"Yes, Even Here in Wyoming"

Apparently there are some serious flaws with this story.

Mama Liberty tells me they interviewed Wyoming Gun Owners Association executive director Anthony Bouchard.

Per Mr. Bouchard:

[L]ook how all the statistics were printed as fact.

I want you to know that I disputed the CDC statistics but none of that made it into the article.

Here are good examples of disputed numbers:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,113094,00.html

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20081013/ARTICLES/810100238/-1/NEWS4525?Title=Gun-owners-often-use-the-weapons-on-themselves

Also unmentioned, are we to give up our rights because one might commit suicide?

Or how many of these deaths were deemed justified shootings or even by police?

The average person will not sift through the data and the more the media slams us (yes even here in Wyoming) with "statistics that purposely leave out the facts", we lose another inch.

The Fighting Haiduci

So these merry bands of armed Romanians took arms and retreated in the Carpathian mountains; they called themselves "haiduci" (spell hayduchy) and they were the Romanian version of Tito's Partizans - only they were fighting the Soviet and the Communist Romanian army. Their guns were whatever they could get their hands on but they benefited from the support of the population in the small mountain villages where they were fighting. [More]

Transylvania Phoenix gives us a recent history lesson from the land of my ancestors that has timeless applicability for freedom fighters.

Fascinating stuff--good job.

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Well She Was There!

“What about an apology? Did they apologize for killing a US Marshal?” [More]

In fairness to HS Precision, I cannot confirm the accuracy of this report. That said, I have no reason to doubt it, and the company's handling of the entire self-created Lon Horiuchi mess does not make me sympathetic to their plight.

I'd say it's up to them to address this to the gun-buying public. If they choose not to, the consequences will be theirs to live with.

As soon as this is posted, I'm going to contact them, give them this link, and invite them to make a public statement.

[Via FatWhiteMan]


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National Parks Gun Bill Presents Dilemma for Constitutionalists

Hey, I'm just pointing out that you don't get benefits without costs, that you dance with the devil at your peril, and that he is unexcelled at making you think you're the one leading. [More]

And everybody is up on what those costs are.

Right?

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column discusses the price of "victory."

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: May 20

An emission totaling $16,500,000 payable in Spanish milled dollars, or the equivalent in gold or silver, was authorized by ten Continental Congress resolutions passed between May 20, 1777 and April 18, 1778. [More]

A Letter to Congress

Carl S allows me to share his:

I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. My word means something to me. I defended one “line in the sand” and if need be, I and my brothers in arms can do so again.

It’s not your job to make that impossible. It is your job to make that unnecessary.

Where the Hell are the Kidnaping Charges?

Two judges pleaded guilty on Thursday to accepting more than $2.6 million from a private youth detention center in Pennsylvania in return for giving hundreds of youths and teenagers long sentences. [More]

We talked about these evil, mercenary, oath-breaking bastards here.

This kind of stuff makes me come close to reconsidering the merits of crucifixion.

[Via Jack A]

We're the Only Ones Escalating the Situation Enough

Travelling down the escalator, she was looking for her fare in her bag when a police officer told her to hold the rail. When she told him she didn't have three hands he demanded to see her ID so that he could write her a ticket. [More]

And naturally, things escalated from there, as only an "Only One" can make them escalate...

I guess it's safer than messing with bad guys who are capable of escalating back...

We're the Only Ones Forgetful Enough

The D.A. believes OC deputies had "blue amnesia" – they lied, or conveniently "forgot" critical facts – when testifying in a case involving one of their own. It's the latest incident in a string of cases involving sheriff's deputies who allegedly covered up for their misbehaving colleagues, ranging from the D.A.'s allegations of departmental perjury and witness tampering...[More]

Keep it up. At some point, people are going to conveniently forget critical facts and cover up for their fellows who are fed up with "Only One" corruption and violence...

Some might just be prone to "red, white and blue amnesia"...

[Via Mama Liberty]

We Have Met the Enemy...

...and he is us. [More]

[Via Ron W]

New York, New York, What a Wonderful Town

Downtown Manhattan, the city's party mecca, has been hit by an alarming spike in vicious street violence.

Assaults in Greenwich Village lead the frightening upturn, with a whopping 43 percent increase so far this year compared with the same period in 2008. [More]

I'm having a tough time giving a damn.

[Via Brian F]

For All You "Hoarders"

Unknown to many Americans, gold has been confiscated in the United States three different times throughout history. Some of these events took place during the Revolutionary war, Civil war, and most recently in 1933 by president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Silver was later confiscated in 1934. [More]

At which point, expect some to turn to government for all their needs--at the time and place of their choosing.

[Via Steven L]

We're the Only Ones Reefer Madness Enough

Gallatin County Sheriff Raymond Martin was arrested Monday and appeared in court on three counts of distributing marijuana and two counts of carrying a firearm while trafficking drugs. [More]

You know what they say--"Only Ones" always get the best dope...

[Via Anthony W]

We're the Only Ones Getting You All Choked Up Enough

Police beat teen on tape? [More]

The famous "Only Ones" paradox: The only charge is "resisting arrest." I wasn't aware that a hand over the mouth while the forearm is wrapped around the throat was a standard technique.

Maybe it's a "distraction suffocation".

[Via Avg Joe]

Meanwhile, Over in Snuffy Pfleger Paradise

So far this school year, 36 children and teens have been murdered -- more than one a week -- and Pfleger is among a chorus of weary Chicagoans who say the slayings aren't getting the attention they deserve. [More]

Well, maybe if you'd join with rational people and help us "snuff out" citizen disarmament and a host of government edicts policies and programs that incubate and guarantee a feral underclass of criminals and parasites, we'd start getting a handle on the problem.

[Via Buckeye Firearms Association]

The Cambridge Paradox

A man has been shot near a Harvard University dormitory. [More]

But...but...but...

McCarthy Introduces 'No Rights' List

And as we've seen time and again, suspicion of being a shady character in the eyes of the government can often be something as innocuous as...believing in the Constitution. Add in McCarthy's resurrected rights eradication plot (that relies on accurate record-keeping from people known to lie about it)--and don't forget Peter King's latest attempt at subversion (what is it with New York politicians?) and you have a perfect formula for denying "legal" gun purchases to ...uh...practically anyone the government wants to.

It's the "other purposes" mentioned in McCarthy's bill. [More]

More subversive, in-your-face aggression from the spiteful congressow that brought us the Assault Shoulder Things that Go Up ban...

Also find out who's gloating at gun owners in Oregon and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: May 19

The Friends of Peter Pickman Frye (who is under Sentence to be Shott for Desertion) have earnestly requested a Suspension of Execution, untill they can prefer a petition to the Honble Congress and receive their Determination thereon. As this request was backed by some Gentlemen of distinction I conceived it to be my Duty to indulge them with Time to present their Petition and have suspended his Executiong to the 12th of June next. His Friends beg a pardon, the public call for his Execution; The former say he is Insane, the latter that he is more Knave than Fool. For my own part I neither ask for a pardon, or Execution, but shall strictly execute the pleasure of Congress. [More]

This one intrigued me enough to do a further search. It looks like after a series of stays of execution, Frye was finally pardoned due to "unsound mind."

"I'm a Winner, Pal"

“I’m a winner, pal,” Graham retorted. Moments later, after saying he wants to the party to reach out to independent voters, he said: “Winning matters to me. If it doesn’t matter to you, there’s the exit sign.” [More]

Interesting. We welcome people without core principles and invite those who have them to leave.

In other pragmatic political news, Graham is OK with nationalizing banks.

Hey, fascism and selling out is a winning formula. Everything else is just a loser.

Caroll Quigley would be so proud of this guy.

Stockpile Ammo, Go Directly to Jail

Police: Man said 30,000 bullets were for target practice He is held on $500,000 bail [More]

"Where is the crime?"

Good question.

Aside from the one committed by "the authorities"?

[Via Avg Joe]