Notes from the Resistance...
Leave it to Boston government to make such things even creepier. And even more useless. [Read]The entire cost, he said, will be paid by Homeland Security.Yeah. With their money that they earned.
Imagine parents who have lost a family member to gun violence having to allow a renter to possess firearms. [More]Or parents who have suffered a miscarriage having to allow a renter to possess Planned Parenthood literature...
NRA Endorses Gov. Phil Bredesen
TSA Agent Accused of Stealing Cash from Wheelchair-Bound Woman [More]But the fedgov doesn't trust us at airports...
"They're federal employees, so you wouldn't expect anything like that to happen to you..."Ha! Good one!
...they are a-changing...[Read]Toilet brush 'blunder' death [More]Good grief.
"Among other things, the Ohio Sovereignty Amendment would allow juries to nullify laws; expand the right to bear arms and maintain militias; permit the recall of elected officials by petition signatures alone; ban federal enforcement of laws except through a county sheriff; and require that all public school operations through the 12th grade be regulated at the district level only." [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at yet one more attempt by Liberty activists to peaceably resolve grievances. No one will be able to say we haven't exhausted every avenue.
[S]omehow, I don't think either is going to address the federal mandate of "shall not be infringed," let alone satisfactorily explain what the Founders had in mind when they wrote: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." [More]Documents have been filed. Read them here.
Watch and listen to Sgt. May for yourself... [More]I thought this merited a second Gun Rights Examiner column for today.
There was one Second Amendment March speech that was not included with the others I've been writing about in recent days. I understand we all have a right to promote that which we think advances our cause, so it's not my place to presume what someone else chooses to showcase. I will, however, take this opportunity to do what I can to promote the right of all peaceable people to keep and bear arms on a site where I control the content.[More]A video got overlooked in the mix of those presented so far. I'm doing what I can to make sure all who made an effort on that day are recognized for their service to promoting RKBA.
Fieger, however, said the official account was full of "utter fabrications." He said he has seen a video showing police throwing the grenade and then shooting into the home from the porch. [More]So he's saying this was basically a lie and official cover up?
"It's a shame when something like that happens because her intentions were good," Stallings said. "She absolutely needed to rescue it, and a wildlife rehabilitation center would have raised and released it. [More]Because we're the "Only Ones"...and our function is to tell you what you can and cannot do.
In determining whether an officer had probable cause, I place myself in the shoes of a reasonable person in the position of the officer, not an omniscient observer, id., and I consider the totality of the circumstances. [More]If only Gonzalez had the magic raiments and amulet...the ruminants could have gone back to digesting their cuds. (As an aside, it sounds like he needs to educate his brother about not talking to the police.)
I cannot but feel myself hurt by of the enemy the dirty insinuation that my enterprise at Whitehaven was in consequence of a capital sum paid me in hand by the Court of France. [More]
Death just isn't my style...[More]If you haven't already seen her blog, go on over and see what Jennifer III is up to.
The city of Pleasant Hill Friday terminated a police officer who is accused of crashing his police squad car while high on methamphetamine. That's just one of several new developments in the case of Sgt. Daniel Edwards.Make me a sergeant in charge of the...meth.
Edwards also was charged with burglary, a Class D felony. Late Friday afternoon, authorities confirmed that the burglary charge was filed because there is probable cause Sgt. Edwards stole meth from the Pleasant Hill evidence room. [More]
Thanks to a jury in Ottawa Hills, Ohio, former police officer Thomas White is facing up to 11 years behind bars: plenty of time to think about the unarmed motorist he paralyzed with an unprovoked bullet more than one year ago. [More]I still think had the situation been reversed, a lot more than 11 years would be at stake...
A 2009 evaluation by the Justice Department's inspector general found that many nominations "were processed with little or no information explaining why the subject may have a nexus to terrorism." The FBI also "did not consistently update or remove watch list records when appropriate." [More]Which won't slow down our domestic enemies from, listing to the left...
Sunday, family and friends were struggling to reconcile that person — devoted family man, church member and Pierce County sheriff's deputy — with the man who fatally shot his in-laws Friday night before taking his own life. [More]Others of us are struggling to reconcile why "Only Ones" are automatically perceived by some to be more stable and trustworthy than peaceable armed citizens...
"Now as your assignment, my paisano, should you choose to accept it, is to research and find out how many other GOP voters are going to eschew the three RINOs, and vote for Jerry Brown." [More]What, the Jerry Brown who campaigned on this...?
She agreed with Spangler that NRA members might find more common ground – on "the right to own a weapon and reasonable restrictions on that right" -- with more education. [More]Define "common ground." Shall we see what one of the supporters says?
"I just hate guns," she said. "Scared of them; don't need them."Right. That's what this crowd considers "reasonable."
"I'm considering moving," the woman said. "I'm just paranoid. I just don't feel safe here anymore." [More]Gee, I wonder why. Maybe having to resort to pushing a button and praying the"Only Ones" authorized to pull a trigger will show up and save you has something to do with it.
Why would we expect Republican careerists in the Senate, who have taken an oath to "support and defend the Constitution,"to view utter official disregard for the Second Amendment as "extreme"? After all, it says "shall not be infringed," but doesn't say anything about "eviscerated"... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column makes note of what prominent GOP operatives do not consider to be "extreme". You know, every day stuff, like ignoring the Bill of Rights...
Somehow, with night temperatures still dipping into the 40s where I live, seeing the July issue of GUNS Magazine arrive in my mail box seems premature. But the sun is out as I write this, and I know later today the lawn will demand re-engagement, and that we'll soon reach that time where open windows can't compete with closed ones and the hum of the air conditioner.Those would be a reader letter in my defense, and my "Rights Watch" column about the McDonald case.
This issue, aside from all the great articles by my colleagues, has two features I hope Gun Rights Examiner readers will find of particular interest. [More]
May 16, 1778: Militiamen at Fort Randolph at Point Pleasant repulse an attack by 300 Wyandot and Mingo Indians. [More]
Gov. Brad Henry, worried about safety concerns, said trained and licensed Oklahomans already may protect themselves by carrying concealed handguns, and it doesn’t make anyone safer to wear a holster and display that weapon to others.Not the Brad Henry who was A rated and endorsed by NRA? Who ILA's Chris Cox said about:
"On the contrary, it makes it more difficult and dangerous for law enforcement officers to try to sort out the good guys and bad guys when they arrive at a crime scene,” he said. [More]
"Your exemplary record of service as Governor of Oklahoma clearly illustrates your commitment to protecting the rights of law-abiding firearm owners and sportsmen. You have proven time and again to be a close ally and friend of Oklahoma's freedom-loving firearm owners."I guess when you're term-limited out, you don't have to care about principle?
Videos for the April 19 Second Amendment March in Washington DC are now available online. On Tuesday I posted part one of my speech, "Intolerable Acts," and on Wednesday posted part two--these were YouTube videos cut from footage taken by my friends at Oath Keepers. Another videographer was also recording the events of the day, Alex Rife of Conservative TVonline, and he has posted high quality videos that recorded each speech in its entirety. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column gives those of you who did not make the event a way to experience the day.
Do we now have a new crop of criminals? Hundreds or thousands of them? How could that not be the case? [More]
According to this latest complaint Kwiatkowski, "slammed one teen against the wall, and punched him in his eye twice."That'll teach those young punks not to shoot a BB gun!
The document then goes on the say officer Raymond Krug, "Shot the other teen two times with the BB guns." [More]
No it won't change things, but I can't think of a simpler or easier way to send a clear message these people need to hear...
A Milford police officer will be off the street for two weeks for having sex with the city's mayor while on duty. [More]It just went off...oh, sorry, wrong "Only Ones" story...
A member of the commission that oversees the Louisiana State Police faces charges including aggravated assault on a peace officer with a firearm following an incident at Harrah's New Orleans casino... [More]Drunk, belligerent, spoiling for an armed confrontation... See, I would never think of doing something like that, which is apparently this guy's first reaction. I don't even know anybody who would think of doing something like that.
Not satisfied with putting grandmothers at risk of losing their legal right to the means of self-defense, or of denying gun purchases to people who haven't even been charged, let alone tried and convicted of any crime, Sen. Frank Lautenberg now means to see us defenseless on the way to and from airports, when we go to drop off or pick someone up. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the latest assault on freedom by a committed domestic enemy.
