We're the Only Ones Who Understand the System Enough

Mitchell said he only pleaded guilty to those charges because he thought he couldn't get a fair trial. [More]

If that's really true, what kind of evil bastard would make a living where part of his job is to arrest people?

[Via savaship]

A Difference of Opinion?

Watch videos of the Vanderboegh/Helmke Match-Up here.

Real difficult finding common ground here.

So much for the beginning of a beautiful friendship...

More Peaceful

No surprise there. [Read]

More polite, too.

[Via Michael G]

A "Liberal" Proposal

...from Oz, of all places. [Read]

[Via Sendarius]

Farewell to a Pioneer

On another occasion I attended a Central Westbury Civic Association. There were complaints about motorcyclists terrorizing the bloc. Someone said they were afraid to talk to the police in case word went back to the troublemakers. Colonel Watson noted that he was a gunowner with a shotgun and wasn't afraid of riffraff. He took his First and Second Amendments seriously, I guess. [More]

That's what brave men do.

A Tuskegee Airman has died.

I'm Your Huckleberry

xtheoldman

Too bad. Only about 2000 people eager to place their surrogate penises on public display. If all their guns were taken away, you'd have 2000 pussies running around with their hands over their crotches. It is said that the size of a a gun owner's penis is indirectly proportionate to the size of the weapon he carries. Bigger the gun, smaller the dick. And gun-toting women? Simple penis envy. (And I will happily remove the gun from any gun owner's cold dead hand.) [More]

Make it my hand? I'm real easy to contact.

Yeah, we're the haters.

April 19 a Day to Fly Flag Proudly

Here is Barack Obama's proclamation to fly the flags at half staff on April 19. He only issued it on April 16 and it was not posted on the White House blog until April 19.

Curious. Because evidently, April 19 was not so commemorated in 2009. Or 2008. Or 2007. Or 2006. Nor can I find such a proclamation made earlier any time during the Bush presidency. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column recommends raising flags instead of lowering them. Especially when some have reasons for wishing us to not remember the past.

Also watch the latest Trigger Sports LIVE! with my rally recap, and find out what some Oregon gun owners think of their politicians.

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This Day in History: April 22

April 22, 1778 Bill introduced by Lord North in Parliament concerning peace negotiations with America reaches Congress and is rejected. [More]

Restore the Constitution Rally Videos

Click here.

There's even one of Helmke ducking out and letting a brainless harridan do his debating for him.

Message to Neal Boortz

Go to hell, you self-serving fraud.

The only one I see playing into the hands of the left is the one siding with the satisfied Rapex customers.

There.

Somebody's gotta say it.

GRE Round Up for Apr. 21

There's some good stuff being turned out by the Gun Rights Examiners. 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:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Home invasion; cop or not?

Local emergency gun control

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Parkwest Hospital murder - suicide

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Smear answered by Senator Randy Brogdon.

Safer Streets 2010: Informed streets have to come first.

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Gun Rights 101: AZ governor signs ‘carry without a permit’ law; why that matters here

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

D.C. 'voting rights' bill dead (again), but gun rights shouldn't share that fate

Go. Read. And please share these links.

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Here's Another Shot...

...of this. [Read]

I really can't wait to see the videos--meeting and speaking to so many people meant I actually didn't hear most of the folks who spoke while I was there--and, of course, those who spoke after I left. So in a funny way, being in the thick of things had about the same effect for some of the presentations as being absent.

"I'll Find the Crime"

The cool thing about this trick is, if performed right, it works on everybody! [Read]

Everybody here has Grigg bookmarked, right?

[Via Ron W]

A Perfect Crime?

Interesting and moving, but if Liberty dies, I suspect the cause will be from neglect, that is abdication, laziness, apathy and cowardice. [Read]

[Via John H]

We're the Only Ones Deploying Our Sex Crimes "Unit" Enough

DNA evidence in an alleged sexual assault at a police squad building matches that of a sergeant who led a sex crimes unit in suburban Philadelphia, a district attorney said Tuesday. [More]

Quis custodiet ipsos "Only Ones"?

I understand though. Whenever I am mourning a loss, I always get drunk and try to rape people too. Doesn't everyone? Nothing I like better than leaving some weaker victim who trusted me traumatized and curled up in the closet, which is probably why I'm not as worthy as professionals like Sarge here.

Or something...

[Via Parrothead Jeff]

Idiot or Liar?

And yes, I own guns, and I know how to shoot them. Campus Carry is a BAD IDEA. [More]

Anybody see a third choice for this comment poster?

[Via W³]

Fingering a Terrorist Threat

Student suspended after finger gun incident

..."That was considered a terroristic threat because the teacher feared for her life"... [More]

Oh fer cryin' out loud. I guess handling things like an adult is too much to expect.

Funny. Often times, the "Authorized Journalists" don't disclose the names of minors accused of things. In this case, because a unionized government worker is involved, because sacred AUTHORITAH has been challenged, well, that's a different set of rules. It's their name that gets protected.

Besides, the girl says she was practicing to be a Furious Mike "Only One." Hell, looks to me like she's a natural.

Still, I understand how the sight of someone doing this would make some feel threatened. For instance, the guy pictured here appears to be making a double-threat. But because of that different set of rules, we're expected to just take it.

[Via FFFW]

How Long...

...would you survive? [Read and take poll]

I view this assessment as useful but incomplete, as it doesn't take into account will and willingness. In some cases, we won't know until we're put to the test just what we're capable of doing and just how much of our mental/emotional/moral conditioning we're capable of overcoming.

Would you rescue and take in children in need? Even if you'd only made provisions for your family?

Etc. I'm sure we could think up a thousand more scenarios that would require an on-the-spot moral/intellectual/survival decision and still end up astonished by the one that confronts us.

That's not to put down preparation in terms of hardware, training, supplies--just my observation that we must not neglect the "soft" aspect of things, which just may prove the hardest to prepare for.

Funniest Damn Thing I've Read in a While

The PERFECT ending to the story would be that Mike had plastered a "We Are Everywhere" on the bastard's back :o) [More]

Can you imagine...?

I'm still laughing here.

NRA Sidelined on Firearms Freedom Acts

Understand I can't claim to know, but that's my read on their thinking. And I don't claim to like it, but I do acknowledge it is a consideration that would affect their decision. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks at why the 800 Lb. gorilla prefers the bench to the line.

Also look at rising costs in Oregon and link up to today's Trigger Sports LIVE! for my after-rally report.

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This Day in History: April 21

Without Reform the Continental Army Will Dissolve, April 21, 1778 [More]

Helmke Admits 'Polite' Attendees at VA Armed Rally

Perhaps if the arm of friendship is extended we can all get along and Paul will learn to trust his fellow citizens, and stop demanding enforced obedience to his will? [More]

I thought this warranted a second Gun Rights Examiner column today...:)

Will you help me spread this link far and wide?

Saldana Said

Saldana said it would be better if only law enforcement officers were permitted to publicly display firearms. [More]

Because Saldana said, you see.

Good for the sheriff candidates who, without coming right out and saying so, tell us she's full of...baloney.

Thing is, Mr. Sniff, some of us protected our lives doing that which you term "a more direct threat." I'll be damned if I'll apologize to you or to anybody else for it.

[Via DJK]

And Now, An Editorial Reply...

April 19 is almost over, without violence, this year anyway. No thanks to right-wing hate-mongers. [More]

Cover your children's eyes before proceeding to the appropriate response.

Ready?

F*** you, you stupid ****.

GRE Round Up for Apr. 20

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:
This day in history

GA Bills: SB 308 Update

Howard Nemerov/Austin:
Women on Target comes to Austin area

Paul Valone/Charlotte:
Was the Second Amendment March a success?

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
IRS purchases firearms and uses them for government greed

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Colorado State University gun ban isn't settled yet

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Message to tourists with guns; don't come to Arkansas

Local emergency gun control

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Demilitarized Brass - part deux

TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Governor - Haslam

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Not with the L.A. Times' help.

Safer Streets 2010: Attention Kalifornia State Legislature.

John Pierce/Minneapolis:
The Obama Administration Year One: The flight from gun control

Dave Workman/Seattle:
King County Sheriff warns of cutbacks, so go out and buy a gun

2A rallies from one Washington to the ‘other’ suggest gun owners are growing restless

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Does the VPC wish to stifle political dissent?

Former President Clinton equates loyalty to Constitution with 'hatred'

'Gun show loophole' myth getting another push

Accusations of 'sedition' are an attack on freedom

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Opposition to Arizona Constitutional Carry law from surprising sources

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Peaceful Pro-Gun Rallies: A Firsthand Account

I'm back from a rather exhausting past couple of days. I'll have time over the next few days to catch up on what the media is saying about the Second Amendment March and the Restore the Constitution rally, but for now I just wanted to share some of what I experienced. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column recaps my experiences over the past two days.

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This Day in History: April 20

On or about April 20, 1778, Capt. William Patrick of Ichabod Alden’s Massachusetts regiment were ordered to the Schoharie Valley by Gen. John Stark, commander of the Northern Department. Stark gave Patrick this instruction:

"Sir, You will keep continual scouting parties in the adjacent country to where you are posted, to discover the motions and movements of our internal enemies. If any of them should be found under arms, aiding, assisting, or forthwith detect them (if in your power) and with their crimes send them to me or the commanding officer at this place. You will do the utmost in your power to find out if any British Officers should come to that country, as it is highly probable they will do, because they have there so many friends; and let no pains be spared in detecting them, making report of your proceedings, from time to time, to me or the commanding officer at this place." [More]

Field Report

In Arlington getting ready to take the shuttle to the mall for the 2A March, then will head on over to ther Restore the Constitution rally. Took part yesterday in a press conference on 2AM, met many of the principals in person for the first time, reconnected with Stewart Rhodes and then in the evening conferenced with the Merry Band and a reporter.

Oh, and an AP guy interviewed me last week about FFA and it was supposed to come out yesterday--gotta check and find that, no time now.

Will be back late tonight--please hold off on emails per my earlier post and please be forgiving if I do not answer anything sent during my absence.

I have a Gun Rights Examiner column I posted today on armed defense stories. Click the little dealy-bob over in the left margin and that will take you to my main page where you can access it. Sorry--outta time--gotta go.

Oath-Breaking Clinton Adopts 'Hatriot' Slur

It's no wonder that someone incapable of honoring his oath to the Constitution, to the courts or to his wife and child would hate those who view keeping their oaths as a matter of honor—and thus resort to portraying them as the haters. Not that we should ever expect anything different from this lying, self-serving stain on the nation's honor...[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a pathological liar who hates those who don't share his moral defects.

Also find out who's on the SPLC blacklist. Sadly, I did not make it.

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This Day in History: April 18

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Hold Your Fire?

I'm prepping for the rallies and have a ton of things to do. I've got to focus the remainder of my writing time until I get back on the Examiner stuff, because feral sons Uday and Qusay are holding their bellies and whimpering again.

So any further postings here at WoG will probably only be announcements for tomorrow and Monday's GRE columns I need to write--right after I get the yard work done before it starts raining again.

Which is my roundabout way of saying please hold off on news tips, etc. Seriously. I just won't be able to get to them.

If you hate me, you'll want me to return exhausted from a long trip facing hundreds of emails. Truly, it will be that many if I don't slow it down now. Those of you who do email regularly know I try my best to reply--please understand if I don't.

What Do Books, Wolves and Someone Thinking I Got Something Right Have in Common?

This issue, aside from all the great articles by my colleagues, has three features I hope Gun Rights Examiner readers will find of particular interest. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the June 2010 issue of GUNS Magazine, on newsstands now. Meet a letter writer who agrees with me, some antis crying wolf, and reintroduce yourself to an old friend.

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This Day in History: April 17

After some early successes against British merchant shipping in the Irish Sea, on April 17, 1778, Jones convinced his crew to participate in an assault on Whitehaven, the same town where his maritime career began. Jones was thinking in his later memories about the reluctance of his senior officers (having tactfully avoided such matters in his official report): "Their aim, they said, was gain not honor. They were poor: instead of encouraging the morale of the crew, they excited them to disobedience; they persuaded them that they had the right to judge whether a measure that was proposed to them was good or not." As it happened, contrary winds forced the abandonment of the attempt, and drove Ranger towards Ireland, causing more trouble for British shipping on the way. [More]

GRE Round Up for Apr. 16

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:
Attending the Denver Tea Party

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

Is Congress trying to put the President and other dignitaries at risk?

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

In Your Face Back At'cha

I was testing a suspicion that Google hits for "teabagger" outnumber "tea partier" (my hunch was right, which says something about how the left has been able to spread a disparaging meme) and I stumbled across this page . Click on graphics to enlarge.

"Republican gene pool" dissed in the scrolling marquee:

Sarah Palin with a gun to her head and the caption "Do It!"

Brought to you by Pic-N-Save. (Not to be confused with Pick 'N Save).

They can't say they don't know.

Ask them why they haven't done anything about it. Don't they want our business?

"Yippie-Ki-Yay, M...........!"

'Open Carry' Gun Laws Turn the Country Back into the Wild West [More]

Mooed like someone intimately familiar with cow towns, albeit from the wrong end of the branding iron...

Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another?

"You would think they'd be saying thank you," he said. [More]

Keep gripping those ankles!

You Betcha!

Sorry, Sarah.

Still backing McCain and now My Man Mitthead...?

Nope. Not with my help, anyway.

An Embarrassment to the First Amendment

Daryl Lease of The Virginian-Pilot, that is:

I'm not at all comfortable, however, with the thought of any state in our nation arming a bumbling, malicious crew of twisted Fifes and setting them up to stage "citizen's arrests" against federal employees.

Actually, you obnoxious @$$h01e, Fife was an "Only One." And if you're uncomfortable, I suggest you adjust your Rapex.

Amnesty Bill for Firearms Collectors H.R. 442

Gary Marbut of Montana Sport Shooting Association is looking for help to get a hearing for a bill that NRA is pushing that is sponsored by Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT).

Denny has sponsored H.R. 442 to allow an amnesty period for registration of prohibited firearms that U.S. veterans have brought home from overseas. Although there are over 100 cosponsors to this bill, it has not yet been granted a committee hearing.

I'm sorry, guys. I support a lot of stuff you do. But I gotta say, I'm unequivocally opposed to registering weapons.

And yeah, I know what that means I'm advocating instead. That, along with NRA facilitating registration, is nothing new.

Looks like we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

We're the Only Ones Giving You a Choice Enough

“(Henry County Sheriff Lane) Perry wasn’t swayed by that line of thinking.

“‘If a person thinks they need protection when they go in a bar, they’ve got a choice not to go there,’ he said.” [More]

Don't they also have a choice about tossing out uppity servants who forget their place?

This is the second arrogant "Only One" higher-up who presumes to limit your defense choices I've read about in the past 24 hours. Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner Ed Stone told us yesterday about Emory University Chief Craig Watson who...well here, I'll let Ed tell it:

After setting the scene, Representative Setzler asked the Chief whether he would prefer to see one of the fifteen or so people in the room with a gun put a stop to the killing.

Chief Watson's response? He informed the committee that it was his feeling that more people would die if fifteen of the potential murder victims had guns than if the people were helpless, disarmed, and just waited for the police to respond and save them.

Craig and Lane have their guns because they're more trustworthy and have better judgment than the rest of us, you see. Just ask them.

[Via Jeffersonian and Ed Stone]

A Policy Revision

The new policy is expected to mirror restrictions already in place at some military installations that, for example, require guns brought to a base to be registered with military police. [More]

That'll show those bad guys!

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Taken for a Ride Enough

A District of Columbia police officer whose service weapon was stolen during what he said was a carjacking on his way home from work later admitted to detectives that he gave one of the suspects a ride for money, according to court records. [More]

So it's already been established he's a damned liar. Yeah, I believe he did it "for money."

Why else would he be picking up a street skank? I mean, who doesn't let them in their car and then ask them to pay?

Hey, don't regular people go to jail for lying to the "Only Ones"?

Let's hear it for how "home rule" keeps those guns "off the street"!

[Via Rick P]

Forget it, Jake...

...it's Chi-Town. [Read]

[Via Ted B, who points out 5 + 1 ≠ 7]

Why Not Try a 'Pro-Gun' Self-Defense TV Show?

That the program sending forth young Padawans...I mean, journalists, won't even pretend to balance is a given... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a way to give that balance.

Also get the Restore the Constitution rally press release.

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This Day in History: April 16

April 16, 1778
British delegation sails for America to offer terms for peace. [More]

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.

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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]