Their loss. [Read]
Good thing for them a repeat of this would be impossible.
Wouldn't it?
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Lonely Soldier Seeks Understanding Woman. Oh, and What's Your PIN?
These "Soldiers" are NOT Soldiers, people! Even in the crappiest shithole, we still have access to money and communications! No official military address ends with a .com or a .us. [More]Nicki warns us of some lowdown Internet scammers.
She also shares some of her fun experiences outsmarting them.
I once convinced one he'd caused me to hang myself.
You Mean Their Gun Policy Is As Crappy As...
...their food? [Read]
I made the mistake of stopping at a Flying J once.
Never again, and that's before I knew about their citizen disarmament fetish.
It's time for this guy to stop offering lip service and put his money where his mouth is.
I made the mistake of stopping at a Flying J once.
Never again, and that's before I knew about their citizen disarmament fetish.
It's time for this guy to stop offering lip service and put his money where his mouth is.
Bloomberg’s New York City gun laws continue to endanger the 'law-abiding'
“Fine”? Did a government official just admit the city extorts "a sum imposed as punishment for an offense" for exercising a Constitutionally-recognized right? Or does he just personally believe gun owners need to be punished, often, and by someone who knows how? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner notes how rank hath its privileges in Furious Mike Paradise, and the rest of us be damned.
Also get in the trenches with GOA and take a powder with MSSA.
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This Day in History: October 27
I have been witness to a great and important revolution this morning, which took place while the greatest part of the world was asleep. Like many state-revolutions, its first beginnings were almost undiscernible; but the progress, though gradual, was steady, and the event decisive. A while ago darkness reigned. Had a man then dropped, for the first time, into our world, he might have thought himself banished into a hopeless dungeon. How could he expect light to rise out of such a state? And when he saw the first glimmering of dawn in the east, how could he promise himself that it was the forerunner of such a glorious sun as has since arisen! With what wonder would such a new-comer observe the bounds of his view enlarging, and the distinctness of objects increasing from one minute to another; and how well content would he be to part with the twinklings of the stars, when he had the broad day all around him in exchange! I cannot say this revolution is extraordinary, because it happens every morning; but surely it is astonishing, or rather it would be so, if man was not astonishingly stupid. [More]
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
GRE Round Up for October 26
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
- Otis McDonald endorses Bill Brady for Illinois Governor
- The REAL reason CSGV hates the right to keep and bear arms--it works
Fed Visit du Jour
I joked about starting the feature the other day. Just got two in a row (click on graphics to enlarge).
The "0" seconds is a Site Meter property--unless the visitor clicks on another internal link, they don't measure duration. Looks like two different browsers at the same time?
UPDATE: Just to have a record...
UPDATE 2: To the OIG (BCC recipients not shown)
The "0" seconds is a Site Meter property--unless the visitor clicks on another internal link, they don't measure duration. Looks like two different browsers at the same time?
UPDATE: Just to have a record...
UPDATE 2: To the OIG (BCC recipients not shown)
Don't Listen To Vanderboegh--He's Wrong!
As much as it pains me to publicly repudiate a man I've agreed with so often, I cannot let a statement he just made go unchallenged.
No, I'm pretty sure I couldn't. Do a better job, that is. [Read]
No, I'm pretty sure I couldn't. Do a better job, that is. [Read]
Mike Thomas' Big 'But'
I am establishment when it comes to guns. I support Florida's concealed-weapons law and the Stand Your Ground law. I cheered when the Supreme Court overturned the gun ban in Washington, D.C. I'll be heading for the gun range this weekend.Yeah, sure, dickhead. Throw open carriers under the bus and call them exhibitionists. What a gun rights champ you are! What an unholy spawn!
Liberals think I'm the unholy spawn of Charlton Heston and Marion Hammer.
But this is too much. [More]
I was going to take this prag fraud to task, but correspondent SamAdams1776 did a superb job and was much nicer about it than I'd be inclined. I'm using his screen name because he's active duty in Kuwait, so I imagine a Threeper in the ranks would give the brass a hemorrhage.
Greetings,I don't expect this "they make us all look bad" ivory tower sterile bee queen Thomas to learn anything from a warrior explaining reality to him. Anyone who dismisses men who "guard with jealous attention the public liberty" as "silly" is most probably an ineducable fool, who will simply be astonished into paralysis the day his illusions come crashing down on him.
Read your article from my desk in Kuwait. I am deployed here and from Florida. I am involved in the 2A rights movement, but you misunderstand the motives. You also misunderstand the process. And the history. Prior to the Jack Hagler Act in 1987, open carry was the only way in Florida except for discretionary conceal carry (local police decided whether or not to grant a CCW license.) And people DID openly carry.
Before continuing, I must comment on the "Hollywood" term gunslingers-a very yellow journalistic term to use in your article and besides, in the old west, "gunslingers" were not called that at all, they were called "shootists."
The motive is not centrally one about guns. It is about liberty and individual sovereignty-our founders intended the states to be; except for some very limited--and also carefully enumerated-powers, reserved to the Federal Government and only the Federal government, sovereign entities and individuals were largely sovereigns able to exercise any non-prohibited powers (c.f. the tenth amendment) and otherwise subject to the constitutional laws of the union and the state they lived in and the statute laws as well. Even sovereign entities are subject to the law.
The primary purpose of the Bill of Rights (BOR) is to limit government. The Preamble to the BOR says so, in fact. It does so by enumerating PRE-EXISTING rights that government must not encroach upon. And one of them is the right to keep and bear arms. Numerous writings of the founders (which I will provide to you upon request) make it clear that it is first a prophylactic measure against tyranny and second as a remedy to tyranny if the prophylactic measure fails.
Exactly what do you think it means in the Declaration of Independence when Jefferson writes:
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
He was speaking not just about events then but a truism for all times really. It is an insurrectionist philosophy.
Government SHOULD fear rebellion. They SHOULD fear the people and that is not possible if the people are estranged from arms or are disarmed-thus the real purpose of gun control is not crime control, but simply control. Let me give you an example of how different things are: When I was a boy of 8 before the Gun Control Act of 1968, the year I turned 9, There were ads in the Back of Boys' Life for Marlin and Winchester Rifles we could order (and many of us did) and have delivered by US Post to our doors. We could also order DEWATs typically for $99. You'll just have to look that up as a homework assignment. But I digress.
The right enumerated in the 2A does not say you can exercise it only if you prove to some government official that you are trained or worthy in some way; it is absolute. The right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Government is forbidden to regulate arms and this amendment, protecting a PRE-EXISTING right came in AFTER the commerce clause and thus easily supersedes it, and would be recognized as such if the judiciary itself were not corrupt and assisting the other two branches of government in their encroachment of powers.
If someone abuses that by using their right criminally or negligently (perhaps by lack of training) THEN there are consequences. In a FREE society people are FREE to act. The legal term for preventing someone from committing an undesirable act is known as "prior restraint," and although the term is used in publishing, it is equally applicable here. It is not tolerated with regard to the First Amendment and we can ill afford to tolerate it in regards to the Second.
To continue with motives and process: gun laws in the US did not spring up all at once. They likely will have to be undone piecemeal as well. Reestablishing open carry in Florida together with Shall Issue Conceal Carry is the next step toward Constitutional Carry. Only 3 states have that so far: Vermont, Alaska, and most recently Arizona, but a fourth also out west, will soon be joining the other three. But let me state this most emphatically: THE REQUIREMENT OF LICENSES TO EXERCISE ANY RIGHT IS OFFENSIVE. How would you like to have to obtain a license to exercise your first amendment rights or to vote? Hmm?
Also in our cross hairs is the most egregious and harmful law with regard to the ability to defend against tyranny, which is the obscene National Firearms Act of 1934 most recently amended by the Oxymoronically-named Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. This law closed off all new full auto sales to the public, artificially increasing the values of those weapons remaining that are transferrable.
Finally, if you REALLY want to understand us, I suggest reading Unintended Consequences by John Ross. It is now quite an expensive book and available in Hardcover only. I treasure my copy bought years ago.
v/r
Do be sure and take his poll.
An Ambitious Goal
Smith's goal is an ambitious one — to be the attorney who argues the deciding case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court about where handguns should be reasonably prohibited. [More]Go ahead.
Release the Kraken.
A Defining Issue
Michael W. Dean worked on this political ad. [Watch]
Meanwhile, even a confirmed anti-gunner sees the value of subtly pretending guns--albeit those apparently accessible to young children--are a big part of her life. [Watch]
Let the obsessive public denial continue.
Meanwhile, even a confirmed anti-gunner sees the value of subtly pretending guns--albeit those apparently accessible to young children--are a big part of her life. [Watch]
Let the obsessive public denial continue.
Good for Me But Not for Thee
This guy reminds me of the stereotypical asylum patient who dresses like Napoleon. [Read]
We're the Only Ones Not Snitching Enough
New Jersey to 'relax' gun laws?
Guess what, anti-gun and asleep-at-the-switch Garden Staters: You're on your own. You always have been. That this realization hasn't been forced on you--yet--has been more a matter of odds than anything.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at some talk about grip-loosening. Expect it to remain talk unless someone forces the issue. Whether that that someone will be the courts or a fed-up citizenry remains to be seen.
So what is New Jersey's largely pro-citizen disarmament political class doing to face a reality they can no longer keep buried? [More]
Also do something we all just love--review an insurance plan! This one's a bit different.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
GRE Round Up for October 25
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
Paul Valone/Charlotte:
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:
Paul Valone/Charlotte:
- A response from the NRA?
- Mike Easley: The smoking gun in his own words
- Flawed NRA ratings plague North Carolina races
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:
Assault Weapon Suspect Captured!
This Time, We're the Fauxnly Ones Enough Again
Jailer suspected of letting boyfriend use badge, gun and uniform in robbery [More]
This is just too bewildering...
How are we supposed to keep up?
We're not...?
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