This Day in History: September 17

Constitution Day

On September 17, 1787, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting. Only one item of business occupied the agenda that day, to sign the Constitution of the United States of America.

"You Have Our Assurance"

A bystander broke up a Northwest Albany armed robbery he witnessed by firing two gunshots in the air. He then followed the armed robbers as they fled, and alerted police who arrested the three gunmen...

Marcus said the Police took his .357 Magnum as evidence after the robbery, but they assured him he would get it back soon.

Good luck.

He'll be lucky if charges don't follow.

Strike Two...

Women in one of Colombia's most dangerous cities have taken the rampant violence on with the only weapon that may defeat guns and ammunition: the power to deny their men any sexual relations.

Dozens of women in Pereira have joined the so called "crossed legs strike," hoping to help the local government's disarmament effort.

One gang member's girlfriend said withholding sex was proving a powerful incentive. "The boys listen to us. When we close ourselves off a bit they listen to us. If they don't give up their weapons, then we won't be with them," Margarita told AP Television.

Yeah, that'll work.

We all know how much gang culture respects women, especially the classy prizes who avail their bodies to violent street thugs.

Tell me this strike won't be over by the second or third strike...

We're the Only Ones Discharged Enough

A Berkeley police officer has been charged with criminally discharging his firearm outside his San Francisco home last month, the third member of the department this year to be investigated for alleged misconduct, authorities said today.

Sean Derry, 30, fired several shots with his department-issued weapon on Aug. 12, according to San Francisco prosecutors who lodged a felony charge against him of discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling.

But Derry's attorney, Harry Stern of Pleasant Hill, disputed the charge, saying his client thought a homeless man was burglarizing his home. Derry went outside and fired his weapon into the air, not at a building, Stern said, adding that no one was injured.

Yeah, I totally sympathize. I fire my gun in the air when I see homeless people near my house all the time--particularly on recycling day, where the law requires homeowners create an attractive nuisance in front of their houses. Talk about justified! And talk about a good belly-laugh when they scatter!

Good Lord, his excuse just about reflects more poorly on his judgment and training than what he's being charged with. Instead of going after a specific target, this moron endangers everyone in proximity.

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

The "Gun Offender" Registry

Two powerful aldermen are proposing a gun offender registry that would allow police to track people convicted of weapons violations...

Todd Vandermyde, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, criticized the proposed registry, especially if it includes people convicted of misdemeanors.

"If they're talking about hard-core offenders, that's one thing," he said. "If they're trying to nail gun owners who make honest mistakes, that's another..."

What if it's not an "honest mistake," Todd?

What if it's intentional defiance of unconstitutional disarmament edicts?

How about this instead (?):

If you can't be trusted with a gun, you can't be trusted without a custodian.

If you're unfit to live in a free society, you're unfit to live free.

The rest of us, leave the hell alone. What part of "shall not be infringed" is that difficult, and when is NRA management going to admit that all "gun control," even the brand they endorse, is, at best, counterproductive, at worst, monstrously evil?

[Via HZ]

A Witness Protection Program

Witnesses back state gang, gun legislation

And who are these "witnesses"?

Just the usual gang of democrats.

But you have to dig into the details to find that out. For someone just scanning the paper, inferring a different impression is not unexpected.

And the "authorized journalists" wouldn't have it any other way.

Just look at the coverage they provided for competent, rather than agenda-driven testimony from a real expert witness on the effectiveness of proposed "gun control" edicts.

They didn't.

Not a word.

An Open Door Policy

The Club de Tir Ville St. Pierre is the place where notorious Montreal mass murderer, Valery Fabrikant, took a course in handguns before killing four people at Concordia University in 1992 with a Smith and Wesson .38 special. He took the course in the fall of 1991.

And now it is the place where media reports suggest Dawson College killer Kimveer Gill went to train to get the firearms permit that allowed him to buy the weapons he used this week to kill one person and injure others.

Yesterday, when a reporter walked into the basement club asking questions, owner Marco Pendenza was firm.

"Put your pad away, we have no comment," Pendenza said before asking a reporter to leave. "What part of no comment do you not understand?"

There are nine such clubs in the Greater Montreal region, all offering a variety of gun related services including the training courses that are obligatory under Canadian law before an individual can get a licence to buy a gun.

Continue to hold firm, Mr. Pendenza.

That Canadian law requires preconditions is no doing of yours. And that you should be villified and tarred with the brush of culpability by those wishing to establish guilt by association is further proof that, for "authorized journalists," agenda is more important than truth.

This Day in History: September 16

On this day in 1776, General George Washington arrives at Harlem Heights, on the northern end of Manhattan, and takes command of a group of retreating Continental troops. The day before, 4,000 British soldiers had landed at Kip’s Bay in Manhattan (near present-day 34th Street) and taken control of the island, driving the Continentals north, where they appeared to be in disarray prior to Washington’s arrival.

War on Guns Exclusives

I'll be leaving this at the top of the heap for a while, to help give the following posts the exposure I think they deserve.

Can Gun Control Reduce Violence?

"Domestic Enemies"--An Interview With Matthew Bracken

Look for new posts below this one for the next week.

Gun Show Expected to Draw Crowds

Organizers of the upcoming Craig Gun and Sport Show are expecting the largest show in the event's history.

"Everything a hunter, sportsmen or shooter would want," said Dick Becker, a Maybell resident and member of the sponsoring Bears Ears Sportsman Club, of the items available at the show. "Camouflage, guns, supplies, scopes, mounts ... This will be the biggest show in Northwest Colorado."

I remember when we used to have the Great Western show at the LA County Fairgrounds, back before the Board of Supervisors evicted it as an exercise in hostility against gun owners. It would routinely draw 40,000 over a weekend.

I remember how disgusted I was when the Million Moms/Brady Campaign held a rally in front of the federal building in Westwood--they had thousands of Birkenstock liberals, plus bussed-in inner cityites. On our side of the street, we could never manage more than a hundred or so.

This was on a weekend, so nobody would have had to miss work. I guess those 40,000 gun owners must have had something better to do.

I don't have statistical backup, but I estimate less than 5% of gun owners carry 99% of the load when it comes to protecting our rights. The rest are, in my opinion, no better than welfare parasites, who exist off the efforts of others.

If that doesn't change, things could get real ugly.

We're the Only Ones Unrestrained Enough

A Windham police officer has been granted permission to carry a gun again if he rejoins the department as he awaits trial on misdemeanor charges, according to court documents.

Stephen Moltenbrey, 44, of Derry had been scheduled to stand trial yesterday in Derry District Court, but court records show that the date was pushed to Dec. 1. He faces misdemeanor charges of violating and attempting to violate an emergency restraining order obtained by his estranged wife, Donna Moltenbrey.

So if you're a member of the herd, just a charge--regardless of whether or not it's false and malicious, and without being convicted of anything--is all it takes. We only want "The Only Ones" carrying guns after they've been served with restraining orders.

We're the Only Ones Visiting Enough

A police officer visiting Nacogdoches accidentally discharged a handgun in a hotel room Wednesday morning, damaging a water pipe...The officer's supervisor was also staying at the hotel, and he was notified.

But the shooter wasn't, like, arrested or charged with anything, right...?

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

A Totally Rational World

In a totally rational political world, Wednesday's deadly gun carnage at Dawson College in Montreal would lead a minority Prime Minister to set aside his plan to terminate the federal long gun registry later this fall.

Yeah, that registry sure stopped Gill in his tracks, didn't it?

Chantal Hébert, you wouldn't know rational if it grabbed you by the shoulders and slammed its head into your face.

Sharon Stoned: All You Need is Love

Actress Sharon Stone...said Thursday that a lack of love in the life of 25-year-old gunman Kimveer Gill...likely prompted him to start firing indiscriminately at a Montreal college on Wednesday in an attack that claimed his life and that of a young woman.

Yeah, and his daddy never bought him a puppy when he was little.

There's no such thing as evil to socialist narcissists, because then there would be benchmarks of conduct where people could be judged morally deficient. Can't have that when the universe revolves around your navel.

Anybody besides me think this malignant cretin belongs in "Idiots With Guns"?

This Day in History: September 15

On this day in 1779, French Commander Charles Count d’Estaing captures two British frigates and two British supply ships in the Savannah River.

Canadian Shootings "Rekindle Gun Control Debate"

Look at the sovereign citizens, arms raised in surrender to show they're fangless and clawless. They remind me of Star Trek's horta, etching the message "No Kill I" into a rock.

Here's all we need to take away from the obscene violence that occurred at Dawson College:

Gun control did not stop the killer.

Gun registration did not stop the klller.

Wendy Cukier bleating for even more draconian citizen disarmament did not stop the killer.

A bullet stopped the killer.

There's no debating that.

If only someone had the capability to put a bullet into him at the outset of his insane rampage.

Judging Monica

A Bellevue gun dealer once questioned about the slaying of federal prosecutor Thomas Wales will remain in custody on a weapons charge until he can move more than 100 guns — most of them machine guns — that are stored in his home.

U.S. Magistrate Monica Benton said Wednesday that she was concerned about the safety of federal probation officers who would have to monitor Albert Kwok-Leung Kwan if he was released from jail.

Why? Where's the evidence that he is violent, or the crime to warrant incarcerating him for such cause?

Kwan, a gun collector and former firearms dealer, legally owns those weapons, according to his attorneys...Kwan, who also was arrested last week, is charged with a single count of possession of a machine gun.

Also in 2005, Kwan was held for 23 days as a material witness in the Wales case...Kwan, who was called before the grand jury five times, is not a suspect in the killing.

So why is he being treated like one?

NRA Picks a Real Corker?

The National Rifle Association endorsed former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker for the U.S. Senate...

Chris W. Cox, chairman of NRA's political-action committee, said Corker's record of halving Chattanooga's crime rate over three years, aggressive prosecution of criminals and hunting background earned him the endorsement.

So he's a hunter and a big law-and-order guy.

How does that translate into Second Amendment fidelity?

His campaign website has a tab right at the top on the main page labeled "Second Amendment." That's a good sign. And what does he say about it?

Second Amendment

Standing up for our 2nd Amendment Rights

As Senator, I will protect the Second Amendment’s guarantee of our right to bear arms and reject attempts to limit the freedom of law-abiding gun owners. The best way to stop crime is to capture and imprison criminals—not to impose new burdens on law-abiding citizens. During my tenure as Mayor of Chattanooga, we cut violent crime in half in 3 years by putting repeat criminals behind bars.

Good words so far, but how does he intend to "stand up" and "protect...our right to bear arms"?

Say Uncle has compiled some info that should raise some flags on whether or not this guy is truly what he's being presented as.

Minnie Gun Alert!

Federal ATF Agents issued an officer safety advisory on what is called the world’s smallest gun after a CBS 2 inquiry. The Alert has been issued both in the New York and nationally to all Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives criminal investigators and will be passed on to other federal agencies.

The latest miniature gun that is alarming ATF agents is the SwissMiniGun. It’s extremely small -- just over two inches long. It comes with tiny bullets designed especially for the weapon that can penetrate skin. Even in its holster, this gun is so small that law enforcement experts say it could pass for a keychain ornament.

We've already seen the horrors of the SwissMickeyGun!

"Authorized journalist" Ti-Hua Chang reminds me of the cliché hysterical woman from disaster movies--you just wanna slap him for being a shrieking ninny.

[Via 1894C]

This Day in History: September 14

On this day in 1779, American Colonel Daniel Brodhead concludes an ambitious assault against the Seneca Indians throughout the Allegheny Valley of Pennsylvania. Simultaneously, Major General John Sullivan had attacked the Iroquois of New York.