If that can be established, it will lend credence to the suspicion that this entire incident is one of abuse of authority in order to get back at a citizen for knowing—and insisting on his rights. And realizing their liability now that it's been exposed, those who started this fight are trying to cut a deal. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at how authoritarians react to well-made points.
December 6, 1778
"Arrival at Quebec of the prisoners taken by Carleton during his raid. Among them were Nathan and Marshall Smith of Bridport, Benjamin Kellogg, Ward and Joseph Everest of Addison, Holcomb Spaulding, two Ferrises, Granby of Panton, and Hinckly of Shoreham. The last two were liberated to care for the women and children, who, after Burgoyne's defeat, had returned to their abandoned homes. Kellogg and Everest had been partners in the carrying trade, owning sloops together. Kellogg, after escaping the following spring and being retaken, died in prison during the winter of '79. Everest succeeded in escaping a second time from his captors and finally reached home. The party escaping from Quebec had only a small sack of flour, a frying pan, hatchet (or tomahawk) and small compass..." [More]
Why? Why would Brown be passing ATF information in their then-ongoing case? What should we infer from the fact that he forwarded it without comment? Why would he do this without first consulting Savage, or telling him afterward? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an interesting correspondence.
"The governor said Tuesday that the sale of a murder gun to a Cincinnati youth prompted him to advocate this course of action. He said he is looking into the possibility of asking the next legislature to make it a felony to obtain lethal weapons for minors and to require the licensing of firearms for private possession." [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column travels back in time a bit, and notes we didn't get where we are today by accident.
On Wednesday, the town's K-8 school was on lockdown, because a woman going through a divorce told officers that her husband might have been driving around with a gun. [More]See how easy it is? That's all it takes. And if they happen to get spooked and squeeze a few into him and it turns out he was unarmed, that's when department protocol kicks in.
Police are not releasing the officer's mugshot because he works in a sensitive role at Metro and cannot have his picture shown. [More]Yeah, besides, people who are in control of themselves tend to get a bit sensitive when some drunk with a gun and a badge starts ordering them around.
“As law enforcement officers, we are held to a higher standard..." [More]Yo, Chief Lopez: Is that like a standard talking point of yours or what?
It's the signature program for Baltimore police — curtail violence by getting guns off city streets. [More]Quite simply put, we will brook no competition.
Enter Jack Burch, CEO of Hill Country Shooting Sports Center in Kerrville, Texas. Burch approached Holda with courtesy and reason, and was responded to in kind. They conducted a conversation via email, and he obtained Dr. Holda’s permission to share his thoughts with a wider audience.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows some enlightenment happening in the most unlikely of places, an institute of "higher learning".
To that end, Mr. Burch is allowing me to share it with Gun Rights Examiner readers.[More]
Lee sent repeated letters to congressmen, members of the military, and the press attacking the character of Washington and complaining of mistreatment by the Continental Congress. After reading Lee's defamatory "Vindication," published in the Pennsylvania Packet on December 3, 1778, Colonel John Laurens challenged Lee to a duel over his slanderous remarks about Washington's character. In the duel, Lee was wounded and could not fight a second duel requested by General Wayne. [More]
An off-duty cop kills a man who finds the cop sleeping with his wife. Again, the force exonerates its own without charges being filed. [More]Yes, they think they can take it all.
Mostly trucks were being checked...[Read]
Women accused of hiding merchandise in body fat [More]I hope they used gloves to retrieve it, and that they're not going to restock it on the shelves.
This is not “just a few bad apples,” as the ubiquitous police [state] apologists would have us believe. For every one exposed, there’s an entire support system of co-workers, superiors and subordinates who witness attitudes, behaviors and actions every day and keep silent, going along to get along, to protect their own place at the table and/or activities. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a whole rotten barrel.
The evidence presented in the FBI affidavit offers no reason to believe that Mohamud intended to harm anyone before he fell under the influence of two undercover operatives from the Bureau's Homeland Security theater troupe. [More]So they set him up, they got him and it worked. It was in all the papers.
Negligent security measures.I'm not persuaded.
Failure to properly monitor the parking deck, which the complaint says UMW officials should have known to be dangerous.
Failure to warn students of dangers in the parking deck.
Failure to install and operate security cameras.
Failure to train security guards, campus police officers and others on how to report, investigate and prevent sexual assaults.
Failure to properly investigate complaints of rape and provide adequate security.
Georgia Gun Owners is creating a network of liberty and gun rights activists who:
Write letters to the editor to a local newspaper
Write guest Op-Eds in a local newspaper
Cut out and send in newspaper articles
Email online links to articles of interest
Call in to local talk radio stations
Arrange a media interview for a representative of Georgia Gun Owners
New East Palo Alto license plate readers will run plates through crime databases [More]Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce would like to hear why you will not be coming to East Palo Alto--not that you need this as an excuse.
"I'm all for it," said Tiburon resident Dorothy Larson. "I don't have any paranoia about (police) knowing when I'm coming and going. I don't know whyYour cattle car awaits, cud-chewer.
anybody would object to it."
First, the Obama Administration is so gutless, so feeble, that they were unwilling to take any aggressive action to shut down WikiLeaks...Second, it is possible that the Obama Administration did not care whether such information was released. [More]You forgot third: Eliminate the competition.
Woman gets $245,000 settlement in deputy sex assault lawsuitHow do I love the? Let me count the ways:
Single mother alleges that a sheriff's deputy touched her chest during a 2008 traffic stop, then followed her home and assaulted her in the driveway. The deputy faces a criminal trial in the incident as well as two others. [More]
Layoffs May Force Residents to Report Crime Online...You know:
The department has been considering using an online self-reporting system called Cop-Logic. It's a system that is currently used by 150 police departments nationwide including in Cleveland and Columbus. [More]
If they’re to be consistent in their demands, the Brady Campaign must show no favoritism: Mark Ruffalo must be disarmed.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column focuses on a threat to national security so grave, it may even eclipse the giant inflatable pink pig menace.
Our national security depends on it. [More]
Fuser was there only to create a diversion and on December 1, decided to withdraw back to Major Prévost. As the Royal Americans left the town a detachment of Patriot horsemen arrived and fired a few shots, but to no effect. [More]
Proponents hailed Heller and McDonald as setbacks for gun control advocates. They predicted a shift in gun policy throughout the country.Ayup:
But so far it hasn’t happened that way. While there have been challenges throughout the country to local, state and federal gun laws, few have been successful. [More]
However, if they accept either Seegars or Parker, I believe the court will not dare say there is no individual rkba. But if they find there is one, it will be so heavily burdened with "reasonable restrictions" as to ensure the status quo. They'll never admit the truth unless someone, that would be us, has enough power to compel them.Men don't voluntarily give up power over others. There has to be an "or else" attached to if they don't, followed by a cost/benefit tradeoff analysis.
While this hardly touches on many of the issues we’ve discussed in this column, from arbitrary classifications to baffling rulings to motivated persecutions to perjury to unreliable records used to prosecute citizens, and much more, it’s at least a start.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes a move in the right direction. Whether enough momentum will build up or not is up to us, meaning your personal involvement is required.
To those of us who feel like we’ve been lonely voices in the wilderness—for a long time—it’s nice to be joined by another, especially one so prominent. [More]
Washington used the Middlebrook grounds again in the Winter of 1778–9. He brought about 8-10,000 troops to the camp site by November 30, 1778. Soldiers constructed cabins from logs covered with clay similar as they had done at Morristown. [More]
A pint can't hold a quart. If it holds a pint, it's doing the best it can.Personally, I'm about ready to go hold a fifth.
Somalian traders have been arming themselves with illegal weapons to defend themselves against gangs of ruthless robbers in Cape Town's townships. [More]Something must be done! For the children!
An alleged gang member who police say was behind 80 percent of the killings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the past 16 months was arrested over the weekend, officials said. [More]And here we all thought that 80% was due to weak American gun laws...I know, apples and oranges...
"i'm [sic] planning something big around a government building here in Broward County, maybe a post office, maybe even a school, I'm going to walk in and teach all the government hacks working there what the 2nd amendment is all about . . . [Read]
A pregnant woman in the Philippines has survived being stabbed 24 times in an attack allegedly led by two police officers facing robbery and extortion charges, police said on Friday. [More]Fortunately, they enjoy strongly enforced "gun control" laws over there...
"Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived."Of cabbage heads and kings...
"[T]he idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureate."
--Thomas Paine
So he can’t control himself and he won’t work to pay his own freight? But he wants to stake a claim on controlling you, your rights, and how the fruits of your labor are divvied up? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows how once more, the gun grabbers are allying themselves with criminals to push their citizen disarmament agenda.
We’ve covered the defamation/conflation angle from a gun owner perspective many times at Gun Rights Examiner. TSC expands that to show how other groups that the SPLC agenda finds convenient are also smeared in order to advance their agenda and bring in the cash. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes there's pretty damn good money to be made exploiting hate.
A “working group” has been established. A pledge of sorts to “make certain that ‘we get this right’” has been made, and we’re told to expect progress updates.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column relates an explosive new development and notes that not all interests have been invited to the table to discuss how the blasting might affect them.
So: crisis averted, our leaders are on the job and we can go back to sleep now, right?
Not so fast. Let’s take a closer look. [More]
Channel 2 Action News has learned a TSA security worker accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a woman had previously been convicted of misdemeanor harassment and stalking. [More]It's nice to know they're hiring qualified personnel for the job...
The Rise of Authoritarianism and How US Law Enforcement Can Take a Stand for Freedom [More]I know there have been hard feelings vented at Oath Keepers because they don't do what some of their critics expect of them.
Both animals advanced aggressively on me, barking loudly, snarling, and baring their teeth. [More]So what would you do if this happened to you--in your own driveway?
You are very dangerous people. [Read and watch]
The man found to be carrying guns while waiting in line for a Black Friday sale said in court this morning that he's a retired federal law enforcement officer. [More]Well then what's the problem? Aren't these guys supposed to be among the "Only Ones" we can trust with guns...?
Left unsaid is whether the artists will also caution their patrons against the choices and behaviors that practically guarantee perpetuating crime, violence, dependency and failure to future generations. Not to mention the seriously skewed priorities and horizons of anyone who relies on rap for life guidance... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column takes a freestyling look at false leadership, betrayal, abdication and the futility of wishful thinking that ignores true solutions.
On the Part and in Behalf of the State of New Jersey, November 26, 1778.
Jno Witherspoon
Nath. Scudder [More]
Here's my traditional Thanksgiving Day offering for readers of WarOnGuns and this column...[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column departs from tradition by featuring not one, but two evil butterballs.
Hincker further stated that university officials believe the evidence will show that Tech acted appropriately in response to the shootings. [More]Yeah, besides, haven't we already established they implemented "a very sound policy"?
West Memphis Police Now Using Assault Rifles on Traffic Stops [More]
A federal law enforcement officer mistakenly left a loaded gun magazine that was found Tuesday on a Southwest Airlines plane, officials said. [More]Don't worry: the "Only One" who did it "will be given remedial training."
The police are investigating whether the Agatuccis fired shots at Scott. When they conclude the investigation they will forward the information to the state's attorney and leave it to him to decide if any of the Agatuccis will face charges, according to Peoria Public Information Officer Doug Burgess. [More]Y'know, I wouldn't recommend firing shots in the air to warn people or chasing after someone shooting wildly, but I certainly would recommend keeping the dang mouth shut after the fact in a situation like this...
Member of Mayor Bloomberg's security detail accused of shooting gal pal's ex-boyfriend [More]Yep, these guys are the "Only Ones"...
'I just want to tell these people that I feel disgusted feeling other peoples private parts, but I cannot because I am a professional.' [More]Now that's funny right there.
Hagmann’s information, if confirmed, presents a new danger in light of the government‘s predilection for blacklists, and the stated goal of the anti-freedom camp to use those lists to prohibit gun purchases. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at yet another potential for discouraging those pesky, presumptuous protesters who dare challenge the lawgivers.
November 24, 1778 at Bulltown Swamp, Georgia - On 24 November at Bulltown Swamp the Georgians (200 men) encountered Prévost’s army and fought a delaying action. Colonel Baker was wounded in the action but his army continued to skirmish, waiting for Brigadier General James Screven’s reinforcements to arrive so that they could cut off Major Prévost’s force.
Conclusion: Draw. Casualties: Americans: 1k, 3w [More]
