Kids 'n Guns

[S]ince when do blanket ignorance and avoidance produce superior results over age-appropriate training and discipline?

A teen ignores the "experts" and shoots a bad guy. Today's Gun Rights Examiner column is posted. You'll also get a link to listen to an interesting exchange on what cops think of gun "buybacks".

Tell a friend.

Now in Injia's Sunny Clime...*

At least 143 people have been killed and 370 people have been wounded...

Ah, life in Memsahib Brady Paradise.

A day or so before Thanksgiving, someone sent me an anti-gun editorial by an Indian living in the US, and I didn't post it at the time. Too bad, because I can't find it now, and it would be relevant to ask the guy how well his way is working for his countrymen.

*

A Nation of Consumers

A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.

You have to wonder about the values--and value--of a society where this happens.

We're the Only Ones Corrugated Enough

A standoff at a New Jersey bank is over after police learned a "person" seen inside was actually a full-size cardboard figure.

Well, just thank goodness it wasn't one of those assault mannequins...because we know how nervous "Only Ones" can get around those...

[Via HZ]

We're the Only Ones High-Flying Enough

State police and airline ticket agents whisked a Rockland man who claimed he had a gun around TSA security checkpoints at Logan International Airport, putting him on a plane after he flashed a Chatham assistant harbormaster’s badge and claimed he was a federal agent, an FBI affidavit said.

Hey, come on--an assistant harbormaster is kind of like an "Only One." I can see where he'd be exempt where you and I would not be...

And why am I suddenly thinking about Tugger?

[Via Thomas JS]

Digg It

This links to a video on "assault weapons" made some years back by Leroy Pyle. Make sure you "Digg it" first, to increase popularity and thus visibility.

[Via Zachary G]

What's in a Name?

...“grass-eater”...

I like it.

Almost as much as "cud-chewer."

[Via Peter G]

A Sensible "Gun" Editorial...

...from Chicago...?

I love this line:

When it comes to firearms, Mayor Richard Daley is no slave to rationality.

Skillful understatement is an art.


[Via scaryis]

We're the Only Ones Pleased Enough

Of course, all you non-"Only Ones" are still second class citizens...

[Via Jeffersonian]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Clairvoyant Sarah Brady Paradise

CCTV cameras which can 'predict' if a crime is about to take place are being introduced on Britain's streets.

The Department of Pre-Crime.

I guess the public has been dumbed down enough to believe in magic. And to allow themselves to be controlled by it.

Not that a nation that would elect a Lightworker should be feeling all that superior.

[Via Joe G]

We're the Only Ones Licked Enough

Two Iraq war veterans allege in a federal lawsuit they were forced by small-town Wisconsin police officers to lap up what was thought to be urine.

I'm sorry, but they would have to kill me first. Really.

Why the vets didn't refuse is a question I have. And then I read the young animals are respectively 19 and 20? I guess that's a prime age for feral gangbangers. Who better to exalt to the status of "Only One"?

Perhaps the vets from the "Battle of Athens" were of a generation still in touch with rights that are no longer taught. But what disturbs me the most about this is the "follow any order" mentality manifested here.

If you can order a soldier to lick a puddle of urine, what order won't he obey?

I see Wisconsin Dells, where this happened, is a big tourist destination. I think it would be in order to let them know we just wouldn't feel safe putting ourselves at the mercy of their hired sociopaths, so until they use their influence to put a conclusive end to such abuses, we have plenty of other choices. You can write them at info@wisdells.com. You can also tell their Chamber of Commerce.

And I guess as long as we're sending out correspondence, it wouldn't hurt to let their police department know how such abuse deserves to be treated by citizens who do know their rights and are committed to defending them against domestic enemies:
info@wdpd.com

[Via Michael S, Avg Joe, and GWD]

This Day in History: November 28

The number inlisted since my last are 2540 men. I am very sorry to be necessitated to mention to you the egregious want of Public Spirit which reigns here; instead of pressing to be engaged in the cause of their Country, which I vainly flattered myself would be the case, I find we are likely to be deserted at a most critical time...

Night of the Evil Butterball

Attacks by roving flocks of wild turkeys are on the increase around suburban Boston--AP

Time was, the turkey was considered a game bird. The Pilgrims at Plymouth feasted on them. Generations later, Ben Franklin considered it such a useful fowl that he nominated it for the national bird.

Of course, this was in the days when the right to bear arms was taken for granted, when free people hunted turkeys for sustenance, all the while honing marksmanship that would serve them well in time of need.

Flash forward to present-day Boston, a place of sacred tradition, the literal forge for our heritage of individual liberty. Except Boston is now a place where traditions have been betrayed. Its current overlords have succeeded in disarming the whole people in a way that General Gage could never have conceived possible.

So successful have these rulers been that the city that gave us Sam Adams and Paul Revere is now a city under siege, and this is fittingly ironic if you think about it, by wild turkeys. So helpless and hapless are Boston's modern-day patriots, they can do little except retreat from the aggressive gobblers, escape, hole up and plead for rescue from the very authorities that enforce public impotence.

This is what the heirs of The Sons of Liberty have been reduced to. This is what they have allowed, and in many cases, demanded. Human beings, with dominion over the earth, scurrying from turkeys. The tolerated degradation of the masses is damned near complete.

This does not escape the notice of those who impose their tyranny upon us. What new outrage are they now free to impose? What can't they do? After all, we're talking about subjects who would cede their birthright to birds.

The greasy-lipped masters have to be laughing like hell as they reach across their table of plunder and rip off another drumstick...

---------------------

AFTERWORD: This little essay and the news account it references are both several years old. I never found a home for it before, and decided it would commemorate WarOnGuns' first Thanksgiving--and have used it every Thanksgiving since.

A Personal Perspective on H-S Precision and Horiuchi

The unfolding H-S Precision/Lon Horiuchi fiasco literally made my jaw drop, probably because I was one of the few voices many years ago covering an angle of the Horiuchi prosecution that the mainstream press couldn't be bothered to notice.

I'd been involved even earlier in writing the Boundary County prosecutor to get the killer criminally tried. When a federal court gave the green light for doing just that, I speculated on whether or not the locals would take over.

Then came news the prosecutor was being investigated on felony forgery charges. My reaction:

It shows the prosecutor definitely vulnerable to being compromised...

The story, and my assessment, were then picked up by WorldNetDaily. And then, predictably, charges were dropped.

This link goes to an archived copy (KABA, you should not have gone in and erased a lot of stuff when new management took over the site--there is an historical record that deserves to be preserved)) of the prosecutor's rationale to do so, as well as the bitter responses of myself and colleagues Angel Shamaya and Russ Howard.

My own hypothesis, and I emphasize I can't prove it, is that pressure from on high was brought to bear. If I had a drink and a cigar, and was with people I knew around a campfire, I'd be speculating on blackmail/extortion.

Justice has not been done. And I'm still extremely bitter. Which is the reason I've purposely kept my emotions in check--so far. I just don't see how the owners of H-S Precision could be so damned...I don't even have a word for it.

I feel badly for employees who have their livelihoods invested there, because I can predict the potential fury of the storm we're just getting the first gusts from. Perhaps when it's over we can discuss ways the gun industry can attune itself with the activist community. That they don't already have someone assigned to monitor sentiment and feed that to their public face people just astounds me.

[More on Horiuchi from WarOnGuns]

Just Like Cleveland

Having others want to emulate you can be a good thing. It means they admire you or what you do, and want to be like you.

So who'da thunk Denver, of all places, would want to be just like Cleveland? Except in this case, well, you'll see...

Here's today's Gun Rights Examiner column. Tell a friend.

Who Really Cares?

"Who really cares about it being unconstitutional?" said Councilwoman Tonya Payne.

Uh, I do, for one, you arrogant cow.

But if you really want to start operating without even the mask of lawfulness, it's OK by me.

Just be aware that I have no moral qualms about defending myself against criminals. In fact, I consider it a moral imperative.

So if you don't mind risking the fate of tyrants, bring it on.

[Via SiH]

Welcome to Lightworker Elementary

At the behest of its students, an elementary school near New York City has been renamed after President-elect Barack Obama.

Molding tomorrow's citizens today!

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Warrants

The authorities may lawfully conduct searches and electronic surveillance against United States citizens in foreign countries without a warrant, a federal appeals court panel said on Monday...

I'd say something, but all the antis maintain 2A advocates only care about guns to the exclusion of other amendments, and I'd hate to spoil their perfect record of being right all the time...

Besides, who are mere citizens to argue the Constitution with infallible federal appeals courts?

[Via Zachary G]

The Second Amendment as it Should Have Been Written

A well regulated, non-federal militia, which is necessary to the security of a free State, shall at all times exist for all States and Territories. The right of the people to Keep and Bear arms shall not be regulated or removed.

Perhaps.

I still think this version is more to the point.

Breaking News: Old Story Resurfaces!

A gun disguised as a mobile phone has been seized by police.

Finally!

They were looking for them a couple years ago, and then six years before that...

I still want one.

[Via SameNoKami]