Bad Laws be Damned

Letter to the editor of Ammoland

You want me to be a criminal? Then keep right on passing laws that:

• Ban the standard size magazine, that came with my legally purchased gun.
• Ban my Ar15 rifle because it has a pistol grip.
• Make me run a background check on my son or daughter before I gift them a gun that has been in my family since the civil war.
• Make me pay a tax to get a permit to buy a hand gun.
• Pass multiple background checks to buy one shotgun.
• Ban my black powder rifle because it is 50 caliber sniper rifle.

I repeat FUCK YOU, I have had enough. I it would be easier for me to be a criminal, at least I will not be complicit in your work to tear down the documents that my grandfathers gave their lives to protect.

I would rather buy my guns on the black market. I will never turn in my magazines or guns or ammo and “comply”. Since anyone of these acts would make me a felon.

I will not only be an undocumented gun owner, I will be the worst undocumented gun owner that you can imagine.

Open Carry Folks Demonstrate at a Starbucks

Local news reports

 

The Rev. said the first line of defense is a gun in the home not the police. But, couldn't there be an even earlier line of defense? By preventing the bad guys from getting guns in the first place, we'd all be better off.

Of course, the pro-gun folks have a lot invested in the lie that we can never prevent criminals from getting guns.  If that were true, they'd be right about the first line of defense.  But, it's not and they're wrong.

The other falsehood in this video is the very popular idea that more armed good guys is the answer. This comes from Wayne La Pierre and is repeated faithfully by the non-thinking dupes who follow his lead. The truth is that every single day we see lawful gun owners misusing their guns. I realize it's not most of them, but the numbers are too high to ignore. The more armed good guys we have the more of them turn out to be hidden criminals or mental cases or rageaholics.

Unless we implement sensible gun laws, first and foremost, universal background checks, things will never get significantly better.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

Message for Senator Cruz

Lawful Gun Owner Shoots Friend Accidentally - Lies to Police

Local news reports

Wilkes-Barre police have filed charges in connection with an accidental shooting Thursday afternoon.

Police say Jeremy Bartz, 23, accidentally shot his friend inside the residence, but initially claimed an unknown gunman shot him while they were jogging.

Bartz is charged with providing false reports to law enforcement.

Police said Bartz accidentally shot James Marsicano, 26, in the upper leg at the home with a .40 caliber gun. The gun is owned by David Ritchie, who loaned the gun to Bartz, police said.

Initially, Bartz told police Marsicano was shot by an unknown person while they were jogging. He later recanted that claim and admitted he accidentally shot Marsicano in the leg, police said.

It's unbelievable to me that you can shoot someone by accident and get away with it, but if you lie to try and cover it up you get busted. The real problem is that lying to the police doesn't cause the loss of gun rights. That would make the world a better place.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

The NRA Official Position on Maching Guns - What is it?

Josh Sugarmann for The Huffington Post

According to National Rifle Association President David Keene, fully automatic weapons should be illegal.

As far as I know, this is actually news.

Keene, the father of a convicted road rage shooter, actually supports banning a category of firearm. Granted, for most people, outlawing machine guns would be a no-brainer, but let's remember the organization we're talking about here.

And, specifically, this guy: Wayne LaPierre.


In 1986, a ban on the manufacture of new fully automatic machine guns for civilian sale was added as a last-minute amendment to the NRA's federal flagship bill of the 1980s the "Firearms Owners' Protection Act," commonly known as "McClure-Volkmer" for its Senate (Jim McClure, R-ID) and House (Howard Volkmer, D-MO) sponsors. (A pool of pre-1986 machine guns registered and controlled under the National Firearms Act of 1934 remains available to private citizens under federal law.)

The NRA on Biden's Shotgun Advice

 NRA-ILA

As often as he puts his foot in his mouth, it's a wonder Vice-President Joe Biden can walk. The often irascible and unpredictable Biden said this week, in an online Facebook town hall "chat" sponsored by Parents Magazine, that women who have to protect their homes and families from intruders should just walk outside and fire two blasts from a double barreled shotgun.

A FoxNews.com article reported that Biden claims to keep two shotguns locked up at his home, and that he has told his wife, Jill, to use them if she needs protection.

"I said, `Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony ... take that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house,"' Biden said.

That advice would be illegal in most situations, and dangerous both for the potential victim, and for the general public.

When they're right they're right.

Shays' Rebellion

I mention this event quite a bit, but am amazed that it has been expunged from the US consciousness.  That's a shame because it is highly important to the development of the US as a nation.  There have been many rebellions both before and after US Independence, yet I would argue that this is one of the most important of them. In my opinion, it does emphasise that the War for American Independence was a civil war which left more issues unresolved than it solved. It also highlights the fact that the US is a rather belligerent nation that there are frequent insurrections and people who feel this is somehow a right.

Only three years after the American Revolution ended, thousands of Massachusetts citizens took up arms against their new state government. The rebellion started on August 29, 1786. It was precipitated by several factors: financial difficulties brought about by a post-war economic depression, a credit squeeze caused by a lack of hard currency, and fiscally harsh government policies instituted in 1785 to solve the state's debt problems. Protesters, including many war veterans, shut down county courts in the later months of 1786 to stop the judicial hearings for tax and debt collection. The protesters became radicalized against the state government following the arrests of some of their leaders, and began to organize an armed force. The rebellion took place in a political climate where reform of the country's governing document, the Articles of Confederation, was widely seen as necessary.

Shays' Rebellion was the main impetus for the adoption of the US Constitution.  In fact, the rebellion hadn't been quelled (resistance continued until June 1787) when the Constitutional Convention began in Philadelphia (May 1787)!

This is why the Constitution makes it clear that its purposes is "insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare".   Also, it makes clear that the role of the militia is "execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions" (Article I, Section 8, Clause 15) and that waging war on the US is Treason (Article III, Section iii).  Article IV, Section 4 talks about "domestic violence".  All these refer to Shays' Rebellion.

Anyway, the best resource for this event on the internet is found here.  It is a site run by Springfield Technical Community College (fitting as this was the location of the main "battle").  Although, I do wish they would update and fill in the gaps on the site since a lot of important essays have yet to be written.  It is an interesting site to explore.

And maybe if enough people ask, they will fill in the gaps on this incredible resource.

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Paranoid Fanatic with Giant Amygdala Gives Carry Advice

They love this guy on TTAG because they all enjoy a bigger than average amygdala too.

 "The I-phone makes a pretty good impact device." he said with an uncharacteristic smile.

Hidden Criminal Arrested for Making Threats and Other Things

 New York Magazine via End the NRA

Lawrence Mulqueen of Rockland County was charged today with making terrorist threats, harassment, and illegal weapons possession after police found two rifles, a sword, bayonets, brass knuckles with a knife attached, body armor, and a bunch of ammunition at his home.

The 49-year-old's landlady tipped police to a Facebook page, created under a pseudonym, where he allegedly threatened politicians including Andrew Cuomo, Michael Bloomberg, Nancy Pelosi, and others associated with gun control. "I cannot wait to start killing the scum," he wrote, according to police. "I want these scumbags DEAD!!! ... Death to them all."

You see, this is where the law-abiding gun owners and the criminal gun owners meet. They're called hidden criminals and they are legion. They look and act just like any other gun owner.  They believe in the right to bear arms and, as we've seen recently, they often wish harm to the "gun grabbers."

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

The M Word - Militia, Explained

via The Official Tea Party USA

What does the West Virginia Irregulars First Battalion Civilian Militia have to do with the Culpepper Minutemen?

Jon Stewart on the Outrageous Hypocrisy of John McCain

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Jon Stewart on the Mississippi Ratification of the 13th Amendment

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I guess all the staunch defenders of 2nd Amendment rights down there just never noticed. What do you think?  Isn't it hard not to make fun of the South?

Ohio 9-Year-old Critical Because of Dad's Negligence

Local news reports

Authorities say a 9-year-old boy is in critical condition after being accidentally shot in the head.
Brown County Sheriff Dwayne Wenninger said it happened Monday afternoon in the southern Ohio village of Decatur, southeast of Cincinnati.

Wenninger said Sebastian Schwartz got his father's gun from the bedroom and was playing with it when a younger sister tried to take it away from him. That's when it discharged, hitting him in the head.

The boy was flown to a Cincinnati hospital, where he was in critical condition following a four-hour surgery Monday night.

Wenninger said results of the investigation will be turned over to prosecutors, who will decide if the boy's parents should face charges.

How much you wanna bet this kid had received the Eddie Eagle instructions of not touching the gun?

Accidental Shooting in Kentucky - Two for One - No Charges

Local news reports

Two men in Whitley County managed to get shot by the same bullet Wednesday night.

Kentucky State Police say Matthew N. Goins, 22, and William J. Bennett, 22, were target shooting in an area along KY-904 east of Williamsburg when the gun jammed. As the two men were trying to clear the jam, the gun fired, hitting Goins in the hand and Bennett in the leg.

EMS took both men to Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin for treatment of minor injuries.
Police say they determined the shooting was accidental and don't plan to file any charges.

Does anyone think the world is safer with these two characters owning guns? I certainly don't. One strike you're out needs to be applied.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

Accidental Shooting in Alabama Gun Shop - No Charges

Local news reports

A man at an Andalusia gun shop was injured in an accidental shooting Wednesday.

Police were dispatched just after 10:45 a.m. to the intersection of East Three Notch and College Street after the man, who was not identified, was shot while cleaning a handgun.

“It was one of those accidental things,” said Lt. Paul Dean. “The gun went off while he was cleaning it, and (the bullet) took off a small portion of his left index finger.”

Dean said emergency personnel transported him to Andalusia Regional Hospital, where he was treated and released.

I love that little bit of down South wisdom, "It was one of those accidental things."  I'm sure the reporter edited it from the original, "It was one of THEM accidental things." But either way, the gun just went off.

Besides a small portion of his index finger, this guy should lose his God-given, Constitutionally-protected gun rights as well.

What do you think?  Please leave a comment.

Accidental Shooting of Texas 12-Year-old While Hunting Squirrels

Local news reports

A shooting near Whitt Sunday involving a 12-year-old boy was found to be accidental, according to the Parker County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies were dispatched to the 1700 block of Hardy Road around 6 p.m. to collect evidence after a 12-year-old boy was taken to Palo Pinto General Hospital for an injury to his right ankle, according to Parker County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Danie Huffman.

Two boys, believed to be brothers, were behind the house apparently hunting squirrels, when the 10-year-old handed the older boy a loaded .22-caliber rifle, Huffman said.

The 12-year-old shot himself in the foot and right ankle area, the sheriff’s office reported.

The boy was reportedly transported to Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth from Palo Pinto General Hospital and the bullet surgically removed.

The father was reported to be at work at the time, accoridng to Huffman.

Deputies collected the rife from the home during their investigation and the incident was later cleared as an accident.

Do you think these boys had permission to use the .22, or did they do so against dad's instructions?

Either way dad's guilty of negligence, wouldn't you say?  My bet is they had his permission, after all, what's more natural than young boys doin' a little hunting. Besides, they're not stupid. They'd been told never to point the rifle at your foot.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

Randi Rhodes on Background Checks

Randi Rhodes

Dr. Drew Pinsky on the Mindy McCready Suicide

Raw Story

Dr. Drew Pinsky says that country music star Mindy McCready may not have killed herself if her boyfriend had not been a “firearm enthusiast,” making guns “easily accessible.”

Speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday, Pinsky explained that McCready’s suicide was the result of a “one-two punch” after her boyfriend, music producer David Wilson, took his own life and then she released herself from a rehab facility after less than 24 hours to return to a home filled with guns.

Reactions to Joe Biden's Ridiculous Shot Gun Comments

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The NRA is in Decline

Embattled NRA leader Wayne LaPierre (Getty)

Capitol Hill Blue 

Insiders at the embattled National Rifle Association say the organization is padding its claims of recent increases in membership and say more members are leaving amid criticisms over strident positions taken by controversial leader Wayne LaPierre.

“In reality, our membership is probably dropping,” says one embittered NRA staffer, who asked not to be identified.  “It’s hard to say because our membership department is always playing games with the numbers.”

Capitol Hill Blue has received several hundred emails from persons who identify themselves as “former NRA members” who have left the organization of protests over the group’s hard-core positions following the increase in gun violence in schools.

Another member who quit is Capitol Hill Blue founder and publisher Doug Thompson, who dropped his life membership in the organization and called LaPierre an “out of control egomaniac whose uncompromising positions are damaging the image of law-abiding gun owners in America.”

St. Gabriel Possenti Feast day Coming Up

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Mississippi Abolishes Slavery Finally

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On February 7, 2013, the state of Mississippi officially ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. Of course the Constitutional amendment was adopted 168 years ago, on December 6, 1865, after ratification by 27 other states, but the Mississippi legislature, miffed that Magnolia State slave owners weren't compensated for their loss of human property, voted against it.

And some people wonder why we generalize in mocking the deep south.

Changing the Gun Culture in America

Colorado House Passes Four Gun Bills

The Denver Post

The House on Monday gave final passage to the four bills, which:

• Limit gun magazines to 15 rounds.
• Require background checks for all gun transactions.
• Ban concealed weapons on college campuses.
• Impose a fee for gun buyers to cover the cost of their background checks.

Democrats hold a 37-28 majority in the House — where 33 votes are needed for passage — but only one of the bills, the universal background check, passed with a margin close to the Democrats' majority.

In the Senate, the numbers are closer. Democrats hold a 20-15 advantage and need 18 votes for passage.

Prof. Simon Chapman's Over Our Dead Bodies: Port Arthur and the Fight for Gun Control - Australia's last gun massacre is now a free E-book

Prof. Simon Chapman's Over Our Dead Bodies: Port Arthur and the Fight for Gun Control - Australia's last gun massacre is now a free E-book and available at the following link:

http://bit.ly/YZtHQ2

I strongly suggest that anyone who is involved in the US gun violence/gun control movement read this book.  Australia's political climate surrounding this issue at the time of the Port Arthur Massacre was eerily similar to that of the US, yet the Australians were able to cut through the non-sense and enact serious and effective gun control laws.

This is a valuable lesson for people who want to see similar laws in the US.

This book is really about the workings of the media, the use of lobbying, and the skills of advocacy. So pick a day when you are tired of dealing with the aftermath of ignored public health issues and read this ripping yarn, arm yourself with the tools it offers, and be ready to go into battle.

The Adam Lanza Documentary

The gun rights fanatics will go to any length to distance themselves from their own who go bad. The funniest attempt is on TTAG today. The theory goes that in order to punish his gun-nut mother, young Adam did what he did in order to bring about strict gun control.

In other words, Adam Lanza is one of us.

Is that a riot, or what?

An Example of the Pro-Gun Mindset

AnonymousFebruary 19, 2013 at 9:05 PM

It will do nothing to stop crime. Criminals don't follow the law. Do you really think that the cops will help you if you call 911? The courts have ruled that the police have no duty to stop crime, only to take the report. I hope that someday you or one of your love ones are injured, raped or killed. Then you will find out how important a firearm is.....

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Mike BFebruary 20, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Your short-sighted, self-serving claim that criminals don't follow the law, which is one of the main platforms of the NRA resistance to reasonable gun control, is laughable because criminals get all their guns from lawful sources. We don't need criminals to follow the laws in order to diminish the availability by proper laws AIMED AT THE LAW ABIDING.

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I know this guy is typical in his mindless repetition of that which others have mindlessly repeated. Much of it starts with the NRA and their frequent public declarations of nonsense.

I suspect he's also typical in wishing harm on gun control advocates. What red-blooded American gun enthusiast wouldn't love to enjoy a bit of schadenfreude at the expense of a "gun grabber?"

What do you think?  Please leave a comment.

Chip off the Old Block: NRA President David Keene's Son Arrested for Road Rage Shooting

National Confidential

While the NRA is blaming video games and the media for the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, an incident involving the NRA president’s son may create new controversy.

In 2002, David Michael Keene, the son of NRA president David Keene was arrested for firing a gun at a motorist while driving along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in a road rage incident. He was later convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for “using, brandishing, and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence.”

In an interview with the New Yorker, the elder Keene said he did not feel his organization’s policy of unrestricted access to guns was counteracted by his son’s own actions.

He was a lawful gun owner with a concealed carry permit, you know the kind that makes us all safer.

Hubris: The Selling of the Iraq War

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This is part one of six. Conclusion: Bush and Co. are war criminals just like Lyndon B. Johnson was.

Thieves Target Cars with NRA Stickers

Virginia Pizzeria Offers Discount to Gun Owners

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More on the Claim that 40% of Gun Sales are Without Background Checks

 The Blaze

At a recent Senate hearing, Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson went so far as to say, “Allowing 40 percent of those acquiring guns to bypass background checks is like allowing 40 percent of airline passengers to board a plane without going through airport security.”

What gun control proponents never say, though, is that this oft-repeated statistic is based on stale data that was grossly exaggerated even when it was fresh.

As The Washington Post has pointed out, this 40 percent figure comes from a 1997 report by the National Institute of Justice, a research agency within the Department of Justice, and was based on a telephone survey sample of just 251 people who acquired firearms in 1993 and 1994. This was years before the NICS system went into effect. Of the 251 participants, 35.7 percent said that they didn’t or “probably” didn’t obtain their gun from a licensed firearms dealer. Because the margin of error was +/– 6 percentage points, it was rounded up to 40 percent, although it could just as easily and legitimately have been rounded down below 30 percent.

As we said last time this popped up in the news, you could call it 30% or even 20% and the argument for background checks is the same.

This is the issue which separates the honest and reasonable people from the fanatics. Wayne La Pierre has left his minions without a proper response on this one.  All he says is "criminals won't obey," which is one of the stupidest arguments around.

This is the litmus test for true gun rights fanaticism-

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

Profiles in Courage - Ted Nugent

Randi Rhodes 

More on the Myth of Hitler’s Gun Ban

via The Propaganda Professor

And we say laws in the plural because there were indeed more than one. We’ve been discussing primarily the German Weapons Act of 1938, passed in March of that year, which as we’ve noted before, significantly deregulated firearms. It also prohibited Jews from manufacturing and selling them; one gets the impression that the intent was to prevent Jews, whom the Nazis regarded as subhuman, from handling the sacred implements of power that they later would touch with their own hands. Even so, note that this law itself did not expressly ban Jews from owning guns.

It wasn’t until November of that year that a different law, The Regulations Against Jews’ Possession Of Weapons, did what its name suggested. That’s right: even though they’d subjected the Jews to just about every form of degradation and brutal oppression possible, it took the Nazis  five years before they actually got around to barring Jews from owning guns. Gives you some indication just what an all-consuming priority it was, doesn’t it? Furthermore, this law was passed only after Kristallnacht, which might have given Jews an incentive to retaliate violently.

You know, if we removed from the pro-gun argument all the things that are made-up and false, there wouldn't be much left.

What do you think?

Was There Racism in La Pierre's Remarks?

I'm often the first one to call Conservatives on racism, but I have to say I dinn't see it in these remarks. Did you?

I suppose it could be argued, like Michael Moore did one time, that in the mind of most white people, who predominantly make up Wayne La Pierre's audience, the imagined looters or home invaders or criminals in general are usually black or Hispanic.

Nevertheless, it seems to me the Lefties are making too much of these comments by calling them racist.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

Forgetful PA Gun Owner Arrested at NJ Airport

ABC News reports

Officials say a Pennsylvania man was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport after screeners noticed a loaded gun in his carry-on bag.

59-year-old Robert Kellerman of Long Pond was taken into custody just after 6 a.m. Sunday by Port Authority police. They were notified after Transportation Security Administration screeners saw the .22-caliber handgun at a checkpoint inside Terminal C.

Kellerman was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon. Officials say Kellerman told police he forgot the gun was inside the bag.

Airline passengers are permitted to travel with firearms only in checked baggage. They must be stored properly and unloaded.

The reason guys like this should get the one-strike-you're-out treatment is twofold. First, because their behavior is exactly the same as the bad guy who has violent intentions and second, because the same kind of forgetfulness with regards weapons can be dangerous.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

Mindy McCready Kills Herself with a Gun

CNN

Country music star Mindy McCready was found dead Sunday at her home in Arkansas from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the local sheriff's office said in a statement. She was 37. 

Deputies from the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to a report of gunshots fired Sunday afternoon and found McCready's body on the front porch, the statement read. 

McCready leaves behind two boys, one of whom is 10 months old. The infant's father, record producer David Wilson, died of an apparent suicide last month.

The NRA is Just a Heat Shield for the Gun Industry

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The Scientific Rebuttal to Large DGU Estimates

The Huffington Post

Though the scenario plays out in virtually every western and action film ever made, good guys stopping bad guys with guns is a rare occurrence as we know from reports from the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice and the Harvard Injury Control Policy Research Center's David Hemenway. Every year there are even a few token incidents in the news of this occurring, but for most part these events are uncommon. And there is a good reason for why that is: Human physiology.

When people are put in a crisis situation the fight-or-flight response is triggered and the sympathetic nervous system kicks into action involuntarily. Stress hormones like epinephrine are released en masse into our blood stream increasing arterial pressure and blood flow to major muscle masses, dilating the blood vessels. This boosts our gross motor skills. Still some blood vessels constrict which reduces blood flow to the ends of appendages to limit injuries. The heart rate increases. A report from Killology Research Group, that studies the science of combat, explains that "extreme SNS activation will cause catastrophic failure of the visual, cognitive, and motor control systems." Tunnel vision and auditory exclusion impair our ability to take in our surroundings, we lose complex motor control (meaning we fumble performing anything but the most basic movements) and irrationality and confusion prevent sound action.

Why NRA Fear Tactics Work So Well

ABC News Medical Unit

The studies looked at things like differences between groups’ perception of eye movement, and aversion to threatening noises.  Researchers also noted that Democrats had larger anterior cingulate cortexes, which are associated with tolerance to uncertainty, while Republicans had larger right amygdalas, which are associated with sensitivity to fear.

Where Chicago Gets Its Guns

The Chicago Tribune via commenter nickxdanger

As he sold four handguns in a South Side parking lot last year, Levaine Tanksley boasted to his customer that there were plenty more illicit weapons available, investigators say.

"Twenty-five more in four hours," Tanksley told his customer, who was secretly working for law enforcement and recording the conversation. "Give me $5,000 and you can put your order in then. I'll get you whatever, give me a list."

As Tanksley, who police say has ties to a Chicago street gang, made his sales pitch, David Lewisbey was stocking up on more weapons at a gun show 40 miles away in Crown Point, Ind., one of several trips he made across the state border and back in little more than a day, according to federal authorities. Five hours later, Lewisbey, an unlikely gun trafficker then enrolled in college, was back in Chicago as Tanksley made good on his promise and sold the informant nine more guns, authorities allege.

A federal indictment charges the two with illegally selling 43 firearms to the government informant in just under 26 hours, a volume made possible by gun shows and less restrictive state laws in Indiana, by far the No. 1 source of out-of-state guns used in crimes in Cook County. Private gun sales in Indiana don't require background checks, a waiting period or even a record of the transaction.

The NRA's Enemies List

via Nasty Jack 

More on the Nuttiness of Wayne La Pierre

Huffington Post

What Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association and its chief spokesman, wrote was a paranoid, maniacal screed that, if it had come from another crazed source you wouldn't have been surprised. That it said "NRA" in the byline shouldn't make it palatable. It should make it reprehensible.

You want just one example? That's a fair enough request. The head of the NRA outlier group feverishly wrote --

After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.

Actually, the reality is that for almost five days after Hurricane Sandy... there were NO murders.
Zero.

That's reality. Actual reality.

Not some sick dream rant by the cult leader of a fringe pack to gin up fear.

It's a numerical fact. And it's according to the NY Police Department -- who I'm guessing have access to more real statistics and actual information than Wayne LaPierre. But then, the barista at my local Starbucks seems to have access to more actual information than Wayne LaPierre.

Squirrel Hunting Event in Upstate New York Draws Protests

CBS Local reports

Protesters from New York City headed upstate Saturday to demonstrate against a squirrel-killing contest in the small town of Holley.

The 7th annual Hazzard County Squirrel Slam was sold out Saturday, with all 1,000 tickets spoken for. The contest in Holley – a town of about 1,800 approximately 20 miles from Rochester – will raise money for the volunteer Holley Fire Department, the event sponsor.

Prizes ranging from $50 to $200 were being given out Saturday for the largest squirrel shot and the heaviest group of five squirrels. Five rifles and shotguns are to be raffled off, according to a flier posted on the Holley Fire Department Web site.

“Declaring someone a winner for killing the most animals influences children and the wider community to believe that wildlife is unimportant and killing for a monetary prize is meritorious,” Brian Shapiro, New York state director of the Humane Society of the United States, wrote in a letter to Holley Fire Chief Pete Hendrickson.

Mr. Shapiro speaks very nicely. I would just say it's fucking sick.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

Chicago Woman Shoots Husband by Accident - Lies to Cops

 The Chicago Sun-Times reports

A south suburban woman who claimed she accidentally shot her husband in the face as they were “playing” with a new gun in their kitchen faces felony charges for allegedly originally lying about the incident, according to police.

Desiree Cook called police at 7:42 p.m. Wednesday and said her husband had been shot in the head by someone in the backyard of their home in Calumet City, according to police. Cook told police that her common law husband, Demetrius M. Marshall, staggered back inside after being shot and then collapsed in the kitchen, police said.

Taking advantage of the McDonald decision, this young couple bought a gun for their protection. Then, being completely unfit and incapable of safely exercising that responsibility, the unthinkable happened. Still, all might not have been lost, many women get over the untimely loss of a husband.  But, silly Desiree decided to lie to the cops.

That's the one sure way to end up in jail after shooting someone by accident.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

Pro-Gun Folks are Right - Assault Weapons are not the Main Problem

The Blaze

(Source: Washington Examiner/FBI)

Poor Turnout at Phoenix Pro-Gun Rally

ABC reports with a video in which you'll see the usual disproportionate number of fat white men.

Hundreds of 2nd Amendment supporters rallied for their rights to own pistols, shotguns and rifles. And they weren't afraid to show them off.

It was a warning to government in Washington to keep all hands off of their guns.

After the numerous and tragic mass shootings, new gun control laws are being proposed.

Gun owners here said they don't need them.

"The problem is, when a crazy person goes to get a gun, it's way too late,” said Jacqueline Janes. “They've already gone crazy. They've already got a plan. What we need to do is take it all the way to the mental care."

Shouldn't there have been thousands or tens-of-thousands. The weather is fine, the number of gun owners is high. Why only hundreds? What kind of message is that for the President?

I loved that bumbling attempt to repeat Wayne La Pierre's ridiculous pitch. The problem is the crazy person who goes and gets a gun, when put like that, sounds more like an argument for our side.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.