This Day in History: August 9

August 9, 1778 - American Army moves onto Aquidneck Island [More]

Violence Policy Center exploits CT shootings to attack guns and gun owners

Can we afford not to close the Sugarmann Shrinking Grant Loophole? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the motivation and character behind the latest blood dance.

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This Day in History: August 7

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We're the Only Ones "Is This Some Kind of Bust?" Enough

A Lake County mother was arrested at a children’s splash park after her white shirt got wet...She took her 7-year-old son to cool off, but before the day was done she found herself behind bars, facing an arrest record for obstruction of justice and resisting arrest without violence....The police report indicates Lovett didn't give her name fast enough. [More]

Then it sounds like she got just what she deserved, doesn't it?

Besides:

The police chief told WFTV his officers operated within policy that day.

Of course they did.

A Deadly Game

Monopoly. [Read]

At least the way Josh Horwitz plays it.

Forget the top hat, iron, dog, racer, etc.

I'll take one of these:
His turn.

We're the Only Ones Increasing Your Bars Enough

Greenfield said she was arrested—and spent the weekend of July 9 in the Delaware County jail—for videotaping a police encounter with Burke that day...The phone, according to Burke, could have been concealing a dangerous weapon—a cell phone gun, or stun gun. [More]

And we all know what a menace those can be, ever since the Great Cell Phone Gun Pandemic began...

While I was at the KY shoot, I was introduced to a great new product for recording that, if applied to camera-shy "Only Ones," could reduce the chances of being detected, followed with being harassed, assaulted, taken hostage and having your chronicle of abuse under color of authoritah deleted:

Pretty cool, eh?

Being me, I don't grok tech, but I understand there's a capability to hook something like this up to feed into the Internet so that badged evidence tamperers can't erase it. If one of you smart young guys can explain things slowly, I'll break out my Martian/English dictionary and see if I can follow along...

[Via Chris C]

A Leadership Vacuum

Lotta yucky stuff in there.

Vanderboegh empties its filter.

Eeewww!

UPDATE: If you ever wondered what Kabuki would look like if performed with a canister vacuum...

Lawmakers split on Second Amendment

GUNS Magazine makes a practice of posting its issues from half a century ago, giving us a great window into a past some of us are old enough to remember. A free download of the August 1960 issue is now online. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes that being a foul subversive is hardly a new phenomenon.

Also link up to a dissection of a latter day lie.

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This Day in History: August 6

August 6, 1778 M. Gerard, minister from France to America, received in Congress. [More]

GRE Round Up for August 5

Here's the latest from my Gun Rights Examiner colleagues:

Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:

Shelby County considers illegal firearms ban

Following in the footsteps of West Burlington and Hancock County, Shelby County is reported to be considering a ban on firearms in the courthouse and...Keep Reading »

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

Belle Meade police chief confused about gun laws?

The Knoxville News-Sentinel and the Tennessean reported this week that Leonard Embody has sued the State of...Keep Reading »

Dave Workman/Seattle:

‘Go to the mat against Kagan’

Not that it will matter much in the final analysis, because the Evergreen State’s two liberal Democrat...Keep Reading »

I do hope you realize the importance of sharing these links and show these guys your support by doing so...?

While you're at it, be sure and check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Jesse Matthewson/Cochise County Libertarian
  
• Kent McManigal/Albuquerque Libertarian
• Anthony Martin/Conservative

We're the Only Ones Ejected from the Game Enough

A Nebraska judge lost his seat on the bench for using his position to help his daughter's softball team. [More]

Kind'a makes you wonder what we'd find if we looked at his career stats, doesn't it?

[Via Carl S]

Seal of Disapproval

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn't remove the FBI's seal from its site. [More]

I see.
We'll see if this prompts another WarOnGuns Bite-Me-Gram.

I trust they'll also go after these guys...?

[Via Ed M and Harvey]

An Obvious Solution

Intruders gunned down in 2 Alexandria-area home invasions, police report[More]

Then it's pretty clear we need to do away with "Stand Your Ground" and other barbaric practices, don't you think? I mean, we don't want to be like "the Wild West" and help all those "bad guys," do we?

[Via retrotruckman]

Don't Like Tyranny? Tough

You have no right to rebel against it.

Wheaton College Philosophy professor Stephen Mathis said it, I believe it, that settles it.

Don't you?

No?

Unclear on the Concept

A man attending a block party as part of the National Night Out anti-crime initiative was shot and killed in Paterson, N.J. [More]

I hate it
when
that happens.

Funny, though.

I was perfectly safe both here and here.

You don't suppose maybe..just maybe...it's not the guns?

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

"Like the Wild West"

Bad guys are helped [More]

Maybe once in a while they will be.

What the hell does that have to do with my right to be the one who determines when defending myself is appropriate?

Signing Off

I was just informed that Kevin Wilmeth has. So I guess I need to take his link out of my sidebar and "Round Up" announcements.

Several of the GREs have stopped writing as well.

It's the reason I ask readers to share their links when I do my "GRE Round Ups," and also for my own column announcements. Based on results, that is not a realistic expectation.

I don't know what the answer is. "We" complain about bias in the media, but when presented with viable alternatives to counter it, most will go on about their day.

Forget me. If you don't like my stuff, fine. Most will not, including many in the "gun community," and I'm used to that. But we have some real accomplished pros, like senior Gun Week editor Dave Workman, and authors like John Longenecker and Howard Nemerov (who has since moved on to Pajamas Media)...

I hope we see Kevin emerge in a better-rewarded (and supported) venue.

[Via Mama Liberty]

An Undirected Outburst

Vanderboegh observes some whiny folks who didn't get the memo. [Read]

Lovely Young Women

"Caroline is a lovely young woman," her attorney, Michael Bachner, said in a statement. [More]

She sounds lovely. It figures she's an outspoken Obama supporter. He thinks what belongs to others is his to take and use as he sees fit, too.

Police arrested 24-year-old Melodie Brevard of Southeast. She is charged with assault with intent to kill. [More]

And of course, in Washington DC, the only way to stop such a lovely, knife-wielding young woman is by risking your own life and tackling her. I wonder if her almost certainly "liberal" NPR intern victim learned anything about the price of defenselessness?

Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette [More]

Hmmm...

Should bankrupted people 'under stress' be disarmed?

To prove how dangerous "allowing" such people to keep guns is, they've accumulated three tragic incidents over the past six years, and offer a seemingly authoritative pronouncement...[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a morally bankrupted editorial.

Also watch my Rand Paul interview.

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