Million Moon March: A New Tack

This is really funny, and it illustrates how--when an idea gets set loose in the wild--others can adapt it and make it far superior to the original plan--so much so that I now recommend using this new approach as the main one.

The first evolutionary move in this direction came from Free Constitution, who submitted a photo of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez using the selected caption "Make me safe from armed violence."

Then E. David Quammen from Gun Show on the Net came up with an inspired idea and hit the ball out of the park.

This was his submission:



The caption: Make me safe from armed violence.

And the Million Faces campaign posted it!

Why is that funny? Why is that worthy of becoming the new tactic for us to use?

Because, if you haven't recognized it already, the image is of genocidal butcher Pol Pot, the monster responsible for Cambodia's "Killing Fields." And because that's exactly what "gun control" does--it makes monsters safe from (defensive) gun violence.

David's success made me realize that--instead of sending protest photos we know Control Arms will reject and substitute--we could probably get them to post many more of our actual submissions if we just sent in portraits of predators. A Google image search on the name of a known tyrant or Nazi is one good place to start (just make sure if you pick a dictator he's not in military uniform--I found a great portrait of Idi Amin in a suit looking very respectable, ditto for Uday and Qusay Hussein...)

But why stop there?

We have the FBI's "Most Wanted List." The Postal Service also puts out posters, as do many state and municipal law enforcement websites.

And then we have the sexual predators, like on California's "Megan's Law" website (and their "illegal use" disclaimer doesn't address what I'm proposing here)...

David's success really does open up a wealth of potential for sticking it in the eye of those who are working to undermine our rights, plus it's just plain ironically funny. Let me know if Control Arms posts your predator, and keep those pictures coming in.

UPDATE: Forgot to include this--we got a nice mention over at Rational Review.

THUS FAR:

The Million Moon March

Million Moon March Update

Joining the March

Million Moon March Update (#2)

Million Moon March Gallery

Gallery Updates

We're the Only...Say, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket or Are You Just Glad to Be Here?

Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for Cook County Sheriff Michael Sheahan, said investigators still can't rule out that White and Sherman had help from guards who either aided them directly or purposefully turned a blind eye.

Some may have been complicit, Daly said, or some may have just been incompetent.

But...but...but if we can't trust the professionals...

Tags: gun, police

Gun Activist Fed Up With NY GOP

A longtime pro-gun activist said Monday he is fed up with the state Senate's Republican majority and is willing to help Democrats win the few seats needed to wrest control of the chamber from the GOP.

"You are no longer the lesser of two evils," wrote Gerald Preiser in an e-mail to state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and other Senate Republicans. Preiser gave a copy of the e-mail to The Associated Press.

Naturally, the Republican establishment and the NRA are doing what they can to put the guy down, but think about it: the GOP leaders in New York, Pataki, Bloomberg Giuliani, Pirro...all are "gun control" proponents.

How will that ever change if gun owners keep rewarding them?

Are we afraid the dems will pass a law taking our guns away?

They can only take them away if we let them.

Will you let them?

Maybe it will take letting them lose an election cycle or two for the Repubs to get the message gun owners are serious.

CORRECTION: Jacob takes exception to my use of the term "NRA" as attribution for quotes reported in the story that were made by the president of the NRA state affiliate (see comment thread to this post). Technically, he is correct and it was inaccurate of me to use that general term.

Tags: gun control, New York, Republican, NRA

Bidding High on Hitler's Gun

A rare German gun that may have belonged to Adolf Hitler is commanding $13,000 (€10,800) at an online auction today, but the price could at least treble before bidding closes on Thursday, experts predict.

Call me cynical, but I wonder how many of those collectors with that kind of money to spend are openhanded when it comes to supporting the right to keep and bear arms.

The owners say they will donate a portion of auction proceeds to the Anti-Defamation League, a group that combats anti-Semitism and bigotry. League officials have said they would prefer the gun to be donated to a museum where it could be safeguarded and not potentially wind up in the hands of Hitler admirers.

This is why I'm cynical. The current owners are going to make a donation to a group that hates and subverts the right of private gun ownership and promotes the genocidal doctrine of "gun control." And naturally, the ingrates at the ADL think that's not good enough.

Be nice to see the owners turn around and tell the ADL to forget it if they feel that way, and make the donation instead to JPFO, where it will do some good.

Tags: gun control, Hitler

Nicki Gets Famous

Nicki Fellenzer gets profiled by The Winchester Star (log-in required: try "Newslinks as username and password, otherwise use BugMeNot).

Now that she's famous and better than us and all, watch her start pronouncing it rah-ther and weekending in the Hamptons, and calling herself Lady Fellenzer 'n stuff...

Seriously though, congratulations, kiddo. Nice to see someone presenting a message outside the choir about children and guns that centers on loving parental attention and education. I'm sure there will be no shortage of letters, including those from outraged bleaters--keep us posted.

Gallery Updates

Tomato 7 and Head have joined the fun. I've also had several folks send in pictures by email. And I see Bill St. Clair liked my suggestion...

I'll probably make the Gallery updates a weekly task (Million Moon March Monday?) unless volume necessitates greater frequency. Until then, I'll just post links to the sites where new pictures appear.

UPDATE: Free Constitution sent them a picture that made me laugh out loud when you factor in the caption he chose: "Make me safe from armed violence."

Million Moon March Gallery

An international citizen disarmament coalition, Control Arms, is sponsoring a "Million Faces petition" and "is collecting photos and self portraits from around the world to reach [their] goal of one million faces by June 2006. [They] will use these faces to send a powerful, global message of support to the world's governments for an International Arms Trade Treaty."

The idea of The Million Moon March (as in "mooning") is to send them photos from the side that believes in the right of the people to keep and bear arms--to let the rights grabbers know there are untold numbers of people who refuse to be disarmed, and quite candidly, to taunt and hopefully enrage them.

You are encouraged to submit your pro-gun photos to Control Arms first--yes, we realize they will fraudulently attempt to use them to pad their numbers--but that will call the credibility of their claims of support into doubt, plus it's fun to let them know we're out there defying them. Then, send a copy to WarOnGuns so I can post it here.

Like Control Arms, I will also submit our photographs in June 2006--although ours won't be a petition, but a statement of defiance.

Here are the images submitted to date:

My original submission:



My follow-up submission:


Submission from WarOnGuns commentator "1894C" (© Oleg Volk):



From Armed & Christian #1 (© Oleg Volk):



Armed & Christian submission #2 (© Oleg Volk):



The Armed Cynic offers a "Million Mutton Package Deal" (1st image © JPFO):


and


Blognomicon sent them this graphic (© Oleg Volk):



Captain of a Crew of One submitted a familiar image:



End the War on Freedom opted for a personal message (which would make a great poster if Photoshopped into the Elian photo with the caption "Surprise!", wouldn't it?):



Fish Or Man sent in this disturbing bit of history:




Gun Show on the Net also thought a reminder of the real life consequences of "gun control" would be appropriate:



Frequent correspondent HZ is a talented gun photographer who thought a picture of his lovely wife displaying her skills would send a clear message:



The Liberty Zone also made a powerful "armed and female" statement:



Jeremy H sure looks happy, doesn't he? Think Control Arms will post his friendly face?



Mark Odell found this image, which has pretty much vanished from the Internet--wonder why?



Oscar Poppa chose to make a point about about gungrabbing elites and their bodyguards (© Oleg Volk):



South Park Pundit tried a reasoned approach (© Oleg Volk):



and when that didn't work, just decided to have some fun:



That's it for the first round of gallery images. Let me know if you want to join in the fun--if you blog about it, I'll link to it, or if you just want to submit a photo, I'll post it--and yes, I'll admit up front I'm censoring out anti-gun rights images. The other side has a heavily-financed effort backed by IANSA, Amnesty International and Oxfam, and they're not accepting opposing views. Surely there's room for one totally unfunded private little blog to speak for the side of individual rights.

One last point: A lot of the participants selected images by Oleg Volk. Their inclusion does not imply any endorsement of this project by Mr. Volk. It simply means that these people think his compelling artwork represents their view of things.

Another source for images can be found from some of our old GunTruths posters, you can create your own, or find images you think are appropriate via search engines.

Tags: gun control

A Suspect Report

Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly all of them as potential suspects after hearing nothing pertinent to a terrorist threat, according to accounts from current and former government officials and private-sector sources with knowledge of the technologies in use.

But...but...but "The Partnership" tells us suspects aren't innocent...

Michael Gawenda: LIAR

Congress has failed to renew the 1994 legislation that banned assault weapons, even though George Bush, during the 2004 presidential election campaign, said he supported the law. As a result, it's now OK to buy an AK-47 or an Uzi machine-gun, if that turns you on.--Michael Gawenda

Michael, you are a liar. Expiration of the '94 semiauto ban did nothing to change federal law regarding machine gun possession. You are parroting an intentional deception, you fraud:

"The semi-automatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons – anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun – can only increase that chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons."—Josh Sugarmann, Violence Policy Center

More agenda-driven subversion from "The Partnership".

[Thanks to Dan Gifford]

UPDATE: Nicki tears the liar to shreds.

Tags: gun control, propaganda

Words Have Meaning...

TIME Exclusive: Attorney General will tell Senators that wiretaps target suspects, not innocents

Everybody got that, right?

What was it Inspector Clouseau said?

I suspect everyone and I suspect no one.

What else should we expect from "The Partnership"?

The Newest Deterrent to Bank Robberies

A bank in DuPage County is asking its customers to remove hats, hoods and sunglasses when entering their banks, as a deterrent for would-be robbers. Officials with West Suburban Bank, based in Lombard, say this is just one action to deter robberies, in response to last year’s record-breaking 238 bank robberies in the metropolitan area.

Hat and sunglass control.

It's so brilliantly simple, it's elegant. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?

UPDATE: FreedomSight is making a sign.

[Thanks to HZ]

Chris Hansen: NBC's Undercover Cop

Speaking of journalism, Dateline NBC, the same folks who brought us the rigged exploding crash test, has crossed another line.

"Dateline's ongoing hidden camera investigation into computer sex predators--grown men, trolling the Web for sex with minors. This time, police are making arrests..." the MSNBC subhead for "To Catch a Predator III" announces.

Good. Damned perverts deserve to be crucified. If it was my kids, I'd gut 'em like a trout.

Which is hardly the point. By partnering with law enforcement to engineer arrests, "correspondent" (why not "undercover deputy"?) Chris Hansen has shed the role of journalist and taken on that of police investigator. A key function of a free press--although you wouldn't know it from the preponderance of "gun control" and other state-worshipping editorials--is to act as a watchdog against abuse of power, not as a guard dog alerting civil authority to misdeeds.

And it's not like NBC affiliates haven't partnered with such authority before.

If the ratings are good--and the "cause" is certainly one that elicits public interest and sympathy--why not expand the concept to other crimes?

How about if they have the cops waiting while they host a gambling sting, or entrap Johns with prostitutes, or--I know--set up a drug bust. I mean, nobody likes those crackheads, right?

No? Still too many in the "conservative gun owner" camp who think these wretches get what they deserve?

Good, because if ratings reward the concept, advertising revenues will grow. Once the networks--and why not newspapers, too?--see how profitable it is to partner with police, there's no limit to how far this can be exploited.

What does it take to elevate the threat level so it even appears on our radar as a concern? Do we need to have our ox gored by the police/reporter alliance?

What if the promo read:

"Dateline's ongoing hidden camera investigation into Second Amendment fanatics who purchase firearms in defiance of sensible gun laws. This time, police are making arrests...."

It's not the same thing? It doesn't need to be. Once we establish that the proper role of journalists is to facilitate arrests for lawbreaking, we will have lost a key independent check and balance over authority. A partnership of private journalists with the state is a hybrid that needs to be exposed for what it is: fascist propaganda.

No matter how "good" the cause.

Or we can not care, watch the shows with voyeuristic fascination, tell ourselves that the end justifies the means...

Maybe in a few years, we'll get to see Geraldo or some clone actually slap the cuffs on the perp, hand him over to a cop, look into the camera and end the show with an authoritative "Book him!"

Tags: NBC, police

No Pulitzer for Nicki

Nicki is all over the latest pack of lies masked as science being promulgated by the rights grabbers.

She's bringing us the story we'll never see in the establishment press. Remember that the next time they sneer at bloggers and treat themselves to an awards dinner.

Goose, Meet Gander

Mayor Daley on Monday embraced a radical plan to require every licensed Chicago business open more than 12 hours a day to install indoor and outdoor cameras...

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In an unusual case, an Evanston woman has been charged with felony eavesdropping charges after she secretly tape recorded a police stop.

[Thanks to HZ]

Blogger Was Down...

...a good part of the day. I did manage to get the gallery I talked about compiled, but will probably save it for Monday, seeing as how traffic on weekends is always much slower.

I put the time to good use--in addition to the tedium of posting pictures into the draft, I wrote an article about home defense for the next issue of Preparedness Now, researched my next GUNS Magazine submission about gun control in Brazil, took the kids down to the beach and walked 2 miles while they skated the Strand, and coached eldest son Uday while he made his first ever dinner: Italian sausages with red and green sliced peppers in a Portobello mushroom and tomato sauce over vegetable trio rotini.

The kid done good.

Million Moon March Update

That gallery post I talked about will follow shortly. Also, I don't think this project warrants a separate blog--at least I don't have time to maintain one. So the plan for now will be to just post updates here at WarOnGuns.

A couple people have raised concerns about Control Arms rejecting their photos and substituting ones of their own--to make opponents appear to be supporters. By choosing this fraudulent tack, they have outsmarted themselves and tainted their results. By claiming protest submissions as additions to their ranks, they can no longer present "honest" numbers.

Additionally, their reason for rejection doesn't even adhere to their own posted rejection criteria:

* Incompatible file type (we can only accept jpeg images at this time)
* Poor image composition-- the image quality is too poor for us to display the image online
* Easily identifiable third party advertising or slogans
* Inappropriate or potentially offensive content or information that might give your exact location details to those browsing the galleries (eg; house no. and street name).

The images I've seen have been excellent, there has been no advertising spam, and their criteria for being "inappropriate or potentially offensive" is qualified by the concern that it might give away "location details." Nothing I've seen does that.

So they took my original submission:



and replaced it with this:



I resubmitted this image, and sent it back to them (you now have an email address if you wish to bypass their site form) with the following reply:

You are absolutely NOT authorized to substitute the picture I submitted with one of your choosing.

I am getting reports from others who have joined me in submitting protest photos to your site, only to have you turn around and--after having your "administrators" review them--add them to your rank of supporters.

The numbers you will be presenting at the conclusion of your project are tainted by your choosing this dishonest tactic. This is the kind of fraud I expect from police state worshippers/genocide enablers who want a world where global government has a monopoly of force. You rely on lies to advance your agenda. How pathetic.

The hell with you subversive frauds. Free Americans will never disarm. There will never be enough of you to force us.

Molon Labe!

David Codrea

I Forgot to Mention You Could WIN Something Cool...

...when I posted my latest "Shameless Plug."

If you turn to pg. 108 of the March 2006 issue of GUNS Magazine, you can find out how to win a Kimber 8400 Classic in .300 WSM caliber, a Leupold 3.5-10X VXIII scope, 5 boxes of Winchester .300 WSM 180-grain AccuBond ammunition, and from Butler Creek, Flip-Open Scope Covers, and a Camo Comfort Stretch Sling with Uncle Mike's QD Sling Swivels.

Tags: gun, rifle

We're the Only Ones Clueless Enough...

The probe continued into how a handgun apparently smuggled into the Cook County Jail ended up being used in a shooting this week that left three inmates slightly wounded...

The good news is, they traced the gun back to its 1972 owner (take that, registry naysayers!). And I don't know why the reactionary press had to mention the inmate's mother who works for the sheriff's office. After all, she hadn't been to see him for weeks...

Tags: gun, police

It's Second Amendment Saturday...

...over at Free Constitution...

Stand Your Ground

There’s no way such paranoia can be dealt with. The best response when confronted with such pathology is avoidance. But when neurotic distrust is codified into disarmament laws, we aren’t given that option. We aren’t allowed to just back away.

"Stand Your Ground" is my Rights Watch column for the February issue of GUNS Magazine.

Tags: gun control