RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS Archives
May 5, 2008
Sen. Hillary Clinton's mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama's record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle.
I have double-set triggers on my Hawken. It improves accuracy. - M. R.
April 30, 2008
Manager, employee and customer all pull guns in Wild West Palm Beach shootout...
Ah those wacky Floridians! The good news is that nobody got hurt. - M. R.
April 24, 2008
All gun owners are familiar with the 17th century maxim, "Keep your powder dry." But if we expect to be gun owners in the 21st century, we have to update that to read, "Keep your powder--and all the rest of your ammunition--at all." That's because politicians who want to ban guns, but who don't have the votes in Congress and state legislatures, are trying to achieve the same effect by banning the manufacture, importation, sale and possession of as much ammunition as possible, and severely restricting the rest.
April 19, 2008
And if you're wondering who to hit, may I make a humble suggestion? The first and most important target is the media. If you leave them alone they will ensure you have no support from the populace. Ho Chi Minh was right - without the people's support you will never succeed. Blow up the towers, cut the cables, win the support of your community. Your government must fear you. And you must not fear them.
April 16, 2008
Under the new law, businesses cannot prohibit employees or customers from keeping a legally owned gun locked inside their cars, as long as the owner has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
April 15, 2008
As the nation's capital and other cities prepared for Mother's Day demonstrations favoring stricter gun control laws, President Clinton said the events on Sunday would show that the gun lobby ''is no match for America's moms.''
The Down-Side of Gun Control
Advocates cannot see any harm in gun control, but it has a nasty
downside. Its victims number in the tens of millions. Its downside is
genocide: the mass-murder of civilians on account of religion,
language, or political views. Since 1900, at least seven major
genocides have occurred worldwide involving 50-60 million victims (see
table).
MAJOR 20th CENTURY GENOCIDES -- THE COST OF GUN-CONTROL
Date of
Perpetrator # Murdered Gun-Ctrl Source
Gov. Date Target (Estimated) Law Document
~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~
Ottoman 1915-17 Armenians 1-1.5 Mil. 1866 Art. 166,
Turky Penal Code
Soviet 1929-53 Anti-Comm. 20 Million 1929 Art. 128,
Union Anti-Stal. Penal Code
Nazi 1933-45 Jews, 13 Million 1928 Law on Fire-
Germany Anti-Nazis, arms & Ammun.
& occupied Gypsies April 12,
Europe Weapons Law,
March 18
China 1948-52 Anti- 20 Million 1935 Arts. 186 & 7
Communists Penal Code.
1966- Pro-Reform
1976 Group
Guatemala 1960-81 Mayan 100,000 1871 Decree #36
Indians 1964 Decree #283
Uganda 1971-79 Christians, 300,000 1955 Firearms Ord.
Pol. Rivals 1970 Firearms Act
Cambodia 1975-79 Educated 1 Million 1956 Arts. 322-328,
Persons Penal Code
TOTAL VICTIMS: 55.9 MILLION
- M. R.
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest seller of firearms, announced Monday it will toughen rules for gun sales, from storing video of purchases to creating an internal log of which guns they sell that are later used in crimes.
April 14, 2008
Legislation against selling, making, hiring or importing samurai swords in England and Wales has come into force.
Note that this lame law was passed because of an attack on a government official. - M. R.
April 12, 2008
She described herself as a pro-gun churchgoer, recalling that her father taught her how to shoot a gun when she was a young girl and said that her faith "is the faith of my parents and my grandparents."
Se next article down. - M. R.
FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton Appeals For Gun Control Lobbying...
If Vince Foster had been allowed to carry a gun in Washington DC he might still be alive today! - M. R.
A six-month pilot program where Oakland police officers would knock on doors and ask permission to search homes for guns got the green light from the City Council's public safety committee Tuesday night.
What if the gun is legally owned and properly registered? Do the cops just leave it where they find it? - M. R.
April 10, 2008
Oakland cops: Mind if we search your house for guns?...
Most Florida residents would be allowed to take guns to work under a measure passed by Florida lawmakers on Wednesday.
The bill, allowing workers to keep guns in their cars for self-protection, was approved by the Florida Senate by a vote of 26-13. It now goes to Republican Gov. Charlie Crist to sign into law.
April 1, 2008
Looks like the Supreme Court is finally ready to recognize the Second Amendment as a real part of the Bill of Rights, and that D.C.'s ban is in big trouble.
This town was locked down tight for several days and no one was allowed in or out. The only people in that town during this time were Sheriffs Officers, Kansas Highway Patrol Officers, ATF, FEMA, National Guard, Police Officers from surrounding areas and some volunteers from Ft. Riley, generally speaking, government officials. Authorities claim no one else was there or could have gotten in or out. Interestingly enough, I have been told repeatedly by all sources that the media was allowed to roam freely without escorts through Greensburg. Shall we ask why residents were not allowed to stay on their own property but media was allowed unfettered access?
Many guns and other valuables such as jewelry have gone permanently missing and have never been recovered. There were some houses that were not destroyed and were in tact and habitable. Those folks did not want to leave but were forced to do so. When they returned they found their houses had been broken in to and all of their guns missing. One gentleman reports that when he went to claim his guns, taken from his secure home, they were returned to him in damaged condition. They were not damaged by the tornado. They were locked up in his home and illegally confiscated. So how do we suppose that damage occurred?
March 26, 2008
In a "move that surprised some observers," the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday, attorney Alan Gura, appearing before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the federal guard who sued the District of Columbia in 2003, claiming he feels unsafe because he's not allowed to keep his guns at home, "appeared to concede large chunks of his argument, moving away from an absolutist position on gun rights."
Was it a failure of nerve under pressure, or did somebody get to this guy?
March 25, 2008
Police are asking residents to submit to voluntary searches in exchange for amnesty under the District's gun ban. They passed out fliers requesting cooperation on Monday.
March 24, 2008
There is a very strange notion implicit in these comments: that our rights derive from 9 old men and women on the Court. Thus if we get the wrong ones in there, we are doomed. Since the composition of the Court depends on who is President, this in turn implies that our rights really derive from the President.
This is even stranger than the notion that our right to bear arms comes from the 2nd Amendment itself.
March 21, 2008
In the case where a citizen mistakenly (and allegedly) shot through his door at a raiding police officer, the citizen is facing a murder charge; in the case where a raiding police officer mistakenly shot through a door and killed a citizen, there were no criminal charges.
Over the last quarter century, we've seen an astonishing rise in paramilitary police tactics by police departments across America. Peter Kraksa, professor of criminology at the University of Eastern Kentucky, ran a 20-year survey of SWAT team deployments and determined that they have increased 1,500 percent since the early 1980s--mostly to serve nonviolent drug warrants.
This is dangerous, senseless overkill. The margin of error is too thin, and the potential for tragedy too high to use these tactics unless they are in response to an already violent situation (think bank robberies, school shootings or hostage-takings). Breaking down doors to bust drug offenders creates violent situations; it doesn't defuse them.
March 20, 2008
A woman was asking a 911 dispatcher for help when her pleas were interrupted by gunshots, then silence. She was shot to death.
The woman told the dispatcher someone was trying to break into her home in upscale West Covina, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Dan Rosenberg said. "Deputies heard gunshots followed by silence and an open phone line," he said. Instead of 911, try .357! - M. R.
March 19, 2008
81-Year-Old Man Shoots, Kills Home Invasion Suspect...
Good. - M. R.
Firearms industry should bear financial liability for homicides involving handguns...
As expected, the gun-grabbers are not going to sit still for the Supreme Court's validation of the Second Amendment. So, they trot out this already-discredited idea in order to sue gun-makers out of existence.
But consider... are automobile manufacturers liable for deaths caused by criminal use of cars? How about baseball bat makers? People get murdered with baseball bats all the time. Is it appropriate to sue baseball bat makers for the criminal uses bats are put to? Doctors kill more people through mistakes than die from guns. Shall we sue the makers of medical equipment for their part in this? - M. R.
Americans have a right to own guns, Supreme Court justices declared Tuesday in a historic and lively debate that could lead to the most significant interpretation of the Second Amendment since its ratification two centuries ago.
When the Second Amendment was created, the arms in question reserved to the people were military arms. The Second Amendment did not consider the question of hunting weapons, for hunting was indispensable to survival in the early colonies. But the battles of Lexington and Concord had shown that government, when it becomes oppressive, seeks to remove military arms from the people, a fact well understood by the Minutemen.
Under US law, the militia is all able-bodied men and women able to carry arms and between the ages of 18 and 45. It is acknowledged in the law that there is an "Unorganized militia", meaning all citizens able to bear arms but not under the direct control of US authority. This is a hold-over from the days of the Minutemen when it was understood that citizens would exercise their own discretion in deciding when to shoot the redcoats. The common motto was, "Do not wait for orders, but grab thy musket and ride towards the sound of gunfire!"
All tyrants seek to disarm their own people, and it is not mere coincidence that every genocide since the start of the 20th century has been preceded by attempts to disarm the population being targeted.
Guns are the birthright of free people, because guns give free people the right to say "no" to a dictator. That is the very core of the reason the 2nd Amendment was given to us,to give us the ability to say "no', because there is no freedom without the freedom to say "no."
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson, in letter to William S. Smith, 1787
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -- Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
"[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights and those of their fellow citizens." -- The Federalist, No. 29
- Alexander Hamilton
"[A]rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." -- Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775
- Thomas Paine - M. R.
A majority of the Supreme Court indicated a readiness yesterday to settle decades of constitutional debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment by declaring that it provides an individual right to own a gun for self-defense.
Okay, I need something big enough to defend against the BATF when they kick down the wrong door (as they have a history of doing) and raid my place by mistake. - M. R.
March 18, 2008
The Supreme Court justices, hearing a historic argument on the meaning of the 2nd Amendment, signaled they are likely to strike down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia and rule that homeowners have a right to keep a gun for self-defense.
Get ready for a new gun massacre now that the gun-grabbers need it! - M. R.
It is not a coincidence that a black market in D.C. handguns has been going on for decades and that the handgun ban in D.C. has been in effect for 32 years. The handgun ban itself gives rise to a black market in handguns, just as making drugs illegal has given rise to a black market in drugs.
New Bill to Register Ammunition...
This law simply forces a new and costly product on us all to make a crony rich, creates a new bureaucracy as a sinecure for more cronies, and all on the backs of the law abiding citizen.
Real criminals will simply steal ammunition at the same time they steal their guns.
- M. R.
March 17, 2008
My wife and I visited our local Gun shop over the weekend to purchase a hand gun for her. You couldn't believe how many people were in this store buying fireamrs! I shop regularly at this store for cheap ammunition to shoot at the range, so I am familiar with the traffic. This place was jammed. You could hardly get around each other at the counters and down the aisles. The tension was thick. People seemed tense. I was hyped up on coffee and feeling honery so I loudly proclaimed, "Everyone here must be worried about the Economy and riots in the streets!" I thought I was going to get kicked out. But everyone sighed in agreement; some even clapping their hands.
The local hardware stores are running out of tar and rope, and the local bedding stores are out of feather pillows.
I am sure this means something, but I cannot imagine what! - M. R.
March 12, 2008
The Playboy interview ended with Bellesiles' challenge to the powerful gun lobby: "As for the NRA [National Rifle Association], when anyone talks about the history of guns in America, they're going to have to give me evidence -- facts, not folktales." Three months later, despite growing skepticism, Arming America was awarded Columbia University's prestigious Bancroft Prize for the best work of American history published in 2000. It seemed the question of what was fact, what fiction, had been settled.
Bellesiles had flung his challenge at a political organization, but unfortunately for him it was the scholarly community that picked it up. The evidence he had presented for his groundbreaking theory was investigated first by experts from a range of disciplines and political viewpoints; then by a special symposium in a learned journal; and finally, as a result of the disturbing findings, by the professor's university and an outside panel of scholars that it appointed. The results are now in: Bellesiles' arguments are based on wholesale misuse of evidence and, in some cases, no evidence at all. The "invented tradition" is fact, the professor's version a folk tale.
Whatever the court decides, no one expects them to end gun control any more than the First Amendment's "congress shall make no laws" has prevented the passage of campaign finance regulations. The decision is likely to be limited to just whether a ban "infringed" on "the right of the people to keep and bear arms."
Don't presume to have authority to impose any prior restraint on what I write. Don't presume to warn me about what you will or will not allow me to say.
For you to imply any of my work might be illegal is a vile slander and you know it--if it wasn't, I'd already be in custody (assuming I was allowed to survive the arrest). Hell, you even admitted as much, but qualified that while I hadn't broken any laws, people who comment on this blog might.
That ain't your call, either, Bub. Don't presume to tell my guests what they can say--I run this site, you don't. I don't moderate and pre-approve comments, so if you have a problem with that, take it up with Blogger, which provides this as a standard option. Mr. Codrea operates a pro 2nd ammendment blog and recently received a warning/veiled threat from an employee of the US Marshal's Service - a branch of the DOJ - regarding Mr. Codrea's blogging activity critical of the BATFE (ATF). Mr. Codrea's linked response is well-put and effectively worded and reflects well on the RKBA movement.
- M. R.
March 5, 2008
Introducing the world's smallest gun that fires deadly 300mph bullets - but is just TWO inches long...
Perfect for cockroach hunting!
On a more serious note. if you look closely at the trigger guard you will see that it moves as a unit, with a special extension the real trigger. This makes it very dangerous, and as to misfire as the first Colt Revolvers, which lacked a trigger guard and tended to misfire from careless impacts to the trigger. - M. R.
February 29, 2008
The ATF did not go into any details as to exactly what firearms laws had been broken, only that they were processing and seizing all of the weapons at the Gilbert gun manufacturer.
"Trust us, he did something bad!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
February 28, 2008
A blowtorch, grinder and sledgehammer were among the items used to torture a man in a basement over a $50 debt, police said.
"I didn't want to die. But after seven hours, I told them, 'Just shoot me, dude,' " said Shane DeSmith of Leavittsburg in northeast Ohio. A reminder that the police do not PREVENT crimes. They show up afterwards, promising "justice" (revenge, which only happens 1 time our of 40).
Had this individual owned a gun, he could have defended himself. - M. R.
February 27, 2008
A shopkeeper who killed an armed mugger in self defence during a "frenzied" attack will not be charged.
Good for him! - M. R.
The problem at Virginia Tech was not that there were guns on campus — only the campus police and gunman were armed — but that it was a “gun-free zone.” As a result, there were not enough people carrying guns to neutralize the gunman once he began his rampage. He should have been outgunned after his first shots. To a criminal or deranged person bent on killing, a gun-free zone is a free-fire zone. As is obvious from all such incidents, the police arrive too late to prevent multiple killings.
If a killer were stalking your family, would you feel safer putting a sign out front announcing, "This home is a gun-free zone"? But that is what all these places did.
February 25, 2008
A Theodosia woman sustained minor injuries Saturday evening when a man allegedly broke into her home and assaulted her. The woman then shot the intruder in the leg.
Next time aim higher.
- M. R.
February 20, 2008
Clinton started with the line she rolled out a couple days ago about recognizing that there is “no conflict” between letting lawful gunowners have weapons and keeping guns out of the hands of bad guys and the mentally ill.
The problem is that lawful gun owners are prevented from carrying their guns in the "gun free" zones, which is where the bad people go to do what they do. - M. R.
February 19, 2008
The last statement says it all ......
Citicorp Refuses to Process Firearms Transactions...
I imagine there are a lot of Citicorp customers arming up after Citicorp stopped withdrawals from one of their major hedge funds. - M. R.
February 18, 2008
Let's get two things straight.
1. Banning guns does not reduce crime. Crime goes UP when the law abiding citizen is disarmed.
2. The Second amendment is not about hunting and it's not about target shooting. It's about giving the government good reason to leave the citizen alone.
Both the Zionist control of the media and the media bias against the citizen's right to keep and bear arms are generally recognized but seldom discussed publicly, for fear of the charge of "anti-Semitism." The names of the principal anti-Second Amendment legislators -- Feinstein, Metzenbaum, Schumer -- tell part of the story, and the anti-gun lobbying organizations, of which the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith -- the ADL -- is the most powerful, tell the rest.
The question is not whether private property owners have a right to bar firearms on their property -- they do.
Rather, the first question here is whether our government agencies are making it fully clear to the managers of buildings otherwise open to the public -- such as Clark County's courthouses and public libraries -- that they will not be shielded from the financial repercussions should employees or customers die under circumstances where they could otherwise have defended themselves and others with their own firearms.
February 17, 2008
Now that a mental case has accomplished yet another dastardly deed at a gun-free zone on an American campus, the corporate media is pulling out all the stops and calling for “gun control,” that is to say the squashing of the Second Amendment.
February 16, 2008
Do you think that because you may not own a gun, the
rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment don't
matter?
February 15, 2008
Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby's Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.
and Illinois University Gun Free Zone - M. R.
One gun, one person trained how to use it and willing to do so could have stopped most of this:
February 14, 2008
Gun-Grabbing gets absurd...
Help Pass the Ammunition Accountability Act...
HB 2833 requires all ammunition manufacturers to encode a unique serial number on the base of every bullet and on the inside of every cartridge. The bullet serial number and cartridge casing serial number would have to be identical.
This means two things. Home reloading will become illegal, and the price of manufactured ammunition will double.
If they can;t grab the guns, they will make the ammo hard to get. - M. R.
February 9, 2008
As Boston police prepare to go into some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, knock on doors of private houses, and ask if they can search for illegal guns without a warrant, officials are trying to pitch the idea of the plan as friendly cooperation to residents who still see it as a threatening intrusion.
"... the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." - M. R.
January 30, 2008
Despite fervent support from families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre, a bill that would have required background checks of buyers at gun shows in Virginia has been defeated in a State Senate committee.
The families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre need to remember that the campus was a gun-free zone, which reinforces the idea that people of ill intent do not obey the laws. Oddly enough, Virginia Tech sold the gun ban on their campus with the promise that it made the students safer. It did not; it made them defenseless, which is not the same thing.
The families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre need to remember that another mass shooting on another Virgina campus a couple years earlier ended with a different outcome when students armed with legally owned guns stopped the shooter.
- M. R.
January 21, 2008
A 73-year-old West Side store owner foiled a robbery Wednesday evening when he pulled out a 9 mm handgun and shot the wouldbe bandit.
Good. - M. R.
January 16, 2008
A lot of Americans who believe in the right to own guns were very disappointed this weekend. On Friday, the Bush administration’s Justice Department entered into the fray over the District of Columbia’s 1976 handgun ban by filing a brief to the Supreme Court that effectively supports the ban. The administration pays lip service to the notion that the Second Amendment protects gun ownership as an “individual right,” but their brief leaves the term essentially meaningless.
January 15, 2008
Since "unrestricted" private ownership of guns clearly threatens the public safety, the 2nd Amendment can be interpreted to allow a variety of gun restrictions, according to the Bush administration.
More people have died from police tasers than from AK-47s in the US.
More crimes are prevented by private citizens with legally owned firearms than by the police.
The government wants to disarm the American people because they know they have pushed the nation to the brink of revolt.
As a side note, President Bush's grandfather's German business partner, Adolf, used 'public safety' as his excuse to disarm the German people. Once deprived of their arms, the German people had no way to stop Hitler from leading them into disaster. - M. R.
January 10, 2008
Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process any credit card transactions between federally licensed firearms retailers, distributors and manufacturers -- a move which will severely limit available inventory of firearms and ammunition to military, law enforcement and law-abiding Americans.
January 9, 2008
Gun access to mentally ill curbed...
"Anyone who doesn't love me is crazy!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
January 7, 2008
The incidence of violent crime in Michigan in the six years since the law went into effect has been, on average, below the rate of the previous six years. The overall incidence of death from firearms, including suicide and accidents, also has declined.
"Dangit, now we gotta stage another 'mass school shooting' or we'll have an angry AND armed herd of voters to deal with!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
January 4, 2008
Last Saturday, the Washington Post reported a statistic that cannot possibly be true. The Post said that gun violence rose in Washington, D.C., in 2007, resulting in 181 killings. Non-fatal shootings were also up.
January 3, 2008
A grocery store customer in Indianapolis is being credited with halting an armed robbery by pulling his own weapon and pointing it at the assailant until police arrived.
January 2, 2008
Gun vote USA today 2nd Amendment Poll...
December 21, 2007
ARGUMENT: The Veterans Disarmament Act creates new avenues for
prohibited persons to seek restoration of their gun rights.
ANSWER: What the bill does is to lock in -- statutorily -- huge
numbers of additional law-abiding Americans who will now be denied
the right to own a firearm.
And then it "graciously" allows these newly disarmed Americans to
spend tens of thousands of dollars for a long-shot chance to regain
the gun rights this very bill takes away from them.
Opponents have dubbed the bill, the "veterans disarmament act" as it will place any veteran who has ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the federal gun ban list.
December 17, 2007
A Google news search using the phrase "Omaha Mall Shooting" finds an incredible 2,794 news stories worldwide for the last day. From India and Taiwan to Britain and Austria, there are probably few people in the world who haven’t heard about this tragedy.
But despite the massive news coverage, none of the media coverage, at least by 10 a.m. Thursday, mentioned this central fact: Yet another attack occurred in a gun-free zone.
Cops raiding wrong home get shot...
Good. - M. R.
Over the years there has been a mass indoctrination to the evils of guns, which has resulted in the systematic psychological disarmament of the American people. With less armed law-abiding citizens and more gun-free zones, the result has been more helpless victims. It has also demonstrated that we cannot rely on government to protect us from criminals. Most crime we are facing will not be solved by further gun control legislation. Furthermore tyrants like Stalin, Hitler, and Mao all sought to disarm their own citizens in order to control them and ensure their own power. Many genocide victims were deprived of the necessary means to adequately defend themselves. A clear violation of the Second Amendment took place after Hurricane Katrina, when authorities engaged in gun confiscation. In many cases, it was these same guns that kept many individuals, families, and property safe from criminals and thugs when there was no police presence.
December 14, 2007
Most of us are aware that the heroic actions of a brave woman at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado a few days ago saved the lives of perhaps scores, or even hundreds, of people. However, her bravery would not have counted for much had she not been armed.
There is one very good reason to own a gun right now. As the economy collapses, there will arise leaders who will, through some contorted logic and an imposed sense of community obligation, decide that the costs of the current melt-down should be passed onto the ordinary citizens, just as the S&L melt-down of the 1980s was ultimately paid for by the taxpayers who had been smart enough to stay out of the mess in the first place. Even now we are seeing banks hit by the sub-prime disaster seeking ways to pass those losses into their customers who did not even partake of the risky investments in the first place.
As the economy goes into full blown Chernobyl, expect the government to start to seize hard assets like gold and silver, "for the good of the nation." Despite the pretense of law, this will be looting of the population, plain and simple, and the people are morally entitled to defend themselves from such uniformed criminals.
- M. R.
Colorado's right-to-carry law — which USA TODAY fiercely opposed as "an old West remedy" — empowered volunteer security guard Jeanne Assam to stop a mass murderer inside her crowded church.
December 11, 2007
"I hope this represents a change in the way we think about gun-free zones," said Larry Pratt of the Gun Owners of America, "because heretofore, we've had these kinds of bad guys attacking schools and churches and they don't meet any armed resistance ... I think we have to get it through our heads: gun-free zones are criminal-friendly zones."
December 10, 2007
Here we go again. Someone tell me why, with nearly 3,000 articles written worldwide within 48 hours following the tragic slaughter at the Omaha, Neb. Westroads Mall last week, not a single article mentioned the most important fact of all -- that there were "no guns allowed" in the mall?
What helped cause the tragedy is the liberal dream known as "gun-free zones." Guns also weren't allowed at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech University, Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and every other location where the wanton slaughter of unarmed, helpless victims is a virtual guarantee.
December 7, 2007
Witnesses Say Victim Shoots, Kills Would-Be Robber in DeKalb County...
December 4, 2007
Only criminals benefit from weak gun laws...
December 2, 2007
San Francisco Offers Gift Cards for Guns...
As the very first part of this story illustrates, they are NOT taking guns away from criminals with this program. They are grabbing the guns which are not a threat to the public ... but which could eventually be a threat to an overbearing government intent on enslaving the population to the out-of-control government debt. - M. R.
November 23, 2007
Considering what happened to Jared Massey in Utah at the hands of power mad Utah Highway patrolman John Gardner, and the fact that the Utah Highway Patrol doesn't appear to be doing anything about it, I'd say that now is definitely not the time to accept any semblance of a law to restrict our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, Supreme Court be damned.
November 19, 2007
Cleveland Offers $100 Gas Cards for Guns...
Sure, turn in your guns (or one you "liberated" from a friend or neighbor). $100 whole dollars. That's about two fill-ups. And then you will be perfectly defenseless before the police and their "harmless" tasers.
Such a deal! - M. R.
November 17, 2007
Police to search for guns in homes...
If I recall history correctly, the LAST time someone tried this in Boston the fellows wearing the red coats got shot! - M. R.
November 14, 2007
In recent years, the Supreme Court has already stated that whenever "the people" is mentioned in the Bill of Rights that it refers to the same "class of persons." So if "the people" in the Second Amendment doesn't refer to all of the people, then it doesn't in the First or Fourth Amendments either.
“I’m sure there were a lot of Rwandans who wish they’d had a gun — especially a good weapon like the Kalashnikov — to protect themselves, their families, and their communities from rampaging Hutus. Cutting off firearms ‘at the manufacturers’ level’ — or more accurately, at the level where only the government could legally import weapons and only government soldiers could legally have one — left literally hundreds of thousands — some estimates say upwards of a million — at the mercy of machete-wielding thugs who chopped them and their families and their communities to bits. The absence of firearms did not save anyone, did not deter anyone. Instead, it cost about a million lives. And it only took about three months.”
The Supreme Court, in weighing D.C.'s handgun ban, has a chance to reaffirm the right to own guns.
November 11, 2007
The prospect that the high court might define gun rights under the Constitution is making people on both sides of the issue nervous.
October 27, 2007
Burglars in the United States could once sue homeowners if they were shot, but now a growing number of states have made it legal to shoot to kill when somebody breaks into a house.
Remember to load your weapon with fragmentation slugs that explode on impact, like the Glaser Safety Slugs. In addition to coupling more energy to the target (and turning the impact zone into hamburger) such bullets tend NOT to penetrate through walls intact and into your neighbors house, the way FMJ will. - M. R.
October 16, 2007
Support for gun control dwindling in America...
"We better arrange for, I mean, I expect there will be another mass school shooting any day now!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
October 3, 2007
The Constitution says you can have guns, but it doesn't say anything about BULLETS!...
Story starts half way down the page. - M. R.
September 30, 2007
The Veterans Disarmament Act -- which has already passed the House -- would place any veteran who has ever been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the federal gun ban list.
September 24, 2007
Fight Crime: Shoot Back!...
August 18, 2007
A man in Florida surprised police by handing in a surface-to-air missile launcher during a gun amnesty in the city of Orlando.
The interesting part is that the police are accessories to the crime of stealing the missile from its owner. No doubt they are unconcerned where the people trading the guns for the running shoes got the guns in the first place! - M. R.
August 13, 2007
The men who founded our nation understood that government was necessary to preserve the people's freedoms. But they also knew that government agents could not always be trusted to use their authority justly, and that government remains the single greatest threat to the rights and liberties of the people.
August 10, 2007
Is it possible that we are not talking about the right of the government to form a militia when there is no standing army, but the right of the individual to defend himself, or herself, against both tyranny and lawlessness? Maybe we are talking about the right of self-defense -- the right of the individual to take up arms against a government that wants to oppress, be it foreign or domestic. And the right of the individual to defend himself against criminals, brutes, and barbarians when local police seem unable to stop them.
Hell YES!
Anti-gun = pro-crime.
- M. R.
August 9, 2007
It's truly amazing. You wouldn't think that something as controversial as gun control could fly through the House of Representatives, and then through a Senate committee without facing at least one recorded vote.
But on Thursday of last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Senate version of the McCarthy bill by an unrecorded voice vote.
The sheriff of a north-central Idaho county where a shooting rampage left four dead and three wounded last May wants more people to obtain concealed weapons permits and carry guns.
One Nation, Under Gun...
July 31, 2007
I'm ready at last to support gun control. I believe every police agency in the United States – local, state and federal – should be disarmed.
July 24, 2007
THANKS TO THE MILITIA...
July 20, 2007
In fact, however, the D.C. handgun suit pits individual law-abiding D.C. residents against a Constitution-flouting D.C. government. These individuals claim the local government is violating their Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms." The appeals court agreed.
July 19, 2007
Bleiler argued his state and federal constitutional rights were violated and hinted Fenniman was acting on a grudge because Bleiler had filed a lawsuit over Fenniman's city contract.
July 7, 2007
Fort Worth man shoots robbery suspect...
Good.
- M. R.
July 5, 2007
An Ohio newspaper's decision to publish the non-public records of concealed carry permit holders drew a strong response, and one gun rights advocacy group published personal but public information about the newspaper's editor.
By listing the names of all the conceal carry owners, the Sandusky Register in effect pinned a giant bull's eye on the back of everyone else, since the criminals now KNOW who is armed and who is not.
The whole point of conceal carry is to create a deterrent by placing doubt in the minds of criminals over whether a potential victim is armed or not.
The Sandusky Register has removed that doubt and that deterrent. The Sandusky Register has AIDED the criminals in Ohio pick helpless targets. This confirms the thesis that anti-gun = pro-crime. - M. R.
July 2, 2007
Osha to regulate ammo and components...
July 1, 2007
The duo -- lifelong friends and roommates -- are accused of storming into a Plantation Subway shop, armed and announcing a robbery.
They didn't plan to encounter retired Marine John Lovell, 71, who had just finished a veggie sandwich and had a gun tucked in his waistband. Now, had John not been there, the criminals would have succeeded in robbing the store. The police, who are RARELY present when a crime actually occurs, would have shown up to look impressive in their kevlar and promised retribution, but the odds are it never would have happened.
On my radio shows I run some gun-rights commercials which lay out the facts. Where guns are confiscated by the government, crime goes up. Chicago is the example, although any large city with gun control, like Washington DC will suffice. Where citizens are allowed, or as in the case of Kennisaw, Georgia, REQUIRED to own guns, crime drops significantly. Vermont is a good example. Conceal carry is a right of every citizen, and crime is very low. - M. R.
June 19, 2007
Following the Premiere of the JPFO Documentary The Gang, which exposes the abuses of the ATF. This morning 3 ATF Agents came in, including Area Supervisor Linda Young from Spokane, the other Agents Kylie Williamson and John Hansen from Boise.
June 12, 2007
Wittes said the Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms meant more when it was crafted more than 200 years ago than it does today. Modern society is "much more ambivalent than they [the founders] were about whether gun ownership really is fundamental to liberty," he said.
Actually we need the Second Amendment now more than ever.
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- Thomas Jefferson - M. R.
June 11, 2007
Police officer stabbed to death...
The lesson here is that when you ban guns, those inclined to kill will simply find other ways to do so.
- M. R.
Leading US Democratic lawmakers have struck a deal with the powerful National Rifle Association to authorize stricter background checks on people who purchase guns, US media said Sunday.
The deal could lead to the first federal legislation on gun control since 1994 and was negotiated after a mentally ill student went on a shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university in April, the Washington Post reported. Okay, so we have a guy who wasn't supposed to have guns anyway go on a shooting rampage and the government's response is to make it harder for law-abiding people to own and carry guns.
Contrast the Virginia Tech shooting with a similar case at the Appalachian School of Law where a man on a rampage was STOPPED by other students using legally owned firearms.
Gun ban = 300 deaths. Guns in the hands of students = 3 deaths. The logic of allowing people to be armed is obvious, yet the government twists every incident into a justification to disarm the public and violate the 2nd Amendment.
- M. R.
Strano also claimed that Greensburg residents’ guns had been taken from them, saying, “FEMA and the police have systematically disarmed the local population, leaving the firepower squarely in control of the state.”
What does taking guns from citizens have to do with cleaning up the aftermath of a tornado???????? - M. R.
June 5, 2007
A few thousand "reasonable/unreasonable" guns in the hands of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in 1944 would have shortened the end of the Nazi evil. PLEASE ALWAYS REMEMBER; The Bill of Rights sole purpose is to Protect the people! PROTECT THEM FROM OUR OWN GOVERNMENT!!
A group of heavily armed men is breaking down your door and you and your family has only a handgun and you believe these men intend to kill you and your family. Ask your self would I prefer this group to be SS? ATF? KKK? Me? Give me the ATF, and God steady my aim, and Hell will have a few more evil denizens. Some believe in a deeper Hell, if so it must be a "Good old boys roundup". A "private club" a place where ATF meets GESTAPO,SA,and SS.
May 31, 2007
After turning 18 last month, the Post Falls teenager began strapping a loaded 9 mm Glock 19 handgun to his belt every day. He totes it in full view to Bible studies, the public library, city parks and neighborhood stores and on walks around town.
His 15-year-old brother, Stephen, has joined him, carrying a loaded Ruger .22-caliber rifle slung over his shoulder.
The brothers, who are home-schooled, say they're flexing their Second Amendment right, which allows citizens to bear arms. They say they're protecting themselves and others, deterring crime and making a statement about constitutional freedoms.
Cop shoots daughter, thinking she's a burglar...
This is for the "Only cops should have guns" crowd.
- M. R.
May 30, 2007
Assembly OKs micro-stamp on some guns...
All the crook has to do is pick up their brass and they evade the system. Or, score the outside of the brass with an abrasive so the impression left is unreadable, or just break the mechanism.
- M. R.
May 25, 2007
A loaded nine-millimetre police pistol and 45 rounds of ammunition remain missing after an intense but fruitless search by Waterloo regional police yesterday for an officer's knapsack, stolen from a sidewalk near Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate.
May 23, 2007
Beginning next month, you will no longer be allowed to carry firearms into the state capitol building. Security procedures are changing, but the new rules do not apply to everyone.
This underscores that gun control is not about fighting crime, but of disarming the ordinary citizen, of whom the government has become afraid. - M. R.
May 19, 2007
One of the suspects asked Smith for directions to Kalamazoo Valley Community College and then pulled out a revolver. Smith pulled out his revolver to defend himself and fired two shots, hitting the suspect in his left hand.
Both of the suspects fled the scene on foot. The wounded suspect was arrested a short time later while trying to get medical attention.
May 18, 2007
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, one of the most empty headed members of Nancy Pelosi's Brassiere Brigade, has yet another unconstitutional anti-Second Amendment piece of legislation on the front burner, endorsed by Bill O'Reilly and, of course, another anti-Constitution slimy serpent, counterfeit Senator Charles Schumer.
May 17, 2007
We're all much better off now that the "store will never operate again." We have been saved!
I recall when the Rodney King Riots broke out in Los Angeles. The crooks all had guns or simply stole them. But when law-abiding citizens tried to buy guns to defend their homes and businesses when the LAPD ran away, they ran into California's 15 day waiting period. Then, in an act of total idiocy, the Los Angeles City Council passed a temporary ban on ammunition sales in Los Angeles. Again, this did not affect the crooks and looters who already had or stole the ammo they needed. It just prevented the law abiding citizens from defending themselves.
Isn't gun control cool?
- M. R.
May 14, 2007
Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip. Just what were they trying to teach the kids, I wonder? - M. R.
May 11, 2007
After two years of pleas by Senator Lautenberg, the White House finally endorsed a proposal that would give the attorney general authority to stop people on the watch lists from buying guns.
Cho wasn't on the watch list.
- M. R.
May 7, 2007
Jackie Mason Video Blog on "Gun Control"...
The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina...
The government couldn't prevent the flooding (the sandbags were in Iraq) or help the victims (the National Gard was in Iraq) or repair the damage (the equipment was in Iraq) but danged if they couldn't whup the ass of an old lady and take her gun to prove how butch they are! - M. R.
May 2, 2007
Guns are deeply rooted within Swiss culture - but the gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept.
The problem isn't guns in the hands of the citizens. The problem, at least here in the US, is a President who daily sets the example that killing people without a good reason is perfectly appropriate behavior if you want their resources. - M. R.
April 27, 2007
Our attempt to be "normal" in the American environment, our political correctness, our trust that the State will save us in times of personal peril may be our greatest ill.
A Philadelphia lawmaker who supports tougher gun-control laws said Thursday he will likely start wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying his gun more often after receiving a threatening e-mail.
April 26, 2007
All “gun-free zones” amount to “self-defense prohibition zones” for honest citizens, and therefore “free-fire zones” for psychopaths, “terrorists,” and other homicidal criminals. If common sense did not, certainly the experiences documented by researchers such as John Lott confirm that the less “gun free” an area is (in terms of firearms in the immediate possession of honest citizens ready and willing to use them), the less violent crime occurs there.
April 23, 2007
some suggest that protection is best left to professionals: the police, the military and the "government." The police are not always where they are needed, and their response time isn't always on-the-spot. Even when they do arrive, they are often in the retaliatory and not the prevention business.
April 21, 2007
Who should be allowed to carry guns and who Not...
Five years ago Peter Odighizuwa a 43 years old Nigerian student killed three faculty members at Appalachian Law School Dean with a semi-automatic handgun, but before he could wreak further carnage two students fetched weapons from their cars, challenged the murderer with guns levelled ,and disarmed him.
In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.
Contrast that with Washington DC which has a hand-gun ban, and one of the highest murder rates in the country. - M. R.
Fresh gangster shootings kill 1 in Japan, days after mayor's slaying...
Japan, it should be noted, bans private ownership of all firearms. - M. R.
April 20, 2007
Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.
Bill To Ban Gun Confiscations On AZ Governor's Desk -- Please contact Napolitano immediately!...
This is another eerie parallel with Columbine, which happened just in time to stop Colorado from passing a conceal carry law. - M. R.
Don't Let Go of Your Guns...
KLECK: Well, the survey mostly generated results pretty consistent with those of a dozen previous surveys which generally indicates that defensive use of guns is pretty common and probably more common than criminal uses of guns. This survey went beyond previous ones in that it provided detail about how often people who had used a gun had done so. We asked people was the gun used defensively in the past five years and if so how many times did that happen and we asked details about what exactly happened. We nailed down that each use being reported was a bona fide defensive use against a human being in connection with a crime where there was an actual confrontation between victim and offender. Previous surveys were a little hazy on the details of exactly what was being reported as a defensive gun use. It wasn't, for example, clear that the respondents weren't reporting investigating a suspicious noise in their back yard with a gun where there was, in fact, nobody there. Our results ended up indicating, depending on which figures you prefer to use, anywhere from 800,000 on up to 2.4, 2.5 million defensive uses of guns against human beings -- not against animals -- by civilians each year.
Compared to about 35,000 gun deaths every year, 2.5 million good Americans use guns to protect themselves, their families, and their livelihoods - there are 65 lives protected by guns for every life lost to a gun - five lives are protected per minute - and, of those 2.5 million protective uses of guns, about 1/2 million are believed to have saved lives.
Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster...
If King George III had succeeded in confiscating the guns of the patriots, we would still be part of Great Britain.
- M. R.
Plate: Let's lay down our right to bear arms...
Those who beat their swords into plowshares wind up plowing for those who did not.
The hard fact is that with a government that it out of control and lying us into one war after the other, this is the very WORST time to disarm ourselves.
- M. R.
Dennis Kucinich has shot himself in the foot, pardon the pun, by alienating a huge majority of his most vocal and active online supporters, the 9/11 Truth Movement, in drafting legislation that will completely ban the purchase, sale, transfer, or possession of handguns by civilians.
Folks, the only way to rescind the Second Amendment is with another amendment. That requires passage by Congress and ratification by 3/4 of the states.
What this is, is that the Democrats are desperate for an issue they can ride into the 2008 campaigns, ANY issue, except of course the one the voters voted on last November; the war and the lies that got us into it. Global warming did not get the traction they hoped, so now the obvious plan here is to make gun control the 2008 manufactured issue.
- M. R.
April 19, 2007
Kucinich Seeks To Ban Hand Guns In America...
The Democrats, desperate to run on any issue BUT the legitimacy of the wars in the Middle East, have failed to generate any major traction with the global warming scam. So, looks like they are going to try to whip up gun control as the issue they can take into the 2008 elections, again, desperate to have any issue they can run on BUT the legitimacy of the wars in the Middle East.
It's politics as usual in Sodom on the Potomac - M. R.
The Right To Keep And Bear Arms...
In the wake of the tragic shooting massacre in Virginia this week gun control advocates have once again come crawling out of the woodwork to capitalize on the ill informed and automated response of blaming the destructiveness of a mentally ill person's rampage on the second amendment.
"When the law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime ... and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then," said police Lt. Craig Graydon. "We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area."
April 17, 2007
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