Tuesday, November 10, 2009

MN Gubernatorial Candidate Harley Swarm Nails Gun Rights Questionnaire

Harley Swarm, Constitution Party member running for governor of Minnesota contacted me and submitted his answers to the questionnaire, and I want to share them with you. I think when you read them you'll see why... [More]
It's pretty nice when candidates approach me and volunteer answers to the questionnaire. So I wrote a second Gun Rights Examiner column today to highlight the experience.

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Ninnie Shapiro

The rifle allegedly used in the cowardly slaying of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Q. Brenton on Halloween night is not a “military-style assault rifle” as asserted in a Seattle Times report, which was subsequently used by Seattle Weekly reporter Nina Shapiro in an attempt to blister a local gun rights advocate, Alan Gottlieb. [More]
Dave Workman takes an ignorant "crusading journalist" who wants to "ban assault weapons" to task.

Perhaps she hasn't thought through the consequences of enforcement. I asked her to walk me through them.

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

A grandfather was arrested in a dawn raid and held in a police cell for six hours - for using a single swear word in front of a council official. [More]
Enquiring minds want to know who the "official" was, so that we can perhaps send him sentiments of our own--along with an invitation to do something about it.

About that "Cop Killer"...

Here's what some of my fellow Gun Rights Examiners have to say:

Howard Nemerov


Dave Workman

Kurt Hofmann

Using Fort Hood...

...as a smoking gun...

Culpability

...and an "awful moment"...

Nothing

That's the answer to Kevin Wilmeth's question.

We're the Only Ones Taking Care of Business and Working Overtime Enough

Ware claims that certain Chicago Police Officers have a history of making false arrests because they get overtime pay to attend court, "regardless of the arrests' validity." [More]
So why shouldn't they be able to kidnap you? They're not just "Only Ones," they're Chicago "Only Ones."

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

There I go denigrating instead of glorifying again.

Also see here.

[Via Michael R]

We're the Only Ones Academic Enough

An officer accidentally shot himself in the ankle at the Arizona Law Enforcement Academy Monday morning. [More]
I suppose if I pointed out that "negligently" might be a better word, or that this is yet one more example of police not being the "Only Ones" professional enough to carry guns, it would all be academic?

And I guess it's not in the public interest to know exactly who on the force represents a demonstrable danger to himself and others?

[Via AzHamMedic]

A Force of One

Mike Mataria said he hates guns, but a second apparent armed robbery at one of his convenience stores “forced” him to buy one. [More]
Actually, Mike, it's the people who hate guns who introduce force into the equation. They don't want you to have a say in the matter, and they're willing to set state enforcers on you to make it so.

As for DA Kochems saying “This owner going out and buying a gun is not helping his employees one whit,” maybe we should apply the same assertion to Mercer County employees--particularly the ones with guns who will be nowhere around just in case any store robber doesn't realize he's only supposed to ply his trade after hours. Which would make him more of a burglar than a robber...

Oh, and Mike? Get those gun lessons. Who knows, you might even find out that a key component of hate is ignorance...


[Via The Bitter Clinger]

Can Mexican Police Violence be Stopped with More U.S. Gun Laws?

Why, whatever can we do about it? As I reported last month, the Binational Task Force on the United States-Mexico Border thinks reinstituting a ban on semiautomatic firearms here in the U.S. is just the ticket. The theory is, if you restrict choices for honest, peaceable people, you'll reduce options for the corrupt and violent. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column headline demonstrates that there are, in fact, stupid questions. I ask one to show how monumentally stupid the answers some come up with truly are.

Also meet two Oregon sheriffs, watch another segment of a gun rights documentary and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: November 10

With respect to the views of the Navy Board for securing the Frigates. The situation of the Army would not admit of a compliance with them, supposing they would Answer the end. I have therefore written to the Board in the most pressing terms to have the Frigates scutled in such way, that they may be raised when it shall be necessary, and that in the mean time, they may not be liable to injury from floating ice. I see no measure so likely to secure them to us and against the Enemy's attempts. I have been extremely fearful they would have possessed and employed them with the Delaware and their [floating] Batteries on the rear of the Gallies and the Fort, while the Ships below attacked in Front. I need not point out the probable consequences of such an Event, they are too obvious. [More]
Also, in another land and another time, some people who did not have guns were cleaning up broken glass...

Monday, November 09, 2009

This Man






Go. Read.

Bend it Like Adolf

British youth: Hitler was a soccer coach [More]
Across the pond in Sarah Brady Paradise 'n all...

We're the Only Ones Unidentified Enough

Heilman’s friends, who had been in the car with him, said there was a fight and Heilman was winning, but he was backing away when Waldron pulled his gun. They said no one knew Waldron was a Le Sueur County Sheriff’s Department investigator working undercover. They said Waldron didn’t identify himself until after he shot. [More]
I don't know why the debate on charges. Sounds like it's all within acceptable "Only Ones" protocol to me...

[Via Buzz G]

Blaming the Gun Laws

Fort Hood Reminds Us: Our Gun Laws Are a National Disgrace [More]
Some times, no more rebuttal is needed than this: Bite me, Bill Mann. Useful idiot punk.

Figures he posts at a site called dcweasels.

Looks like some of the HuffPo comment posters aren't buying his line of subversive crap either.

Good. Maybe he'll cry.

[Via Michael G]

Blaming the Gun

Oh, if only he hadn't had a gun that can kill! [More]

Translation: Oh, if only you didn't have any guns!

Never missing an opportunity to dance in fresh blood, I see the Bradys are dusting off their old lies. The antis have been after the FN for some time, and the "Authorized Journalists" are either pleased to accommodate, or too ignorant to know how uninformed they are and too lazy to rectify that. I even saw on Faux News a couple days back they referred to it as 5.7 caliber, and I was wondering how much a round would weigh...

[Via Mark G]

No Questions Asked

Police were not expecting the grenade and because officers had promised "no questions asked," no one was charged.

Police asked residents in the future to call ahead if they have any unusual items such as hand grenades or mortars.
[More]
"I brought in thi...BOOM!

So in other words, these stupid gun "buybacks" actually endanger the public rather than make us safer? Of course, the same holds true for expecting people who have not had firearms training to pick up, transport and deliver guns safely. Encouraging that--without question--is tremendously dangerous and irresponsible. This, to me, is an argument we need to use more to monkeywrench these un-American little gatherings.

I also can't help but wonder how many guns were transported in an illegal manner, and whether the "no questions asked" pledge would apply if they got pulled over and had their cars searched while en route to the turn-in?

And how can local police commit that federal law won't be enforced?

[Via Cap'n Bob]

Will House Health Care Bill Create New Class of 'Prohibited Persons'?

"JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail...Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.”

If that's true, we need to look at U.S. Code, TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 44, § 922, where we find:

"(g) It shall be unlawful for any person—
(1) who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year...to...possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce." [More]
Today's second Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a consequence of PelosiCare that I don't see anyone else pointing out.

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Blitzing Wolf

And they must say, that was a very soft target. You wonder if the shooter did not choose that place in part because it was a place for so many people in it. And so many people without weapons. [More]
Yeah, you wonder.

I saw this the other day on CNN's "Situation Room" and haven't seen the video posted, but did find the transcript.

Sig Christenson blitzes Wolf with a eureka moment.