Thanks to You, It's Working

The money comes from a Joyce Foundation grant, and grants from such local agencies as United Way and the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois.

So I guess until United Way comes up with a policy prohibiting its local chapters from engaging in subversion, the safest course is to find a more worthy charity to support. Otherwise, you just might find your contributions working to erode your freedoms.

What Do You Expect From a Commie Thug?

The former South African president has told how he buried the weapon on the farm where he was hiding at the time.

He and other ANC leaders were later arrested on the farm, and were jailed for their work against apartheid. Mr Mandela was freed in 1990.

So when they came for his gun, he defied them and kept it hidden.

But now that he's on the ruling side, he's all for disarming everyone else, even lending his likeness and signature to gun turn-in certificates.

Saving Hunters From Bill Schneider

AHSA seems to want the middle ground, to be pro-gun and pro-conservation.

It's no secret I have my differences with current NRA management, but I'd be more interested in saving hunters from surface-deep writers like Bill Schneider. I posted the following and encourage you to add your thoughts:

Good grief, Bill, I can't believe anyone could write anything this ignorant unintentionally. Ten minutes worth of research would have told you all you needed to know about AHSA--assuming you don't know perfectly well what they're about.

And as for being a "new group," where have you been? Pro-Bill of Rights activists have been warning gun owners about them for almost a year now.

AHSA's president, John Rosenthal, founded "Stop Handgun Violence," and is as big a gungrabber as you will find. Their Board of Directors include honchos from Crime Guns Solutions, ex-BATF careerists who worked to give ammo to the gun maker lawsuits. CGS exec Gerald Nunziato had this to say:

"“If it wasn'’t for criminals, there wouldn'’t be a gun industry in this country. The only people [NRA and other gun-rights groups are] protecting are criminals."

AHSA has ties with a democrat consulting group, DCS, whose clients included Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers.

[Robert] Ricker may as well change his name to Judas--here's what he said about the gun lawsuits [when he] worked for "the gun lobby":

"We'’ll be able to show that what these lawyers are actually after is money."

Now that he's betrayed the people who put his name on the map, he's become an "expert witness" FOR the gun lawsuits.

So was he lying then for money or is he lying now for money--and either way, how can anyone believe a thing he says?

As for the machine guns and hunters LIE, c'mon, Bill, if you don't know the "assault weapon" ban covered semiautos, you really have no business making public commentary on the matter until you do some learning. The confusion between the two types of firearms is intentional deception proposed by Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center, who stated:

"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."

Besides which, maybe you can show us where the Second Amendment, that is, the right of the People to be the final guarantor of their own liberty, concerns itself with mere sporting purpose (which, by the way, was one of the rationales employed in Nazi "gun control" laws)?

David Codrea
The War on Guns
http://waronguns.blogspot.com

This Day in History: June 22

On this day in 1775, Congress issues $2 million in bills of credit.

And they've never looked back.

A Fluid Development

Flexible full-body protection that could save our troops' lives and limbs is at the top of the list for many researchers and technology companies. One such product could soon make its way to Iraq. As this ScienCentral News video explains, the secret ingredient is a liquid that could turn lightweight material into full-body armor.

This is a very exciting development.

Will it be withheld by edict from We the People, that is, the citizen militia of the Second Amendment?

And they say there are no stupid questions...

When "Only Ones" Collide

Two people were killed and another injured yesterday after a shootout between prison officers and FBI agents investigating their alleged involvement in a corruption scandal at a Florida jail.

The gunfight began when the agents arrived at the Federal Correctional Institute in Tallahassee to serve arrest warrants on six prison guards suspected of supplying drugs and alcohol to female inmates in exchange for money or sex.

So what is a non-Only One supposed to do when there are no "Good" Only Ones around to protect them from the "Bad" Only Ones?

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

Talk About Specious Arguments

Is the ongoing cost of the registry not commensurate with the benefits? What about the fact that police across Canada access the gun registry 5,000 times a day? Why are police forces across Canada massively in favour of the gun registry?

Oh, OK--the cops want gun registration so it must be "good."

Frank J. O'Hara, how could anyone argue with such an overwhelmingly compelling reason?

This Day in History: June 21

On this day in 1779, Spain declares war on Great Britain, creating a de facto alliance with the Americans.

We're the Only Ones Wanton and Reckless Enough

Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte declined yesterday to prosecute a state trooper who fatally shot an unarmed man in 2005, despite a judge's report three months ago finding the trooper had engaged in "wanton and reckless conduct" that "amounted to criminal negligence"...

Let's you and me shoot a driver in the back of the head and see how quick DA Conte is to drop the charges. But then, we're not The Only Ones.

There Goes the Neigborhood

The average leader of a Chicago street gang is 43, and more often than not he lives in the leafy suburbs of Cook County.

He typically has been convicted of murder...

Advice on how to fight back...

*Limiting handgun sales to once a month and banning .50-caliber sniper rifles...

Yep, let the animals loose and disarm the victim pool.

My kind of town, Chicago is.

[Thanks to HZ]

South Africans Join Sheep ID Registry By Thousands

More than 28 000 South Africans lent their faces to the worldwide Million Faces Petition calling for tougher controls on the international arms trade, campaigners said yesterday.

And they are in some illustrious company.

This Day in History: June 20

On this day in 1782, Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States after six years of discussion.

Looks like it didn't take them all that long to start acting like politicans...

What Color is That Center Stripe Again?

Even by NRA standards, this is a bad idea -- not just divisive but downright dangerous. Does the gun lobby really want to remake America in the image of Iraq? The proposal was apparently motivated by the lawlessness in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, but if there aren't enough cops to patrol the streets, then hire more cops. When individual citizens, even "law-abiding" ones, decide to go it alone, the result is anarchy.

As The Pistolero told me when he sent me this link: "I thought I had seen it all, until I saw this."

Sending a Message

"Send a message to lawbreakers that citizens are going to protect themselves." I'd add to that ".... and protect each other." Firearms, as shown by a brave 81-year-old man, can tip the out-of-balance scales in a deadly assault. This same 81-year-old man could just have easily protected his neighbor in a similar assault by being armed.

Barry Laws gets ink in the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Perfume Control: Why the Hell Not?

The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) on Tuesday announced that perfume bottles and umbrellas, among other things, will not be allowed inside passengers' carry-on bags...

Y'know, I proposed a perfectly safe and secure way to conduct commercial air travel almost five years ago and am still waiting for the authorities to implement my idea...

Because Only Communists Should Have Guns?

Businesses that sell toy guns have become the target of protestors. Various civil rights groups, seeking a ban on the fake weapons that look real, are taking on the retailers who sell them.

CBS 11 News first reported last month on the efforts of southern Dallas activists. The groups protesting include the Black Panthers, New Black Panthers, and a Hispanic group called the Brown Berets.

Somehow, when I think "civil rights groups," militant race hustlers aren't what come to mind.

But then, I'm not the lapdog media...

We're the Only Ones "Perky" Enough

An internal city audit of firearms in the Dothan Police Department's evidence room showed little care was given to tracking guns, some of which ended up in the hands of officers who considered them as -- quote -- "perks of being an officer." [More]

Hey, why not? After all, they are The Only Ones...

We're the Only Ones and We're a Crack Team

Campbell, who was a deputy with Houston County's narcotic unit at the time, admitted to selling the gun and supplying crack cocaine to Joshua Whigan, an Ashford man authorities say Campbell knew to be a convicted felon.

Gee, do you think during his distinguished career, Deputy Campbell ever arrested anyone on a drug or weapons charge...?

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

Top Ten?

Looks more like the bottom to me...

A .357 Smith & Wesson Goes Berserk

This just in: "An Ohio gun went berserk in a crowded shopping mall, shooting six people before reloading and firing three more shots at fleeing shoppers."

Hal Lindsey shoots down the myth of self-animating guns.