A Strong and Consistent Voice

"Congressman Chet Edwards is a strong and consistent voice for freedom and for defending the rights of Texas gun owners, hunters and sportsmen,” said Chris W. Cox, chairman for the NRA Political Victory Fund.

Yep, here's the rating and endorsement.

That must be why Chet supports this guy, you know, the guy we're told will be "the most anti-gun president in American history."

That doesn't even shave a point off the "A" rating?

And why does GOA give Chet a "D"? Some would tell us it's because they're NRA wannabe malcontents who exist by siphoning off funds from our true gun rights leaders. Is there any objective way we can see which rating should have more credibility?

Well, Chet's opponent, Rob Curnock (rated "AQ"*), is none too happy, claiming:

“The NRA gave Edwards a grade of A, but a few years ago they gave him an F,” Curnock said. “It goes up and down. If it’s an election year he does what he needs to do to make the votes to get their support. But, if you look at his overall record, Edwards consistently votes against many of the key values the NRA espouses.

“He voted for the Brady Bill, voted to restrict gun magazine clip sizes. That’s one of the perks of being a longtime incumbent, but his voting record is very spotty.”

Not quite. I'm not saying he didn't, but I can't find where he voted for the Brady Bill. But what kind of spots are on his record? How "strong and consistent" has his "voice" been?

He voted the Brady way:

• For final passage of "campaign finance reform."

• Against the "Pickering Amendment to provide exception for gun lobby campaign ads."

• Against "reducing the amount of time for law enforcement to conduct background checks on gun sales."

• For the McCarthy/Blagojevich/Roukema "Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act."

• Against "Final Passage of H.R. 2122...now including the weakened gun show background check amendment and the reinstatement of the pawn shop redemption exemption."

• Against "Repeal of the Assault Weapons Ban."

• For "The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, containing a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons and a ban on juvenile possession of handguns."

• For "Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act) that bans the manufacture, transfer, or possession of semi-automatic assault weapons. This measure is similar to the amendment to the Senate-passed crime bill, sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein."

• Against the "McCollum Amendment...to the Brady Bill...that would have preempted all state and local gun laws when the national instant check system went into effect."

• Against the Volkmer/Sensenbrenner Amendment, that would have deleted "a provision banning the manufacture of 22 semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines (over 7 rounds)" from The Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1991.

That's some "strong and consistent voice," Mr. Cox.

See, NRA is into access. And they're into backing incumbents who look like sure winners, so they can claim electoral success in races they back. That's the only guarantee you have on how the dollars you donate to PVF will be used.

Does anybody seriously think Chet Edwards will deny President Obama's call to ban "assault weapons"?

But if we don't continue to follow along, it will be our fault. Besides, questioners are just "principle freaks."

And we wonder why we're in the mess we're in, and how we got to this point with such poor choices, as if years of this MO don't give us a clue. Is anybody else sick and damned tired of being played like this?

* (Federal Candidates Only) A pro-gun candidate whose rating is based solely on the candidate’s responses to the 2008 NRA-PVF Candidate Questionnaire and who does not have a voting record on Second Amendment issues.

Propaganda is Routinely Being Parroted

“Firearms are routinely being transported from the U.S. into Mexico in violation of both U.S. and Mexican law,” William Hoover, assistant director of field operations for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), told the subcommittee. [More]

If that's true, it does kind of show you how well those laws work at stopping bad guys, doesn't it?

I truly am tired of these opportunistic functionaries.

Hey Bill--tell me which gun store or "damned American gun show" I can go to to pick up a few cases of full-auto battle rifles and grenades.

One north of the border, I mean.

[Via Dave Licht]

We're the Only Ones Smuggling Enough

The sheriff of a rural Texas county next to the U.S.-Mexico border has resigned after being indicted on federal drug charges.

Ah, Los Unicos! The border! Drug lords! Bloody violence!

If we could just close that damned American gun show loophole, we'd all be singing Chiapanecas and livin' la vida loca!

At least that's what all our great pals in government are telling us, and what incentive could they possibly have to steer us wrong...?

[Via Portly Pirate]

Turn In Your Deer Rifle And Your 12-gauge Shotgun To The Texas Department Of Gun Control

That is an order that will never be given by a Democratic government. Democrats will protect Americans’ Second Amendment right to own firearms, and will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists by fighting gun crime, reauthorizing the assault weapons ban, and closing the gun show loophole, as President Bush proposed and failed to do.

And when the democrat government issues that order, how many men like me are you willing to kill in order to implement your ban on semiautos and other disarmament schemes Barbara Hudson, you genius? Because I won't obey them.

Get this straight. I don't care about your damned grilled bacon-wrapped dove breasts, which actually sounds like something that ought to be kept private between you and whoever will have you. Do you think Liberty was purchased with blood, powder, lead and steel so that you damn treasonous Fudds could eat venison backstrap smothered in gravy around a campfire, and then crap it out on Rights that were once paid for in human lives?

You stupid woman.

W-3, who sent me this story, wanted to share his thoughts:

I can’t believe the ramblings of this poor brainwashed rabid b****. The majority of the her so-called “gun crimes” are innocent actions that left wing democrats have over the past few years converted into criminal acts. These people have created the crises they now want to fix by throwing more and more legal citizen gun owners into jail. Barbara Hudson may not have any intention of attempting to get legislation passed by the Texas Legislature but her statements make it pretty obvious that her agenda includes action against our inalienable rights allegedly protected by the 2nd Amendment on the federal level, and the feds don’t give a Big Rat’s Ass about our state and local laws. You will be declared a criminal and/or terrorist by federal legislation regardless of Texas statute. And, when you are killed or arrested by the unconstitutional standing acronym army of federal agents your firearms will be confiscated, never to be seen again, and you will become a statistic in their democratic war against gun criminals and terrorists.

It's really hard to believe that crap like Hudson wrote actually came out of a Texas woman's brain. It’s hard to believe that otherwise right thinking Texas Democrats are buying into this agenda out of party loyalty. I refuse to be a member of the flock - Democrat or Republican. When it becomes obvious that the group with which I identify is traipsing off in a direction that is detrimental to the Republic and is threatening the inalienable rights of American citizens, I will “jump ship”.

Henry David Thoreau is quoted as having said, “Any fool can make a rule and all the fools will follow it.” In that vein, any fool can establish an agenda and all the fools will follow it.

Barbara Hudson along with other poor misguided democrats must spend the majority of their time seated in the lotus position, humming, "Obamamamamama Obamamamamama Obamamamamama ........"

Even though I live a few hundred miles from Blanco County I'm actually ashamed to share air with someone who so obviously appears to be a descendant of some damnyankee carpetbagger. [ Yeah, Add hominy and grits]

If it proves out that the media is correct, and they probably are as the media usually determines the results of so-called democratic elections, the Obama messiah and the rest of his brainwashed minions will manage to achieve control of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the united States government. And, you will more than probably lose more by “due process” than just your rights ?protected? by the 2nd amendment.

You are aware, aren’t you, that the government can take anything it wants from you by using “due process”? If your government wants you dead, you will die and the standing acronym army won’t look back or hesitate, except to add your ears to its coup along with Ms Weaver’s, those of the 80 Waco folks’, the Wounded Knee victims’, Sherman’s civilian victims’, and a multitude of others’.

NOW is the time to purchase a handgun, a shotgun, an AR-15 (or similar rifle), and plenty of ammunition. BEFORE the unthinkable occurs.

Speaking of Separating Families...

Heavily armed hitman of rival El Chapo cartel is arrested over Mormon massacre after a stand-off at the US border where he held two HOSTAGES as heartbreaking photos show devastated relatives visiting the scene of the massacre [More]

Damned lax American gun laws!

Don't expect this to change.

Or this.

Any gun owners still out there putting it all on the line for that idiot Ammon Bundy?

[Via Dave Licht]

UPDATE--Tangentially related:

A tiny cabal of government contractors, mostly religious groups cloaking their profit-seeking in compassion and Scripture, perpetuates the refugee resettlement racket. Openly hostile to American sovereignty, these people spread their tax-subsidized syndicate's wealth to a vast network of subcontractors, often tied to billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, which promote global governance and unfettered migration espoused by the United Nations, European Union and Vatican.

[Via Michael G]

A-yup.

And yet one more UPDATE:

Putting the Cartel Before the Hearse

[Via Keith B]

Show Trial

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was a ruthless criminal boss who ordered hits on his own loved ones and his weapons of choice included a diamond-encrusted pistol and a gold-plated AK-47, a court has heard. [More]

Damned "lax American gun laws!"

What an insidious scam this whole "War on Drugs/Guns/etc." circus is.

[Via Dave Licht]