When competitive shooters like Jesse Duff are on morning TV shows, we’ve made it.
Author: Sebastian
Zimmerman Never Knew About SYG
So much for that narrative, that our opponents have been crowing about since the incident, suggesting that Stand Your Ground emboldens ordinary people to turn into murderers because the law makes it easier for them to get away with. Makes you wonder when the gun control crowd will realize they can’t win over ordinary people if they only have contempt for them. That must also be why the gun control crowd is bitching at the poll results.
ATF Boss Crushing Whistleblowing
Dave Hardy notes that the new boss ain’t much different from the old. In other news, it seems if I don’t post, someone else won’t come along and do it for me. Who knew?
Someone Else
I’m told I didn’t really create this blog, but that someone else did it. I’m going to do something else for a few hours, and see if someone else will come along with a post on some topic of interest. If not, I guess I’ll have to find something to write about then.
“Why Would You Shoot an Unarmed Teenager?”
Are Gun Owners Really Paranoid?
Canada has gun laws that our opponents in the gun control movement would no doubt love to see here, and yet a mass shooting still happened:
But society as a whole can do more by banning private ownership of handguns. Blair said pistols were obviously used in the devastation on Danzig St., with police recovering one at the scene. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine how this could have happened at all if the shooters didn’t have access to easily concealed handguns.
So do they really expect me to believe if we adopted Canadian style gun laws, and our numbers and political power were subsequently reduced greatly, major political figures would not also be calling for total prohibition? I can see the examples of what happens right before my eyes when gun owners are reduced to what they have been in Canada. No thanks. That’s why when gun control supports say “How can you be against it? It’s reasonable!!” Hell, I’ll admit, sometimes I think it is reasonable. But I’m not giving them anything that could strengthen their hand. I know what the end game is. You can see that end game being pushed in Canada.
The Corruption of Chief Ramsey
Anti-gun Philly police commissioner may have been guilty of some violations of the Uniform Firearms Act himself. It seems he was never sworn as a law enforcement officer in Pennsylvania until recently. An attorney alleges this constitutes a violation of Pennsylvania law, including gun laws, and demands that someone bring charges. The law… psssht… that’s only for the little people.
You’re Not Entitled To Your Own Facts
This ignorant editorial looks like it was penned by the VPC. The Fredrick News Post has to be getting pretty desperate if they are publishing dreck like this. but on the plus side, it seems to only be the real suckers in journalism that fall for this stuff this hard these days:
It was then that the NRA began to reinterpret the Second Amendment, thus giving birth to its political agenda, which eventually spawned the extremism of today.
This idea that the standard model of the Second Amendment was single handedly created by the NRA in the 1970s is one of the more insidious and persistent lies of our opponents. People like Patricia Weller, the author of this editorial, and “semi-retired legal assistant” is either willfully misleading people, or woefully uneducated on this issue. This is especially true given how much of the debates surrounding the ratification of the 14th Amendment were concerned about protecting the Second Amendment rights of newly freed blacks:
There are, however, many sources contemporary to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment that indicate the framers and ratifiers thought the Amendment supported an individual right to bear arms. As Professor Amar points out, ironically both abolitionists Joel Tiffany and pro-slavery activist Roger Taney reached the same conclusion: “if free blacks were citizens, it would necessarily follow that they had a right of private arms bearing.†Judge Timothy Farrar specifically included the right to “keep and bear arms,†as one of the rights protected under Article IV that could not be “infringed by individuals or States, or even by the government itself.â€
And that’s hardly the only source out there. Professor Akhil Amar and Steven Halbrook both have thorough scholarship in this area. This is generally accepted as fact everywhere except in the heads, thoroughly buried in the sand, of the anti-gun people. The anti-gun folks don’t get a pass on this. If you believe that the Second Amendment, as a fundamental, individual right, was an invention of the NRA in the 1970s, I’m here to say unequivocally you’re either delusional or poorly educated. You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Good Ad for Gun Owners
From John Richardson, who says “I think it is an effective and well done advertisement.”
I agree. I think it’s a lot more direct, and cuts to the real issue this November. I like it better than the “All In” rhetoric NRA’s PR firm came up with, which I think is cheesy.
Gun News is Slow
Looks like we’re hitting that summer news dry spell for the gun issue. Happens every year. So expect we’ll be taking some brief excursions into other topics as they come up. I’m a bit behind today, because I had a dentist appointment this AM, this time a routine cleaning. Dentist says it’s now time to crown the tooth he’s been bugging me about for a while, along with the usual bit about flossing more. So that’s going to cost me. I also just signed a contract for painting and other repairs on the outside of the house. I think it’ll make the house look much better, as well as protect it from further damage. I’m happy to finally be getting ahead of stuff, but I get nervous when I’m spending a lot more than I’m taking in.
I guess the lesson is to take better care of your teeth, and your house. I can blame previous owners for a lot of the house, but I’m afraid no one else has owned my teeth. That one is on me.