Dr. Phil Follow-Up

“Oh, I hate the idea,” Carol says. She has a 7-year-old who’s been asking questions. “He asked me, ‘If I do something wrong, are they going to pull guns out on me?’ What do you tell a child like that?”

You tell him "No, of course not." And then you take him to the range, teach him about guns and how to shoot them, explain how you and daddy will protect him and that other good grownups can too.

Good Lord, Carol, assuming you let him, he's supposed to be a man one day. It's your job to teach him how. What kind of hysterical mommy's boy weakling do you want your son to be?

Dr. Phil actually did better than I was prepared to give him credit for:

You know, I have to say, and I’m not sure where I come down on this, but I can say, if something happened, if I was in a classroom or somewhere else, and somebody came in shooting, boy, I’d sure wish I had a gun.

Well then you are sure. Why not say so?

As for Linda Bridges of the teacher's union, no surprises there.

You know, we hire nurses to do medical procedures at schools. We hire teachers to teach. We should hire security guards or police to do law enforcement functions.

Self defense becomes "law enforcement," an exclusive province of the state.

Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover.

Almost There, Matt

The common declaration that no one "needs" a handgun infuriates me even more. I can't deny it – it's true. No one needs a handgun, short of the obvious exceptions of police officers, military personnel, and a few select other professionals. I'll grant that right now.

You were doing pretty well there until you got to that part, Matt Gurney.

Do a bit more learning and thinking about why that may not always be so, and you may well turn out to be that "articulate spokesmen" you're hoping for.

A Professor of Constitutional Law

Yeah, so is The Lightworker. No wonder we're in the mess we're in.

[D]espite our best efforts, more people will die.

Yeah, there's only one side to that equation, right, Mary Cheh? What secret knowledge are you holding back from us that makes you so authoritatively certain more lives won't be saved?

We'll see how well her ideal liberal academic framework of carry prohibitions, magazine capacity limits, microstamping, theft reporting requirements and other predator-favoring nonsense holds up when things fall apart and people get desperate.

I can just see Mary confronting the opportunistic and warning: "STAND BACK! I HAVE A LAW DEGREE!"

Oh, and as an aside: Kathie McLay, would you please put that sign down? Some would say you're making us look bad.

A Brother in Need

"Not getting on this island was not an option," David Culpepper said. "We have a brother in need."

Damn straight. And what a great name.

I love seeing this spirit. It feel like America.

We're the Only Ones Wacky Enough

A judge in Las Vegas has dismissed a firearms charge against US comedian Jerry Lewis.

I'm delighted charges were dismissed. I don't even mind that his rep apparently lied about the gun and they let him off anyway.

I just want to make sure that this isn't because celebrities are "Only Ones," and that you and I will be given the same break.

YouTube Bans "Assault Videos"

YouTube is to ban footage showing weapons being used to intimidate people on its website in the UK.

I'll bet that's not true.

I'll bet you'll still see footage of state enforcers using weapons to keep civilians in line with their rulers' wishes. See, it's the difference between "assault videos" and "patrol videos."

YouTube said it was necessary to reflect "local laws and sensitivities"...

Ahh...kind of like The Lightworker's one Second Amendment for urban areas, another for rural...? That is, of course, until "local laws and sensitivities" can be preempted with centralized rule...

They said Bill Clinton was the first black president. Perhaps Barack Obama will be our first British one.

[Via David Hamel]

Feds Remind Wyoming Just Who the Boss Is

A federal appeals court in Denver, CO, has ruled against Wyoming in a lawsuit over a state law that seeks to allow people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to regain their gun rights, according to The Billings Gazette and Associated Press...

The Wyoming Attorney General’s Office has said that Wyoming courts expunged 63 misdemeanor convictions from 2005 through last October 2007. Only one person with an expunged record had gone on to receive a state-issued concealed weapons permit as of last October...

The ATF said that conviction records weren’t truly expunged if they were kept on the books for any purpose.

Here's BATFU all worried about technicalities again, and willing to see you die in the name of procedure.

Anybody have info on the 10th Circuit Appeals Court panel judges involved, or the district Judge Alan Johnson, who initially ruled against the state? Like who appointed them? I'll need to look around when I get some time, but for now can't help noticing one of the Wyoming District Court's three missions is:

To represent the District of Wyoming in a manner that will instill trust in the Judiciary.

Oops. Flubbed that one up, Alan.

And there's one other question I don't hear too many raising, so would appreciate any and all who wish to add their voice in asking:

Why aren't the Brady Campaign and anti-gun politicians who have been going nuts over DC been consistent in their demands for "home rule"? You'd almost think that's just a convenient ploy to gin up outrage with, that they really don't give a damn about it unless it serves their purposes...

[Via Jeffersonian]

This Day in History: September 21

The Committee of Accounts produced an accol from the Committee of Berks County amounting to two thousand and seventy pounds, nine shillings, advanced and paid for the riffle companies and Col. [William] Thompson.

Ordered, That this be referred back to the Committee, who are to examine and pay the accot.

Ordered, that the President write to Genl Washington and request him to order Col. [William] Thompson immediately to send to the Congress an account of the expenditure of 5,000 dollars paid him by order of the Congress on the 29th July, being in advance for the service of a Battalion of Rifflemen under his command.

We're the Only Ones Treating You Like Animals Enough

They treated us like animals. They were not there to protect and serve, they were there to search and destroy.

I guess I have to disagree here. If they'd treated you like animals, you'd be left laying in a pool of your own blood for hours--just like your dogs.

But they did treat you like terror hostages. Which is what you were.

Which makes Prince George's (Md.) County head "Only One" Michael Jackson a terrorist.

[Via Brian F]

Surprise!

Surprise weapons ban targets bow, blow-gun use

The Blow-Gun Menace must be destroyed! I wonder if it distinguishes between "assault blow guns" and "patrol blow guns"?

Here's the agenda.

Here's the ordinance.

These are the folks with nothing better to do. They really couldn't think of a safety workaround that doesn't involve a ban?

Somehow, none of this surprises me.

How Many Women Gang-Raped by Blacks Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?

I thought the political left said we couldn't joke about this kind of stuff--that it was taboo, that there is nothing funny about rape, that racial jokes are hate speech...but I guess it's OK now, because they're not only doing it, but defending it--hell, they say they're proud of it. And we all kow how funny and insightful America's beloved comedienne, Sandra Bernhard is.

Personally, I don't think her act is anything but pure hatred coming from a person with mental issues, "her large heart, her generous talent, and her big mouth" notwithstanding . She ain't "part of who" I am.

But she does help define part of who I'm not.

Unlike the left, I think women should be able to send aggressors fleeing.

And unlike the left, I think peaceable people of all races should be able to as well.

And religions.

And "persuasions."

But what would I know, being a right wing knuckledragger?

Where's the outrage from NOW? Or from race hustlers Jesse and Al? As part of my CUM ULLA SELLA IN PUGNO TABERNA philosophy, I'd like to see the left eat one of their own over this. Or be exposed for the hypocrites they are when the target is a conservative woman.

Ask the Expert

"It would be a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win"...

Ah, gee, Woody Allen, weren't you the guy who was bangin' your girlfriend's adoptive daughter and then ran away with her? And a judge called your conduct with another of her daughters, then seven, "grossly inappropriate"?

I guess you would know something about disgrace and humiliation.

A Dedication

The dedication page of my new book reads: To the man I had to shoot to save my life.

Susan Callaway shares a fascinating story about a first step on a journey.

Compare her mindset to those of doughy Oprah-watchers, Obama supplicants and sneering urban sophisticates who fear and disparage guns. What would have obviously happened to one of them?

Some of us will be familiar with her experience--the realization of threat, the tunnel vision, the decision not to freeze but to act, the after-incident shakes...

That emphasizes the training, awareness and mindset she has come to understand and now teaches others.

She mentions a booklet at the end--I hope she doesn't think I'm being pushy by bringing this up, but I've been privileged to see it and have encouraged her to develop it into a standalone that people outside of her classes can benefit from.

We're the Only Ones Imminently Threatened Enough

A Phoenix man who held an armed burglar at gunpoint in his home was shot several times by a responding officer, police said Thursday...

"We fire upon people when we believe there is a danger to ourselves or others," Thompson said. "So what exactly the officer was thinking, I would say yeah, that for him to fire he would have believed there was a danger, there was an imminent threat right there."

And we all know an armed citizen should always be considered "an imminent threat."

This is why we can't allow guns on campuses. This is why we cannot allow concealed carry. This is why we cannot allow open carry. Because how is a poor "Only One" to know?

If you think about it, this is why we cannot allow guns in the home, which not only is the scene for most domestic violence, but unlike alcohol-serving establishments where guns can be prohibited, it may contain both!

Dustin's Gun Blog has more.

Following Lynch Mobs on the Right

Still, it's really a wondrous, and repugnant, sight to behold the Bush-following lynch mobs on the Right melodramatically defend the Virtues of Privacy and the Rule of Law. These, of course, are the same authoritarians who have cheered on every last expansion of the Lawless Surveillance State of the last eight years -- put their fists in the air with glee as the Federal Government seized the power to listen to innocent Americans' telephone calls; read our emails; obtain our banking, credit card, and library records; and create vast data bases of every call we make and receive and every prescription we fill and every instance of travel and other vast categories of information that remain largely unknown -- all without warrants or oversight of any kind and often in clear violation of the law.

Here's another angle on a controversy that erupted here the other day. And yes, criminal privacy violations are wrong. I'd like to see more of us demand that it stop and that violators be held accountable.

Here's the train I can't hop on:

As despicable as I personally find the Palin hacking to be, it pales in comparison to the Bush crimes, because when someone runs for President or Vice President, they voluntarily cede vast amounts of their personal privacy, which is why they're required to disclose things like their medical records, tax returns, assocational history, and other financial documents...

The key word is "voluntarily." They don't have to run for office. The hacking was wrong.

I don't think it qualifies to be a part of a "lynch mob" if one's position is consistent, and there are numerous examples where I've strayed from the topic of guns to protest citizen surveillance and other intrusive police state actions.

A while back, a couple of you in "comments" asked why I don't branch from guns and cover more Liberty-oriented topics. In fact, I do, and you can find plenty of examples--heck, just yesterday we had a doozy. But I'm careful what I emphasize lest it drag me into a long and time-consuming debate. It's tough enough to get some of us to agree on the best way to proceed in protecting RKBA. I've actually had people chew me out and tell me where to go because they had always agreed with me before, and now felt betrayed that I was such an idiot when I touched the nerve of one of their other cherished beliefs.

And then I get the other kind, who'll complain if I wander from the reservation that they thought this site was supposed to be about guns.

To me, the keystone issue is guns, because unless we can defend ourselves and our ideas...

Like the saying goes, it's not about guns, it's about freedom. And what I do here and in my magazine columns is my niche.

So that's where I'll continue to focus, although occasionally I will pick up on whatever the hell else it pleases me to address. People who object to that can form a line and I'll give them every cent of their money back.

[Via Mama Liberty]

This Day in History: September 20

[A]t the Distance of about two Miles, the Enemy began to canonade, but did Us no Damage, We approached half a Mile nearer and then landed without Opposition in a close deep Swamp which extends to very near the Fort, here we formed and marched in the best Order we could towards the Fort to Reconnoitre, Major Hobby of Waterbery’s with a Detachment flanked the left Wing, and was Something advanced before the main Body when he was attacked in crossing a deep Muddy Brook by a Party of Indians from whom he received a heavy Fire, but our Men pushing on they soon gave Way and left us the Ground; in this Rencountre we had a Serjeant, a Corporal & three Privates killed and one missing, Eight Privates wounded, three of which died the ensuing night, Major Hobby shot thro’ the Thigh, Capt. Mead thro’ the Shoulder & Lieut. Brown in the Hand, these Gentlemen are all out of Danger—Night coming on & the Swamp almost impassible we drew our Men together & cast up a small Intrenchment to defend Ourselves in Case of an Attack in the Night.

A Heat Seeking Device for Deer

I don't know how I missed this one, but Carolyn "Barrel Shroud" McCarthy introduces Assemblywoman Patricia Edington who is vying against Roger Ebert for Anti-Gun Ignoramus of the Month.

[Via "Joe"]

This Will Be on the Test

Gun control. She opposes it. Gibson observed that a majority of Americans support a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons. She praised the tradition of gun ownership in Alaska, mentioning protection, hunting, and sport. With machine guns?

Good grief, Roger Ebert. If you're truly that ignorant, you have no business giving anybody else a test.

You know what you can do with those two thumbs up, don't you?

We're the Only Ones Resentful Enough

Serious crime is up but arrests are down in Chicago, and some police officers say they are working the streets less aggressively out of resentment toward their new chief and fear of being second-guessed by him.

Meanwhile, you can't protect yourself without risking a world of hurt, because they're still the "Only Ones."

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

Canada Needs Laws to Make Breaking Laws Illegal

A Winnipeg man caught selling submachine-guns to an undercover police informant was sentenced yesterday to seven years, four months in prison.

Andrew David Janz, 36, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count each of conspiracy to import firearms, conspiracy to traffic in weapons, possession of goods obtained by crime, and possession of a firearm while prohibited.

Y'know, if Canada would just pass another gun law, stuff like this wouldn't happen.