GRE Round Up for Apr. 15

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:

Ed Stone/Atlanta:
Emory Police Chief tells committee that armed students are a danger during a mass shooting

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Knox County Commission District 9 - Paul Pinkston

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Washington D.C. gun compromise not good for gun rights or Constitution

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

Posse Commiewhat?

The National Guard helicopter patrols Camden frequently, during evening shifts, to assist Camden police officers in pursuing and capturing individuals who commit crimes in the city. [More]

Go get 'em, Marjoe...
[Via Texas Shooter]

Giving It Arrest

In the 21st century American legal system, things are no longer so clear. Consider Lindsay Brown, a high-school senior jailed for having a butter knife in her car.

Or Cortez Curtis, a 13-year-old arrested for bringing a calculator that contained tools (including a tiny knife blade) to school. Or 12-year-old Ansche Hedgepeth, handcuffed and detained for eating one French fry on the D.C. subway. Or 61-year-old Kay Leibrand, booked for allowing her hedges to grow too tall. [More]

Securing the Blessings of Liberty in the Land of the Free...

[Via cotilecon]

A Question for All You Bank Robbers Out There

Will this stop you? [Read]

We're the Only Ones Exposed Enough

A former Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper was sentenced Wednesday to serve four to seven years in prison for exposing himself to a 5-year-old girl. [More]

And I still don't have an answer to my related dating etiquette question...

[Via hazmat]

Tai Party Activists

I am inviting all of you, no matter what your political shade or orientation, to participate in the Tel-Aviv Tea Party. It will take place on 10:00 AM Friday, July 16th (the closest we can get to July 17th). Let us show the public and our fellow man that probing, overreaching, and intruding government is not the only option. In fact, it shouldn’t be an option at all. [More]

Be interesting to see the SPLC spin these guys into neo-Nazis...

Bag of Tricks

Mike H opens one up. [Read]

We're the Only Ones Responding Alarmingly Enough

"Wait, there's a robbery happening right now, in my house, and you say I can't report it?"

"That's correct, sir." [More]

Right. The "authorities" are the "Only Ones" who can protect you...

Wonder how fast they'd have gotten there if he'd told the moron dispatcher he had a gun? And why do I get the feeling incompetent parasites like that would starve without a host ?

[Via William T]

We're the Only Ones Profitable Enough

Policing For Profit - A Practice In Need of Many Changes [More]

Thing is, "profit" in and of itself, is an entirely moral concept. You and I either voluntarily agree on an exchange we think is mutually beneficial or we do not. Coercion doesn't enter into things.

Once it does, it becomes "loot." And the people taking it become "robbers."

So much for the prime directive of government being "to secure the Blessings of Liberty..."

[Via William T]

A Security Breach

Who let these idiots into the airport and allowed them to run free, disrupting commerce and lives with their incompetence? [More]

[Via Ed M]

Jury Finds FBI's Shipley Guilty on Gun Charges

As heartbreaking as that is, I can't help but think about other Americans taken from their families by an enforcement apparatus Shipley has been a part of—men like Wayne Fincher or David Olofson, who harmed no one, but who nonetheless ran afoul of edicts trampling a proscription that could not be more clear... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner questions a verdict.

Also watch yesterday's Trigger Sports LIVE!

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This Day in History: April 15

TOMS RIVER April 15, 1778
British raid destroys salt works. [More]

GRE Round Up for Apr. 14

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:

Concealed carry class sponsored by UT Students for Concealed Carry

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Taxing away your civil rights

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Philippine gun ban experiment fails

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Vitriol approaching fever pitch as 2A march looms

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

If 2nd Amendment rallies are 'threat to the rule of law,' then 'rule of law' needs threatening

Go. Read. And please share these links.

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We're the Only Ones...

...Always On the Beat Enough

Hughes says Dickerson was complaining about having to make a report on her day off and turned violent, "She got the gun in her hand and started beating me with it saying I am not worried about nothing, the police got my back."

...Unfulfilling Enough

The former deputy resigned on April 6 while under investigation internally for matters unrelated to the sex abuse allegations, Dickerson said. He said the department had looked into potential violations of six issues relating to truthfulness and fulfillment of required duties, Dickerson said.

...Assuming the Position Enough

Officer Dominic Lucero of the Fort Morgan Police Department has been charged in Denver with sexual assault on a child and sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.

[Via FFFW]

We're Not the Only Ones...

A Cumberland County man has been arrested after being accused of conducting a traffic stop on a Fentress County woman and impersonating an officer. If that weren't bad enough, the suspect is also accused of offering not to take the victim to jail, implying money or sex to let her go. [More]

Then in all fairness, how was she supposed to know?

OK, cheap shot, uncalled for, not helpful, I apologize...

[Via Carl S]

We're the Only Ones Going to the Dogs Enough

It violates due process to transport a presumed innocent arrestee in the K-9 dog cage of the back of the police car with dog hair and dried urine and feces. [More]

Like they have to be told this? Seriously? Via a judgment?

Yeah, these are the "Only Ones" I want advising me of my rights...

Good grief.

[Via Mack H]

Trouble Is...

Trouble is, most people don’t know they have the right to say No, or they’re simply too nervous to decline... [More]

Trouble is, most people don't know they have a lot of rights, or they're simply too sheeplike to insist on them...

Even worse, the particularly foolish and unworthy have abdicated their rights, and insist that the government deny them to those of us who refuse to follow suit.

I guess this bill is a good thing and I'm just being a pill. I just don't get folks who think they don't have rights unless the government tells them they do, and having them spelled out for us by those with career incentives to keep us ignorant seems like a whole 'nother way for things to get screwed up.

Besides, what have you got to hide?

[Via Mack H]

"Where's the Big News Story About This?"

That's the question WarOnGuns correspondent retrotruckman asks about the attack on the Jindal aide and his girlfriend.

We're told:

Police wouldn't elaborate on the comments or a possible motive.

And there are conflicting reports that say they were or were not wearing Palin buttons.

If the attack was politically motivated, they should consider themselves lucky they aren't RKBA activists--my pointing out gun grabber and media complicity in spreading the meme that we are the haters brought me this diversity and tolerance wish:

Hope they shoot y'all right in the head - no different from an islamic terrorist

Taking a Breath

I think that's good advice. [More]

Which doesn't mean you should have to suffer from poisonous halitosis.

I'm remaining supportive of the RTC and OK. That doesn't mean I have to agree with everything I see coming out of either camp. Friends ought to be able to have different missions that complement the ultimate goal and still remain friends.

I had a heated and emotional argument with a relative the other day. That doesn't mean I wouldn't put my life on the line now.

Anyway, that's what I have to say about that. Anybody doesn't like it, take a few breaths and tell me about it on April 19.

People of Interest

"Beneficiaries" of Windy City "gun control," that is... [Read]

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

[Via Zachary G]

Police Gun Lock Program No Substitute for Knowledge

What I am against is people thinking that's enough, that a mere device is an acceptable substitute for training and knowledge of their particular circumstances, needs and level of preparedness. There's the quote attributed to Gene Brown that "Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools," and we find unintended consequences in life bearing that out. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column recounts the tale of an ingenious fool.

Also tune in later today to Trigger Sports LIVE! and meet a genuine extremist hater...well, OK, it's just me, but it still ought to be a fun show.

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This Day in History: April 14

Appointed by the Sultan to serve as Consul for all the nations unrepresented in Morocco, Caille wrote on behalf of the Sultan to Franklin from Cadiz on April 14, 1778, offering to negotiate a treaty between Morocco and the United States on the same terms the Sultan had negotiated with other powers. When he did not receive a reply, Caille wrote Franklin a second letter sometime later that year or in early 1779. When Franklin wrote to the committee on Foreign Affairs in May 1779, he reported he had received two letters from a Frenchman who "offered to act as our Minister with the Emperor" and informed the American commissioner that "His Imperial Majesty wondered why we had never sent to thank him for being the first power on this side of the Atlantic that had acknowledged our independence and opened his ports to us." Franklin, who did not mention the dates of Caille's letters or when he had received them, added that he had ignored these letters because the French advised him that Caille was reputed to be untrustworthy. Franklin stated that the French King was willing to use his good offices with the Sultan whenever Congress desired a treaty and concluded, "whenever a treaty with the Emperor is intended, I suppose some of our naval stores will be an acceptable present and the expectation of continued supplies of such stores a powerful motive for entering into and continuing a friendship." [More]

Any Okies from Muskogee?

I'm trying to establish the code of conduct for the Arrowhead Mall in re concealed carry...

It's a cinch whatever was in place, including all laws, didn't stop a 20-year-old with priors and his teenage accomplices...oh wait--it looks like the alleged shooter is 16, and quite the nice young man...

So far, I've checked the mall website and emailed the contact--only to get a delivery failure notice.

Anyone with relevant info, please weigh in.

GRE Round Up for Apr. 13

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:

Ed Stone/Atlanta:
Rockdale County bans guns over terrorism fears

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Knox County Commission District 7 - R. Larry Smith

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: American Militias, Part IV.

Dave Workman/Seattle:
2A marchers will probably be demonized regardless of conduct

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Oklahoma mulls reviving state militia concept

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

And the Number One Rule IS...

...keep your mouth shut. At least as far as I'm concerned.

The_Chef gives us the entire Top Ten list.

We're the Only Ones...

...Nice enough...? [More]

[Via Michael B]

One Person's Bully

Our national scene is rife with them: among the hordes Limbaugh, Coulter and Beck, Sarah Palin, maybe, to be fair, even Rafe Emanuel (although I have to admit that one person's bully is another's forthright advocate). Dick Cheney is the über-bully. [More]

You, Peaco Todd--I think I've figured out why people are always pushing you down in mud puddles and giving you wedgies: You're an @$$h01e.

[Via W-III]

Who to Heed...

I could listen to Paul Scott...

...or Heather Mac Donald...

What to do...

Rap vs. responsibility...rap vs. responsibility...

Yeah, what the hell. Blame the man.

Of course I wouldn't be saying things like Paul Scott is a f****ing idiot if I wasn't a racist.

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

Sucks to be ordinary, doesn't it? [Read]

[Via Harvey]

Now There's an Idea

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state...[Read]

I like it...

Fuddruckers to Gun Owners: Fuddruck You

WarOnGuns Correspondent Mike S sent me the following policy and I have confirmed it with Fuddrucker's/KooKooRoo Chicken Bistro management:

Regarding the open carry laws, Fuddruckers decision not to allow guns in the restaurants is not a statement about gun rights or laws. It is however, a statement about the primary importance of creating and maintaining a comfortable environment for all of Fuddruckers guests.

Open carry laws are changing in various states. Therefore, restaurants are more clearly communicating their policies to guests. Fuddruckers has had a no weapons policy for several years but it wasn't being enforced in all locations. By enforcing its no-weapons policy, Fuddruckers is enforcing its rights as a private business to create the sort of dining environment we believe best suits and appeals to all or the majority of our guests.

OK, fine. Fuddruck you, too.

We're the Only Ones Beating an Education Into You Enough

Hopefully, more people will learn from this. [Watch]

[Via Ed M]

Gun Ban Group Lies About...Me

So you're damn right, Josh. What kind of devoid-of-principles coward wouldn't fight stormtroopers trying to do that to free Americans? And what kind of subversive traitor to every precept of the Republic, not to mention common decency, would hold that against a man and view it as an opportunity for his public condemnation? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column lances a boil.

I'd appreciate your help spreading the link on this one. There's so much negative publicity to counter, and I want voices doing that to be heard.

This Day in History: April 13

D’Estaing left France on April 13, 1778 with a fleet of 12 ships of the line and five frigates to supplement the Continental Navy’s efforts to attack the British fleet on the North American coast. [More]

GRE Round Up for Apr. 12

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:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Violence Policy Center wants you to only see the trees, not the forest

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Park Ranger addresses Knoxville TFA group

TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - State Representative, 4th District - Jerome Cochran

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Knob Creek, Kentucky machine gun shoot portrayed as racist, radical 'hate group' muster

The rise of Constitutional carry?

Go. Read. And please share these links.

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A Rare Opportunity

Edward M. Kennedy’s family will be given a rare opportunity to raise objections before the public disclosure of thousands of pages of the late Massachusetts senator’s exhaustive and secret FBI file, according to bureau officials and advisers to the family. [More]

Don't look so shocked. I'm sure if you were American royalty, you'd be extended the same consideration.

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones...

...Helping You Turn Around Enough

...Growing Our Home-Based Business Enough

...NOT Going to the Dogs Enough

..."Restaurant Carrying" Enough

...Fabricating Enough

...Exhibiting Shocking Courtroom Behavior Enough

..."Thank Heaven for Little Girls" Enough

...Breaking Hearts Enough

...Ensuring Passenger Safety Enough

...A Ladies' Man Enough

[Via FFFW]

Waiting for the Punch Line

A bill slowly making its way through the state Legislature would make it legal for Wisconsin residents to use deadly force if necessary to protect their homes. [More]

What--you mean this isn't a joke?

Well, how about this part?

Marshfield Police Chief Gary Jepson said he agrees with the concept that a home is a person's castle but deadly force may not be necessary to protect it...

"The first line is the police and they will be the ones to sort out whether force is responsible or not."

So Do What I'd Do...

Firearms Industry Concerned Over United Nations Request for Firearms Trace Data [More]

Why not just tell them to go **** themselves?

We're the Only Ones Putting You in the Driver's Seat Enough

Manhunt is on for the bound suspect police say stole officer’s car and shotgun [More]

They're the "Only Ones" giving that incentive plus 0% financing!

[Via Lane]

Keeping Us Safe

In fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals.

...They are averaging slightly over four arrests each year by the entire agency. In other words, we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. Let me repeat that: we are spending approximately $200 million per arrest. [More]

I can't wait for them to keep us healthy.

We're the Only Ones Unflagged Enough

"Right now, we haven't seen any red flags. Not any red flags that the department would have known about," Kraus said. [More]

I can't help but wonder if that statement should cause additional concern.

[Via Ed M]

Potential Nominees

Running the gamut from Pure Evil to merely Corrupt Beyond Redemption... [Read]

[Via jpr9]

A Mayor's Aim

Mr Harvey is on the board of directors of Mayors for Peace 2020...[More]

This is the second satisfied New Zealand Rapex customer I've come across today. Kurt tells us about the first one.

I'm wondering what kind of "peace" Mayor Bob & Co. would be enjoying if, not that long ago, men with non-sporting arms hadn't been willing to risk and endure all to "run out" real "gunslingers". Yeah, I'll just bet they'd have a "Japanese sister city."

Keep up with that defenselessness crap and Bob et al. might just earn themselves a Chinese one...

No Second Chance

The police’s Phuti Setati said gun owners had more than enough time to do the right thing. [More]

I guess the right thing all depends on one's point of view..some might be inclined to look at the sorry mess you rulers and enforcers have created and decide to say "Phuki youti, Phuti."

I'm thinking if I were facing 25 years, that would in effect be a life sentence.

Truth be known, I'd rather die than submit to that.

And I'm wondering what the incentive is to give anyone trying to force you to any second chances...

Media Portrayal of Constitution Advocates as Haters Continues

That doesn't slow down Team Newsweek one bit. They have a meme to promulgate, and they dive into it like the skilled propagandists they are, evoking imagery from "Nazi garb" to "white robes" as a reaction to "the nation's first African-American president," and weaving all of that into the latest smear, that the upcoming Second Amendment March is being held to commemorate the Oklahoma City bombing or some such. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner notes the talking points are spreading and getting louder...

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This Day in History: April 12

April 12, 1778
Carlisle peace commission appointed to negotiate with the Continental Congress
William Eden, a career politician, George Johnstone, a naval officer and partisan for America, and Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, are tasked in an attempt to prevent a Franco-American alliance from being created. Johnstone tries to bribe some Congressmen and Lafayette challenges Carlisle to a duel during this ill-fated British attempt to end hostilities. [More]

Professionals Advise 'Arm Yourself'

That the antis don't like having such incidents pointed out is evident by their characterizing doing so as "denigrat[ing] law enforcement." That's fine—let 'em get their knickers bunched. As long as they keep pushing the lie that those with badges are the only ones we can trust with guns, I'll keep countering it.

And I'll also continue to acknowledge when those in positions of authority promote the truth, as has happened in Texas and Ohio. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column presents a choice.

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This Day in History: April 11

April 11, 1778 - The Continental Congress votes to send 175 rifles or muskets, 200 wt. of powder, 800 wt. of lead, and 500 flints to Westmoreland, in care of newly promoted Colonel Denison of the 24th Regiment. [More]

GRE Round Up for Apr. 10

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:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: The second amendment as a 2010 stumping issue, Part II.

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

How Justice Stevens' retirement might benefit gun rights

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

South African Police Disarming Citizens as Their Need for Protection Grows

So just to make sure that if things really get bad, and they'll be absolutely powerless to protect much more than themselves, South African police are telling citizens to hand in their "unlicensed" guns--or else. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes now might not be a good time to turn 'em in.

Also meet a congressional candidate from North Carolina who "gets it."

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This Day in History: April 10

[More]

Now Showing as a Blip on Radar Screens Near You

They remain under the radar for now, but expect to hear a lot more about the dual April 19 rallies that will bring anti-government and pro-gun groups to the Washington region. [More]

Well that's not true. There are groups that wish to respect the Constitution, but that's hardly anti-government.

Goodness, gracious. First the mad cow and now WaPo. The radar screens are lighting up.

I've watched with some surprise as the Oath Keepers, battered a bit by reports that call them "extremists," get more mainstream conservative acceptance.

About time some of these freakin' self-styled "conservatives" woke up.

There can be no peace with some of the comment posters--they're bound and determined to seethe in ignorance and hatred. Let 'em.

Good thing for us that they impose a key disadvantage on themselves. I mean in addition to being satisfied Rapex customers.

GRE Round Up for Apr. 9

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:

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Best friend an armed citizen has is his armed neighbor
EXTRA! Say goodbye to Stevens, say ‘hello’ to more armed citizens in WA

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Illinois Department of Corrections buying ammo on (not very good) credit

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Arizona now joins the ranks of Vermont and Alaska.

Go. Read. And please share these links.

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We're the Only Ones...

...Who Really Know How to Treat a Lady Enough

...Possessive Enough

...Must-See TV Enough

...Letting Our Fingers Do the...uh...Walking Enough

...Bugging You Enough

...Sharing the Inside Poop Enough

...Who Just Fracture You With Our Driving Enough

...A Bridge Too Far Enough

...In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy Lightly Turns to Thoughts of Love Enough

...'til Death Do Us Part Enough

...Imposing Enough

[Via FFFW]

Ohio Second Amendment March

When Saturday, April 10 at 11:00am Where Ohio Statehouse 1 Capitol Square Columbus, Ohio 43215-4210 The Ohio Statehouse is located in the center of downtown Columbus, at the corner of Broad and High Streets [More]

I can't make that one, but I will be at the national event. And the other one...

Meanwhile, Over in Furious Mike Paradise...

A rampage by gun-slinging youths through New York's Times Square this week underscored a surge in murders and shootings that has some New Yorkers fearing a return to the city's dark past. [More]

You Big Applers better hope TS doesn't HTF, because I've got a sneaking hunch you ain't seen nothin' yet.

[Via retrotruckman]

We're the Only Ones Happy to Oblige Enough

Deputy Suspended for Tasering Students at Their Request [More]

What, you mean we can't interact and contract with minor children as adults?

Who knew?

With judgment like that, aren't you glad he was the "Only One" immune to "zero tolerance" and trusted to be on school grounds with weapons?

[Via Harvey]

Middle Ground

The failure of sensible South Africans to take back the racial middle ground in the country will be serious. [More]

No kidding.

We need to do that here, too.

By "we" I mean "they". I plead "Not guilty."

My tribe is ideological. What we as individuals look like or where our forebears came from has no bearing on acceptance and belonging.

The Table is Set

Let's eat. [Read]

We're the Only Ones Heroic Enough

Deputy accused of hero plot to kidnap wife, rescue her [More]

Good grief.

[Via Luke]

Gun Owners Can Build Bridges with Medical Community

By familiarizing ourselves with some of the medical community's "pro-gun players" and their works, we're in a better position to persuade doctors, who may have unquestioningly accepted certain anti-gun tenets, into taking a closer look. And being able to introduce them to peers who present findings through professional journals lends a credibility that should encourage at least the fair-minded into doing just that. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column suggest actions we might take to offset the top-driven anti-gun sentiment that pervades the medical establishment.

Also catch Wednesday's Trigger Sports webcast if you missed it Live!

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This Day in History: April 9

Extract of a letter from Kildare, Monmouth county, April 9, 1778.

"About 135 of the enemy landed on Sunday last [5 Apr 1778] about ten o'clock, on the south side of Squan inlet, burnt all the salt-works, broke the kettles, &c. stripped the beds, &c. of some people there, who I fear, wish'd to serve them then crossed the river and burnt all excepting Dirrick Longstreet's: after this mischief they embarked. The next day they landed at Shark river and set fire to two small works, when they observed fifteen horsemen heave in sight, which occasioned them to retreat with great precipitation, indeed they jumped in their flat-bottomed boats in such confusion that they sunk one or two of them. One of their pilots was the noted Thomas Oakeson. The enemy consisted chiefly of Greens, the rest Highlanders." [More]

GRE Round Up for Apr. 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:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Demilitarized Brass

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: The second amendment as a 2010 stumping issue, Part I.

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Missouri, look to Wyoming to see how getting a Firearms Freedom Act is done

Go. Read. And please share these links.

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Rules of Non-Engagement

Vanderboegh explains them--and their importance. [Read]

We're the Only Ones "Blind Date" Enough

Orban allegedly forced the woman to drive to a Fontana industrial area, raped her and left, getting a ride back from Jelinek. Investigators say they suspected Orban after he left his service revolver in the woman's car. [More]

Westminster cops are still issued revolvers?

The good thing is, being in Southern California pretty much assures that the "Only Ones" legally allowed to carry were in total control of a criminal situation.

[Via JFC]

"Der Feuer" Continues Hate Campaign Against Gun Owners

A California Democrat is proposing a new law requiring residents to register their shotguns and rifles or go to jail...Feuer is no friend of firearms owners...[More]

Talk about an understatement.

Hey, it's nice to know that they have a handle on real crime in Kollyfornya and that the Golden State economy is healthy enough to handle the extra load in terms of record keeping, policing, prosecution and jailing of otherwise productive citizens. So nobody is going to be coming to the rest of us for a bailout because they're "too big to fail" or anything, right?

"Der" knows his proposal will have no effect on crime other than to squander limited law enforcement resources and create a new class of "criminal." It's been the same with every other attack on freedom he's gotten ink for over the years.

So why does he do it?

Easy.

Because he hates you and he can.

Because his constituents let him.

We're the Only Ones Sickening Enough

Judge in Danziger case sickened by 'raw brutality of the shooting and the craven lawlessness of the cover-up' [More]

Which means, Bill O'Reilly, you're a pinhead.

[Via jpr9]

A Case of Mistaken Identity

Vanderboegh links to a putrid Daily Kos post so I don't have to.

I actually take heart reading stuff like this. Conflating us with Nixon, who wanted to ban handguns, and Bloomberg...?

Sun Tzu advises to know your enemy. They're oblivious to who we are and what we believe, and prefer instead to follow in lockstep like lemmings the talking points put out there to demonize/dehumanize us.

It's a two-edged sword--while it creates a dangerous climate for us as a group being vilified, the differences from, say, 70 years ago in Europe, are that we are not ethnically separable, we are not segregated into enclaves and we are not unarmed.

Look at some of the tags--these creatures think our motivational inspiration comes from Rush Limbaugh? Sarah Palin? Michelle Bachman and Glenn Beck?

I say let them think we're too dumb to form independent thought without corporate media and Republican establishment leaders, and dismiss us as as low tooth-to-head ratio slack-jawed yokels. Knowing the skills some non-urban folk have at the basics, from a strictly Darwinian sense we'll see who is more highly adaptable when TSHTF.

Bumper Sticker Logic

Dennis Henigan, Vice President for Law and Policy at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, systematically analyzes and dismantles the simple, effective slogans that the disciplined messaging of the gun lobby has burned into the consciousness of the American people. Henigan dissects the superficial appeal of such catch-phrases as “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people,” “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns,” “An armed society is a polite society,” and other simplistic themes that have come to dominate the perennial debate over the role of guns in American society. [More]

That's the good thing about writing your own press release--it makes you sound like you've actually got science and reason on your side, doesn't it?

As long as we're doing bumper sticker slogans, here's some the Brady cud chewers (talk about "superficial") can use:

NO GUNS IN THIS HOUSE--EVER

I'M UNARMED. PLEASE DON'T HURT ME

JUST GIVE ATTACKERS WHAT THEY WANT

KEEP KIDS SAFE BY TEACHING THEM AVOIDANCE AND IGNORANCE

REPEAT A LIE LONG ENOUGH AND IT BECOMES THE TRUTH

THERE'S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE

Etc.

Feel free to suggest more slogans in "Comments".

Nothing to Fear But Intermediate Scrutiny Itself

This news is a couple of weeks old, but I don't think anyone here has discussed it yet...[More]

Maybe not there, but I certainly discussed it here. Heck, some of us complained years ago this would be the establishment fallback point that would allow them to give lip service to 2A without upsetting the balance of power.

I disagree that "gun controllers need not fear 'intermediate scrutiny'." I think that level of official arrogance ought to scare the hell out of everybody who is paying attention, particularly if what some perceive as an opportunity to gain ground is perceived by others as a line in the sand.

Medical Establishment Hostility to Guns is Long-Standing and Pervasive

[I]t's all too predictable that we see much of the "medical literature" promulgating the guns = public health threat meme, ignoring the protective benefits of guns in private hands. The thought that gun control = public health threat evidently either does not occur to many of the researchers or else it just doesn't fit in with their agenda. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at top-level medical malpractice.

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This Day in History: April 8

The Ranger left the French port of Brest on April 8, 1778. At the slow sailing speed of the day, it was April 15 before the ship entered the channel between England and Ireland. (Jones would have seen this as a more direct route to less defended targets in Ireland and the west coast of England and Scotland.) The weather that day was windy and overcast. This limited visibility would have blocked the American's view of potential targets. However, British warships could not have spotted Jones unless they were very close. [More]