Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Today's Five-Minute Activism Task

Reid & McConnell are reportedly about to change the Senate rules. It’s probably a harbinger of sell-outs to come. But Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is apparently about to conclude an agreement with Majority Leader Harry Reid which would sell out pro-gunners and decimate minority rights under the Senate rules. 
You know the drill, or you should by now. [Read ,do and share]

Here's my proof of delivery:

No "Buts" About It

We just saw some big "but" excuse-making from a double-talking Oath Weaseler.  Here's a sheriff who does a much better job, and unlike some who just pledge not to enforce federal laws, this guy promises to not "stand idly by," kind of like his colleagues up in Utah.


Click on graphic to enlarge.
[Via Andrea Shea King]

Stop the Threat:The Apartment

From American Trigger Sports Network:

All new episode: This week's crime scene: Three college students cheer their team into victory at their apartment, fueled by beer and chips, when they hear a noise that alerts them to thieves trying to steal their car...

Pursuit Channel (DirecTV 604 PRST/ Dish /Network 240 HUNT)

Showtimes

Wednesdays
2:00pm PST
5:00pm EST

Thursdays
10:00pm PST

Fridays-Shooting Destination Night
6:00pm PST
1:00am EST/ 9:00pm EST

Don't Let the Door...

And good riddance. [Read]

Trail of Tears

It seems to me "American Indian activist Suzanne Blue Star Boy" might benefit from doing less listening to Molly Smith and more to Matt Bracken...

J. Grayson Robinson Has a Big "But"

I took an oath BUT I'm simply not qualified to know what I was swearing to... [Read]

The First Installment

Cuomo proposes $36M for newly tightened gun laws [More] 
Slavery isn't free, you know...

8 Out of 10 Comrades Agree

A 2011 Levada poll indicated that 80 percent of the population does not want looser gun laws. [More]
Gee, imagine that. It doesn't work there, either, at least for its stated purpose, so those interested in power demand more of it and the cud-chewers swallow it right down.

Oh, for the good old days...


This Day in History: January 23

This park is named after the HMS Culloden, a British 74-gun warship sailing with the Channel Fleet during the American Revolutionary War. On January 23, 1781, as she was on her way to Newport, Rhode Island to intercept French ships attempting to run a British blockade, she ran into severe weather and ran aground at what is now called Culloden Point. [More]

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Why do you 'need assault rifles‘ or 'high-capacity‘ magazines?

"Essential Liberty" author Rob Olive brings up the fear factor, and he's not talking about the show. [Read]

‘Gun-free zone’ enables Texas campus shooting

[T]he college offers a variety of hiding, evacuating, wedging, locking, and other instructions depending on whether one is in a classroom or office, a hallway, an auditorium, open spaces, or “trapped with the gunmen,” in which case the first rule listed is “don’t do anything to provoke them.”

They actually say that. [More]
This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner report notes in a sane world, those inclined toward misbehaving would be the ones worried about doing the provoking.

Lessons of History

Moreover, many of them expressed their unwillingness for any further compromise on this matter.  THAT was historic. [More]
History is written by the victors.  Let us be the ones who write it.

Why Gun Control is Logically Flawed

A-yup. Anybody who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian. [Read]

We're the Only Ones Coaxing Enough

A central Indiana jail officer has been charged with coaxing female inmates into stripping for him in return for favors. [More] 
I love the line at the end about his wife making him unfriend them on Facebook.

[Via Kevin Starrett]

We're the Only Ones Aggravated Enough

A police officer is in jail, charged with attempted aggravated murder, officials said. Senior law enforcement sources confirm Officer Timothy Cannon, who works for the Hillsboro Police Department, is accused of shooting at a Washington County Sheriff's deputy who responded to a domestic violence call at the officer's home on Sunday. Cannon is 46-years-old, and a 13-year veteran of Hillsboro's patrol division, Hillsboro police said. [More
I wonder how many citizens he got aggravated with in that time...?

[Via Kevin Starrett]

Apologia for Church in Vatican Radio gun rights attack rings hollow

Oh [papal] bull, and "careless" my eye -- how insulting. The buck stops at the top. The captain is responsible for what the crew does under his command. Especially if it involves his senior officers acting in his and its name. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column carries on with a sermon started on Sunday.

Shock Claim

And it's not coming from someone easy to dismiss outright. [Read]

Laughable

True, but what's troubling and telling is there was no one in "America's Newsroom" knowledgeable enough to stop him right in his tracks and take him to task. [Read]

Today's Five-Minute Activism Task

Step One: Read this.

Step Two: Send the message. 

Step Three: Tell others.

I did.

Crazy, Man!

Mental-Case / Heroin-Addict Balladeers for Gun Control [Read

Alrighty, then.

We're the Only Ones Familial Enough

Maybe it was a defective badge...? [Read]

[Via several of you]

Sell-Out Prep?

Kurt explains. [Read]

It's really quite simple: Unless the message is WE WILL NOT BE SCAPEGOATED  and END "GUN-FREE ZONES," followed by an unequivocal "OR ELSE," it's all just a masked preemptive surrender.

Can we please just everybody, stop everything and right now do this?

We're the Only Ones Understanding Enough

"As a law enforcement officer for over 20 years, I understand the importance of instituting a new policy on mandating the limits of bullets that a regular citizen can possess, but as a matter of fact the bad guys are not going to follow this law," said Norman Seabrook, president of the correction officers union, the city's second largest. [More]
You can tell Norm what you think about that if you like.  You can also leave a comment. Not that I expect them to post this:
[Via Neil W]
 

Free People Will Not Give Up Their Guns

Neema & Frank Vedadi's coverage of the "Gun Appreciation Day" rally in Austin, Texas January 19th 2013.  [Watch]

Silent But Deadly

Quiet conversations... [Read]

UPDATE: After posting this I was sent this link about Wal-Mart and ammo.

A Moral Quandary


So basically, the principal is saying he has no principles...?  Because if he did, he'd turn off the spigot and turn up the alternative fundraising. [Read]

Seems to me the moral thing to do would be to fire his ignorant, morally-challenged and ungrateful @$$, and get somebody in there capable of teaching children that their lives are precious and deserve to be protected so they can learn and grow into freedom-minded individuals.  Until that happens, the benefactor ought to suspend all giving and find a more worthwhile and appreciative recipient, not that Wal-Mart has proven itself to be a paragon of gun virtue.

Hey, maybe CSGV could make up the $250,000 shortfall, being the big, grassroots-supported national organization that it is ... just put out a call to all it's members to donate ten grand each ...

Making the Grade

Wolf voted for the assault weapons ban in 1994 but also supported letting it expire in 2004 because, he said in a recent interview, “the statistics showed it didn’t do any good.” Wolf also backed the 1993 Brady bill requiring background checks and waiting periods for many handgun purchases. [More]
And NRA still gave him a B+?



Live Enslaved and Die

You might want to ask yourself how this can happen in the supposed "Live Free or Die" State. [Read]

Easy.

Local Second Amendment Sisters activists are trying to drum up attendance:
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY, Room 204, Legislative Office Building behind the NH State House- 1:30 p.m. 

HB 135, relative to physical force in defense of a person and relative to the definition of non-deadly force.

Naturally, this is in full play.  I guess it's all an abstraction to most.  Still, it is kind of pathetic when a guy in Ohio has done more to get the word out with just this one blog post than the vast majority of NH gun owners. 

Not that I'm singling them out as the only "Profiles in Apathy."

The Million Mutton March

[More]

Disenfranchising Minorities

And from basic health care, at that:

If you purchase a consumer product in which pseudoephedrine is the only active ingredient, you are required to sign a log book that may be accessible to law enforcement officers and to provide a government-issued identification card to verify your identity.
Are you going to stand for that, Mr. Holder?

This Day in History: January 22

Lt. Kemp hired a guide named William to take him to Capt. McKay's camp on Matthew's Bluff. William did not care for the Loyalists and he alerted Capt. McKay who set up an ambush. Lt. Kemp's troops rode into the ambush site and at the first shot the Loyalists fled without firing a shot, forcing the Rangers to surrender. [More]

Monday, January 21, 2013

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys

Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes’ speaks at the Coeur d’ Alene rally... [Watch]

'Ban online ammo sales, murder the NRA!'

Haters gonna hate. [Read]

Police Chief Seeks Nullification of Unconstitutional Gun Control

I joined Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers over a week back to interview Chief Mark Kessler of Gilberton Borough, PA.  It's been posted but I didn't know. [More]

Meeting Reality

The Bellarmine Forum shares some inconvenient and thus underreported truths. [Read]

I'll Be Joining "The Revolution" In About an Hour

With Jim and Trav.

Find a station near you (it shouldn't be hard--there are 408 of them nationwide including American Forces Radio Network) or to listen from their website.

About Last Night

Here's last night's Armed American Radio show.  I was in the third hour "Round Table" with Alan Korwin and George "Mad Ogre" Hill.

That All Depends on the Meaning of the Term "Law-Abiding"

See, Mayor, the ones who adhere to "the supreme Law of the Land" won't be turning anything in, and the oath-breakers attempting home invasions will be the lawbreakers. [More]

And yeah, you're right, it won't end well. An example or two will convince others that being the ones who choose the time and the place is the preferred way of dealing with such "gun criminals."

[Via Ed D]

We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

I firmly and unapologetically believe that all federal laws and regulations concerning firearms are unconstitutional.  [More]
A-yup.

And if they have the effect of infringing, the state ones are, too.

Someone Who Knows the Difference

Hartford, Connecticut -- the third speaker was former U.S. Senate candidate Peter Lumaj, who spoke about his escape from communism and how his former country did not have a Second Amendment and how they did disarmed their citizens and with results of that disarmament was. [Watch]
Kind of heightens contempt for despicable traitors who would impose that here, wouldn't you agree?

"Probable Cause"

Sometimes, however, out-of-state gun buyers are surprised as they drive back on the interstate.

Their California license plates have been photographed at the gun show parking lot in a covert operation that isn't officially acknowledged by Sacramento. They've been watched at the gun counters. And they get hauled over by state cops after reentering California, particularly if they've been mass-purchasers of assault weapons and are suspected "traffickers." [More]
So now that you know, take appropriate counter-measures.

As an aside, this Skelton character is a long-time Fourth Estate Fifth Columnist. I tried to tell the prags that distancing themselves from men of principle wouldn't satisfy domestic enemies.

Open-Minded

Senate Republicans on Gun-Law Push: Open-Minded but Skeptical [More
That just means they haven't been scared badly enough.

Why the hell not? Is this really asking too much?

We're the Only Ones and You're Not Enough

So--what's this dangerous and ignorant headcase's name? [More]

New York magazine ban waves red flag at ‘patriotic’ gun safety program

In other words, no less an authority than the United States government has by law declared this organization patriotic and safe. [More
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes conducting Congressionally-chartered programs is now illegal in the aptly-named Empire State.

Suddenly, I'm Not Half the Man I Used to Be

There's a shadow hanging over me... [Read]

It's People Control, Not Gun Control

And they say we don't care about the other provisions in the Bill of Rights. [Read]

What a despicable little fascist this Steve Israel punk is.

Profiles in Apathy

[Read]

Ask the Expert

Arming teachers with pistols, or eliminating assault weapons isn't the answer...
"You want to have a way to let teachers and principals buy time for the cops to arrive and deal with the active shooter," he said. 

Also, teachers should receive a TASER, with training, to shock an attacker. "It's easy to use and very effective," said McClellan. [More]
Gee, this couldn't have anything to do with the fact that his business plan centers on training "Only Ones," could it?

Background Checks?

We ain't got no background checks.

We don't need no background checks!

I don't have to show you any stinking background checks! [Read]

References?

We ain't got no references.

We don't need no references!

I don't have to show you any stinking references! [Read]

No Question About It

Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s claim that he heard the gunshots of a 2006 school massacre while playing golf is raising questions about his veracity or his memory. [More
My bet's on "veracity."

It's not like the guy hasn't been advancing himself without worrying about ethics since, like, forever:
Biden's misdeeds encompassed numerous self-aggrandizing thefts, misstatements, and exaggerations that seemed to point to a serious character defect. 

The Safety Dance

“You are not just locking the door, cowering down and turning off the lights,” Drew said. [More]
I should say not!  You're also writhing in agony, bleeding out and dying!

God save us from "experts."

Me Too

So telling a Democrat you're willing to actually physically defend what is yours is now an actionable threat ? [Read

Blanket dragnet, anyone?

Breaking the Rules

Libellous and abusive comments are not allowed. [More]

OK then explain Mary ("Must be underendowed (like many americans)") and James ("Why is this guy carrying two guns? It makes him feel more masculine. Most gun nuts are just compensating cowards who live in a state of constant fear.")

How many have you sampled, Mary?

How about you, James?

Speaking of Dumb@$$es

One of the biggest lies from the left is that gun activists don't care about the rest of the Bill of Rights, and one of their biggest liars is this punk. [More]

Speaking of History...

This was an interesting read. [So read it]

This Day in History: January 21

Craig’s force of 300 left Charleston on January 21, 1781, and reached the Cape Fear estuary four days later. [More]

Sunday, January 20, 2013

For Want of an Inch...

...a battle was lost. [Read]

At least they managed to effectively prevent human rights violations.

Armed American Radio Tonight

8 to 11 p.m. Eastern. Mark Walters' guests:
  • Hour 1: Trainer Rob Pincus, Luby's massacre survivor, author and former Texas legislator Suzanna Gratia Hupp.
  • Hour 2: Author and gun law expert Alan Korwin.
  • Hour 3: Rountable, with Korwin returning to join trainer/firearms pro and blogger George "Mad Ogre" Hill, producer Sean "Seanto" Young and yours truly.
Click here to find a station near you or to listen via live streaming.


‘Voice of the Pope’ backs Obama gun edicts

A Church steeped in history, and one that recognizes beatified martyrs from the Cristero War is well aware that history is still unfolding, that tyranny still exists, that individuals are still persecuted and murdered by their own governments, and will continue to be, and that no nation or people, even ours, can forever count on remaining special and exempt. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner homily  notes a little bit too much rendering to Caesar going on...

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Demonization


A tried and true technique that's useful every time there's a group to be eliminated... [Read]

Are you vermin?

"Open Letter to the President Barack Obama"

T.L. Davis has crafted an important message that merits being read and understood by all.  Please read it and share the link with everyone you know.  Please help make it "go viral." [Read and share]

This is powerful stuff.  I can't overstate how important I believe sharing this to be, and gladly add my unequivocal endorsement and alliance with all who share these sentiments.

Gun rights film project releases powerful trailer

I urge readers of this column to see the sidebar video player to take two minutes to watch this intellectually and viscerally-compelling preview of things to come, and then, as Koenig asked his Twitter followers earlier this morning, “Help us take our trailer to the masses.” [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner review notes a trailer that knocks it out of the park.

Some Gave All


Diggin' in with Dayton

I go on at 9 a.m. Eastern. [USTREAM link)

Jeez, I'm only halfway through my first cup of coffee.

Friday, January 18, 2013

A Gun Safety Advocate

Don't worry, it's not loaBLAM! [Read]

Napoleon? Do you have something to say to the man?

The Time to Feed the Hogs Act of 2013

Introduced by Mr. Holt of Snookiland. [Read]

Arnhole, do you have anything you'd like to say to the man?

We're the Only Ones Unfortunate Enough

The chief and the mayor have proven to be such oily, lying sacks, I'd never let them back in. [Read]

"The beginning of a process by the City Council to attempt to protect Burlington’s children and community" my ... eye.

What a collectivist stool sample you are, Miro.

You too, Andi.

[Via Harvey]

Meanwhile, Over in the Chocolate City

So will this make him a Bloomberg Felon Emeritus? [Read]

[Via lots of you. Stop it. It's Friday night. I want to grill some steaks and have some wine and  a cigar.  Go do something. Don't you know any girls? Go away. You heard me, scram.]

ATF exposes dealers to pressure and risks to satisfy Obama’s executive action

Speaking of DIOs, and this is wandering off topic a bit, what ever happened to Houston Field Office DIO Russell Vanderwerf ... ? [More
This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner column notes ATF going for the glory again.

And They Say There Are No Stupid Questions

 I am asking you, for your community and for our country, to give them up. [More]
Somebody else have time to field this one?

REESE CASE: ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT

Here's another story I was going to do a GRE piece on, but this week's internet outage kept me from it.

This is the best site to consult anyway--I've dabbled with the "highlights" of the Reese case, if you can call them that, but if you really want a comprehensive understanding of the ordeal this family has been going through, the job done on this fine site has just been outstanding.

It's a pity there never seems to be appropriate recognition for such efforts.  They're just not "Authorized Journalists," you see.

The pros are much too busy to cover stuff like this anyway. Isn't that right, Honey Boo Boo?

Anti-Gunner Illegally Waves BB Gun

I wanted to do a Gun Rights Examiner article on this, as a follow-up to the story about the Connecticut "lawmaker" who wants to make it  illegal to have a gun capable of firing more than a single shot.  But having an internet outage for almost two full days this week backed everything up and forced me to make some concessions and let some stories go unfielded, at least by me.

Connecticut Carry has the story.

And in a David Gregory moment, we once more learn "authorities" don't see anything wrong with the right people breaking the law.

Like Onstar!

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town. [Read]

Maybe this moron could hook up with Hank Johnson and do a little Guam-tipping.

Never go full-Johnson.
[Via Lumpy]

Time to Make Some Popcorn

ATF agent claims federal prosecutors in Reno lied to judges, abused authority [More
 Good ol' Eric Holder's Justice Department!

[Via Joe M]

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions. [Read]

[Via W3]

Duck Season!

Tyrant season! [Watch]

I was all thumbs up on this until the end, when he says the solution is to increase the ATF excise tax to pay for "Only Ones" Praetrorian Guards.  How about we just end the damn "gun free zones" and recognize the right of the people to keep and bear arms?

I Don't Always Contact My Legislators

But when I do, I prefer this message:
- The President is trying to provoke civil war. 
- As your representative, each legislator is to viciously oppose any new gun laws. 
- You and your friends will be watching.

Mr. Christie, A Republican

On school safety, Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that he did not believe that putting armed guards outside schools was the answer for his state... [More]
Besides, the tub of pus needs them all to "flank" him when he takes the state helicopter to his son's ball games.

As an aside, that's quite an aircraft.

An Unprecedented Exclusive

Any bets on whether he demands an end to "gun free zones"? Or instead opts to promote the "Only Ones" exclusivity precedent while casting a blanket dragnet?

Keeping the Promise of Transparency

Tell me what he's doing here isn't completely transparent. [Read]

[Via Jess]

A Dangerous Game

Playing "Chicken" with men ... [Read]

[Via Eric]

An Open Letter

Jesse Mathewson tells me "This letter follows several months of asking various LE from Federal through local what they will do if told to take our defensive tools. I asked officers across Arizona and got almost the same answer every time ...The standard response was 'we will follow policy'." [Read]

Meanwhile, some are stepping forward.

For the Children

Nerf toy causes lockdown at Long Island school [Read]

Parents Furious After Boys Suspended For Using Fingers As Guns [Read]
Are there no adults in these schools?

Got a Minute?

Then do this.  Right now.

I just did.

Confessor to Terry murder could help verify if Fast and Furious gun was used

With this latest confession, there’s one more source of forensic evidence that could be used to help corroborate and refine existing observations, and potentially narrow things down even more to the point where a conclusion can be reached: Check the guns for Cruz-Lozano’s fingerprints. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a lead that ought to be followed.

A Fourth Generation Farmer

This isn't "perspective," it's calculated prevarication. [Read]

I guess this subsidized mouthpiece never heard of Fourth Generation Warfare. Or the Deacons for Defense and Justice.

I can't help but wonder if his first generation might have appreciated having the capability of protecting his homestead and family from night riders...

Here, pally: The Federal Farmer wants to have a word with you:
...whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...

This Day in History: January 18

The loss of powder lately sustained by us (about five tons), together with the quantities sent on to the southward, have reduced our stock very low indeed. We lent to Congress, in the course of the last year (previous to our issues for the southern army), about ten tons of powder. I shall be obliged to you to procure an order from the board of war, for any quantity from five to ten tons, to be sent us immediately from Philadelphia or Baltimore, and to inquire into and hasten, from time to time, the execution of it. The stock of cartridge-paper is nearly exhausted. I do not know whether Captain Irish, or what other officer, should apply for this. It is essential that a good stock should be forwarded, and without a moment's delay. If there be a rock on which we are to split, it is the want of muskets, bayonets, and cartouch-boxes. [More]

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Another Tax Break for the Rich

Just to monkeywrench one collectivist meme with another, I'd like to see someone offer an amendment to require public tabulation of the demographics (race, sex, income, age, education, etc.) benefiting from this "tax credit." [Read]

[Via Vläd B]

Ain't It the Truth?


I've found the truth is generally elegantly to the point.  Like this.

I got this in an email so I don't know who to credit.

Old Blue, Is That You Boy?

Brian F heard my lament about no dog on the porch, so he added one:


Mom says I can keep him.

Now we'll just have to see if Humphrie the Carni-pig lets him live.

I'm Ba...ack

The service tech came out and hopefully figured out what kept making me lose internet connectivity--anyway, after being essentially grounded all day yesterday and most of the day before, I've got a lot of catch-up to do, so please hold off on comments and correspondence for at least another day. Chances are I'm going to have to just send most people emailing me this link so they know not to expect me to give them a tailored reply, I am that far behind the eight-ball on priorities.

Obama gun speech shows misdirection, desperation and weakness

These are the two major legal changes gun rights advocates must fight tooth and nail, and remind their representatives that they will not be scapegoated, and will revenge themselves at the polls on any politician who betrays them and the oath of office. Also among Obama’s legislative proposals is a plan to ban possession of currently owned militia-suitable ("armor piercing") ammunition.

But also representing a danger are the previously “under the radar” incursions that are now threatening to drop their payloads on strategic targets. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report picks apart what the Subversive-in-Chief said and wonders about what he didn't say.

This Day in History: January 17

[More]

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Gone Fishin'

My internet access is so intermittent I can't get any work done today.  The tech is due out tomorrow morning.  Please hold off on comments and emails.

I'm so damn frustrated with this--I've got half a dozen articles I wanted to write that I can't even do my basic research on, not to mention hundreds of correspondences building up -- and today of all days, with the Big Obamination announcing his latest spraying on the Bill of Rights.

Ah well, I do have a book to read for potential review, so at least the day won't be a total waste.

"Activist Javier Sicilia"

I wonder why he doesn't present his petition to the cartel chieftans? [Read]

[Via several of you]

"Wild Gun Rhetoric"

Any mention of regulation and the cry goes up – "Get them now before they are taken away!" – though no one is talking about confiscating firearms. [More]
I don't even have words for such a shameless lie.  I guess that means they're going to keep pushing until words don't factor into things.

A Well-Balanced Republican

“It is well-balanced, it protects the Second Amendment,” said Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos of Long Island. [More]
This must be what they mean by "bipartisan."

I can't wait for the apologists to support this self-serving conman's claim of how grateful they should be that something worse didn't pass thanks to his "leadership."

It's Been Done

The Use and Abuse of Kiddie Human Shields [More]
Ask 'em if they're getting their milk.

UPDATE: More childishness, which pretty much applies to the so-called "adult" useful idiots who spout this crap engineered by those who have not decided they are useless eaters -- yet.

This Day in History: January 16

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