Schwarzenegger Signs Handgun Ammo Registration Bill

If by improving public safety Arnold means making it lucrative for criminal gangs to smuggle in more ammunition from out of state, he's got a point. If he means it will provide more opportunities to harass everyone who jumps through each new stupid, evil hoop the state of California imposes on the "law-abiding," and further throttle a revenue-generating segment of the economy at a time when the state is issuing worthless IOUs, then no argument.

If he means it will stop one evil person from committing an act of violence, he's simply not being truthful. [More]

Today's continued betrayal by the Hessian Kennedy necessitated a second Gun Rights Examiner column.

Freebird Turnaround?

From the latest column by Chuck Norris:

Lynyrd Skynyrd, the legendary southern band that produced hits like "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Freebird," put it well in their new song (and album with the same title), "God and Guns":

God and guns
Keep us strong
That's what this country
Was founded on
Well we might as well give up and run
If we let them take our God and guns

Huh.

Last I remember, they were singing this:

Oh, let me tell you all about it
Hand guns are made for killin'
They ain't no good for nothin' else
And if you like to drink your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don't we dump 'em, people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some ol' fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me

I'll need to see some substantive contributions that go beyond music they get paid for before I trust this is not mere audience-pandering opportunism. If they're sincere, let them donate all "Saturday Night Special" royalties to some pro-gun rights cause.

I won't trust anybody who profits off of both sides in a war.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

'There is often an unrealistic public expectation that officers and staff will put themselves at risk to protect the public.' [More]

Not from me there isn't.

Nor, would it appear, from "them."

Hey Brits--here's your green light to get all the guns you want. If anyone objects, just create a risk for them.

Disgusting.

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Historically Troubling Enough

Lloyd, who's being held in lieu of $110,000 bail, faces up to 20 years behind bars if convicted of rape, criminal deviate conduct, criminal confinement and sexual battery...

A lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, Nicole McKinney, last summer alleges he gunned down her new husband Cornel McKinney in front of their children outside their home...

A Robbins police officer at the time, Lloyd was suspended following the shooting but eventually found work with Dolton police in January, his father said.

Though an autopsy shows he shot McKinney 24 times, the lawsuit alleges, he was not charged because Chicago police accepted his explanation that he'd acted in self defense. [More]

It's like they go out of their way to hire orcs. And this sterling "Only One" was just videotaped beating the hell out of a special needs student for not tucking in his shirt. I could swear I blogged on that, but can't seem to find it now.

I guess what we really need to stop this kind of stuff once and for all is a special exemption.

[Via William T]

Reasonable Restrictions

Even though a pocket knife is not considered a weapon under New York State penal code, the district also prohibits students from possessing anything "that reasonably can be considered a weapon." [More]

Why is it the biggest idiots seem to gravitate toward education administration jobs in public schools and universities?

Bill St. Clair has contact information in case you'd like to ask an expert.

[Via Jeffersonian]

Zombies

Mike H says resist the living dead. [More]

Oh, man, does this give me a low-budget parody movie idea:

Night of the Living Statists: A small band of armed survivors is besieged by entranced hordes--instead of moaning for brains the zombie-like leftists are calling out for various freedoms as they inexorably advance...

We're the Only Ones International Enough

INTERPOL and United Nations Seek Greater Support for Police Role in Peacekeeping Missions [More]

Global "Only Ones"? What kind of right-wing extremist would oppose that?

I wonder if it's too late to give them greater support by modifying these bills to include them? Or better yet, just give them "diplomatic immunity."

[Via Tom Z]

We're the Only Ones Pro-Gun Enough

He said that he was pro-gun but still insisted that I need to take the holster off. [More]

With friends like that...but I guess he must be--he didn't taze, club or shoot her.

I would never particpate in an "empty holster protest." Still, setting my bias aside, what an example of "Only One" elitism--as well as the apologist mentality of some (witness "hunter and NRA member RDW, who feels even this is going "too far.")

A pet peeve: Get and post the names of the harassers.

[Via Mama Liberty]

Should Violent Police be Exempted from Mandatory Minimum Sentences?

These bills are not the way to fix that, nor the way to fix injustices in flawed mandatory minimum sentencing standards, typically championed by "law and order" types, and which will still be imposed on the rest of us. On their face they make a mockery of equal protection by bestowing unequal privileges and immunities. They are misguided attempts at facilitating police protection that, if enacted, will instead facilitate the strengthening of the police state. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the boot with the "R" on it as they propose to further the divide between citizen and "Only One."

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: October 12

I am sorry your force is not more adequate to the uses you have for it, and that such coldness appears in the neighbouring inhabitants as to preclude the assistance you had a right to expect from them. Under the circumstances you mention, I have no objection to you detaining any of the Continental troops now with you; except those which belong to the 8th Pennsylvania regiment. [More]

New York Post Promotes Bigotry against Gun Owners

Ms. Haberman and her editors are engaging in what statist elites like themselves call "hate speech" when it's employed against one of their preferred demographic groups. That makes them bigots, and prejudice, we know, stems from ignorance and hate.

Right, I'll be disarming for ignorant haters real soon. Right after I fall off this dang turnip truck. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column takes a look at what bigots and propagandists some "authorized journalists" are. They don't even try to hide it any more.

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This Day in History: October 11

Continuing his pattern of disparaging his commanding officers, Thomas Conway sends Gates a letter suggesting that Washington should be relieved of his duties as commander-in-chief and Gates should be appointed as his replacement. [More]

Why Won't Press Question Bloomberg Gun Show Motives?

This strikes no one as... creepy? This sounds like someone who should be commanding a monopoly of armed force?

Forgive some of us if we suspect all the pots and pans Bloomberg is banging over out-of-state gun shows is more a matter of generating tons of free publicity, stoking his insufferable ego and imposing his will on all American gun owners, and less about combating violent crime in the Big Apple. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column challenges the adage that there are no stupid questions. There are, however, plenty of useful idiots in the establishment media.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: October 10

October 10, 1777 at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania - Fort Mifflin was an American fort that covered one end of a band of obstructions across the Delaware River. It was garrisoned by 450 men. The fort was located ooposite of Fort Mercer on Port Island, between Hog Island and Mud Island. The fort was known to have been poorly engineered. On October 10, the British forces on nearby Province Island began a bombardment against the weak, land side of the fort. The bombardment lasted for about 2 weeks. [More]

Hain Shooting on Webcam Points to Parole Officer Husband as Killer

While some anti-gun zealots are hard at work blaming the domestic violence victim, or extrapolating that this one incident proves guns are always useless for defense, those decrying armed defense and using this to justify their position need to explain a gross inconsistency. [More]

This development called for a second Gun Rights Examiner column today.

Not Necessarily a Policy Violation

Students and faculty at UCLA are stunned following a horrific attack in a campus chemistry lab in which a male student allegedly slashed the throat of a female student. [More]

Hey, as long as the blade was under 2½" I don't see what the problem could be...

[Via retrotruckman]

On Wings of Eagles

I'd like to share something I did last weekend. All pictures will enlarge when clicked.

The glider waits to be...

...stuffed with precious cargo...we'll worry about prying it out later.

Sealed in--too late to escape, at least with any pride...

The towplane strains to get aloft under the mighty load.

I think I can, I think I can...

Aloft and free. That reservoir is here. Click on map view and you'll see the airfield to the east.

Nice finger, idiot.

The return approach...easy...easy...

The turk..uh...eagle has landed.

What fun. Thanks, Bruce! If you only knew half the things I was guilty of doing to you back in college, you'd have come back solo!

We're the Only Ones Objectively Reasonable Enough

Chief Locke thrust his knee between [Diane's] legs, and while Diane was still leaning on the hood of the patrol car, Chief Locke began to paw and stroke her, beginning at Diane’s waist and moving down to her buttocks [More]

And it's not the first time!

A couple of months before Cook, Locke was sued for sexual misconduct involving another woman...

So what's proper "Only One" protocol when Diane's husband objected?

Michael took one step toward Chief Locke. Chief Locke told Michael to “[g]et back in the fucking car” and, at the same time, Chief Locke tasered Michael. Michael never saw the taser.

So what could a court decide except:

In evaluating Appellees’ motion for summary judgment, the district court concluded, “[Chief] Locke’s conduct, in tasering and causing Michael’s head to strike the subject vehicles, [was] objectively reasonable as a matter of law.”

Everybody knows their place, right?

So, gee, if we can't get justice from the courts, what's left that would be objectively reasonable?

[Via Michael R]

We're the Only Ones Not Doing Anything Different Enough

A police officer shot a woman and the dog she was playing with when the officer thought the dog was attacking the woman... [More]

And then we have Dennis Wallace:

I can't say that I would do anything different.

A major point being, Dennis, do you think the "Only Ones" would have done anything different if it was you who did the shooting...?

[Via William T]

We're the Only Ones In Service Enough

From Mike H:

Can't substantiate except I heard the guy myself.

Quote from a Major on IMPD: "We get paid to service the law, not to get hurt."

And who pays the "Only Ones" to do this?

And it's worth it to us....why, exactly?