Category: Gun Rights

Yesterday was a pretty eventful day, and I’d like to recognize two big spenders in the Starbucks Appreciation Buycott. The first is Barron Barnett, who spent $72 dollars sending some coffee over to our troops. The second is Joe Huffman, who spent 132 bucks yesterday. [UPDATE: From Barron in the Comments “That wasn’t me, that was LC Scotty that dropped $75. I’ll be dropping about $90 on Via today at Safeway or online getting 3 of the 50 pack bulk boxes.”]

Lots of other bloggers participated, and if you leave a comment with a link to your post about it, I’ll update this post with your link. Since we had all that excitement yesterday, I need to get caught up on some work today, so I’ll be leaving you, otherwise, in Bitter and Jason’s hands until I manage to get caught up, hopefully later today. I’ll start off with the folks I have in open tabs. Didn’t get much blog reading in yesterday because I was too busy enjoying the sweet sweet tears of freedom haters who utterly failed yesterday.

No Lawyers, Only Guns and Money
Days of Our Trailers
When The Balloon Goes Up
Den of the Wolfman
Merlin’s Musings
Whipped Cream Difficulties
The Embedded Theologian
The Responsible Carrier
N.U.G.U.N.
The Eclectic Dragonfly

It’s a shame Peter Hamm is no longer with the Brady folks, because I could totally make a great joke here, but several people have informed me of the fact that the Brady folks are denying the boycott. This is perhaps an indication that Dan Gross is bringing some semblance of sensibility back to the Brady organization. Brady would now, at least, seem to know a lost cause when they see one.

In the mean time, the Brady discontents who have spun off into NGVAC are sadly reduced to begging celebrities for a retweet, and failing that even begging their own friends for some Twitter love, only to encounter crickets.

If they weren’t attempting to shred the Bill of Rights, I’d really feel sorry for them. I honestly question the mental stability of the proprietor of NGVAC, given the behavior today. I know when I’ve been beaten, and hope in that instance I’d have more grace and dignity than has been displayed today by some of our opponents.

For those not keeping track of Facebook, the event has passed 24,000 and is closing on 25,000. If you haven’t been to Starbucks today, it’s not too late!

UPDATE: When will the Coffee lobby come clean about their sales figures!

Bitter I went today. I was going to post my receipt, but I forgot to ask for one. Oops. Either way, we pumped 15 dollars into the Starbucks economy today. If Facebook is to be believed, there will be around 23,000 people that will join me.

Feel free to post a link or picture of your appreciation today, and don’t forget to let Starbucks Corporate know that you appreciate them staying out of the great gun debate. I’d also like to note that while the red velvet whoopee pies are good, they are no substitute for the full size red velvet cupcake, which I miss.

Justice Stephen Breyer encountered a machete-wielding intruder in his vacation home last week, so you’d think that he’d be a little more inclined to support the right of self-defense a bit more than he did in the days when he heard the Heller and McDonald cases. I doubt you’ll see him come around based on the history of which recent SCOTUS justices have been attacked and how they voted in the above cases. Fox News gives us an AP report with this background:

The last time a justice was the victim of a crime was in 2004, when a group of young men assaulted Justice David Souter as he jogged on the street in Washington.

In 1996, a man snatched Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s purse while she was out walking with her husband and daughter near their home in Washington.

In other words, experiencing an assault or robbery doesn’t seem to make them any more inclined to vote for a meaningful individual right to bear arms for defense.

Don’t forget that tomorrow is Starbucks Appreciation Day. So far we’re up to about 18,500 people who are confirmed to spend a little money at Starbucks tomorrow. It would be really nice to get that number to tip 20,000. If everyone spends just 10 bucks for coffee, and a pastry or two, that’s a noticeable uptick in daily sales. Meanwhile, our opponents have hidden their number from public view, because at last count it was utterly embarrassing for them.

Hear the final tale of her story of Emily getting her gun. But this is not over for her:

Now, this series is far from over. As I’ve found, the hurdles placed before gun owners do not end here. I need to figure out the laws on getting ammunition and transporting the gun to a state that allows practice shooting.

Most of all, I intend to keep pushing the Council of the District of Columbia to rewrite the its laws to make them fair and constitutional for law-abiding Americans.

Excellent. One of the great advantages to getting more women involved in shooting is that when they feel something is wrong, they have more tendency to try to do something about it than men do. Some of the most passionate new advocates for the Second Amendment I’ve met are newly minted female gun owners. I also believe politicians tend to be more sympathetic to women standing up for their Second Amendment rights than men.

I’m tired of seeing the media characterize the new preemption bill thusly:

The state House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would outlaw ordinances in 30 municipalities – including Reading – that require gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms within 24 hours of discovering them missing.

This bill would not outlaw those ordinances. Those ordinances are already outlawed under state law. All this would do is to put the cost of defending those laws on the municipalities that pass them in violation of state law, and give plaintiffs who challenge them attorneys fees and damages. All this bill does is place the burden where it belongs: on towns which violate state law by passing ordinances that relate to gun regulation.

Over at the Gun Values Board, they interview Dave Hardy of Arms and the Law.

While I can’t help but laugh at the tagline “Latest Gallup Poll Seems To Suggest Americans Becoming Increasingly Fearful,” it’s interesting that even the media in New York City now are doing stories on the number of women who are buying guns, and the Bradys are still essentially playing the ostrich strategy when it comes to dealing with the news. This is also interesting:

“Our membership has just exploded,” said Scott Bach, head of the New Jersey Association of Gun and Rifle Clubs. “People are waking up to the fact that they are responsible for their own safety.”

Good to hear that not only are new shooters coming in, but they are getting involved. I do hope the sand the Bradys are stuffing their heads in is nice and soft, because they may want to push a little harder and really get their ostrich heads down in there deep. I don’t think the news is going to get any better for them.

Hat tip to Cam & Company

UPDATE from Bitter: I notice that Dennis Henigan is listed as just an “anti-gun activist.” I guess Vice President for Law and Policy at the nation’s traditionally dominant gun control organization isn’t worth mentioning anymore.