Back to the Future

"Requiring notification of lost and stolen firearms is the single most effective way to prevent those who are not legally allowed to own a gun from obtaining one," Levine said.

But Lloyd, wait, if the gun has already been stolen, how does that prevent the person who took it from obtaining it?

It looks like Lloyd's prototype time travel field is only effective for 5 days, but I'm sure the staff of highly trained temporal technicians at the CA State Assembly will break through that paradox barrier soon--then maybe we can start requiring gun owners to report thefts before they happen!

Oh, and here's the kicker--you realize, of course, this only applies to "law abiding" gun owners. Criminals, who possess their guns "illegally", can't be compelled to report if their guns are lost or stolen, because that would violate their Fifth Amendment right against self- incrimination. That is, unless we can send Lloyd back to before the Bill of Rights was drafted to cause a few small time rift changes...maybe we could get him to strangle the infant James Madison in his crib...

Gary's Not Comfortable

"I'm not comfortable arming our entire country for protection - that's a paranoid notion," said Gary Sackett, a Gun Violence Prevention Center board member.

"You can't protect against every madman with a firearm or a hand grenade. That sort of thing is going to happen from time to time."

And you'd just let it happen and wouldn't even try to stop it, right, Gary? Better to label men and women who aren't useless cowards as "paranoid." That way, you won't stick out so pathetically.

The Punishment Fits the Crime

An 8-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon after he allegedly threatened fellow students at Frank Silvia School Tuesday with what turned out to be a toy gun, the police said.

I guess spanking him and making him apologize and do extra chores for a week would have been too simple.

It probably would have been. These days, there's a great chance he comes from a home with no dad, and he's probably been on Ritalin for several years by now because, being tax slaves, who has the time to give kids the intensive attention that they need...? Besides--isn't that the school's job?

We're the Only Ones for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Croatia

The perpetrator used the policewoman’s inattention (of Imotski origin) and stole her official 7.65 caliber CZ gun, with ammunition, her belt, gun case and the leather baton holder, Split-Dalmatia police says.

Jagshemash. "Only Ones" is same everywhere. Like Gypsies.

Holy Lockdown, Batman!

Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campus, jump a fence and disappear into the desert...

That's all it seems to take these in these days of Lite Brite Terror.

Some certainly seem to be doing their utmost to condition their charges into fearing everything.

One Gun Per Month

The Liberty Belles has more on the latest Stalinist hate crime proposed by Comrade Quigley.

This Day in History: February 15

From Halifax, Canada, on this day in 1776, Governor Francis Legge reports to British headquarters in London that traitorous elements in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, have contacted American General George Washington. Washington received a letter from the Nova Scotians, in which they expressed their sympathy for the American cause, on February 8. They invited General Washington and the Continental Army to invade Nova Scotia at his earliest possible convenience.

One man's traitor is another man's patriot. My favorite line from Errol Flynn's "Robin Hood" is when someone (Basil Rathbone as Guy of Gisbourne, as I recall) shouts "You speak treason!" and he responds "Fluently."

If the choice is supporting unalienable rights or tyrant rulers, I'll side with the "traitors" every time.

L.A. City Council To OK Gun Warning Signs

L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks says he wants to put signs up at gun stores to remind people guns are dangerous.

He also wants to put the language into "contracts", presumably the bill of sale.

I sent him this email to get specifics and will post any reply:

Can you please email me the text of the proposed ordinance requiring gun stores to post a sign?

When will the first reading be?

This is like the forced confessions of times gone by (Admit that you're a witch!), administered by one-sided politically-driven consensus. Naturally unmentioned are DGUs where no one is shot or killed, or the fact that cops have significantly higher suicide rates than the general public--will they receive the same warning notice with their department-issued weapons? And it's not like we haven't seen "The Only Ones" have their share of "accidents," intentional and otherwise.

We all realize, of course, that there is no rationality to this action, other than to commit another official hate crime against gun dealers and gun owners, and the fact that we by and large represent a demographic politically on the other side of the spectrum from Parks and his Council co-conspirators plays no small part in this. Milosevich committed "ethnic cleansing" and the world condemned him for it. These anti-freedom bigots commit ideological cleansing--every bit as dangerous when carried to its ultimate potential--and they're applauded for it.

We'll see if the gun stores fight this--I know I sure would--not only because no group of men should have the power to force you to endorse a political ideology, but also, practically, because such warnings would be tantamount to an admission of guilt in a lawsuit where one of the criteria is respondents "knew or should have known" about potential dangers. To comply with this would be to enter a suicide compact. Under compulsion.

Parks, of course, is the former Chief of LAPD. If he had the first clue as to how to reduce crime and violence, he'd still have the job. Fact is, this incompetent has continually done just the opposite, and made a career for himself disarming peaceable citizens who live in the most dangerous neighborhoods.

I'd like to share a telling email exchange I had about 5 years back with LAPD:

DC: Chief Parks has been a vocal opponent of citizen concealed weapons carry reform. After he leaves the department, will he retain authorization to carry concealed or will he be prohibited from doing so just like ordinary citizens? I would like an official statement so that I can pass it along to other citizens concerned with this issue.

LAPD: Thank you for writing to the Los Angeles Police Department, www.lapdonline.org. For more information on your request, please contact the Los Angeles Police Commission at 213-485-3235.

DC:Actually, I would prefer to have a statement in writing. Why won't you answer a simple question?

LAPD: Police officers in the state of California by state law are authorized to carry concealed weapons after they retire unless otherwise restricted or prohibited. However, for an official statement you will need to contact the Los Angeles Police Commission.

The guy's a tyrant and a hypocrite. Big surprise.

Call Me a Doctor

SayUncle links to a clip that nicely illustrates the deception employed and relied on by the Bradys. I wonder how many TV-hypnotized subjects will look at the white lab coat and automatically attribute authority to the human stage prop wearing it?

What's Another Word for "Joan M. Quigley"?

New Jersey could become the nation's fifth state and the first in nine years to make it illegal for people to buy more than one handgun a month.

Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley, a Democrat and sponsor of the legislation, represents Jersey City, which like other cities in the state has struggled against street gangs and gun violence. "I personally can see no reason why anyone would want to go out and buy guns in multiples," she said.

And you're willing to impose your personal belief system on everyone else under force of "law," meaning you'll have your agents destroy their lives if they don't bend to your will.

Tell me, Joan, exactly how would you define the word "tyrant"?

Well, lookee here:

On June 8, 2006, Quigley and Assemblywoman Linda Stender proposed banning the sale of Ann Coulter's book Godless: The Church of Liberalism in New Jersey. They issued a joint press release, calling on "..New Jersey retailers to ban the sale of her book throughout the state."

A few days after Quigley and Stender's press release was issued, it was edited on the New Jersey Assembly Democratic Majority website. The word "ban" was replaced with the word "boycott" in two instances (in the title and in the third paragraph)...The original text of the press release can viewed on several websites.

Revising history is an old Stalinist trick, which is about as good a description for Comrade Joan as I can come up with.

I guess when you don't have a Second Amendment, there's really no need for a First. Or any of the others...

Canadian Inmates Running Asylum, Eh?

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says changes to Canada's gun laws could include a system to give those close to a gun owner a channel to express concerns about that person's mental health...

He referred to the case of a Quebec psychologist who killed his wife and two daughters last fall.

So guys like Dr. Nutzoid here will be the arbiters of whether or not other Canadians should have a gun...?

All for One and None for All...

I got the following reply from Chief Ken Swindle about a news report that his department donated $1,000 to the All for One Tuscaloosa "gun buyback":

We agreed to help pay for weapons if they bought more than the $500.00 that they had to purchase guns. They only bought nine so we did not give them any money. There was no money given so that answers you next two questions.

The money that I had offered to use was donated to the Department to be use in a safe neighborhood project. It was not affiliated with any Federal program.

So the "report" from the "authorized journalist" was factually in error. Funny how he couldn't be bothered to dig any deeper into his own story.

This Day in History: February 14

A Patriot militia force of 340 led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Clarke of Georgia defeats a larger force of 700 Loyalist militia commanded by Colonel James Boyd on this day in 1779 at Kettle Creek, Georgia.

Brace Yourselves

Gunman Kills Five People at Trolley Square

Police Identify 3 Navy Yard Victims

The Blood Dancers will soon be out in force. And you can bet they won't be encouraging more people to be able to protect themselves and their loved ones from the monsters among us.

Paula Murray, UK "Journalist"

A GUN NUT who kept more than 2000 dum-dum bullets at his home was jailed for two years yesterday.

Nothing like a little unbiased objectivity, eh, Paula?

At least they're more open about their prejudices than our domestic "authorized journalists," who, for the most part, still rely on weasel-wording, manipulation and selective omissions to deceive, rather than outright pejoratives, although that is changing.

What else do we expect from government dependency nuts?

Unintended Marketplace Consequences

A recent review of records maintained by the federal gun registry in Canada shows that ownership of the Beretta CX4 Storm has gone up close to 300% since last September, when images of the gun were everywhere after a man went on a shooting spree.

Yet the politicians and "authorized journalists" ignored real world people voting by their actions, and focused instead on demands by the dependent, the shrill and the ignorant, and those who exploit them, to eliminate guns.

We're Not Quite the Only Ones

A former Glendale utilities commissioner and one-time boyfriend of a Burbank councilwoman has been sentenced to jail time for giving guns to a gang member in return for cocaine.

But we sure as hell act like we are...

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

[Via JR]

The Case of the Vanishing Comments

Straightarrow tells me The Morning News has been deleting comments from their latest Wayne Fincher article. I note that one he was concerned about has been reposted by its author, so we'll see if it stays up this time.

If this has happened to you, please feel free to post what you said here, but also contact the paper and give 'em hell.

We're the Only...

But I'll let JR tell it...

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

We're the Only Ones Losing It Enough

The FBI said that 160 laptop computers were lost or stolen in less than four years, including at least 10 that contained sensitive or classified information -- one of which held "personal identifying information on FBI personnel," according to a report released yesterday.

The bureau, which has struggled for years to improve its sloppy inventory procedures, also reported the same number of missing weapons -- 160 -- from February 2002 to September 2005. Those weapons included shotguns and submachine guns, according to the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.

We're not just "The Only Ones"--we're FEDERAL Only Ones, representatives of a JustUs Department that's in charge of the administration's efforts to keep guns off the streets and to safeguard "homeland security" on the domestic front. That they've achieved the exact opposite in each of these cases and actually expanded vulnerabilities seems to not be part of the discussion.

I can't believe this is due merely to "sloppy inventory procedures." I can't believe somebody's not making a buck.

Questions: Whose heads have rolled? No one's? Why not?

[Via Powdersdry]