2009 – Page 179 – Shall Not Be Questioned

US Conference of Mayors Demands Brady Agenda

Yet Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, president of the mayors’ conference, says there is little time to spare. He says his group wants the assault weapons ban reinstated and federal legislation to limit gun purchases.

“Typically, when these things happen in our cities, statements are made, and then the issue goes away,” he says. “It doesn’t go away for us. We need help.”

It won’t go away for you until you have the courage to remove dangerous people from society, rather than trying unsuccessfully to remove dangerous objects.Â We can’t all live in a padded cell.Â The really interesting bit of this article, though, is the graphic:

So we know these things a) are not new, and b) tend to spike with bad economic times.Â All things considering, it’s pretty clear gun laws don’t have much of an effect.

Bloomberg to Run Anti-Gun Ads in Virginia

NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is paying for ads to run in Virginia urging a ban on private sales.

New York’s mayor and relatives of Virginia Tech massacre victims are releasing a new television ad next week urging the state to close a gun show loophole.

The second anniversary of the shooting is next Thursday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will join victims’ relatives in Arlington on Monday to release the ad.

Two quick things:

The Virginia Tech shooter did not buy his guns at a gun show or through a private sale.Â This ad serves no purpose other than to use the victims to advance a political agenda.
The timing was picked for no other reason than public relations grandstanding considering the Virginia General Assembly went out of session in February.Â In fact, they met for the last time this week just to review vetoes and actually overrode two vetoes of pro-gun legislation.

Drop the Pie!

Pennsylvania health authorities are busy fighting a massive threat to public health: Lenten fish-fry dinners:

On the first Friday of Lent, an elderly female parishioner of St. Cecilia Catholic Church began unwrapping pies at the church. That’s when the trouble started.

A state inspector, there for an annual checkup on the church’s kitchen, spied the desserts. After it was determined that the pies were home-baked, the inspector decreed they couldn’t be sold.

“Everyone was devastated,” says Josie Reed, a 69-year-old former teacher known for her pumpkin and berry pies.

Sold for $1 a slice, homemade pies have always been part of the Lenten fish-fry dinners at St. Cecilia’s, located in this tiny city near Pittsburgh. Similar dinners are held in church basements and other venues across the country this time of year.

Look at them!Â Bloody Catholics filling the bloody world up with bloody pies they can’t bloody sell! Clearly these marauders are going to kill us all if it weren’t for the fine people at the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

This is apparently what caused the recent bills that are meant to exempt non-profits from these insane requirements.

How to Pass Gun Control: A Liberal’s Plan

This screed suggesting the “new” idea to enact gun control is laughable.

The solution is obvious, create an alternate organization that supports gun ownership but in a responsible manner. I would call the new organization the “American Rifle Organization” (ARA) or something similar. (sic)

They would have progressive gun ownership rules like the following:

1. Support for single action rifles, shotguns and Revolver Handguns only.
2. Licensed and certified gun ownership.
3. Separation between public, police and military style weapons. It would be illegal for the public to purchase or own police and military style weapons.
4. No public ownership of automatic or semi-automatic weapons.

Apparently no one told the Air America hosts that someone is already trying it, and it’s not working.

Campus Carry Update

If the polls released over the past few days are making the Brady’s crap their pants, this news is going to have them reaching for the Imodium.Â Â The Missouri House has passed a bill that eliminates the restrictions that people with concealed weapons licenses face on college campuses.Â Â Best part?Â It passed 106-41.Â A House committee in Texas also recently passed the same bill, 5-3, sending the bill to the full House for consideration.

We’d like to congratulate the new NRA State Liaison for Missouri on the victory there.Â Prior to her new position in State and Local Affairs, she was the Media Liaison who handled blogger outreach, sending us press releases and answering our questions.Â So we’re very happy for this accomplishment.

Small of Back Carry

Brillianter takes issue with a method of carry we’ve probably all tried at some point or another, namely small of the back carry.Â I carried this way for several months when I first got my license, because it seemed like a reasonable place to conceal.

Strong side carry seemed too bulgy and when you first start to carry, you think everyone can notice that.Â Truth is, bulges along your side are normal these days with all the crap people carry around with them.Â Bulges along your back are not.

Now I carry a Glock 19 at 4:00 strong side, in a Kydex in-waistband holster.Â If I can’t wear an outer-shirt, 2:00 works with a shirt pulled over, even though it’s not as comfortable.Â The Kel-Tec P3AT I carry in a pocket holster either in the strong side front pocket, or in my inside coat pocket, which makes for a nice cross draw.

Inky Looking for Content, Finds Brady Campaign

It looks like along with all of their money, the Philadelphia Inquirer has also lost all of their creative thinking abilities. In an effort to fill their editorial page this morning, the Inky decided to simply publish the current Brady agenda and slap their own name on it, calling it an editorial.

But the starting point has to be stricter gun control measures – including a national assault-weapon ban, wider reporting of lost and stolen guns, universal background checks, and limits on handgun purchases.

Round 2 of Helmke v. Feldman

It appears that Paul Helmke and Richard Feldman are back for another round of point/counterpoint today.

Where’s My Wheelbarrow of Cash?

I’m going to take this issue up with the NRA.Â And here all this time I’ve been promoting NRA out of concern for the cause.Â What a fool I’ve apparently been.Â Thank you, thank you, lefty bloggers, for showing me the light.

Bad Idea Out of Germany

The Germans are known for probably the best idea humanity has ever come up with, and unfortunately, also one of the worst.Â This decidedly lies betwixt beer and Hitler, but is not in the realm of good ideas, if you ask me:

Germany may require gun owners to lock weapons in safes that can only be accessed with a fingerprint, as the country considers tightening firearms laws after last monthâ€™s school shooting, a government minister said.

That sounds all well and good until you slice your finger open cleaning your gun for a match the next day, and then can’t get into your safe in the morning because you marred your fingerprint.Â It also makes you susceptible to problems like this, which are common to a lot of electronic locks.Â There are also ways to defeat thumbprint scanners, and electronic locks, if you’re clever.Â In the case of many electronic locks, you don’t even have to be that clever.

Personally, I don’t think you can beat the old fashioned dial combination lock for both security and reliability.Â Properly taken care of, they will last a long time.Â Incidents like what happened in Germany are exceedingly rare.Â Thieves breaking into houses to steal guns are a lot more common.Â I think it would be short sighted for the German Government to mandate a type of lock that is easier for thieves to defeat, in order to prevent something much more rare.