Gun Ban Plaintiff Dick Heller Files New Lawsuit Against Washington, D.C.Good. A just outcome would have real and personal consequences for Fenty and Lanier.
Monday, July 28, 2008
To Heller and Back Again
A "Respected NJ Pol"
New Jersey Assemblyman Neil Cohen resigned from the Legislature on Monday, four days after it was reported that he's under investigation for suspected possession of child pornography...The headline and the speaker call him "Respected"?
I don't respect the gun-grabbing old pervert. What is there to respect?
It figures the "Authorized Journalists" who came up with the headline, and his fellow excuse-making domination deviants in the legislature do.
Oh, and look--so no one else does it, they've installed "safety locks." Because, you know, it's the tool's fault.
And surprise: No charges! But he is off to head-shrink rehab. Hey, when you get caught rosy...I mean, red-handed, redirecting outrage and disgust into sympathy is a pretty smart move.
No wonder these sick creatures don't trust anyone else.
[Via Defender]
And the Winner Is...
Real GunGuys, for this entry in the Bob Barr Poster Contest:
The prize?
I decided on a copy of "The Gang.
Congratulations and thanks to all for entering. Contact me (dcodrea AT hotmail DOT com) so I can get mailing details to ship your DVD to you.
A New York Volunteer
A Long Island man who reported his gun missing has been arrested after police found it and said he'd owned it illegally.See, this is why we need laws requiring people to report stolen guns--so we can bypass that pesky Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
It's Common Sense
"Handgun violence is on the rise, but taking guns off the streets will help to stop the senseless slaughter of our citizens," said Sen. Sandra Bolden Cunningham, D-Hudson. "It's common sense."And we all know how much safer Richmond, Baltimore and Oakland are because of it.
New Jersey would join Virginia, Maryland and California as states that restrict people to buying one handgun per month.
Why, it's common sense.
I can just see the aborted alley transaction now: "Sorry, man, I can't buy that stolen piece from you--I already bought one last week, so I need to wait another three. It's the law."
Getting The Lead Out
California, of course, foreshadows what is to come. Already, the extremist Violence Policy Center is exploiting ignorance and fear to recommend banning anyone under 18 from shooting ranges, to call for local “audits” to harass and close ranges, to ban the use of “assault weapons,” to mandate a moratorium on new range construction, and — get this — to halt firearms safety training because “any possible benefits … are outweighed by the risk of lead poisoning.”"Getting the Lead Out" is my Rights Watch column for the September 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine, on sale now at nontoxic newsstands throughout the Republic.
Unitarian Universalists on Gun Control
Gun ControlThey're probably going to have to expand this now to include Fudd guns...
1991 General Resolution
BECAUSE safe coexistence within society requires reasonable compromise with the concept of absolute personal liberty...
[Via Mack H]
The Oy Ring
Yonatan Stern, the "Sgan Mefaked Hakita" (deputy squad commander) of Kitat Konenut New York, insists his "paramilitary emergency armed response team" is no "group of vigilantes or a JDL [Jewish Defense League]."Eplseed?
"The goal of the organization is to have a competent and professional group of armed volunteers ready to respond to a threat at a moment's notice in any area where Jews reside," explains the Israeli combat veteran.
Good idea. Except the problem with being apolitical is their members may still vote for proponents of Nazi gun laws, which is self-defeating and dangerous.
[Via cycjec]
Outraged!
I think after reading this issue, it will be my last. As a veteran (six years of service) and a member of the Sheriff's Department and volunteer rescue squad, your arguments for the assault weapons, the .50 BMGs etc., vs. healthcare, obscene corporate gas profits and other facts, not opinions, by Mike Matara (Crossfire, March 2006), is about as small as the number of gray cells in Bush's head. Wake up and get your head out of your a**!
I'd seen this letter in an old issue of GUNS Magazine and decided to go looking for it on the Internet so more could read it.
I had no idea RKBA arguments in a gun magazine could possibly alienate leftist "Only Ones." Perhaps I should temper future submissions to be more inclusive so that we can expand our base.
We're the Only Ones Crocked and Locked Enough
Salman Rushdie was once locked in a cupboard for two hours by fed-up police guards who then disappeared to the pub, an ex-special branch detective has claimed.Tell me there's not a broader analogy that could be drawn here about depending entirely on The "Only Ones" for your safety.
Cryptic Subterranean shares his thoughts.
This Day in History: July 28
However incredible it may appear, that, at this enlightned period, the leaders of a nation, which in every age has sacrificed hecatombs of her bravest patriots on the altar of liberty, should presume gravely to assert, and, by force of arms, attempt to establish an arbitrary sway over the lives, liberties, and property of their fellow subjects in America, it is, nevertheless, a most deplorable and indisputable truth.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
We Just Don't Understand It
Mell argued that reopening gun registration wasn't just a personal favor. He insisted that there were hundreds, if not thousands, of otherwise law-abiding Chicago gun owners just like him who had inadvertently allowed their gun registration to lapse.Or it could just be that Mell was, you know, lying, and this was naked abuse of political office for personal advantage, and no amount of lame excuses spokesprevaricators regurgitate will cover that up.
On Friday, Chicago Police Department spokeswoman Monique Bond was hard-pressed to explain the slow response to the city's one-time offer.
"Either the public is unaware or they just haven't had an opportunity to come in and register," she said.
Not that they need to.
Forget it Jake. It's Chi-Town.
Gundamentalism
Rev. Rachel Smith, whose blog "God Not Guns" is a project of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, calls it gundamentalism.Coming from someone who portrays herself as centered on "religion," it seems like we have a bit of projection going on.
"America’s gun culture is marked by zeal closely akin to that of religious fundamentalism. The gun-rights movement is built upon a system of belief that is both absolutist and aggressive. It has its sacred text, its creed, its icon and its ideology."
Gundamentalists. I like that, Rachel. You're quite the pundamentalist!
Mind if I adopt it, even if I flaunt the term with pride rather than resent it as a pejorative?
The Government They Deserve
Chicago police received about 6,000 weapons Saturday during the city's gun turn-in program...
So many people came out that organizers ran out of the $100 prepaid debit cards for turning in guns...
"For you young people, the new word for you is: 'Start snitching,' " she said.
I won't be able to muster any sympathy should any of these ever come to regret their decision.
Playing 20 Questions
...[W]hat's to prevent those guns from being used against police officers and firefighters [?]...What does a policeman do when there's a domestic battery [call] and they're both armed? Do they enter the home or apartment or do they wait outside? ... How 'bout the neighbors? How 'bout the postman -- all the other issues that go with people coming into your home or close to your home? ... Whose responsibility is it when your son takes the gun outside and police come by?...How many guns do you have -- 50, 60? Can they have a .357 Magnum? Can they have ammunition that will go through a wall? What is the liability of the owners? ... Do you have to have insurance if you have a gun? How much ammunition can you have if there's a fire? If a fireman is going to your home and you have 40 weapons and 1,000 rounds, do we have a responsibility to notify all the neighbors?Now your turn to answer one, Bodyguarded Boss Daley: You don't trust us with guns. Why should we trust you?
[Via Dan Gifford]
A Temporary Stopgap
This Day in History: July 27
July 27. 1775
- Congress establishes The Army Medical Department.
- Henry Laurens, President of the Council of Safety of South Carolina, urges Captain Clement Lempriere to purchase gunpowder, lead, and muskets for the colony, relying on force only as a last resort.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
I'm Sorry if I Gave This Impression
(and I know that writing this here does meet with David Codrea’s contempt, as I blog here anonymously)Not at all, and I apologize if anything I said led you to believe that. I actually wanted to leave a comment, but they're closed on the linked post--and now's probably a good time to clear this up, what with the doings of recent days.
Like anything else, it's a choice. Those of us who have made it know full well that it carries a cost in terms of reputation, career options, etc. But I honor the spirit of Publius, and believe that anonymity can be a key guarantor of freedom.
What I have contempt for is not anonymous blogging, but those who abuse that anonymity to troll and insult without any personal accountability. I believe in their right to do so, understand, but I think it's unethical and cowardly, and have no respect for them as individuals. I have a pretty simple rule--I never expect anything out of another that I'm not willing to do myself. As such, I have never said anything to anyone on the Internet that I would not have said to their face, with their full knowledge of who I am. Which means I will accept real and personal consequences for my words and actions.
Kwame, How I Love Ya Redux
Michigan State Police troopers are investigating a possible assault by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on a deputy accompanying an investigator for the Wayne County prosecutor Thursday at the home of the mayor's sister, Sheriff Warren Evans said."Investigating"?
Evans said the 6-foot-4 mayor, a former star football player at Florida A&M University, allegedly pushed a sheriff's deputy and knocked him into the female investigator, who was working for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. The officers were attempting to serve a subpoena on Bobby Ferguson, a city contractor and close friend of Kilpatrick.
What's there to investigate? Did it happen or not?
And the deputy retreated from the property instead of taking his assailant down?
Why? What was "the mayor's executive protection unit" prepared to do if the deputy had?
What does Sheriff Evans mean by "escalate further"? Would Kwame's detail have resisted with force? If it had escalated, would the force level they were prepared to use have as well?
Do you think the deputy would have retreated if one of us had shoved him? Do you think he'd let us go and the police would "investigate" later?
Then again, you and I don't rule a thugocracy. We don't have armed taxcow-funded bodyguard details 24/7. We're not Mayors Against [Your] Guns.
It's good to be the king.
UPDATE: Oh, look. He's been ordered to undergo random drug testing.
What a community leader.
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