When Seconds Count...

...the Bobbies are just minutes away.

[Via cycjec]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise

‘Dress down’ or risk being robbed, police tell women

She asked for it. Look at the way she was dressed.

Yep. It's come to that.

[Via cycjec]

National Press Club Obama Challenge

I know there's no shortage of those who will be quick to jump on this as tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. There will be others just as passionately convinced of the opposite.

I've said before I haven't been convinced, but I do think the evidence deserves to be looked at. My thoughts on it are posted here.

While I laughed out loud during the preacher's prayer, I don't think referring to Obama as "this long-legged macdaddy" is helpful at establishing credibility in a forum like the National Press Club.

But I still may steal that description.

[Via Skip]

UPDATE: I'm continuing to listen to this as I do my work, and must say this reverend gets way off topic and doesn't help. The lawyers who put this news conference together should have stuck to the issue and not gone so far afield--there should be no discussion of black-on-white lust. This character is entertaining, but he comes off like Uncle Ruckus.

The Payoff

In a deal OK'd by the City Council, Minneapolis will pay a family more than $600,000 after a SWAT team wrongly raided its home.

Don't forget the cost of the medals...

[Via Buzz G]

Credit Where Due

"My spouse told me there was a man inside with a gun, saying he was going to kill everybody," said Robinson, an 11-year veteran of the highway patrol who is assigned to the Creek and Muskogee turnpikes.

He's braver than I am, wrestling with the guy instead of just shooting him.

[Via Joe G]

"Just As"?

If they do, they should conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is protected against infringement by the state governments, just as it is protected against the federal government.

In other words, that is, in the words of "Maximum Mike":

The bureau is studying the decision, but expects that it will not affect its continued enforcement of all existing federal firearms laws."

Nobody thinks we won't be screwed on incorporation just like on everything else, do they?

That's not how those corrupted by power operate.

All the polite academic discussions in the world won't change that. In the absence of a credible "stop or else," nothing will. What we're reconciling among ourselves now is whether such a check is likely to be produced through current stacked deck legislative and judicial efforts.

[Via Skip]

This Day in History: December 13

December 13, 1775 at Norfolk, Virginia - On December 13, after the American victory at the Battle of Great Bridge, the Patriot force occupies the town of Norfolk. Conclusion: American Victory

No Apology

Looks like HS-Precision figures they've done enough? Because that "apology" where they're sorry we feel that way is gone.

Outside the Box

We have a tough time getting anybody to listen to our message but ourselves.

How we go about changing that will be a subject for many columns to come. But in my years of promoting a peaceable armed citizenry, I've found our biggest impediment comes from within. Opportunities are squandered due to apathy.

This morning we have new opportunities to make our voices heard by two different audiences.

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...

Tell a friend?

The Great Waubonsie Valley BB Terror of '08

Two Waubonsie Valley High School students were charged with disorderly conduct after they were spotted handling a BB gun in the school, prompting the campus to be locked down for about five hours.

I particularly love the photo of the "We R OK" sign.

No you weren't, kids.

If it had been a real active shooter situation, you'd have been lambs in a slaughterhouse.

But you listened to a teacher who was utterly powerless to defend you and stayed penned in, didn't you?

Not a one of you thought independently and put a desk through that window so you could get out if you needed to, did you?

I wonder--had a monster thirsting for blood breached your classroom door, who would have screamed louder in helpless terror? You or the adult?

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

Lessons to Learn From

Mindful Musings rediscovers an excellent law review article from a decade ago.

Idiots

A JOINT RESOLUTION

Applying to the Congress of the United States pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution to call a constitutional convention for proposing amendments.

Look guys, if they don't obey what's there now, if they twist and pervert plain meaning to produce the exact opposite of what the Founders intended, what the hell makes you think adding new verbiage is going to make a damn bit of difference?

This action presupposes there's something wrong with the Constitution, as opposed to the criminals ignoring it.

And it further opens the door for just about damn near anything.

Dumb idea. Even dumber when you consider the Evil Party majority in the current congress, and then realize the proponents of this nonsense are Stupid Party members all.

This is bigger than Ohio. They deserve to hear from everyone.

Matt Huffman: district04@ohr.state.oh.us
Colleeen Grady: district18@ohr.state.oh.us
Tom Brinkman: district34@ohr.state.oh.us
Arlene Setzer: district36@ohr.state.oh.us
Clyde Evans: district87@ohr.state.oh.us
Gerald L. Stebelton: district05@ohr.state.oh.us
William G. Batchelder: district69@ohr.state.oh.us
Louis W. Blessing, Jr.: district29@ohr.state.oh.us
John Adams: district78@ohr.state.oh.us
Josh Mandel: district17@ohr.state.oh.us
Ross McGregor: district72@ohr.state.oh.us
Kevin Bacon: district21@ohr.state.oh.us
Joe Uecker: district66@ohr.state.oh.us
James J. Zehringer: district77@ohr.state.oh.us

Please join me in doing this today.

[Via Brian F]

UPDATE:

Handbills...

...for the soldier or peace officer in your life.

[Via Ron W]

One Word

PULL!

[Via Sam W]

Preparing the Next Generation of Serfs

University of Utah engineers have invented a wireless car key device (sample shown at right) to stop teenage motorists from talking on their cell phone or sending text messages while driving. Each driver of a car would have a separate key device. When the key is extended from the device, it sends a signal to the teenage driver's phone, putting the phone in "driving mode" so it cannot be used to talk or send texts.

Huh. Anybody see a "911" exception?

And looky here:

Limiting some cell calls by adults "is a step in the right direction," he says.

Naturally. If we're going to teach the next generation they are untrustworthy and in need of external control, isn't it up to us to set the example?

I note the inventor is a urologist. Somehow, that seems so fitting.

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

A Fight is a Fight is a Fight

What I do not understand is how so many American gun owners -- including many who engage in combat-simulation training with their pistols, rifles, or both -- can and do fully adopt Colonel Cooper's color codes for encounters with street miscreants, but then completely lose that focus when the predators carry neither a knife or a gun, but the reins of executive, legislative, and judicial power.

A-yup.

Olofson Update

Per Len Savage:

Oral arguments in the 7th circuit. Court of Appeals is scheduled for US v. Olofson:

Thursday January 22, 2009, 9:30 am
7th, Court of Appeals,main Courtroom,
Chicago IL

Three Justice Panel yet to be named, 15 minute limit each side.

We're the Only Ones Not Private Actors Enough

Both officers were wearing black uniforms with gold emblems on the sleeves, displaying a gold badge virtually identical to a police shield, and bearing handguns; in short, they were the quintessential image of law enforcement as they ran with weapons drawn towards Day. The officers placed Day in restraints, "terried" him, and began questioning him about the gun and whether he had "anything illegal" on his person. Clearly the officers acted with the intent of deterring crime and assisting law enforcement.

I think a rent-an-Only One would have a problem with me. Particularly if they wanted to get "frisky."

And if they're public actors, does that mean the state assumes some liability for their misdeeds? They shouldn't be able to have it both ways.

[Via Mack H]

This Day in History: December 12

To provide much-needed fuel for the colony, the Massachusetts Council allows decayed barns, stores, and houses to be torn down, as well as any public buildings if needed.

Cluster

Read.