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This week's billboard campaign alongside the information superhighway focuses on an outrageously disturbing trend we've been following--government officials equating fidelity to the Constitution with terrorism.

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[For those not familiar with the Burma Shave roadside billboard campaign or the CCRA RKBA campaign]

What Do YOU Think?

During Thanksgiving week, the Judiciary Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives held a dramatic session to vote on whether to let the whole House vote on several gun-control measures...

What do you think? Let us know by Tuesday, in 200 words or less, by e-mailing to chesterletters@phillynews.com.

Well, since they asked...

Go ahead and let them know--especially if you live in PA.

Making Sense of Ron

NOTE TO VISITORS FROM "THE HIGH ROAD": Despite what you have been led to believe, this post has nothing to do with Ron Paul--it is a response to an anti-gun editorial linked to in the title and written by columnist Ron DZWONKOWSKI. Since the thread appears to be closed, I trust the record on THR will be corrected?

It makes sense to me that police should have access to a national database of gun owners. If I'm rolling up to a house where there's a reported burglary in progress or some kind of assault going on, I'd want to know if guns are registered for the premises. Wouldn't that advance warning protect gun owners, too, from police reacting badly to the presence of a firearm? Seems as if it'd be safer for both.

Yeah, Ron, trust the guys who can't even get their search warrant addresses right. That's some real "safety first" you're giving us there, guaranteed to get more innocent people raided and killed. As we all know, nothing calms a cop down more than a report of a gun. And we need registration to better protect ourselves from dangerous gun criminals who don't register their guns--and as a point of law can't be required to. That's some logic there, Ron.

But perhaps you're right. Maybe if we can stop just one gun criminal, it will be worth it. Does that make sense?

We're the Only Ones Bordering on Useless Enough

Ottawa is facing a multimillion-dollar bill to find work for border guards who can't - or won't - carry guns, newly released documents show...an internal analysis indicates that between 25% and 30% of those guards will be unable or unwilling to carry sidearms - as many as 1,440 employees.

What do you mean you want us to physically guard the border in exchange for our salaries and benefits? You mean just showing up in uniform and squealing for help and letting somebody else assume the risks isn't enough?

[More from "The Only Ones" Files]

Glen Johnson: AP's Hillary Campaign Operative

When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis...

Her Serene Highness. Jeeze, Glen, do you think you could have stuck your nose up any further?

Another thing, since you've made your role as official campaign propagandist abundantly clear: After you help get her elected, will you and the rest of the "Authorized Journalists" at the AP refer to her as "Dear Leader" or "Our Beloved Führer"?

The Bourne Ultimatum

A man carrying a semiautomatic handgun approached a group of San Francisco police officers Saturday afternoon and, with a smile, handed over the pistol in exchange for $150 in gift cards.

"I used to fire it at bottles or do some plinking in the woods," said the gun's owner, 48-year-old Bruce Bourne. "But I have a 6-year-old daughter now and my wife was uncomfortable with it being in the house."

So your wife is going to protect the family Bruce? Evidently, because this guy didn't have a gun, and look what happened. Ditto this guy. And you've just announced to the world that:

A. You're defenseless; and

B. You're so henpecked you can't even make a case for home defense with your own wife. How much stronger of a case do you think you'd be able to make with these guys? Or with these?

But you'd just give them what they want, right, Bruce, and hope you could reason with them, or convince them not to hurt you? What if what they want involves doing terrible things to you and to the people you profess to love?

If I were you, I'd strap 'em on and tell my wife--not "ask"--that I was going to acquire the means and the knowledge to safely keep a gun in the home to defend my family with. If she's "uncomfortable" with that, I'd want to find out if she'd really rather have a $150 gift certificate than a man.

[Via SameNoKami]

The Liberal Case for Gun Ownership

What were our Founding Fathers thinking when they wrote the Second Amendment?

Well, they were not engaged in narrow partisan politics. They were not posturing for Fox News or trying to “make nice to soccer moms.”

These were serious men who came fresh from the white-hot forge of revolution. A war had just been fought to overthrow the yoke of an oppressive and unresponsive Government that invaded homes without warrant and which exposed the populace to "dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within."

This is as fine and concise a read as I have ever come across. While I don't quite get how someone who would give a constructionist interpretation to the Second Amendment could embrace (non-Jeffersonian) "liberal" ideology when it comes to other things we expect, demand or allow government to do to us, I think you'll enjoy it from a pure 2A perspective. If you do, share it with your friends.

This Day in History: December 2

On 02 December 1775, John Mayfield of Browns Creek, a Ninety-Six District militia captain serving under Colonel Thomas Fletchall, was captured along with several other officers at McLaurins Store in the Upper Saluda region. The commander of the Whig forces that captured Mayfield was Colonel Richard Richardson, who, shortly after the capture, wrote a letter to the ad hoc Whig Council or Committee of Public Safety in Charles Town (Charleston).

We're the Only Ones Looking Out for Child Welfare Enough

Atlanta police knew seven years ago that a police sergeant's husband may have been paying young girls for sex and producing child pornography, but failed to investigate the allegations, federal authorities said.

And the "Only One" wife actually destroyed some of the evidence. Not that she's been charged or anything...

More Proof That Total Gun Bans Work

One inmate was shot by a gun smuggled into the Crittenden County jail Friday morning...

I think the "Authorized Journalist" meant "with a gun," but that's hardly the main point of this story, is it?

This is Madness

A Virginia court found Cho to be dangerously mentally ill in 2005 and ordered him to receive outpatient treatment. But because Cho was not ordered into hospital treatment, the court's order was never provided to the FBI and incorporated in its database...

Now wait just a minute here: if he was "dangerously mentally ill," why didn't the court order him into a hospital, and why isn't he still there until deemed no longer a danger?

Isn't that the real issue?

And I love how "the FBI has more than doubled the number of people nationwide who are prohibited from buying guns," while Paul Helmke says it's not enough and the "list is missing four of every five Americans who have been ruled mentally dangerous to themselves or others."

Anybody see a trend emerging here, or wonder why "The Winning Team" is facilitating this...?

About Ron Paul and NRA's "Celebration of American Values"

A few people have pointed out to me that he was not there. My immediate thought was to find out if he'd been invited, so I begged off posting on this until I had time to do some checking around.

There's been a lot of buzz that he was excluded, but per an NRA email, Rep. Paul was invited and did not respond.

I've been trying to reach the Paul campaign on this for comment.

We're the Only Ones at a Loss Enough

POLICE in New South Wales have lost track of a wide range of equipment including handcuffs, bulletproof vests, capsicum spray, radios, uniforms and even a squad car.

Cryptic Subterranean shows us yet again that "Only Ones" are the same the world over.

GOA Opposes "Maximum Mike"

Gun Owners of America has announced their opposition of Acting ATF Director Michael J. Sullivan's confirmation to Director. Sullivan who has been praised by anti-gun Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, is waiting for confirmation from the full senate.

Ryan Horsley brings us some welcome news. But GOA can't do it alone.

So...you've written your senators, right?

Certainly

Certainly I don't think a gun ad in a family newspaper is what the world needs this holiday season in a nation where, according to the National Education Association's Health Information Network, American children are more at risk from gun violence than children in any other industrialized nation.

Certainly Americans don't need a gun in every stocking when, according to the Centers for Disease control, homicide and suicide are the leading causes of teen deaths, with 80 percent of these deaths resulting from guns.

Well then, you certainly don't need to buy one, Frank. But you certainly are being inconsistent about all this, especially when you admit "The market for guns is certainly out there in this nation of ours, if not to protect our freedom, then to protect our lives and possessions."

Because there's one thing you can be certain of, Frank: Those who would kill you and yours without batting an eye will still be out there during the holidays. And yes, guns have certainly been used at Christmas time to protect freedom as well.

[Via HZ]

This Day in History: December 1

This original document from the Revolutionary War is the muster roll of the Second South Carolina Regiment on the Continental Establishment, signed by its commander, Lt. Col. Francis Marion (1732-1795), Sullivan’s Island, December 1, 1778.

Suffredin Succotash!

"I am tired of business as usual. I am tired of picking up the paper or turning on the news to see reports about innocent children gunned down in cold blood, because some gang member bought a gun at their local gun shop," Suffredin said. "For nearly thirty years, I have fought for sensible gun laws. Whether it was against the NRA or legislative leaders, I fought to pass laws to keep guns off our streets."

Doing Snuffy's dirty work for him, Larry? And if John R-I-G-G-I-O doesn't shut down Chuck's Gun Shop, are you going to have your "Only Ones" snuff him out?

There can be no peace with these evil creatures--they will not allow it. They insist on pushing and pushing and leaving no choice but to obey or be destroyed. How much longer people who consider themselves free will put up with their undisguised tyranny remains to be seen. In short, Larry, when are people going to get tired of you?

And incidentally--to the Reuters "Authorized Journalist" headline writers--I was going to correct you and say the word is "Reined," but now that I've read the article, I see spelling it with a "g" is more appropriate.

[UPDATE: I see Mikestraw1 and KABA beat me to two punches...]

We're the Only Ones Interrogating Enough

Four city police officers were suspended without pay for allowing a homicide suspect to smuggle a loaded gun into police headquarters by hiding it inside her underwear.

So...gRendell...based on results, Pennsylvania's "Only Ones" can't even keep guns out of their holding cells--and you're pushing the fraud that you can control them throughout the entire state?

Europeans Endorse Stricter Gun Control

Which part would they be from again...?

North American Union, here we come!

The Mass Shooter Loophole

States appear to be taking more action to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental health problems in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, new figures show. [More]

The rejects suspected of being maniacs with murder in their evil hearts will, however, still have full unrestricted access to utility knives, fuel oil and fertilizer, and gasoline and matches, as well as be allowed to move freely throughout society. [Via Plug Nickel Times]