Notes from the Resistance...
The choice should be mine, not that of some boot-faced politically-correct police officer anxious to maintain his monopoly of force - and anxious to ensure that his idea of the law should be the only one available. [More]Exactly.
Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the process used by the Virginia Fusion Center to create its 2009 terrorism threat assessment after critics complained the report unfairly targeted academic institutions and minority groups. [More]Lord knows our institutions of higher learning are crucibles of patriotism, plus we don't want to lose those busloads of Richmond Million Mom Marchers Kaine spent $7K of tax plunder on.
Attendees and sellers at a weekend gun show got a visit from the tax man that some said was unusual, unexpected and unwanted. [More]Not to mention intentionally chilling. Guess if you can't get 'em one way, you get 'em another.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.[Via Paul L]
Cartwright was a former contract security guard who had provided ARMED gate security for Hurlburt Field AFB. He had applied to join the GS civilian ARMED guard force that recently replaced the contract guards at Hurlburt.So... this guy was licensed and certified by the state to carry a semi-automatic pistol as his JOB, did so on a USAF base (a Special Ops base, no less), AND passed a federal background check to boot.
I’ve also been denied access to a blogger’s gathering because I wasn’t up to their standards, and they didn’t like the company I keep.Very weird. And completely predictable.
How weird is that? [More]
The Second Amendment Foundation, The Calguns Foundation and four California residents today filed a lawsuit challenging a California state law and regulatory scheme that arbitrarily bans handguns based on a roster of “certified” handguns approved by the State. [More]Very good.
Drinking water which contains the element lithium may reduce the risk of suicide, a Japanese study suggests...See, once we have you numbed down with Soma, everything will be alright. And we won't even have to worry about the psychopharmaceutical/shooting spree nexus, because, well, we're going to be just like Japan, silly.
In an accompanying editorial, Professor Allan Young of Vancouver's Institute for Mental Health said "this intriguing data should provoke further research. [More]
I asked for my flag to be flown on April 19 with the notation:Today's Gun Rights Examiner column resurrects an an old message for your representative that is still timely and needed: "Back off!"
"In tribute to the Citizen Patriots of Lexington and Concord who resisted confiscation of their armaments on this date in 1775, and in continued defiance of all who would infringe on the Right of the People to keep and bear arms." [More]
General Lachlan McIntosh addresses the General Assembly, denouncing Button Gwinnett by calling him a "scoundrel and lying rascal." [More]
"The National Parks Service has announced it will not challenge a court order that temporarily stops the late-term Bush administration policy of allowing CCW-permit holders to carry in National Parks."It won't be pitchforks.
...How many abuses and usurpations need we endure before people take to their pitchforks? [More]
Four people were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Thursday when a driver hurtled his car into a crowd at a parade, narrowly missing an open bus carrying Queen Beatrix and members of her family. [More]You know what we need for cars? Licensing and registration.
The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter's body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users' easy access to the "Forward" button, there are now nine photos of the accident scene, taken just moments after Nikki's death, circulating virally on the Web. In one, her nearly decapitated head is drooping out the shattered window of her father's Porsche.[More]But God forbid you should take a picture of "Only Ones."
An investigation had revealed that the images, taken as a routine part of a fatal accident response, had been leaked by two CHP dispatchers: Thomas O'Donnell, 39, and Aaron Reich, 30.I can't imagine seeing a beloved child like that. I can't imagine soulless ghouls considering it entertainment. It is a perverted cruelty I cannot fathom.
BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.Just so you know where some would like to lead us.
There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent. [More]
Should schools ban starter's pistol?Oh, for the love of...
They don't fire bullets, but deadly symbolism triggers call to keep them out of high school track meets [More]
A British vacationer is being hailed a hero after he thwarted gun-toting pirates attacking a cruise ship — by throwing a deck chair at them. [More]The unreported crime on the high seas is he could not throw lead at them.
