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.
Category: Guns
Make-A-Wish’s Hunting Ban
It’s long been known in the shooting and hunting communities that if a teen with a life-threatening medical condition has a desire to go hunting, Make-a-Wish will turn them down. Their wishes aren’t politically correct enough for the organization. This week, an Oregon outlet is covering a local Hunt of a Lifetime chapter and makes sure their readers know why Make-a-Wish decided to bar kids from hunting:
In 1998, Matt Pattison of Eerie, Penn., was losing his battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma when the Make-A-Wish Foundation denied his request.
Not only was the 19-year-old just over Make-A-Wish’s age limit, but his dream — for an Alaskan moosehunt — put the international nonprofit in a tough spot with certain donors, among them animal rights and gun control activists.
A year later, while Tina Pattison mourned her son, Make-A-Wish made its stance official — no hunting-related wishes.
Yup, gun control activists helped create the policy that it’s better to keep a dying teen out of their program instead of granting a wish that involves firearms or bows. How very reasonable of them. It’s just common sense, after all, to not even allow a 17-year-old who probably won’t see his/her 18th or 19th birthday to be considered for a hunting wish.
“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.
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.
Wishing She Had a Gun
“All I could think about was this bear is so close to me I can see its teeth. I could have kissed it. I wished I had a gun.”
Some bear spray would be a prudent addition to her kit as well.
Camel’s Nose in Wisconsin Carry Requirements
The DOJ in Wisconsin is busy adding on more requirements to obtain a concealed carry license. Having this be in the hands of bureaucrats is certainly not a good thing. While training is a good idea, I’ve never been convinced states that mandate training have measurably better results than states that do not mandate training. A moron is going to be a moron no matter how much you train them, and someone who isn’t a moron is going to seek out information and training on their own. Given that we can’t have moron tests for exercising rights, I tend to think mandated training only serves to discourage people from exercising their rights, rather than serve any serious public safety purpose.
Stratfor Analyst on Fast and Furious
The premium prices Mexican cartels are paying for guns mean that even if the U.S.-Mexican border could somehow magically be sealed tomorrow, arms merchants from elsewhere would be able to fill the void. Indeed, there are some weapons that the cartels simply cannot buy from the United States due to a lack of availability. Such weapons include hand grenades, 40 mm grenades, M60 machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and M-72 anti-tank rockets. Instead, the cartels buy such items from members of the Mexican military, militaries in countries such as Guatemala and El Salvador, or international arms dealers.
Interesting note in the article that cartels are apparently using 80 lower receivers. How far do you go before you’re legally regulating blocks of aluminum? As we have demonstrated, it’s not hard to make a gun, so it’s not surprising the cartels are machining their own from 80 stock.
Who Wants a 1911?
TICKETS SOLD – sorta, see below for update
Our Friends of NRA committee is giving away three of them in a limited raffle. You can win a Kimber Custom II, Kahr 1911A1 Parkerized, or Remington R1.
3 Guns ~~~ 200 Tickets ~~~ 20 Bucks
Anyone who buys tickets has incredible odds. Presuming we even sell all of the tickets, that’s about a 1 in 67 chance for only $20. If we don’t sell all of the tickets by the end of the day on Oct. 15, well, your odds go up.
All money raised goes to support the NRA Foundation programs – the shooting stuff, not the political stuff. So if you want to help us reach more junior shooters and more women, then take a chance and buy a ticket.
If you’d like a ticket, then shoot me an email and we’ll make arrangements for payment and mailing the ticket stub/receipt to you. If you’re not in the Philadelphia area, you will have to arrange shipping for the gun to be sent to an FFL near you.
UPDATE: Some folks have asked about how the gun selection will go for the three tickets drawn. The first ticket drawn wins the first gun on the ticket – the Kimber. The second ticket gets the second gun – the Kahr. The third ticket gets the final gun listed – the Remington. Also, as a reminder, the winner is responsible for either picking up the gun from the local FFL here in Bucks County, Pennsylvania or responsible for having it shipped to a local FFL.
UPDATE II: If you have commented or emailed and haven’t received directions from me on how to purchase, then it’s because I’m in a holding pattern with tickets. We are thisclose to selling out the raffle now. I am technically out of tickets. There is one committee member left with some, but she believes she has likely buyers. If I find out that she has not sold out by the date of our banquet, I’ll see how many she has left and start responding again. So, for now, hold off on comments and emails. Even if she can’t move her remaining tickets, I like have enough buyers who will take them off our hands after next week.