Notes from the Resistance...
Due to breaking news about the University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting suspect, I put out a second Gun Rights Examiner column.Though not currently enrolled in a party, he is known as a Democrat. But if he ran for the Senate, it would very likely be as a Republican or independent so he could avoid a costly primary.
As a candidate, Mr. Zuckerman would be following the path of a close friend and fellow media executive, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who switched his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican to run for office. [More]
Gun Free SA wants gun ownership illegal [More]Of course they do. So do our own domestic enemies.
Going green will not be optional in Cambridge, Mass., if the Cambridge Climate Congress has its way. It will be mandatory. [More]Well, gee--does that mean they really don't want us to treat this like a joke...?
For now, one story, from MSNBC of all places, makes the point that must not go unacknowledged:Today's Gun Rights Examiner column amplifies a point.
"Gina Hammond, a UAH student, told WAFF that she lobbied the University of Alabama trustees to allow students with gun permits to carry their weapons on campus. She was turned down." [More]
I am informed, that you have been since September last, absent from your Regiment, on a Furlough given you by General Gates; which must be supposed to have expired before this; I have to desire you will, without fail, immediately join your Regiment. [More]
In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. [More]Truly.
Judges call for change in gun laws after Merseyside man has sentence cut [More]We must make them more illegal!
He's lucky he didn't make any "furtive movements"--otherwise "2 week off!!!"Two off-duty Los Angeles police officers were arrested Tuesday night after allegedly pistol-whipping and injuring a Whittier man during a fight.
Whittier police said one of the suspects thought the 31-year-old resident was paying too much attention to an argument the officer was having with his girlfriend.
The officers had been drinking... [More]
Vallejo police advise citizens against arming themselves [More]Don't you people know that's why we have "Only Ones"?
Thirteen officers and a trio claiming to be corrections officers were charged with conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute for collectively accepting $145,000 to transport what they thought was cocaine from Miami-Dade County into Palm Beach County, authorities said. [More]See? Just a few bad apples.
We presented these petitions to him and respectfully asked him to help move this bill and guess what he did with your petitions: he threw them on the floor!!!! [More]So isn't it time you showed Sen. Gronstal what you think of him?
“We feel our community is safer having this kind of weaponry off the street,” intoned a spokesman for the Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts police department. [More]William Grigg has a different opinion.
The City of Boise wants to make it clear that they are not admitting guilt in the case of a man sodomized by Boise police with a Taser gun. [More]What a crock of...
They said Campbell, who was shot in the back by officers and was not armed, should not have died that day. [More]So if I do the same thing, we can chalk it up to flawed policies, incomplete training and my bad, but otherwise we're cool?
Langer was arrested at his home July 2, 2009 by Center Police on a warrant issued out of Mesa County alleging nine counts of sex assault against a child and one count of first-degree sex assault. [More]You'd think by now I could get an answer to my question...
Cuban police will begin an unprecedented program for registering unlicensed weapons in the hands of private citizens, the state-run media reported on Thursday.Armas para que?
Quite simply, she has lost all credibility with me. Sorry, but I just don't believe this latest round of claims--and as a matter of fact, I find them insulting. The way you've tried to handle this convinces me I'm right not to trust her or you. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at how not to do damage control. I'm sure it will anger some who place a movement over why there's a need for one in the first place.
February 12, 1778
Desertions were "astonishingly great." B.G. James Varnum to Nathanael Greene (Trussell, "Birthplace of an Army," 66) [More]
Guns, silly."Gene was a great guy. He was a good cop and I just hope things work out for him in the long run." [More]We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Principal, assistant principal shot at Knox school, teacher charged [More]Who thinks this will make either one of them reconsider...?
Vegas Cop Could Be Charged; Son Accidentally Shoots Self [More]I've posted on stories before about an officer's child shooting himself with an unsecured gun. I don't put these under a flippant "Only Ones" title because that would just be wrong. I can't imagine the guilt and anguish this father is going through, nor how any decent human soul could survive it.
The guards, who are trained not to get involved in physical confrontations, stood by as the girl was beaten, kicked and robbed. [More]I'd say they executed their training flawlessly.
"Public safety is our top priority," Constantine said.Comedy gold!
Sorry, but I just can't add all this up and then join the Blame Boedecker First crowd. And I find that so many in the "gun community" are willing to do so troubling. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at...well, I really can't think of a more appropriate term than "extortion."
At a division Court Martial whereof Lt. Colo. Sprout was President Feby. 9th. Captn. Israel Davis of Colo. Wigglesworth's Regiment tried for fraudulently detaining two months pay drawn by him belonging to Giles Tibbits a soldier to the great damage and distress of the said soldier; [More]
“I think the government has the right to know what guns are in the homes ….” [More]Sorry, Mr. Farah. You're premature endorsing this Constitutionally-illiterate nitwit. She's not ready for prime time. She's not even ready to run for dogcatcher with this flawed level of understanding.
We do not see how the citizens are made safer by placing these troopers in jail. Discipline may absolutely be in order. However, to federally prosecute them and with a possible jail term is not the answer. [More]So many "law and order" Illinois police chiefs.
Zoey was a mutt adopted from an animal shelter in 2003.And naturally, the department mouthpiece "declined to identify by name or length of service" the "Only One" involved.
She had never bitten anyone, her owners said, although she'd always bark at visitors who came to their 10-acre property in Commerce City.
About 3 p.m., Wednesday, Zoey was shot dead by a Commerce City police officer. [More]
Lawmakers in firearm-friendly Texas are embroiled in a debate over how to make the state Capitol safer: get rid of guns or encourage even more. [More]Gee. Tough call.
They stressed they were not trying to ban trapping, just the sale of fur. [More]But why stop there?
Now we see it manifest itself in police state elitism that's chilling--particularly the implication that a citizen breaking no laws can be murdered and the state perpetrator will be rewarded with paid time off. And the rest, who are intimidated into defenselessness, are to be laughed at and held in contempt by armed enforcers. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks at an unmasked "Only One."
"That an Exchange of all Prisoners now in our possession, Officer for Officer, Soldier for Soldier and Citizen for Citizen, so far as number and rank will apply," be carried into execution, as expeditiously as the nature of the case will admit, and without regard to any controverted point, which might prove an impediment to so desireable an End. [More]
German thief robs arcade with cup of coffee [More]I'd like to see him try that at a Bay area Starbucks...
Darcy was arrested on Feb. 24, 2009 and charged with transporting a 15-year-old minor to another state in 2007 with the intent to have illegal sex with that minor and traveling to another state with the intent of engaging in illicit activity with a minor. [More]Again with the eternal unanswered question...
Internal Investigation: Greece Police Department "Riveted With Corruption" [More]What, you mean it's more than "just a few bad apples"?
The woman told police she never had a sexual relationship with Calahan and never led him to believe there was potential for sex. She filed a protection order against him in September shortly after he showed up at her house while on duty. During one of the visits, police say, he “positioned his body on top of the victim and tried to kiss her.” [More]See, if she had a protection order against him, what the hell was he doing presumably carrying a gun in the course of his duties? Isn't that cause for arrest?
Sounds like you had someone practicing their 2nd Amendment rights last nigh. Should have pulled the AR out and proned them all out. And if one of them made a furtive movement...2 weeks off!!! [More]And more from a screenshot:
And laugh at them cuz they can only dream to have a ccw...This thug apparently posts at CalGuns as ".45shooter" and is now doing damage control.
Don’t rely on guns in the home for protection [More]I wonder if he'd care to demonstrate?
By using the same argument that was used against permitted carry, and by ignoring the existing practice of peaceable open carry, Thomas is falling back on what should, by now, be the thoroughly discredited presumption that police are the "Only Ones" who should be armed, and he's doing it to strangle freedom to carry, as currently enjoyed in both Alaska and Vermont, in its crib.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes objections to some things don't mean approval of others.
The truth is, the gun grabbers don't want you to have any guns, anywhere. Why the hell do you think they fought so hard against Heller, and are doing so again in McDonald? [More]
February 9, 1778: “Since the English supplies completely ruin the trade of the Americans, they were chiefly short of salt and clothing. For this reason, everyone who traveled across the line had to be searched carefully by the sentries, which compelled the inhabitants to resort to trickery. For example, two women who had the appearance of pregnancy passed through the outposts toward Germantown yesterday. The noncommissioned officer of the light infantry, who had charge of the picket, showed an interest in examining the pregnancy of these women. He found that it consisted of a quantity of salt on one woman and twenty-five calfskins on the other. Here again something is learned. One cannot be too careful at the outposts, for who knows whether or not these women might have supplied the leather for shoes for an entire regiment of the enemy?
—Captain Johann Ewald , 119. [More]
Police and school officials say a second-grade boy at Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School brought the gun and apparently pointed it at two 6-year-olds and fired it, discharging smoke. [More]Horrors!
"I just finally told them what they wanted to hear. I just repeated everything they said. [More]I'll never get it.
Hansen, the criminal-justice student, grows especially exasperated when recalling a scary incident a few years ago as she waited for a bus. She said a carload of drunken men approached her until the police helicopter that had been trailing them turned a spotlight on the men and chased them off. Now the helicopter is gone, and the streetlight she was waiting under is threatened as well. [More]And a "criminal justice student" discovering that the police can't protect you is a bad thing...why?
Broadmoor luxury resort chief executive Steve Bartolin wrote an open letter asking why the city spends $89,000 per employee, when his enterprise has a similar number of workers and spends only $24,000 on each.[Via William T]
What is it the antis expect us to swallow whole? Oh, yeah, the police are the "Only Ones" we can trust with guns--and are especially the only ones we can trust carrying them around in public. You and I are just too volatile and out of control. But if we see a government employee with a gun, we can all relax and know we're protected. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column uses current events to play good cop/bad cop. In addition to a couple drunken, sociopathic oafs, we meet two traveling sheriffs who don't go along with the nonsense that society is safer when you and I are disarmed.
There will also be no sale or purchase of any type of firearm, ammunition, explosive or any possession of such items off a person's own premises. [More]Who ordered this?
Our people place a high priority on patriotism.
Officers accused of targeting 'law-abiding middle classes' to meet government performance quotas [More]Right, then.
Pheasant terrorising North Yorkshire village 'attacks people in street' [More]Via cycjec, who titled his email:
the bird (new low budget horror video in .uk)Thing is, and before we start feeling too superior...
The thing that strikes me about both these developments is, there wouldn't even be a story had the Brady Campaign not made it one. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks the gungrabbers if they'd like one lump or two.
February 7, 1778
"The spirit of desertion among the Soldiery, never before rose to such a threatening height, as at the present time." Washington to William Buchanan, Commissary General of Purchases of the Continental Army (Fitzgerald, Vol. X, 427) [More]
It would appear that John Roach, the Collin County district attorney, wants to build his own personal SWAT Team. [More]Don't mess with Texas...Only Ones?
Toy guns back then were very realistic. I had a Tommy gun that had a bolt and fired caps as well as a rattattat noise. It was actual size and color. I owned a pump shotgun that fired caps and ejected plastic shells. All manner of pistols modern and Western as well as Davy Crockett gear and Indian bows and arrows were all over the house. There were holsters and other gear. [More]Mike H takes some of us old enough to remember on a trip down Memory Lane.
