The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
Reports GunPundit. Throwing rocks is deadly force, depending on the size of the rock. I agree with Murdoc:
Murdoc’s weapon of choice to “fend off attackers” at the national border would not leave a “small welt.” But I still don’t think the “human rights activists” would like it.
The use of pepperballs probably makes more sense than paintballs either way.
… that sold a car to a drunk driver that killed a loved one in an alcohol related fatality? I wouldn’t. I don’t see why Eric Thompson doesn’t deserve the same consideration.
UPDATE: Also note that the VPC study Bryan links to reports gun deaths, not gun homicides as Bryan claims. There’s a difference between the two. Gun deaths include suicides. I do believe that lower levels of gun ownership tends to reduce the incidents of gun homicides, much like I believe that the lack of tall buildings in Boise probably translates into it having a lower per-capita suicide rate by jumping than, say, New York City or San Francisco.
The Weekly Standard thinks Hillary may have provided John McCain the key to defeating Obama:
In a new Brookings study of Pennsylvania’s political demographics, William Frey and Ruy Teixeira identify this region, centered on Allentown, as key to the state’s political future. If Pennsylvania’s Northeast keeps trending Democratic, the state will become solidly blue. But if a Republican candidate can hold the line or make some modest gains with the region’s white working class voters, the picture looks very different. And as it turns out, the GOP may have a candidate who can do just that in John McCain. As Hillary Clinton’s campaign slow-marches to its unhappy end, she is offering lessons not only for how McCain can defeat Obama–she is pointing towards a possible bright future for the Republican brand.
The Republicans have lost a lot in Pennsylvania, largely due to the Bush version of Republicanism alienating the traditionally Republican Philadelphia suburbs, and making those voters look elsewhere. That’s probably one reason I’m more sanguine about John McCain than most, is because I think the Republicans desperately need to make some gains in Pennsylvania, and McCain is probably the right kind of guy to appeal to voters in these key areas in the southeast. It’s not so much that I love the Republican Party, and want it to dominate, but I sit just across the river from a shining example of what one party rule does to a state. If Pennsylvania shifts solidly Democrat, if Ed Rendell is any indication of what is in long term store for us, we’re in a lot of trouble. Taxes will keep going up and up, people will keep leaving, and you can probably kiss Pennsylvania goodbye as a pro-gun state in a generation. If it takes McCain coattails to reverse that trend, so be it.
HatTip to Instapundit
UPDATE: Check out this graphic in the Inquirer that shows how Obama failed. It also shows that Ed Rendell had to carry near universal support in the Philadelphia area in order to win. Obama failed to not only carry overwhelming support in the southeast, he failed to beat Hillary.
Crap! I will try to get to the range tonight to shoot this match, but it’s been a rough month for finding shooty time, aside from my regularly scheduled matches. For one, I only spent the first weekend of the month at home. Every other weekend I’ve been in Virginia.  This weekend we took some new shooters out to the NRA range in Fairfax. The good news is, for the month of May, I’ll pretty much be home, except for the Louisville weekend.
The hearing on the Philadelphia gun control ordinances, originally scheduled for April 28th (today), has been rescheduled for May 19th, when we’ll all be in Louisville. Apparently the city is trying to make a standing argument.
At an April 17 hearing at which Greenspan granted an order temporarily blocking enforcement of the gun-control laws, the judge said she had misgivings about the organizations’ standing to sue. Generally, organizations cannot file a constitutional challenge without showing how their members are directly harmed by the law in question.
I’m an NRA member. I have firearms that are illegal under this law that I often transport through the City of Philadelphia. I am affected. I know other people who live in the city who will be affected, and are NRA members. NRA has standing. Why isn’t that obvious? Or is it, and they just want NRA off the suit, and are looking for an excuse?
I have to agree with Breda on this one.
Remember on Friday that the Brady Campaign cited a study which I derided as a workplace version of the “43 times more likely” Kellermann study. Firearms and Freedom has a more detailed post that hits on why the study is bogus. Pretty much, the study starts off biasing itself by selecting workplaces that have already had a violence incident as its case study.
Mike Adams details some anger issues with an anti-gun professor at the open holster protest at UNC Wilmington.
From Barack Obama, on what he thinks about DC’s gun ban:
I don’t like taking a stand on pending cases.
Translation: “I agree with the law, but I have to win Indiana or I might be screwed when it comes to wooing superdelegates.” I don’t know why he’s so worried when he has AHSA’s endorsement.
The Tribune once again notes that gun control advocates are remarkably silent. That’s because gun control activists are remarkably few, especially once you get outside of Chicago and New York City metro areas.