Notes from the Resistance...
A 21-year-old college coed who handed cops a golden opportunity last year to arrest the “person of interest” in the Amy Lord murder and the suspect in two nightstalker-style assaults on South Boston women says she’s dumbfounded that police never brought charges against Edwin Alemany — even after she grabbed his wallet and handed them his I.D. [More]Boston ... is she sure it was a real cop?
Anyone who loves freedom should raise his glass and make the toast, “This year in Galt’s Gulch Chile.” [More]Except:
The regulation of guns in Chile is categorised as restrictive.There ain't no place to run and ain't no place to hide. And I sure wouldn't start off by citing the diaspora as any kind of example for people to follow.
How this could be construed as "reasonable" in any U.S. court, especially with the Supreme Court having specifically found a right to keep a gun in the home in two separate cases, is unclear, but this could be a case where a specific conflict between private property rights and the right of tenants to keep and bear arms is tested. And the video accompanying the 9News report indicates more such bans may be on the way. [More]Today's Gun rights Examiner report notes a new line of attack we can expect to see more of.
The officers commanding Wings will direct the slaughtering places of the several brigades to be removed as far as they possibly can be consistent with the convenience and safety from the Line of Encampment. [More]
This, of course, presupposes meaningful data trends can be established through such a limited sampling, especially since it has not yet been established what the reaction will be once criminals learn that police are trying to trick them with … scarecrows. In fairness to the idea though, the cardboard cutout looks like it would stand almost as good a chance at catching a nimble, youthful bike thief as its real-life counterpart. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner offering notes a two-dimensional fake may be the least shallow and phony thing about Boston-area law enforcement.
50 Cent charged with domestic violence, ordered by judge to surrender all firearms, up to 5 years in jail [More]There must be some mistake--he's always seemed so respectful of women...and so responsible with firearms.
Deputy faces assault charges after catching his wife in bed with his dad [More]Good grief.
The Court agrees. "In general, one has no duty to control the conduct of another to prevent him from causing harm to a third party, but there are exceptions to this, based on "special relationships." [More]The antis keep wanting to have it both ways, with duties on citizens, like this, or to retreat when lives are being threatened, that the "Only Ones" are exempt from.
Deputy accused of pepper-spraying teen's pizza faces charges Monday [More]If true, why is a potentially lethal assault only a misdemeanor?
Prosecutors will determine whether to charge the driver with child neglect. [More]Why?
Gunman kills three at Ross Township meeting [More]Here's another one where I find I'm focusing on a comment:
What did you have in mind, Eddie? Got anything besides your opinion to validate it would work?eddiemac31Ok gun nuts........still don't want gun control???? It's getting closer to home.......
So on this Hiroshima anniversary day, I would helpfully suggest that our collectivist leaders consider history and the Law of Unintended Consequences before it bites them where they live. [More]Vanderboegh remembers an expectant mindset that led up to an anniversary and ponders its significance to our time.
Multiple highway patrol officers in Texas have been captured by dash cams doing 'unconstitutional' cavity searches on women's genitals during traffic stops. Lawyers and civil rights advocates say the 'mind-boggling' searches are all too common. [More]Hey, if you're not doing anything wrong, what's the problem here?
The whole idea for this column came about when I was approached by a liberty activist, upset because she wanted to attend a gun rights event and they not only had no provisions for younger people, they actually weren’t welcome. That resulted in no small amount of hard feelings, and not only excluded the youngsters, but took the wind out of the sails of someone who wanted to be a supporter. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes that "Teach Your Children" is more than a song, it's a survival imperative.
But really: What could go wrong? [More]My latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column is now online.
Here’s a note to Debney. You won’t win. Massachusetts is too far gone ... Gun owners won’t approve. [More]I notice the gun magazines are addressing this dilemma, with FMG's "Shooting Industry" (a sister publication to "GUNS") noting on page 50 of their May issue:
While it's easy for internet bloggers to tell Colt, O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Stag Arms and other manufacturers of modern sporting rifles to get out of the state, that is no easy task.No, it's not. Defending freedom never is, and like the overused Spiderman quote goes, with great power comes great responsibility.
The lawsuit (“Gun Trouble,” Mobtown Beat, June 6, 2012) claims that detective Erik Socha and Cpl. Anthony Kidwell led raids on the Bords’ home and auto-repair business that were based on a bad warrant “in order to intimidate” David Bord and cause him “economic injury.” The operations also were undertaken “for gratuitous sport rather than for proper law-enforcement purposes,” according to court documents, and Socha and Kidwell, when presented with all the proper firearms paperwork after the raids, said “save it for court,” that the paperwork was “wrong” or “bull***t,” and “words to the effect” that David Bord “would never get his property back.” [More]Just a few bad apples, no doubt. I love the way the one punk thug "spilled his guts" and feels like he's been thrown under the bus.
The siege began in the early dawn of August 5, 1781, when the followers of the dreaded Tory, David Fanning attacked Colonel Philip Alston and his Whig soldiers. [More]
That you don’t live in California or don’t hunt are hardly relevant excuses not to get involved -- this is an area where all gun owners must band together, and now. Those who wish to eradicate the right of the people to keep and bear arms wage a perpetual campaign of incremental gains, and if they’re allowed to establish and secure this beachhead, they’ll use it to launch their next offensive deeper into the interior, against something that you hold dear. It's in all gun owners' interests to hold the line and then push back from here. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report urges all gun owners to get the lead out and keep the lead in.
Just released! Lessons from UNArmed America, with Rob Pincus. Foreword by Ted Nugent. Amazon Kindle today, print edition at printer now and available next week!I plan on doing a write-up on this after I've read it.
“Rather than me explain it, take 15 minutes or so to look at one of them, and you'll get it,” he recommended. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at an instructive new series that can help us prepare for surviving all kinds of encounters.
"When I Get These Cuffs Off You I'm Going to Kick the P*** Out of You" [Watch]See, our function is to immediately and unquestioningly obey when Master's overseers command. Failing that, there will be reprisals.
Comments sent to me by a source who was at the turn in event in Racine on Saturday the 27th, said that one person had purchased 7 BB guns new at Walmart to turn in at the event ... The source says that the BB guns were purchased for $120 and turned in for $350. [More]Plus it boosts sales!
Perhaps B. Todd Jones will be good for the agency and for gun owners ... Perhaps. But I doubt it. [More]Me too.
As police and onlookers stood on the sidelines, Monu Valmiki was viciously trampled by about nine other students for over half an hour. [More]Yeah, but that's India. That could never happen here. Could it?
Officials said such exclusions are normal procedure, insisting it’s not censorship.Well, OK then...
This raises another question, about what an average citizen could expect if he got drunk and pointed a gun at a cop’s head.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes what happens when no one guards the guards.
Who thinks the authorities would be so understanding? [More]
Assistant U.S. Attorney Norman Cairns responded to Adams’ claims last week that the investigation has been slowed because many of the weapons have no serial numbers from manufacturers or importation numbers as required by law. [More]Yeah, I understand that's pretty typical for a lot of old guns...
Please weigh in with Chris Christie right away and tell him that you’re watching what he does, and urge him to veto these bills. [More]Do it in a way to make him think if he does, he'll have a shot at the Big Chair.
Among GQR’s clients are the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Joyce Foundation, several state education associations, Defenders of Wildlife, National Public Radio and the Sierra Club. Among OMP’s clients are Planned Parenthood of America and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
An Anne Arundel County grand jury has indicted a New Jersey police officer with a first-degree murder charge in the apparent road-rage shooting in Gambrills that left a former Millersville man dead. [More]See, the guy he shot didn't have "justifiable need."
IL medical cannabis users would have to choose between self-defense and medicine [More]Bummer, man.
After several months of chasing Gen. Greene's army without much success, Gen. Cornwallis and his 10,000 tired soldiers arrive to seek rest at the small port of Yorktown, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay. He then establishes a base to communicate by sea with Gen. Clinton's forces in New York. [More]
A more likely green light indicator may be the National Rifle Association inexplicably signaling their neutrality and the National Shooting Sports Foundation actually backing the Jones confirmation, removing the danger of political reprisals, at least from the two major national organizations wielding commensurate money and influence. [More]This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report notes "leaders" bound and determined to either betray us outright or to let it happen through deliberate inaction.
The ruling says that gives police flexibility while safeguarding the rights of lawfully armed individuals. [More]Abrogating your rights = safeguarding them.
“You might notice, as did the California’s Attorney General, that federal law enforcement officers are not mentioned in this exception!” Michel pointed out. “The ‘Department of Justice’ referred to in this section is the California Department of Justice, not a federal agency. So the AG’s analysis is correct: federal law enforcement is not exempt from the ‘unsafe handgun’ restriction." [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report asks why she's not doing anything about it if she has probable cause to believe current law is being violated.
A Los Angeles police officer charged in May with luring two young girls to his home pleaded no contest today to sexually molesting one girl and attempting to molest the second child, the District Attorney’s Office announced. [More]You'll have to forgive me since it's been over half a century since I hung out with girls under 10. What's the dating etiquette again...?
"I support the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. But I'm telling you, the guns, we need to get them out." [More]Do these people ever listen to themselves when they talk?
Police said they arrested Hicks because he failed to follow commands to get out of his vehicle. [More]As if a severe ischemic stroke is any excuse not to obey.
TPM called Weiner’s communications director Barbara Morgan to discuss an unrelated story Tuesday and she went off on a curse-filled rant about Nuzzi, describing her as a fame hungry “b**ch” who “sucked” at her job. Morgan also called Nuzzi a “slutbag,” “t**t,” and “c**t” while threatening to sue her. [More]"Progressive" feminism revealed in all it's Opposite Day splendor, from the party of "women's rights"...
Friend of the court briefs were filed yesterday in the Mississippi Supreme Court for the case of State of Mississippi v. Robert Shuler Smith supporting the position of state Attorney General Jim Hood. Last week, the attorney general filed an appeal petition and a motion to vacate an injunction by Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Winston Kidd preventing a law clarifying concealed weapons from taking effect. Smith is the Hinds County District Attorney, who along with a handful of legislators and constables, receiving legal prodding and support from the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed the action to block the new law. [More]This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner report notes all the legal arguments for why an activist judge and his anti-gun political cronies are either hopelessly incompetent, hopelessly corrupt, or both. They just say it nicer than I do.
I was held a couple of hours and then taken to the CJC where I was booked and charged with possession of a silencer. [More]Today's second Gun Rights Examiner report brings exclusive commentary from Leonard Embody on his latest arrest, along with video documentation of his initial police encounter and detention.
78 percent of mercenary floozies responding to a client poll by a ... uh... matchmaker website and “78 percent of young women” are two very different numbers, but the technique of drawing broader generalities from narrower samples is familiar to those who have noticed how Mexican “crime gun” numbers have been fudged by the media over the years to gin up demand for more domestic “gun control.” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes that if you make your proposition rewarding enough, you can get some people to swallow anything.
Mocek says the man who took the camera eventually identified himself as an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He returned the camera, but Mocek says one of the images on it had been deleted. [More]They certainly demand their privacy, don't they? Even (especially) in public.
"This is not a political statement." [More]...said the judge, making a political statement.
Some situations are too dangerous for police intervention. The courts leave that decision to the trained officer in the situation to decide. Meanwhile, ron paul-y nutbags are calling to arm every man, woman, and child and start shooting -- without even safety, practical, or legal training. [More]Oh, look: A "progressive."
When your Exellincy made the first Requisition on this State for Five Hundred Militia, you informed us that we should be Relieved by the same Number from Massachusetts. The second Month is now nearly expired, and not more than one Company had arived from that State two Days agone. [More]
