I admit I've been looking for the right opportunity to use this icon
And this is about as clear of an opportunity as I have. Our side has facts, statistics, and reality. Their side has I think perhaps the Brady folks need to remove some tags on their photos. Take a look at this Facebook picture, and hover over some of the pictures and look at the captions. Apparently some anti-gun folks believe gun owners are compensating for “a small wiener” and lack of getting “laid in high school?” Puhleeeeze. I guess we can assume anti-gun people were picked on or...
posted @ 3/8/2010 9:27:32 AM | Feedback (11)
Hear that?
It's the sounds of billions of people shooting their way through National Parks today. Blood will run in the pine needles, Yogi Bear will be riddled full of holes while searching for picanick baskets, and Old Faithful will be used for target practice. At least, that's what some of the screeching from the anti-rights bigots sounds like. Update Apparently, it's a PSH holiday! Then that calls for one of these
posted @ 2/22/2010 9:50:21 AM | Feedback (2)
Talking trash and selling it like treasure
I can't get to the link over at GunPundit, so I'm going to have to base my perception on what Murdoc has posted. This is a comment about Open Carry in Michigan bewise wrote: I think only police, FBI, CIA, and whoever has to deal with secret documents or big amount of money, should be armed, and no body else. The reason I say that is based on a personal experience in Europe. I could have killed someone who kept half of the money from my job that he liked a lot, but saying that he was...
posted @ 2/1/2010 2:02:29 PM | Feedback (7)
Felons and guns
This story is sad. The Fail Boat set sail early in this one and touched many ports. Here's the short story. Dude pulls a burglary in 1990 and is convicted. Does his time. Gets married, settles down, has a kid. Someone breaks into his home so he calls police. Police come, he shows them around, even points them to his wife's .22 and .380 she owned before they met. He's now busted and back in jail. At 18, Luke Groves made a bad decision and ended up with a felony conviction. I don't know the...
posted @ 1/8/2010 9:07:34 AM | Feedback (31)
It makes the same amount of sense as the vast majority of gun laws do
This Fail Blog post (and I don't know the veracity of it) is about as useful as pretty much every gun law out there A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed. The sad thing is that while I'd expect 99.999999% of humanity to see this as a joke of a concept, I've been repeatedly reminded that plenty of people can't logically comprehend why that wouldn't work....
posted @ 11/9/2009 9:56:03 AM | Feedback (5)
When emotional hysterics aren't enough
Pull out a random number out of your ass and speak of it as a fact And owning a gun won't help you. In fact, according to the latest FBI statistics . just owning a gun can actually get you killed. Because, while 75% of cops who get shot in the line of duty get shot with their own gun, over 95% of civilians who get shot get shot with their own gun! Of course, there's no link to back that assertion up. Not a surprise. It's hard to hyperlink one's nether-regions.
posted @ 10/22/2009 1:26:45 PM | Feedback (3)
Who needs the Bradys
When your own side is firmly against you? My earlier post had nothing to do with Sebastian directly. He just happened to, like clockwork, chime in about open carrying in his usual manner. You see, to Sebastian, everything is political and a PR stunt. There is a time and place to open carry, to exercise your rights, but so far, Sebastian has yet to find a single instance where he thinks it is OK to do so. And trust me, he believes his view on the matter is the final word. For example I am...
posted @ 10/12/2009 2:52:21 PM | Feedback (42)
Spankings
Anti-gunners spout off. Facts are given. Anti's hit bottom, keep digging. When someone hands you your ass on a silver platter, that's not an invitation to put it back on and try again.
posted @ 7/7/2009 6:50:06 PM | Feedback (4)
Flat Earthers and the gun control movement
I once saw a bumper sticker that derided religion by saying "The Bible was written by people who thought the Earth was flat". Now, I'm not here to defend the accuracy of the Bible nor the religion itself, but to bring up a point about believing in a flat planet. Algebra was invented by people who thought the world was flat, as was most of the basis for science as we know it today. And why shouldn't they have believed that? There was no proof at the time that the Earth was a sphere....
posted @ 7/1/2009 10:00:23 AM | Feedback (14)
If this article is any indicator of the education he is receiving
This kid's parents should demand a full refund. An example of the fine logical skills this child is learning Similarly, gun ownership is a right that we allow to be restricted for a right we value slightly more: our right to ride the bus without worrying that the lunatic sitting next to us is going to decide to back up his blithering diatribe with a bullet. Because we all know tough laws will make deranged lunatics sane… Or maybe just owning a gun makes you a deranged lunatic. I just...
posted @ 6/24/2009 7:58:39 PM | Feedback (5)
Secret lists cannot stop firearm purchases
Bootlickers mess their unmentionables People on Terrorism Watch List Allowed to Buy Guns, Explosives By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 22, 2009; 3:45 PM People named on the government's terrorist watch list have successfully purchased firearms hundreds of times since 2004 , government investigators reported yesterday. In one case, a known or suspected terrorist was able to buy more than 50 pounds of explosives, the Government Accountability...
posted @ 6/22/2009 4:44:04 PM | Feedback (24)
Stereotype much?
Thirdpower writes about a new anti-gun bigot, Laura Eshelman. Bigot responds in kind Oh, give it a rest. You guys are always so darn uptight and angry- perhaps while you're ranting and raving about liberty restrictions, you should consider lobbying for marijuana legalization. It's been proven to be effective in many cases for stress reduction; I'm sure it would make even the most virulent of you gun nuts a little bit nicer (and less likely to get pissed off and shoot innocent people). ...
posted @ 6/16/2009 3:46:04 PM | Feedback (5)
Smart fail!
Smart guns cannot be used by anyone but the actual owner. Unless you're not the owner and you pull the trigger. Then all bets are off.
posted @ 5/28/2009 10:51:37 AM | Feedback (0)
Taken to task
With the OMG LOADED WEAPONS IN PARKS DRUNK REDNECKS SHOOTING IT OUT OVER THE LAST SCHLITZ!!!!! craze going on in all the newspapers over the continent, there are two things that I've noticed. One, the complete inability of the authors to discern the difference between peaceful, law abiding citizens and murderers (that's par for the course), and apparently, regardless of where the paper is located, the commenters simply ripping them to shreds. Even over at Alternet! I wonder what it's like to...
posted @ 5/26/2009 8:18:02 AM | Feedback (2)
Explains it all
Remind me again what the hell the term 'liberal' is supposed to mean? Frustrated liberals are asking why a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House can't manage to close the Guantanamo prison or keep new gun-rights laws from passing. Preventing rights apparently is the new liberal way.
posted @ 5/24/2009 1:26:46 PM | Feedback (13)
Of course it's emotional
It's all the anti-gunners can rely on. Althouse might get misty eyed over a 'beautiful' anti-gun ad, but her commenters definitely are giving her much more to weep on.
posted @ 5/15/2009 3:27:45 PM | Feedback (4)
If you live in Idaho and would like to know where NOT to by a gun
Figure out where this sphincter-chinchilla works Now compare that to the 4 to 5 guns sold daily before the election. Gun owners are scared of harsher gun laws. But when looking at recent shootings, McGary doesn't think that's necessarily a bad thing. "Five to six people that come in and want a gun, my gut feeling says, don't sell them a gun," says McGary. "I think they need to have stricter regulations. I really do," says McGary. They don't mention the gun...
posted @ 4/6/2009 1:25:59 PM | Feedback (9)
Anti-gunner math: 90 = 17
Too bad it's a lie 90% of traces, not 90% of all guns. No matter how hard they push the meme, it's still a lie and more and more people are catching on.
posted @ 4/2/2009 12:41:59 PM | Feedback (8)
Poor reasoning skills
Uncle has a little article up about some restaurant owner up in arms about the possibility of arms in a restaurant that happens to serve alcohol. It’ll be worse than the Wild West – back then, they wore their guns on their hips where you could see them. Wyatt Earp made them take off their guns when they went into bars. This is ridiculous. Crazy. There are a million scenarios where this could be a disaster – jealous boyfriends, jealous girlfriends, jealous spouses. It’s a bad, bad idea, and...
posted @ 3/24/2009 9:56:37 AM | Feedback (2)
There's a reason I don't post about dental hygiene here
You see, this is a gun blog. I post stuff about guns, because that's a subject I'm familiar with. I don't post about the proper amount of fluoride required to maintain healthy tooth enamel because it's outside of my area of expertise. You see, when you step outside of what you know, your commenters will come in and slap you silly. Favorite comment Since when is this site about gun rights. I read this site simply for environmental issues not for the Democratic party stance.
posted @ 3/24/2009 8:31:33 AM | Feedback (2)
Safer workplaces through Hannibal Lecter style masks
Howard Nemerov takes on the Brady's and their views that guns in the workplace are unsafe BLS data shows that the only category with a smaller number of non-fatal, work-related incidents is rape, and shootings make up 0.6% of all assaults and violent acts. People are four times more likely to get bitten at work than shot. BAN ASSAULT INCISORS NOW! Nobody needs high capacity bicuspids or military styled molars!
posted @ 3/20/2009 2:01:24 PM | Feedback (3)
Copy & Paste
Via Caleb, I read an article from one Kimberly Tsao entitled It’s time to take control of handgun laws. Caleb does a decent job of picking apart her arguments, so I won't go into that here, but what I wanted to point out is the apparently complete inability for college students to think for themselves. Kimberly's argument is the exact same pabulum repeated time and time again in college newspapers. It's an article that needs not be written as it has been the staple of anti-gun writings for...
posted @ 3/19/2009 8:59:50 AM | Feedback (2)
Will there be goose-stepping?
This phrase makes my skin crawl Whether the gun is a wartime souvenir collected by a family or was purchased in another state and transported into New York, residents will be able to fulfill their legal responsibility to register the firearm. It's an unconstitutional requirement by the government, it's not a 'responsibility'. Calling it a responsibility to grant the government more control over your life is on par with telling the Jews it's their responsibility to register and get the...
posted @ 3/17/2009 1:58:41 PM | Feedback (3)
Shades of idiocy
CalGuns has filed a lawsuit in D.C. alleging that the California "Safe" Handgun Roster is unconstitutional. This line though, just floors me An XD-45 Tactical Bi-Tone which couldn’t be rostered because it’s a different color than its rostered functional identical equivalents. It's not safe because it's not the right color? Tell me again that gun control has anything to do with safety. And do it without cracking a smile.
posted @ 3/9/2009 1:36:32 PM | Feedback (6)
Their Fail = our Win!
Awwww… Too bad! WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- New York City on Monday failed before the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a lawsuit it filed against the gun industry.
posted @ 3/9/2009 11:15:22 AM | Feedback (1)
You'll put your eye out
Why bother with critical thought when you can just make a blanket rule? Is a BB gun a firearm? That's the issue the Park, Beach and Recreation Commission is wrestling with, after receiving a request by local Scouting leaders to allow BB guns at a summer camp in Eisenhower Park. … The regulations for the 171-acre Webb Mountain Park in Monroe are clear: "Weapons of any kind, including firearms, air guns, archery, paint ball guns and martial arts implements, are prohibited.'' ...
posted @ 3/8/2009 8:53:27 PM | Feedback (3)
It's in the public's best interest
This quote is beyond asinine But Leveritt emphasized that it's also in the public interest to ensure that dangerous people aren't granted concealed-carry permits. "The most important thing is to keep these permits from falling into the hands of convicted felons," Leveritt said. "And if that is what you want to do, there is nothing worse that you could do than to hide the names of the people with these permits." Emphasis mine. Let's think about this for a minute. We...
posted @ 3/6/2009 1:40:14 PM | Feedback (8)
Remember when I said you can't ban any firearms unless you ban them all?
Case in point Walther says the change would treat BB guns and similar items the same as firearms. Those guns can't be carried in public without a permit. Seems like they've had some cases of vandalism with bb guns. Shooting out windows with a bb gun is already illegal. I guess this is just another way of making it illegaller or something. I've had my house vandalized by some punk with a BB gun. I don't blame the gun, I blame the punk. Making it more illegal to shoot my daughters' windows...
posted @ 3/4/2009 11:49:31 AM | Feedback (5)
Stuck on stupid
So, reading through some comments regarding the Commercial Appeal and their decision to publish a searchable database of concealed weapon permit holders, there was this comment that I've seen said time and time again that I want to address (again, as it is). The boneheaded argument is this But, I thought the argument was that if you were armed you were LESS likely to be the victim of crime. So, which is it? No gold star for you, buddy. Being armed doesn't automatically make one less...
posted @ 3/2/2009 10:12:06 AM | Feedback (1)
Mike W. gives an excellent expose on Reasoned Discourse
Good stuff Why? because for someone like Catherine to do so (admitting you've got nothing) would be far too emotionally damaging. For her it's more than just a basic logical, reasoned argument with facts, points, and counterpoints. She has to attempt to argue a factually indefensible position without tying herself in an emotional knot. Deep down she knows it's indefensible, which is why the progression of the discussion leads to evasion, projection, and self-inflating puffery via childish...
posted @ 2/6/2009 3:12:23 PM | Feedback (2)
Case in point
Ignorance is the anti gun lobby's greatest (and only) asset. Read this post and see how many factual and logical errors you can count. You might want to take off your shoes to help. If you can make it through the Byzantine commenting process, feel free to chime in. I know my readers will be courteous and respectful. UPDATE! Apparently this Harriett has fairly thin skin and instead of refuting my comment, she's pulled the entire post, effectively taking her ball and going home.
posted @ 1/27/2009 12:46:22 PM | Feedback (19)
Manufactured and intensified PSH
  Imagine if you will a law that was passed that no longer made it required that parents force their children to wear helmets when riding wheeled conveyances. If you wish, you can protect your child, but it is no longer mandatory and instead, you had the freedom to choose to ensure your child's safety as you saw fit. Would this lead make any sense? Lawmakers passed a bill that would force parents to discontinue efforts to protect their children from bicycle accidents was passed today... No....
posted @ 1/26/2009 8:06:00 PM | Feedback (8)
Time to become an iPhone developer
I keep reading PSH over the iPhone BulletFlight 1.0 app. If something that simple is going to cause embolisms in the gun fearing wussies, I need to get into that action. Read this panty-waist's freak-out So as an aspiring iPhone developer, what's a good way to cash in on all this hoopla? Of course -- it's to release your uber-realistic sniper app on the day of Obama's inauguration. Poor taste, indeed. This app is not a game -- it's a fully functional app that a real sniper could attach to...
posted @ 1/21/2009 2:02:05 PM | Feedback (13)
Hopenchange PSH
You'd almost think it was something from the Onion, but you'd be wrong iPhone helping snipers at inauguration? Could a new iPod touch application help snipers at the inauguration? BulletFlight, an application that can be downloaded from the iTunes store, turns an iPod touch or iPhone into an external ballistics computer. Hat Tip Greg
posted @ 1/20/2009 11:58:21 AM | Feedback (2)
Nobody needs a car capable of 120+ mph
Patrol: Car Topped 120 MPH In Chase Before Hitting Manatee Inn A woman fleeing state troopers reached speeds of nearly 130 mph before crashing into Knights Inn and sending five people to the hospital Sunday morning. Got it? Some bimbo decides that she's not going to stop for any cop, blows through a red light at 100 mph, and then crashes into a hotel injuring herself, a child, and an elderly woman (all in her car), as well as 2 others, all because car-nuts have the mythical "right" to own...
posted @ 12/15/2008 3:33:51 PM | Feedback (17)
All we need is love
Or not... Aggression can be a very positive trait in some circumstances. Don’t believe me? When somebody decides to victimize you, and the cops aren’t anywhere around, try giving them a hug and understanding their childhood. When he gets done strangling you with your own pantyhose, let me know how that turned out for you. Larry gives a gun-fearing-wussy one hell of a smackdown
posted @ 12/12/2008 2:08:09 PM | Feedback (2)
Straight from the PSH Handbook
Same chapter, same verse Seems Lloyd Garver isn't too happy about law abiding citizens having the ability to protect themselves in National Parks Which do you think is going to happen first, or more often: A law-abiding citizen with a permit to carry a concealed weapon will use his gun to protect himself or his property? Or, there will be a tragic accident involving a drunk and a gun, an animal and a gun, or a little kid and a gun? Well Lloyd, considering accidents with guns are extremely...
posted @ 12/11/2008 8:24:56 PM | Feedback (9)
Banning toothpicks
Let's say there was a spate of toothpick stabbings at local nursing homes. Out of 23,319 nursing home patients in one city, the spate actually only involves 5 stabbings (and really only 2 people doing the stabbing), but apparently a spate doesn't require that many instances to be considered an epidemic. Anyway, the local meeting of miniature despots council members meet and decide that the best way to keep toothpicks out of criminals' hands is to force registration of said timber based dental...
posted @ 12/5/2008 12:50:07 PM | Feedback (7)
Weapons grade ignorance
Mad Rocket Scientist goes toe to toe with an individual armed with a lethal sense of stupidity. Speaks RS and soon enough I found myself in discussion with a person who, well, I think this says it all: That decision reflected right wing dogma that ignores the availability issue and attempts to divert the desire to address the root of the problem by arrogantly prescribing that "criminals" are the problem.   I mean, wow... I can't even begin to consider how to argue with something like that....
posted @ 11/26/2008 8:16:12 AM | Feedback (7)
I'm guessing, what? 6 or 7 pairs.
Seriously. How many pairs of pants did this idiot go through when writing this article? Thousands of weapons are for sale. Glock 23 fully automatic pistols, Uzi nine millimeters, Colt 44 magnum Anacondas. Some cost less than $100. ... He points to a Springfield XD 9 millimeter semi-automatic pistol. "Not legal in California," the box reads. "The only things these are used to hunt for is people," Zelenka says. Joe Zelenka is a complete fucking moron, too. I'd say there are hundreds of...
posted @ 11/18/2008 4:50:48 PM | Feedback (5)
7 other miracles Obama will not be able to perform
Ah, gun bigot and all around compulsive liar John Rosenthal (who may also be a child molester, he probably hasn't been caught yet, but I can't confirm that) brings up 7 magical, fairy tale dreams on how The One can stop "gun violence" from day one of his rule administration. #1 Mandatory criminal background checks for all gun sales Basically, ban private sales. This is the ever failing but never giving up strategy of closing the mythical gun show loophole. Of course, they have a point. If...
posted @ 11/12/2008 12:39:23 PM | Feedback (3)
Drawn to the smell of freshly spilled blood
Bryan Miller crawls out of his hole to gleefully dance in the puddles. And get this, he brings up the whole penis = gun thing. For an 8 year old.
posted @ 10/29/2008 2:51:15 PM | Feedback (9)
Cooper Firearms - Second Amendment sellouts and now, liars
So, seem's like Cooper Firearms is spinning in an attempt to protect their company from the revelation that their owner, Daniel Cooper is a rabid Obama supporter. Recently, their web site spouted several paragraphs about how much they love the 2nd Amendment and that the original contribution was to knock Hillary out of the race and that to make up for it, double that amount has been donated to the Republicans and McCain Regarding the USA Today Article. Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc. did not...
posted @ 10/29/2008 11:28:28 AM | Feedback (8)
Anti-gun firearm company, Cooper Firearms
They may make nice rifles, but the owner has sold out those who would buy them This year, Cooper has given $3,300 to the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama. That’s on top of the $1,000 check he wrote to Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign in 2004, after he was dazzled by Obama’s speech at that year’s Democratic National Convention. I'm not in the market for a custom rifle. I have been planning on getting into hunting at some point and when I do, I may look for something better matched for me and...
posted @ 10/28/2008 12:53:10 PM | Feedback (1)
Tragedies and perspective
As most of you know, this past weekend an 8 year old boy shot himself in the head with an Uzi at a machine gun shoot. This was a tragic accident that, like most accidents, could have been avoided, however humans don't always make the best judgements and thus life can be cruel. The boy was supervised and had an instructor behind him. Unfortunately this was not enough to keep the muzzle from jumping upwards. It's easy to look back now and say that the instructor should have held on or done this...
posted @ 10/28/2008 9:24:21 AM | Feedback (2)
Yes, I know he's not going to take them personally
J.D. Tuccille writes a post entitled President Obama won't take your guns (even if he wants to) which follows a pretty standard fallacy - mainly that Barack Häagen-Dazs Obama isn't actually going to walk into your house and take your guns, so really - no harm no foul The inevitable rise of President-for-Life Barack Obama will soon unleash his Stalinist hordes to ransack the gun cabinets of the nation and ravish Red America's newly disarmed womenfolk (and menfolk too, I guess, since Obama gets...
posted @ 10/13/2008 7:11:48 PM | Feedback (3)
In poor taste
I'm not thrilled about this The Cheerleaders at Nacogdoches High School have sparked gun violence protesting after their skit last month, in which they fake kill cheerleaders dressed as the opposing team. Executions are not something lighthearted and trivial. It's one thing to use a euphemism such as "Kill the other team", it's quite another to actually act it out, especially in something as gruesome as a shot to the back of the head. I'd have been equally disdainful had the cheerleaders...
posted @ 10/8/2008 12:34:02 PM | Feedback (5)
Fish. Barrel. Very little ammunition required
The NRA is opening up their front against Obama and his insistence that he's pro-gun Fairfax, VA-Today the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) expanded its advertising campaign with the release of additional commercials further detailing Sen. Barack Obama’s long anti-gun record in battleground states across the country. The NRA-PVF commercials began airing Monday in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota and Michigan. You can view the commercials here at...
posted @ 10/6/2008 11:15:44 AM | Feedback (0)
When guns are illegal
There's a lucrative business in selling bulletproof clothing. Because nobody has guns in Mexico But tucked on a leafy side street in the Polanco neighborhood is a shop unlike the others, one whose bustling business says much about the dire state of security in this country. At Miguel Caballero, named after its Colombian owner, all the garments are bulletproof. There are bulletproof leather jackets and bulletproof polo shirts. Armored guayabera shirts hang next to protective windbreakers,...
posted @ 10/5/2008 9:44:14 PM | Feedback (0)
Gun Nazis
NO GUN LAW FOR YOU! HARRISBURG, Pa.—A Pennsylvania court has ruled that Philadelphia officials cannot enact gun laws tougher than the state law. ... Those measures would have limited gun purchases to one a month and banned assault weapons, among other things. City officials have been pushing for tougher local ordinance in response to Philadelphia's one-a-day murder rate and its reputation for being a weapons source for criminals in New York and other states with strict gun laws. Neither of...
posted @ 9/26/2008 11:53:02 AM | Feedback (4)
Should have stuck with beginners algebra
Because calculus is waaaaay beyond this idiot's level The Moral Calculus of Gun Rights This is the second time I have seen the photograph of the jubilant young lady cheering the Supreme Court's decision on gun rights in District of Columbia v. Heller. In the photo, she holds a sign that reads ". . . Shall Not Be Infringed. Any Questions" ["A Workable Gun Law for the City," Close to Home, Sept. 21]. Well, I've seen the picture in question and I happen to agree with it. The Second Amendment...
posted @ 9/26/2008 9:58:06 AM | Feedback (6)
I wonder if FactCheck.org is going to do the same hack job on Obama's own site
Because this is directly from Barack Don't Call Me Shirley Obama's web site Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while...
posted @ 9/25/2008 9:27:56 AM | Feedback (1)
Sebastian lays down the hammer
TGirsch (along with Sean Braisted) over at Say Uncle's place are pushing the meme that Obama is NOT, I repeat NOT a gun banner even though he personally signed a letter stating that, Yes Virginia, I would ban the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns. TGirsch is going off of FactCheck.org, which is willfully ignoring everything that Barack Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger Obama has ever done and instead going by what the O Man says. Progun Progressive's Sebastian takes FactCheck.org to...
posted @ 9/22/2008 9:35:20 PM | Feedback (2)
The Brady Campaign attacks law abiding gun owners
All these years the Brady Campaign has tried to claim they did not want to take guns away from the law abiding gun owners has now been proven a lie. They actually have a category called Law Abiding Gun Owners and none of the articles are positive. Of course, 99% of their articles are about people charged with something, not convicted. Just like the instant background check that bears their name, the Brady Campaign believes in people being considered guilty before being proven innocent. Hat Tip...
posted @ 9/19/2008 9:24:01 AM | Feedback (0)
Band camp or poor numbers
I'm wondering what the issue is. Seems like now that school has started, The Brady Campaign To Shit All Over Your Rights seems to be fairly quiet on the blog front. Just last month, a professional firearms instructor couldn't accidentally get hammer bite from his 1911 without the Brady's crying about how dangerous guns are, but now I see plenty of stories of children getting hurt and yet not one peep from them. This means one of two things. One, the middle schooler they hired to blog for them...
posted @ 9/8/2008 11:27:33 AM | Feedback (4)
They hate us because we're free?
Your papers please The man, Timothy Simmons, 27, was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, possessing an unregistered firearm and possessing unregistered ammunition, a spokeswoman for the Capitol Police said. Granted, he was in DC where it's illegal to have unregistered bullet points in a PowerPoint presentation, but still. And is there such a thing as a non dangerous weapon? Isn't that kind of the point?
posted @ 9/5/2008 9:32:45 PM | Feedback (7)
Because NOTHING else can fire pistol caliber rounds
People unclear of the concept - Coroner Jacques Ramsay said in his report that the weapon used by Gill, a short-barrelled Beretta CX4 Storm rifle, should be banned. Gill obtained the gun legally before his rampage. The Beretta CX4 fires 9mm, .40, or .45ACP. By banning that one rifle, you assure yourself that no other platform can fire those cartridges!!! Well, maybe the Kel-Tech Sub 2000. Oh, and that one by Hi-Point. Shoot, I forgot about the MechTechs. Dammit, I just remembered you can...
posted @ 9/4/2008 11:00:58 AM | Feedback (2)
PSH over Light Amplification through Stimulated Emissions of Radiation
  The other Sebastian points us to this article Police said officers found Bush carrying the pistols — which were equipped with laser sights — and 400 bullets. {ed - emphasis mine} It was also equipped with iron sights, which can be used to place the bullet exactly where it needs to go. Watch for legislation to ban pointing devices to come up soon!
posted @ 9/2/2008 10:10:15 AM | Feedback (0)
Maybe if they were more illegaller or something
This is very disturbing. Apparently, guns are not illegal enough in jolly 'ol England The variety of weapons on offer in Britain is extensive and includes machine guns and shotguns, as well as pistols and converted replicas. A source close to the trade in illegal weapons contacted by the Guardian listed a menu of firearms that are available on the streets of the capital. "You can get a clean [unused] 9mm automatic for £1,500, a Glock for a couple of grand and you can even make an order for a...
posted @ 8/30/2008 6:03:54 PM | Feedback (2)
A battle against ignorance
A guy at work just got through being thoroughly flummoxed upon discovering that not only are hollow points not illegal, but that you can buy them at Wal-Mart. His thought was that hollow points do a lot of damage to which I actually replied "That's the fucking point!" You don't shoot someone to give them a skin rash...
posted @ 8/26/2008 10:22:32 AM | Feedback (6)
The Liar in his own words
Not content to just be quoted fibbing, John Rosenthal spews his lies in person at the Huff. I'd sign up and get an account, but there's toenail lint that needs to be picked.
posted @ 8/19/2008 6:17:35 PM | Feedback (6)
USDA Grade A PSH
Oh Lord, it simply doesn't get any more Pants Shittiness than this. The gun-control activist whose provocative billboards have been turning heads along the Massachusetts Turnpike for 13 years today will unveil one of his most eye-popping messages yet - a fake neon advertisement for American gun shows where people can buy weapons, no questions asked. "We Sell Guns! No ID required. No background checks. Criminals and terrorists welcome!" the billboard peals. "Gun shows are the equivalent of...
posted @ 8/19/2008 7:32:27 AM | Feedback (2)
And one step forward again
Another domino tumbles Following on the heels of a Supreme Court decision that held that a blanket ban on handguns violated 2nd Amendment rights, Evanston's City Council voted 7-1 Monday night to amend the North Shore suburb's weapons ordinance to conform to the landmark court ruling. Council members believe the move will allow the city to avoid a potential court challenge. "I find the Supreme Court decision repugnant," said Ald. Steve Bernstein (4th). "But because of it, it's the law. In the...
posted @ 8/12/2008 7:37:57 AM | Feedback (6)
And spoons make you fat
A Jackson city leader is proposing an ordinance that would prohibit city car dealers from selling fast vehicles.  But auto dealers say they are being targeted unfairly. Council Member Kenneth Stokes (Ward 3) says automotive dealers that sell cars are at least partly responsible for drunk driving and accidents.  There have been more than 30 vehicular deaths in Jackson since the start of the year and countless more accidents. “I asked the young folks, where are they getting their cars and they...
posted @ 8/11/2008 7:52:23 PM | Feedback (64)
Two steps forward
One step back People with firearms licenses will not be allowed to take guns into Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Shoob refused to grant a preliminary injunction in favor of GeorgiaCarry.org and state Rep. Timothy Bearden (R-Villa Rica) after hearing almost two hours of testimony and arguments. Now, this is just a refusal to grant a preliminary injunction. However, if you read the Brady Campaign (who's staff members are...
posted @ 8/11/2008 5:54:46 PM | Feedback (1)
So much for separation of Church and State
I guess it's easy to overlook it when it fits in with your bigotry  Albany County lawmakers today are expected to give a pastor $10,000 to keep up his efforts to get people to turn in their firearms. Emphasis mine. Give a pastor $10,000 of the taxpayers money. Would the ACLU stay silent if they were to give the pastor $10,000 to start a program to convert homosexuals? You know, get them to "turn in" their immoral lifestyle?
posted @ 8/11/2008 12:19:48 PM | Feedback (1)
Gun owners only
Bigotry comes in all sorts of shapes and colors. And yes, this was inspired by Joe Huffman.
posted @ 8/11/2008 11:08:04 AM | Feedback (4)
Looks like a lot of people are talking about Carry Permit Holders
Like Les is talking about Carry Permit Holders. Must suck to be the Brady Campaign to Stomp on Your Rights. They have to beg for funding and a bunch of gun bloggers, on their own sweet time (and dime, mind you), blow the Brady's pissy pants efforts right out of the water.
posted @ 7/22/2008 1:22:53 AM | Feedback (0)
I love the smell of insignificant statistics in the morning
Sailorcurt (who I can't wait to meet up with before and / or after Blackwater!) decimates the Brady's argument using a large quantity of decimal places. Via SayUncle, I was led to the most recent Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership hysterics about a "law abiding gun owner" allegedly committing murder (thanks for the tinyurl Uncle...no need to add to their Google standings). It's obvious what they're doing...this is just an extension of their latest propaganda ploy: by contending that...
posted @ 7/18/2008 1:47:03 PM | Feedback (0)
The Brady Campaign doesn't get it
This is a riot (from the Brady's blog. NO LINKY!) Florida Airports Get It- No Guns Allowed This story reports that an airport employee arrested for bringing a gun into the Miami International Airport doesn’t have a concealed carry permit. Except that doesn’t matter in Florida, where even its lax permit system and its new guns-at-work law don’t allow permit-holders to take guns into airports. Actually, that's not true. You simply cannot take guns into the sterile area. Going to pick up your...
posted @ 7/17/2008 2:05:45 PM | Feedback (0)
There's lies, damned lies
And, well, pretty much this entire article. Did you notice there was already a round in the firing chamber when the magazine (ammunition supply) was inserted? Some people don’t; if they live, you see them limping around or at the graves of friends and relatives. See how the magazine holds seven rounds, and empty ones can quickly be replaced? People who do not practice markmanship think this will compensate for their bad aim, and end up spraying their houses and neighborhoods with wild shots...
posted @ 7/16/2008 7:19:10 PM | Feedback (0)
Man. Progressives get ticked when you interrupt their echo chamber
Thanks to Mike W. I've spent a little too much time here, trying to debate logic and reason with what amounts to monkeys with handfuls of runny feces and poor gross motor skills. Granted, it's pretty low hanging fruit, but I try my damndest to argue with calmness and rationality even in the midst of some pretty welded shut minds. What I want to point out is the same thing that happened over at the Brady Campaign or the Huffington Posts and that is that the gun rights people are cool and calm...
posted @ 7/14/2008 10:40:45 PM | Feedback (0)
Reasoned discourse 2.0
Ever look at the latest Brady Campaign's YouTube videos? You can't comment there nor rate them, either.  
posted @ 7/12/2008 11:26:21 AM | Feedback (0)
Brady Campaign suicide watch
As in, that's all they're going to be able to look for now. They've reduced themselves to admitting that over half the gun deaths they claim are suicides. Sebastian has a good article on what that means for the Brady Campaign. So why are the anti-gun folks pushing this so hard?  Are they desperate?  Are they stupid?  I think the answer to the former is a little, and to the latter, no.  I couldn’t figure out why they might be latching on to an argument that’s clearly not going to get any...
posted @ 7/11/2008 4:57:53 PM | Feedback (0)
The Brady Campaign staff is legally allowed to be around children
Simply because they haven't molested any kids yet. At least, that's what this asshat from the Brady Campaign is basically implying when he says that CCW holders are simply people who haven't committed a crime yet. What a dick-weasel. I love how he equates law-abiding gun owners with terrorists by suggesting that someone like me, bringing a gun into a parking lot somehow means that I'm going to be able to leap into the sterile area and hijack a plane. Can I sue the Brady Campaign for slander?...
posted @ 7/9/2008 4:39:57 PM | Feedback (0)
A simpleton's complete guide to practically everything
Clay Bennett, a cartoonist, has great advice on gun safety Talk about straight to the point! Man, I can't believe it's that simple! We could apply that logic to everything and make the whole world safe as bubble-wrap! The Complete Guide to Safe Sex - Don't have sex.The Complete Guide to Vehicular Safety - Don't drive a carThe Complete Guide to Avoiding Accidents - Don't get out of bed. Ever. I take it abstinence only education is bad, unless it's about guns, then it's good. In fact, if the...
posted @ 7/8/2008 12:50:07 PM | Feedback (0)
When historians attack
Or, I didn't like the outcome so I'll use ad hominem attacks instead My favorite part is this, which should have been at the very beginning of the article so I wouldn't have bothered with the rest Constitutional doctrine is properly ever-evolving, but that evolution ought not to be shaped by manufactured provenance masquerading as scholarship. Ah, yes. The living constitution. Which is like a living contract between your mortgage company and you. I know we agreed on 6.5%, but the contract is...
posted @ 6/29/2008 11:25:34 PM | Feedback (0)
In a move that would amaze David Copperfield
Any references to a "collective right" on the Brady Campaign's web site are disappearing. The Brady Campaign, including all of its employees, are sick people and compulsive liars. The problem is they'll continue to peddle their lies even when the whole world can see them for the charlatans they are. I'm glad that us gun bloggers are there to shine the spotlight on them, though.
posted @ 6/27/2008 11:42:53 PM | Feedback (0)
Failure to comprehend
Not that it should come as any surprise, but the Brady Campaign to Lie Through Their Teeth can't seem to understand a basic concept, nor can they be bothered to quote us correctly. In their latest post (one not involving dead children, which might explain the more bitter than usual tone of voice. I mean, it's got to be upsetting when you can't parade around the corpse of a preschooler and your donations drop), some idiot gets tipsy and carries into a bar. However, Duluth defense attorney...
posted @ 6/23/2008 1:32:48 PM | Feedback (0)
The Salt Lake PSH
Poor Rebecca doesn't get us gun nuts My 20-month-old nephew loves Elmo and Dora. He also has started making explosion and gunfire noises. I get the inevitability of little boys' fascination for guns. What I can't figure out are the men and sometimes women who don't grow out of the gun-crazy stage of childhood, who need to have a handgun on their hips at all times, who need their neighbors to notice. What I don't get is why Rebecca worries about people who have guns who are of no threat to...
posted @ 6/20/2008 7:29:34 PM | Feedback (6)
The Brady Campaign and pedophilia
As everyone knows, the Brady Campaign is an anti-gun organization and there is a horrible trend of pedophilia in the United States. In fact, today, the Brady Campaign's own Paul Helmke was in a private meeting while busts were being made on child pornographers. Not that the Brady Campaign has anything to do with diddling children (at least, not that I know of). Just like someone getting busted for narcotics and having a CCW permit has nothing to do with CCW holders. But, the Brady Campaign, who...
posted @ 6/19/2008 3:24:28 PM | Feedback (3)
Don't try to think too hard on this one
Cuz it'll make your brain hurt The District’s handgun ban is a reasonable and constitutional restriction because handguns are less effective than other firearms for self-defense. Although they are designed to be more lethal than other firearms, handguns are smaller and harder to shoot accurately. Daniel G. JarchoBrief of Violence Policy Center and the police chiefs for the cities of Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Seattle as amici curiae in support of petitioners. (This is blatantly stolen from...
posted @ 6/19/2008 12:36:44 PM | Feedback (2)
The battle was lost before it was begun
Paul Helmke, blood dancer extraordinaire, realizes his campaign of lies hasn't worked as well as he'd hoped. "We've lost the battle on what the Second Amendment means," campaign president Paul Helmke told ABC News. "Seventy-five percent of the public thinks it's an individual right. Why are we arguing a theory anymore? We are concerned about what we can do practically." You lost the battle because there's no question what it means and there never has been. You and your death-loving cohorts...
posted @ 6/13/2008 8:23:09 AM | Feedback (1)
Clash of the anti-gun Titans
The ATF catches the Brady Campaign for Distributing Bad Data distributing bad data. When even the anti-gun ATF calls you a liar, you're in waaaaaay over your head.
posted @ 6/12/2008 7:21:56 AM | Feedback (0)
PSH Congress style
Sorry, but a 17 year old gang banger isn't a child... A report issued Monday reveals the first increase in the number of gun deaths among children and teens since 1994, enough to fill 120 public school classrooms. “Imagine a tragedy like the Virginia Tech shooting occurring every four days, or a Northern Illinois shooting happening every 15 hours,” said Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children’s Defense Fund. “As implausible as it might seem, this is our reality: guns kill 8 children...
posted @ 6/11/2008 12:51:44 PM | Feedback (4)
Actually, the answer is deceptively simple
The Brady Campaign for Rolling In The Blood Of Downed Officers asks a simple question. What remains left to discover is whether Berryman’s history of domestic violence had ever been adjudicated. If so, it should have been in the Brady criminal background check system, and he should have been denied legal purchase of a firearm. Who put the gun in Berryman’s hand? Easy. Berryman did. Berryman picked up the firearm. It was Berryman's finger that pulled the trigger. It was Berryman who made each...
posted @ 6/9/2008 3:41:53 PM | Feedback (3)
PSH - From a conservative
Because anti-gun bigotry isn't an exclusively left leaning trait I find myself beginning to question why anyone really needs to own a gun at this point. Are we a culture based on fear? Are we a culture where rampant distrust, intolerance and hatred of our fellow man leads us to feel that we need to arm ourselves and isolate ourselves? Oh, he's a Military = Militia and Police = Personal Security Guard kind of guy. I get tired of arguing these points, but still I cannot rest. Go help if you've...
posted @ 6/9/2008 2:07:34 PM | Feedback (1)
Blood dancers
Since the Brady Campaign to Distribute Dishonesty decided that Reasoned Discourse isn't a viable solution to getting out their message so I guess they're going for the only thing left and that's becoming a tacky, second-rate tabloid that appears to take pleasure in gloating when people die with guns (don't worry. It's a TinyURL so they won't get Google-Fu with it). You see, they're not a news organization, they're an anti-gun organization. They're not repeating this tale to inform or to...
posted @ 6/6/2008 3:13:59 PM | Feedback (2)
Stupid Brady tricks
Looks like the Brady Campaign for Lying and Deception is starting to quote unquote "grasp" this blogging thing. They're starting to post a bit more regularly, and in a short, to the point format. However, the Brady Bunch still will not permit comments. Unlike Paul "I Lie Like A Kid Caught Masturbating" Helmke over at Huffington, the Brady Blog for Spreading Misinformation and Falsities give no way to correct their quite intentional errors. Call that a design feature. It's easier to blatantly...
posted @ 6/2/2008 6:31:30 PM | Feedback (2)
Simple minded
Oh, this is just precious! Apparently, the gentleman who stopped the mass murder in a bar with his own private weapon is a hero, sure, but could have been a hero if he'd have just tackled the guy or whacked him upside the head with an empty O'Doul's bottle. Query:  Had this good samaritan tackled the shooter, would he be less of a hero?  Had he struck the shooter over the head with a beer bottle, would he be less of a hero?  There are plenty of other examples, but the point is the same....
posted @ 5/29/2008 8:15:19 AM | Feedback (11)
Word of the day - Subreption
The Word of the Day for May 22 is: subreption \sub-REP-shun\ noun         : a deliberate misrepresentation; also : an inference drawn from it Sounds like the Brady Bunch and the VPC to me.
posted @ 5/22/2008 7:45:53 AM | Feedback (0)
Bryan Miller in Wonderland
Sebastian points out a whine by one of the more idiotic of gun grabbers, Bryan Miller “We need to demonstrate that you can reliably turn a gun off in real time,” he said. That is not good enough for Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire New Jersey, which pushed for the law five years ago. “They went about inventing the Ferrari of recognition technology when they could have used the money to build a Ford,” Miller said. “They’ve run out of money and they can’t marry it to a handgun and,...
posted @ 4/22/2008 12:47:01 PM | Feedback (1)
Imagine a cake if you will
A beautiful cake with an intricate fondant top. The scent of pure vanilla wafts through the air as you cut a piece and admire the pale, moist top layer. Beneath that layer is a creamy middle of succulent frosting with a hint of almond. And at the bottom, a layer of hard, crusty shit. That's about what I felt like when I read this. I mean it started so perfect. In the middle was joy to read In recent election cycles, the greatest feat of liberal tight-rope walking has occurred not over...
posted @ 4/21/2008 9:18:43 PM | Feedback (4)
Ignorance of guns and journalists simply do not mix
Because, when you don't know what the f#ck you're talking about, it's probably best that you don't write about it, making yourself look like an idiot in the process At issue is a bill in the Legislature that, if enacted into law, would require handguns sold in New York to be equipped with a laser capable of etching a gun's serial number on the firing pin or chamber, thereby marking each cartridge as it fires. The shell casing would then act as a fingerprint identifying the gun. California...
posted @ 4/21/2008 7:42:07 AM | Feedback (4)
Watch out for the spray zone
'Cuz this is some serious, high pressured PSH. A point I wish to opine here - Any firearm can kill someone. The gun itself has no bearing on someone's willingness or desire to kill another human being. If you wish to ban any gun because it can be used to kill, you must ban them all. Hat Tip Rustmeister
posted @ 4/17/2008 7:43:23 PM | Feedback (4)
Wal-Mart no more
I used to buy most of my factory ammo at Wal-Mart. Never again. I would rather spend several dollars more at other places than give them business. It won't hurt them that much so it's more a principle thing, but I refuse to ever give them another dime for any sort of sporting good.
posted @ 4/14/2008 7:21:59 PM | Feedback (6)
You don't actually know any gun owners, do you?
While I loathe the recent gun bill for many reasons, one of the biggest is that it gives bigots like this something to latch their talking points to It will be really nice to know that some crazy employee will be able to run to his car if you tick him off, get his gun, and come back loaded for bear. This is basically the only grain of truth the anti-rights bigots have in their arsenal and yet they still manage to not get their point across worth a damn. Instead of understanding that yes, at...
posted @ 4/10/2008 8:03:42 PM | Feedback (1)
A gentle, caring, but utterly devastating spanking
Armed Canadian delivers it to a well deserving heinie. Is this what our kollege kidz are these days? Jeez...
posted @ 4/3/2008 4:47:22 PM | Feedback (4)
Reasoned discourse in 3, 2, what? I missed it already?
That was quick
posted @ 3/25/2008 9:48:09 AM | Feedback (1)
It's almost too much to fisk
I left a comment, but it was hard to keep my cool. The amount of nanny-state PSH in this article just got my temperature rising. Help me out here (for God's sake, she's quoting HEMENWAY) but be polite.
posted @ 3/19/2008 8:38:21 PM | Feedback (12)
Stress
I'm the only Liberty minded person on my floor. All the nanny statists gathered in my office to attack me and my views a few minutes ago. None of them used logic, they all used the "sick, handicapped, orphan without medical insurance" shtick. I'm literally shaking with anger. These people would give the state every last one of their rights. Then came the "Global Corporations Own the World" meme. Gah. How do you fight a 873 pronged attack of illogic with logic? I need to hit the range tonight...
posted @ 3/5/2008 2:45:47 PM | Feedback (10)
The best argument against gun control I've ever seen
From Reason Look up the Luby's shooting in Texas if you want to see what happens when the law abiding are disarmed. A civilian who left her handgun in her vehicle, to avoid breaking the law, testified later that she watched her parents slaughtered while having ample opportunity to shoot the bad guy, had she been armed. This mass murder led to a movement for concealed carry reform in Texas and (after her veto of the reform) the loss of the governor's office by Anne Richards to George W Bush....
posted @ 2/27/2008 10:56:09 AM | Feedback (3)
I'm going to need a new icon for this one
This isn't Pants Shitting Hysterics - It's Depends Shitting Hysterics But the alert Wi-Fi major in the sixth row, whom everyone knows by the nickname "Guns," is sure that the doorway figure fits the profile of a campus killer and isn't about to sit there and be murdered without a fight. Guns instantly draws his legal 9-millimeter Beretta and begins blasting away. The gunfire arouses the instincts of others in the class, and they, similarly, draw their permit-allowed weapons ranging from...
posted @ 2/26/2008 1:02:30 PM | Feedback (9)
Granted, it's what you expect out of a journalist student
This kid is so out of his league it's pathetic. Then again, he's a junior journalist, so his opinions have already been given to him. I'm putting this child in my Anti-Gun feed category. Normally I'd work at keeping the snark to a minimum, but being a journalist student I can guarantee he won't listen to logic anyway. It would interfere with his grades.
posted @ 2/25/2008 9:23:13 AM | Feedback (6)
He doesn't miss a beat
He misses the entire fucking song Kazmierczak reportedly passed the background check and wasn’t considered mentally ill to the point of being a threat under the FBI’s guidelines. In fact, most reports say the shooter was mentally ill and was taking medications. Shouldn’t taking anti-depressants like Prozac be enough to send a red flag in the system? If the state keeps track of everyone who owns a gun, don’t they also keep a database which keeps track of what medications someone is taking?...
posted @ 2/21/2008 12:28:55 PM | Feedback (7)
Make no mistake about it
The entire push for microstamping or ammunition serialization has nothing to do with solving crime and everything to do with increasing the costs associated with manufacturing firearms and their accessories in a concerted effort to drive manufacturers out of business. So, here's my thought. If the government insists that the cost is slight and not prohibitive, then they should cover it. Each manufacturer who is forced to comply with this new scheme should be able to claim a check from the...
posted @ 2/18/2008 1:08:36 PM | Feedback (6)
Apparently it doesn't take a high IQ to become Chief of Police
Apparently Chaska Chief of Police Scott Knight prefers his subjects unarmed. Letter of the day: D.C. gun law repeal will make us less safe As chief of the Chaska police department, I was disappointed to learn that members of our state's congressional delegation have joined Vice President Dick Cheney in filing a U.S. Supreme Court brief urging the justices to strike down generation-old restrictions on handgun ownership in Washington, D.C. Note the immediate strawman ploy - Generation-old! I...
posted @ 2/13/2008 10:19:59 PM | Feedback (3)
Reasoned Discourse at the Alligator
  You know my story about the Hello Kitty AR-15? Not only did Will Pafford, the author of the Alligator story remove the comment of the creator of the rifle, he removed the image and lied about his reasons Editor's Note: As per request from the company who is making the Hello Kitty rifle, we have taken down the image. David (the rifle's painter) explains " I offered the Alligator two choices, one choice was to talk with me and add some balance to this article and the other choice was to...
posted @ 2/11/2008 1:48:41 PM | Feedback (2)
PSH Alert - Deadly stickers and colors
  Painted guns resembling toys pose threat to officers By WILL PAFFORD, Alligator Writer Hello Kitty stickers are part of the latest danger to police officers nationwide. No, you read that correctly. Stickers are dangerous to police officers (apparently not to 5 year old girls who adorn every open surface with them). Stickers. Deadly stickers. Of course, they're talking about this firearm The sole purpose of these guns is to fool the observer, said Lt. Rob Koehler of GPD’s Tactical Impact...
posted @ 2/10/2008 3:27:17 PM | Feedback (6)
I guess the sixties weren't very good to him
I wonder if this guy gets paid by the "scare quotes" Just in February, another shooting on a college campus leaves three dead including the shooter; bullets riddle a city council meeting leaving six dead; five women shot to death in a retail shop as an apparent robbery goes bad and to top it off, we have a Presidential Candidate who says that the “second amendment” is as important then the “first amendment.” Without the second, you cannot secure the first. In fact, the entire constitution...
posted @ 2/9/2008 7:16:29 PM | Feedback (6)
I guess we can skip that whole separation of church and state thing
Churches in Minnesota win another round on gun ban Court of Appeals: Churches can lawfully ban guns from their premises. Court agrees to exempt religious institutions from the 2005 law. In another victory for churches wanting to ban guns from their premises, the state Court of Appeals issued a 32-page decision Tuesday agreeing with the district court that religious institutions are exempt from the so-called Minnesota Citizens' Personal Protection Act of 2005. Exempt. Meaning they're better or...
posted @ 2/5/2008 7:50:55 PM | Feedback (4)
I don't want to sound alarmist or anything
But are you aware of the sheer number of unlicensed food preparation facilities in the US? Every day, hundreds of millions of "back door restaurants" prepare and serve food without any governmental oversight!! Think about it! Your children eat at places that have no regulations on cleanliness, no standards on food preparation or handling, no available documentation of nutritional content and questionable sanitation practices. I hear some of these places even use transfats! I say it's time to...
posted @ 1/31/2008 10:04:31 AM | Feedback (3)
No, what really defies common sense
Is how the "media" can continue to spout lies without bothering to fact check them “It defies common sense that a loophole in federal law lets unlicensed dealers sell firearms at gun shows without running a background check on the buyer. Our legislation would require background checks for every gun purchased at every gun show across America,” Lautenberg said in a statement. "Unlicensed dealers". That's like saying "unlicensed cooks". Anyone can cook a meal without needing a restaurant license....
posted @ 1/30/2008 3:55:13 PM | Feedback (4)
Like the old cliche "fox in charge of the henhouse"
Except this is much, much worse. Sullivan in April 2007 touted the ATF's "outstanding relationship" with IACP-International Associations of Chiefs of Police. An organization that has been exposed by the NRA as being in the pockets of a large gun control group. Fitting enough Acting ATF Director Michael J. Sullivan was one of the Keynote Speakers at IACP's Great Lakes States Summit on Gun Violence. Sullivan also served on a panel that included gun banners Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Joyce...
posted @ 1/30/2008 7:31:32 AM | Feedback (1)
It's what cockroaches do
Odd. It wasn't too long ago that you'd find our old pal Alexander Tristan Riley trolling the gun blogs calling us names and reminding us how superior he is with his credentials. Shine a light on him and oddly, he appears to have scattered. What's wrong Alex? Afraid to continue to "fight the good fight" with us inbred, unedjumakated Neanderthals?
posted @ 1/28/2008 1:17:31 PM | Feedback (1)
More PSH from the AJC
When I read articles like this, I get tired. It reminds me how much work lays ahead of us rights activists in educating the populace regarding the truth about gun control. The hardest mountain is that I'm not on the editorial board of a major newspaper so I can't present my opinion as facts to the public. Instead, I have to network with as many people as I can in hopes of getting a few readers here and calmly, accurately, and thoroughly show how people like Maureen Downey are wrong. Ms. Downey...
posted @ 1/5/2008 11:51:42 AM | Feedback (5)
Celery fisking
Uncle points to the greatest concentration of misinformation ever contained within a written article. Fisking this article would be like eating celery. It requires more energy to chew it up than you get from digestion - i.e. a losing proposition. But let's take a little stab at it, shall we? First, it is true that the assault weapons banned under the federal law that lapsed in 2004 were, like many hunting rifles, semi-automatic that is, firing a bullet with each pull of the trigger (fully...
posted @ 1/4/2008 9:53:45 AM | Feedback (7)
Recap
So, thanks to Instapundit linking to Say Uncle, we've gotten a lot of exposure to Cease Fire, PA and their hateful little board of directors member, Alex Riley. I'd like to take this opportunity to ensure that I'm being very clear on what the facts are versus everything else. It is a fact that Alex Riley (aka ATR & Culturologist) left fairly hateful comments here at my blog and elsewhere. It is a now "erased" fact that Alex also ran a blog called "ILoveMyDaughterMoreThanYouLoveYourGun" on...
posted @ 1/3/2008 8:50:58 AM | Feedback (5)
Now, I wonder who might be doing this search
Someone in PA... Looking for stuff on a certain anti-gun bigot.. I wonder if Cease Fire has updated their board of director's page yet?
posted @ 1/1/2008 12:38:09 PM | Feedback (1)
Time to shine a spotlight
For many of you out there who read gun blogs, this is going to be a little anti-climactic, but it's time we started putting the spotlight on one of the worst anti-rights individuals out there. First and foremost, let's have some up front honesty. Some of the information I am about to share with you will have to be taken on faith. If I can merge my face in with a Victoria's Secret model, I could easily fake the following screen shots. I assure you this is not the case and I would testify in...
posted @ 12/28/2007 7:15:52 PM | Feedback (12)
Sock-puppet 2.0
It's going to get nasty here in a few days folks. I'm on vacation, spending time with my family, and just enjoying life for a few days. But when I return in earnest, I fully plan on blowing the lid off an anti-gun activist and his sock-puppetry vis-a-vis a huge strawman. I know many of my other fellow gun-bloggers are on this as well. Someone is in deep shit and is already trying to cover his tracks. Unfortunately, he left plenty of tracks here and at other blogs. Stay tuned.
posted @ 12/27/2007 9:22:48 PM | Feedback (5)
Paging Brian Miller
"Your ass being handed to you on line two". Good job Deb!
posted @ 12/21/2007 1:31:39 PM | Feedback (1)
Ho. Lee. Shit!
Alex Riley, formerly of "ILoveChuggingManChowderMoreThanYouLikeYourPistol" fame has decided to put himself in the spotlight by joining Cease Fire PA as a board member. Now, Alex was probably my most vicious commenter I've ever had here. Now he's gone and tried to hide his tracks by deleting his blogs (and trust me, he was a hateful, misogynistic, bigot). Alex Riley forgot that the Internet doesn't forget. Thirdpower reminds us of some of his greatest hits. Guess what Alex? When you were just a...
posted @ 12/21/2007 9:27:38 AM | Feedback (4)
Brian Miller is a liar
And a filthy liar at that. I want to send as many people to the liar's page as I can. I want them to watch as we dissect his lies. I want everyone to see how he only can call names and lie to get his point across. There is no truth in what he speaks. I feel sorry for his brother who was killed in the line of duty. Not only that he lost his life but that his own brother uses his blood to dance in. Again, do not take my word for it. See it with your own eyes. Go read the liar. Read his words....
posted @ 12/20/2007 5:27:00 PM | Feedback (6)
Paul Helmke is a tool
Should The Public Be Able To Get The Types Of Guns We Use In Iraq? I asked this question last week of the candidates for President now campaigning in Iowa, and I think that for most of the American people [pdf] the answer is clearly “no.” You know, for a report saying 85%+ support X, there's absolutely no push to get any laws passed. Hell, the only way Cook County can pass laws is to slide them under the radar. If so many people supported such gun control, why isn't it happening Paul? Probably...
posted @ 12/14/2007 7:29:06 PM | Feedback (3)
Get your hot, fresh, steaming PSH here!
Not here... Here Last month, we reported that Akron City Council president Marco Sommerville "accidentally" carried a loaded .38-caliber through security at Akron-Canton Airport. Seems he didn't notice all those big ass signs saying "No Guns Allowed." Well, according to the police and everyone else involved in the investigation, there is no need to put scare quotes around accidentally. Here's something to help you sleep at night, sweetie - I carry so often that I've walked into places with...
posted @ 12/14/2007 3:09:48 PM | Feedback (1)
The epitome of pathetic
Just when you thought anti-gun idiots couldn't sink any lower. Seems a particular NRAFOUREVER troll wasn't too happy about getting her comments removed at various gun blogs, so said troll starts her own blog* posing as a Illiterate Gun Owner™ linking to us instead. So far, I've received one hit from the blog, and it's from NRAFOUREVER clicking on her own links. No wonder you guys are losing! *No link. You starve trolls by ignoring them or mocking them relentlessly by exposing them.
posted @ 12/12/2007 1:15:07 PM | Feedback (1)
ABC PSH
Well, linking to Carolyn McCarthy is bound to produce PSH but ABC does nonetheless On the eve of the 14th anniversary of her husband's death at the hands of crazed gunman on a Long Island Railroad train, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy went to the house floor on December 6th to talk about another senseless shooting, this one at a mall in Omaha, Nebraska. "Yesterday's shootings was a terrible tragedy.  But unfortunately events like this happen almost every day. Every year we lose over 30,000 people to...
posted @ 12/12/2007 12:54:01 PM | Feedback (1)
Gun myths - a gun in your hand makes you a killer
Jeanne Assam is a hero. There is nothing I can laud upon this woman that makes what she did any greater of a feat. But I don't want to focus on her right now, I want to focus on this (from the Smallest Minority) If what I heard on the radio this afternoon is correct, there were three armed security people at the church in Colorado Springs. Only one willingly engaged the shooter, calmly walking towards him, firing the entire time. Jeanne Assam fired approximately twelve rounds, and took down...
posted @ 12/11/2007 11:35:45 AM | Feedback (4)
The cowardly liars
This blogger is a classic example of the Reasoned Discourse™ we've come to expect from anti-gun bigots. I found the link from Snowflakes in Hell and decided to follow it over to see what was going on. Sure enough, another undereducated (when it comes to firearms) blogger was going on about needing more gun laws. Like most anti-rights bloggers, this one "moderates" his comments. Now, many people moderate comments to prevent nasty trolls or spam. While I prefer erasing them after the fact, to...
posted @ 12/9/2007 11:40:50 AM | Feedback (4)
Freedom parasites
That's a great way to describe pacifists. I'm sure even parasites like Kelli~ have no problems with police officers risking their lives and using violence. I mean, why dirty your own hands when you can just pay someone $30k a year to do it for you and you get to pretend you're still holding the high ground?
posted @ 12/4/2007 3:59:43 PM | Feedback (4)
Personally, I'd have used a different vowel
Nicki calls Laura Washington a 'twit'. Deservedly so, if I might add.
posted @ 12/3/2007 1:40:03 PM | Feedback (3)
Here's one way to demolish an argument
Sez Nicki Additionally, the claim that the right to regulate firearms belongs to the states, even if the federal government is prohibited from infringing upon that right is bizarre to me as well. Does this mean that states have the right to limit free speech, stifle the press or impose any religion state legislators desire upon the people? And I won't accept the "there's no absolute right to free speech" argument either. That particular argument has been discussed and debunked numerous times....
posted @ 11/30/2007 7:32:25 PM | Feedback (2)
Nasty little journalist, isn't he?
I'm talking about John Mashek and this lovely diatribe of his The Supreme Court will decide next year whether the District of Columbia can restrict handguns in a city with a big murder rate problem. Don't be surprised if the court doesn't go along with gun zealots and declare the ban unconstitutional. I'm a zealot. He's reasonable. Isn't it always like that? And how can DC have a murder rate problem if they don't have guns? Conservatives are supposed to be for states' rights. While D.C. is...
posted @ 11/26/2007 1:51:42 PM | Feedback (4)
Hawaiian PSH
Someone's been smoking their leis. Courts have ruled for more than a century that the Second Amendment allows reasonable restrictions on possession of firearms, but the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia has ruled that such measures are unconstitutional. Hawaii Attorney General Mark Bennett has properly joined three other state attorneys general in asking that the Supreme Court overturn the ruling to maintain public safety. The restrictions in DC were nowhere near reasonable....
posted @ 11/15/2007 1:49:56 PM | Feedback (9)
Screw the silencer project
Holy shit, batman. The BATF is nothing more than a clusterfuck of power hungry dipshits who's only purpose in life is to make it damn near impossible to not be a criminal. I mean, if I want to build a silencer, I need to get permission. Then anal probed, fingerprinted (again, like they don't have my $#*& fingerprints at least twice already. Talk about "efficiency"), raked over the coals by the local constable, re-probed, and possibly fingerprinted for a fourth time, just because. Then I...
posted @ 11/14/2007 7:39:00 PM | Feedback (5)
Scaring whitey with books about guns
So I had to take my wife's car to get a carwash this afternoon. Knowing it took a while to do, I took along my copy of Florida Firearms Law, Use & Ownership to read. On the cover of the book is a big scary gun. It's so scary that when I stepped out of my vehicle to give the attendant my keys and my carwash preference, he jumped back and yelped. Then he realized it was just a picture on a book, and yet still kept his distance, his eyes fixated on the cover. He nervously asked me if I was...
posted @ 11/12/2007 7:25:00 PM | Feedback (10)
Fear is what the other guys use
But apparently when you do it, it's more like "common sense" Update - My comment is "awaiting moderation". Part of the Reasonable Discourse™, I assume. You can't be reasonable if you don't control what's said. So here it is for posterity, just in case it goes down the memory hole. Robb Allen, on November 7th, 2007 at 12:49 pm Said: Your comment is awaiting moderation. So, the “Gun Industry” (a mysterious consortium of men sitting around in smoky rooms, I take it, or do you have specific...
posted @ 11/7/2007 7:58:40 AM | Feedback (1)
Idiot savants
Not to pick on Timothy per se, but something he said in my comments appears to be a common theme amongst gun-control advocates Our founding fathers, who had amazing foresight, could not anticipate the military power of future governments, such as our own. Got that? The Founders were both brilliant and yet still so stupid that they couldn't possibly imagine that we'd evolve or that weapons would improve. Of course, to believe this you have to buy into the false premise that the Founders wanted...
posted @ 11/5/2007 9:20:03 AM | Feedback (4)
Revisitation rights
Timothy Bal has put up another post regarding gun control. I don't want to clog up his comments with a short novella, so I will post my responses to his article here. As always, I welcome any commentary. There have been many intelligent comments posted in response to my post and comments on this subject, so I will respond here to the last set of comments by Linoge, Sebastian, and R.J. I think I have an open mind on this issue. While there are times I wish I could make all the guns in civilian...
posted @ 11/3/2007 2:04:38 PM | Feedback (35)
People unclear of the concept
So I was reading through my Google alerts and I ran across this steaming pile of anti-rights idiocy. It was an amazing piece of gun control, replete with plenty of Bush Derangement Syndrome, dire warnings about global warming, and even something about the Illuminati taking over the World Bank or something. In short, totally nucking futs. It was so nutty I just deleted it and went on. However, one thing stuck out at me that I wanted to bring up here. Namely the blaming of the gun industry for...
posted @ 10/30/2007 11:36:45 AM | Feedback (10)
Democrats push for gun control
No matter how much Hillary! and her merry band of presidential wannabes claim to support the second amendment, the Democrats are actively pushing for the banning of firearms. When these types of laws get passed, the ability for you and I to get firearms gets caught up in red tape and useless definitions ("no, you can't buy that because it has a barrel shroud"). So, this is a perfect place to post in the comments the letter you sent to your representatives. I'll post mine later. And if you don't...
posted @ 10/27/2007 9:59:22 AM | Feedback (0)
You know what really bothers me?
I could easily argue the anti-gun idiots positions better than them. I could do it without appeals to emotion. I don't think I could convince many people because it would still be based on lies and misconceptions, but I could definitely do a better job than anything the Joyce Foundation is paying gobs of money for, that's for sure.
posted @ 10/26/2007 4:00:52 PM | Feedback (2)
Who needs rights anyway?
When I read shit like this, it truly makes me fear for the path our country has taken I think it's worth acknowledging the primary functions of the law as it's used by prosecutors in DC: the gun ban is both a preventive detention statute and an intelligence-gathering tool. At one time when I was a prosecutor, we were prohibited from extending a plea offer in gun cases unless the defendant agreed to come into the office (with his attorney, of course) and be "debriefed" about his knowledge of...
posted @ 10/25/2007 2:11:25 PM | Feedback (7)
Fisking fiscal objectives
Via Joe Huffman, we get this little juicy tidbit from the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. This is their Objectives for Fiscal Year Beginning 2007 Our analysis of the current stalemate in the national debate over gun control has led the Ed Fund to believe that activists must challenge the idea that guns protect freedom and democracy. And while you're at it, you should challenge the idea that babies don't really come from storks or that Santa Claus isn't real, because all of them have the...
posted @ 10/22/2007 2:04:49 PM | Feedback (1)
I'm so comforted by this
It's good to see a story where adults who are in charge of our youth have such a firm grasp on reality that they can differentiate between real threats and imaginary play time. Seven-year-old Kyle Walker was suspended for one day last week by school officials in Cape May County for drawing a stick figure shooting a gun. Or not... The case is not the first in New Jersey in which students were suspended for depictions of weapons. Four kindergarten boys were suspended in 2000 for playing cops...
posted @ 10/21/2007 9:30:36 AM | Feedback (6)
Bill Engvall, call your lawyer
Someone stole his "Here's Your Sign" routine  "Gun-free zone" signs soon will go up around Richmond schools, the city's latest effort to curb violence. Sign or no, it's already illegal to possess or fire guns within 1,000 feet of a school, and critics say the plan won't stop the shootings. But supporters and the City Council contend the signs are a tool in the ongoing battle to reduce homicides and will remind people toting guns that they face tougher penalties if caught. Yeah, I guess that...
posted @ 10/18/2007 8:01:57 AM | Feedback (2)
You think *I* take PSH'ers to the woodshed?
You ain't seen nothin' Bruce handles himself well waaaaaay past the point where I'd be using phrases that would violate decency laws in 37 other countries. The willful ignorance of these people is simply astonishing. They actually believe that people who own guns walk around shooting crap left and right, putting everyone else in danger. They choose the "worst case scenario" as their rallying point and dry hump cherry picked statistics to death. I wanted to dive in, but Bruce made most of the...
posted @ 10/16/2007 1:57:47 PM | Feedback (6)
Spreading the conversation
So I stumble across this post by a young man named Chris, and as us gunnies are wont to do, I'm trying to start a conversation. Later in this segment Beck said "guns are not bad". It is really remarkable that Beck would be allowed to go on TV and use Columbine and Virginia Tech to argue that we need MORE guns, instead of less guns. Guns have only one purpose, and that is to shoot things and kill or injure them. In Beck's twisted mind more guns would equal less violence, but Beck should tell...
posted @ 10/11/2007 4:49:04 PM | Feedback (10)
PSH so pure, it probably smells like a spring breeze
And from a guy who's picture online is of him holding an axe Then I realized the cop had a sidearm. There was a gun in the children's department of Barnes and Noble in Park Slope. A gun within mere yards of my son. I had one of those sudden really creepy feelings when you realize something is deeply, deeply wrong. There was a gun...in the children's department...of Barnes and Noble in Park Slope. I realized almost to my surprise that that was just NOT okay with me. I decided it was time to...
posted @ 10/11/2007 12:17:04 PM | Feedback (14)
PSH Alert - A mommy without a clue
This is rich... “So wait,” he said sarcastically, “I’m not that kind of guy, but as soon as we get a gun I might just think, ‘Gosh, she made the omelets a little dry today, I think I’ll shoot her?” “Well,” I shrugged, “You never know.” I managed to put him off like this until we had kids -- then he finally gave up. He said now that we had kids in the house it wouldn’t make sense to have one anyway. He says we’d have to say to an intruder, “We weren’t expecting you tonight – could you give us...
posted @ 10/7/2007 6:00:30 PM | Feedback (7)
Not quite PSH
But probably only because of the tone of voice In the case of the Virginia Tech rampage, a state-appointed commission of inquiry has come to the astonishing conclusion that better locks are needed on classroom doors and that troubled students should be more closely monitored. The Newark tragedy, since the killers have been identified and several turn out to be illegal immigrants, has produced renewed demands for harsher immigration regulations. Practically no one has raised any questions about...
posted @ 9/27/2007 9:35:24 PM | Feedback (1)
Quote of the day - "Again, this time with feeling" edition
It's okay to ban handguns as long as rifles and shotguns are permitted. The D.C. Circuit, for good reason, called that argument "frivolous." "It could be similarly contended," wrote Senior Judge Laurence Silberman, "that all firearms may be banned so long as sabers were permitted." After all, D.C. does not ban home possession of knives or hatchets. Does that justify the city's handgun ban? Could publication of cookbooks be barred under the First Amendment as long as restaurant guides were...
posted @ 9/27/2007 1:21:44 PM | Feedback (5)
It's all about the penis
This comment cracks me up The reason gun nuts are the laughing stock of the sentient universe is that there is no more transparent intellectual dishonesty than that of pro-gun propaganda. Is it because if you were honest with everyone, you'd be forced to admit you all want guns because you're cowardly bullies consumed by crippling sexual inadequacy, and don't think anyone's life is worth more than your inconvenience? Who can blame you? That doesn't sound quite as noble as all the phony...
posted @ 9/25/2007 11:40:55 AM | Feedback (12)
Killing people with guns is bad
60,000 NRA members with an airplane? Not so bad. It would be pretty difficult to do the kind of damage that was done on Monday at Virginia Tech with a single-engine Cessna. That's even if I filled the tanks and flew it into a building -- say, the one where 60,000 NRA members are gathering in St. Louis for their annual meetings. Don't tempt me. Now, I see that as hyperbole and don't think for a minute that this guy is really suggesting killing 60,000 people. However, I have a distinct feeling...
posted @ 9/24/2007 8:05:45 AM | Feedback (2)
Oh, I didn't realize it was that easy
Silly me, I thought allowing a teacher to protect herself was the right idea, but alas I appear to be wrong What should she do? Easy enough...put a restraining order on her husband that will keep him away from the school. The teacher can check her gun in at the door and pick it up on the way out. Wow. Silly, silly me thinking that restraining orders don't always work. Of course, here's hoping she can even get one. And when she does, let's hope it doesn't actually fuel her ex's anger and make...
posted @ 9/20/2007 7:40:02 AM | Feedback (1)
Paul Helmke wants federal agents to endanger your children
Ahh, the good 'ol Brady Blog. Just when you think there's nothing to talk about, Paul comes in and blurts out some PSH and you just have to respond. Paul bleats... The Review Panel appointed by Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine recently issued its recommendations that background checks on gun purchases be strengthened and “that guns be banned on campus grounds and in all buildings…” Earlier this week, I saw a short video clip that reinforced my agreement with this position. I was on Fox &...
posted @ 9/14/2007 11:08:59 AM | Feedback (5)
A Reasoned Discourse™ two-fer
Seems like Robyn Ringler not only can't stand to have open debate on a specific topic, but now she has to water down the subject. Of course, the reasoning is just perfect As newly posted under my photograph, I can no longer accept comments.  Reading so many abusive comments on this blog has taken its toll and I am no longer willing to undergo such [sic]harrassment. You want to see harassment Robin? Check out your buddy Alex's ("ILoveTrouserMuppetMoreThanYouLoveYourHoppe's#9") smears against...
posted @ 9/13/2007 11:40:52 AM | Feedback (8)
Why we need to license journalists
As we are constantly told, guns are dangerous items that cannot be entrusted to the common man. Too many people get hurt via firearms to allow unfettered access to them. We require background checks and restrictions for good cause. In doing so, we protect our country. The same thing should go for journalists, authors, and newscasters. These people are supposed to be able to tell the truth with as little bias as possible. To get a story wrong puts misinformation out into the public. When the...
posted @ 9/12/2007 7:59:06 AM | Feedback (2)
How to stop gun violence and AIDS at the same time
Sound impossible? It's not. We can both stop the spread of AIDS (to a fairly controllable degree) and put an end to gun violence and the spread of firearms using the same logic. First, let's talk about the guns. There are too many guns in the world, we are told. To put an end to the gun violence plaguing our communities, all we need to do is restrict their sales and have people turn in their firearms. Once the guns are off the streets, gun violence (and by extension, all violence) will lower to...
posted @ 9/10/2007 8:32:11 AM | Feedback (4)
The future won't be kind to the stupid
Got this alert a while agoFuture won't be kind to gun lovers Sept. 7, 2007 12:00 AM Sorry, Alan Korwin, but I am not a gun fan ("Guns vital to our freedom, but schools demonize them," Viewpoints, Sunday). I am also not a "small-minded, fearful bigot who thinks hiding what he hates will make everything just fine." Why is it every gun fanatic out there has to try to equate guns with freedom? Talk about your scare tactics. No guns, no freedom? I think not. Actually Tom, consider guns as...
posted @ 9/7/2007 10:05:56 AM | Feedback (3)
Head scratching moment of the day
One would think it was a rather simple concept The poll suggests many Canadians aren't sure about an outright handgun ban because there's a belief that criminals don't really care if handguns are legal or illegal anyway, Worden said. What? Some people believe that criminals might not follow the law yet 55% of those same people think banning guns is a good idea? What kind of fantasy land must you live in to have that even remotely make sense? "Oh, it won't work, but let's do it anyway!"
posted @ 9/5/2007 11:23:39 AM | Feedback (2)
Reasoned Discourse™ - The Poster
posted @ 8/22/2007 10:02:42 PM | Feedback (5)
Microstamping - A clear cut case of failure of imagination
Paul is all gushy about installing a de-facto gun registry under the guise of "microstamping". He, of course, heads off any debate by declaring Gun lobby criticisms of microstamping sound quite familiar. About this advancement in forensic science they say that “it costs too much,” or “criminals will get around it,” or “only honest gun owners will be penalized,” or – you guessed it – “it’s a ban on guns.” We’ve heard it all before, and like before, it’s all nonsense. Actually, Paul, the...
posted @ 8/22/2007 1:40:27 PM | Feedback (16)
The only thing we have to fear
Are drawings of things that resemble guns themselves. Chandler boy suspended for sketching gun An East Valley eighth-grader was suspended this week after he turned in homework with a sketch that school officials said resembled a gun and posed a threat to his classmates. ... Payne Junior High officials did not allow the Tribune to view the drawing. The Mostellers said the drawing did not depict blood, injuries, bullets or any human targets. They said it was just a drawing that resembled a gun....
posted @ 8/22/2007 9:51:10 AM | Feedback (10)
They're like vampires
Only instead of sucking blood, they want to suck away your rights. But like vampires, the gun control enthusiasts fear sunlight and their own reflections. Notice how the Brady Bunch doesn't allow comments on their blog. Notice how Robyn Ringler has to moderate the comments and doesn't allow dissent. And take my latest addition to my commenters, Alex who "loves his daughter more than you love your gun". His blog doesn't allow comments either. Yet he likes to come here and blather on about how us...
posted @ 8/19/2007 7:36:03 PM | Feedback (19)
Making pretzels jealous
Oh, the logical knots the anti-gunners tie themselves into. Check out this Einstein level post The Newark shooting is just one more tragic example of the carnage caused with illegal guns. The shooters were legally prohibited from having guns, but found a way to get them nonetheless. How? The gun lobby will tell you criminals will always find a way, and the best we can do is lock up perpetrators after-the-fact. But Gov. Corzine knows that by giving law enforcement the tools they need to answer...
posted @ 8/16/2007 2:50:12 PM | Feedback (1)
If you can't beat 'em, delete em! (Updated)
Seems like Ms. Robyn Ringler* is deleting my comments on her blog posts. When I brought it up that my comments seemed to have been deleted, it got deleted. It's a shame that gun control advocates can't play fair. They have to resort to lies, deception, fear-mongering, and controlling the narrative in order to push their agenda, which deep in their hearts they know to be wrong and foolhardy, but in their desire to do something, nay anything, they lash out against the one thing they have minimal...
posted @ 8/16/2007 1:10:05 PM | Feedback (16)
Blind to the nose on their own faces
Gun control enthusiasts scare me. They are religious fanatics who, even while their pants are on fire, will deny the very existence of flames. Coming from the Brady Campaign or the VPC, I can understand this approach. It helps them whip the faithful into a religious fervor and donate money. But when I see average people completely ignore the facts laid out in front of them, I can't figure out what drives them. Take this for example. Here's a classic PSH article from Robyn Ringer where she...
posted @ 8/16/2007 10:32:58 AM | Feedback (2)
Next you'll be telling me dog bites man
Robyn Ringler discovers that humans make mistakes. So apparently that's a good enough reason to make more gun laws and restrict our liberty. Thank God for people like Robyn who actually enjoy micromanaging everyone else's lives or else this world could be dangerous!
posted @ 8/15/2007 1:13:06 PM | Feedback (2)
I have a feeling
That every link to "Where did the gun come from?" is going to require this. No. of legal gun owners in decline; no. of shooting victims on the rise I don't know what bothers me the most. The fact that they can't even realize, through their own headline, that limiting gun ownership has no effect on crime Or That they think in order to be a "legal gun owner" requires the government know you have firearms and that you have registered them (and that they propagate this lie so blatantly) "Legal...
posted @ 8/15/2007 10:03:33 AM | Feedback (4)
California plans on increasing the sales of files
Yeah, this is going to work. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and top police brass have endorsed a bill that would make California the first state to require gun manufacturers to install a mechanism that would help investigators track down criminals. The bill would require all new semiautomatic handguns sold in California starting in 2010 to be equipped with "microstamping" technology. Such guns would microscopically etch their serial number, make and model on fired...
posted @ 8/15/2007 9:08:01 AM | Feedback (4)
Then why call it "gun control"?
Mr. Reasoned Discourse posts a tid-bit from the top bint herself The fact is that this debate isn’t about guns at all. It’s about how we as a society relate to guns. It’s about how we buy them, sell them, store them, and use them. This makes no sense at all. It has nothing to do with guns, but then goes on to list 5 different things regarding guns? If it has nothing to do with guns, why continue to label it as gun violence, gun laws, or gun {whatever}? When we talk about gun control, what...
posted @ 8/14/2007 2:16:09 PM | Feedback (3)
A simple answer
Laura Washington asks, "Why aren't others joining the call for gun control?" Where are our elected officials? Where are our presidential wannabes? During the last presidential election cycle, the Democrats shamelessly pandered to the deer hunters of Pennsylvania and Northern Michigan. Gun control has rarely been mentioned during the interminable slew of debates in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. It should be a signature issue. They aren't talking about it because it's...
posted @ 8/13/2007 8:26:10 AM | Feedback (2)
Ooh! I get to use my icon!
  Chalk this one up to the "Don't Let Boys be Boys" department.   STOP THE VIOLENCE In keeping with the effort to stop the violence in our communities,Nine-o-Six Multimedia is currently asking parents of small children toget rid of their toy guns. Because toy guns kill millions of toys every year We have created a TOY GUN DROP BASKET and want kids to drop their toyguns in our basket. In exchange we will give them a FREE NON-VIOLENTTOY. Whatever it is, I hope you give me two of them. If you...
posted @ 8/10/2007 11:03:26 AM | Feedback (4)
Journalists. Is there anything they can't screw up?
See anything wrong with this article from the Times Online UK? Such a tragedy prompted new calls for increased arms controls from presidential candidates, among them Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama; the issue also enjoys bi-partisan support. Nancy Pelosi, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, is an outspoken anti-firearm campaigner, insisting that US gun manufacturers and retailers be held responsible in law for gun misuse. I guess when there isn't bipartisan support and you...
posted @ 8/5/2007 9:00:44 AM | Feedback (4)
A new blog to haunt
Sebastian has pointed out a new gun control blog run by Brian Miller. For the interim, Brian is allowing comments, and like the other gun control boards, I strongly suggest you head over and let him know what you think. I am (SaaM), but I have a request for the rest of you. Let's try to keep our comments as civil as possible and avoid snark when we can. Remember that other people will read this who are not of the same mindset we are and insulting the host or his supporters (although he has less...
posted @ 8/3/2007 10:22:21 AM | Feedback (8)
No one ever accused Paul Helmke of being bright
Hey Paul, you might shut down comments, but we can still link to your posts. Not only that, but Google searches against your stories will also bring up blogs that link to them. And for every blog post you put up, many of us rights activists will put up our own and counter your arguments with facts that we can back up. The only people you're going to be talking to now are those who believe your lies anyway. Shutting down debate will only alienate those who might otherwise take your side. Your...
posted @ 7/30/2007 8:17:51 PM | Feedback (3)
Top 10 upcoming changes to the Brady Campaign Blog
So it seems Paul Helmke, tired of watching his efforts demolished by truth and fact, is planning on making some changes to the way the Brady Campaign's blog works. Now, it's all very hush hush right now, but since us rights activists are so helpful in pointing out the errors in Paul's posts, I thought I'd chip in and guess at a few of the changes being made Powered by Google search technology, every instance of the word gun will be replaced with something more gentle, like puppy, flower, or...
posted @ 7/27/2007 1:01:21 PM | Feedback (7)
Judge for yourself
I continue to believe that the best source of information regarding gun control and its follies remains The Brady Campaign Blog itself. Paul Helmke picks a single bad apple and declares the whole forest rotten in his inaptly titled "Reasoned Discourse". Paul is claiming that a single, tasteless fax illustrates how depraved us gun nuts (as they call us) are and why they can't have a reasonable discussion on the merits of gun control. Now, please, if you're on the fence about gun control, please...
posted @ 7/24/2007 12:54:36 PM | Feedback (3)
Well, now I've gone and pissed her off
Apparently, Kelli~ the world's most ineffective sock-puppet doesn't like me much. Anytime I can ruffle the feathers of an anti-gun person it brings sunshine into my life. Kelli~ is right though, I don't care about her safety. That's her job and I don't need to spend any amount of my day concerning myself about it. Unlike her, though, I won't try to stop her from doing whatever she feels is adequate for her own safety. Update - Now I disgust her! I swear, she's a mole for our side. Even the...
posted @ 7/13/2007 3:29:47 PM | Feedback (5)
Paul Helmke prefers you not correct his lies (UPDATED)
The Brady Bunch decided to have a blog. And for the few posts they had comments on, there were hundreds of pro-gun bloggers who would comment and totally destroy Mr. Helmke's already-shaky reputation. After reading Say Uncle's thorough evisceration of Mr. Helmke regarding his latest post*, I ventured over to see how the commenters were reacting. Seems you have to be the "right kind" of commenter and register. I'd register, but I'm not sure I want to be associated with them. I'd be willing to...
posted @ 6/25/2007 12:46:28 PM | Feedback (2)
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