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Oh, Yes, Gunloons Could Defeat the US Military

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So...we have Dishonest Joe Huffman and Paranoid Winston Dorian suggesting a couple of hundred fat, white guys with guns can defeat the US military and Government.

Wolverines!!!!

Seriously, this kind of talk is no different than what you might hear from a drunk at the end of the bar.  I can whip Mike Tyson or I could bat .300 in the majors--switch-hitting.

What our gunloons--and the drunk at the end of the bar--know is that they'll never have the chance.  It's always easy to talk big when you fully understand you'll never get the opportunity.

California Man Arrested Before He Killed His Wife

Mercury News reports. With a decent lawyer, he could probably get it all reduced to misdemeanors and be back in the protect-your-family-with-guns-in-the-home business before you know it.

Authorities have arrested a Lake County man accused of assaulting his wife and terrorizing her and their three young children with a gun.

Officials told the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa that 41-year-old Raymond Brown Jr. held his wife captive at their home near Clearlake on Wednesday night and into the morning. They say he threatened to kill himself and the family, broke a window and fired a 20-gauge shotgun into the ceiling.

He was allegedly drunk and high on methamphetamine. His wife told authorities she escaped around 8 a.m. after he passed out.

While she was gone, Brown left with their children. Authorities pulled over his SUV hours later with the children, ages one month to 3 years, inside.

Brown is being held on suspicion of spousal battery, false imprisonment and making terrorizing threats.

What's your opinion? Are guys like this so rare among gun owners that we should just write these stories off as anecdotal? Or, do guys like this make up a high enough percentage, that something should be done about it?

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Los Angeles Police Commissioner Overrules Chief

The Los Angeles times reports on the rare event. Like any so-called defensive shooting, by cop or civilian, the possibility of making a trigger-happy mistake and then lying about it is great. Sometimes they don't get away with it.

The civilian commission that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department has taken the rare step of rejecting a recommendation from the department's chief, ruling that two police officers were wrong when they fatally shot an unarmed autistic man last year.

Police Chief Charlie Beck concluded after a lengthy internal investigation that the officers made serious tactical mistakes during the brief, late-night encounter, but ultimately were justified in using deadly force against Steven Eugene Washington, 27.

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Paranoid Winston Dorian

via Winston Dorian

If Mayor Bloomberg and his cronies have their way the Federal Gov't will know who each and every gun owner in the country is and where they live. This flys in the FACE of what our Founding Fathers knew about governments. Having just fought an overpowering and tyranical gov't (The British & King George III) they knew that if the populace was armed then they would be safe against tyranny.

I hope I didn't give the wrong impression yesterday when I wrote about Paranoid Joe Huffman. I realize he's not alone.

The amazing thing is Winston and Joe, and many others like them, are intelligent and educated men. Yet, they seem to actually believe this crazy stuff they keep saying.

The reliance on 220-year-old examples in the "tyranny" story, to me is an indication of its foolishness, not unlike the 2nd Amendment itself. The relevance of these things in today's world is debatable, at best.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

The Darwin Awards

via Dog Gone of Penigma from The Darwin Awards.

(28 February 2000, Texas) A Houston man earned a succinct lesson in gun safety when he played Russian roulette with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Rashaad, nineteen, was visiting friends when he announced his intention to play the deadly game. He apparently did not realize that a semiautomatic pistol, unlike a revolver, automatically inserts a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. His chance of winning a round of Russian roulette was zero, as he quickly discovered.

Some of our commenters don't like it when I post stories like this. They feel my message is that all or most gun owners are like this. Nothing could be further from the truth, which I continually assert. So, why do they hate it so much?

I have a theory. They hate these stories because they know that what I keep saying is absolutely true. A small, but significant, percentage of them is comprised of folks who are not the responsible, squared-away, savvy gun owners they themselves are, at least according to them.

What's your opinion? Is the Russian Roulette story too far-fetched? Isn't it just a bit stupider than leaving a round in the chamber when you begin cleaning the weapon?

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Remember the Alamo

via Notions Capital


(image credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com)

Some hold that the “Freedom” the rebels died for was chiefly the freedom to own slaves, a practice illegal under Mexican law. Most Texans would rather remember the gallant fight put up that day by heroes like Jim Bowie, William Travis, and John Wayne.

What's your opinion? Isn't this a similar whitewashing as what they've done with the Confederate Flag? Aren't they both shameful symbols which should remind us of some of the worst of American history? Why do people in the North, North-East and California understand this and the others don't? (I know that's one sweeping generalization, but you know what I mean).

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