Notes from the Resistance...
If we're to listen to Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Mr. Stilp and everyone else on the list should now be designated "prohibited persons," and forbidden from buying a gun. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column takes the "gun control" scheme du jour to its ridiculous and inevitable conclusion.
The St. Johnsville Enterprise News...published an account of Adam Helmer’s heroic run of September 16, 1778, made to save the German Flats settlers from Brant’s raiders. Helmer’s run was successful and only two of the people of the western Mohawk Valley settlements met death when the red and white savages destroyed houses, barns and crops. [More]
A former suburban Philadelphia police officer accused of punching a convenience store manager who asked for ID when he tried to buy chewing tobacco has been convicted of simple assault and harassment but acquitted of making terroristic threats. [More]A split verdict and a split lip...
Obama gives TCU rifle team a warm welcome at White House [More]And he says he shoots with the Secret Service!
[Link and graphic via Brian F]
Rick Henderson, consignment owner of the store, says the boy was not acting strangely. He says a large banner advertised that it was a Halloween store. [More]Don't "Only Ones" also have superior powers of observation...?
We lost because of the invasion and expansionist desires of our enemy...[Read]Maybe this explains why Calderon is so hot on disarming us while the soft expansionist invasion continues.
“The actions of Matthew Morris are a stain on the honor and good name of every member of the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office including me,” Mascara said. [More]Sounds like that's not all it's a stain on...
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic--purely symbolic--move. ... Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.The Cliffs of Insanity gives us more reasons to dismiss him for the neocon sterile queen bee that he is.
There is nothing you can do about the crazy 5 percent except ask the police to keep an eye on them during large public events, where they sometimes appear carrying machine guns just to make a political point about the Second Amendment. [More]So, Gail Collins...name one "large public event" where that happened?
But strictly as a health matter, getting rid of guns is a no-brainer. [More]Here's the Braniac who asserts that.
As for Iron Mountain's HR bureaucrats, what is with these control freak martinets who think a paycheck gives them authority to dictate the life choices and freedoms their employees may exercise? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column analyzes a policy that just might end up catching some antis in a trap of their own making.
On September 15, 1778, General Pulaski reported to Washington ready for action with his Legion. [More]
The public, on the other hand, must recognise that to lose confidence in the police and dismiss their efforts outright in favour of their own ‘security’ methods and even vigilante justice, is to put the entire country in a vicious circle of criminality from which there may be no return. [More]So the only solution is to abdicate all personal responsibility and trust your life and freedom to the mercy of the "Only Ones"--and those directing them...
Senators, on the other hand, are elected by and represent all voters of their state. When the House considers a bill, individual members tend to base their votes primarily on how the bill might impact the people of their local district, while Senators tend to consider how the bill would impact the nation as a whole. This is just as the Founders intended. [More]No, the Founders intended Senators to be chosen by their state legislatures. But don't take my word for it.
'I got stabbed - and people just stared!' Waitress' bloody tale after West Side subway attack [More]Fortunately, Mayor Bloomberg, accompanied by taxpayer-funded bodyguards, was unharmed in the incident.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex. [More]Stimulus, maybe. Economic? Not so much.
I call on NRA's Political Victory Fund to RELEASE THEIR CURRENT GRADES for Sharron Angle and Harry Reid, so that Nevada voters--and all gun owner "stakeholders" in that election--can use that as a guide.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column offers a "compromise" that even the non-absolutists ought to be able to support--at least, the honest ones.
I understand you don't want to give an endorsement, Mr. Cox--but post the grades. [More]
September 14, 1778 Benjamin Franklin appointed minister to the Court of France. [More]
From: SJC Majority (Judiciary-Dem)I also got this note with the forwarded email:
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 8:57 AM
To:
Subject: SJC ADVISORY: Notice of Full Committee Hearing POSTPONEMENT - 9/14/10 - "Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process"
Importance: High
For Planning Purposes
Monday, September 13, 2010
Contact: 202-224-7703
NOTICE OF FULL COMMITTEE HEARING POSTPONEMENT - The Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on “Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process” scheduled for Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 10:00 a.m., in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building has been postponed.
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David - I wanted to alert you to the postponement of tomorrow’s “Firearms in Commerce” hearing. A Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing scheduled late Friday, coupled with a cloture vote on the Senate floor, both scheduled for the time this hearing would be underway, have posed multiple scheduling conflicts. I will keep you posted about rescheduling the hearing.
I still can't believe the knife I was holding was responsible for all those injuries. [More]Me neither.
Militias seek official sanction as ‘state defense forces’ [More]Huh. I could swear that's not the first time I've heard someone suggest that they already are or something...
"This is the way your clothing would be if you were carrying a gun in your waistband and it went off," a police source said. [More]Paige? Paging Mr. Paige...
Yesterday morning I received the GO-NH voter's guide, in which they've rated candidates on RKBA. Regular readers will recall that I spent 7+ months trying to get candidates to answer the Gun Rights Questionnaire and rating them. Some readers may even recall that GO-NH Prez Kopacz expressed an interest in being provided with the candidates' responses for rating purposes of their own. So much for that idea. I knew there was a problem when GO-NH wouldn't even link to my GRQ project.Carl Bussjaeger explains why he's annoyed. With details.
So I expected to be annoyed when the GO-NH guide came out. I am. [More]
Yet it’s only as the actor/director sits for an interview with the Star, talking about his new TIFF Gala premiere The Conspirator, that he suddenly realizes the irony of being both the pistol-packing Sundance Kid and an outspoken supporter of gun control.Now there's a deep thinker--assuming we believe him.
“It’s funny — that’s the first time it’s ever come to my mind,” said Redford, 74, smiling at the thought. [More]
The National Rifle Association has long disputed the common claim that 90 percent of guns used in crimes in Mexico come from the U.S., in part, because of the fact that there are so many guns unaccounted for. [More]No, we dispute it because "the common claim" isn't true. Ain't no "in part" about it. And the only reason it's common is because there's no shortage of useful idiots with megaphones to parrot the meme.
A firearms lobby group is calling for a register to stop what it describes as people unfit to hold firearm licences obtaining them. [More]You mean in addition to the Kapos?
Do we really want to put our faith in a probable lame duck (due to age) "progressive" who has been scorned by "the gun lobby" and patronized by one of its most influential arch enemies? And one who uses an anti-gun "litmus test" for loyalty at that? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at how the right motivation affects "loyalty"--especially when the desire for power and control over others is a factor.
September 13, 1778
Raid on German Flats, New York
This town, now known as Herkimer, is attacked by Iroquois led by Chief Joseph Brant, who leads a force of 150 Indians and 300 Loyalists. Although the town, consisting of about 70 buildings, is burned to the ground, only 3 individuals die in the engagement. [More]
Every month, GUNS Magazine posts online its issues from half a century before, giving us a great window into a past some of us are old enough to remember... A free download of the September 1960 issue is now online. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column takes a brief trip to the past.
