Free the Internet

Jason at Leave Us Alone! urges support for a petition amending HR1606 to exempt bloggers from FEC regulation. If they're voting tomorrow, this post may be too late to do much good.

We've talked about this before at WarOnGuns.

My bottom line--go ahead and support the petition, but if it doesn't fly, take heart: They can pass any damned edict they want--I will write about what I want, when I want. There aren't enough of these evil bastards to do anything about it, and it's time they learned that. This is a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate just how impotent civil disobedience can render them.

The McCain-Feingold Insurrection Lives. It just doesn't update it's website much.

Knife-Wielding Man Slashes At Four Outside White House

Beck said that shortly before noon, a man slashed at four persons, who called for help from a police officer patrolling in Lafayette Park, just north of the White House.

The park is often packed with tourists who walk outside the presidential residence.

No doubt the Brady Campaign will be dispatching volunteers to DC airports to warn tourists…?

NEW!

I've got a little flashing "New" thingie on my blogroll courtesy of Curtis Stone. Thanks Curtis!

I've got it set to last for 2 hours after a blog updates.

Let me know if you're blogrolled and the symbol doesn't display. And if you have a blog and you're not on my roll, contact me [codrea4 at adelphia dot net] and we'll do something about that.

50 Cent Defends Controversial Gun Poster

The film's director, Jim Sheridan, agreed that people were making too much of the poster, and that people need to focus on real guns, and not Hollywood props.

He said: "I'm not really so concerned about cardboard guns on a poster. I'd be much more concerned about real guns. I think they should make a bigger effort to get rid of the guns."

Like most in Hollywood, this idiot doesn't realize that all freedoms are tied together. If he wants to disarm people, I'd like to see him start by trying with Fitty and his posse...

Cops and Robbers

D.C Police say the reason an armed Special Police Officer, who eventually pleaded guilty to robbing a couple in Georgetown, was allowed to carry a gun in the first place was because of human error.

WTOP has learned two Metropolitan Police Department officers have been disciplined for failing to notice that Xavier Brooks was wanted by police at the same time he was applying to be an armed special police officer.

And the idiots in DC are fighting to make sure that the cops remain the only ones with guns.

Cop Loses Gun At Donut Shop

We're the only ones jellied, glazed, filled, powdered and frosted enough to eat donuts and be trusted with guns at the same time.

You can't make stuff like this up.

Registration Part Of Gun Control AT WORK!

Registration is critical to allowing police to track guns back to their legal owners when they fall into the wrong hands...Now if you want to talk about a deterrent to crime!!!!! Because of the gun registry the police can trace guns (WHICH WERE SOLD ILLEGALLY by a so called law abiding gun owner) back to that gun owner!!!Just another example how the gun registry part of our gun control law works AND why we need it!...Making gun owners responsible for the most effect personal killing tool ever invented IS A GOOD THING!

Gee, "Cagerattler," you're so smart.

"Machine Gun Sammy"

Anybody who can provoke such hysterical fearmongering from the Brady Bunch has gotta be doing something right...

[Via Xavier Thoughts]

ALITO

President Bush, stung by the rejection of his first choice, nominated conservative judge Samuel Alito on Monday to replace moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his political base.

From Gun Owners of America:

There are other conservative judges who are currently on the federal bench who also have a high regard for the U.S. Constitution. Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., in the Third Circuit, has argued that Congress has no right to regulate the private possession of machine guns.

Tell me more...

Police Riot in Wisconsin

So it's the official policy of the City of Madison -- at least according to its mayor -- to assault citizens just as a preventive measure.

And isn't the threat of that the very essence of "gun control" laws?

[Via M'Gath]

You're Quite Welcome

This sure beats some of the stuff that's been said about me...

More Treason From the Birthplace of Liberty

Restrict the flow of legal weapons, and the number of guns circulating illegally on city streets would decline. "We need to go after traffickers who have highly developed businesses... just like selling hotdogs," says Bryan Miller of Ceasefire New Jersey, which lobbies for gun safety.

For all the talk of enforcing existing gun laws, those statutes have not kept illegal guns out of the hands of criminals. So lawmakers need to enact the one-handgun-a-month proposal being championed by Rep. John Myers and Sen. LeAnna M. Washington, both Philadelphia Democrats. Limiting legal handgun purchases - not hunting rifles - to a dozen per year would preserve gun owners' rights, while seriously hampering gun traffickers.

Wait a minute--I thought Philadelphia wasn't supposed to have any more crime. I thought "enforcing existing gun laws" was the winning strategy.

Gee, maybe you can't get in bed with your enemies. Maybe compromise and appeasement don't work, and they'll always be coming back at your throat.

Note this is coming from Philadelphia, home of Independence Hall (now a UN World Heritage Site). Disarming the Constitutional militia ought to be prosecutable as an act of treason.

And note the divide-and-conquer tactic pitting hunters against handgun owners--your rifles are OK--we're just going after those other guys.

For now.

Bill Proposed to Ban 'Cop Killer' Handguns

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Massachusetts anti-defense fanatics continue to demonstrate that they prefer destroying gun owners with police state coercion over peaceful coexistence. Exactly how many cops have been killed with the unspecified handgun has not been disclosed, nor where we can get one of those 0.05 needleguns before they're banned.

But out of all the foolishness contained in this story, this line stood out the most:

He argued that the NRA does support gun laws that are effective in reducing crime..

Really? And what laws would those be?

[Via KABA Newslinks]

This Could Have Been a Win-Win Situation

Calgary police Chief Jack Beaton says he wants to work with the city's firing ranges to devise a strict registry that would require every user to provide information and photo ID.

"We don't want gang members improving their shot," said Beaton.

Why not? Maybe then they'll start taking each other out instead of all those innocents they hit with stray shots.

Thank You For Your Service. Now Get Out.

Cryptic Subterranean relays what's happening to Walter Gaya, "an Army sniper...injured in an IED attack on a Stryker he was travelling in. He was eight days away from being sworn in as an American citizen..."

Now, he's in a bureaucratic black hole: Federal immigration officials wouldn't renew his permanent resident card or tell him when he could reschedule the swearing-in ceremony. No one at the local U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office could tell him what to do next to get his citizenship papers, or even how to renew his immigration documents.

I hope it's not because Immigration and Customs management is preoccupied with exposing themselves to teenage girls at malls...

UPDATE: Never mind.

"We Feel Like the Gun Makes the Problem Worse"

Blognomicon introduces us to Lisa Price, executive director of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence, who would apparently rather see women raped and butchered than armed.

Notice her advocacy for rendering you and your loved ones defenseless is based on her feelings.

Where have I heard that before?

Rossie: Gun Makers Aren't the Problem Here

He starts out fine and is going along great, and then he starts bemoaning the lack of regulations and demanding gun registration.

Yes, Mr. Rossie, gun makers aren't the problem. Idiot Americans who either don't understand or fear or despise "shall not be infringed" are.

Gun Geek on the Net Gets 3Yrs

A COMPUTER nerd was yesterday jailed for three years for selling replica guns on the internet. Andrew Phillips ran a website called Guns2 Thugs.com from his bedroom at his mum's house...Police closed the website in a raid on Phillips's Nottingham home after questions were asked in the Commons.

"Gun geek?"

"Computer nerd?"

Don't you just love the way "real journalists" keep their personal biases to themselves and limit their reporting to the facts?

For the risks this guy took and for the penalties they impose over replica guns, why wouldn't he just run the real things?

Here's what's left of the website the police shut down, courtesy of the Wayback Machine.

Let's Give Federal Law Enforcement a Big Hand

Never mind--he's using his own (sorry).

If it looks like WarOnGuns is being particularly hard (sorry again) on cops today, it's really not by design. These stories just keep falling into my lap (once more, I apologize).

One of the more obscene passages in this sordid tale:

The jail and the Orange County Sheriff's Office declined to release Figueroa's mug shot taken when he was booked at the jail. Florida public-records law permits law-enforcement officers charged with a crime to withhold their booking photographs.

[Via Wolfesblog]

Raped By Cops

Maybe they were imposters.