I was cleaning up my desk and ran across an old Hard Corps Report from September/October 2007. In a little box in an article entitled Disarmed in “Gun-Free School Zone” was the following tidbit of information:
The Aftermath of Gun-Free School Zones
created by the 1990 Crime Control Act
| Years | Incidents | |
| 1776-1990 | 214 | 7 |
| 1990-2007 | 17 | 78 |
Repeal this terrible law. Do it for the children.
This study raises more questions than it give answers. I’m not disputing the results. In fact I have reason to believe it is accurate. But what could possibly be the clues that reveals such details about sexual intent?
Looking for love or lust? Your face gives it away Facial features tell if someone wants commitment or casual sex, study says
It’s no use being coy. If you’re looking for a fling, it might just be written all over your face.
A new study by U.K. researchers found that you can tell just by looking at someone’s face whether they’re interested in casual sex or long-term commitment. And, not surprisingly, women tend to be more attracted to the guys who look like true boyfriend material, while men are drawn to faces that seem to say “one-night stand,” found the study, published Tuesday in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
In a similar vein two different lesbian friends of mine claimed they have excellent “Gaydar”. Some simple tests indicate that in fact they were able to determine sexual orientation with very little contact with the people in question. This including their laughing at me when asked if I was gay. Apparently I am so blatantly heterosexual that I couldn’t fool anyone even if I wanted to.
Other experiences of mine, which would take too much time to explain, resulted in similar results.
Charlton Heston was a good and decent man, as well as a fine actor and a brave one, who did his own stunts.
Some people can’t work out how the same person courageously went on civil rights demonstrations long before it was fashionable, and equally courageously opposed the authoritarian, futile silliness of ‘gun control’ when that cause wasn’t fashionable either.
The two things are completely linked. Both are causes of liberty and justice, and both got him into trouble with received opinion.
Gun control, much imposed by dictatorships, restricts gun ownership to the State, to criminals and (in this country) certain officially approved terrorists.
It bans law-abiding people from defending themselves, even where the State is not doing its job.
Peter Hitchens
April 12, 2008
The week they sowed the seeds of a British secret police
[Some people in the U.K. get it.–Joe]
The details for the Boomershoot Dinner have been finalized. Please see the details and sign up here.
There is a discount if you RSVP early so do it soon. There is very little time left.
There will also be a raffle to benefit Project Valour-IT of Soldiers Angels. You don’t need to attend the dinner to participate in the raffle. Please go to the above link to read the details. We are also asking for donations to raffle off. Please contribute to this very worthy cause.
We are only 15 days from the big event and weather forecasts are starting to have some validity. I was on site last Sunday and there was still a lot of snow and mud. Since then we have had some more snow as well as a few days of warm weather. I doubt it has dried out much.
Looking out two weeks is subject to a lot of error but currently the forecast for April 24, 25, 26 (Thursday->Saturday) is, respectfully, for rain, snow, and mostly cloudy with showers. Prior to that there is supposed to be a fair amount of cloudy weather mixed with some sun. I’ll visit the site next weekend and will know more but my guess is that we are going to have some mud and perhaps even snow drifts to deal with. This will affect the Boomershoot staff more than the shooters but spectators and shooters should make appropriate plans.
Position 18 has opened up. If you know someone who would like to participate and has not signed up please send them here.
It’s not prostitution. It’s nuptial gifts.
We are just animals with a more developed brain. The low level wiring isn’t all that much different.
Just like penguins and other primates, people trade sex for resources:
Female penguins mate with males who bring them pebbles to build egg nests. Hummingbirds mate to gain access to the most productive flowers guarded by larger males.
New research shows that even affluent college students who don’t need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions, said Daniel Kruger, research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
The exchange of resources for sex—referred to by scientists as nuptial gifts—has occurred throughout history in many species, including humans, Kruger said. The male of the species offers protection and resources to the female and offspring in exchange for reproductive rights. For example, an arranged marriage can be considered a contract to trade resources.
However, the recent findings suggest that such behaviors are hard wired, and persist no matter how much wealth, resources or security that people obtain.
“It’s remarkable to find these patterns in the students in the study,” Kruger said. “We have seen many examples where people do this out of necessity, but we still see these tendencies in people who are already well provided for.”
I think Barb said she wanted some chores done around the house. Would that be considered an exchange of services?
The city is earning the nickname ‘Killadelphia’ not because of state preemption but because the mayor and city council think punishing law-abiding gun owners will somehow cause criminals to stop killing one another. Does he seriously think limiting legal handgun sales to one a month will prevent drive-by shootings by recidivist gang bangers? Can he honestly believe that penalizing someone for not immediately reporting a stolen firearm will prevent the thief from selling that gun to someone else who uses it in a crime? Where does he get the notion that restricting the rights of honest citizens is going to fix the broken court system that repeatedly returns these thugs to the streets?
None of these measures has worked anywhere else they’ve been tried. So what makes Nutter think he can perform a miracle now, especially in defiance of state law? Nutter is nuts, and so are the council members who copied these ideas out of the extremist gun control playbook for his rubber stamp signature.
Alan Gottlieb
Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation.
April 11, 2008
SAF BLASTS ‘KILLADELPHIA’ MAYOR, COUNCIL OVER MEASURES DEFYING STATE LAW
[IMHO this should be immediately settled in the court system. Federal Prosecutors should have the mayor and all the city council members who voted for this arrested and charged with violation of 18 USC 242.–Joe]
The TSA should just give it up and let congress spend that money on something that would do some good.
Also note that in this video the morons interviewed think that somehow outlawing the “glass knuckles” will make society safer. Do they think banning sharp sticks will make society safer? These things are so easy to make anyone with a room temperature I.Q. could be taught how to make them. But then maybe the media morons and the people they interviewed should be given a pass because they don’t have a room temperature I.Q.
It has just confirmed that Brian Doherty will be attending Boomershoot 2008. Here are the details:
Brian Doherty, author of the books Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement and This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground, is writing a book about the current DC vs. Heller case and its ramifications. Doherty plans to attend Boomershoot, and, if anything at the event sparks his interest, he may include it in his upcoming book. Doherty is also Senior Editor of Reason magazine/Reason.com. His excellent video summary about DC vs. Heller can be viewed here, at reason.tv.
Also the Saturday night dinner planning committee has confirmed the guest speaker will be a representative from Nightforce.
Even if you do not plan on participating in Boomershoot on Sunday you are welcome attend the dinner. Sign up as a spectator by sending an email to spectators-subscribe@boomershoot.org to be notified of dinner and last minute weather details etc.
If you are interested in becoming an NRA certified instructor in Basic Pistol there will be a class in Lewiston, Idaho on April 24th, 25th, and 26th. This is Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before Boomershoot. On Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning (the 26th and 27th) there will be a similar class to become an instructor for Personal Protection Inside the Home. You must have the credentials for Basic Pistol before you can take the Personal Protection Inside the Home class.
If you are interested in attending either class please let me know by tomorrow (Saturday the 12th) morning. Cost is dependent on the number of participants but it will be something in the range of $100 to $150 per person per class. Call me (208-301-4254) or send an email if you have questions.
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
[With all due respect to Einstein’s insight into physics I must point out his insight into human nature and politics was lacking. We are currently at war not a sovereign nation but a group of religious fanatics that barely recognize national boundaries and have essentially zero in the way of “great power” as defined by modern military metrics. And war has existed, and still does, when the “nations” are nothing more than large tribes equipped with spears, bows, and arrows.
The lesson to be learned from this is that however brilliant someone is in one field of endeavor that is no indication of their ability to contribute in another area. One’s reputation in any given area must be earned.–Joe]
Via John, Xenia’s boyfriend in Iraq I received a link to this site. [Side note, it is John’s birthday tomorrow and he is in Iraq away from his family and girlfriend working to keep us safe.]
It was like stepping through the looking glass into a fact free zone. Here are some examples:
The National Rifle Association in the United States of America has very few female members, but those that are members claim that guns empower them, protect them and give them more freedom in a country marked by the highest crime rate in the world.
“Very few”? I’ll agree it’s a minority but won’t spend the effort on slapping them down other than to point out the NRA has had two women presidents, Sandra Froman and Marion Hammer and Tany Metaksa was the NRA’s top lobbyist for a while.
Highest crime rate in the world? Not even close. Even England and Wales have higher crime rates than the US.
Actually much of the effort has been to keep guns and weapons that are considered “too dangerous” off the streets. Things like rocket launchers, grenades and other items usable by terrorists. Besides, who carries a grenade or an automatic sub-machinegun like a Mac 10 around for self-defense?
Shall we talk about handgun bans in Chicago, Washington D.C. (about to be thrown out), and San Francisco (thrown out)?
I have NEVER heard of any laws trying to prohibit shotguns, which is primarily a weapon for hunting deer, elk, bears.
Apparently they have never heard of NFA ’34. And I’ve never heard of a shotgun being considered appropriate for elk.
Magazine clips that contain 10 bullets are more useful to people who carry automatic weapons (which are illegal in most states). You just hold down the trigger and the handgun keeps firing, a bit like a machine gun, which means the criminal in question has the ability to fire many rounds at a police officer quickly and easily, and is more likely to hit the target as a result. Thanks to the 10 bullet limit the person runs out of bullets a lot faster. Since that law has been in place officers in many American states have seen a dramatic drop in the death of police officers due to automatic weapons.
Ignoring the ignorance of saying “magazine clips”… The full auto versus semi-auto game has been played many times with the semi-auto shooter getting more bullets on target than the full-auto in nearly all circumstances. The last sentence is total fabrication. The DOJ study found no such benefits to the “Assault Weapon Ban”.
The following is in regard the 10 round restriction for guns designed for full capacity magazines:
Those changes were only less reliable for people using automatic weapons. The new magazines were designed specifically to jam up frequently when used in an automatic gun.
Wow! This person is in total la-la land. There is no need to continue further until they start taking their Thorazine again.
Thanks John. Thanks for everything.
In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.
Winston Churchill
Speaking of Montgomery.
[Barb and I got the History Channel series on Churchill on DVD via NetFlix and are in the middle of watching the part about WWII. Churchill did have a way with words. Not a lot of energy when he spoke but he certainly used his words well.–Joe]
You have a right to your own opinions, but you don’t have a right to your own facts.
Anonymous
[I have found attributions to Churchill, read an instance where Bloomberg said that, and heard one radio personality attribute Daniel Moynihan. If someone has better results in finding the originator please let me know.
What I like about this quote is that it applies so well to many of the anti-gun bigots. Their sloppy thinking confuses opinions and facts in so many ways. A post demonstrating this is forthcoming.–Joe]
I wondered why I was getting so many hits from people using a search engine with the search terms “atf job description”.
I investigated just a little bit and discovered if you use those search terms with Google, Live Search, or Ask my blog post is the number one listing. I don’t think I know how to express how much that amuses me.
I just hope I can repress the urge to share my amusement with the next ATF inspector that visits me at the Taj Mahal.
Earlier today, Uncle demanded:
I’m here to ask you all to knock that shit off.
I’m here to defy his demands:
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Okay, so I’m not going to get bent out of shape and claim the ATF black helicopters are about to touch down. I’m not really in defiance of the Great and Wonderful Uncle.
What I do want to do is point out that we got the ATF’s attention when we pointed out their faux pas regarding Always Think Forfeiture. Whether they give the creator of that incentive tool a promotion and/or publicly flog someone is still up in the air. But you should note that we do have an effect on them. And every minute they spend deciding what to do about getting caught in the sheep pen with their pants around their ankles is less time they have to spend infringing the rights of the innocent. It will also be a very useful thing for our friends in congress to bring up during budget hearings with the ATF. Jed did good. Real good.
Thanks to Tony for the email.
I’m glad this survey was done with private money rather than taxpayer money. The results are just as one would expect:
The only nit I have to pick with this poll is that it is “Sarah Brady” not “Sara Brady”. But I’m not in any position to criticize someone for their typos or spelling errors.
Update: Tony, being the consciences researcher that he is updated the image. If only the Brady Campaign and others of their ilk were so quick to correct their errors we wouldn’t have to do it for them.
I thought everyone knew that self-defense was illegal in the U.K.
They should know they would get complaints if they came out with a product like this:
Gun control groups have condemned a new bullet-proof “hoody” which claims to protect against all bullets except those fired by high-velocity rifles.
Bladerunner, the London company which sells the £300 Defender hoodie, says it is responding to demand from undercover police officers and concerned parents.
Raymond Stevenson, a spokesman for Don’t Trigger, an international antigun campaign based in Brixton, London, said: “It’s not helping kids to provide them with bullet-proof armoury. and will encourage more aggressive behaviour.”
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
[Look around. You will see it nearly everywhere.–Joe]
Ignore all the errors, the deceptive use of numbers, and the emotional appeals. There is one sentence that explains why they just don’t get it:
America is a nation that pays a heavy price for permitting its citizens to be armed.
Our constitution does not permit its citizens to be armed.
Yup. You read that right. And that is not an late April fools joke either.
Until they understand and adhere to this fundamental point they will never understand or leave us alone. The reality is that the people had the right to be armed before the Constitution existed and the people retained, explicitly through the 2nd and 10th Amendments those rights afterward. The U.S. Constitution permitted, through Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15 and 16, the government to be armed.
I already posted the pictures from yesterday morning at the Boomershoot site. In the afternoon things were a little better. And if you compare to what things looked like two weeks ago they are significantly better:
The shooters berm. The deepest snow I could find was only ten inches deep.
The target area from the shooters berm.
The target construction area has significantly less snow than before.
This is the “Tree-Line” target area and where I get worried.
The weather forecast doesn’t look terrible. But it is a long way from great as well. In the next 15 days only three days are forecast to have precipitation. And three days are forecast to reach a high of 70F (this is an Orofino forecast so subtract a couple degrees for the Boomershoot site). If the forecast is correct and then we get bright sun for the last week of the month it could be beautiful Boomershoot conditions.
But don’t count on it.
In other news I completed what little bit had to be done on the water supply. As if we needed that this year! We might be able to wash our equipment in the nearest snow drift.
I brought a new inverter but the old one was behaving this time so I just left the new one wrapped up and left it there as a spare. We could swap it out in less than a minute so it’s not a big deal if it dies while we are in the middle of building targets.
I spent most of my time trying to get the WiFi working. There were numerous things wrong with the access point at the shed and once I got all those fixed everything started working just fine. I made one final tweak, changing the router configuration to follow Daylight Savings Time and when the router rebooted there was no wireless signal. I walked back to the neighbors to get physical access to the router and the hardwired connection was just fine. It was just the wireless that was dead. I poked around in the configuration a little bit, and without ever changing anything the wireless started working again. I rebooted the router again and the wireless went away and I was unable to get to come back up again.
I was out of time and I concluded that it must be the external power amplifier being flaky. I would suspect the router but that is the third router I have put there with similar symptoms from all three. The power amp is the only thing left that can be causing the problem.
In other news I was surprised with a dog came into the shed while I was working on the WiFi. I poked my head out the door and found I had company:
Rhonda and my brother Doug came out while training their search dogs.
They were looking for a dead body (actually a training aid) Doug had buried last November.
These are their dogs.
We talked for 15 or 20 minutes and then we all went back to work.
Oh, one last thing. When I came home Friday night I found Caleb had left this Boomershoot 2008 accessory in the driveway:
Guess what (and who) this is for.
