Thirdpower wants to know how many candidates are groveling before the Brady Campaign to beg for their support. Good question. If the answer is greater than zero, I’m not seeing any evidence of it.
Year: 2007
Looks Like I wasn’t the only blogger …
Back and Charging
I’m back in Pennsylvania, and back to the charger for my laptop. Did some wobble trap and skeet this morning with Countertop over at Bull Run. I still suck at skeet. I haven’t quite gotten the hang of where I need to lead the bird in order to hit it. It’s certainly much farther ahead than you have to do with trap. I was surprised by how far ahead I was leading when I was actually hitting the bird.
I’m a Dummy
Blogging this weekend may be a little lighter than the usual weekend light blogging.  I drove down to Northern Virginia last night and realized I forgot to bring the charger for my laptop. Oops. I have my back lighting turned way down, and have two hours left on the meter.
So I’m faced with either having to conserve battery power, or run over to the Apple Store in Tyson’s Corner and getting another charger to leave here, so I don’t have to remember to wrap up the one I use at work.
I Hope This Was a Misstatement
I hope the reporter on this article got this bit wrong:
Giuliani, who is banking a large part of his campaign on public safety as well as defense of the Second Amendment, told the audience that he would protect the right to bear arms in the way he did as a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan administration and as mayor of New York.
“I’ll work to make sure that if somebody commits a crime, they go to prison. If somebody commits a crime with a gun, they’ll go to prison for even more time and for mandatory sentences. No plea bargains, no exceptions; you go to jail. That’s the way to reduce crime,” Giuliani said. “We need to have zero tolerance for crime committed with a gun. After all, it’s people that commit crimes, not guns.”
Emphasis mine. If there’s anything Rudy did as Mayor of New York City, protecting the right to keep and bear arms was not among them. In fact, I’m pretty sure Rudy actively pissed on it every chance he got as mayor. A fact that I hope he’s not thinking we’ll just overlook.
Gun Loving Pervert?
Somehow I think more than a few of my readers probably fit this profile :)
Career Choices Guaranteed to Shorten Life
Choosing to rob gun shops is one such poorly thought out career choice.  What’s surprising to me was he wasn’t wearing the firearm on his person. I don’t know any gun shop owners around here that don’t do that.
Sign Your Freedom Away Here Please
I completely sympathize with Megan McArdle over the process for getting Sudafed. Is there a constituency that’s really pushing this kind of law? Or is this how far our political class as sunk in terms of how they view their fellow citizens?
If you click through the link she supplies to Overlawyered here:
For a while now, lawyers in Minnesota, Oklahoma and elsewhere have been suing companies that make over-the-counter cold remedies containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine on the grounds that they were aware some buyers were using the drugs as raw material for illegal methamphetamine labs. Now such litigation appears to be gaining momentum in Arkansas, where many county governments have signed up to sue Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and other companies. “If successful, it could open up litigation against manufacturers of other produce used in making meth, such as drain cleaners and acetone.”
Those of us in the gun blogosphere are all too familiar with this tactic, since it was also used on gun manufacturers.
Packing Heat to Synagogue
Go read Keyboard and a .45’s account of a negligent discharge by a retired police officer in a Dallas synagogue. The importance of a proper holster can’t be stressed enough.  Few guns risk discharge by being dropped, but as JR points out, it looks as if he probably grabbed the gun on the way down and pressed the trigger. If a gun falls out of your holster, and it’s happened to me once, the best thing is just to let it go. You risk more from trying to catch it than you do from it hitting the ground.
Oregon Teacher CCW
Ahab has a pretty good summary up of this. I haven’t covered it, because while I think these cases are good for everybody, just to get people debating the issue, I do kind of wonder why she’s taken this route.
If it were me, under threat of violence from another person, there’s no law or policy that’s going to prevent me from defending myself. In that circumstance, the last thing I would want to do would be to draw attention to the situation.
I do hope she wins, however, because it honestly doesn’t make a lot of sense to restrict someone who is licensed to carry everywhere else, from carrying in schools or other public building. A concealed weapon doesn’t suddenly become more dangerous by entering certain buildings.