Notes from the Resistance...
Mr. Millner,
I have seen a statement attributed to you on Jim Zumbo’s blog, but unfortunately there is no way to authenticate that it really came from you.
I would like to post your statement unedited, in its entirety on my blog. Care to give one?
Thank you,
David Codrea
To all those promoting Wayne Fincher’s being elevated to folk hero status for breaking the law, enough already. The argument of Second Amendment violation in this circumstance is ridiculous. Neither the Constitution, nor the Bill of Rights contains a single word about automatic weapons. Also absent is any mention of anti-tank weapons, driving under the influence, dealing drugs at the local schoolyard or child pornography. These are all issues we, as a society, have deemed to be generally bad ideas, and we put in place laws to deal with the excesses of others.Congratulations, Russ.
Mr. Fincher’s case is not a Second Amendment case. It is a case about not following the rules, or more precisely, interpreting the rules to suit one’s own interests.
Before dismissing this as another letter from the fringe, I am a gun enthusiast, a consultant to the firearms industry, NRA member, and I hold a federal firearms license. I also play by the rules.
Russ Whitfield
Fort Smith
I call them "assault" rifles, which may upset some people. Excuse me, maybe I'm a traditionalist, but I see no place for these weapons among our hunting fraternity. I'll go so far as to call them "terrorist" rifles.I know resorting to ad hominem attacks is inferior to attacking the idea, but Jim Zumbo's arguments are so damned stupid, ignorant and downright treasonous, I can't help but consider the source.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced a major review of firearms laws in the UK on Sunday, following a spate of fatal shootings in London.You don't think there's any chance he'll conclude they contribute to the problem, do you?
"They say this country is so rich, but why are so many people living paycheck to paycheck, just one week from being in the street?"While not gun rights-related, this has all the elements employed by the gun banners, that is, blaming everything BUT poor individual choices and abdication of personal responsibility. It really is a very good essay by The Free Citizen.
From Norfolk, Virginia, Royal Governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, dispatches a note to William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, expressing his "inexpressible mortification" that British Major General Sir Henry Clinton had been ordered to the "insignificant province of North Carolina to the neglect of this the richest and powerfully important province in America." Dunmore was facing expulsion from Virginia at the hands of the Patriots and was deeply insulted that the army chose to defend its claims to the less significant colony of North Carolina instead of the economically and politically vital colony of Virginia.
I have been accused of being an extremist in defense of the right to own and to carry, anywhere you see fit, any type of weapon whatsoever, in any way you wish, without asking permission from anyone. I suppose it is time to reconsider and announce I am ready to accept "reasonable gun laws".Ordinarily, I'd blast a presidential candidate for suggesting a compromise involving gun rights. But in this case, I think I'll get behind the effort.
John H. Adler believes that Americans who believe in the Constitutionally guaranteed fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms "don't get it."So Kurt Hofmann gives it to him. And how.
A New York man, enraged that his girlfriend had been ensnared in a drug probe, is himself facing a felony rap for a vulgar telephone tirade directed at the parents of a federal agent.I had mixed feelings about posting this one, knowing the way most of us would react. Still, I find it hard to believe that felony charges would be filed were a non- "Only One" was involved.
H.R. 1022: To reauthorize the assault weapons ban, and for other purposesWell of course. Nobody informed really thinks it's about controlling guns, do they?
The worldwide implications of the American War for Independence are made clear on this day in history as the American-allied French navy begins a 14-month-long series of five battles with the British navy in the Indian Ocean.
Maybe it's because it's Valentine's Week, maybe there's just something in the air, but these all came to my attention in literally the space of a few hours yesterday--I did not set out looking for them.At least six Inglewood police officers are suspected of having on- and off-duty sex at massage parlors and other adult businesses targeted in a recent crackdown on the businesses, according to officials. Acting Chief Julius Davis said his department is investigating the allegations of sexual favors in exchange for protection from prosecution, but he added that there is no evidence of criminal acts.
"We have not found anything that indicates there's any criminal conduct involved," Davis said.
City Council members have asked the state attorney general's office to investigate claims of sexual misconduct, racism and brutality at the police department after residents complained officers were mistreating Hispanic immigrants.
One of the claims under investigation is that a high-ranking officer forced a transsexual man to have sex with him multiple times over seven years, the newspaper reported.
No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach. The female driver reported it, DNA testing confirmed it and officer David Alex Park finally admitted it.
Former U.S. Rep. Joseph M. McDade has been charged with exposing himself to two women Jan. 18 near a southwest Florida beach, police there said Wednesday.
A handful of local gun owners say they plan to boycott - when they can - businesses that post signs prohibiting concealed handguns under the state's new concealed carry law.Mall Manager Dan Flores, who supports posting "No Guns" signs, just doesn't get it, does he?
"Just look at what happened at the Trolley Center," he said, referring to a shooting this week at a Utah mall, where a teen killed five people.Yeah, just look, Dan. Those signs sure work great.
I'm not that afraid of people coming in with guns. I just turn myself and my employees over to the big man upstairs."It reminds me of that old joke: "I sent you a boat, I sent you a helicopter..."
