The criminally minded don't get concealed-carry permits

Mark MacDanel

MacDanel, of Harrisonburg, is a laboratory technician at the Merck & Co. Inc., Stonewall Plant in Elkton.

This is in response to the commentary by Nancy A. Gibbs concerning the presence of guns on campus ("Keep guns, licensed or not, off campus," Sept. 24).

My daughter attends school at Virginia Tech and was in her dorm room when the campus was turned upside down by the presence of a loose killer.

She lives in one of the dorms that overlooks the Drill Field. She called me several times on her cellphone during the incident.

She remained calm and reported seeing a large number of military type people all over the campus.

I asked her if they were armed. She said she thought they were. She was struck by the fact that students were still walking around the campus, too, apparently oblivious to the danger.

My reaction was the opposite of Gibbs'. I was glad the campus was locked down with armed officers, and I wished some of the responsible students were also armed.

When I visit my daughter, I discretely carry my concealed weapon with me. Why? For the same reason the police carry their weapons. To protect the public and myself.

My daughter was trying to escape the campus and get to her boyfriend's apartment, where it was assumed safer.

I wish either she or her boyfriend had a gun when she walked out the back door of that dorm and headed down the street into the town of Blacksburg. She might have needed it. She made it.

The idea that guns are inherently unsafe is not as naïve as the notion that some campus rule is going to keep any nut from bringing a weapon onto the campus and using it.

People who get a concealed-weapon permit subject themselves to a formal application process, fingerprinting by the local police and a $50 fee. Our fingerprints are on file nationwide with the FBI.

Does anyone really think a criminally minded person is going to subject themselves to that kind of scrutiny, when they can just get a gun anywhere on the street, put it in their pocket and walk anywhere they want with it? Do you think a sign or a rule will have any effect on their behavior or intentions?

In the words of another gun supporter: "Have you noticed that every time an anti-gunner calls a gun owner 'paranoid,' the anti-gunner then proceeds to show himself to be the one who is actually paranoid?"

I have to laugh every time they do that. Gibbs' last paragraph is typical of such a person. She is saying that no student can be trusted and even questions guns in the hands of police. How's that for paranoid?

In case you don't get it, CRIMINALS, by their very definition, will NOT apply for a permit to carry a gun. YET, the liberal, left wing namby pamby cry babies continue to treat lawful gun owners and those of us with carry permits, as if we ARE criminals. Which, we are not. In fact, according to verifiable research, WE, as a group (Permit holders) are more law-abiding than the general public!

So, Mayor Blumberg, and all his friends can take their anti-Freedom position and stuff it up their BUTTS!

Oh, and have a nice day. :D

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PBA to cops: Don't Rush

Ok guys and dolls, better keep your guns ready. Looks like the police can't be counted on. (Like they were ever coming to your rescue in the first place!)

PBA to cops: Don't rush
In challenging policy to balance precinct staffing, union chief urges cops to wait for backup in emergencies
BY SID CASSESE
Newsday Staff Writer

October 6, 2006

A dispute has escalated between Nassau County and its biggest police union over a redeployment of officers - with the union's president even urging members not to rush to certain emergencies without backup.

The clash stems from a police department order last month requiring for the first time that if one precinct is above minimum staffing levels and another is below them, officers be reassigned to make up the shortfall. It would save overtime costs, officials have said.

In an e-mail to members, Gary DelaRaba, president of the Nassau Police Benevolent Association, warns that forcing police to patrol areas with which they are unfamiliar would be dangerous and counterproductive. So he urges that in situations where two officers are required the officer join up with a partner before rushing to the scene. The e-mail said:

"I know this goes against everything you were trained to do but if you get a gun call, a baby stop[ped] breathing, violent mental aided [or] any call that requires two officers, meet [the veteran precinct officer] at a specific location then proceed as quickly as possible to the call.

"YOU ARE NOT PAID TO TAKE FOOLISH CHANCES WITH YOUR LIFE! Your number one job is to make it home after each tour of duty."

Police Commissioner James Lawrence condemned the union leader's missive as "despicable."

In case the other link doesn't work, (That's the big title of this article.) you can also see the rest of the story here

Stratford officials worry about mayor carrying guns

Stratford officials worry about mayor carrying guns

October 8, 2006

STRATFORD, Conn. --Mayor James R. Miron is taking some heat for allegedly packing heat.

A Town Council leader and some town workers say Miron has taken a handgun into his Town Hall office and town council meetings, raising concerns about public safety and making them uncomfortable, the Connecticut Post reported Sunday. Some say they have seen the mayor with a gun at both his hip and strapped to his ankle.

Miron, 41, a lawyer and retired Marine, refused to confirm or deny that he carries weapons to Town Hall or meetings. But he defended his right to do so.

"If I do carry guns to Town Hall, I would never admit that for personal safety reasons and my own right to privacy," said Miron, a Democrat. "I don't want someone intent on firing a gun at me or anyone else knowing if I carry guns or not."

Miron said he has had a gun permit since 1999. Local police say he had a town permit that expired last year. The mayor says he now has a state permit that allows him to carry guns anywhere in the state. He said the only reason he would fire his weapon is to defend himself or to save another person's life.

Under state permits, weapons must be concealed at all times, police say. Records on gun permits are not accessible by the public.

"It is my right to carry guns, and it is also my right not to confirm when and where I carry them," Miron said.

James Feehan, a Republican and chairman of the Town Council, told the newspaper that he saw the mayor carrying two guns at the same time -- one strapped to the ankle and the other under his suit jacket -- during a council meeting within the past few months.

"As a gun owner myself, I believe the mayor certainly has the right to carry a gun or guns as long as he has a legal permit," Feehan said. "However, if his guns are making Town Hall employees and citizens uncomfortable, as I have been told, I would ask that he cease and desist immediately.

"While I understand the mayor's personal safety concerns, I don't believe he should be carrying guns to Town Hall if they are posing a threat to anyone," Feehan said.

Ok, so someone tell me, HOW do the mayor's guns pose a threat to someone? I mean, are his guns standing up and saying "I'm gonna shoot you sucka!"??? The only way guns can be a threat would be if they are in someone's hand, being pointed at someone else. Then the person they are pointed at could consider himself threatened. Otherwise, I'd tell those people who work at City hall to sit down, shut up and get back to work.

If yo want to read the rest of the story, click here.

'Gun-free school zones' killing kids

By ALAN GOTTLIEB and DAVE WORKMAN
Special to the Star-Telegram

Three fatal attacks on school property in less
than a week -- more than 20 since February 1996
when a 14-year-old youth strolled into a junior
high school in Moses Lake, Wash., and opened
fire, killing two students and a teacher.

The dirty little secret of all these atrocities
is that they happened in so-called "gun-free
school zones." Before enactment of that horribly
misguided federal legislation and its state-level
clones, one never read about school massacres because there weren't any.

The Gun-Free School Zones Act transformed the
public school landscape into a free-fire zone for
whackos by removing any possibility, however
small, that an armed teacher, student or private
citizen might be present to intervene.

As a result, monsters like Colorado's Duane
Morrison or Pennsylvania's Charles Roberts, and a
host of others have committed mayhem, courtesy of
gun-control fanatics who pressured Congress and
state legislatures to pass such statutes.

The exception is Luke Woodham, who shot up
Mississippi's Pearl High School in 1997 after
slitting his mother's throat. Midway through his
spree, Woodham encountered Vice Principal Joel
Myrick, who had rushed to his car to retrieve a
.45-caliber pistol. Myrick aimed the gun at
Woodham's head and held him until police arrived.

You read little about Myrick's heroism, and less
about his handgun, in the press.

After the Pennsylvania attack on an Amish school
in Lancaster County, anti-gun Gov. Ed Rendell had
a remarkable moment of candor when he admitted
that tougher gun laws would not have stopped the gunman.

"You can make all the changes you want," Rendell
said, "but you can never stop a random act of
violence by someone intent on taking his own life."

His remarks were largely ignored because nobody
wants to admit that Rendell is right about this,
same as they overlooked Myrick and his gun. Such
facts don't fit the anti-gun agenda.

It is time to reconsider gun-free school zone
laws and the zero-tolerance mentality such laws
foster. Inflexible regulations aimed at keeping
kids safe also place teachers in jeopardy.

A teacher in Lacey, Wash., was recently suspended
for having a gun in her purse. Licensed to carry,
she was afraid of her estranged husband, against
whom she has a domestic violence protection
order, and has filed for divorce. But now she's
in trouble, allegedly victimized by her spouse and again by the law.

We can no longer afford the empty-headed utopian
illusion that such statutes keep anyone safe,
because they don't. Like other restrictive gun
control measures, this one has been a monumental
failure, and it is literally killing our children.

Nobody is suggesting that all teachers arm
themselves, but scrapping the law restores that
option. School massacres didn't happen in the
days when high schools had rifle teams, and when
it was common in the fall to find both teachers
and students with rifles or shotguns locked in
their cars. That was before "gun" became a
four-letter word among self-described
"progressive liberals" who championed gun-free zones.

If what's happening at schools today is
"progress," we might be better off -- and a lot
of students would still be alive -- if we were
back in those unenlightened days when school kids
riding down country roads with .22 rifles across
their bicycle handlebars alarmed nobody.

In the wake of our most recent school shootings,
reaction from the gun control crowd has been
pathetic. Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke
blustered that "we need to do something about
that." He suggested a national dialogue, as if
more talk will stop suicidal maniacs.

His bunch has done enough already, with the help
of gun-grabbing congressional demagogues such as
Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi
and their far-left colleagues, and an
all-too-cooperative "mainstream" press. They gave
us a law that leaves our children and their
teachers vulnerable to the whims of any nutball looking for 15 minutes of fame.

Restrictive gun laws do not prevent crime and the
notion of a gun-free school zone is a myth. More
restrictions on law-abiding citizens will never
stop people like Morrison or Roberts who proved
yet again that feel-good laws have defrauded
American citizens, and especially our children, of genuine safety.

Alan Gottlieb is chairman of the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (
www.ccrkba.org). Dave
Workman is the senior editor of Gun Week,
published by the Second Amendment Foundation (
www.saf.org).


© 2006 Star-Telegram and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.

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For my 100th Post, I offer this bit of GREAT News for Gun Owners

Vitter Amendment Becomes Law, McCarthy Gun Grab Is Dead
-- Thanks for all your hard work!

-- "Oh s---! We got a lot of postcards and e-mails from GOA members." -- As stated by a Congressional office to GOA --

I thought I'd pass this on. If you want to read the whole thing, click on the title (you know, the large text that starts out "For my 100th Post...) and it will take you to the article on GOA's web page. Personally, I think this is FANTASTIC news! I'm glad it could be the 100th article on my blog.

Bible-Spouting Group Plans to Picket Amish Funerals

Dear Rev. Phelps, FYI, God doesn't hate "fags." God hates hate mongering old codgers who don't really understand him, LIKE YOU!!

Bible-Spouting Group Plans to Picket Amish Funerals
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
October 04, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in Lancaster County, Pa.

The Westboro Baptist Church -- described as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League -- has made a name for itself by picketing the funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The troops are dying as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality, the group says.

The Westboro group says the Amish school girls were "killed by a madman in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell's blasphemous sins against Westboro Baptist Church.

"Gov. Ed Rendell -- speaking and acting in his official capacity to bind the State of Pennsylvania -- slandered and mocked and ridiculed and condemned Westboro Baptist Church on national Fox TV," the group says on its website.

"Rendell also revealed a conspiracy to employ the State's police powers to destroy WBC in order to silence WBC's Gospel message. Co-conspirators identified by Rendell included state officials, citizens, lawyers, legislators and media," the website says.

Westboro Baptist Church said it is "continuing to pray for even worse punishment upon Pennsylvania."

A number of states have passed laws to keep groups like Westboro away from grieving families at funerals, but last month, a federal judge ruled that a Kentucky law barring protests within 300 feet of military funerals and memorial services is too broad and may not be enforced.

In other developments, the man who shot and killed five Amish schoolgirls apparently planned to sexually abuse them first, investigators said. But he apparently didn't get a chance: Charles Carl Roberts IV killed himself when police arrived on the scene.

Suicide notes left by Roberts indicate he was dreaming of molesting girls. He reportedly told his wife he had molested two young relatives 20 years ago - and wanted to do it again.

"It's very possible that he intended to victimize these children in many ways prior to executing them and killing himself," State Police Commissioner Jeffrey Miller said on Tuesday.

Roberts also indicated he was anguished over the death of a daughter who died shortly after birth nine years ago. In his notes, he said he was "filled with so much hate" and "unimaginable emptiness," but everyone who knew him said they never saw signs of his psychological distress.

And I have a personal note to any psycho lame ass would be homicidal killer out there. If you're considering going to a school or church, and grabbing some hostages, could you please consider the WestBoro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas? They could use a good cleaning.

NEWS RELEASE RENDELL ADMITS GUN LAWS COULD NOT PREVENT SCHOOL SHOOTING

NEWS RELEASE
RENDELL ADMITS GUN LAWS COULD NOT PREVENT SCHOOL SHOOTING
In a remarkable moment of candor, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell today acknowledged what the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has been saying for years: Stronger gun laws could not have prevented the horrible shooting yesterday at the Amish school in Lancaster County.

Rendell, a staunch gun control advocate, admitted, “I believe with all my heart that we need more gun control” during a live press conference. But he also acknowledged that tougher gun laws would not have prevented gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV from carrying out his deadly attack, noting, “You can make all the changes you want, but you can never stop a random act of violence by someone intent on taking his own life.”

“Welcome to the party, Gov. Rendell,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb. “While the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has been wringing its hands and declaring that ‘somebody has got to do something,’ we have consistently maintained that such crimes are impossible to predict, and equally impossible to prevent with passage of yet another gun law. And finally, Gov. Rendell agrees with us.

“The gunman had no criminal or mental health background,” Gottlieb said, “so he would pass any criminal background check. His family and friends described him as a loving family man. Nobody saw this coming.

“This shooting, and the ones last week in Colorado and Wisconsin, and every school shooting in the past ten years all had one thing in common,” he observed. “They all happened in so-called ‘gun-free school zones,’ where students and adult staff are essentially helpless.

“Gun control extremism has disarmed the wrong people and created risk-free environments for those who would commit murder and mayhem,” Gottlieb said. “It is time to re-consider gun-free school zone laws and the zero-tolerance mentality such laws foster. We can no longer afford the empty-headed Utopian illusion that gun control and gun-free zones will keep children safe. Like all other gun control laws, this one has been a monumental failure, and it is literally killing our children.

“If it saves the life of just one child,” Gottlieb concluded, “abolishing such laws will be worth the effort.

Updated Right-To-Carry Fact sheet

The following is the updated Right-To-Carry Fact Sheet, by way of Gun Issues on Yahoo Groups.

More Guns, Less Crime

Violent crime hit an all-time high in 1991. Since then, "gun control" laws have been rolled back, the number of privately-owned guns has risen to an all-time high, and violent crime has dropped to a 30-year low.

More Guns. The number of privately-owned guns in the U.S. is at an all-time high. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) estimates there were about 215 million guns in 19991; the National Academy of Sciences puts the 1999 figure at 258 million2. The number of new guns each year averages about 4.5 million (about 2%).3 According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were 60.4 million approved (new and used) NICS firearm transactions from 1994-2004.4 The FBI reports that there were 61.6 million approved NICS transactions from Nov. 30, 1998 through the end of 2005, and that the annual number of transactions increased 2.4% between 2003-2004 and 3.1% between 2004-2005.5

More Gun Owners. The number of gun owners is also at an all-time high. The U.S. population is at an all-time high (296 million), and rises about 1% annually,6 and numerous surveys over the last 40+ years have found that almost half of all households have at least one gun owner.7 Some surveys since the late 1990s have indicated a smaller incidence of gun ownership,8 probably because of some respondents' concerns about "gun control," perhaps a residual effect of the anti-gun policies of the Clinton Administration.

More Right-to-Carry. The number of RTC states is at an all-time high, up from 10 in 1987 to 40 today.9 In 2005, states with RTC laws, compared to the rest of the country, had lower violent crime rates on average: total violent crime lower by 22%, murder by 30%, robbery by 46%, and aggravated assault by 12%.10

Less "Gun Control." Violent crime has declined while many "gun control" laws have been eliminated or made less restrictive. Many states have eliminated prohibitory or restrictive carry laws, in favor of Right-to-Carry laws. The federal Brady Act's waiting period on handgun sales expired in 1998, in favor of the NRA-supported National Instant Check, and some states concurrently or thereafter eliminated waiting periods or purchase permit requirements. The federal "assault weapon" ban expired in 2004. All states have hunter protection laws, 46 have range protection laws, 46 prohibit local jurisdictions from imposing gun laws more restrictive than state law, 44 protect the right to arms in their constitutions, and Congress and 33 states have prohibited frivolous lawsuits against the firearm industry.11

Less Crime. The FBI reports that the nation's total violent crime rate declined every year between 1991-2004, to a 30-year low in 2004, and estimates that it rose 1% in 2005.12 (By comparison, the most recent Bureau of Justice Statistics crime victim survey found that "at the national level crime rates remain stabilized at the lowest level experienced since 1973," when the first such survey was conducted.14)

According to the FBI, in 2005 the nation's violent crime rates were significantly lower than they were in 1991, when the violent crime rate hit an all-time high. In 2005, total violent crime was lower by 38%, murder by 43%, rape by 25%, robbery by 48%, and aggravated assault by 33%.

During 2004-2005, total violent crime was lower than anytime since 1976. For the last seven years, the murder rate (between 5.5 and 5.7 per 100,000 annually) has been lower than anytime since 1965.13 Studies by and/or for Congress, the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found no evidence that "gun control" reduces crime.

15 Notes:
1. BATF, "Crime Gun Trace Reports (1999) National Report," Nov. 2000, p. ix (www.atf.gov/firearms/ycgii/1999/index.htm).
2. National Research Council, Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, National Academies Press, 2005.
3. BATF, "Firearms Commerce in the United States 2001/2002" (www.atf.gov/pub/index.htm#Firearms).
4. BJS, "Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2004" (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov./bjs/pub/pdf/bcft04.pdf).
5. FBI, "NICS Operations 2005," Jan. 2006
(www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics/ops_report2005/html/ops_report2005.htm#page4)
6. Bureau of the Census (http://www.census.gov/popest/states/tables/NST-EST2005-01.xls).
7. Gary Kleck, Targeting Firearms, Aldine de Gruyter, 1997, pp. 94, 98-100.
8. E.g., BJS Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2002, Table 2.58, (www.albany.edu/sourcebook/).
9. See NRA RTC fact sheet (within
www.nraila.org/Issues/Filter.aspx?ID=003).
10. FBI, Crime in the United States 2005 (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/documents/05tbl05.xls) for state crime statistics.
11. See NRA-ILA Compendium of State Firearms Laws (www.nraila.org/media/misc/compendium.htm). Also, note that in October 2005, federal legislation prohibiting such lawsuits was signed into law.
12. FBI, Crime in the United States 2005, Table 4,
(http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/documents/05tbl04.xls) and BJS (http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/).
13. Ibid. Condensed at www.nraila.org, click on "Research," then "Crime
Statistics."
14. BJS, "Criminal Victimization 2005," (www.ojp.usdoj.gov./bjs/pub/pdf/cv05.pdf).
15. Federal "assault weapon" ban: Roth, Koper, et al., Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994, March 13, 1997 (www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=406797); Reedy and Koper, "Impact of handgun types on gun assault outcomes: a comparison of gun assaults involving semiautomatic pistols and revolvers," Injury Prevention 2003, (http://ip.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/9/2/151); Koper et al., Report to the National Institute of Justice, An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003, June 2004 (www.sas.upenn.edu/jerrylee/jlc-new/Research/Koper_aw_final.pdf); Wm. J. Krouse, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, "Semiautomatic Assault Weapons Ban," Dec. 16, 2004. "Gun control," generally: Library of Congress, Report for Congress: Firearms Regulations in Various Foreign Countries, May 1998, LL98-3, 97-2010; Task Force on Community Preventive Service, "First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws," Morbidity and Mortaility Weekly Report, Oct. 3, 2003 (www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5214a2.htm); National Research Council, Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, National Academies Press, 2005 (http://books.nap.edu/books/0309091241/html/index.html).

What does all this stuff above say? Well, kiddies, it says that apparently Dr. Lott was correct. More Guns in the hands of law-abiding civilians DOES equal less crime!

Amazing isn't it.

Want to stop the school shootings? Take a lesson from Israel

Yup, Israel, the Holy Land. They know how to stop school massacres. Arm the teachers, arm the older students, and have parents do volunteer shifts, armed of course. Don't believe me? Check out the story.

I got a new shirt!

Yup, got a new shirt, I just love it!


Current Mood: Delighted
Current Music: Chances Are - Johnny Mathis
Current Gun: Taurus PT92AFS

CCW post of the day

I just love it when a plan comes together.

Suspects caught in act of burglarizing home in Lonedell
Tri-County Journal
09/27/2006

Two suspects are in custody after a Lonedell man caught them burglarizing a house.

On Tuesday, Sept. 19, Franklin County deputies responded to a call about an interrupted burglary at a Lonedell house.

Police said the wife of the homeowner had driven by the house and saw a truck backed up to the porch. The house was unoccupied, police said.

The homeowner and his father-in-law returned to the house and the two suspects tried to flee. The father-in-law, a registered concealed carry permit holder, drew his gun and ordered the two suspects to the ground.

The suspects complied and the father-in-law kept the suspects on the ground until police arrived.

The suspects, a 50-year-old St. Clair man and an 18-year-old Lonedell man, were arrested and later confessed to stealing items from the house.

Their names are being withheld pending issuance of warrants.

— Danette Thompson

Fantastic Item of the Day

PERSONAL DEFENSE TV!!!

YES!! Finally, a TV show for us "gun nuts." Yeah, I know, there are other shows on OutDoor Channel that have guns, but most of those are hunting shows. I don't hunt. I do however, practice safe self defense. ;)

And this is the show to watch! In case you missed it, Episode one will air again on Thursday Morning (09/28/06) at 11:30AM Eastern Time, and also on Sunday (10/01/06) at 11:30AM ET.

I highly recommend you watch it!

For more info, check out this link.

Stupid item of the day

From the Philadelphia Daily News:

ANTI-VIOLENCE advocates will meet for prayer today on the steps of the state Capitol and later rally for stricter gun laws to stop the killing on the streets of Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania cities.

Mayor Street, community, religious and labor leaders, city residents and Philadelphia legislators planned to attend the rally in the Capitol rotunda hoping to influence lawmakers, many of them from rural areas opposed to gun control.

For the rest of the story, click on the story head line, or click here.

What is it about liberals and left wing weenies that they have no commone sense? Do they REALLY believe that gun control laws work? Haven't they seen the statistics for Chicago, NYC, Los Angeles, and DC? And now they think that a "one gun a month" law will work? Puhleeze! Wake up and smell the latte!

The "stated reason" is to cut down on straw purchases, where a bad guy uses someone who is not prohibited from buying a gun, to buy one from an FFL dealer. All the bad guy has to do is get a group of non-prohibited people to do his dirty work, rather than relying on one person.

This will actually make it more difficult to track the bad guy now, since everyone will have a limit of one gun a month, no one will have a "flag" pop up so that BATFE will know to look at them.

Makes me glad I don't live in Philly or Pennsylvania!

Very sad news

We have been told that Col. Jeff Cooper passed away today.

Rest In Peace Colonel, you've earned it.

A Rational Voice?? Yeah, in a pig's ear.

In case you haven't seen it yet, there's this Neo-Lib (as in Neo-Nazi) site called "The Raw Story, A rational voice - Alternative news." Well, they got it half right. It is alternative news. But I would not call it "a rational voice." In one particular story, about former CA congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham,", the story it's self is one sided. Telling ONLY that story of his obviously disgruntled wife.

While I'm certain she may have legitimate grievances against the former congressman, her story is nothing compared to the vitriol and viscious attacks made by the readers. When I looked at the story, there were 41 responses, all negative, some attacking Mr. Cunningham, and some just attacking anything and everything related to the GOP. What gets me, the Neo-Libs have long called us hate-mongers. Yet, all they can spew is hate when they talk about us.

Of course, when I finally got through reading the story, and decided to look at the website as a whole, I found out why it was so anti-GOP. The whole site is devoted to being GOP-bashing. They've got a fake ad in the right side bar, "Bush's Brain, $4.95, download to own." I know free speech is one of our cornerstone rights. So I hope everyone will understand when I say that "The Raw Story" is just plain full of bull manure. And I hope they all choke on it.

Of course, as always, this is only my opinion. But this is America, and I'm entitled to my opinion, and my right to express it.

There is no such thing as an Illegal gun

You REALLY need to read the story. The link to it, is the title of this post. Or you can click here. It is a fascinating read.

The Truth Finally comes out

First, from the Huffingtion Post Blog, we have the story of a shooting that took place in Seattle, WA, on July 28, 2006, where the shooter supposedly had a Washington state Concealed Pistol license. Now we find out, Naveed Haq, the shooter, had waited 5 days to pick up the pistols he used in the shooting. The question, if he had a valid permit, why wait? Our understanding is, with a valid permit, he could have taken the pistols home right away.

From the ChronWatch, we find out why.

Apparently Mr. Haq had some mental problems. As well, he had a pending criminal case against him in Benton County Court. With just the diagnosed mental problem, his permit (if he had one) was effectively null and void. This is according to Washington state law.

Of course, we're not likely to see a correction in either the newspaper story, or the Huffington Post Blog. But at least now, the truth is out there.

Humourless People can bite my butt.

WHY is it, some people don't see the Humor in the South Park Character, Big Gay Al? And what stupid homophobic bigot, came up with the idea of complaining "it's a stereotype that's derogatory to gays." That's such an obivous ploy to attack me, it's not even funny.

What I mean is, it might be funny, if PlanetOut magazine hadn't already declared South Park's creators as "honorary Homos." Quite obviously, a salute to the creators for their humorous attacks made at EVERYONE, regardless of race, sex, religion or sexual orientation.

So, to those of you who object to my usage of the SP character as an Avatar/icon on various forums, get a life, get a sense of humour, and kiss my big, white hairy butt!


Oh, and have a nice day!

Current Mood: Amused
Current Music: Dragula - Rob Zombie
Current Gun: Bersa Thunder .380

Sad news for the pistol shooting community

We were told last night that the venerable Col. Jeff Cooper is seriously ill, and not expected to live much longer. We pray for his recovery, or assuming that is not possible, a swift and painless death. While we know this is not the usual death of a warrior, given his long years, we think he deserves a peaceful death.

We were introduced to the writings of Col. Cooper many moons ago, through the pages of Guns & Ammo magazine. While we have not always agreed with him, we have have found his musings, opinions, and advice to be worth a hundred times his weight in gold. He is the eternal promoter and defender of the Colt M1911 as THE self-defense handgun, and the .45ACP as THE self-defense Cartridge. He is also the father of the 10mm Auto Pistol cartridge, which he deemed a worthy successor to the .45ACP. He is also the dean, (if not the father) of modern defensive pistol technique.

Our prayers and well wishes go to him and his family.

We will miss him.

For the small minded people

For those who object to my use of a certain icon on some forums I belong to,
BITE MY BIG WHITE, HAIRY BUTT!


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