Category Archives: Gun Rights

Sticking it to Wendy Cukier

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A guy after my own heart:

Wendy Cukier, head of the anti-gun lobby in Canada, opines that the Dawson College shootings are “evidence that we can do better”. Wrong.

These latest shootings – make that every shooting since the passage of the Firearms Act – are evidence of the complete and utter failure and futility of all such so-called gun control laws.

If Kimveer Gill obtained his firearms legally, it is evidence that such laws don’t work. If he obtained them illegally, it is evidence that such laws don’t work.

Now if he would ask Just One Question.

Quote of the day–Pat Kelley

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Gun confiscation won’t happen in my lifetime.

Pat Kelley
IPSC Grandmaster
Wily Coyote Three Gun Shoot
Whitebird, Idaho
August 1998
[No further explanation was offered. Nor was it needed.–Joe]

Quote of the day–John Ross

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One of the biggest mistakes that freedom advocates make is we often fail to take the moral high ground on freedom issues, and we let our enemies define the terms. This is a huge mistake. Never forget: We are in the right on this issue. We are on the side of the Founding Fathers. They are on the side of Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and every other leader of an oppressive, totalitarian regime.

John Ross
Mistakes We Make in the Gun Culture or How to Be a More Effective Advocate for Freedom
From Ross in Range September 14, 2005
[I’m working on a “high moral ground” piece. Here Ross is more succinct than me. The major point to be made is that we need to put them on the defensive. If we are defending we are losing. If you are defending any compromise is a loss. They need to be defending their alignment with tyrants.–Joe]

Plagiarist name removed from my blog

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Background:

  • Why not think for yourself?
  • A question for my readers
  • My decisionI had agreed to remove her name from my blog by next March and if I was sufficiently impressed I would remove it sooner. I wasn’t sufficiently impressed to remove it immediately but I decided that six months early was appropriate.

    As far as I am concerned the story is over now.

Quote of the day–Ambrose Bierce

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There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy …

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil’s Dictionary
[Something to keep in mind when people whine about all the people “killed by guns”. Not all deaths are tragedies.–Joe]

Burning books and crushing guns

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Via Jeff I saw this this picture in the NY Times:

It couldn’t cause a more empty, terrible feeling in my stomach if it were books being thrown on a bonfire. And in case you forgot this quote describes what I think about burning books. It’s guns that prevent them from burning books.

The stories of two losers

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Ian Robinson writes about two losers:

Here he is again, the loser with a grudge and a gun slithering up from the basement of a middle-class home where he fermented his immaturity, anger and resentments to full and deadly potency “interacting” with like creatures on the Internet.

His mom says he was “a good son.”

The neighbours’ comments — the banality of this would be screamingly funny were it not for the horror of the event — amount to this: He was quiet and kept to himself.

Aren’t they always.

His resentment and anger are perfectly understandable.

He’s a loser and losers spend their lives being angry and resentful.

And more importantly:

Wendy Cukier, the mastermind behind Canada’s obscenely expensive and ineffective gun registry — she’s president of the Coalition for Gun Control — along with her Liberal Party lapdogs promised us more gun control would make us safer.

Way to go, Wendy.

See, this loser jumped through all the hoops, complied with the gun legislation and guess what?

He passed. His firearms were legally owned.

When questioned in the aftermath of this event, Cukier told CBC that: “The argument for gun control has never been based on individual cases. (It) has always been based on the general principle that if you have adequate control on all guns, you reduce the chances that dangerous people will gain access to them. You don’t eliminate them.”

Her statement is disingenuous to say the least.

“Disingenuous” is a fancy word for “lie.”

Yup. Ms. Cukier helped convince Canadians to spend over $1 billion (some reports say as high as $2 billion) on a gun registry after an eerily similar shooting in 1989. Ms. Cukier created losers of all Canadians. They got nothing in return from all that money spent. All the while gun owners were telling them it wouldn’t do any good. Yet the press gave her high praise and flashed her flattering photo.

Losers. All led by the Queen of Losers–Wendy Cukier.

This is what happens in places without guns–Case XVIII

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Lucy Braham was stabbed to death in her own home. Disarmed by her own government and unable to defend herself against an attacker armed with only a knife she died at the age of 25. The attacker had virtually nothing to fear entering her home. If someone enters almost any home in the U.S. and they will be hyper-alert for the sound of a 12-gage shotgun being racked and prepared for firing. Not in this home, not in this country.

How many more tragic deaths do the people in these countries need before they start asking Just One Question then demand their government stop infringing on their inalienable rights?

Quote of the day–Stephen Harper

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We can’t just jump into the dark and make conclusions without facts. That’s how we got the gun registry in the first place. That’s how we spent a billion dollars on a policy that didn’t prevent the tragedy.

Stephen Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
September 16, 2006
$1-billion didn’t prevent tragedy
[I have Just One Question for Canadians.–Joe]

Clayton’s Armed America is almost out

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Clayton Cramer lives near Boise after having escaped California and it’s repressive gun laws and taxes. He played a major part in bringing down Michael Bellesiles with his fradulent book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture which was widely praised by gun grabbers all over the U.S. Now Clayton’s book, Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie is almost ready to ship.

Another book to be added to my library.

This is what happens in places without guns–Case XVII

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Twenty people wounded or killed. Hundreds of people were present but none of them were allowed to legally possess a firearm there. The person willing to break the law prohibited murder obviously wasn’t that concerned about the law against possessing a firearm. The victims were disarmed by their own government and that government bears a large portion of the responsibility for those injuries and deaths. And notice how the attacker was stopped? By people with guns. Don’t give me any crap about “bringing a gun into the situation just increases the violence”. It put a stop to the violence. If the victims hadn’t been disarmed they could have stopped the violence much sooner.

A 25-year-old man who mounted a deadly shooting rampage at a downtown Montreal college had posted pictures of himself on the Internet with a rifle and said he was feeling “crazy” and “postal” and was drinking whiskey hours before the attack.

The man, identified by police as Kimveer Gill, also said on a blog that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado and wanted to die “in a hail of gunfire.”

In the end, Gill dressed in a black trench coat like the Columbine shooters put his own gun to his head and pulled the trigger during a shootout with officers at Dawson College on Wednesday, police said.

Gill, wielding a rapid-fire rifle and two other weapons, had already wounded 20 other people by the time he took his own life. One of his victims, an 18-year-old woman, later died. Four others remained in critical condition Thursday, including three in extremely critical condition and one in a deep coma.

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Police initially said Gill shot himself but later Wednesday they said they thought officers killed Gill during an exchange of fire. On Thursday, however, Francois Dore of the Quebec provincial police said “preliminary results of the autopsy showed that he died of self-inflicted wounds.” Dore said police shot Gill in the arm before he turned his gun on himself.

“Remember September 13th” should be the slogan of the people of Canada as they march in the streets by the tens of thousands and demand their government stop infringing their inalienable rights.

Yeah, right, that will work

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This wouldn’t work with me and I can’t imagine it working any better with Columbian gang members:

BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept 12 (Reuters) – They are calling it the “crossed legs” strike.

Fretting over crime and violence, girlfriends and wives of gang members in the Colombian city of Pereira have called a ban on sex to persuade their menfolk to give up the gun.

Suggestions for hunting regulations additions

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I have some suggestions for Jeff Soyer in regards to his last sentence in this post where he advocates some changes in the hunting regulations:

  • There are no bag limits.
  • The season is year around as with other varmints.
  • There are no restrictions on hunting with various lures, calls, traps, poisons, calibers, spot lights, magazine capacity, rate of fire, or use of sound suppression accessories as long as a reasonable person would conclude that the hunting methodology would normally be expected to result in a humane kill.
  • The markings and other means of identification for the various species should be published in the hunting regulations and be regarded as definitive.
  • Hunters are required to notify authorities of wounded animals who have escaped as soon as is practical so others can be engaged to track and put down the animal in a humane manner.
  • All carcass disposal is the responsibility of the local government body. The government body may do this in any manner it so decides as long as it does not endanger the public health. This may include, as decided by the local government body and local public health officials, the sale of the carcass in whole or in part for any lawful use.
  • Hunters are required, if they can do so without endangering themselves or other innocent life, to guard the carcass until the police have arrived to properly strip the carcass of valuables, identify the species, verify it was a legitimate kill, and search for evidence as might be needed in civil or criminal cases.
  • Sales of valuables found on carcasses shall be used for the purposes of carcass disposal by the local government body. Except:
    • Valuables identifiable as stolen property shall be returned to their rightful owners or their heirs.
    • Valuables needed as evidence in criminal or civil cases shall be retained as necessary.

Another Lautenberg Amendment victim

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I got a call yesterday from someone I have only seen once in the past six years. He barely introduced himself and immediately went right to the point. He talked so fast that I didn’t get quite get all the words. What I did get was that he was in a domestic violence situation, had restraining order against him and had to get his guns out of his house as soon as possible. He had some other possibilities but wondered if I would be able to hold on to them for a couple months until he could get things all straightened out.

I agreed but didn’t have secure storage for all of his guns here in the Seattle area. I said I have plenty of room but he would need to buy a cheap gun safe to put them in. He said he would check out his other alternatives and get back to me.

I ended up with his gun safe, filled with his guns, next to my bed, and the keys to it in my pocket. He then told me his story about the incident with his 18 year-old son, about spending the night in jail, and his search for a lawyer.

I gave him a little bit of advice–If this were to turn into the worst case scenario how much money would you be willing to spend to have a better outcome? “A lot”, he said after about 1.5 seconds of thought. So I told him, “Then spend that money now on the best lawyer you can get.” As painful as it is to hire the best up front hiring a better lawyer than your first pick to go back in time is beyond the means of everyone I know.

Magic vs. jihad

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Reader, friend, and Boomershooter Sean sent me a link to this article in the Weekly Standard, Return of the Tribes. It’s kind of a long article but all very interesting. Near the end is a section on Magic vs. jihad and from there Peters goes on to explain that “magic” is an essential part of dealing with people and how the magic of the forests and jungles in the hands of people that didn’t even have the wheel defeated the Muslim jihad that had swept through nearly every other culture the Muslim encountered:

The spread of Islam into Europe and Africa struck very different, but equally potent, barriers in the north and south. In Europe, it could not overcome a rival monotheist faith with its own universalist vision. In West Africa, Islam stopped, roughly five centuries ago, when it left the deserts and grasslands to enter the African forest, that potent domain of magic.

It should excite far more interest than it has that a warrior faith with an unparalleled record of conquest and conversion dead-ended when it reached the realms of illiterate tribes that had not mastered the wheel: In the forests of sub-Saharan Africa, Islam could not conquer, could not convert, and could not convince. On their own turf, local beliefs proved more powerful than a faith that had swept over “civilized” continents.

His thesis is that essentially all people need magic in their lives. In our country we have our own substitutes for it. As Sean rightly surmised this would push a button of mine. Magic???? We don’t need to stinking magic! Well… maybe I don’t but most people do and failure to take this into account will result in unexpected results when you deal with them.

As Barb points out at times I am frequently bewildered at the unexpected results when I deal with people. Apparently it’s not that they are stupid, as I would like to claim, but that they believe in magic. I guess I can buy that. From airplane security to gun control to socialized medicine they all believe in magic not realizing it’s nothing but a comforting illusion.

Exploding targets for sale

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Ozark Pyrotechnics is now selling binary exploding targets.

Barb and I visited Dave and his family a month ago and I saw a small stock of the targets ready for shipping. We didn’t ask for a demo so I can’t report on functionality but I fully expect they will work as advertised.

If you test them please send me a report.

Michael Moore selects another target

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From the Seattle PI:

TORONTO — First, General Motors. Then gun control, followed by George W. Bush. Now rabble-rousing filmmaker Michael Moore has turned his irreverent camera on health care in America.

Socialized medicine will be his inevitable conclusion.

“Michael Moore is a political activist with a track record for sensationalism. He has no intention of being fair and balanced,” Johnson said.

Yup.

Utah Supreme Court Justices Domonstrate Ability to Read

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Here’s something you don’t see– a gun ban struck down on constitutional grounds, thoughbeit a state constitution:

“The Utah Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on guns at the University of Utah, saying campus officials cannot adopt a policy that runs counter to state law.”

Did I read that right?  State institutions cannot enact policies in violation of the constitution?  This is groundbreaking stuff (well, outside the issue of public funding for Maplethorpe or Piss Christ exhibits, et al, being claimed as “free speech” elsewhere).

Here is the pertinent language out of Utah, courtesy of the Second Amendment Foundation:

Utah Constitution Article I, Section 6

The individual right of the people to keep and bear arms for security and defense of self, family, others, property, or the state, as well as for other lawful purposes shall not be infringed; but nothing herein shall prevent the Legislature from defining the lawful use of arms.

Take note that security and defense of self, family, others, property, or the state are mentioned as the primary reason why the right to keep and bear arms should be protected.  That blows the whole “Sporting Purposes” test concept all to hell, doesn’t it?  But Utah reserves the right to define “lawful use”, like, I guess, not allowing shooting at your local community range at 03:00 for instance, without an effective sound suppressor.  That makes sense.

And “…defense of…property”?  There’s an obscure concept.

Now, if we could only get the several states to recognize the U.S. Constitution, it wouldn’t matter what any state constitution says about the keeping and bearing of arms (unless I am mistaken, the U.S. Constitution prevents, ostensibly, your home state legislature from banning newspapers, forcing Catholics to wear crucifix arm bands, for example, or reinstating slavery, but maybe someone could correct me on that).

The NRA linked to the story also, but had little to say about it as of this writing.

Quote of the day–Isaac Asimov

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Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Isaac Asimov
[One of my pet peeves is that most people, including nearly all the scientists I have worked with, don’t distinguish between a theory and a hypothesis. The gun control advocates who do this are particularly irksome to me when they do this.–Joe]

Quote of the day–John F. Kennedy

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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy
[Appliciable to freedom activists as well as our fight against Islamic extremists.–Joe]