“When I asked if I would be arrested if I continued, he told me ‘You could put it that way,’” Benedetto reported. [More]This evening’s Gun Rights Examiner Report asks why those who care nothing about the Second Amendment would be expected to revere the First.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Police forbid Connecticut gun activist from ‘soliciting’ on DESPP grounds
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Fast and Furious gun turns up after Mexican resort shootout. [More]
Looks like that Feliz Navidad wish came true...
[Via Doug Rink]
Looks like that Feliz Navidad wish came true...
[Via Doug Rink]
Bill Skretny Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It
And remember-- all the Supreme Court has to do for this to stand is...nothing. [More]
Brought to you by a "Republican" who quit the NRA because they're too extreme.
Brought to you by a "Republican" who quit the NRA because they're too extreme.
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise...
Be ready for civil war or people sorting themselves out [More]Depending on who's behind it, that's about the only thing that could get me to change my answer to "Yes."
Oath Keepers welcome New Year with free viewing of ‘Molon Labe’
“As a special holiday gift, you can screen ‘Molon Labe’ for free,” the production company Matrix Entertainment’s website announces. [More]Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report invites you to watch a free film before the offer expires.
Captain's Blog
Two new ones from Herschel:
And yeah, I suspect he may be right about that ISP pressure. I suspect that myself.
And yeah, I suspect he may be right about that ISP pressure. I suspect that myself.
We're the Only Ones Disarming Enough
We're the Only Ones Disarmed Enough
Several of you have sent me this link over the past few days and I haven't done anything with it. [More]
While such a ruling is nuts, I'm trying to get some further information on this and want to be circumspect for now.
Rather than focus on his being armed on duty, which is absolutely an "Only Ones" illustration, we ought to be concerned for why he is barred from guns off duty, because such rationales could apply to all of us.
It's why, when some of our ostensible gun rights "leaders" champion facilitating mental health prohibitions, they ought to be pressured into fleshing out all the details. Let's start with a list of psychiatrists who are willing to put their name, license and malpractice insurability on the line to certify someone once forbidden is now OK to have whatever guns and however much ammo he wants.
Because without that, it's all words.
While such a ruling is nuts, I'm trying to get some further information on this and want to be circumspect for now.
Rather than focus on his being armed on duty, which is absolutely an "Only Ones" illustration, we ought to be concerned for why he is barred from guns off duty, because such rationales could apply to all of us.
It's why, when some of our ostensible gun rights "leaders" champion facilitating mental health prohibitions, they ought to be pressured into fleshing out all the details. Let's start with a list of psychiatrists who are willing to put their name, license and malpractice insurability on the line to certify someone once forbidden is now OK to have whatever guns and however much ammo he wants.
Because without that, it's all words.
The Safety Dance
Mothers Fed Up
OK, so what different choices are you prepared to make about the way you conduct your own lives? [More]
Or do you expect the government to force me to do something about them?
Or do you expect the government to force me to do something about them?
Interesting Platform for a Sheriff
I wonder if Paul Schraeder has a chance in hell. [Watch]
Here's what people in San Bernardino are facing.
And here's his campaign website where you can learn more.
Here's what people in San Bernardino are facing.
And here's his campaign website where you can learn more.
I Know You Are, But What Am I?
Talk about a paranoid loon! [More]
Sorry, Ann, it's not a "theory." It doesn't even qualify as a "hypothesis" since it's based on your delusions rather than observations.
There's a recurring troll in comments I've seen on other sites. I won't name him because what they crave is attention and acknowledgement, but you can't miss him.
I bring it up because he inadvertently shows how modern "progressives," who consider themselves so enlightened, aren't anywhere near as savvy as their hardcore commie forebears. Note the way he constantly denigrates rural Americans and Walmart shoppers (even though he apparently shops there himself), conflating them all with hicks and KKK members.
The Bolsheviks knew they'd never have the power to take over unless they instead exalted the peasants and the workers. So we should actually be grateful for idiots like self-designated Superiorboy here, who doesn't even know enough to mask his contempt.
And we should also never lose sight of the fact that with "progressives," every day is Opposite Day. Notwithstanding what they say they're about, which is invariably and always a lie, it is we "shall not be infringed" absolutists who are the true power-sharing egalitarians.
Sorry, Ann, it's not a "theory." It doesn't even qualify as a "hypothesis" since it's based on your delusions rather than observations.
There's a recurring troll in comments I've seen on other sites. I won't name him because what they crave is attention and acknowledgement, but you can't miss him.
I bring it up because he inadvertently shows how modern "progressives," who consider themselves so enlightened, aren't anywhere near as savvy as their hardcore commie forebears. Note the way he constantly denigrates rural Americans and Walmart shoppers (even though he apparently shops there himself), conflating them all with hicks and KKK members.
The Bolsheviks knew they'd never have the power to take over unless they instead exalted the peasants and the workers. So we should actually be grateful for idiots like self-designated Superiorboy here, who doesn't even know enough to mask his contempt.
And we should also never lose sight of the fact that with "progressives," every day is Opposite Day. Notwithstanding what they say they're about, which is invariably and always a lie, it is we "shall not be infringed" absolutists who are the true power-sharing egalitarians.
This Day in History: December 31
The General Court Martial whereof Major General Baron Steuben is President is to assemble on Wednesday next at ten ô clock AM. [More]
Monday, December 30, 2013
Illinois State Police and media continue to confound on new gun rules
With the past hostility of the ISP and establishment media, especially Chicago media, to the right to keep and bear arms, whether this indicates a coincidence or a resistance to providing information on guns to a public that wants it would seem a fair speculation. [More]Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report detects a lack of enthusiasm in complying with spirit and intent.
Almost Like It Was Set Up
It's tough to read this...
...without thinking how conveniently self-fulfilling it is...
Via Florida Guy]
...without thinking how conveniently self-fulfilling it is...
Via Florida Guy]
We're the Only Ones Probing Enough
One victim said that another officer put a gun to his head while Vagnini administered a choke hold, touched his scrotum and fingered his anus. Another man was probed so violently that he bled. [More]What wouldn't such a diseased creature do?
A Mugged Liberal
After reading this, I have a tough time giving a damn. [More]
My guess is, he will not have learned a thing, at least enough to change his ways.
On a positive note, it's nice to see all his fellow "progressives" who ridicule having a gun at Starbucks proven so thoroughly wrong.
[Via Florida Guy]
My guess is, he will not have learned a thing, at least enough to change his ways.
On a positive note, it's nice to see all his fellow "progressives" who ridicule having a gun at Starbucks proven so thoroughly wrong.
[Via Florida Guy]
An Academic Argument
When Jim Irvine of Buckeye Firearms Association joined the "Roundtable" on Armed American Radio last night, he talked about his group's efforts to arm teachers in Ohio.
I've been approached by another activist, a teacher from Pennsylvania who is trying to get similar legislation passed there.
I have to confess mixed feelings on this. I believe we all have a right to keep and bear arms and that "gun free zones" are not just wrong, they're evil. I oppose the idea of special classes of citizens being "granted privileges" -- just as I did when some in the gun community were stumping for nationwide carry for retired "Only Ones." You'll note that once they got their place at the table, the fact that the rest of us might like to pull up a seat but they were all taken was our problem. And, on a more fundamental level, I oppose "licensing" of a right.
I also have to acknowledge that under normal circumstances, the chances of getting existing legislation repealed so things become the way I want them is nonexistent. And this would save lives and provide a deterrent to something the antis would otherwise exploit to the detriment of us all.
Which practically guarantees the ones fighting this the loudest will be the education establishment...
I've been approached by another activist, a teacher from Pennsylvania who is trying to get similar legislation passed there.
I have to confess mixed feelings on this. I believe we all have a right to keep and bear arms and that "gun free zones" are not just wrong, they're evil. I oppose the idea of special classes of citizens being "granted privileges" -- just as I did when some in the gun community were stumping for nationwide carry for retired "Only Ones." You'll note that once they got their place at the table, the fact that the rest of us might like to pull up a seat but they were all taken was our problem. And, on a more fundamental level, I oppose "licensing" of a right.
I also have to acknowledge that under normal circumstances, the chances of getting existing legislation repealed so things become the way I want them is nonexistent. And this would save lives and provide a deterrent to something the antis would otherwise exploit to the detriment of us all.
Which practically guarantees the ones fighting this the loudest will be the education establishment...
Last Night on Armed American Radio
End of year re-cap with Armed American Radio Washington editor Neil McCabe, special analysis and commentary by David Codrea, George “The Mad Ogre” Hill, Buckeye Firearms Association’s Jim Irvine and AAR Board Op/Producer, Sean “Seanto” Young.
Cracking the Code
It goes something like predators prefer weaker prey, and only liars or fools deny the observable laws of Nature. [More]
#justatroll
Right, because exposing your utter and undeniable hypocrisy is "trolling."
Any other words you'd like to redefine? Like "common sense" and "gun safety"?
Here's something we must never forget when dealing with these creatures, and why I am so unforgiving of those ostensibly on "our side" who offer one-sided "compromises" in the unfounded, and frankly, stupid hopes that throwing a scrap of flesh to circling hyenas will satisfy them and persuade them to go away:
We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily -- given the political realities -- going to be very modest. . . . [W]e'll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we'd be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time. . . . The first problem is to slow down the number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition-except for the military, police, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors-totally illegal.Anybody think that's changed, and that we're not one SCOTUS replacement away from having to deal with that possibility?
Richard Harris, A Reporter at Large: Handguns, New Yorker, July 26, 1976, at 53, 58 (quoting Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc.) (boldface added, italics in original).
Nicely done, Kurt-- I can tell you got under her skin and you're living in her head rent-free with the desperate and pathetic way she tried to dismiss you. And nice "reasoned discourse," too, having her just block you like that -- the virtual equivalent of "La la la still not listening."
You're absolutely right. Being despised by the despicable brings a warm glow...
We're the Only Ones Luck of the Draw Enough
Instead of apologizing, one of the deputies told Guerrero, “You’re lucky I didn’t f--king shoot you.” [More]Nice of you to put the blame on the victim, Ozzie. It sounds like your trespassers are the ones who were lucky.
We're the Only Ones with the Situation Well in Hand Enough
Really? It took 15 of them from three counties? [More]
A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy
One anti-vivisection activist responded on Facebook."You could die tomorrow. I wouldn't sacrifice my goldfish for you." Another commented: "If you had died as a child, no-one would have given a damn." [More]It's unhinged maniacs like these I love taunting with my Center for Biological Diversity souvenir.
This Day in History: December 30
Some time the last winter your Excellency was pleased to order a board of officers to revise the former report of the board of officers on the rank of the captains of the Massachusetts line, some of whom thought themselves injured. The board reported to your Excellency; but an approbation or disapprobation of the report, was never expressed—several of the captains remain very uneasy, and I believe there are very apparent grounds for some of them being so. [More]
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Organizing for Action contest rules show inconsistency of progressive principles
And how is someone supposed to prove they are citizens and/or lawful permanent legal residents, anyway? I thought the Obama’s DOJ said requiring proof of that disproportionately violated the civil rights of minorities. [More]Welcome to the [“progressive”] party, pal. Provided you can produce ID we don’t require of voters (because that would be racist!), and pass a Universal Background Check along with an ideological purity/party loyalty test.
And yeah, I know: What “principles”?
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Toby Keith restaurant hypocrisy leaves bad taste in gun owners’ mouths
It's instructive that five years after Keith wowed NRA members, he declared himself a supporter of “the most anti-gun president ever to occupy the Oval Office” in 2008 when he praised Barack Obama, calling him “the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton,” and then honored Obama by performing at his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. [More]Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes there are a lot of self-enriching poseurs out there capitalizing on the gullible thinking they share their principles.
Friday, December 27, 2013
ATF whistleblower website decries disproportionate discrimination complaints
“How disturbing is this?” the CUATF moderator posting under the screen name “Doc Holiday” asked, relating that under “total number of pending EEOC complaints reported end of year 2012,” ATF had 1,362, more than 25 percent out of 4,770 employees, compared to less than one percent for both DEA and the FBI. [More]This afternoon’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes they went full B. Todd. You never go full B. Todd.
Illinois gun owners on hold for compliance instructions on private sales
Why the information is not available now, and what the reason is for waiting so long to inform the public have not been stated, but suspecting official indifference or even hostility to gun owner concerns would hardly be without precedent, especially since ISP appears to be doing bare minimum and no gun owner outreach is planned. [More]Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes grudging, in-your-face foot-dragging by insolent “public servants” who have been allowed to presume that you work for them. In short, they don’t care because they don’t have to.
Disappointing, But Hardly Unexpected
Take a good look. I'd estimate probably 97% will do what they're told and come up with all kinds of rationalizations for it. [More]
It's a terrible choice to force someone to make. Most will opt for the illusion of temporary safety, as opposed to mass civil disobedience. It's just the way things are.
The handful who defy are made more vulnerable. Of course, such radicals are generally chastised by the more pragmatic for making "us" all look bad anyway. Hey, if we don't like the law, we can work democratically to change it, right?
Get used to it, happy few.
[Via bondmen]
It's a terrible choice to force someone to make. Most will opt for the illusion of temporary safety, as opposed to mass civil disobedience. It's just the way things are.
The handful who defy are made more vulnerable. Of course, such radicals are generally chastised by the more pragmatic for making "us" all look bad anyway. Hey, if we don't like the law, we can work democratically to change it, right?
Get used to it, happy few.
[Via bondmen]
No Demand for Demanders
Liberal Commercial Talk Radio Disappears in NY, LA, SF in 2014 Only NPR is left. [More]That's no fair! Why, there oughtta be a law!
Funny...my friend Mark Walters keeps adding stations.
Target: Men
The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder [More]"I wonder if overdiagnosis of ADD and unnecessary use or abuse of these drugs are non-spurious causative factors for shootings?" colleague RH asks.
"And how the 'progressive' public educational establishment is a driving force behind the War on Boys," I offer in return.
A Phishing Scam
I oughtta hook him up with Franky Samora.
I swear, the Stupid Party is doing it's best to totally blow the tremendous opportunities presented by overreaching "progressives."
Except they're pretty much all that way by design, aren't they?
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Póg Mo Thóin
While spreading Toys for Totalitarians cheer, Mike tells the governor of Maryland to...well, let this Irish fellow here explain to those of you who don't understand Gaelic:
I guess I shouldn't have referred to "spreading cheer" in relation to that. Anyway, now that we've got that out of the way, read Mike's missive.
And oh, look: An "Authorized Journalist" has noticed.
Glad to see at least one trying to catch up, although I did have to ask her what the hell she was talking about:
Mike also has some comments about her coverage.
UPDATE: Cuomo gets his. How do you say "Póg Mo Thóin" in Italian?
I guess I shouldn't have referred to "spreading cheer" in relation to that. Anyway, now that we've got that out of the way, read Mike's missive.
And oh, look: An "Authorized Journalist" has noticed.
Glad to see at least one trying to catch up, although I did have to ask her what the hell she was talking about:
UPDATE: Cuomo gets his. How do you say "Póg Mo Thóin" in Italian?
We're in the Money
High hats and Arrowed collars, white spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime, for a wonderful time [More]
Spending every dime, for a wonderful time [More]
SAF is puttin' on the Ritz, courtesy of Mike McGinn and his Seattle elitists.
Not really. Every dime is needed to continue with groundbreaking legal actions and more. And this will come in handy.
This Day in History: December 27
Enclosed is an account of their present force in New York and its dependencies, handed to me by a person who I believe is well informed. [More]
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