But don't take my word for it--take his. [More]
And no, of course I don't mean it--but you have no idea how good that felt, especially since he routinely makes fun of me in front of the other GREs in our group emails...and I never deserve it.
Monday, December 28, 2009
No S***, Sherlock
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watchlist with a U.S. visa in his pocket and a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a fight from Amsterdam to Detroit. [More]Those are some powers of observation you're displaying there, J-No.
Meanwhile, some want to use those "watchlists" for this...
More Orwellian "logic"--we know what the Founders considered necessary to the security of a free state. It figures those bent on subversion are committed to destroying that.
[Via David C]
Look Who's Back
Kurt had internet connectivity issues and some other stuff goin' on involving supermodels and his Examiner millions, so he hasn't been posting of late.
He's back.
He's back.
New Year's Gun Rights Resolution: Get Formal Training
A few years back, I interviewed a former Navy SEAL, a man who is an expert’s expert, providing weapons and tactics training to elite military fighting personnel, civilian law enforcement tactical specialists, and security professionals. With candor typical of true professionals, he admits up front that "our staff does not know it all, nor have we ‘arrived’. We are in a constant state of learning and consider ourselves perpetual students." [More]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
New Year's gun rights resolution: Don't spread unverified internet rumors
What Chicago Needs is More Gun Control
Records show he was paroled in November 2008 from prison, where he had been held since 1985 for a murder a year before. He also was convicted in 2001 and 2005 of aggravated battery of a peace officer.
In the earlier incident, he assaulted at least two prison guards at Pinckneyville Correctional Center who tried to get him to remove personal property from his cell. Officials at the time said Cration had "an extensive history of violence, including ten staff assaults and one inmate assault along with five 'dangerous disturbances,' " according to an Associated Press story. [More]
So what could be more natural than to release this beast into the enforced victim disarmament zone that is Tim-Tom Paradise? Notice how the laws stopped him from getting a gun?
You didn't?
Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.
[Via An Illinois Voter from Second City Cop]
We're the Only Ones Walled Off Enough
California laws strengthened wall of silence around officers...You know, "Only Ones," exempt from public oversight and repercussions.
The mandates – the most stringent in the nation -- have given troubled officers special privileges that make it harder to get rid of them and nearly impossible for the public to learn whether they've been adequately disciplined. [More]
What could go wrong? Aside from making some drunk with power, oblivious to repercussions and the potential of walls to block both sides...
More Amontillado...?
[Via Harvey]
Newspeak/English Dictionary: "Progressive"
But as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime. [More]All these centuries of progress, to fight to survive and perpetuate, and we finally get to the point where the physically weak aren't necessarily prey for the physically strong. Then math teacher Doug here figures out the equation for setting things back to stone age conditions. And he calls that "progressive."
One thing is for certain--if this contemptible wretch won't protect his own children, you can be certain he won't protect yours. Why would you entrust them to such a defective specimen?
He'd rather his kid were dead than to allow reality to intrude on his precious belief system. If there's a better definition for "fanatic," I haven't seen it. Except we're using Newspeak now, aren't we?
The fanatics are the ones who disagree with him.
UPDATE: After reading this, my opinion is that I failed to see the satire.
[Via Brian F]
Don't Rely on 'Mainstream Press' to Determine Candidate Positions on Guns
That they feel they need to put up a false front on guns is in itself remarkable, but this story also raises a larger concern: the shallowness of "authorized journalists" when it comes to reporting on gun issues. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows how lack of depth in reporting can lead to false conclusions. And how anti-gun politicians can capitalize on that.
It's almost like it's intentional or something...
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This Day in History: December 28
As the Season advances in which bad weather and broken Roads will render the transporting provision from any distance, for the most part subject to considerable delay, and sometimes impracticable. It becomes indispensibly necessary to form with all possible expedition ample Magazines for our Winter Supply contiguous to the Rear of the Camp, and to embrace every favourable Opportunity of keeping them furnished. They ought never to have less than thirty days provision in them. [More]
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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.
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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]
Saturday, December 26, 2009
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.
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]
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas!
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
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