A Good Petition

ONLINE PETITION - REPEAL AB962 AND SUPPORT AB373 [More]

I don't disagree with the premise or the proposal.

I just find it curious that the petition site is maintained by Mike Haas, the guy who attacked this on these grounds:

Earlier this century, not long after Bush was first elected and Ashcroft had barely taken office, these nits tried to fundraise with a "national online petition" attacking Ashcroft! See:
http://web.archive.org/web/200204081....com/petition/
(I bet they think this stuff is long gone)
They tried to blowup a non-existant issue and truly pathetic petition "numbers" into sounding significant, pretending that such non-official efforts (not registered with any Secretary of State anywhere) are influential, while collecting personal-contact-information. (It's illegal to keep the personal info one gathers with a real, official, registered petition.)

So, Mike: Got yourself a "real, official, registered petition" there?

Is it "registered with [the] Secretary of State" so that yours is "influential"?

Why the "required fields" for email, name and address, or the optional pdf letter? "Collecting personal contact information," are we?

And why the big self-serving ad on the page linking to your Ammo Guide website, where you charge people "just $18.95/year," especially when you lied about us using our petition to "fundraise"?

As for "truly pathetic petition 'numbers'," you will, of course, keep us posted on your efforts?

Not Evil Just Wrong?

That's just wrong. [Watch]

Sure, the environmentalcase followers are geese, but the true powers behind this are evil.

Disregard Sun Tzu at your peril.

We're the Only Ones Delaying Enough

Two employees at Chicago’s 911 emergency center have been slapped with lengthy suspensions without pay for their roles in an Aug. 28 dispatch delay that left an off-duty police officer to fend for himself while being shot at by a car filled with alleged gang members. [More]

On second thought, I've inappropriately categorized this.

Had they been true "Only Ones," that "without pay" crap wouldn't fly.

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

We're the Only Ones Safeguarding Your Personal Information Enough

A former contractor for the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police has been charged with rummaging through state computers to retrieve confidential information about "Joe the Plumber." [More]

Well, hey, they say it's an Information-Sharing Network.

Remember, "Only Ones" does not apply exclusively to errant LEOs. Elitist bureaucrats who abuse their special powers and privileges--like Helen Jones-Kelly-- also qualify.

[Via Michael R]

Gun Rights Protest

Featuring VCDL... [More]

Gee, Republicans want gun owner support, but don't actually want them to have guns?

Where have we seen that before?

[Via Mack H]

A Different Risk

More than a decade after Congress cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), another federal health agency has been spending millions of dollars to study such topics as whether teenagers who carry firearms run a different risk of getting shot compared with suffering other sorts of injuries. [More]

Gee, and the previous funding cut-off was not a well-justified political response to this?

And Dr. Mark Rosenberg, Director of the CDC's National Center for Injury Control and Prevention (NCIPC) in 1994 told The Washington Post: "We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes. Now it [sic] is dirty, deadly, and banned."

So once we repel the vampire, we should invite him back in?

We know what's going to happen--they're going to lump criminal gangbangers in with the good kids and make it seem like a toxic environment for all. The corrupt and miserable results of neoMarxist policies will not only escape analysis, the solution we'll see proposed will be to expand them. And, of course, disarm you and me.

[Via JPR9]

Little Green Noballs

I'll let Vanderboegh tell you about them. [More]

LA Times Gun Show Editorial Defies Reality as It Urges More Restrictions

Oh, but "None of these measures would restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens," they say, bearing in mind that Times editorial mantra has historically been that citizens have no individual 2nd Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms. Yep, everyone will have total freedom of movement within the confines of their straitjacket. And besides, only "the lunatic fringe that believes the ATF to be a Gestapo-like arm of a repressive government would loudly object." [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column recognizes shows how the modern Gestapo can always count on their allies in the propaganda ministry.

Also learn of a conflict in Oregon and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

Tell a friend?

This Day in History: October 19

Capt. Crump of the 1st. Virginia regiment charged with "Cowardice," is found guilty, and sentenced to be cashiered, and his name, place of abode, and his punishment, published in the Newspapers of the particular state he came from, or in which he usually resides. After which, it shall be deemed scandalous, for any officer to associate with him. [More]

Hollywood Anti-Gun Hypocrisy Not New

When it comes to guns, Hollywood suffers from a self-imposed dissociative identity disorder. On the one hand, we have stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger making fabulous careers for themselves portraying heroes who solve problems using guns as tools to fight evil, and on the other hand, we have politicians like Arnold Schwarzenegger signing edicts that infringe on the ability of his audience and constituents to do just that.

This isn't new. Here's an example from half a century ago. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks through a window to the past.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

Tell a friend?

This Day in History: October 18

The General has his happiness completed relative to the successes of our northern Army. On the 14th. instant, General Burgoyne, and his whole Army, surrendered themselves prisoners of war. Let every face brighten, and every heart expand with grateful Joy and praise to the supreme disposer of all events, who has granted us this signal success. [More]

We're the Only Ones Resourceful Enough

An altercation between a South Carolina high school student and a school resource officer ended tragically Friday with the student dead of a gunshot wound and the officer hospitalized after being stabbed. [More]

Assuming it was a righteous DGU, it still leaves the question of how anyone else on school grounds not an "Only One" would have been able to defend themselves against a knife attack--seeing as how the most effective "resource" is legally denied them.

One thing we can be sure of: this will be tallied as "another child gun death."

We're the Only Ones Posing Enough

The Chicago Police Department is investigating several of its officers accused of forcing a college student they arrested during last month's G-20 summit in Pittsburgh to pose for a group photo with them. [More]

And while any number of sites can link you to the video, only WarOnGuns brings you this exclusive still photo of these "Only Ones" posing with their trophies:


The punch line?

"The Chicago Police Department does not tolerate misconduct by any of its members, regardless of where it might occur."

Comedy gold!

Forget it, Jake, it's ChiTown. Even when we bring it with us to Philadelphia.

[Via Texas Shooter]

We're the Only Ones Breaking the Rules Enough

He warned the state that under the Code of Federal Rules enforced by the U.S. Justice Department, these actions could result in a $10,000 fine for each violation and the state could potentially lose access to the use NICS system. [More]

I say demand it. For each and every time one of these professional law enforcers has committed a violation.

Unless the Justice Department is also willing to turn a blind eye to one of us non-"Only Ones" violating federal gun "rules."

Why don't we ask Mr. Olofson?

[Via retrotruckman]

None of These Measures

None of these measures would restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens...[More]

We're Los Angeles Times editors. We don't know the meaning of the phrase "shall not be infringed."

Or maybe they really do, and they're just subversive agenda-driven liars...?

[Via retrotruckman]

Stop!

And while Mike H does talk about...uh...a collectivist compulsion, I don't think his command is issued "in the name of love." [More]

Darren Yancy Changes Races, Clarifies Gun Rights Answers

When we first met Darren Yancy, he was running for the 17th Texas Congressional District seat where he distinguished himself from his rivals by actually providing specific answers to the gun rights questionnaire. Still, some readers indicated dissatisfaction with two of his answers, specifically in regards to open carry and registration. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column does two things: It changes my mind from being neutral on this individual to believing he is a good candidate. But also, importantly, it shows how some candidates are recognizing the importance of making sure they clearly state their case for the right to keep and bear arms.

Have you sent any candidates the questionnaire, asked them for unequivocal responses and let them know you were going to share the results?

And will you tell a friend?

This Day in History: October 17

October 17, 1777 - Gen. Burgoyne and his entire army of 5700 men surrender to the Americans led by Gen. Gates. The British are then marched to Boston, placed on ships and sent back to England after swearing not serve again in the war against America. News of the American victory at Saratoga soon travels to Europe and boosts support of the American cause. In Paris the victory is celebrated as if it had been a French victory. Ben Franklin is received by the French Royal Court. France then recognizes the independence of America. [More]

Meanwhile, Over in Boss Daley Paradise

Why Did 1 Of 8 Girls Get Pregnant At Robeson High?

Officials Say A Mix Of Factors Are To Blame, As They Try To Help The Young Women [More]

Sounds like one of the solutions is to disarm you and me.

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

We're the Only Ones Getting Sued Enough

Now Arambula, 35, who survived but faces a lifetime of pain, is suing the city of Phoenix and the officers who responded to his house that night. [More]

We talked about this here and here.

You remember--the "Only One" who did no wrong...?

[Via BikerBen4]