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What’s Missing from the Brady Candle Lighting Ceremony?

Besides candles, what’s missing from their “big” announcement of a candle-lighting ceremony? Joe Huffman caught it.

They list a number of locations where you can join in a â€œNational Candlelight Vigilâ€. The interesting thing is they only list 28 locations in 15 states. There are no events in many of the cities and states where they claim to have chapters. This includes the supposed chapter in Arizona! This state in particular is significant because the event date, January 8th, was chosen as the anniversary of the Tucson, Arizona shooting in which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was severely wounded and six people were killed.

He includes the full list of Brady “chapters” who are not participating in their event, and you might be surprised at those who are sitting out. Delaware, the home “chapter” of Sarah Brady, is sitting this one out. Three-quarters of their chapters in New Jersey are planning on skipping this event. In the area surrounding their headquarters, the Maryland chapter and three of the four Virginia chapters are passing on the big day. Their chapter in Wisconsin must be demoralized after losing on concealed carry since they are also shying away from the event. There are more, those are just the highlights.

Gun Wielding Buddhists

That one of the most popular gun blogs is even talking about this is full of win. In less stable parts of the world, the value of being able to defend oneself is not lost.

The Importance of Women

When the Ballon Goes Up speaks of the importance of women in the gun culture. While I have no real evidence to back my hunch up, if I had to put my finger on the cultural phenomena that’s driving the normalization of gun ownership, it’s the fact that women are, more and more, beginning to understand its importance. This is not surprising given that in modern culture, women are delaying marriage and family, and living on their own in greater numbers.

Candlelight Vigils without the Candles

I swear, the Brady Campaign “big announcement” candlelight vigil actually falls into the category of sad the more you look into it. People have been joking about how they are advocating use of an item that’s actually pretty dangerous.

I noticed that several of their events in Pennsylvania, Texas, and California demand that you leave your candles at home when attending the candlelight vigil. Instead, it is mandatory that you only use flameless candles. For the California event with the restriction, the mandate is for LED lights only.

There is nothing they won’t try to control in your life – even your use of a candle at a candlelight vigil.

Remember, in a self-defense situation …

… if you use a gun, you’ll just end up getting that gun taken away from you. Like this robber did. How come the only occurrences I ever hear of this happening involve criminals getting a gun snatched by the victims?

Also, another rich neighborhood getting whacked by violent, armed individuals. This is probably the consequence of the disintegration in Philly heading out into the suburbs. Expect more of this.

That Old Tome …

You know the one, right? Guns from states with lax guns laws end up in the hands of criminals in states with strict gun laws?Â Apparently that causes gun violence, and the only solution is restricting the law abiding.

Limiting Gun Rights for Illegal Immigrants

A U.S. Court of Appeals rules that illegal immigrants aren’t among the folks protected by the Second Amendment. I’ve always found the logic for this a bit dubious, even post Heller. If the Second Amendment really is about the inalienable right to self-protection, then why is an alien’s right to this any less than mine?

I can accept that someone who is in this country unlawfully, perhaps could be deprived of certain rights after due-process of law, but to me, if you want to restrict unlawful immigrants of any constitutionally guaranteed right, you better convict them first. So I would argue the option of convicting an unlawful immigrant of firearm possession ought not be able to proceed until you’ve first convicted them of being in the country illegally. You should have to establish the first fact as a matter of law because you can establish the second.

What’s Your Diversity?

SayUncle shows his carry assortment. I have the requisite collection of holsters that never worked, but I only have two carry pieces. I tend to think everyone needs at least one “carry when you can’t really easily carry”Â option, and one “carry when you can actually conceal well” option.Â Beyond that I think it’s just getting too complicated, unless you get to the range enough with your carry rig to be proficient with all the options.

I have a Ke-Tec P3AT for very discrete carry, and a Glock 19 for when I can actually conceal. I sheepishly admit that I’ve never been big on carrying a spare magazine, so I actually have no holsters dedicated to that purpose.

What’s in your carry mix?

Houston ATF Chief, Retiring, Calls for More Gun Control

He’d like you know he’s gone up against a wide variety of criminals in his career, including Tim McVeigh (glad he was on top of that one, people could have gotten hurt). Now he’s saying we need to make changes to our laws to stop Mexican trafficking. Keep in mind that this gentleman ran a tight ship. A true American hero, we have here. A true champion for our opponents, no doubt.

The Big Brady Announcement…

There was some speculation about the big announcement being teased by the Brady Campaign today. With quite possibly the most ~~danceable~~ modern video ever produced by the anti-gun group, some wondered if it would be epic.

Did they secure Gabby Giffords as a new spokeswoman so they could re-launch as the Giffords Campaign? Did they snag a president that someone has actually heard of before today? Were they launching a rival campaign to Bloomberg’s efforts that continually rip the attention, headlines, and support away from their group?

I didn’t post about it because I had a gut feeling that it wasn’t terribly exciting. I figured that it would be a repackaged legislative initiative at best. I was so wrong. It was even less interesting than that.

The Brady Campaign wants you to light a candle.

Yes, they want you to light a candle. Because candles will stop violence. Their new webpage about candles says that lighting a candle will stop a bullet. What? You think I’m kidding?

Imagine stopping a bullet before it kills a child.
Impossible? Not with your help! All across America people are coming together to save lives from preventable gun violence. Will you join them, and the Brady Campaign, as we host a nationwide candlelight vigil to honor victims of gun violence?

Perhaps the candles will also inject some personality into Dennis Henigan as he reads his script. The candles might also buy them some new audio equipment. If candles can stop bullets, then they can do anything in this season of holiday miracles, right?