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Category: Guns
Joe Grace Looking To Run for City Council
Apparently he’s no longer heading up CeaseFire PA, apparently running against Councilman DiCicco’s record, which includes taking of a nearly half a million dollar retirement package and then not retiring. Gotta love Philly politicians. I’m glad Grace is done with CeaseFire PA. He was an effective leader for them, and a good spokesman, and with him moving on I suspect they will go back to being rudderless and impotent.
“This is Not Over”
So says Brian Aitken on his legal matters. This indicates he’s planning to move forward with his appeal. Good news.
Wishful Thinking
At least one MIT history professor thinks Breyer and Stevens’ dissent was correct. Unfortunately for her, Stevens’ dissent has been thoroughly discredited, and just based on this article, Professor Maier has only superficial knowledge of the scholarship in this area. What she does know she’s obviously using to bolster her pre-conceivded notions, rather than looking at what the founders really had to say about the topic.
Bryan Miller on Aitken’s Pardon
Bryan Miller, who never met a gun owner he didn’t hate, has this to say about Brian Aitken’s clemency:
Bryan Miller, project director for the anti-gun violence group Ceasefire NJ, said only a “tiny majority” of people actually want to loosen the state’s gun laws. He hopes others don’t see the governor’s decision on Aitken as a precendent for “a get-out-of-jail free card for breaking our gun laws.”
Interesting that he didn’t have anything bad to say about the commutation of Aitken’s sentence. That goes to show Miller isn’t blinded by ideology to the point of stupidity. He’s hoping this doesn’t have greater implications for New Jersey’s gun laws, rather than trying to fight the media tide in favor of Governor Christie’s clemency.
A Message from Brian Aitken
He’s home. Best of luck to you Brian, and I hope you enjoy your holidays back home with your family where you belong. It’s worth noting that ANJRPC is asking people to call Governor Christie and thank him. I agree this is very important. We need to be good at the positive as well as negative reinforcement. You can find contact info for Governor Christie here.
More on the ATF Power Grab
Dave Hardy notes how the Firearms Owners Protection Act has specific protections against what ATF is trying to implement, and urges people to contact their legislators. Congress can take action against this, and should. Out of control bureaucrats are a specific pet peeve of mine, and if there’s one things the Republican Congress could do that I think would be popular among the people is start calling these agencies before it and reminding them they do not have any power beyond that which Congress authorizes.
Own Worst Enemies
An NRA instructor is leading the charge to ban toy guns in a California town. I could accept restricting their sale to minors, but a ban? If an adult waves around a toy gun and a cop thinks it’s real, that’s his problem, not mine.
Tightening the Tourniquet
They told us California Condors were getting lead poisoning from lead bullets, so, on flimsy evidence, California banned them for hunting. Now California Condors are still showing up with lead poisoning, and they are blaming adjacent states who don’t have the law. To me this is evidence that the poisoning is from other sources, but for the Center for Banning Ammunition, it’s just more evidence that we need a comprehensive ban.
Personally, I don’t give a flying rat’s behind about the California Condor, and I’ve questioned whether we’re just delaying the inevitable. So I guess I’m not much of a conservationist. The worst we can do to life on this planet is destroy ourselves. Life will continue no matter what we do. Given that we’re very good at self-destruction, I’m not about to get very worked up over any particular method we may use to accomplish it. Either way, we’ll survive just fine without California Condors, and so will most everything else. The only reason to keep them around is human vanity and selfishness. Mother Gaia could care less whether they live or die, and the same could be said for us.
UPDATE: I forgot that I had a post that shows the California Condor’s range. Notice anything about the central California population? They might not know borders, but something about them make them like California.
ATF Move Becoming Big News
Naturally, the mainstream media is just in love with this topic. First from the New York Times. Even the Dallas Morning News is jumping on board. Scripps is covering with the unbaised headline of “Gun lobby blocks efforts to stem border violence.”
This would be shaping up to be the ground we will do battle with our opponents. The question is, how do I feel about fighting on this ground? Very good. I can think of very few things that will drive your average NRA member and gun rights enthusiast into a seething rage than having ordinary folks’ gun purchases reported to the government because the Mexican Government can’t get its act together, and our government refuses to do anything about the border. In addition, ATF has no legal authority to do what they are requesting. It’s a blatant power grab, and one that will likely have congressional repercussions.
The media will hew and haw, but we’ll win this one, and we’ll have ammunition to use against the Administration come the 2012 elections.