Unacceptable

"It would have allowed concealed weapons, loaded weapons, on the University of Idaho campus, and all the campuses in the state of Idaho," said White. "We just found that to be unacceptable."
...
"This is a balance between the rights of the second amendment, which is the right to bear arms, versus safety and security," he said.

Yeah, that must be why the Founders thought keeping and bearing arms was "necessary to the security of a free State."

And that must be why we should let ignorant "authorities" like this define which regions they find acceptable for us to exercise our rights.

So, Tim, just what exactly would you personally be prepared to do should someone ignore you and your regents by doing the "unacceptable" and bringing a gun on campus?

Aside from maybe having this pop out?

No Haven in the Storm: It's the Law

The measure, when it takes effect, will require health professionals to inform state authorities about patients who display violent, suicidal or threatening behavior. Right now, such information is reported to state officials only on people who have been institutionalized, not on those who receive only outpatient treatment.

So much for doctor/patient confidentiality. The state has inserted itself into your most private affairs, thanks to our wonderful representatives and those who aid and abet them.

What this means, of course, is those who have suffered an extreme loss and don't know how to cope with it are on their own. Lose a beloved spouse or a parent? Feeling depressed, maybe violently angry at a drunk driver who ran over your child? Been brought down to your knees and grasping for something, anything to help you go on, make sense of things, stop the unendurable heartache?

Well congratulations. If you sought professional help, you just went in and confessed to a deputized agent of the state, and forfeited your right to keep and bear arms not only now, during your time of greatest pain and confusion, but probably forever after. And since there doesn't appear to be a limitation on access to only that information specifically related to the new law's criteria, all kinds of other deepest darkest most private secrets may now be subject to state scrutiny and probing.

I'm waiting for the first person victimized by this to file a test case against self-incrimination. At the very least, with this new edict should come a requirement for mental health professionals to read all patients a Miranda warning before begining treatment.

We are all slammed into the ground at times in life. When the bell tolls for you, seek out a trusted friend, family member, minister. Unfortunately, when that is not enough, your choices will be to forego treatment or lie to your therapist--that is, if you wish to keep your guns after the storm has done its worst.

Speaking of Boston...

Ryan Horsley sent me two links where The Boston Globe is stumping for "Maximim Mike" Sullivan that are instructive.

"Held Up by Gun Lobby Radicals" and "Gunning for a Fight" tell us much about the mindset that evidently prefers police state secrecy over a right their city's founders deemed worthy of going to war to protect.

Rather than tell their readers why it is informed gun owners fear a Sullivan confirmation will officially sanction current abuses, the editor drops things immediately into name-calling, off-handedly dismisses concerns as "groundless" without addressing what they are, and even drags the NRA--the major "gun lobby" group that has conspicuously not called for ousting Sullivan into their tirade.

The second hit piece is a classic leftist, worthy perhaps of comments at Democratic Underground or The Huffington Post, but still somehow surprising (and I know it shouldn't be) to see in a "mainstream" paper (but I guess it's indicative of how far the profession has degenerated).

"Anti-gun male" Kevin Cullen makes his sophisticated, worldly and urbane contempt clear for "cow chip kickin' senator[s]" and the constituents they represent. It gets worse from there, as he drops all pretence of legitimate argument and goes right into attack dive/character assasination mode, while masking the real issues with generalized manipulation.

That's basically all the other side's got: Lies, omissions and name-calling. Along with the basest of betrayers to propagate them--"Authorized Journalists," the supposed watchdogs of government, who instead and bizarrely, have become its biggest apologists.

We're the Only Ones Secret Enough

Boston’s year-old police-civilian review board - touted as the people’s watchdog on cop abuses - is so shrouded from public view it stands out nationally as among the most secretive panels of its kind, a Herald review shows.

Not only is the public not invited to the board’s rare meetings, but its activities cannot be monitored because there are no minutes.

What better reason to trust Mayor Against Guns Tom Menino and his secretive enforcers as "The Only Ones"?

Yeah, that's the vision of government the Founders had, all right...

[Via Mad Rocket Scientist]

Wayne Fincher Update

Update: 2/19/2008
An appeal for funds

Oral arguments are set for March 10th in St. Louis. Quentin Rhoades will be presenting the argument for Wayne Fincher before the Appellate Court.

Currently, we are short funds to provide for all the necessary expenses for the presentation of the case at the Appellate level. It is necessary that we cover all of Quentin's expenses for his work on this case. We ask that you please support Wayne and your Second Amendment right by sending a donation to the address given [below].

We would greatly appreciate your assistance.

To support Wayne and your Second Amendment rights please send checks to:

The Wayne Fincher Defense Fund
P.O. Box 215
Elkins Arkansas 72727

[Via Paul W. Davis]

We're the Only Ones "Three Strikes and You're Out" Enough

A Winsted police officer has been arrested three times in the past three months for separate incidents.

Let's see, aside from sounding like a real soap opera, he's accused of threatening his wife, harassing his girlfriend's husband, dragging his girlfriend with his car...yeah, just the kind of "Only One" I want out there making sure I'm being even-tempered and peaceable...but then again, maybe everybody's just "blowing things way out of proportion" and all of us ought to be able to act that way.

[Via MH]

XVI

Free Constitution hosts its 16th Second Amendment Carnival.

Then as Now

Chris Horton shares some "mindful musings" centered on John Adams.

For those of you who get HBO, they're having a miniseries in a few weeks.

This Day in History: February 19

I am grieved to find, that instead of Six or eight thousand weight of Powder, which I fondly expected to receive from Providence (agreeable to your Letter), that I am likely to get only 4217 lb, Including the 3000 Weight belonging to this Province (If to be had). My situation in respect to this Article, is really distressing, and while common prudence obliges me to keep my want of it concealed, to avoid a discovery thereof to the Enemy; I feel the bad effect of that concealment from our friends, For not believing our distress equal to what it really is they withhold such small supplies as are in their power to give; I am so restrained in all my Military movements, for want of these necessary supplies, that it is impossible to undertake anything effectual; and whilst I am fretting, at my own disagreeable situation, the World I suppose is not behind hand in censuring my inactivity. A Golden Opportunity has been lost, perhaps not to be acquired again, this year.

We're the Only Ones Dsylex...Dyslxe...Who Can't Read Enough

"I was amazed that they managed to read the same plate wrong three times in a row," he said...The DMV told Eyewitness News they are considering dropping Q and zero from license plates because of the mix-ups.

When in doubt, dumb down and inconvenience everybody else.

Did you hear the one about the atheist Sunpass employee who didn't believe in "Dog"? Or how about "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's 2perman!"

[More from "The Only Ones" Files]

BATFU's Glass House

I have written in the past about the BATFE's own record keeping: here and here. Since the ATF demands 100% compliance out of dealers, it is only natural to look at how their own record keeping compares.

Ryan examines the BATFU double standard.

PSH Miami

That's how he described the president's decision not to renew the ban on assault rifles.

Talk about no understanding, not only of what actually happened, but of the concept of enumerated powers. Both on the part of this boob and on the part of the "Authorized Journalist" whose head it went right over.

And its these voices that reach the masses.

Return of The Mad Hatter

He's back after a hiatus of many moons, and he's continuing with the important task of keeping an eye on what the young skulls full of academic mush are saying about RKBA:

I couldn't stay away for too long, you know. This weekend, I've added three new posts, all covering campus discussion on RKBA issues:

From Yale:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/warming-back-up-on-campus-editorials.html

A few from UW-Madison:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/rkba-campus-round-up-12.html

And a few from my alma mater, UT-Knoxville:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/rkba-campus-watch-121.html

Welcome back, JH. Keep this up and we'll need to replace the top hat with a tassled mortarboard.

"Retooling" in Idaho

I received the following from correspondent ChareltonHest:

There is a bill in Idaho that has been suggested, Senate Bill 1381, that

(1) "Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for preemption of all regulation of firearms by a county, city, constitutional corporation,agency, board or any other political subdivision of this state withexceptions."

And there have been the usual articles online regarding the bill's provisions for Universities and Colleges and firearms. With one side always ignorantly saying guns make things worse and that they are "uncomfortable". The other side always saying that it's only people with special government permission(CC Permits)that will be carrying, and that those that do have proven themselves worthy to the state in order to exercise their KABA rights.

2)The latest news is that the bill has been pulled for "re-tooling". The one outraged thing is this:.."Even before taking public testimony, McKenzie told the committee he was dropping colleges and universities from the bill. He agreed to the change at the urging of Gov. Butch Otter and university and college presidents."

(3)I have e-mailed our Governor to ask his reasoning behind this "urging", if it is in fact true. I will post online about it when I get a response.

1.) http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1381.html
2.) http://media.www.arbiteronline.com/media/storage/paper890/news/2008/02/14/Opinion/Will-We.Have.Guns.On.Campus-3209691.shtml
3.) http://www.idahopress.com/news/?id=3818

Same Car Dealer Sold to 2 DUI Killers!!!

I just wanted to change the headline a bit to demonstrate how ridiculous the AP and "Authorized Journaist" Scott Bauer are being here.

Note to Eric Thompson: These people are not your friends. If you must issue a statement, prepare a release with an attorney and make that your final word to the media. Because they will hold your statements against you, and you don't want to have some sharp ambulance chaser making judicial theater out of some of the statements I see here.

I also note the correction at the bottom of the story. What do you want to bet ol' Scott here assumed any gun with a stock was a rifle?

One Would Expect

An amicus brief in support of Washington D.C.'s handgun ban dealing with the historical issues in the case was filed by fifteen professional academic historians. One would expect such a brief to be historically accurate, address the Second Amendment in its proper Bill of Rights related context, and include the most relevant figures, statements, and actions for understanding any historical issues in the dispute. However, any such expectation is left largely unfulfilled in the historians' brief.

One would expect that, if one expected this particular group of agenda-driven manipulators to be more interested in truth than Marxist social engineering. We are told those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. When historians betray their trust and obscure and rewrite that past with present motives, it is a very special type of betrayal, an act of treason against all humanity.

David E. Young does a fine job deconstructing the deception, albeit he mostly treats it as error, omission and failure. Not being part of the "respectable" academic community, I'm under no restraints to conclude that no one, not even 15 professional academics, could be this obtuse. The only explanation is one of premeditated sleight of mind to promote their ideology, rather than solid scholarship to pursue the truth.

Incidentally, if you don't have Young's book, "The Origin of the Second Amendment," you're missing out on one of the finest, most comprehensive resources available. It is among the most highlighted and dog-eared tomes on my shelf.

[Via Of Arms and the Law]

This Day in History: February 18

The late freezing Weather having formed some pretty strong Ice from Dorchester point to Boston neck, and from Roxbury to the Common, thereby affording a more expanded and consequently a less dangerous Approach to the Town, I could not help thinking, notwithstanding the Militia were not all come In, and we had little or no Powder to begin our Operation by a regular Cannonade and Bombardment, that a bold and resolute assault upon the Troops in Boston with such Men as we had (for it could not take many Men to guard our own Lines, at a time when the Enemy were attacked in all Quarters) might be crowned with success; and therefore, seeing no certain prospect of a supply of Powder on the one hand, and a certain dissolution of the Ice on the other, I called the General Officers together for their opinion...

Hillary's Poached Duck Recipe?

Clinton told an audience she supported gun rights, two days after a student opened fire on the campus of Northern Illinois University, killing five before turning the gun on himself. Clinton said she believed in getting guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill even as she favored protecting the rights of law abiding gun owners.

"I've gone hunting," she said. "I know you may not believe it, but it's true. My father taught us to shoot."

Clinton told reporters later she had once shot a duck in Arkansas, along with "a lot of tin cans, targets and some skeet."

OK, so here are my questions: Would there still be a record warehoused away somewhere to see if she pulled a hunting license? And if she didn't, isn't a violation of state migratory waterfowl regulations also a federal violation?

And won't someone please email PETA and express outrage, outrage I say, over this shameless exploitation and encouragement of animal murder just so she can pander for the brutal blood sport vote?

“Homegrown Terrorists”

So what would a cop on the street look out for?

“Defenders of the US Constitution against federal government and the UN (Super Patriots),” read the very first point in the very first category, “Right Wing Extremists.”

“Groups of individuals engaged in paramilitary training,” it continued.

"Homegrown Terrorists" is my Rights Watch column for the April 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine, on sale now at domestic newsstands throughout the Republic.

Rally Rapture at the Cult of Set

Click on the title link and watch the video.

Give them some room. Give them some water.

Good grief.

What have I been saying about these fanatics?

Shrieking girls fainting in hysteria.

Shrieking girls treating Thulsa Doom like the new messiah, having self-induced orgasms and weeping in religious ecstasy.

I remember the last time I saw this phenomenon.













This isn't a political campaign. This is Beatlemania.

I actually think returning to hereditary kings would make about as much sense.