Thank You, Donald Kaul

What a great service you have done by taking off the mask and showing us the end game. [Read]

New Year’s resolutions can promote gun owner activism and freedom

[M]uch of the current mess we find ourselves in -- from a renewed anti-gunner feeding frenzy demanding new edicts and bans, to the shortages we see enabling prices in some quarters to rise through the roof -- can be attributed, at least in part, to gun owner detachment, apathy, and unwillingness to personally share in the burdens of gun rights activism. That’s a shame, because it really doesn’t require a lot of effort to get and stay engaged, and the personal rewards and friendships made can be invaluable. [More] 

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column is accompanied by a picture that we have the ability to change. Happy New Year? A lot of that depends on us.

Supply and Demand

I've been told in comments to yesterday's column to get a clue about it, and that there's no such thing as price gouging in a free market.

I guess the clue I've been missing is that we have a free market -- for guns or anything. Even the black market is subject to artificial disruptions by those who will brook no competition to the established order, which ensures the bosses get their taste.

In the midst of all the frenzy, it's nice to see principled businesses show us that leadership is best exhibited through personal conduct. I know nothing about Daniel Defense except what I read in this story. What it tells me is they are a company we all should learn more about and measure their competitors against.

Digging In

“We are not going to back down. We are not going to give in. And we are not going to concede one more inch,” said Jeff Knox, the executive director of the coalition. [More]

As long as digging in is to secure the beachhead from which to launch the liberation...

Ring in the Old

NBC decided the proper way to ring in the new year was with a tribute to globalism by replaying Beyonce's "World Humanitarian Day" video shortly after midnight.

Soviet propaganda poster designers had nothing on these people. The priestess stands before the altar, and the cosmic imagery-saturated video shows rapturous audience members writhing in worshipful ecstasy as surely as if they were handling snakes, while their gods dispense salvation against calamity.

We've seen such celebrity-driven worship services before.

Beyonce, of course, is one of those demanding a plan.

Along with other "humanitarians."

This Day in History: January 1

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Armed American Radio ‘Round Table’ addresses price-gouging on guns and more

Had the majority of gun owners spent the last several years ponying up tens of dollars toward memberships or supporting special projects, they would not now be faced with the prospect of spending extra hundreds or more, assuming the racks, counters and shelves haven’t already been emptied of all the good stuff. [More] 

Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes there's plenty of blame to go around for today's higher prices.

Projecting Cartoons

Mike explains what they're doing and why. [Read]

The Few, The Proud

In my 8 years of service I could probably count on one hand the number of people that I met who would forcibly disarm the American public. The vast majority of American service members that I know and that I served with recognize that the Constitution is what we pledge to obey. [More] 

I hope you're right, Marine. Great letter, by the way.

No Foolin'

Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear. [More]

[Via several of you]

Dangerous Insurrectionists

Dang! Where are the Threepers? [Read]

Additions to the WoGroll

Welcome:

• Texas Gun Talk 
• Unlimited Hunter

It's Not About the Money?

Well of course it is, but that's OK if it has the effect of establishing liability. [Read]

I'd like to find out if a credible legal argument could be made that because attendance is compulsory, a special relationship, and thus a duty to protect exists.

[Via William T]

Resistance

It can take many forms. [Read]

We'll be the ones who'll decide when it's futile, and for whom.

Meanwhile, Over in Furious Mike Paradise

Beware: 11,000 psychotics on streets [More]

Considering the promised response to lifting a finger, that sounds like a lowball estimate to me...

[Via bondmen]

A Professor of Constitutional Law

I've seen somebody else called that, too. [Read]

I wonder how subversive academics are going to fare if the hive insects get their way and start something that meets with resistance?

UPDATE: An NC Gun Blog anticipates if the professor gets his way, some of us will be donning black masks.

A-yup.

What You'll See in the Rebellion

Bob Owens' crystal ball is probably about as tuned in as anyone's. [Read]

This really is a good summary of potentialities. If it happens, I guess those of us who have already publicly chosen sides will find out if we bet on the right team.

Escalation

Journal News To List More Gun Permit Holders After Uproar [More]

If the Journal News really wants to escalate like this, and if retaliatory publication of management and staff addresses has not worked, and if their intent is to expand their efforts, then it's time to do the same.

Who are their big advertisers?  They're the ones who are giving the Journal News the resources to do this, are in effect giving aid and comfort to the enemy. By default, they have become legitimate targets in this cold war the paper started, just as surely as supply convoys would be in a hot one.

Contact them and let them know if they don't cut off the funds, they will have chosen their side, and will be subject to the same tactics those they're enabling are using. Ask them if they think such publicized actions may have a deterrent effect on potential customers, and if that might give a competitive edge to rival dealerships. And don't accept the excuse that there's a contract -- by their own actions, the Journal News will have invalidated that by creating a situation that produces the exact opposite of what their advertising program promises  -- driving customers away instead of bringing them in.


That's the kind of revenue loss that could really cripple a newspaper in today's economy, and since the parent corporation Gannett is no friend and could have put the brakes on this at any time, there's no reason why this tactic shouldn't spread to all of their holdings.

Or do nothing and watch this gun owner outing spread to other newspapers, emboldened by the simple observation that they'll be allowed to get away with it by the very people they're attacking.

This Day in History: December 31

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Post-Columbine essay asks questions that still have not been answered

An essay written during the Clinton administration after the Columbine school massacre asked a series of questions about human nature and the right to life and liberty that I believe are especially valid now, in a post-Newtown anti-gun frenzy that dwarfs what I assessed back then as "dark times for defenders of the Second Amendment, probably as perilous as they have ever been." [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner offering dusts off an old effort from the past that shows some things have not changed.