What if You Held a "Buyback" and Nobody Came?

But what of the civic-minded Tre Crips? What happened to the six who told event organizer Alvertis Simmons they "were tired of the violence" and wanted "to turn their guns in"? Or what of members of rival fraternities who keep the Denver Police Gang Bureau busy?

I can't help but wonder how many made it to the weekend E-40 concert...[More]

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Meddling Prohibitionists

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I’ve got news for the prohibitionists of the world. My father won’t give up his freedom to pass on his legacy without government interference — and neither will I, nor will my family, nor my friends. Nor will millions of other freedom-loving citizens. [More]

Excellent letter from Russ Stewart, who tells me and reminds us all:

People need to know that local newspapers love to foster debate on issues. Letters to the editor are great, but full editorials are much more effective. People with a little writing talent and a somewhat silver tongue can often get an editor agree to publish up to 600-700 words. I think it is very important for us to convey to the general public that we are done backing up, and that we are ready to engage in civil disobedience to protect out liberties.

Another Reason to Invest in a Home Theater

...or to be armed if you don't. [More]

[Via Mama Liberty]

Accidental

ThirdPower has more on this anti-gun creep. [More]

Mom With a Gun

Meleanie Hain interview. [More]

I see some on "our side" are putting her down.

I think that's wrong. It works to the detriment of pioneers championing normalization, and to the continued empowerment of punks like these.

[Via TJP]

We're the Only Ones Who Will Blow Your F'n Head Off Enough

There are six videos in all. Start with the first one, here.

In the second, they ask him if he has hand grenades tell him a Tylenol is a narcotic and accuse him of being a liar.

They bust his chops about not letting them search the truck. They tell him a Tylenol 3 out of a pill case is a felony.

Winning death threat quote from video 4: "I'm goin' home."

Winning quote from video 6: "He's got a smart mouth....He's been bitchin' the whole time."

Per Ed Stone:

David,

Please check out the videos linked in this thread (obtained using the Open Records Act). There is a letter from the Chief apologizing linked later in the thread. Notice he does NOT apologize for the officer's gun pointing at his head.

Please note that Officer Mason, at the passenger window, has been present at several incidents where the Glynn County police harass citizens for carrying a pistol, and he was present weeks later when this driver was arrested in the parking lot of a mall for refusing to show his identification while carrying a pistol openly (I believe the police report from that arrest was posted on your blog).

I note some on "our side" are quick to disparage open carry as a taboo that scares too many people, and thus works against "us." I submit that unless and until freedom is normalized, people who choose to lawfully exercise their rights will continue to be endangered, and that courageous pioneers deserve our gratitude and support, not our criticism.

I also note that Glynn County PD Officers Nolen and Mason remind me of nothing so much as brownshirts . They behaved like the type of bullying thugs who say they demand respect, but unable to either show it to citizens they're hired to serve, or earn it from them, will settle for fear.

Such as these are why I continue with "the Only Ones" files.

That's unacceptable in my country, and I intend to let them know it.

UPDATE: There.

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media. [More]

Of course, the Russkis may want to look at their own house first, but still, in The Lightworker's own words:

[W]hat works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne.

And that doesn't just apply to guns.

[Via Cigar Rollers]

How Do I Rate?

Internet sites could be given cinema-style age ratings as part of a Government crackdown on offensive and harmful online activity to be launched in the New Year, the Culture Secretary says. [More]

And lest you think it's just for the subjects across the pond in Sarah Brady paradise...

He is planning to negotiate with Barack Obama’s incoming American administration to draw up new international rules for English language websites.

Well that falls right in line with AG nominee Eric Holder's sentiments...

What did our friends the Talosians say?

Wrong thinking is punishable.

Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded.

[Via Illspirit and An Hour of Wolves]

Cause and Effect

The number of police officers killed by gunfire in 2008 dropped to its lowest level in more than 50 years...[More]

Who thinks it's because of "gun control" edicts?

Who thinks making it even harder for you and me to buy a gun, or to further restrict what we're "allowed" to own or where and how we're "permitted" to bear arms will reduce these numbers even more?

What do I have to do to get some anti in here? Put out a welcome mat?

[Via Avg Joe and DaKid]

This Day in History: December 29

The disgraceful circumstance, to the Colony, of seizing the Printer's materials and servants, in Norfolk; the captivating our friends at Kemp's Landing, and the cowardly behaviour of a party of Militia in that neighbourhood, afterwards, proceeded from the defenceless state of that part of the country, and our inability, for sometime, to send them protection, for want of arms and ammunition. [More]

What Better Way to Dishonor Their Memory?

Relatives of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 want the Bush Administration to seize the land needed for a memorial where the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pa., in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Yeah, what better memorial could someone want to celebrate freedom, courage and sacrifice than one obtained through coercion and theft?

I never will get why some feel their grief entitles them to make claims on others, but we see it with mothers of "gun victims" all the time.

If it was my land, I'd break off negotiations immediately over this.

Way to turn sympathy into absolute opposition.

We're the Only Ones BS-ing You Enough

Sheriff's Deputy Gregory Anderson tags a gun after rendering it safe during the "Gifts for Guns" exchange at Lennox Middle School. [More]

Gosh, is that all it takes to render a gun safe enough to have at a middle school, so that we don't all go stampeding in hysteria...?

A piece of removable plastic and a uniform...?

It must be that powerful "Only Ones" juju at work again. Thank goodness, I can swallow my cud again in contentment and oblivion...

Speaking of which, check out some of the quotes from the herd.

Peter Jacob's wife Carol insists on his castration, and like a good steer he complies. What he'll be prepared to do should he and she encounter a bull is something we dare not contemplate.

And the unidentified retiree is evidently secure enough in his location, prowess and prescience to know he no longer "needs" the means of self defense.

Sounds like more bulls... to me...

Speaking of which, funding for this came from the Sheriff's Department. Remember that next time Lee Baca tells you he doesn't have enough, and needs to raise sales taxes.

Talk about bs...

We're the Only Ones "No Questions Asked" Enough

He said as of Tuesday night, people turning in illegal guns would not be given gift cards or get their guns back.

"If they hand us an illegal handgun and we have no money, we can't give back the gun," he said. [More]

Suck...errrs...

And "no questions asked"--just show us some ID...

Hysterical. And while I don't normally believe in blaming victims, you got just what you had coming, Mark DeAngelis.

Gosh, if you can't trust "Only Ones," who can you trust...?

What if You Held a "Buyback" and Nobody Came...?

The Rev. Reginald Holmes, a minister at the church, said about 40 people with a total of 120 guns showed up but were turned off to the idea of just donating their guns. [More]

But wait a second...Alvertis Simmons led us to believe the Tre Crips were primarily interested in ending the violence...I don't see from this story where any of them followed through...

World's Stupidest Violent Crime Solutions

With Chicago's homicide total for 2008 already past 500, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., is calling for stronger gun laws in order to help to stem urban violence. [More]

Brilliant. Let's make guns even more "illegal" in Chicago. And let's expand Chicago's success story everywhere!

I guess my favorite nonsensical statement has to be:

Regulate the trafficking of illegal guns

Forget it, Jake, it's Chi-Town.

Open Carry Arrest in Vancouver, WA

Interesting thread. It appears he could win, but he needs to fight it with a lawyer, not in forums. [More]

[Via Jeffersonian]

Meanwhile, South of the Border in Sarah Brady Paradise...

A gang of about 20 men armed with assault rifles robbed a train in the western Mexican state of Michoacan and carted off some of its freight, the state prosecutor's office said Saturday...

...the thieves may have been after drums of pseudoephedrine, a chemical used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamines... [More]

Via Ed, who writes:

Gee, I thought that when my purchase of Pseudophed at my local drugstore was restricted that the drug trade in methampetamines would disappear. See any parallels?

Maybe if we just got rid of those damned American gun shows...?

What's "Legit" About This?

Lawyer claims Plaxico Burress's seized guns are legit [More]

Via Mack H, who asks:

What in the world is the Probable Cause for the search warrant?

Why did it take 3 hours??

Why was a NY prosecutor there inside a NJ home???

What the FREAK is going on here?

How an incident like this can trigger an investigation in another state is a mystery to me. All I can think of is, he must have opened his mouth in interrogation, and what he spilled got passed on to his home state.

This Day in History: December 28

The Continental Congress resolves that troops raised in Virginia be enlisted on the same terms and pay as the forces at Cambridge. [More]

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