Notes from the Resistance...
[N]ote their core arguments all center on why you can't be trusted. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column presents a pair of clucking ninnies who think they should be able to dictate how you and I choose to exercise our rights.
Can we afford not to close the Sugarmann Shrinking Grant Loophole? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the motivation and character behind the latest blood dance.
A Lake County mother was arrested at a children’s splash park after her white shirt got wet...She took her 7-year-old son to cool off, but before the day was done she found herself behind bars, facing an arrest record for obstruction of justice and resisting arrest without violence....The police report indicates Lovett didn't give her name fast enough. [More]Then it sounds like she got just what she deserved, doesn't it?
The police chief told WFTV his officers operated within policy that day.Of course they did.
His turn.
Greenfield said she was arrested—and spent the weekend of July 9 in the Delaware County jail—for videotaping a police encounter with Burke that day...The phone, according to Burke, could have been concealing a dangerous weapon—a cell phone gun, or stun gun. [More]And we all know what a menace those can be, ever since the Great Cell Phone Gun Pandemic began...
GUNS Magazine makes a practice of posting its issues from half a century ago, giving us a great window into a past some of us are old enough to remember. A free download of the August 1960 issue is now online. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes that being a foul subversive is hardly a new phenomenon.
August 6, 1778 M. Gerard, minister from France to America, received in Congress. [More]
A Nebraska judge lost his seat on the bench for using his position to help his daughter's softball team. [More]Kind'a makes you wonder what we'd find if we looked at his career stats, doesn't it?
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn't remove the FBI's seal from its site. [More]I see.
We'll see if this prompts another WarOnGuns Bite-Me-Gram.Intruders gunned down in 2 Alexandria-area home invasions, police report[More]Then it's pretty clear we need to do away with "Stand Your Ground" and other barbaric practices, don't you think? I mean, we don't want to be like "the Wild West" and help all those "bad guys," do we?
A man attending a block party as part of the National Night Out anti-crime initiative was shot and killed in Paterson, N.J. [More]I hate it
Bad guys are helped [More]Maybe once in a while they will be.
"Caroline is a lovely young woman," her attorney, Michael Bachner, said in a statement. [More]She sounds lovely. It figures she's an outspoken Obama supporter. He thinks what belongs to others is his to take and use as he sees fit, too.
Police arrested 24-year-old Melodie Brevard of Southeast. She is charged with assault with intent to kill. [More]And of course, in Washington DC, the only way to stop such a lovely, knife-wielding young woman is by risking your own life and tackling her. I wonder if her almost certainly "liberal" NPR intern victim learned anything about the price of defenselessness?
Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette [More]Hmmm...
To prove how dangerous "allowing" such people to keep guns is, they've accumulated three tragic incidents over the past six years, and offer a seemingly authoritative pronouncement...[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a morally bankrupted editorial.
Tarry town August 5 1778
We Marched from thence and Joined the Grand Armey at the White Plains and on the 6th Instant the Brigade Passed muster [More]
Authorities identified the third victim of a bear attack in a campground near Yellowstone National Park as a 21-year-old man from Colorado. [More]Does Colleen Kollar-Kotelly know about this?
Akron police are looking for a man who robbed a Newton Street bar and pistol-whipped several patrons just after midnight Tuesday. [More]What the...???
Should Gun Safety Be Taught in Schools? Perspectives of Teachers [More]The only ones who would answer "No" are unqualified to teach it.
Anyone with basic knowledge of the issue would suspect the gun in question was really a semi-auto, as opposed to a submachine gun and that the staff writer simply doesn't know the difference. And that's just what the Violence Policy Center wants them to think... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an old trick that still works on the self-styled "opinion-making class." The bottom line is, they're either ignorant, in which case they're engaging in journalistic malpractice, or they're evil, willfully propagating lies to advance a statist agenda.
August 4, 1778 - Continental soldiers and 34 men of the Wyoming Independent Company, under the command of Colonel Zebulon Butler, march into Wyoming Valley and establish "Camp Westmoreland" at Wilkes-Barre. [More]
Yeah, I can't imagine either.
No, this isn't an anti-Semitic rant from a hate-motivated supremacist. It's an appeal from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership to help finance their new documentary, "No Guns for Jews."FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans. [More]"It's own rules."
U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester both said Monday they support confirming Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice. [More]Aid and comfort.
Regular readers will recognize reporting events like this is quite a departure from what I usually cover. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explains why I've been away for over a week. I've been covering the 2010 IPSC Pan American Shotgun Championship for American Trigger Sports Network at the Park Mammoth Resort Rockcastle Shooting Center in KY.
"The whole town in some great confusion, not knowing what they should be at, some moving their goods out to the lines, the officers all bringing their luggage into the town. Constant fatigue for the men, horses and oxen; no rest by day or night... When I look over the list of my friends on both sides of the question, my heart shudders at the thought, what numbers must be slain, both so obstinate, so determined. Well may we say, what havoc does ambition make! Cursed Frenchmen! they [the Americans] would not have come, had it not been for you." [More]
