Monday, March 08, 2010

We're the Only Ones Stung Enough

A four-month undercover cocaine investigation by the state police and the FBI led to the arrests of three Providence police officers Thursday, including one who was a school resource officer, another who worked with a federal agency investigating narcotics and one who once served as a driver for the capital city’s mayor. [More]
You know, a mayor against (your) guns.

He's one of the wretched subversive leftists who joined Thug Daley to keep Chi-Town "gun free." Say do you think that must be why the coalition says they're only against illegal guns...?

Much better to leave those nasty things to Cicilline's virtuous Providence "Only Ones."

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only "Ones for the Road!" Enough

New York City cops caught driving drunk may have problems to worry about - but losing their job usually isn't one of them. [More]
Not that you could lift a finger if they were endangering you and yours...that is if you don't want to put your life on the line...

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Beating the Competition Enough

Based on a complaint from someone the State Police refuse to identify, three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars...[More]
Well, I certainly feel like my blessings of liberty are more secure now...and that's the whole purpose, isn't it?

Be great to find out who the rat is and publicize it...any bets it's a connected business rival?

[Via FFFW]

GRE Round Up for Mar. 8

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Howard Nemerov/Austin:

Violence Policy Center: Dancing on victim’s grave…again?

Paul Valone/Charlotte:

Kindergartner suspended for making mock gun with hand

Daniel White/Cleveland:

Cities must follow gun laws even if they don't like them

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

More Knoxvillians going forth armed

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

Safer Streets 2010: You won't get safer streets with Hate, Part III.

Dave Workman/Seattle:

The intellectual vacuum of 'temporary' tax hikes and anti-gun politics

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

You're doing that, right?

The Wall

We don't need no education... [Read]

I mean, everybody knows kids are much safer when we keep them ignorant...

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

Told You So!

"I told them this was going to happen," Smith said after learning of the Portage shooting. "It's not a good law to allow people to bring guns that close to work. If you have a chance to go home, you might cool off." [More]
Wow, ol' ex-pen pal Vern must be clairvoyant, seeing as how the bill he's citing as cause for this hasn't even been signed into law by the governor yet.

Still, I do note the violent nutcase is a government worker.

Maybe if he wants to discuss George Mason's contention that the militia consists of "the whole people, except for a few public officials," we can have a conversation...

[Via HZ]

Is A Puzzlement

Why anyone would need a gun in a national park, where rangers themselves are unarmed, is a puzzle...[More]
It's not a very hard one to solve, though. Assuming you're intellectually honest and not inclined to present your arguments using "Yogi Bear" cartoon ridicule as your starting point.

Stop Trying to Make It Our Fault

The parents of an Essex teen who fatally shot himself last spring have brought their campaign to restrict child access to guns to the Statehouse. [More]
Yeah, and you know what else we need?

Bridge control.

I'm sorry, but when they try to take their grief out on the rest of us, particularly to make us pay for wrong choices that even they could not control with years of direct and daily influence, my sympathy level declines dramatically.

Not Gonna Drop It

Sorry, Starbucks: You Are in This Debate [More]
Paul Helmke recommends that if at first you don't succeed, whine, whine again.
The gun extremist want an America where there are guns everywhere: not just in coffeehouses, but also in bars, churches, parks, banks and classrooms.
Yeah--can you imagine how horrible it would have been if Karolina Obrycka, Jeanne Assam, Nabil Fawzi and Michael Minto had been armed?

Damned gun extremists.

Some of us have advocated dropping the Starbucks issue. Pagina et al. are intent on not letting that happen.

OK, if we can't avoid a fight, then let's disarm the assailant. Their biggest weapon is their dumb ass petition, up now to an astonishingly pathetic 28,000 online signups that can't be verified against real people?

Fine--continue to erode whatever credibility they represent it to have. Just like with IANSA's stupid Million Moon March, I recommend tainting the results.

And thing is--this is the second time I've signed it--so they're evidently not excluding multiple entries. I wonder if that's what some of their staff does all day?

We're the Only Ones "A Woman Scorned" Enough

She offered to have sex in toilet and fake evidence [More]
Gee, who could say no to a class act like that?

It hardly sounds like she needs to see a fatal car accident to "f*** up her head," does it?

Is Armed Self Defense 'Unwise' and 'Wrong'?

Allow me to share just a few of the news accounts greeting me in my inbox this morning involving some folks the bleaters at the Norwich Bulletin would have us believe acted wrongly and unwisely... [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column provides a few real world examples that suggest maybe--just maybe--the sheep aren't as wise as they would have us believe.

Also get an update on a tour that's happening this week.

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This Day in History: March 8

On March 8, 1778 Sir Henry Clinton was put in charge of British troops in the United States. In the same letter, the council of war outlined a "Southern Strategy." [More]

Sunday, March 07, 2010

GRE Round Up for Mar. 7

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:
Starbucks lauded for best business practice on customer gun carry

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - TN State 7th Senatorial District: Campfield

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Orange tipped toy guns.... A good idea gone bad.

Go. Read. And please share the links.

You're doing that, right?

Uganda Offers a 'Gun Control' Paradise

The thing is, Musevni offers a good representation of what much of the world has experienced when it practices the goals of those who would ban private ownership of guns, and limit their keeping and bearing to the state and its representatives. You know, the "Only Ones." [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a place where guns are kept out of the hands of ordinary people.

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This Day in History: March 7

It has given me unspeakable pleasure to hear that Genl Burgoyne and his army air in safe quarters in your state -would bountifull providence aim a like stroke at Genl Howe, the measure of my happyness would be compleat. [More]

Saturday, March 06, 2010

GRE Round Up for Mar. 6

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Tennessee Firearms Association March meeting update

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: You won't get safer streets with Hate, Part II.

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Go. Read. And please share the links.

You're doing that, right?

Brilliant, Einstein...

The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary. [More]
You don't have to be a genius to know that only a tyrannical government would ignore the Fourth Amendment. And yeah, the lefties are right when they point out much of this was initiated by the "Vote Freedom First President." Some of us were warning then, to little or no avail, it seems.

But their defense of it now is telling. And points to exactly what we warned against.

Patches, I'm Dependin' on You, Son...Update


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Who You Callin' Misguided?

The sheriff appears to get many things right--but his outright dismissal of those pointing out what's wrong, and his unwillingness to consider what justification we have to believe as we do, shows a dangerous blindness. [Read]

Chopping Liver

If Gun Ownership is a Right Then What Is Health Care, Chopped Liver? [More]
Of course health care is a right, attorney Miles J. Zaremski. No government may lawfully deprive you of your right to provide it for yourself.

Just like with guns.

What do they teach you guys in law school these days?

Why Did NJ Youth Baseball League Reject Gun Store Sponsorship?

There's probably nothing anyone can or will do about this—we're talking New Jersey here, so I don't expect outraged parents protesting or outraged sponsors dropping out to show solidarity. It's taken generations of neglect, resulting in ignorance and fear, to get to where these people are. Don't expect most of them to pass anything on to their kids about guns but hostility. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at how politically correct hoplophobes are turning out the next batch of Eloi.

Also get an update on the "No Sheriff Left Behind" tour.

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This Day in History: March 6

It is said by Mr. King, who is just from Petersburg, that a gentleman was at that place who informed that sundry persons had arrived at Edenton from Providence Island, who affirmed that they saw in Providence a London paper giving an account that Bourgoyne's disaster had produced the most violent fermentation in England; that the Parliament had refused to grant the supplies for carrying on the war, and that a motion for acknowledging our independence was overruled by a small majority only. [More]

Friday, March 05, 2010

Pentagon Booze and Gun Concession Backfires

Virginia, which has some of the most lax gun laws in the nation and has been pushing to expand gun rights, has been criticized lately by gun control advocates. The state’s General Assembly approved a bill last month allowing people to carry concealed weapons in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, and the House of Delegates voted to end a 17-year-old measure barring people from buying more than one handgun a month. [More]
They must sell both booze and guns to the public at the Pentagon, right?

I mean, why else would The New York Times think this is relevant to their story?

Funny. This says visitors can't have weapons or beverages...

Maybe if you throw some cigars into the mix they're thinking about this place...?

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It's probably just keying in on individual viewer cookies, but it still strikes me as pretty funny.

GRE Round Up for Mar. 5

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Howard Nemerov/Austin:
Student break warning: Don’t visit Mexico

Daniel White/Cleveland:
John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: You won't get safer streets with Hate.

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Go. Read. And please share the links.

You're doing that, right?

Finger Bang

Yakima kindergartner expelled for making a gun with hands [More]
I say we report the little proto-hater to the SPLC.

And if psychic castration doesn't work, we get more aggressive.

That way, he can grow up to be just like Dr. John Irion:
"When students are at school they should be concerned about learning...safety shouldn't be a concern at school, we have a zero tolerance policy..."
The ol' doc sounds like he's been so well prepped he doesn't even need this any more...

Which is just the way they like it...

[Via Brian F]

Benign Conditions

Researcher Alexander Jason reports that even under benign experimental conditions brain programming compels roughly seven out of 10 officers to keep discharging rounds after being signaled to stop shooting. “In a real gunfight, under extraordinary stress and threat of death, an even much higher percentage would likely deliver extra shots,” Jason asserts. [More]
This is something to hold onto and give to your attorney if you're ever involved in a DGU where you just keep firing.

[Via Carl S]

We're the Only Ones With Just the Ticket For You Enough

The lawsuit, filed by Mark Geinosky, alleges police officers Kenneth Wilkerson and Steven Sabatino repeatedly issued Geinosky false parking tickets, and that their conduct was an "egregious arbitrary abuse of government power that shocks the conscience." [More]
No, when it comes to the Chi-Town "Only Ones," this is what shocks the conscience...

[Via Ed M]

I'm NOT the "Only One"...

A peace officer explains why you should carry a gun. [Read]

I Can Has Due Process?

Forget the eggheads and all their legal pondering over how many privileged and immune angels can dance on the head of a pin.

This is the best summary of the McDonald oral arguments yet. [Read]

Language warning for those of you inclined to be bothered by such things. While I don't tend to use it here, using asterisks and "Good grief!" as preferred expressions, anyone who's ever smoked cigars beside a campfire with me knows I'm hardly one who is.

[Via Skip]

We're the Only Ones Permissive Enough

A Framingham police employee was fired last week after allegedly bending the rules for people seeking gun licenses - largely members of the armed services - by issuing licenses without authorization, upgrading licenses, and providing false addresses for applicants. [More]
Anybody recall giving anybody else permission to give permission?

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Dropping Enough

S'cuse me... I think this is yours...? [Watch]

[Via MPR]

Playing the Margins

William Daroff, director of the Washington office of the Jewish Federations of North America, believes that support for guns in the Jewish community is a marginal phenomenon; he says his organization does not have a set position on the matter. [More]
That's because William Daroff is part of the ******* oberkapo mentality that historically has made one-way cattle car trips possible.

Fortunately, there are rational voices like Dovid Bendory and Aaron Zelman waking up some of the people their false leaders would rather leave slumbering.

This Should End Well

If you knew coworkers, former bosses or exes who cheated on their taxes, would you turn them in? The Internal Revenue Service can make it worth your while. [More]
It's almost like ravens have lobbyists working for them or something...

We're the Only Ones Disobedient Enough

The New Orleans Inspector General had some strong words for the city's top cop "obey the law." [More]
Now there's a novel concept.

Let's hope it's not a bridge too far for them to cross.

[Via retrotruckman]

We're the Only Ones Haunted Enough

Monroe Police Chief Ron Schleuter could become a victim of his own "no tolerance for lying" policy. [More]
An "Only One" haunted by the truth.

If that doesn't say it all.

[Via retrotruckman]

NY Gubernatorial Candidate Warren Redlich Answers Gun Rights Questionnaire

Actually, New York gun owners do have a choice. Meet Warren Redlich, an attorney, gun owner and NRA member who is vying for both Republican and Libertarian Party consideration... [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column presents a choice. Whether the cowardly and defeatist one will be taken remains to be seen.

Also get the answers to some questions in Missouri, see some related posts in Tennessee, read a Nevada candidate's thoughts on the Constitution, and find out how you can be part of a media blitz in Arizona.

I hope I can count on the regulars here to share this link.

This Day in History: March 5

It was this attachment to a constitution, founded on free and benevolent principles, which inspired the first settlers of this country: they saw with grief the daring outrages committed on the free constitution of their native land; they knew that nothing but a civil war could at that time restore its pristine purity. So hard was it to resolve to embrue their hands in the blood of their brethern, that they choose rather to quit their fair possessions, and seek another habitation in a distant clime. [More]

Thursday, March 04, 2010

GRE Round Up for Mar. 4

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Ron Bokleman/Boston:
U.S. Supreme Court likely to incorporate Second Amendment

Paul Valone/Charlotte:
Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Sebastian County Sheriff's office and the Second Amendment

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - TN 2nd US District: Leinweber

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Gun rights before SCOTUS: Chicago will lose and the nation will win

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Go. Read. And please share the links.

You're doing that, right?

We're the Only Ones Poking Our Heads Out Enough

There was a shot, then Malone, a police officer assigned to Roosevelt Island in New York City, and the doctor who was tending to his grandmother poked their heads out the door of the room...Lupienski was also wounded in the leg when the gun discharged as hospital staffers struggled to subdue him. [More]
OK, then.

[Via MPR]

Tim-Tom Rips One...


...and boy, does it smell...[Read]

It's not surprising--he's such an a******. As his temper tantrum comments prove.

Ed M sends a good related cartoon.

[Via An Illinois Voter]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

A Devon yachtsman who kept a sawn-off shotgun for protection against piracy has been jailed for a year. [More]
Weren't we just talking about worthy heirs...?

[Via Jeet]

Worthy Heirs?

I wonder if this guy thinks the sacrifices his generation made were worth it. [Read]

[Via Jeet]

Balance

A Liberal Democrat (!) got me to thinking about assassinations and the several reasons for them. [More]
Yeah, that's happened to me before, too...

When I was a kid, I was a big fan of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It took growing up to start wondering if maybe THRUSH had been misrepresented as the bad guys...and maybe things weren't as balanced as I'd believed.

Agreeing with Paul Helmke

In fact, based on the comments that I (and apparently several others) heard from the bench yesterday, the Justices seemed to express a consensus reinforcing the Court's strong language in Heller that reasonable restrictions on gun ownership are "presumptively lawful." [More]
That's what I read from the transcript, too, although unlike Paul, I think that deserves being looked at as a bad thing.

Funny how some, presumably on"our side," want to object to this simple observation...

We're the Only Ones Shooting Our Way Out Enough

A Kentucky sheriff says a claustrophobic deputy has lost his job after accidentally locking himself in a jail cell and trying to shoot his way out of it. [More]
Why do I hear Andy asking "Barney--you OK?"

[Via AzHamMedic]

Securing the Blessings of Chattelry

...in Detroit.

...and in New York.

Once we realize the function of a cow is to be milked or slaughtered, we can assume our rightful place in the food chain.

[Via Harvey and Steven K]

We're the Only Ones Putting Away Childish Things Enough

The Airsoft guns, which according to the complaint had orange tips covering the muzzles, were left on the house’s porch, and Cassell and his friends were inside when police arrived. The lawsuit says the officers forced the unarmed youths to crawl toward police and then arrested them after discovering the Airsoft guns were “toys.” [More]
Orange tips notwithstanding, let's hear it for getting these dangerous machine guns off the streets!

Oh, and relax, Air-Softers--I'm not dissing you. The Corinthians reference just seemed to make for the kind of title I was looking for.

[Via Harvey]

De More You Miss...

...de meaner you get? [Read]
Nadler Introduces Legislation to Keep Guns Away from Pedophiles
So--are we talking child rapists, toddler-diddlers, trenchcoat playground pervs...?

Any chance of some 18-year-old getting it on with his 16-year-old girlfriend becoming a lifelong prohibited person here...?

I mean, it sounds like it will play to the masses on the surface here--armed sex criminal child abusers!!! (What the hell the real ones are doing among us in the first place is another question.)

Then again, taking sex out of the equation, are there a bigger perverts than citizen disarmament fetishists like Gerald Nadler here?

Threeperganger

There's a website calling itself Threepercenter.org that has nothing to do with Mike Vanderboegh, Sipsey Street Irregulars, or the "threeper" movement as envisioned and defined by Mike. I see they're enjoying some coattail benefits, being linked to in various news accounts where the reporters evidently have assumed there was some relationship.

The thing is, Mike has been using--and popularizing the term "three percenter" long before this site ever came into existence, which many of us recall resulted in no small amount of discussion in the "gun blogosphere," which we continue to be a part of. With all the noise that's generated over the last couple years, I would find any claim that this was unknown to the website proprietors something I needed convincing on.

Legalities don't come into play here, but what will be done about this next does. Possibly nothing will happen. I know if I had set up this site and found another blogger had already firmly established "War on Guns" as a fixture, I'd back off and find something else to call it.

I can't automatically attribute bad intentions here--there's every possibility this is a misunderstanding and the guys behind the effort have good hearts and good intentions. That said, even if they do, I can't endorse any effort that takes place under that name unless and until I know it has the Mike's sanction.

We're the Only Ones Inshallah Enough

"First I thought there was another Kifah Mustapha. I could not believe that it could have been the same Kifah Mustapha who was associated with a terrorist organization and who was listed a year just a year and a half ago and was an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist case that the government won," said Steve Emerson, Investigative Project on Terrorism. [More]
Fortunately, the Illinois State Police have some tips for us should their selection prove ill-advised...

[Via An Illinois Voter]

Media Picking Up SPLC's Hateful Talking Points Against Gun Owners and Tea Partiers

It paints people with negative stereotypes based on groups the author is prejudiced against. You know, it spreads hate. All under the guise of "Teaching Tolerance." That and "Donate Now." [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the way hate spreads if mass media has its way.

Also watch a bunch of reruns.

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This Day in History: March 4

Resolved, That General Washington be impowered, if he thinks it prudent, to employ in the Service of the United States a body of Indians not exceeding four Hundred, & that it be left to him to pursue such measures as he judges best for procuring them, and to employ them, when procured, in such ways as will annoy the Enemy, without suffering them to injure those who are friends to the cause of America. [More]

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

A WRSA Twofer

This...

and this.

The second one I'll have more to say on later, point 3) in particular. It made a lightbulb click on, and I haven't had time to think through how I want to shine it.

Oh, hell, might as well make it a Threefer.

You know, a "spate"...?

GRE Round Up for Mar. 3

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
McDonald v City of Chicago

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010 and McDonald: where selective incorporation means selective enforcement.
Safer Streets 2010 and McDonald: no such thing as a reasonable gun law.

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Go. Read. And please share the links.