These "Soldiers" are NOT Soldiers, people! Even in the crappiest shithole, we still have access to money and communications! No official military address ends with a .com or a .us. [More]Nicki warns us of some lowdown Internet scammers.
“Fine”? Did a government official just admit the city extorts "a sum imposed as punishment for an offense" for exercising a Constitutionally-recognized right? Or does he just personally believe gun owners need to be punished, often, and by someone who knows how? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner notes how rank hath its privileges in Furious Mike Paradise, and the rest of us be damned.
I have been witness to a great and important revolution this morning, which took place while the greatest part of the world was asleep. Like many state-revolutions, its first beginnings were almost undiscernible; but the progress, though gradual, was steady, and the event decisive. A while ago darkness reigned. Had a man then dropped, for the first time, into our world, he might have thought himself banished into a hopeless dungeon. How could he expect light to rise out of such a state? And when he saw the first glimmering of dawn in the east, how could he promise himself that it was the forerunner of such a glorious sun as has since arisen! With what wonder would such a new-comer observe the bounds of his view enlarging, and the distinctness of objects increasing from one minute to another; and how well content would he be to part with the twinklings of the stars, when he had the broad day all around him in exchange! I cannot say this revolution is extraordinary, because it happens every morning; but surely it is astonishing, or rather it would be so, if man was not astonishingly stupid. [More]
I am establishment when it comes to guns. I support Florida's concealed-weapons law and the Stand Your Ground law. I cheered when the Supreme Court overturned the gun ban in Washington, D.C. I'll be heading for the gun range this weekend.Yeah, sure, dickhead. Throw open carriers under the bus and call them exhibitionists. What a gun rights champ you are! What an unholy spawn!
Liberals think I'm the unholy spawn of Charlton Heston and Marion Hammer.
But this is too much. [More]
Greetings,I don't expect this "they make us all look bad" ivory tower sterile bee queen Thomas to learn anything from a warrior explaining reality to him. Anyone who dismisses men who "guard with jealous attention the public liberty" as "silly" is most probably an ineducable fool, who will simply be astonished into paralysis the day his illusions come crashing down on him.
Read your article from my desk in Kuwait. I am deployed here and from Florida. I am involved in the 2A rights movement, but you misunderstand the motives. You also misunderstand the process. And the history. Prior to the Jack Hagler Act in 1987, open carry was the only way in Florida except for discretionary conceal carry (local police decided whether or not to grant a CCW license.) And people DID openly carry.
Before continuing, I must comment on the "Hollywood" term gunslingers-a very yellow journalistic term to use in your article and besides, in the old west, "gunslingers" were not called that at all, they were called "shootists."
The motive is not centrally one about guns. It is about liberty and individual sovereignty-our founders intended the states to be; except for some very limited--and also carefully enumerated-powers, reserved to the Federal Government and only the Federal government, sovereign entities and individuals were largely sovereigns able to exercise any non-prohibited powers (c.f. the tenth amendment) and otherwise subject to the constitutional laws of the union and the state they lived in and the statute laws as well. Even sovereign entities are subject to the law.
The primary purpose of the Bill of Rights (BOR) is to limit government. The Preamble to the BOR says so, in fact. It does so by enumerating PRE-EXISTING rights that government must not encroach upon. And one of them is the right to keep and bear arms. Numerous writings of the founders (which I will provide to you upon request) make it clear that it is first a prophylactic measure against tyranny and second as a remedy to tyranny if the prophylactic measure fails.
Exactly what do you think it means in the Declaration of Independence when Jefferson writes:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
He was speaking not just about events then but a truism for all times really. It is an insurrectionist philosophy.
Government SHOULD fear rebellion. They SHOULD fear the people and that is not possible if the people are estranged from arms or are disarmed-thus the real purpose of gun control is not crime control, but simply control. Let me give you an example of how different things are: When I was a boy of 8 before the Gun Control Act of 1968, the year I turned 9, There were ads in the Back of Boys' Life for Marlin and Winchester Rifles we could order (and many of us did) and have delivered by US Post to our doors. We could also order DEWATs typically for $99. You'll just have to look that up as a homework assignment. But I digress.
The right enumerated in the 2A does not say you can exercise it only if you prove to some government official that you are trained or worthy in some way; it is absolute. The right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Government is forbidden to regulate arms and this amendment, protecting a PRE-EXISTING right came in AFTER the commerce clause and thus easily supersedes it, and would be recognized as such if the judiciary itself were not corrupt and assisting the other two branches of government in their encroachment of powers.
If someone abuses that by using their right criminally or negligently (perhaps by lack of training) THEN there are consequences. In a FREE society people are FREE to act. The legal term for preventing someone from committing an undesirable act is known as "prior restraint," and although the term is used in publishing, it is equally applicable here. It is not tolerated with regard to the First Amendment and we can ill afford to tolerate it in regards to the Second.
To continue with motives and process: gun laws in the US did not spring up all at once. They likely will have to be undone piecemeal as well. Reestablishing open carry in Florida together with Shall Issue Conceal Carry is the next step toward Constitutional Carry. Only 3 states have that so far: Vermont, Alaska, and most recently Arizona, but a fourth also out west, will soon be joining the other three. But let me state this most emphatically: THE REQUIREMENT OF LICENSES TO EXERCISE ANY RIGHT IS OFFENSIVE. How would you like to have to obtain a license to exercise your first amendment rights or to vote? Hmm?
Also in our cross hairs is the most egregious and harmful law with regard to the ability to defend against tyranny, which is the obscene National Firearms Act of 1934 most recently amended by the Oxymoronically-named Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. This law closed off all new full auto sales to the public, artificially increasing the values of those weapons remaining that are transferrable.
Finally, if you REALLY want to understand us, I suggest reading Unintended Consequences by John Ross. It is now quite an expensive book and available in Hardcover only. I treasure my copy bought years ago.
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Smith's goal is an ambitious one — to be the attorney who argues the deciding case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court about where handguns should be reasonably prohibited. [More]Go ahead.
Guess what, anti-gun and asleep-at-the-switch Garden Staters: You're on your own. You always have been. That this realization hasn't been forced on you--yet--has been more a matter of odds than anything.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at some talk about grip-loosening. Expect it to remain talk unless someone forces the issue. Whether that that someone will be the courts or a fed-up citizenry remains to be seen.
So what is New Jersey's largely pro-citizen disarmament political class doing to face a reality they can no longer keep buried? [More]
Jailer suspected of letting boyfriend use badge, gun and uniform in robbery [More]
ATF Agent Tom Mangan says the split-second decision to end the man's life, was the right one, "Based on what occurred here today, the actions of the agents was justified," said Mangan. [More]Well, as long as a trusted voice like Tom Mangan says it's justified...
Swedish police hunt serial shooter [More]In spite of all their "gun control" laws?
So, if we follow the money, where does it lead? [More]
Organizers of a weekend gun buyback program in New Bedford say they took about 140 weapons off city streets, three times as many as a similar event last year. [More]I guess as long as they don't snitch the sheep oughtta be alright. Until one of those wolves who don't turn in the tools of their trade for gift cards decide they want something, and don't care if you give it to them or not, because they're gonna take it regardless.
If Bloomberg is going to be remembered for something, it ought to be that, for gun laws as tough as there are anywhere. [More]
Sunday, the Bronx cop said, "You know what would be pleasurable? About 8,000 more police on the street."
In deciding whether Leonardo Quintana should be reinstated as an officer for the Austin Police Department, an arbitrator used the lowest common denominator to give him his job back. Everyone else who got drunk kept their jobs, so Quintana should not be the first cop in recent years to lose his job for getting plastered and then getting behind the wheel. Got that? [More]Yeah.
A tough-as-nails off-duty NYPD cop yesterday foiled an armed heist while she was getting her hair done at a Brooklyn salon -- trading bullets with a wildly firing thug in a spectacular shootout, sources said. [More]Guess what would have happened had an Only One not been on premises?
That’s all we need to know. Harry Reid gave up all expectations of support from gun owners when he made the political choice to support Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. It doesn’t matter what else he has done that can be construed as “pro-gun.” He’s been given two shots at doing the right thing in this most important of tests, and he’s failed both times, opting for party loyalty über alles. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks at someone who broke his oath to a signed document. I guess it wasn't notarized.
Atta girl, Martha! Use the money you would have spent on gas to help up your stopping power from that .32. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the best laid plans of mice and "Only Ones."
It's important to recall that David Koresh offered to speak with the government, too, before their murderous raid, which a peaceable conversation could have preempted entirely. They refused. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes we can all help in trying to ensure history doesn't repeat itself.
I have a happy outcome to yesterday's column about a pro-gun candidate for the Georgia State Senate who was given a failing grade by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund. They have changed her grade to "AQ" (based on her questionnaire response, as she has not held office to be rated on), and gone one step further and endorsed her! [More]This certainly warrants a second Gun Rights Examiner column today. Thanks to those of you who joined in. To those of you who did not, please use this example to consider the potential of doing simple requested actions if enough join in.
Two U.S. air marshals who arrested the wife of a Brazilian judge on a flight to Rio de Janeiro -- and were themselves arrested and had their passports confiscated by Brazilian authorities -- fled the country using alternate travel documents rather than face what they believed to be trumped-up charges, sources said. [More]It actually sounds like they were in the right, and we know how corrupt and unjust foreign laws are.
The unspoken danger, aside from the outrageousness of this intentional legal paradox, is the practical effect that foreign law trumps the Bill of Rights in the eyes of the court. Spreading the gospel in China is also equivalent to a felony, or violating Sharia "law" in Saudi Arabia...It's the law!
3 men posing as ATF agents break into home, kill resident [More]But your honor, I guess I've read so many news accounts about the "Fauxnly Ones" that I reacted instinctively in self-defense when they attacked me...how was I supposed to know, when anyone can get a badge--and it's not exactly like they were behaving any differently...
How many incidences of violence where someone needed a gun to protect themselves in the 38 years of the fair have there been? Zero!
Man in Jets jersey robs Manhattan Beach bankApparently a note and a green shirt is all it takes when you're disarmed and conditioned to give 'em what they want (hoping against hope what they want isn't you).
I'm afraid of guns. When you get right down to it, I abhor them. [Read]
I used to date a guy who owned a handgun and regularly trekked into the woods with his friends to shoot. I made him move the small gun safe from beneath the bed to another room before I'd agree to stay overnight.
A single, 31-year-old woman in Michigan who posted a note on her church bulletin board seeking a "Christian roommate" to share her residence has been cited by the state for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against those of other faiths.[More]I guess all those men seeking men ads are illegal now?
But, he said, "Do I see our government today anywhere close to that point? No, I don't." [More]Really? Not even a little close?
This is arbitrary tyranny. It is nothing less than un-American, and Mariscal, who like all public officials took an oath of office attesting his fidelity to the Constitution, ought to be ashamed of himself. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows how even banning guns will not be enough. The very idea must be eradicated from the public consciousness.
Before he went into the Big House, where more than 113,000 people had gathered on Oct. 9, a police officer ensured his weapons were empty and double-checked that he did not have any ammunition on him, said Diane Brown, a spokeswoman for the university's department of public safety. [More]That's some police work, ensuring none of the other 112,999+ attendees was his ammo-smuggling accomplice...
There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
A Denver Police officer is behind bars after investigators say he coerced a woman under arrest into performing a sex act to avoid going to jail. [More]Guess he really blew it that time. Or she did.
In the release, the sheriff calls the rocker "a great American" and says the two men have similar goals. [More]Really, Sheriff? So you would remember your oath to the Constitution and not arrest him if he acted in front of you like "shall not be infringed" actually means what it says? Assuming that's his goal, too?
Gun violence victims honored with dafodils [More]I wonder what actually works better--that or a "community vigil"...?
Wisconsin's law banning all felons from ever possessing a gun violates the 2nd Amendment, according to a lawyer for a man who has challenged the long-standing prohibition. [More]Speaking as an uncaught felon--and a "gun criminal" doing my utmost to "make us all look bad" at that, I approve of the concept.
NRA rates Diana Williams equivalent to this guy? Seriously? Even Harry Reid, who supported Obama, Holder, Sotomayor and Kagan got a "B." Not to mention close to five grand. "F's" should be reserved for enemies. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes with friends like PVF, who needs enemies? This is seriously unbelievable. There are a lot of pages to go over in the slideshow, so do reserve a few minutes for this one.
October 21, 1778
Commander Colins gives up on the attempts to free the Zebra and transfer his men and himself to the Nautilus. [More]
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A former Pleasant Hill police officer who stole methamphetamine from an evidence room and crashed his squad car was sentenced Friday to probation. [More]Comments indicate he suffered the loss of his family recently, so perhaps compassion is in order. For "Any Ones" acting out in such circumstances, not just "Only Ones"...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Haslam says he would sign legislation to eliminate Tennessee's permit requirements for carrying handguns in public, meaning most Tennesseans could go armed if they choose to do so. [More]Would he really?
He showed up at a Tennessee Firearms meeting last night. Me and a couple of other guys including Richard Hamblen got him to say he would sign legislation. This helps pressure the legislature.
This has been spreading all over Tennessee. It is a big deal because Haslam has a B rating with the NRA. He was a member of Bloomberg's Mayors against guns. As Mayor he oversaw the banning of guns in Knoxville City Parks.
That's pretty terrifying. Why wouldn't Australians want to make sure people like this are disarmed?
Why wouldn't we?
Could we if we wanted to? [More]
October 20, 1778
Commander Colins decided to wait no longer and attempted to get his ships back across the bar and back to New York. After several attempts the Nautilus made it. The attempts to free the flag ship H.M.S. Zebra were unsuccessful. [More]
Acting on behalf of a Georgia resident and honorably discharged Vietnam War veteran, the Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over enforcement of a federal statute that can deny gun rights to someone with a simple misdemeanor conviction on his record. [More]Excellent. I can't wait for them to win this case so that proper credit can be given.
The Toronto policeman dubbed "Officer Bubbles" over an incident during the G20 summit has launched a million-dollar lawsuit against website YouTube. Const. Adam Josephs filed a $1.2-million lawsuit over cartoons that have surfaced since the incident. [More]What, like this one?
We need to elect candidates who understand that it's not the size of government that's the issue. [Read]
I'm not going to let you privatize MY Social Security.Think about that.
So worn down by the violence, so subservient and submissive had Bandar become that he was incapable of any effective resistance. [More]Bandarizing--now there's a concept! Have you been bandarized?
Here's the thing: Once it was determined he did not pose a danger to himself or others, why was Aitken not released and his property returned to him? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes it's a Jersey thing.
There are several weighty reasons why the Army should be held in as collected a state as possible. vzt The safety of it – its readiness to act offensively upon any opportunity being given by the Enemy. Its discipline. Its reputation, for if the Army is dispersed into [struck: many] [inserted: several] cantonments or not The Calls of [strike-out] many officers who have [2] Families will be so great as to oblige them to obtain [struck: either] furlowe or leave the service – The chance will be equal that the officer who go home for the winter are as good as any in the service. If the army is divided in to several cantonments the loss of these officers for the time will be much greater than if the Army is collected. Duty in the Cantonments will be much more more long than in the main Army. The men will maraud. and most probably the body of troops will be much more unfit at the opening of the Campaign to take the field than when they went into Quarters – [More]
Some police believe videotaping officers poses broad risks that reach beyond Internet embarrassments: It could cause officers to hesitate in life-threatening situations. [More]Depending on what the situation is and whose life is being threatened, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Helmke to Pastor: Have More Concern For Fifth Commandment Than Second Amendment [Read]Pastor to Helmke: Explain that to guys like these, will you? In person?
Hundreds of weapons were recovered today in both Atlantic City and Pleasantville.You know, "an effort to make the community safer."
It's all part of a program that calls for surrending [sic] your guns and getting cash in return. [More]
In a campaign season of over-the-top ads, one stands out.Guess they either never heard of "shall not be infringed," or else "Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian."
A series of mailers accuse at least two Republican legislative candidates of supporting convicted rapists’ and other felons’ possession of handguns.
The claim, made by the Nevada State Democratic Party, is false, according to gun law experts in Nevada and nationwide. [More]
A mine accident strands dozens deep underground. Rescuers from the surface employ an escape tube to bring them to the surface, to reunite with the loved ones they left behind. And as ridiculous as he knows it to be, one of the survivors can't help but think "Ya got me, McDade." [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column takes you on a family tour, down a mine, up an escape tube and into the past...Y'know, this is too convoluted to really explain. If you're intrigued by the teaser, you're just going to have to go read it.
GENERAL ORDERS
Head Quarters, Frederick'sburgh, Sunday, October 18, 1778.
Parole Tunbridge. Countersigns Thrace, Tenbury.
Lieut. Augustine Taylor 19 of the 7th. Connecticutt Regiment is appointed Pay Master to the same from the 27th. day of July last.
[Note:Lieutenant Taylor was transferred to the First Connecticut Regiment in January, 1781, and resigned in June of that year. ]
Colo. Greaton is appointed President of the Genl. Court Martial which is to sit tomorrow morning ten o'Clock, vice Colo. Patten [More]
NRA is a single issue organization, and cannot involve itself in other concerns.[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column expresses some of those concerns.
New York's Finest Police Cover-UpWhat, you mean it's not just "a few bad apples"? At least this explains why more don't come forward...
Ten cops beat up cabbie, then cuff one of their own for trying to stop them. [More]
