New Year's Gun Rights Resolution: Don't Spread Unverified Internet Rumors

It's tough enough getting gun owners to respond to real threats or opportunities without frivolously mobilizing and alarming them, wasting everybody's time and energy on distortions and non-issues. [More]

Here's today's offering. It's one of my pet peeves.

Suggested resolutions posted to date:

New Year's gun rights resolution: Attend an Appleseed
New Year's gun rights resolution: Know your representatives
New Year's gun rights resolution: Write letters to the editor
New Year's gun rights resolution: Join a gun rights group
New Year's gun rights resolution: Send a politician the gun rights questionnaire
New Year's gun rights resolution: Build a guns and liberty video collection
New Year's gun rights resolution: Take a new person shooting
New Year's gun rights resolution: Read Second Amendment books
New Year's gun rights resolution: Shoot a machine gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Support legal efforts to defend 2nd Amendment
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spread the word on Gun Rights Examiner
New Year's gun rights resolution: Go to a gun show
New Year's gun rights resolution: Boycott an anti-gun company
New Year's gun rights resolution: Buy a gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spend time with your loved ones
New Year's gun rights resolution: Teach your children about guns

Will NRA Update Help Iowa Concealed Carry Bill Pass?

Yeah, only when Bizarro government is involved do the hirelings presume to tell their employers what to do. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an attempt to make a bill more palatable--but the real story is about those who presume authority to have a say in the matter.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: December 27

The Articles of Shoes, Stockings and Blankets demand the most particular attention, as the expenditure of them from the Operations and Common accidents of War we find robe greater than Articles of any others. I assure you, Sir, it is not easy to give you a just and accurate Idea of the Sufferings of the Troops at large. Were they to be minutely detailed, the relation so unexpected, so contrary to the common opinion of people distant from the Army, would scarcely be thought credible. I fear I shall wound your feelings by telling you that by a Field return on the 23d. Instant, we had in Camp not less than 2898 Men unfit for duty by reason of their being barefoot and otherwise naked; Besides these, there are many others detained at the Hospitals and in Farmers Houses for the same causes. [More]

Little Boxes

But in the meantime, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fired off the best line of all, noting archly that each year about 30,000 Americans are already securely locked away in human-size boxes, thanks to guns. [More]

Oh, yeah. Ha ha. Good one, Brady and LA Times. Now fire off one about the victims of human disarmament who don't get boxes. They just get shoved into shallow mass graves, thanks to that monopoly of force you degenerates so wish for other men to enforce on your behalf.

Related: Obama signs bill mandating gun OWNERS to be locked up in boxes on trains

Yes, I Know

My Christmas post is not directing to the right Examiner page. So far, I've seen it route people to the Easy Meals Examiner, the Baltimore Sports Examiner and the San Francisco Christian Examiner. I keep republishing it to make it link to the Gun Rights Examiner "Have a Merry Christmas!" post and get it to work for a while before screwing up again.

It looks like the right url, but the wrong page is displayed. Tech support is working on it.

Let me know if it works for you? I have a comment poster I wanted to call attention to, and it's frustrating not to be able to do that.

You'll know him when you see him.

New Year's Gun Rights Resolution: Teach Your Children About Guns

I will give my children a development-appropriate education about guns. [More]

Here's today's resolution.

Suggested resolutions posted to date:

New Year's gun rights resolution: Attend an Appleseed
New Year's gun rights resolution: Know your representatives
New Year's gun rights resolution: Write letters to the editor
New Year's gun rights resolution: Join a gun rights group
New Year's gun rights resolution: Send a politician the gun rights questionnaire
New Year's gun rights resolution: Build a guns and liberty video collection
New Year's gun rights resolution: Take a new person shooting
New Year's gun rights resolution: Read Second Amendment books
New Year's gun rights resolution: Shoot a machine gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Support legal efforts to defend 2nd Amendment
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spread the word on Gun Rights Examiner
New Year's gun rights resolution: Go to a gun show
New Year's gun rights resolution: Boycott an anti-gun company
New Year's gun rights resolution: Buy a gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spend time with your loved ones

Tennessee Gun in Park Incident Reveals a Scarier Danger

The truth is, many in the public will remain terrified of seeing someone armed who is not wearing a uniform. It does not matter if you are nicely dressed or if your gun is more conventional-looking--whatever that means. In much of the Republic, hoplophobia runs strong. That you have a gun and are not a cop is enough for some. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column maintains society may be scared of the wrong people.

Also listen to one last Christmas carol, and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: December 26

...2nd. That no non-commissioned officer, or soldier, have with him, arms of any kind, unless he is on duty.

3rd. That every non-commissioned officer, or soldier, caught without the limits of the camp, not having such pass, or with his arms, shall be confined and severely punished...[More]

Merry Christmas!

Two GRE columns:

Merry Christmas!

and

New Year's gun rights resolution: Spend time with your loved ones

That's what I'll be doing today. I hope you will have that blessing, too.

New Year's Gun Rights Resolution: Buy a Gun

Only one? [More]

Here's today's suggested resolution.

Suggested resolutions posted to date:

New Year's gun rights resolution: Attend an Appleseed
New Year's gun rights resolution: Know your representatives
New Year's gun rights resolution: Write letters to the editor
New Year's gun rights resolution: Join a gun rights group
New Year's gun rights resolution: Send a politician the gun rights questionnaire
New Year's gun rights resolution: Build a guns and liberty video collection
New Year's gun rights resolution: Take a new person shooting
New Year's gun rights resolution: Read Second Amendment books
New Year's gun rights resolution: Shoot a machine gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Support legal efforts to defend 2nd Amendment
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spread the word on Gun Rights Examiner
New Year's gun rights resolution: Go to a gun show
New Year's gun rights resolution: Boycott an anti-gun company

An Answer for John Cornyn

No. [More]

That traitor, Mike Castle, can go to hell. So can anyone who supports him.

Oh, but then we'll lose all our rights!!!

Bring it on.

And I like the way The Hill expects us to buy into a damn statist quisling being "centrist."

UPDATE: More, from Tyranny Unleashed.

[Via Mack H]

Anybody Tell the Wonderful People Who Make Us Take Our Shoes Off?

State police, federal authorities and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday announced the arrests of 12 illegal immigrants who allegedly used fake documents to get jobs at a warehouse business at Stewart International Airport that gave them access to airport operations areas. [More]

Security--as only government can provide it. Can't you just wait for them to take that "No Fly List" and use it to keep you and me from (legally) buying guns?

[Via Harvey]

Disproving a Long-Running Theory

Pro-gun groups jumped at the FBI report, saying it disproves a long-running theory posited by gun-control groups and many in the mainstream media that gun ownership spawns crime and violence. “Anti-gunners have lost another one of their baseless arguments,” Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, told the Examiner's Dave Workman. [More]

Dave gets press for this.

I'm glad to see some in the media noticing. Most will not.

I will take exception to elevating the anti's superstitious nonsense to the level of being a "theory," at least in the sense of the term as implied here.

"Lie" would be a more appropriate word.

More on INTERPOL

We discussed it yesterday.

National Review Online has more from a former prosecutor, who opines:

You just can't make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.

UPDATE: A counterpoint, via Mack H.

[Via Michael G]

Outdoor Life's Top Conservationist

Dave Hardy asks us to take a poll. [More]

Wytheville Post Office Standoff Proves Once Again Gun Bans Don't Stop Criminals

Note the prohibition on guns had absolutely no effect on the bad guy. Just like it had no effect at Columbine, or Virginia Tech or... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at another inconvenient truth being ignored by the "authorized journalists"...

Also share a visit with yet another Christmas spirit, and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: December 24

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New Year's Gun Rights Resolution: Boycott an Anti-gun Company

We have every right not to patronize a concern that gives aid and comfort to our enemies--which, face it, is what those who would rob us of our rights under force of state arms are. [More]

Today's resolution suggestion recommends not feeding a beast intent on devouring us.

Suggested resolutions posted to date:

New Year's gun rights resolution: Attend an Appleseed
New Year's gun rights resolution: Know your representatives
New Year's gun rights resolution: Write letters to the editor
New Year's gun rights resolution: Join a gun rights group
New Year's gun rights resolution: Send a politician the gun rights questionnaire
New Year's gun rights resolution: Build a guns and liberty video collection
New Year's gun rights resolution: Take a new person shooting
New Year's gun rights resolution: Read Second Amendment books
New Year's gun rights resolution: Shoot a machine gun
New Year's gun rights resolution: Support legal efforts to defend 2nd Amendment
New Year's gun rights resolution: Spread the word on Gun Rights Examiner
New Year's gun rights resolution: Go to a gun show

About that INTERPOL EO...

A couple of you have asked me about a new Executive Order where Obama is amending a prior EO for INTERPOL. They're discussing it over at Georgia Packing, among other places. I've been asked for my thoughts, so here's my response:

Well, first off I went to the WH site and confirmed it was real.

I'd need somebody who knows how to navigate that stuff explain it to me. It looks like the quoted language in his new EO does not exactly match what is in the '83 EO. And I don't see those subsections repro'd in the USC quote--which would mean somebody--not me--full plate and all--is going to need to analyze the original...

You can find the relevant sections here:
http://www.ipu.org/finance-e/PL79-291.pdf

This ain't the kind of stuff that's my niche--it makes my head hurt and I'm just as clueless as the next guy. if I had to guess, it looks like Reagan took away some immunities for the dang furriners and Obama's restoring them. But you really need someone who is credible with diplomatic law, and I hardly qualify.

If anyone who knows how to wade through this stuff without developing an overpowering urge to slam your forehead into cinderblocks, please educate the rest of us--using very small words.

UPDATE: Correspondent Harvey sends this link. I do not know anything about this website or the writer, but thought I'd pass it on so people who understand such things can let us know if it's an accurate interpretation.

We're the Only Ones Coaching Enough

Police allege that karate-coach cop sexually abused girl, from age 12, for 8 years [More]

Oh, no! Not the "Only One of the Week"!! (I digress, but that makes me think of Carl's Stone Cold Lock of the Century--Of the Week.)

And again with the Eternal Question...

[Via Harvey]