Notes from the Resistance...
I just received an email that required a detailed response. Because it addresses some common concerns, I thought I might as well share it with you... [More]Today's second Gun Rights Examiner column seemed like a good place to answer a question, which, unfortunately, I couldn't really do...
Although the "special" session does not start until February, the Oregon legislature has already scheduled a "work session" on a "legislative concept" to reverse gains made in the 2009 session.Go to the OFF site to find out how, and pass their link to all your friends in Oregon.
No charges have been filed against Gill, whose father, Gerald Gill, is a lieutenant in the department’s Detective Bureau...Just a few bruised apples, right? No "Only One" wagon circling going on?
...He was yelling, ‘I’m a cop, I can kick your ass and get away with it!’ ” [More]
A former Memphis police officer pleaded guilty today to charges related to having sex with prostitutes while on duty and in uniform. [More]Actually, he was out of uniform--at least from below the belt.
Charlie Mitchener followed the law. He has trained at Front Site and with Tactical Response and continues to regularly visit the range. Yet, "In an instant, I am in handcuffs (at 61 years old, this was a first), and there were no bad guys in handcuffs with me, just the guy who thought he was doing things correctly," he writes. [More]Cowardice under color of authority endangers us all. Why would we pay for that?
Myleene Klass, the broadcaster and model, brandished a knife at youths who broke into her garden – but has been warned by police that she may have acted illegally. [More]"Contemptible" pretty much covers it.
"The investigation found that jail medical personnel had falsified a medication log to show that the detainee, a Salvadoran named Nery Romero, had been given Motrin. The fake entry was easy to detect: When the drug was supposedly administered, Mr. Romero was already dead," it says. [More]And just think--when our A-rated pal gets his way, all us prisoners will receive the same high quality "Only Ones" care.
Cycling back to terrorism, the elite planner’s response to threats like underwear bombs is to build elaborate but increasingly brittle security systems in which airline passengers are involved only as victims. The CAS response would be to arm the passengers, concentrate on fielding bomb-sniffers so cheap that hundreds of thousands of civilians can carry one, and pay bounties on dead terrorists. [More]CAS?
..."Freedom to Carry" and "Constitutional Carry" are powerful concepts that open the door to further dialog and teaching opportunities, and based on results in Vermont and Alaska are doable and capable of being expanded elsewhere. Why not find out where? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes opportunities to expand beyond permitted carry.
yesterday morning the enemy cam out with about 50 hors and 200 of there Greens, and took four men prisnirs at the Goley post—the last week I have Spent in Visiting the difrent posts I find there is a smart Tread Carrided on Between the Cuntry and the City Som officers have given general passes too there faverits to send there sarvant with what Nessecereys they please in to the City in Consequence of these passes waggans loaded with flower fouls &c. go into the City if Gentlemen do these things it will not be in my power to stop markiting nor will we be able to suppley our selves for the people Keep all they have to sper to sell it for hard money. [More]
Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan says he's shocked by the arrest of one of his officers in a string of robberies in suburban Dakota County. [More]Ah yes, one of "the few that fail."
In a move to crack down on weapons from the U.S. that are funneled to drug cartels, police in Latin America will soon be able to track American gun sales in their own language, despite privacy concerns by gun-rights advocates. [More]Oh, but don't worry:
Under U.S. law, such information is private and can be seen only by law-enforcers doing legitimate investigations.Say--under their own national laws, aren't all police (even secret ones) "law-enforcers"?
The young mother, who told police she is nursing her children, says Officer Loverde put on the blue glove, put his hand under her shirt and squeezed her breast and made a crass comment. [More]Ms. Doolittle? Your cue...
