Tuesday, June 08, 2010

GRE Round Up for June 8

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Arcturus - a book review

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: An editorial against our ideology?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Personal safety, ‘vigilante justice’ and another lesson from Paladin

Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:
I do hope you realize the importance of sharing these links and show these guys your support by doing so...?

And while you're at it, be sure and check out these other liberty-oriented Examiners:

Second Chance

For those of you who missed this...

You can attend this...

Mike says he's going.

Elsie's Womanhood

John Jacob H discusses shooting to wound, and how long that literary device has been around...[Read]

To Serve Man

A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. [More]
Unless you're one of the Kanamit rulers:

Chi-Town Three.333pers

The report’s authors estimated about 1,400 black-market gun sales occurred each year in the Grand Boulevard-Washington Park neighborhood, “or about one sale per year for every 30 people living in this very high-crime neighborhood.” [More]
Me, I think Tim-Tom and Jody the Brave ought to personally go down there and round 'em all up--and stick a bayonet up the butt of anyone who objects.

[Via maxomai]

Who Ordered the McDonald's Combo?

NRA-ILA's Chris Cox has a column about the McDonald case in the July issue of Guns & Ammo. It's not online that I can find, but here's something I'm having trouble with:
This month, the Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling in the combined cases of McDonald et al. v. City of Chicago and NRA et al. v. Village of Oak Park, Illinois, challenging Chicago's and Oak Park's handgun bans...The two Illinois cases, now commonly referred to as McDonald, follow the Court's landmark 2008 Heller decision, which struck down Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds..."
Can anyone point to where the High Court accepted any case other than the McDonald case filed by the Second Amendment Foundation? Because they did not accept the NRA's case for review.

I'm trying to square the G&A claim Cox makes about "combined cases" with this:
The Federal District Court, though not combining the three cases, acknowledged that all three were substantially the same lawsuits, and accepted Gura’s case rather than allowing all three to run through the court simultaneously, which is not uncommon.
Sorry, but I've just seen too many times where credit has been an issue--and it's never been due to SAF.

And yeah, I'm aware of Paul Clement's due process argument. That still doesn't mean the cases were "combined."

Anyone have knowledge to let us know there's nothing to see here?

So What Exactly IS...

...a Freedom Outlaw? [More]
And are you one?

I also like the concept of "law pollution" and think we all ought to use it.

It's Time...

...for “In Your Face” Tactics [More]
Hopefully it's not past time...

[Via Ron W]

A Winning Strategy

Don’t let the Conservatives win on gun control [More]
Follow us and we can all lose, eh?

A New Slogan

Attorneys for Legal Community Against Violence will host a conference call with political leaders, law enforcement officials and others to brief members of the media on McDonald v. Chicago on the day the Supreme Court announces its decision. [More]
To add to Orwell's maxims, no doubt?

You know:
War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.
And now:
Losing is winning.
In a way. But hold off on any victory dance. Yes, expect a close decision that the outright ban must go. But, as with Heller, don't think for a moment that a thousand infringements won't be allowed to stand--and even move forward. And all the High Court has to do to "approve" them is not hear a challenge.

Expect LCAV to tell us all about how they plan on persisting to subvert.

Nevada's U.S. Senate Primary Features Three Gun Rights Questionnaire Respondents and One Holdout

What better race to assert ourselves than one with the potential to unseat one of the nation's most powerful politicians? And what better primary to have maximum influence on than one with a predicted low turnout? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a lever and a place to stand.

This Day in History: June 8

From the kind anxiety expressed in your letter as well as from other sources of information we discover that our enemies have filled Europe with Thrasonic accounts of victories they had never won and conquests they were fated never to make. While these accounts alarmed our friends in Europe they afforded us diversion. We have long been out of all fear for the event of the war. I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any consequence. This is the best history of the war which can be brought within the compass of a letter. [More]

Monday, June 07, 2010

GRE Round Up for June 7

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Talking across the aisle

Rob Reed/Detroit:
A Michigan House committee to hear legislation to eliminate the pistol 'purchase permit' requirement

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Forget the Republicans, they're not listening.

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Focus on SCOTUS: Chicago ruling due, Kagan nomination will heat

Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:
I do hope you realize the importance of sharing these links and show these guys your support by doing so...?

And while you're at it, be sure and check out these other liberty-oriented Examiners:

The Iron Law

Lawyers like Josh Horwitz and Casey Anderson (authors of Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea) would have you believe that the state’s monopoly on the use of force is essential to the ’survival of democracy and ordered liberty’. [More]
Except they misquote their ideological hero, Nazi-ascension-to-power enabler Max Weber, who actually called for a "monopoly of violence."

I talked a bit about that creepiness here. I have more to say, but it's in a GUNS Magazine column that hasn't been published yet, so I'll probably hold off on further comment until then.

Candid Camera

What with laws against videotaping "Only Ones" once more gaining attention, correspondent Todd reminds us of an earlier U.S. District Court decision in favor of the citizen... [Read]

An Assault Weapon

As opposed to a "patrol vehicle"...? [Read]

[Via retrotruckman]

We're the Only Ones "Joke's On YOU" Enough

Cop walks as DUI charges dropped in fatal '07 crash
'IT'S A JOKE' | Victims' families upset, but may press civil case [More]
I don't get why everyone is so surprised.

Haven't we established cops and booze have a special "Only Ones" relationship?

[Via The_Chef, who has more]

NOT "Assault Weapons"...

"Patrol rifles"... [Read]

That old black magic...

[Via Carl S who wrote them a letter about this. I'll make sure and link to it if they publish it.]

Null and Void

Unlike Judge Weinstein, I have reflexively incorporated into my jury instructions what can only be viewed as an anti-nullification charge: “You should not be concerned about the wisdom of any rule I state. Regardless of any opinion that you may have as to what the law may be or ought to be, it would violate your sworn duty to base a verdict on any view of the law other than that which I give you.” [More]
And then he goes on to tell us that doesn't work. Typical. But not surprising from the Brady talking points he cites.

Screw him. Vote your conscience and nullify the influence of judicial tyrants.

If it doesn't help secure the Blessings of Liberty, the hell with what these arrogant authoritarians say. Besides, they routinely break a more solemn oath every time they put on the black robe...

And yeah, I realize this is a year old. Unfortunately, as long as it is still "relevant," it will remain a timely reference.

[Via cycjec]

Mentally-Challenged Weiss Confused

Weis: 'Homicides continue to challenge us' [More]
Or as Yul Brynner observed in "The King and I":
Is a puzzlement.
Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.