Among the rights that black bears have in New Jersey is not being killed by family pets when they wander onto your property. I’m surprised the mother didn’t kill the dog. A grizzly mama would have. Charges in this case are outrageous. The dog was penned, scaled the pen, and attacked the bear on their own property. What’s the problem?
Category: Politics
Denver Hunter Needs to Be an Election Issue
The Republicans, if they are smart, will make an election issue out of the hunter arrested at Pelosi’s hotel at the Democratic National Convention. Especially with these guys running around. Hunters need to understand that gun control is absolutely a threat to them, as this incident pretty clearly demonstrates. What are hunters more concerned about, do think, global warming, or ended up in jail and with charges because they drove through the wrong jurisdiction?
If I were NRA, I’d canvas Colorado and other hunting states pointing out this incident, and pointing out that Pelosi’s reaction showed no concerned for a hunter caught up in a legal technicality.
Calling Leni Riefenstahl
Bluenosers
Blue dog Democrats should know better than to cuddle up to Obama on guns. Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana, is one of those Democrats who should know better, but he doesn’t.
Geography Challenged
Most Americans aren’t very good at geography, but I would expect that when you’re Governor of Virginia, you’d know which states Virginia does and doesn’t border.
Plot to Assassinate Obama?
After they arrested a hunter, color me skeptical on this story:
One of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards,†according to the KUSA report.
The station said police found two high-powered, scoped rifles in the car along with camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, a bulletproof vest, a spotting scope, licenses in the names of other people and methamphetamines.
A public affairs official with the attorney’s office in Denver said they would provide no other information on the news conference.
Great, just what we need. I hope this turns out to be hype. There are a lot of whack jobs out there still who are probably losing their shit over the idea of a black man being president. If there is indeed a plot, good work on the part of the Secret Service for busting it up before they could carry it out.
Obama’s Other Anti-Gun Running Mate
So the Obama/Bayh bumper stickers were a leak to distract folks. It looks like it’s Joe Biden. So, like I did with Bayh, let’s look at Biden’s record. We don’t have to go far. Remember the YouTube debates where he said a gun owner was not “mentally qualified” to own guns for simply asking a question.
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- He takes pride in writing gun bans.
- He’s F-rated with NRA – the worst among almost all of the most talked about candidates.
- NRA highlights his recent threats to gun owners via his work on his Senate committee:
NRA has been tracking the U.N.`s gun-ban activities for well over a decade, and thanks to the Bush administration`s appointees to the U.N., the U.S. position on any global gun-ban treaty has been consistent and uncompromising: Hands off the Second Amendment rights of American citizens!
However, all that could change, now that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee–which approves or rejects our U.N. representatives and assesses international treaties for possible ratification–is chaired by anti-gun U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.
Like Schumer, Biden is rated “F” by the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) for his countless votes against firearm freedom. Like Schumer, Biden voted to expose the lawful firearm industry to crippling lawsuits; to extend and expand the Clinton gun bans; to allow a ban on most hunting-rifle ammunition; and to deny the free-speech rights of groups like the NRA during elections.
Now, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden can use his power to sabotage pro-freedom nominees for U.N. ambassador–as he did with Second Amendment defender John Bolton–and bully fellow senators into accepting whatever gun-ban treaty the U.N. concocts in the name of fighting international terrorism.
- Needless to say, he didn’t sign on to the Heller brief and doesn’t support efforts to reform DC’s gun laws.
Biden is bad news all around for any gun owner. Pair him with Obama, and it’s a far left gun ban ticket.
Obama’s Anti-Gun Running Mate
Now that Drudge has likely leaked the identity of Obama’s running mate, there are a few things gun owners should know about him.
- NRA rated him as D- in his last election.
- One reason is because he’s a liar. Take this example:
Sen. Bayh pledged last year [2004] to support legislation to block frivolous lawsuits against the firearm industry, and NRA sent a letter to Indiana members encouraging them to thank him. Sen. Bayh failed to honor his pledge and voted for the Reed amendment to completely gut S.397. When the Reed substitute was soundly defeated 63 to 33, Bayh voted against final passage of the bill.
- Bayh refused to sign on to legislation that would honor the Second Amendment rights of Washington, DC and would not sign on to an amicus brief in Heller with more than 54 of his colleagues in the Senate. It would seem he considers some to be more equal than others – a theme I’m sure Obama loves.
- He doesn’t support concealed carry reciprocity across the country, as evidenced by his refusal to sign on to S.388. Nor did he join a majority of his colleagues in supporting honoring state laws on firearms possession in National Parks through letters to the Department of Interior.
- He beat Paul Helmke’s ass in a landside – the largest a Democrat has ever won in an Indiana statewide election. No word on if that speaks to Paul’s suckitude or Bayh’s appeal. Based on what we see in the gun world, likely the former.
Shut ‘Em Down Anyway
A developer in Connecticut is not stopping at anything to try and shut down Blue Trail Gun Range. First, they were sued over bullets supposedly hitting houses. Only they weren’t. But, the range went ahead and addressed some safety concerns and made changes.
Then the complaining party brought in family to use the strong arm of government and force a change.
Democratic Councilor Vincenzo DiNatale has asked local officials to consider whether Blue Trail, a North Branford Road range which abuts part of the reservoir, is posing a lead hazard to the water supply. …
DiNatale is the nephew of Pat DiNatale, a Durham resident who sued the range over alleged safety problems after bullets hit his home earlier this year.
What did they find? Nothing. Not a single bit of lead.
The legal lead limit for raw water is 50 parts per billion, while testing could not find even one part per billion in the water flowing from the Ulbrich, Adair said.
It doesn’t matter that they can’t even find one part per billion, as the headline states:
No lead, but issue isn’t dead
Popular Immunity
You know, if government officials and agents can claim qualified immunity, under the notion that the government can’t be sued for exercising its powers and duties, then, if popular sovereignty is truly the basis of our government’s legitimately, shouldn’t we have some kind of immunity for government agents suing citizens?