School Safety for Hand Puppets

"The next thing we know," Kukla said, "he pulled multiple weapons out from under his clothes and out of his backpack"...

Her message -- along with that of four other speakers -- was: Make guns easier to track and harder to get for those who shouldn't have them...

"The question is whether you allow law-abiding citizens to defend themselves," Valone said.

Kukla disagreed.

Naturally. When you insist on being a pathetic and helpless herd animal, what would it say about your lack of courage and character to know there are others who refuse to be--what was the word Machiavelli used?--"contemptible."

How many "gun laws" did the assailant willfully ignore, and her solution is to enact even more? When it comes to school safety, brainless puppet Kukla makes about as much sense as Fran and Ollie.

And why would any responsible parent trust the lives of their children to her care?

We're the Only Ones Raging Against the Machine Enough

An off-duty Hollywood police officer has been charged with threatening a family with a gun in an act of road rage, authorities said.

We've been down this road before. What more proof do we need that only "The Only Ones" are trained, trustworthy and stable enough to bear arms?

Happy motoring!

We're the Only Ones Who Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges Enough

More than 3,600 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) or Homeland Security Department airport security uniforms and badges have been lost or stolen over the past five years, The Washington Times reports.

Fly the friendly skies--with "The Only Ones."


[Via Wm H]

A BIDS Clarification

I received the following clarifying points on the Blind Identification Database System (BIDS) from Russ Howard and Brian Puckett in response to my recent "Talkin' to America" interview with Aaron Zelman of JPFO:

From Russ Howard:

Good article in Guns Magazine - and JPFO interview. Thanks for bringing it up again when no one else will! A few key things I'd like to emphasize. Not that you don't already know...

1. The government doesn't need to establish a registration system. It already has one, with national lists. Private dealer lists are de facto national registration lists. In that regard, NICS is a dangerous red herring. Keeping names through NICS would be a convenience for the government over the existing national registration system, but the government can already get the names from dealers when it gets the will. Until dealer lists are discontinued and destroyed, we have national registration. If any group knows the historical danger of de facto registration via privately held state-mandated gun owner lists, it's JPFO.

2. Full implementation of BIDS implies timely destruction, soon after BIDS passes, of all private dealer records that identify gun buyers. Currently, dealers that go out of business are required to turn over their lists to the government. Waiting for a dealer to go out of business to require list destruction would be unreliable as the dealer would likely be bankrupt, dead, disabled, etc., and the lists of those dealers who don't go out of business would always be available for confiscation. As long as dealers keep gun buyer identifications, we have national registration. As Brian Puckett notes (see email below), "There is no point in keeping one branch of the government from compiling a list of gun owners if other branches are doing that exact thing". Likewise, there's no point eliminating lists directly held by the government without eliminating indirectly held lists that can become directly held at any time. It's lame to fight the former while ignoring the latter, perpetuating the myth that we don't already have registration.

3. In re: "We think just deleting GCA 68 entirely is preferable to gutting it via BIDS"... Of course, that's our preference too. Anyone who knows us should know if we could eliminate GCA 68 by snapping our fingers, it would be gone. We don't want to save GCA 68 with BIDS, we want to eviscerate it.

But just deleting GCA 68 is not going to happen - certainly not in one fell swoop. So why not at least use BIDS as a persuasive hammer to beat the enemy over the head, and use it to expose the key goal of those who push registration via background checks? A pro forma argument might go something like ...

"Registration does not have to be an intrinsic aspect of background checks. The law could be changed so that a dealer could check to make sure a buyer is not a violent criminal without the government ever knowing who is buying guns, and without the creation of lists of gun owners. If you want background checks for crime reduction rather than as a vehicle for registration for the purpose of eventual confiscation, and if there are viable ways for dealers to avoid selling to criminals without building de facto registration lists of decent citizens, then why insist on coupling background checks with registration? The anti-gun crowd insists on marrying background checks and registration because it's really about registration and confiscation for them, not crime control."

BIDS is not a compromise. It doesn't give up something in return for something else. It gives the enemies of freedom nothing, while taking a lot back.

BIDS isn't just incremental. It totally guts the most dangerous aspect of GCA 68, and it's self-reinforcing. It largely eliminates the gun grabbers' incentive to defend the surviving sections of GCA 68. It essentially repeals GCA 68, but the name would live on, like a hollow tree ready to fall over in a high wind.

From Brian Puckett:

[G]un buyer checks are not going to be repealed unless we have a change of government, or the Supreme Court starts adhering to the written constitution, or the public starts thinking its a good idea for paroled murderers to walk into stores and buy guns. This will not happen any time soon, if ever. BIDS will eliminate all the bad parts of background checks, since the government doesn't perform them and therefore doesn't know who's buying a gun. If the entire proposal is accepted, all dealer forms would be destroyed..., AND the government would destroy its ongoing compilation of gun owners via surrendered dealer form 4473's.

As noted in the proposal:

(a) Elimination of current records.

One purpose of BIDS is to eliminate possible gun owner registration via NICS background searches and associated records. If that goal is valid, then it makes no sense to continue other methods of gun owner registration. Therefore any requirement that dealers enter the names of gun buyers on firearm transaction records (such as BATF Form 4473, or state Dealers Record of Sale forms) should be halted. There is no point in keeping one branch of the government from compiling a list of gun owners if other branches are doing that exact thing.

In keeping with the overall goal of eliminating gun owner registries, ideally every gun owner's name would be deleted from every existing state and federal electronic registry, and from every paper record in federal, state, or private hands.

At a time when there are those in government coveting an expansion of NICS to include a full-blown database registry, it's not unfair to ask why the major gun groups--who have known about BIDS for years--refuse to explore its potential. If the only place you hear about it is via a humble blog like this, get ready for more infringements of your rights.

Wayne Fincher Update: January 18

From Paul W. Davis, the Wayne Fincher docket "is updated through the end of the trial."

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I missed this report from a few days back. The following immediately caught my attention:

Wendy Johnson, assistant U. S. attorney, said the investigation of the Militia of Washington County continues.

“[Fincher and his supporters ] are good people, and they believe very strongly,” Johnson said. “Those beliefs are just contrary to the laws of the land.”

No, Wendy, last time I checked, the Constitution was "the supreme law of the land," and my copy still says "shall not be infringed."

We know that's not the interpretation you and other members of the Bush administration argue in court and elsewhere, but there it is.

But continue persecuting "good people," Wendy. It's not like this country doesn't have real and evil domestic enemies, with whom you have apparently aligned.

Good Lord, Wendy, is this really what you wanted to do with your life?

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This Day in History: January 18

On the evening of January 18, 1776, the Council of Safety in Savannah, Georgia, issues an arrest warrant for the colony’s royal governor, James Wright. Patriots led by Major Joseph Habersham of the Provincial Congress then took Wright into custody and placed him under house arrest.

Free Wayne Webring Update

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A Compelling Reason

"I can't find a compelling reason for anybody to have a gun in this courthouse," Commissioner Scott Gillenwaters said.

You'd better pray a compelling reason never finds you, foolish man.

Off-duty law enforcement officers will be allowed to tote weapons in the courthouse, the panel decided in a separate vote.

Ah, yes. As we've demonstrated countless times here at WarOnGuns, only "The Only Ones" are competent and trustworthy enough to bear arms.

A "Startling Success"

Police Commissioner Ed Davis had barely been on the job two weeks when the gun violence that has ripped through Boston’s neighborhoods took another life - a 14-year-old middle school student.

Ten days later, another 14-year-old was shot to death. Less than two weeks later, a 13-year-old boy was gunned down.

That's funny. The eggheads at Harvard's Kennedy School of Subversion...I mean...Government, would have us believe that "Preliminary date" from Operation Ceasefire "suggest that this strategy has had a dramatic impact on reducing gang violence."

I hope this doesn't mean that Project Exile hasn't yielded "startling success" in Richmond or Philadelphia...

Ai Chihuahua!

Mexican drug gangs are armed with assault weapons bought at gun shows in the United States and smuggled across the border, a report says.

Nice. The corrupt Mexican government does its utmost to facilitate illegal border crossings, and then complains the permeable border facilitates Mexican corruption.

So obviously, the solution is to curtail more freedoms of American citizens.

My cabeza hurts.

Everybody's bought and read this, right?

A List Addition

Criticize the need for guns, the obsession with guns, and you're labeled unpatriotic, anti-Constitution or - horrors - a liberal.

You forgot "Nazi."

Goodfella

"Goodfellas" actor Paul Sorvino pulled a gun on his daughter's ex-boyfriend after the man pounded on her hotel door and made threats, the daughter testified Tuesday.

As I noted here, Sorvino was one of the few from the Hollywood set I recall who attended California Rifle and Pistol Association banquets back in the days when I was a "true believer" and went to such events myself.

Now if he could just get his idiot other daughter Mira to lay off the citizen disarmament support...

A Snowball's Chance

Rep. Bartlett, of Maryland, has introduced HR 73. I'll paste its text in extended remarks below. It doesn't have a snowball's chance of getting out of Judiciary Committee, but the effort is praiseworthy.

As usual, David Hardy's opinion is something we should heed.

Thing is, the bill ain't exactly new. Bartlett has been shopping a variation around for many years now--here's a link to a GOA article from Sept. 1999 (scroll to bottom).

I guess the real question ought to be what the hell good was it having a Republican-dominated congress all those years before the Pelosi regime if something as straightforward and righteous as this couldn't get enacted?

[Via Straightarrow]

This Day in History: January 17

Relying upon strategic creativity, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and a mixed Patriot force rout British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and a group of Redcoats and Loyalists at the Battle of Cowpens on this day in 1781.

We're the Only Ones Oxymoronic Enough

The Rockport Police Department’s domestic violence officer has been charged with firing a weapon during a dispute with his wife.

You cannot make this stuff up. Only "The Only Ones" can.

We're the Only Ones Shocking Enough

A police officer was accidentally shocked by another officer's stun gun while they were trying to subdue a teenager suspected of being drunk, according to a police report.

Another electrifying moment for "The Only Ones."

A Fairfax Republican

A northern Virginia senator is taking aim at gun shows with legislation to require private sellers to run criminal background checks on their customers.

Sen. Jeanne-marie Devolites Davis, R-Fairfax, said Monday that the so-called gun show loophole makes it all too easy for criminals to get firearms.

Fairfax? That's some lobbying success.

Until the Republicans are shown that creatures like this will be repelled at the polls, they will continue to betray their duty to the Constitution.

I also like the quote from the little girl, which is an accurate measure of the mindset of so-called "adults" who bleat to be disarmed.

I don't suppose with all this renewed interest in background checks that our Fairfax gun lobby will show any interest in an alternative?

This Day in History: January 16

British Admiral Sir George Rodney, with 18 “ships-of-the-line,” engages an inferior Spanish squadron of 11 battleships commanded by Don Juan de Langara off the southwestern coast of Portugal at Cape St. Vincent, in what comes to be known as “The Moonlight Battle.” (“Ships-of-the-line” is the 18th century term for ships substantial enough to be used in a battle line, a tactic of war in which two lines of ships faced off against each other.)

Because "Bounty" Sounds so much Nicer than "Snitch"

The program is a gun bounty program modeled after one in Jacksonville. It lets people turn in others who are carrying guns illegally, all to get a reward...

"We’re actually going to offer through CrimeLine $1,000 reward to anyone that turns in somebody that has an illegal gun or a gun that has been used in a crime of some sort. And that's a pretty significant reward, $1,000, and you can do it anonymously."

Dyer says the program has been effective in Jacksonville, but it’s impossible to calculate the exact impact it had on crime there.

Great way to get rid of the competition if you're a drug dealer, or for an "Only One" to bypass that pesky Fourth Amendment and anonymously phone in his own "tips."

And don't you just love the way they claim it's "effective" but can't come up with any proof?

Somebody Fisk This Moron

I don't have time today.