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London mayor reveals anti-gun bigotry knows no borders or boundaries
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"Evergreen State gun rights activists who think their biggest problems lie with Washington CeaseFire and the Brady Campaign will realize that anti-gun bigotry has reached a new low with today's announcement that the Mayor of London will not allow school-age youngsters to attend any Olympics shooting events next year on the free tickets they get from his office because city hall 'fears a backlash from the anti-gun lobby.'" ... |
Numbers Game
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"'Among the factors determining murder rates, levels of gun ownership is among the most overstated and least reliable... 'There is no empirical support for the claim that gun ownership is related to violence rates'.'"
"Sounds like a typical NRA quote, right?"
"Wrong." ... |
I am a proud extremist, and here's why
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"I am a proud conservative 'tea party' Hobbit. Or, as the neo-progressives call me, an 'extreme right-winger, terrorist and hostage-taker.'"
What makes one an extremist?" ...
"If you support the Second Amendment, balancing the budget, smaller government, saving Social Security, saving Medicare, secure borders, legal immigration and supporting our allies, then you are an extremist." ... |
The Wholesome Conservative Message: Integrity
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"Safer streets is a reflection of a healthier self-rule, but we won't get there without a wholesome conservative message from candidates. It means a well-rounded message, and well-rounded means addressing not constituents and trying to reach their culture, but enunciating well-rounded values and reaching all of America as one culture: the Independence culture looking for smaller government. This is 80% of the electorate." ... |
Rape, Crying Wolf, and the Criminal Justice System
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... "Bottom line: For every 1,000 rapes committed, 63 prison sentences are handed out for all cases prosecuted in federal district courts, though the incarceration rate trended up during this time period. (State court systems averaged about 43 incarcerations per 1,000 rapes.)"
"For criminals, this means they have about a 6% chance of spending time in prison per incident, where they’ll spend about 4 years inside."
"For women, this means train yourself in self-defense and firearms. The government doesn’t exist to protect you." |
How Is This Possible?
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"On Saturday, both during and after the traditional pre-season exhibition game between the San Francisco Forty-Niners and the Oakland Raiders, violence broke out. In addition to a brawl in the stands shown in the video below, two people were shot in the parking lot. One of the victims was shot multiple times in the stomach and is in the hospital in serious condition. It is reported by police that he was wearing a T-shirt that said 'F*** the Niners'." ...
"According to the gun prohibitionists, controlling permits and controlling firearms will reduce this sort of violence. So how is it possible to have two shootings at a stadium in a region with only 276 combined concealed carry permit? Using their logic, it is unpossible! ..." |
Budget ARs
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"There has been somewhat of a shift recently by a few of the major firearms manufacturers with regard to ARs."
"We are now starting to see ARs with MSRPs that are considerably lower than ever before."
"It seems that the industry is quietly moving towards producing more affordable or entry level ARs. These are guns with MSRPs in the $700 – $800 range and a real world retail price in the $500 – $700 range. These guns are being brought to the market place in an effort to focus on a consumer who would never be anything more then a casual AR owner…" ... |
Self-Defense Tip: Practice Support Hand Shooting
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"How often do you practice shooting with your support hand? Dominant hand shooting gets us where we want to be proficiency wise. Tactically, support hand shooting provides you with peace of mind. Think about it: which part of your body would an assailant most likely attack? The part of your body that’s closest to them. The bit that’s holding a weapon. The one that has your strong or 'gun' hand at the end of it. Even if the attack is random, there’s a chance your strong hand side may be knocked out of commission. So unless you master support hand shooting, you're only half-prepared for armed self-defense. Time to fix that . . ." ... |
When Bad Ammo Happens To Good Guns
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"I recently shot an IDPA state championship (under the auspices of the International Defensive Pistol Association, www.idpa.com) with over 140 other good people. One was a damn good sixgunner I had met only the week before at another match, where he almost beat me. His revolver is a fine one, a Smith & Wesson Model 686 specially built by the manufacturer’s Performance Center. At the state shoot, though, he came in dead last. Defective ammunition was the culprit." ... |
Latin America: A toxic trade
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... "One promising, and cheap, alternative would be to slow the flow of arms south from the US. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos recently lamented the fact that disassembled hand guns can be dispatched by Federal Express to his country, where they are pieced back together. In Mexico, as much as 70 per cent of guns seized come from America."
"Yet this debate never gets off the ground because of the sensitivity of the issue for many Americans who assert their constitutional right to bear arms. As President Calderón said on a March visit to Washington: 'I respect the Second Amendment, but we are requesting: don’t sell weapons to Mexican criminals.'" ...
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A Roundhouse Kick To Chuck Norris' Gun Trafficking Myths
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"Behind Chuck Norris' beard, there is only another fist. Behind his latest column are a variety of National Rifle Association (NRA) myths about gun trafficking between the United States and Mexico and the Obama administration's latest attempt to curb that problem." ... |
MA: Boston's illegal gun problem
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... "To me, the far more intriguing pattern to this year’s homicides lies in weapon use, identified in the list of cases just below the boston.com map. The overwhelming majority of murders -- just over 85% -- was by firearm. And, unlike the stable geographic pattern, the weapon distribution in Boston homicides has shifted over the past few decades. As shown in the figure below, the percentage of Boston homicides that involves a gun is now at a record high. And the costs to families and society, in general, are staggering." ... |
WY: Public meetings are about words, not guns
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... "In my mind’s eye, the Casper City Council debate about whether to allow or ban guns into the city’s public meetings falls into this same category; your Second Amendment right must be balanced with other’s rights and safety."
"I’m a long-time gun owner who has completed conceal-carry classes and believes the U.S. Supreme Court got it right when they determined, in 2010, that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is an individual’s right as opposed to a public (militia) right." ... |
WA: Green Lake Gun Battle: 'Open Carry' Fans Urge Armed Stroller to Sue Cops for Taking Weapons
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"So much for those relaxing walks in the park:"
"A man who felt it was necessary to be armed with two guns in order to safely stroll around Seattle's Green Lake Sunday morning says he was stopped at gunpoint by two Seattle police officers who then had him lock his guns in his car until they left."
"The strolling gunman ... retrieved the two handguns and continued his walk."
"Now it's the cops and the public who are being targeted by some gun-rights advocates, urging the gunman to sue police and proposing to hold an armed picnic at the lake to assert their rights." ...
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WA: No mention of drawn gun in Green lake incident report
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"A tempest is brewing over an incident at Seattle’s Green Lake Sunday morning in which an armed citizen was stopped, questioned, disarmed and subsequently released by Seattle police who were called to the scene by an unidentified woman who was apparently alarmed at the sight of the man’s openly-carried pistol." ... |
WA: Green Lake open carry incident Sunday stirring debate
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"A Sunday morning incident at Seattle's Green Lake involving an open carry activist and Seattle police is now escalating on the Open Carry forum with suggestions to take legal action against an unidentified woman who made the initial 911 call to police."
"First, a reality check with the King County Prosecutor's Office reveals that it is not against the law for a citizen to call 911 with what the citizen honestly believes to be an emergency, i.e. a man walking around with a gun on his hip. Despite the fact that this is legal in Washington State, it can alarm people and even shock them, especially when – as Ian Goodhue, spokesman for the Prosecutor’s office succinctly put it – 'they don't know the law.'" ... |
ATF Death Watch 62: Chaos vs. Control
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"The idea that an ATF operation that supplied Sinaloa drug cartel members with American weapons was designed to supply Sinaloa drug cartel members with American weapons is a little too obvious for the mainstream media. The MSM continues to paint Uncle Sam’s gun smuggling program as the Bureau and its co-conspirators would have it painted: a 'botched' law enforcement effort. This characterization ignores the fact that A) the traffic was more-or-less exclusive to the Sinaloa cartel and B) F&F’s predecessor wasn’t botched . . ." ... |
Interview with reporter who helped expose the ATF Gunwalker scandal
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"In the waning days of 2010 reporter David Codrea and blogger/citizen investigative reporter Mike Vanderboegh received disturbing information from inside the ATF ... which indicated that the agency was engaged in an illegal operation that resulted in at least 2000 U.S. guns winding up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels." ...
"In an exclusive interview at the Gun Values Board, David Codrea describes his involvement in the case, his years of experience in gun rights journalism, and his discovery of explosive information at the CleanUpATF.org site."
"As gun rights advocates, Codrea and Vanderboegh began to monitor the site, which placed them in touch with the whistleblowers in question. ..." ... |
Gunwalker and the Foundation of Liberty -- The lives of the individuals harmed by Gunwalker mean nothing to statists.
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"It all comes down to this: Is there an inalienable right to self-defense? If there is, each man has indisputable, inestimable value, value that he may rightly preserve even if the life of another man is forfeit. A man may kill another in lawful self-defense even if the policy preferences of the state would prefer his death. If a right to self-defense actually exists, it is in a very real sense the highest law of the land and all lesser laws must pay it deference. It fundamentally defines the social contract, the nature of the relationship between man and the state." ... |
Obama Smuggling Guns While Registering Yours
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"President Barack Obama wants you to believe that America’s Founding Fathers were in error when they gave citizens the right to bear arms."
"The Obama administration and even its Mexican counterpart have manipulated public opinion to believe that the cartel drug wars are being fueled largely by American guns." ... |
Rick Perry: The God-Fearing, Know-Nothing, Pistol-Packing Embodiment of Liberals’ Worst Nightmares
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... "But what sets Perry apart and earns him his niche in the far right corner of Mount Rushmore has nothing to do with the gyrations of the 2012 campaign. Indeed, Perry is not only a presidential candidate, but also a cowboy-booted sociological experiment. It is almost as if Perry’s political persona was constructed by bundling together all the fears and phantoms in the left-wing anxiety closet. ..." ...
"4. Pistol-Packing President. For Eastern liberals (myself included), nothing is more baffling than the desire to carry around a metal cylinder with a trigger attached that could easily kill someone. This may explain why debates over gun control often seem far more cultural and theological than discussions of, say, tax policy." ... |
KY: Huckabee to Campaign for P’Pool
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"Raising more eyebrows in Kentucky’s race for attorney general, Republican candidate Todd P’Pool announced Tuesday that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will headline a campaign fundraiser in October." ...
"'Governor Huckabee is one of the strongest advocates for conservatism in America today,' says P’Pool. 'Our shared values of being pro-life, pro-family, and pro-Second Amendment are currently lacking in Kentucky because we have a Barack Obama enthusiast in the attorney general’s office.'" ... |
NH: Roemer charms crowd at Dover library: Presidential hopeful says he won't take PAC money
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"Charles 'Buddy' Roemer warned a small crowd at the Dover Public Library Monday night that if he is elected president, people may wind up speaking with a southern accent"
"'It's not a bad thing,' the Louisiana native assured them, generating some laughs." ...
"'There are social conservatives running and you've got some good choices there,' he told the group. 'I'm a business guy. A jobs guy.'"
"Later, he added he's also a 'Second Amendment guy,' and aside from mental stability, sees no other restrictions." ... |
WY: Let Wyoming be what Wyoming is
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"I want to thank the Casper Journal for publishing the article by Greg Fladager outlining the Casper City Council’s proposed ban of open carry in their public meetings. I have a few comments regarding the proposed ban."
"During the City Council’s working meeting Aug. 8, acting Casper Chief of Police Chris Walsh stated that there haven’t been any incidents caused by a citizen legally carrying a sidearm in any city meetings here, but that there might be someday. ..." ... |
IL: Former Washington Park detective pleads guilty to fraud charges
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"A former Washington Park police detective on Monday pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to an array of federal charges connected to his private security business and his time as a police officer." ...
"The civil rights count relates to an incident in which McAfee, while on duty as a police officer, fired into a car and held two men in jail without charge, then lied to FBI agents about his actions." ... |
FL: Suspended Palmetto officer has lengthy discipline record
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"The Palmetto police officer who was charged last week with pointing a Taser and rifle at his wife and her children has a voluminous disciplinary file, including a recent suspension for pointing a Taser at one of his fellow officers." ...
"According to the arrest warrant, Filipiak’s wife told investigators he would point the rifle at her or the children and say, 'I could kill you or anyone at any time and get away with it.'" ...
"The Palmetto Police Department made Filipiak’s personnel file available Monday for review. It shows 14 disciplinary incidents going back to his date of hire ..." ...
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Submitter's Note: So he averaged 1.25 "disciplinary incidents" per year for eleven YEARS. |
NJ: Cranford Police Officer Arrested, Suspended
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"A Cranford Police Officer was suspended without pay after he was arrested Friday and charged with fourth- degree criminal sexual contact and second-degree official misconduct, a spokesman for the Union County Prosecutor's Office said Monday."
"Patrolman Brian Thomas, 37, was arrested following an investigation by the Cranford Police Department's Professional Standards Unit. ..."
"A press release from the Prosecutor's Office states that Thomas is accused of assaulting a woman while on duty and in uniform on June 22." ... |
MI: Complete coverage of Brett Elder Taser death case
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"A case that had many people questioning police Taser use in the city has reached settlement."
"A federal judge in Bay City approved a $1 million settlement earlier this month in the wrongful death suit filed by the family of Brett Elder, the Bay City teen who died after Bay City police used a Taser to subdue him." ... |
UT: D.A.: No criminal charges in officer’s ‘unjustified’ shooting
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"The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office will not prosecute a police officer who shot and wounded an alleged car thief, even though the shooting was ruled 'unjustified.'"
"Salt Lake City Police Officer Matthew Giles may have violated criminal statutes when he fired his rifle eight times, striking the teen driver in the arm and torso, but District Attorney Sim Gill said the case did not 'present a reasonable likelihood of conviction at trial.'" ...
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Submitter's note: It's ok, you or I would ALSO not be charged if we shot someone unjustifiably. There's a totally equal standard. Totally. |
NY: New York Realizes Gun Businesses Mean Jobs, Tax Revenue
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"Wait, you mean firearm manufacturing and related firms are actually good for a state’s economy? They provide real jobs and tax revenues? Shazam! Coming a little late to the party is the state of New York. Brian Kolb, the Assembly minority leader and Tom King, head of the NY State Rifle and Pistol Association are leading a push to try to counter efforts by other states to entice some or all of New York’s firearms industry to move to friendlier climes. Firms like Remington, Kimber, Kahr, Turnbull and Dan Wesson along with ancillary companies mean 10,000 jobs for the Empire State which needs every private sector job and samolian it can scrounge. To wit…" ... |
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