screaming about all the 'cowards' that won't start killing jack-booted thugs at the issuance of a traffic ticket."
I approached my accuser privately (and politely, I might add) and asked to see where I've done that, or even anything close to it to make it a fair caricature. For some reason he won't reply.
For the record, I'm doing what I can, and have been for years, to work toward restoration of the Republic through petitions for redress, political involvement, the legal system, the media...
The ironic thing is, if we do reach the much-mischaracterized "Vanderboegh scenario," it will be because many who decried it the loudest didn't hold up their end of the deal and actually do concrete work toward those political and legal results they tell us will be our salvation.
The rant is almost over. At the risk of alienating and driving anyone away, I'll say this flat out: If you're not doing something proactive on a regular basis to try and promote Liberty/discourage tyranny, you're part of the problem. It's not my place to tell you what to do, it's your place to find something that enthuses you and do it.
This week and the next and the next....
[Via W-3]
Chuck Baldwin explains why they're so dangerous.
I understand the Ohio vote has been delayed. None of the legislators saw fit to get back with me--I guess they thought I might be a bit peeved.
But here's a question for you, who come here regularly every day, because I presume you get some value out of it.
I asked readers to join me (I never ask for anything I don't give myself), to send an email. I even provided all the addresses.
How many did?
Apathy is the most frustrating thing I confront. It's a bigger threat than anything out there. And I have to wonder what someone will do if they won't even take a minute, literally, to send a simple email.
I've answered dismissals about "preaching to the choir" before, the first time, I believe, in my article "You Say You Want a Revolution?" published by GUNS AND AMMO back in 2001:
If only this assumption was true. We would be invincible!So it takes a special person for me to acknowledge as being a choir member.
The choir is comprised of the volunteers up there doing the work, singing. These are the people who learn the music and the words and the programs. They take significant time out from their demanding professional and personal lives to practice, to learn and to perform. And they’ll do it again next week, and the next.
The overwhelming majority of gun owners are, at best, spectators. They may occasionally attend a service, they may even put a couple dollars in the plate when it’s passed, but to actually put forth time, effort and financial support on a continued basis, to do real work and make real sacrifices, is something they typically find reasons for not doing.
I'm also reminded of a quote from Mr. Churchill.
I bring this up because I see the vast majority of gun owners, maybe, say, 97%, dismissing "threepers," sometimes with great contempt. Just the other day I saw myself characterized with the words "spittle-flying screaming about all the 'cowards' that won't start killing jack-booted thugs at the issuance of a traffic ticket."
I approached my accuser privately (and politely, I might add) and asked to see where I've done that, or even anything close to it to make it a fair caricature. For some reason he won't reply.
For the record, I'm doing what I can, and have been for years, to work toward restoration of the Republic through petitions for redress, political involvement, the legal system, the media...
The ironic thing is, if we do reach the much-mischaracterized "Vanderboegh scenario," it will be because many who decried it the loudest didn't hold up their end of the deal and actually do concrete work toward those political and legal results they tell us will be our salvation.
The rant is almost over. At the risk of alienating and driving anyone away, I'll say this flat out: If you're not doing something proactive on a regular basis to try and promote Liberty/discourage tyranny, you're part of the problem. It's not my place to tell you what to do, it's your place to find something that enthuses you and do it.
This week and the next and the next....
[Via W-3]
We're the Only Ones Who Know That Enough
The State is now conceding that the police informant in the case illegally broke into Frederick's home three nights before the raid. Until now, they had either denied the connection or refused to comment.Let me get this straight.
Frederick's attorney released an audio recording taken in a police car shortly after the raid. In it, Frederick tries to explain that he was confused and frightened because someone had broken into his home earlier in the week. A police detective replies, "We know that." In a second recording, the detective says again, "First off, we know your house had been broken into. OK?"
Their guy breaks in.
They say they know that.
But then they say they didn't know it was their guy.
It's tough following "Only One" versions some times. They get kind of...convoluted...
[Via Carl S]
This Day in History: December 17
Patriot forces in Montreal build ramparts of snow and ice. An American describes the event in a letter stating, "Who but Yankees would have thought of such a contrivance or who but enthusiastics for liberty would carry on a siege at such a season of the year."
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Return of Burka Abeam
Well, at least HuffPo noticed. The "conservative" big shots I sent it to ignored it.
Be interesting to see what this does to the traffic...
UPDATE:
...and now Buzzflash.
Good day, stat wise.
Sheesh. I do all this work and the thing that gets noticed is the trivia.
If you go back to my original post from 5 days ago that's grabbing the attention now, you'll see somebody gave a copy of the paper to Jay Leno and he talked about it last night...
Be interesting to see what this does to the traffic...
UPDATE:
...and now Buzzflash.
Good day, stat wise.
Sheesh. I do all this work and the thing that gets noticed is the trivia.
If you go back to my original post from 5 days ago that's grabbing the attention now, you'll see somebody gave a copy of the paper to Jay Leno and he talked about it last night...
A Lesson to be Learned
There is, indeed, a lesson to be learned, and I'm curious to see if it has been. So I'm going to relinquish the floor. How would you respond to the assertion that it's too dangerous to keep a loaded gun in the home?
I have a question for the readers in today's Gun Rights Examiner column.
Go there and share your thoughts with us.
Dial 911 and Die
Brittany Zimmerman, a 21-year-old college student who wanted to be a doctor, called 911 as she was being attacked by a stranger, police say.
But the police did not come for 48 minutes. By that time, Zimmerman was dead. Her fiance found her body.
Although the dispatcher claimed later to have heard nothing, the 911 tape captured screams, gasps and what sounds like a struggle, according to the court documents.
Tragic.
And, unfortunately, the dangers are well known and documented.
This eerily reminds me of an ad we produced years ago for Citizens of America.
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[Via ebd10]
A Soaring Response...
...to this.
Per David J. Theroux:
Click here to learn more.
Per David J. Theroux:
As an update, our book THE FOUNDERS' SECOND AMENDMENT: Origins of the Rights to Bear Arms, by Independent Institute Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, has skyrocketed to the following rankings at Amazon.com:Y'know, we could do a lot worse than to get this information into the public consciousness.
#1: Law
#1: Civil Rights and Liberties
#1: Constitutions
#1: Constitutional Law
#1: Revolutionary and Founding History
#12: History
#11: Professional and Technical
#26: Nonfiction (all)
The book has soared to an overall ranking of #140 at Amazon.com and #105 at Barnes & Noble.com. (With the enormous response, Amazon.com temporarily sold out of the book and is now being restocked.)
Click here to learn more.
Our Second National Holiday
And so, on the day we should probably celebrate as our SECOND great national holiday, on Dec. 15, 1791, Virginia became the 11th state to ratify the first 10 proposed amendments, Mr. Madison’s “Bill of Rights” — though a better name might be the “Bill of Prohibitions” on government conduct — thrown together in an attempt to placate such vociferous anti-federalists as Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee.Vin Suprynowicz educates those of us who will sit still and listen about Bill of Rights Day.
[Via Western Rifle Shooters Association]
The Lonely War
It Doesn't Get More Deadly
AAAGGGHHH!!!
"[R]apid-fire, high-powered assault-style rifles in Peoria"!!!!!
HELP!!! IT BU-R-R-RNS!!!!
And it's not the poor cop's fault. You need to put what he said in context with the rest of his statement:
[Via Bryan E]
"[R]apid-fire, high-powered assault-style rifles in Peoria"!!!!!
HELP!!! IT BU-R-R-RNS!!!!
And it's not the poor cop's fault. You need to put what he said in context with the rest of his statement:
"It's not the gun itself, but the person standing behind the gun."But if "Authorized Journalist" Leslie Fark has a chance to introduce hysteria into the mix, then dammit, that's just what she's going to do.
[Via Bryan E]
What Happens Off Post Stays Off Post
BATFU Reenacts Sherman's March
The government had planned to burn hundreds of acres in the area on Tuesday to clear underbrush to aid in searching for more ammunition and explosives.It's official.
Slash and burn, that is, components of total war, are now acceptable tools in BATFU's War on (Drugs and) Guns.
And of course, the other good thing about burning...uh...evidence is...is...well, it does put more weight on sworn testimony, doesn't it?
I wonder if they'll salt the earth afterward?
I also wonder if this has happened yet--the story is a few days old, and I can't find accounts of the burn having taken place. The thought strikes to get the left to carry some water--literally.
There's gotta be some environmentalcases we could plant a bug under about carbon footprints, greenhouse gasses, releasing toxins and carcinogens into the environment, endangering wildlife...
[Via Chris Horton]
A Joint Sobriety Driver License Checkpoint
Click on image to enlarge.A "joint...checkpoint"?
Well, that ain't what I was directly told yesterday. I was told the Marines were observers, learning how to do the drill so they could apply it on base.
I don't dismiss the possibility that this could be clumsy wording on the part of CHP, but think this is now worth getting some official answers for -- in writing.
Naturally, the "Authorized Journalists" are completely out of the loop on this. What more proof do we need that bloggers are illegitimate?
For starters, were I a California constituent, particularly one from that region, I'd be sending inquiries to my state assemblyman and state senator, and to my congressional representative and senator. I'd also chide the local papers and ask why they aren't getting to the bottom of this.
[Via Zachary G]
This Day in History: December 16
IT is His Majesty’s Pleasure, that, from the date hereof, and during the continuance of the Rebellion now subsisting in North America, every person, who shall enlist as a soldier in any of His Majesty’s Marching Regiments of Foot, shall be entitled to his discharge at the end of Three Years, or at the end of the said Rebellion, at the option of His Majesty.
Monday, December 15, 2008
A Major Blow to Gun Rights in Oregon
An Oregon Appeals Court decision has found that your car is now considered a "public place." That means that possessing a loaded firearm in a vehicle may be considered a crime if the locality in which you are traveling has a ban on open loaded carry.
This, of course, is naked in-your-face tyranny.
UPDATE: A lawyer weighs in and says it ain't exactly so...
Grassroots Activists Derail Con-Con
Imagine that. A "threeper" working the political side of the street.
If you only listened to some, people who were silent on this, incidentally, you wouldn't think we did that.
Not trying to renew a fight--only trying to correct the record.
If you only listened to some, people who were silent on this, incidentally, you wouldn't think we did that.
Not trying to renew a fight--only trying to correct the record.
No Rush to Judgment
"The boys found the gun in [their grandmother's] car, but police said the weapon belonged to the boys' aunt. The kids were playing 'gangster' when the shooting occurred..."
Good grief.
Here's today's Gun Rights Examiner column.
Tell a friend?
"Authorized Journalists"
Still, government authorized journalism is only half the equation — we also need to look at what the anointed media do with their elite status. Meaning how they slant supposedly straight news stories to fit their anti-gun agenda. And ignore other stories altogether.WarOnGuns regulars are familiar with "Authorized Journalists." That's also the title of my Feb. 2009 Rights Watch column for GUNS Magazine.
A Deadly Mix
I mean, really, how many times must we see the "Dodge City" predictions come tru...
What?
We haven't?
After how many years?
Well, still. We don't like guns and don't think you should be allowed to have them.
So there.
Oh well. The Courant is part of The Tribune Company, and we know how well they're doing.
Maybe if they hadn't spent all those years brewing a deadly mix of freedom-corroding lies some of us might be inclined to give a damn.
What?
We haven't?
After how many years?
Well, still. We don't like guns and don't think you should be allowed to have them.
So there.
Oh well. The Courant is part of The Tribune Company, and we know how well they're doing.
Maybe if they hadn't spent all those years brewing a deadly mix of freedom-corroding lies some of us might be inclined to give a damn.
A Matter of Trust
Fondness for one's guns must not supersede sensibility if we are to ever co-exist in a country where we can all feel comfortable and possess basic trust for one another.Coming from someone who doesn't trust you to own a gun--or to know the truth about her real intentions.
Nice. Talk about "exaggerated insecurity," Laura Eshelman. Project much?
And on Bill of Rights Day, no less.
Except she probably doesn't know that. And neither, based on a search attempt, does the Citizen- Times.
If Only...
...Texas had Mexican-style gun control, none of this would happen.
We all believe that, right?
We all believe that, right?
Military Roadblocks in CA?
The Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Provost Marshal (head of a unit of military police) and the local California Highway Patrol office will begin working together 12/12 — and through the holiday season — in a joint effort to reduce accidents and drinking and driving. The combined mutual cooperation between the Marine Corps Military Police and State enforcement officers will begin somewhere along Highway 62. The CHP will set up DUI roadblocks with the presence of Military Police. A violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.I can't find anything about this in a regular news search (which, as we've seen, can mean very little) or on any Marine sites I've checked (although they do have a "Hwy 62 Kill Zones" slideshow here, but it doesn't mention enforcement).
I'll need independent confirmation, including the scope and nature, before I venture an opinion. Anyone with knowledge or contacts, please educate the rest of us.
I'll try calling the base later today--as I post this, it's 5:33 AM their time.
[Via Zachary G]
UPDATE:I spoke with Gy Sgt Cox, named in the linked report. Nice guy.
They've got four or five Marines observing so they can learn and apply the lessons on base. I understand concerns over mission creep, but I'm just not seeing posse comitatus as an issue here, as there is "unequivocally" no assistance or enforcement.
Erin Go Blagh*
The Government has outlined its proposals for a ban on licensing handguns, which may be expanded to include all firearms in the future.Faith and begorrah, that ought to test the luck o' the Irish, don't you think?
[Via Jeffersonian]
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Search Me
Google is moving into new territory: not only making arbitrary, editorial choices - really no different to Fox News, say, or any other media organization. It's now in the business of validating and manufacturing consent: not only reporting what people say, but how you should think.Gosh. That might partially explain the pH factor. To think there might be those who want to manipulate us.
I'm told I might do well to look into Scroogle and ixquick. I have no personal experience with either.
[Via Ron W]
A Polite Society
This is the typical response of the socially sensitive whiners who think that ritualistically going through the communally approved motions of confronting the alleged “causes” of crime in society, (early potty training distressed my psyche, Daddy didn’t hug me often enough) will prevent crime. These are people who have never actually been beaten to a bloody pulp by a thug. Meanwhile, confronting a thug with a .45 slug or ten will actually work wonders.Dallas/Ft. Worth Libertarian Examiner Garry Reed shares his thoughts on an armed society.
[Via Plug Nickel Times]
Deep in the Heart of Texas
TexasFred said...We all know how well I do in forums, but despite my biases, they can be important places for gun owners to meet and share ideas. Check it out.
David, I'd like to invite you and your readers to join us at The Texas Gun Owners Association Forum.
It's NOT just for Texans, ALL gun lovers are welcome!
2A "Book Bomb"
I just got an email this morning about the "Second Amendment Book Bomb." They're asking gun activists to celebrate the day by buying a copy of, and spreading the word about Stephen P. Halbrook's "The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms."
I haven't read this one, but I've read lots of his other stuff, and its essential work.
Right now it looks like the link is timing out, so hopefully this means it's generating so much interest their site can't handle the traffic. If you can't get through, all I can suggest is try again later.
I haven't read this one, but I've read lots of his other stuff, and its essential work.
Right now it looks like the link is timing out, so hopefully this means it's generating so much interest their site can't handle the traffic. If you can't get through, all I can suggest is try again later.
This Day in History: December 15
Happy Bill of Rights Day.
To see how far we've come, let's do a Google News search for the exact phrase "Bill of Rights Day."
To see how far we've come, let's do a Google News search for the exact phrase "Bill of Rights Day."
Results 1 - 10 of about 22 for bill-of-rights-day.Now let's apply the pH factor and search--again, limiting ourselves to just the "News" category, for another term of social import:
1 - 10 of about 7,430 for paris-hilton.And the "Authorized Journalists" wonder why we love them so...
Sunday, December 14, 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still...
...managed to be even more offensive than the original subversive paean to UN rule/global disarmament.
What a piece of anti-human environmentalcase Hollywood crap. The only reason I saw it was to see if I could get a magazine piece out of it, and I just may be able to.
What a piece of anti-human environmentalcase Hollywood crap. The only reason I saw it was to see if I could get a magazine piece out of it, and I just may be able to.
A Perfect Opportunity...
“No questions asked, no ID required,” assured the Rev. Ikenna Kokayi of the United African American Ministerial Action Council, which is spearheading the program.That doesn't mean we can't ask a question of our own--like will you now accept responsibility for our safety?
This seems like a great way to introduce this card.
Anybody have contact with activist gun owners in San Diego who might want to try this and report on it?
[Via DJK]
Bugs
The U.S. military has been working for a while on tiny, buglike drones — to serve as miniature flying spies, Defense Department robot-makers say. But this video, from the Air Force Research Laboratory, shows that the military is also interested in turning these "Micro Air Vehicles," or MAVs, into biomorphic weapons that can lie in secret for weeks at a time — and then strike an adversary with lethal accuracy.Coming soon, to a militarized police department near you.
Theoretical exercise: How would you defeat these things if you had to?
[Via Paul W. Davis]
We're the Only Ones in Pursuit Enough
Toronto Police were red faced both out of anger and embarrassment, after a suspect took off in one of their cruisers. An officer had been conducting a routine traffic stop...when a suspect suddenly jumped into the driver's seat, put it in gear and hit the accelerator, leaving the officer stranded at the scene.And if the perp had escaped with the shotgun, and if it had later been used in a crime, the Canadian antis could have used that to bolster their statistics that guns can only be safeguarded in the hands of the "Only Ones"...
[Via Bruce Mills]
Weaponized Borats
Americans say that the Lithuanians are sort of a weaponized version of Borat, who think nothing of sauntering around a base in nothing but flip-flops and underwear. “They look like mountain men. They never shave, sometimes don’t bathe, and often roll out the gate wearing nothing but body armor and weapons. Not even a t-shirt,” an American soldier told me. The Lithuanians may be a little bit nuts, but the Americans love to have them around because Lithuanians love to fight, and when you need backup, you can count on them. That contrasts starkly with many of the NATO “partners.”There may be a lesson in here somewhere...
[Via Peter G]
Red Light District
Fullerton's red-light camera program violates a state law that bars cities from paying vendors based on the revenue their tickets generate, an Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled.I used to drive through that intersection every day for years, to and from work, and to get to the freeway to visit customers.
I thought of several ways to monkeywrench the damn things but taking the profit out of "public/private partnerships" is the best solution of all...
Since revenue-sharing doesn't appear to be an issue, I don't think the same principles can be applied to these creepy fascist rope sellers, but there's gotta be some way to mire them down--that is, if the pure suckiness of their idea isn't enough. So far, it looks like they've made a lot of noise but no real headway.
If that assessment is correct, perhaps we should be encouraging the gunbashers to expend more resources into dead-end ventures...that'd be less they'd have to invest in more effective attacks.
Kind of like what I tried to do here, with "our man in the gun ban camp." Nobody's heard from that loser for a while, have they? Aside from his domain name being unused...?
Fighting Lies with Truth
Fighting crime with cash..."Authorized Journalists."
Shall we see if they're redeemable?
Fox 13 and reporter Alcides Segui have missed a much larger story. If gun "buybacks" actually fight crime (and this totally dismisses the proven crime-fighting benefits some guns in private hands provide), that's big news--particularly since, per Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser in the Spring 2007 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, "the US National Academy of Sciences ... failed to identify any gun control that reduced violent crime, suicides or gun accidents." This was "from a review of 153 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some original empirical research. The same conclusion was reached in 2003 by the US Centers for Disease Control...."Not that I expect an answer, but if I get one I'll share it.
So if you have authoritative information to contradict these findings, don't you have a responsibility to share it? Or, more likely, are your headline and story just the hysterics of biased incompetents masquerading as journalists?
In the mean time, feel free to join me and ask them a question of your own. They're going to continue misinforming the public with drek like this unless and until they get shamed out of it.
[Via Edmund M]
Partners in Crime
VPC Lauds Introduction of Blagojevich Bill to Ban "Pocket Rockets"...A blast from the past...
The legislation would ban the future sale of handgun with an overall length of less than 71/2 inches.
This is the filth who would control you.
Treat it as such.
[Via A C Frechtling]
This Day in History: December 14
Your favor of the 11th. Inst. was handed me by the two french Gentlemen, Monsieurs Penet and De pleurne, for which I am exceedingly obliged to you. I have heard their proposals and plan, for supplying the Continent with Arms and Amunition, which appear plausible and to promise Success; But not thinking myself Authorised to Enter into any contract respecting the same and being not fully acquainted with the Measures Congress have adopted for procuring these Articles; I have prevailed upon them to go to Philadelphia and Recommended them and the Consideration of their plan to that Body, where the Matter will be finally agreed upon or rejected.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise
‘Dress down’ or risk being robbed, police tell womenShe asked for it. Look at the way she was dressed.
Yep. It's come to that.
[Via cycjec]
National Press Club Obama Challenge
I know there's no shortage of those who will be quick to jump on this as tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. There will be others just as passionately convinced of the opposite.
I've said before I haven't been convinced, but I do think the evidence deserves to be looked at. My thoughts on it are posted here.
While I laughed out loud during the preacher's prayer, I don't think referring to Obama as "this long-legged macdaddy" is helpful at establishing credibility in a forum like the National Press Club.
But I still may steal that description.
[Via Skip]
UPDATE: I'm continuing to listen to this as I do my work, and must say this reverend gets way off topic and doesn't help. The lawyers who put this news conference together should have stuck to the issue and not gone so far afield--there should be no discussion of black-on-white lust. This character is entertaining, but he comes off like Uncle Ruckus.
I've said before I haven't been convinced, but I do think the evidence deserves to be looked at. My thoughts on it are posted here.
While I laughed out loud during the preacher's prayer, I don't think referring to Obama as "this long-legged macdaddy" is helpful at establishing credibility in a forum like the National Press Club.
But I still may steal that description.
[Via Skip]
UPDATE: I'm continuing to listen to this as I do my work, and must say this reverend gets way off topic and doesn't help. The lawyers who put this news conference together should have stuck to the issue and not gone so far afield--there should be no discussion of black-on-white lust. This character is entertaining, but he comes off like Uncle Ruckus.
The Payoff
In a deal OK'd by the City Council, Minneapolis will pay a family more than $600,000 after a SWAT team wrongly raided its home.Don't forget the cost of the medals...
[Via Buzz G]
Credit Where Due
"My spouse told me there was a man inside with a gun, saying he was going to kill everybody," said Robinson, an 11-year veteran of the highway patrol who is assigned to the Creek and Muskogee turnpikes.He's braver than I am, wrestling with the guy instead of just shooting him.
[Via Joe G]
"Just As"?
If they do, they should conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is protected against infringement by the state governments, just as it is protected against the federal government.In other words, that is, in the words of "Maximum Mike":
The bureau is studying the decision, but expects that it will not affect its continued enforcement of all existing federal firearms laws."Nobody thinks we won't be screwed on incorporation just like on everything else, do they?
That's not how those corrupted by power operate.
All the polite academic discussions in the world won't change that. In the absence of a credible "stop or else," nothing will. What we're reconciling among ourselves now is whether such a check is likely to be produced through current stacked deck legislative and judicial efforts.
[Via Skip]
This Day in History: December 13
December 13, 1775 at Norfolk, Virginia - On December 13, after the American victory at the Battle of Great Bridge, the Patriot force occupies the town of Norfolk. Conclusion: American Victory
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