Making the illegal illegaller

I've had something rattling around in my noggin for a long time and it's something I can't seem to ever get out in words to explain what I'm thinking. Thankfully, Say Uncle has a post that allowed me to be sarcastic in the comments, and I realized that's EXACTLY the point I've been trying to make From his post OK law makes it illegal to fortify home if you have drugs: bill that makes it unlawful for “any person to willfully fortify an access point into any dwelling, structure, building...

posted @ 1/14/2010 10:55:14 AM | Feedback (7)

Had the Brady Campaign been around in the 1300's

They'd have been known as Crossbow Control, Inc. Clayton Cramer provides a fascinating look at bow and arrows and their usage (and control by the ruling class) The Battle of Crecy (1346) and even more so, the Agincourt (1415), demonstrated the foolishness of this approach. Those peasant English archers were quite effective because if you were practiced with it, you could unleash an incredible storm of arrows with an effective range of hundreds of yards from the longbow. But to be...

posted @ 1/6/2010 9:19:03 AM | Feedback (2)

Mayors Against Gun Ownership

Sebastian digs up some scary shit from the MAIG group. It is out in the open now, they can no longer hide that they are a gun banning organization. Not that we didn't know this already, but at least it's in print where they can't deny it. The scariest part is that, like Sebastian says, this group knows the ATF and how to get around that pesky Constitution and avoid anything that has to deal with voters and whatnot. The Brady's and the VPC are as good as useless for anything except soundbites...

posted @ 12/29/2009 9:53:20 AM | Feedback (1)

Advantage, us

At one of the Gun Blogger get-togethers, I joked around about what gun controllers must do for entertainment – hit up the anti-gun range or go to an anti-gun show. We all had a good laugh over that, but it stuck in my head for a while, and I think I've finally got a handle on why that pithy statement meant something to me. Think about it – this past weekend, both Breda and I took a new shooter to the range. In both cases, it was pretty evident we've created new shooters. At the least, we've...

posted @ 12/22/2009 12:56:07 PM | Feedback (7)

One of these things is not like the other

While both are enshrined in the Bill of Rights, one right gets treated a little differently Before engaging in new free speech you must pass an instant background check by a government authorized free speech dealer. Sorry, if your name is like someone else prohibited from speech and religion, it is up to you to prove you’re not that person. (NICS instant background check and Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993) Any speech or work with more than 10 sentences per page...

posted @ 12/9/2009 7:59:11 AM | Feedback (4)

I've always said

If you have to rely on waiting until the Point of Sale to stop the wrong people from obtaining firearms, you're deluded. Apparently, that's the metric Paul Helmke uses to calculate success. Thanks Paul for validating my statement. Notice how "blocked sales" are his metric of choice. Not a reduced crime rate, not lower shootings, but simply the number of times the cash register doesn't go 'ding'. It appears false negatives are also included in that number. You know how to tell that...

posted @ 12/1/2009 11:34:24 AM | Feedback (0)

Not accidental, either

Howard Nemerov points to this interesting statistic Since 1984 there have been over 122,000,000 firearms purchased by civilians, and yet somehow the accidental firearms death rate has plummeted 71.4%. How can that be? The Brady Campaign and their ilk constantly tell us that more firearms means more accidental deaths. They fight at every turn to prevent programs like Eddie Eagle from being taught in schools. Which makes sense in a way. People like Dennis Henigan and Paul Hemlke can't really...

posted @ 10/29/2009 1:37:29 PM | Feedback (13)

When reality decides to hit you

She's not going to do it gently Kevin regales us with tales from across the pond in Gun Free England where they now are having to use military like squads with fully automatic weaponry to patrol certain areas due to the amazingly high gun crime. Unfortunately, even with mounds of proof that disarming the citizenry does nothing to curb crime, the anti-gunners here in the states are still chomping at the bit to push for more useless laws. They are immune to logic, apparently. Of course, we...

posted @ 10/23/2009 8:17:33 AM | Feedback (6)

I might need a new icon

We all know Paul Helmke et al are sad pandas over the recent advances in gun rights. Heller went our way, and now Chicago vs. Nordyke is going before the SCOTUS. Already, the anti-gun forces are spinning their inevitable loss as 'no big deal'. The thing is, I've written off the Brady Campaign as practically irrelevant these days. They've got nothing new, their arguments are tired and pretty much are self-defeating, and even at the gun range, very few people get the reference on my targets....

posted @ 10/1/2009 10:36:17 AM | Feedback (4)

Registration leads to confiscation

Every. Single. Time They used to be legal firearms, but now they're either unregistered or outright banned, and they're wanted by police before there's a chance burglars put them in Toronto's underground and underworld markets. Since March 1, Project Safe City swept 400 unregistered weapons 150 of them handguns from homes throughout the city. No charges were filed. Police are reviewing thousands of gun ownership files to determine which weapons have lapsed registrations and which are now...

posted @ 9/23/2009 10:14:41 AM | Feedback (12)

How effective gun control looks

"We see probably an average of between 10 and 15 people who get shot or stabbed every night," Dr. Dennis said. Want to blame lax gun laws? Good luck with that Ten to fifteen shootings and stabbings every night, at one hospital? Baghdad might be safer than that. This is the city with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. All guns must be registered--and re-registered annually--with the Chicago Police Department. The vast majority of semi-automatic...

posted @ 6/25/2009 10:53:51 AM | Feedback (1)

Sage advice

Laurel looks for tips on baby-proofing her household. What's the skinny on guns? Get rid of them — they’re not safe around children. Neither are buckets, bathtubs, cleaning supplies under the sink, kitchen knives, matches, pots of boiling water, gravity, animals, or any number of various things, but I don't think they want you to get rid of them. Laurel is going to write them. If she coughs up a link, I shall too. As the father of two lovely girls, I'm insulted by their insinuation that...

posted @ 6/24/2009 6:39:00 PM | Feedback (2)

All this schadenfreude is making me giddy

I already gave Josh Sugar-mama a Sad Panda icon. I already know the VPC isn't much more than a cash hole for the Joyce Foundation. But listening to Howard Nemerov say it again, with more detail, is going to force me to pull a smile muscle.

posted @ 5/19/2009 9:35:08 AM | Feedback (1)

Josh Sugarmann gets one!

This one's for you, Josh my boy! “If you compare the pro-gun activity in the blogosphere versus the pro-gun-control activity, the scales have just tipped tremendously in their favor,” says Josh Sugarmann, founder of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, which advocates for more gun control in the US. “There’s much more engagement, more involvement, and they clearly have more free time than people on our side of the issue do.” You know what, Joshua? Not only do I not get paid to do...

posted @ 5/18/2009 9:28:50 AM | Feedback (11)

Sad Panda Alert!

Poor Paul Helmke. He must be a very sad panda when even he has to crack jokes like this “Nobody listens to you anymore,” Helmke joked during a recent informal question-and-answer session at The News-Sentinel. “So I went to (Washington) D.C., where nobody listens to me anymore.” No Paul, the reason people don't listen to you any more is because your entire premise is based on lies and twisting statistics. I mean, let's examine this statement from the same article “All of our gun...

posted @ 5/11/2009 11:15:48 AM | Feedback (5)

Can you say "owned"?

Josh Sugarmann is a sad clown. He can't get Obama to ban all guns yesterday and so he whines and whines about it. He gets taken to task fairly well in the comments, but one particular anti-rights bigot asks for his lunch on a platter and promptly has it handed to him krechsd If there are 2.5 million crimes stopped by guns , how come it never appears in the news? Excuse me if I doubt your "research" , but what is happening is guns are being used to kill co-workers, fellow...

posted @ 4/30/2009 12:17:59 PM | Feedback (3)

Poor Helmke

The sad panda is not happy with his Obama. Seems poor widdle Paul is realizing, like a large swath of Americans, that Obama's promises on the campaign trail are nothing but lip service.

posted @ 4/29/2009 7:25:56 PM | Feedback (1)

Nobody wants to take away your guns

'Cept when, you know, they actually are saying they want to Ban the sale, use or possession of 50-caliber or larger weapons, and creates a program to recall those currently legally owned (A.3211A/Eddington); Another glaring reason why I won't move to NY.

posted @ 4/29/2009 7:14:14 AM | Feedback (6)

Real science – Hypothesis FAIL!

So, yesterday I did a science experiment. To be a real experiment, I had to develop my hypothesis on what I thought would happen then run it. My experiment was to go overly-armed to a large crowd of people. My hypothesis was that the multiple pistols I was carrying would cause me incur a sudden onset of psychosis and start shooting children in the head at close range. Since guns cause crime and murder, I had to assume that several guns would definitely put me over the edge. Unfortunately,...

posted @ 4/16/2009 12:05:21 PM | Feedback (15)

Another law would have helped

This is why I scoff at gun laws CLEVELAND — The 17-year-old accused of killing James Rubin, 17, will be arraigned Tuesday by Juvenile Court Judge Peter Sikora. The case will then be sent to adult court, when The Plain Dealer will report the teen's name. James R. Rubin, of East 101st Street, was shot in the head about 6:20 p.m. March 17 while walking in the 6700 block of Bayliss Avenue. Witnesses told police that multiple shots were fired from a moving car. One witness said the shooting...

posted @ 3/24/2009 8:39:37 AM | Feedback (0)

Grade-A FAIL!

We should take up a collection to send the Brady Campaign to Remain Completely Irrelevant a case of cheap tequila. Seriously, 65 Democrats signed up against a new AWB. The Brady's last hope of having their wettest dream come true has gone up in smoke. That's gotta hurt.

posted @ 3/19/2009 7:28:56 AM | Feedback (2)

Am I wrong

For imagining in my head, Paul Helmke jumping up and down, screaming "YES!!!!" when he sees a news story about a shooting?

posted @ 3/11/2009 5:19:47 PM | Feedback (8)

Playing catch-up

So, for the past week I've barely been able to read any blogs, much less post on my own. However, it does appear that Obama's AG – Eric Holder – blew their collective, gun grabbing load. Response has been less than stellar for Obama's gaffe machine in overdrive administration. Even Nancy Wrinkles Pelosi ran away from it faster than Obama could run away from Rev. Wright at a press conference. This administration is literally tripping over itself to push every last, wet dream, legislation that...

posted @ 3/1/2009 12:37:41 PM | Feedback (1)

I won't do it

From Jeff, we get a little insight on the "Ammunition Accountability Act" from Alan Scholl Reloading (re-using cartridge cases multiple times) would be abolished. There would be no way to correspond serial numbers on cartridge cases, and different sets and quantities of bullets. Sorry, won't do it. I'll continue to manufacture my own ammunition, even if some group declares it a no-no. Even if it means learning the difficult process to manufacture smokeless powder. In a way, I'm hoping they...

posted @ 1/23/2009 8:05:12 AM | Feedback (5)

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)

Up next on the gun banners' list - Bambi Zappers

Hunters who think nothing of selling out other's rights simply because they don't feel that certain classes of weapons are good enough for their sport are about to get a wake up call. Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan dismissed the notion hunting rifles and shotguns are not the type of weapons authorities need to be worried about, noting they can cause harm if poorly safeguarded or stolen by burglars. "Taking these off the streets is as important as the taking the handguns off the...

posted @ 12/17/2008 11:05:29 AM | Feedback (10)

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)

Brady Campaign to announce even bigger waste of their limited dollars

They plan on holding legislators accountable for voting No on their unconstitutional plans. Poor Petey Hamm - even the biggest gun banning group is for the most part, irrelevant. That and he has to share the limelight with Paul Helmke. I love this part Brian Malte of the Brady Campaign was joined by Chicago 2nd Ward Alderman Bob Fioretti, 33rd Ward Alderman Richard F. Mell, gun violence survivor Willie Williams and Cook County State's Attorney Richard A. Devine at Crane High School in Chicago...

posted @ 10/14/2008 1:00:15 PM | Feedback (4)

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