May No Soldier Go Unloved.
Slogan of Soldier’s Angels
[See my next post for more context. And yes, this is an exact duplicate of my post this time last year.–Joe]
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
Quote of the day–Ry Jones
So why not Owner? Owners don’t do NFA. Owners don’t do political organizing. Owners don’t buy 1200 feet of paracord to cause other owners to spends thousands of dollars on ammo they otherwise would not have spent. While I am certainly an owner, I am not an Owner.
Ry Jones
April 27, 2009
Ontologies
[Explaining why he doesn’t fit any of Tam’s categories of gun owners.
The 1200 feet of paracord probably needs some explain for those unfortunate people that did not attend Boomershoot last weekend.
It was Ry’s idea to satisfy a frequent request for moving reactive targets. He did this by suspending camo painted, Boomerite filled, targets from trees. The targets swung, bounced, and taunted the shooters. They loved them and, amazingly enough, nailed the 0.5 MOA (and smaller) targets. Mike, the guy in position 76, who doesn’t even use a spotter asked me “Are those four inch targets dangling on the ropes up there near the 700 yard line?” I told him that before lunch they were. After lunch they were replaced with three inch targets. “Okay,” he said, “There is one less of them now.”–Joe]
Quote of the day–Rebecca West
I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
[I remember having a similar conversation with Barbara either before we were married or shortly thereafter. I told her that as near as I could tell the way people defined “a lady” was in terms of the things she wasn’t allowed to do and “men” in the things he did.
But that isn’t why I posted West’s quote. I post it because it reminds me of what people call “reasonable regulation” of firearms. Their ideas of “reasonable regulation” appear to be based on the assumption that gun owners are, or should be, doormats.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Kimberly Frederick
Dad! I need more!
Kimberly Frederick
April 25, 2009
[Daughter Kimberly was on the Kitchen Aid mixer making explosives and I was constantly bringing her more 50 pound bags of Ammonium Nitrate. At peak production our team was producing 18 4″ targets in just over two minutes.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Alan Gura, Robert A. Levy, Clark M. Neilly
Cooley agreed, explaining that the Second Amendment “is significant as having been reserved by the people as a possible and necessary resort for the protection of self-government against usurpation, and against any attempt on the part of those who may for the time be in possession of State authority or resources to set aside the constitution and substitute their own rule for that of the people.” Thomas Cooley, The Abnegation of Self-Government, 12 PRINCETON REV. 209, 213-14 (1883). The individual use of Second-Amendment-protected arms to check despotism, “far from being revolutionary, would be in strict accord with popular right and duty.” Id.
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed–where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
Alan Gura
Robert A. Levy
Clark M. Neily III
February 24, 2008
RESPONDENT’S BRIEF On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The District Of Columbia Circuit.
[In part, Boomershoot is about being prepared to exercise this part of the constitution.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Chuck
My message to my troops is if you see any Jews on the streets of Berlin, we’ll put them on the ground, take their property away and then decide whether they have a right to it. Maybe I’ll end up with a protest of Rabbis. In the meantime, I’ve got serious orthodoxy with access to Talmuds. It’s irresponsible to send a message to them that if they just study it openly no one can bother them.
Chuck
In the comments to Quote of the day–Ed Flynn
[Very nice twist to Ed’s words. It put Flynn’s words in the proper perspective for others to see it for what it was–using the force of law in a bigoted attack on gun owners.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Ed Flynn
My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we’ll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it. Maybe I’ll end up with a protest of cowboys. In the meantime, I’ve got serious offenders with access to handguns. It’s irresponsible to send a message to them that if they just carry it openly no one can bother them.
Ed Flynn
Milwaukee Police Chief
April 21, 2009
Milwaukee chief to officers: Ignore gun memo
[What if some police chief said something like this about black people walking the streets after dark? Or Christians wearing a cross in public? His remaining time on the job would, and rightly so, be measured in minutes. And so it should be in this case. It is his job to enforce the law, not enforce what he would like the law to be.
It’s a good thing I won’t be visiting Wisconsin anytime in the foreseeable future. My response to a police officer committing a felony such as this either against me or in my presence would be “messy” and probably involve compounds containing nitrogen. It would be better if you follow Sebastian’s recommendations.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Nate Murray
We are shooting what I wanted to from the beginning,…. a pilot for a new show on the outdoor channel. The show would be called “Gun Nuts”, or ‘Tactical TV”.
Nate Murray
Sound Theory Productions
April 20, 2009
[There was a change of plan on the filming for the TV show at Boomershoot 2009. Instead of filming for the Western Extreme/Adventures Abroad TV shows it’s going to be a pilot for a new show. The pressure is on!–Joe]
Quote of the day–Judge O’Scannlain
We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right. It has long been regarded as the “true palladium of liberty.” Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later. The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited. We are therefore persuaded that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment and applies it against the states and local governments.
Judge O’Scannlain
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Nordyke case
April 20, 2009
[As Dave Hardy said, “This has got to hurt.” Let’s keep them hurting too. No quarter!–Joe]
Quote of the day–Maj. John Pitcairn
Disperse, you rebels — Damn you, throw down your arms and disperse!
Maj. John Pitcairn
Lexington, Massachusetts
April 19, 1775
[When distant rulers attempt to seize the arms of todays free people will it rate a turning point in history or just an incident report in a forgotten police record? You decide.–Joe]
Quote of the day–perlhaqr
I knew that the battle was futile when I couldn’t convince a girl I know, hell, a girl I love with all my heart–American, but of immediate Jewish Russian extraction, who herself had fled the Soviet Union as a child–that private ownership of arms was of vital importance.
After that, well, what else do you say?
perlhaqr
April 12, 2009
Comment at Hell In A Hand Basket
[I think it depends what one means by “battle”. I’m certain there are people that can never be convinced. Evidence is irrelevant to their beliefs. But I do believe that enough people can be convinced that we can live our lives relatively free with only a few bigots who rant at us on special occasions. But they will be relegated to a status like Fred Phelps or the Grand Wizard of the KKK who are recognized as kooks by nearly all thinking people. It may take a generation or three but I think it can be done.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Jeff Cooper
I have never been taken with the idea of selling a gun. When you possess a firearm, you possess something of importance. If you trade it for cash, you have lost it – and the cash in your hand will soon be gone. Sell something else!
Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
June 11, 1993
[I posted this once before but it likely wasn’t noticed much in the collection of 146 other Cooper quote.
I’m selling a gun today. Other than a few guns I bought with the specific intent to resell this is the first time ever. It’s not because I want the money, it’s because the other person wants it and I don’t really have a use for it. I haven’t shot this one in years and I have another gun that fills this niche better than the one I am selling that I do shoot sometimes. Still, it makes me sad.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Aravind Seshadri
You know how to get a solution? First you create a problem.
Aravind Seshadri
April 15, 2009
[One of my favorite things about working at Microsoft is that I am surrounded by smart people–very smart people. Also knowing that some of the software I write will be used by, literally, a BILLION people is really, really cool. That and being part of the Borg means we get to rule the galaxy.
So, yesterday Aravind, Hiep, and I were discussing our plans for domination of the galaxy when Aravind told us the above. I burst out into laughter as my mind went flying into all the different directions implied by those two sentences. Here is a sample:
- Before you can solve a problem you have to define (create) it. Once it is accurately defined you can much more easily solve it.
- Most businesses sell “solutions”. The grocery store sells you a solution to your hunger problem, the electric company sells you a solution to your energy problem, etc. Before you can sell anything new you have to create a problem. Before there were telephones did the people know they had a communication problem? Before there were cars did the people know there was a transportation problem? Before there were diamond engagement rings did people know there was token of commitment problem? We create problems in people’s minds so they will buy our solutions. This applies to (perhaps especially in) politics, and personal relationships, as well as the business world.
- If you have a problem in “Area A” you may be able to solve it by creating a problem in “Area B”. For example, a scumbag is causing you discomfort by threating you with a knife and you want a solution to your discomfort. You create a fluid retention problem for him by inserting multiple jacketed hollow points into his thoracic cavity. You now have your solution.
- And my favorite, “There is no problem the proper application of high explosives can’t solve.”
-Joe]
Quote of the day–Russell Long
Tax reform means don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree.
Senator Russell Long
[I’m pretty sure I’m the guy behind the tree. Not including sales tax, gas taxes, ammo and gun taxes, vehicle licenses, etc. we paid over $55K in taxes last year.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Sean Flynn
“Freedom from fear” and “freedom from want”, two of Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, are insidious positive rights. They are provably incompatible with liberty.
Give the government the enough power to assuage James’s fear and I will fear that government.
Give the government the economic power to sate the wants of the laziest among us, and I guarantee that someone else’s wants will not be met. The economy will never reach the desired equilibrium and the thermodynamic losses of the effort will impoverish all.
Sean Flynn
April 13, 2009
In the comments to this post.
[There is something about the vocabulary and the way Sean puts words together that makes it nearly instantly recognizable to me. Any one of those paragraphs would have been enough for me to guess that it was Sean writing them. So succinct and yet not leaving out anything important. What is just as interesting to me is that he talks just like that too.–Joe]
Quote of the day–John Byrne
Seven million people have applied for criminal background checks since November in an effort to buy guns, according to the FBI. That figure doesn’t include Virginia, whose gun shows don’t require any background checks.
John Byrne
April 13, 2009
As firearms sales surge, Democrats drop assault weapons ban
[If you repeat a big enough lie often enough people will believe it. Mr. Byrne and Diane Feinstein are doing their parts such as with, “The National Rifle Association essentially has a stranglehold on the Congress.” And of course we have been hearing that we have a “gun problem” for decades. That sounds so much like “Jews control the media, the banks, and the politicians” and that there is “Jew problem”. In his next post will he use take another suggestion from Hitler’s playbook? Will he next tell everyone about a “Final Solution” to the gun problem?
Hint to those that don’t know, there isn’t any exemption for background checks at gun shows.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Ann Coulter
I guess Mixon also raped that 12-year-old girl in “self-defense.” Clearly, the pimping industry has lost a good man. I wish I’d known him. I tip my green velvet fedora with the dollar signs all over it to him. Why do the good ones always die young? Pimps, I mean.
Ann Coulter
April 8, 2009
Let’s all surrender our weapons – you first!
[Like I said. Amazing snark.–Joe]
Quote of the day–M. Carol Bambery
This case provides the Court an opportunity to advance the ability of women to free themselves from being subject to another’s ill will and to counter the commonly-held prejudice that women are “easier targets” simply because of their gender characteristics. Violence against women in the United States is endemic, often deadly, and most frequently committed by men superior in physical strength to their female victims.
M. Carol Bambery
Brief of amicae curiae 126 women state legislators and academics in support of respondent.
[“God made man but Samuel Colt made them equal” comes to mind as more succinct but that probably wouldn’t be as appropriate for a Supreme Court brief.–Joe]
Quote of the day–United Nations Development Programme
Many governments recognise a connection between armed violence and the uncontrolled, or loosely controlled, trade in and possession of arms. There is also growing awareness that most of the problems posed by the availability of SALW and misuse are ‘civilian’ – meaning most firearms (both legal and illicit) are owned by civilians, and most perpetrators and victims of armed violence are civilians.
United Nations Development Programme
Chapter 3, page 21.
How to Guide
Small Arms and Light Weapons Legislation
[Yes, I’m sure that “many governments” do recognize most perpetrators of armed violence are civilians. Such governments as those in Darfur, Rwanda, Cambodia, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany come to mind. And people who are capable of simple arithmetic will realize “many governments” are wrong. I can only conclude that simple arithmetic is beyond the capability of the people who wrote the “How to Guide”. H/T to /sennin/ in the comments here for pointed this document out to me.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Sendarius
I know this will be decried by some as “an isolated incident, not worthy of attention” but believe me when I say that “a shiny silver CANNON” accompanied by the COMMAND “BACK OFF NOW!” makes a better deterrent than a chrome towel rail and BEGGING “Please don’t hurt me”.
Sendarius
April 7, 2009
Comment to Operators suggested they call a non-emergency number.
[This is closely related to John Fogh’s advise about asking not to be raped.–Joe]