Who Needs Zeros...

...when all you need to close things down at a harbor is an M-80? [Read]

If the antis act as they typically do, we'll see this used to go after the tame "Safe and Sane" fountains and the like that some California cities allow over Independence Day...over the hysterical objections of twitchy, tight-@$$ed anti-freedom zealots.

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones with a Vindictive Underbelly Enough

His description of being taken in handcuffs to a psychiatric ward that night suggests the nation's largest police force could have a vindictive underbelly. He claims that cops risk retribution when they try, as he did, to blow the whistle on supervisors' faking of crime statistics to make the stats look better. [More]

Now that can't be true--as I understand it, it's always only "a few bad apples." Especially in Furious Mike Paradise.

[Via Kevin S]

Should you have a legal duty to retreat from an intruder or attacker?

Over four times more representatives than the hissy-fitters can muster assess that's what their constituents want. And it's the mean old NRA's fault. Bitterly clinging to our prohibitions and controls, are we?


Still, the prize for clueless on this one goes to the astoundingly misnamed Patriot-News Editorial Board...[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes those who attack our rights would rather we withdraw than fight.

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This Day in History: October 11

Washington was aware of that shortcoming and from his headquarters in Fredericksburg (Patterson, New York) he had the following order issued to the army on October 11, 1778...[More]

Will posting comments here put YOU on the government's watch list?

And now a tangentially-related development has been forwarded to me by a source I am keeping anonymous per request. The Kansas City Regional TEW Inter-Agency Analysis Center has prepared an "Intelligence Brief" for law enforcement based on Mike Vanderboegh's in-development novel, "Absolved." [More]

I was planning on doing just one post today on Gun Rights Examiner about the old GUNS Magazine issue, and then taking this beautiful Fall day off--but then a document fell in my lap that involves this website, Mike Vanderboegh's novel "Absolved," my GRE column, and those of you who comment here, there and in similar venues. Tie this all together with the father in New Hampshire whose tenuous Oath Keepers affiliation was exploited by child protective services, along with the merger of DHS with SPLC, and we have a convergence I could not ignore.

All this and giant pink pigs.

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Most Congressmen in monthly survey fail on Second Amendment

Most of the politicians surveyed showed similar difficulty understanding the concept of "shall not be infringed." Some thought registration might be a solution against juvenile delinquency.  Others thought "well regulated" applied to "the right of the people" as opposed to a standard of practiced militia discipline. Some engaged in the type of weasel-wording many of us nowadays are all too familiar with, assuring everyone they supported the right to keep and bear arms out of one side of their mouths, then showing them what big "buts" they had out of the other. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes the sorry mess we find ourselves in today has been some time in the making. 

Read the October 1960 issue of GUNS Magazine.

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What do Balinese dogs have to do with 'gun control'?

Aside from humans falling victims to rabid dogs, and to Sea Dogs engaged in rampant piracy throughout the region, we can also observe, not unexpectedly for those of us who warn against "monopolies of violence," tyrannical government abuse of its exclusive franchise. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at what happens when human beings are afforded the rights of dogs.

Also get the benefit of Neal Knox's experience and maybe win a cool gun.

The December 2010 issue of GUNS Magazine, including my "Rights Watch" column and review of "The Gun Rights War," is now online, in mailboxes and at newsstands throughout the Republic.

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The Four Letters of Self-Defense

In the video the four D's of self defense gun fights are explained. When confronting the bad guy:
Divide his focus.
Disrupt his plan.
Disable his body.
Destroy his will to fight. [More]

I have a similar strategy that also uses four letters, FUHU, with the last three words being:

Up
His
Universe.

No one sane wants a fight, but if one is forced on you, remember:

CUM ULLA SELLA IN PUGNO TABERNA

And it ain't over 'til you say it's over.

We're the Only Ones on a Spree Enough

A 37-year-old Lynwood police officer on medical leave has been arrested in connection with the two-state shooting spree that left one man dead and two others wounded. [More]

Brought to you by "Only Ones" Paradise!
UPDATE: Shooting-spree charges dropped against police officer

The Unarmed Citizen

Levo was stabbed and sliced to death by two young males who he confronted after he caught them burglarizing vehicles in his apartment complex's parking lot, Pinellas Park police said. [More]

Evidently not the best way to handle things...

[Via Ed M]

Yes, I Know

I've been in touch with Stewart. He's looking into it.

For now, I think the best thing to do is let him establish what the facts are.

Request for Comment

Vanderboegh asks politely but firmly. [Read]

He adds a whole new dimension to this.

We're the Only Ones Dirty Enough

The biggest police corruption probe in the 102-year history of the FBI snared more than 130 people Wednesday in Puerto Rico. The bulk of them were law enforcement officers accused of providing security to drug traffickers. [More]

You know, "just a few bad apples"...

[Via Harvey]

Heroes

WRSA has a nominee and asks us to add our voices. [Read]

We're the Only Ones Absolved Enough

Police Raid Wrong Home, Scare Elderly Couple [More]

And naturally:

They left a copy of the warrant, but he absolved himself of any responsibility for the raid or the damage," he told the Tribune.

Interesting word choice there...

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

We're the Only Ones Losing It Enough

The police officer at a South Carolina high school has been suspended after he lost his gun at school. [More]

I like how they're offering "amnesty" for whoever turns it in.

Reminds me of the story of the old man and the talking frog...

[Via FFFW]

Opposite Day Redux

The "Authorized Journalists" can endorse NRA-"A"-rated Sharron Angle, but the NRA can't.

Even though she's so close their nod could put her over the top. They won't.

Opposite Day

[T]here is "significant evidence that some security contractors even work against our own coalition forces, creating the very threat that they are hired to combat." [More]

Imagine that!

Intruder Alert

Sorry, but if an intruder is in my home at 3:30 a.m., I have no way of knowing his intent and am under no obligation to give him a chance to carry it out. [Read]

Looks like another case of opening his yap because he thinks if only he can explain his side of things, the authorities will understand...

A Red's in Progress?

Gun City in Nashville loses court battle, could lose license over paperwork [More]

It's not like we haven't seen that before...