Notes from the Resistance...
A Tennessee sheriff's deputy arrested on a drunken driving charge wound up in a dog house before he was taken to the big house...Samuel Monroe Bledsoe was kicking the windows of a trooper's cruiser on his way to a hospital for a blood test.The report says Bledsoe was then locked inside the cruiser's K-9 cage for his safety. [More]An "Only One" behaving like a vicious dog?
Just putting this on their "Hate Watch" page accomplishes their agenda--to put a stigma on good and decent Americans by equating them with racists, Klansmen, Nazis, terrorists...and this isn't the first time we've seen them resort to such smears and innuendo. [More]Here's this morning's third Gun Rights Examiner column. Hopefully it'll be the last one until tomorrow.
While it's true that Edwards hasn't been convicted of anything, his gun-grabbing Democrat pals are trying to not let that stop them--in fact, Frank Lautenberg is at it again, proposing that people merely suspected by the government be barred from buying guns via a "terror watch list." [More]Today's second Gun Rights Examiner column asks why anti-gunners don't apply the same standards to themselves that they impose on the rest of us.
Forget the accusation that citizens intent on claiming their rights are trying to be "superheroes"--that's just childish noise coming from people who have no other argument, and so rely on the tried and true Brady practice of insulting the character of those they hate as they desperately try to gin up fear. [More]Today's first Gun Rights Examiner column looks at some desperate people who ougtht to settle down and have a cup of coffee.
On February 5th of 1778, South Carolina became the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, which would eventually become the first governing document of the United States. [More]
Forgive me if I can't help but focus on these words:APD's stonewalling on an information request called for a second Gun Rights Examiner column today.
"[T]he department wishes to withhold some of the requested information and has asked for a decision from the Attorney General about whether the information is within an exception to public disclosure."
Why? [More]
In response, John Thomas, the lobbyist for the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, said, "SB 1102, if enacted into law, will take Arizona back to the Wild West carry, with no consideration of officer safety.''You can tell John to go **** himself here.
A former Shelby County narcotics detective has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for stealing money confiscated from drug dealers. [More]What, you mean that's not considered armed robbery?
Some four dozen area law enforcement officers from six agencies have been named in corruption cases in the past six years, often with cash-laden drug dealers as their targets.Gee, you'd think such draconian punishments would discourage this sort of thing.
Police were told Denny drove the woman to San Diego International Airport, where he flashed his fake badge to get through security. [More]See, have the amulet and you have the power to cloud men's minds--although in the case of TSA, the clouds are already pretty dark and fluffy.
This all goes to the heart of the gun controller's dream--prior restraint on your rights because of what you might be capable of doing. Take that line far enough and off go our hands, potential stranglers that we are. Next up, all you proto-rapists... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes dogs aren't the only offsprings of bitches.
On February 4, 1778, Pulaski proposed a plan for the formation of a training division of hussars. In a letter to Washington Pulaski wrote:
"There is an officer now in this Country whose name is Kovach. I know him to have served with reputation in the Prussian service and assure Your Excellency that he is in every way equal to his undertaking." [More]
Brooklyn's 81st Precinct probed by NYPD for fudging stats [More]That means "lying." Officially.
Just to let you know, i am working closely with THE AUSTRALIAN SHOOTERS PARTY who are and always will be fighting to repeal the tight gun laws we have here. I also give them $2 from every album i sell to help the fight. If i happen to be misrepresented again, even if i stuff up and say the wrong thing or get misquoted, feel free to email me again. Thanks again for your help in this matter.
A former NYPD sergeant who sold out to a crack dealer for a pair of sneakers and a warmup suit will be getting new duds - courtesy of the prison system. [More]Another one of Furious Mike and Liberty-Lynchin' Patrick's "Lift a finger and die" "Only Ones"...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts. [More]Didn't the feds murder Randy Weaver's wife and son over a barrel that was substantially longer than that?
The hoplophobes in the UK have sunk to a new level of Monty Python-like ridiculousness. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column observes even further degradation over in Sarah Brady Paradise...
On February 3, 1778, Congress, having taken into consideration the report of the special committee appointed to devise effectual means to prevent persons disaffected to the interest of the United States from being employed in any of the important offices thereof, resolved, That every officer who held or should thereafter hold a commission or office from Congress, should subscribe the oath or affirmation of allegiance. [More]Gee, too bad Chris Matthews and Mark Potok weren't around to disparage the effort, eh?
Alfaross - Why does anyone need a gun? Get them out of every society. Anybody who thinks that you need a gun for protection should wake up to themselves and look at how many people are killed by guns. There is something seriously wrong with humanity.This was posted under today's GRE column.
I didn't cut his email off--that's how he ended it. Anyway, seeing I had his attention, I thought I'd at least put him in a position where he can't say he doesn't know about the racist implications of U.S. "gun control," borrowing heavily from a prior similar effort.From: David CodreaAnd he responded:
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:03 PM
To: Vernon Smith
Subject: RE: You
I am kind with those who deserve it. I'm also an American who is sick and tired of petty tyrants messing with my rights and I'm not going to be polite about it with oppressors.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Did your oath to the Constitution mean nothing?
We both know that you are not interested in getting rid of all guns. You simply want to be on the side that is armed. And let the ultimate impact on your constituents' unalienable rights be damned.
I wonder what these constituents would say if they were provided the truth about the racist origins and continued discriminatory application of the gun control measures you promulgate? Have you told them about the Slave Codes, that would allow a black man to be whipped (or worse) for possession of any kind of weapon? Or the post-Civil War Black Codes, designed to keep the newly emancipated from obtaining the means of defense during the heyday of Klan terror?
Why don't you circulate the following Louisiana statute among a few of the churches that you get your precinct walkers from, and see what they have to say?
"No negro who is not in the military service shall be allowed to carry fire-arms, or any kind of weapons, within the parish, without the special written permission of his employers, approved and endorsed by the nearest and most convenient chief of patrol."
If that doesn't make an impression, why not try the following offering from Mississippi?
"No freedman, free Negro, or mulatto not in the military service of the United States government, and not licensed so to do by the board of police of his or her county, shall keep or carry firearms of any kind..."
Oh, hell, let's cut to the chase and clue them in to Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857):
"Protection of the ‘absolute rights of individuals' to personal security, liberty, and private property is secured in part by ‘the right of bearing arms'--which with us is...practically enjoyed by every citizen, and is among his most valuable privileges, since it furnishes the means of resisting as a freeman ought, the inroads of usurpation."
Tell them how racist Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney concluded that blacks, as legal scholar and civil rights attorney Professor Don B. Kates has recorded, "could not be ‘citizens,' because if they were, they would have the right to vote, to assemble, to speak on political subjects, to travel freely, and ‘to keep and carry arms wherever they went.'"
Now tell them how the government has neither the legal obligation nor the capability to protect them, and how your police will not arrive in most life-and-death situations in time to do anything but tape off the crime scene, cover the body and take a report. Then make sure you tell them that you don't credit them with having the judgment or maturity to be entrusted with the means of personal defense, in spite of landmark peer-reviewed studies from Florida State University and the University of Chicago that conclusively demonstrate the crime-deterring, life- saving value of guns in private, law-abiding hands.
I suspect you won't tell them any of this. And, because of the unique privileges and stature that you enjoy in your position, this is especially contemptible.
To have risen to such a prestigious and powerful position speaks of many positive and remarkable characteristics that you must be blessed with. But a true leader would use his authority to preserve, protect and champion the freedoms of those he serves. How sad, how telling, and how ultimately treasonous that you have chosen to misapply yours for your own gain.
And rather than being a leader in liberty, you have opted to become just another one of the plantation's overseers.
Foolish man.
David Codrea
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Talk about a substantive rebuttal.
Prompting another brilliant parry:
And that is the sound of a mind, such as it is, slamming shut.In the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian gun owners are coming out of the shadows for the first time to mobilize, U.S.-style, against proposed new curbs on bearing arms. [More]Because we've seen how well the alternative works.
Hey Redleg
Had a bit of a look at the sites you sent me. I am a little disapointed at the comments as there not true at all. I dont believe in gun control at all. There are a few differences between the U.S. and oz like we dont have the second amendment so we dont have a legal right to bear arms as you lucky buggers do. Our government tells us its a privilage for us to have guns and by the way our law has been written, we dont have much of a say.
Just to clear up my comments on the television show ACA, I did say that the government done the right thing in bringing in laws to stop people like Martin Bryant getting there hands on firearms because he was mentally insaine, and killed 33 people. the conversation on the show stopped there but it didnt stop in reallity. I went on to say that responsible gun owners should be allowed to own anything they like as they are not the problem.
Unfortunitly for Australians, we dont have the same system as you guys, ours come from England and we dont have the same legal rights as you do, we just have to do the best with what we have.
Im sorry if there has been a misunderstanding but i am completely for the right to bear arms, sadly it makes no difference for us Aussies cause we dont have the second amendment.
Please let any one that is angry at me no the truth
Kind Regards
Steve Lee
The Violence Policy Center (VPC) — the anti-gun rights group that Barack Obama repeatedly voted to fund while he was a director of the Joyce Foundation — believes that African-Americans are too violent to deserve the entire Constitution. Thus, it wants to reduce their access to firearms. [More]Here's another look at a story Kurt Hofmann covered last week.
Any new public policy measure undertaken to reduce, regulate or limit access to the guns and ammunition that have contributed to the loss of human life across the nation's urban landscape is a step in the right direction. [More]I don't know what's more unsettling--to consider that readers are being manipulated by a subversive control freak who knows damn well he's setting up a fraud, or to wonder if Chip Johnson here is actually ignorant enough to believe his own line of crap.
Howard is quoted as saying she opposed efforts to change to an ordinance prohibiting guns in public parks to comply with a state law passed in 2007 and upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court in 2008, calling the idea that anyone would want to carry a concealed firearm in a public park "ridiculous."So she wanted to impose her ignorance and prejudice on others under force of law. What other words besides "malpractice" would you use to describe that?
...Howard admits she didn't understand Ohio's concealed carry law when she made the comments...[More]
"People can walk around Spadina (Crescent) carrying a machete and an officer can't do anything about it unless someone walks up and threatens someone," said Weighill. [More]Gee, what a novel concept.
A University of Kentucky graduate student has sued the university and others, claiming he was wrongfully fired from his job at the UK Chandler Medical Center because he had a handgun in his car. [More]Not that there should be any damn rules forcing one to be circumspect in the first place, but realizing that there are, what did we learn from this?
"Armas para que?" [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes a question that's being asked again.
The recent detection of the wicked design you mention gives me the most sensible pleasure; and I earnestly hope you may be alike successful in discovering and disappointing every attempt that may be projected against you, either by your open or concealed enemies. [More]
"We've had an awful lot of gang activity, many deaths of young black men in our community. We've had a lot of black males in prison because of drunk driving"... [More]Gina Hawthorne-Hill and the Driving Park Civic Coalition.
A Framingham man spent his birthday in jail Saturday night after police found three guns, including a high-powered assault rifle, illegally stored in his home. [More]There's a reputed Transylvanian legend I've heard from Hollywood (but not from my parents or grandparents, who never gave such nonsense any thought) that a vampire cannot cross your threshold unless you invite him in.
These cases raise the issue of whether armed citizens have the legal — and moral — right to fight back...[More]Perhaps in your diseased minds, Nancy A. Fischer and Gene Warner.
A veteran highway cop was suspended Saturday after his NYPD patrol vehicle with a loaded shotgun inside was stolen by a loony Bronx crook, police said. [More]Keeping guns "off the streets," Furious Mike Paradise-style. Still, this is more than just another "Only Ones" entry, it gives us an opportunity to do a little CUM ULLA SELLA IN PUGNO TABERNA payback.
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Leave it to the Brits to give new meaning to "Who will guard the guards?"More than 1,000 police officers and police community support officers have joined a Facebook campaign against single patrols, complaining that it puts them in danger. [More]
More than a dozen gunmen sealed off a street in the violent border city of Ciudad Juárez and opened fire on a house where high school students were having a party, killing 13 people, officials said Sunday. [More]Tú también llorarÃas si te ocurriese a ti.
Horrors! An assault double entendre!"We have plenty of ammunition, not in bullets, but we have plenty of ammunition to fight gun crime," Snyder said. [More]Sorry, Jen, but unless you have real ammunition, you have no ammunition. I can't help but notice all this gun talk focuses on the negative.
It's a shame the information is so hard to find and so little known, and at the risk of starting a fight, or maybe with that purpose, I put much of the blame squarely on the national and state "gun rights" organizations. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column foresees some predictable and pretty damn pathetic results.
A return made February 1, 1778 shows the number of incapacitated increased to 3,989, again traced to the need of clothing. [More]
"I learned from an insider that other ATF Special Agents (not SA Cefalu) came forward and testified last week, called ATF bosses liars, and that the next hearing is February 9th." [More]Vanderboegh gives us more reasons to challenge our trust.
The loaded gun was found inside a women’s restroom. A police report identified a U.S. Customs Enforcement agent left it behind. [More]Not again...again...again..again...
I know who's going to respond and how. Let me be clear: I am not one of those "pry it out of my cold, dead hands" guys. No one in the city but a copper ought to have a handgun. And so on.Well then it sounds to me like you got just what you were asking for, you contemptible Fudd. Now even the birds have no cause to fear you.
But I am a fellow who grew up in Northern Ontario and who was once the scourge of the clay pigeon, feared among the partridges. [More]
In police court documents, it is alleged that police supervisors encouraged improper conduct by setting quotas for drug arrests and even handed out bonus checks to officers. [More]That must be how the "Only Ones" who murdered her got the drugs they planted in her house. You can read more about this obscene travesty right here.
If lawmakers are trying to enact legislation based on what she tells them is "easy," it shouldn't be too much to ask. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner asks that a claim be proven.
Lafayette’s 1779 memoirs record his January 31, 1778, meeting with the Board of War. According to Lafayette, at dinner in Gates’s quarters that evening, he embarrassed the guests by asking them to drink to the health of the commander in chief...This gesture solidly displayed Lafayette’s loyalty to Washington, but it was not the only reason that the apparently unorganized move to displace Washington gradually diminished. [More]
Utah officer accidentally shoots self in hip [More]Ah, another nominee for the coveted Lee Paige Medallion, in recognition of the "Only Ones professional enough" to carry a gun.
Furious Mike's stalwarts are hot on the trail of an armed and dangerous suspect. You know--one who ignores the laws that keep the subjects disarmed. [Read]Chief Pillo made a claim that you just don't hear all that often anymore--that:I think area gun owners ought to make a point of dogging her at press conferences she appears at, and ask if we can get her all the equipment, tools and materials needed to do the job, will she video-demonstrate a conversion?
"Assault weapons can also be easily converted to fully automatic machine guns." [More]
Officer who tried to seize woman's camera is fighting 15-day suspension for disobeying sergeant [More]Read what this punk "Only One" thug did to a citizen.
Murrah’s mother and a longtime friend urged Sturns to grant him probation, saying he is a good father whose 5-year-old son would be devastated if his father were jailed. [More]Y'know, my family would be devastated too--not so much if I got sent to jail for such an offense, but more because I would have presumed to be the "Only One" authorized to spank a stranger's naked butt in the first place.
Besides which, the whole "list" question" assumes government will end up going door-to-door confiscating. If such a thing happens, my assessment is most of us (or you) will probably have enough advance indicators to see what's going down, the logistics of mass national confiscation being what they are with the sheer number and widespread distribution of gun owners. If it ever does happen, all this talk is going to be academic anyway, and you're going to have some choices to make that will require a lot more soul-searching than taking advice from some guy on the internet. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column attempts to answer some questions. I'm soliciting your input.
On January 30, 1778, General Washington gave a report on the result of a General Court martial held on January 23, when a soldier of the artillery was tried for desertion and stealing a horse from General McIntosh. The soldier was acquitted of the desertion charges, but found guilty of theft and was sentenced to receive 100 lashes on his back and have "half his pay stopped monthly until General McIntosh is fully satisfied". [More]
