We're the Only Ones' Darling Little Girls

The Rensselaer County Sheriff's Department released information to The Record Friday about the arrest three adults and a juvenile for breaking into the Schaghticoke home of veteran Troy Police Officer Rick Schoonmaker in April and stealing seven guns...One of those arrested was Schoonmaker's 19-year-old daughter Deborah, who lives in her father's home...

Last year, Patricia Goldston, the 21-year-old daughter of Officer Colleen Goldston, was arrested for hindering prosecution after her boyfriend stole two guns, including the officer's service revolver.

Maybe we need laws forbidding police from taking their weapons home with them...?

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Keep Yer Hands Off My Guns

I guess that's the way elitists over at The Economist imply American gun owners are a bunch of slack-jawed Deliverance hicks.

It is nice to see Wayne LaPierre finally promoting the gun control/genocide connection, especially since Aaron Zelman has been urging NRA to do so for years.

Connecticut's Strict Gun Laws Aren't Foolproof

I guess not.

They never work, but fools keep proposing more of them.

This Day in History: June 5

On this day in 1723, Adam Smith, future author of The Wealth of Nations (1776), a critique of the mercantilist model of trade in the British empire, is baptized in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

"Clear Signals"

Vin Suprynowicz comments on New Orleans gun confiscations, our old pal Lee Paige, Democrat posturing, and the profoundly stupid (and thus wildly popular) TV series "Law and Order."

Second Amendment Sunday

Free Constitution moved it back a day because he's so darned busy.

Rendering Unto Caesar

Guns were the weapon of choice in majority of Rochester's fifty-four homicides last year. That is why the Rochester Police Department and clergy members believe getting rid of the guns will help alleviate the violence.

Note that Chief David Moore won't be turning in his gun. After all, he's one of the "only ones."

And don't you just love the way everything is now militarized? They can't just have "Police Chaplains"--now they need a "Clergy Response Team." I'll bet early Christians wished the Romans had had one of those!

I guess this is just the good Father Don Wollscheleger's way of rendering unto Caesar...

Good job, fellas. I'm a big admirer of your work.

Amazon Dot Commies

ONE of the world's largest online retailers has been forced to remove pages from its website after it linked the Dunblane tragedy with books for gun enthusiasts.

Why?

If there had been a few armed "gun enthusiasts" on scene, does anyone really think the coward Thomas Hamilton would have been able to perpetrate a massacre?

We're the Only Ones...Hey, Did Anybody Just Hear Some Glass Break...?

Ricardo Jones and Joseph Leaks had been inmates in the D.C. jail since August, and last month were indicted in connection with a murder. Yesterday, in the jail's most audacious breakout in recent memory, the two stormed into the warden's empty office shortly after 10 a.m., smashed through a reinforced glass window with furniture, scampered onto a canopy and escaped, officials said.

Another reason why it makes so much sense to be disarmed in DC--not only can't the cops protect you, when they do manage to catch a bad guy, they can't hold onto him.

Yeah, I'd want to be helpless knowing these two (alleged!) reptiles are slithering around the neighborhood.

This Day in History: June 4

On this day in 1754, during the Seven Years’ War, a 22-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia named George Washington begins construction of a makeshift “Fort Necessity.” The fort was built to defend his forces from French soldiers enraged by the murder of Ensign Joseph Coulon de Jumonville while in Washington’s custody. One month later, the French, led by Jumonville’s half-brother, won Washington’s surrender and forced confession to Jumonville’s murder.

Next for UK: Shirt Control

A two-year-old boy was ordered to remove his England football shirt in a pub because the manager feared it could spark trouble.

I guess the subjects aren't satisfied with the progression of government bans and wish to speed the pace up a bit on their own.

Riley to Citizens: Disarm When I Order You to or Die

Gun rights activists were up in arms Friday after New Orleans Police Chief Warren Riley said he would confiscate weapons should disaster strike...

“During a circumstance like that, we cannot allow people to walk the street carrying guns…as law enforcement officers we will confiscate the weapon if a person is walking down the street and they may be arrested,” Riley said.

I love the hyperbole used by "authorized journalists." Were the People truly "up in arms," Chief Riley would be on the run.

So what will the answer be to his treasonous declaration of war on free Americans: surrender or resistance?

Not "Summer of the Violent Predator"?

Gun violence is on the rise in Canada's major cities, and police are bracing themselves for another season of escalating casualties.

"Summertime months are peak months for gun violence, and the question is will we face another 'Summer of the Gun,'" Bill Hubble, deputy director of the Criminal Intelligence Service, a federal agency, told CTV News.

Well, Bill, all those attempts to remove inanimate objects from civilized society, in lieu of ostracizing the real causal agents, violent criminals, certainly have proven to be a self-defeating boondoggle.

But I don't expect you to take a hint from your agency's name. Propaganda slogans like "Summer of the Gun" say all I need to know about your worldview, and why those depending on you for protection have put their faith in a hollow fraud.

A Suggestion for UK Pubs

Now that you've instituted glass control, here's one more way you can ensure the safety of your subjects:

Do they play pool over there? How about darts... oh, I bet that they have switched over to the plastic ones now...gariders

"We've Come to Expect"

We’ve come to expect many things from Michael Moore, the deliriously anti-gun millionaire posing as populist who brought us such absurd and irresponsible works as “Bowling for Columbine,” “Stupid White Men,” “Dude, Where’s My Country?” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.” We’ve come to expect patronizing arrogance, blatant anti-Americanism, and flagrant lies.

One thing I haven't come to expect is for NRA to follow its own Bylaws any more than I expect politicians to abide by the Constitution. Four years ago, I gave them ample evidence along with a demand to expel Moore from the Association, following the bylaws to the letter, notarized and sent via certified mail.

At that point, the Secretary was to refer my complaint to the Ethics Committee, which would arrive at a disposition. The Secretary was then to "promptly notify all parties of the findings and actions."


Note the wording doesn't make this optional. It doesn't say the Secretary can just ignore it because NRA management doesn't want to do it. "Shall," as in "shall not be infringed," is a specific mandate that could not be more clear.

So why is it I never heard a thing back from NRA about this, and why have I come to expect that I never will?

This Day in History: June 3

On this day in 1780, the reviled former royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, who served from 1771 to 1774, dies in Brompton, England.

From the Land of "Braveheart"

Glass Control. [More]

Aye.

Brazil Nuts

“People here fear the police and their guns more than they do the (drug) dealers,” Rocinha, Brazil, slum dweller Denise do Espirito Santo told The Washington Post about the national referendum to ban private gun ownership.

"Brazil Nuts," my Rights Watch column for the June 2006 issue of GUNS Magazine, is now online.

I'll See Your 25 and Raise You 30

As parliament considers an amendment to tighten gun control laws, the head of Cape Town's Red Cross Children's Hospital, Sebastian van As, has called for the gun-licensing age to be increased to 25 years to reduce the alarming number of children killed or maimed by gunfire.

Yeah, that'll work, van Ass.

GUNS Magazine, June 1956

First I'll show Tim how to clean his rifle. Then we'll do some target shooting. Next we'll go out in the desert and I'll show him the proper way to carry his .22. Then we'll do a little hunting. A gun must be treated like a woman-with respect, love and lots of caution.--Robert Ryan

When was the last time you heard a major Hollywood star speak about guns and kids like this for the record? Yet this was a monthly feature 50 years ago, with actors and politicians endearing themselves to their fans and constituents as they disclosed their affinity for guns and the shooting sports.

It's too bad the people from that era weren't also in touch with the deeper implications of gun ownership, but it was a different time and no one was prescient. Pity. We can only wonder if things would be different had some back then sounded an alarm, but in truth, without the attacks of our time, such voices would (and did) not carry far.

The June 1956 issue of GUNS Magazine is now online.

Also in this issue:

• How to Become a Gun Engraver
• Why Bullets Kill
• Better Arms for the Better Half
• and much more, including the classic ads of the period.