But the devil is in the details. You don’t have a lot of people feeling particularly pressured to do anything. In the end, however, gun control advocates need to get something, he says, and will have to cooperate with the … Continue reading
When I saw the title “The five minute NRA speech that would change the gun control debate forever” I cringed. I expected the article to be something along the lines of advocating the NRA saying, “We were wrong. Assault weapons … Continue reading
One has to wonder what the real purpose of publishing the names and a map of all the people that have a license to own a gun. Let’s think about this a little bit. What would be the purpose of … Continue reading
Government turns to clandestine terrorist operations when it is afraid of it’s own population. Noam Chomsky [I was reminded of this quote by various links to this article and related stuff. But from actually reading the bill I don’t see … Continue reading
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to … Continue reading
The essential claim (certainly not every claim–but the essential claim) advanced by the NRA with respect to the Second Amendment is extremely strong. Indeed, one may fairly declare, it is at least as well anchored in the Constitution in its … Continue reading
This may be reading too much into a few words but it bears watching. From Salon.com, “How many Americans are targeted for assassination?”: Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and … Continue reading
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once … Continue reading
Criticism about the NRA and H.R. 5175 should take into account the original letter to Congress that resulted in their exemption from this proposed draconian law: May 26, 2010 Dear Member of Congress: I am writing to express the National … Continue reading
From the Rachel Maddow show transcript (H/T to Warthog’s Rachel Maddow compares NRA mission to Prohibition): [T]he NRA is focused like a laser-guided scope on gun rights. They want people on the terrorist watch list to have un-impinged gun rights. … Continue reading
Sometimes the anti-gun people are just so “out there” I’m not even sure they can believe the stuff they say. Case in point: After the attacks of September 11, 2001 and subsequent terrorist attacks on trains, Amtrak took steps to … Continue reading
The ACLU has filed suit against the TSA claiming they are: …subjecting innocent Americans to unreasonable searches and detentions that violate the Constitution, according to a lawsuit filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU filed the complaint … Continue reading
What if people had been talking about passing a law putting curfew on “people of color” being out in public at night? After all with the darker skin color it only makes sense that they could take advantage of that … Continue reading
Despicable. The ACLU joins the NRA as the advocates of cowards, sneak thieves and psycopaths. I challenge Mr. Peck to identify where in the 2nd Amendment or any Federalist Paper is found the right to bear arms for “self protection.” … Continue reading
Have pity for the moderators here. I haven’t seen such a sh!tstorm descend on any one target since Jim Zumbo dined on his foot. Wow. Nomen NescioComment 285 at the ACLU blob post “Heller Decision and the Second Amendment”.[Yup. The comments … Continue reading
As Jed points out (and I had noticed a few minutes earlier via a Google News Alert) World Net Daily quoted me when reporting about the ACLU getting ripped apart by comments on their own blog regarding their stand in regards … Continue reading
Though the legal system has mostly consoled and protected batterers, when a woman is being beaten, it’s the batterer who has to be stopped; as Malcolm X used to say, by any means necessary–a principle women, all women, had better … Continue reading
Liberty is always unfinished business. American Civil Liberties Union[I have some “issues” with the ACLU, but not with this quote. This quote selection was to augment my next post.–Joe]
I’d like to believe it but I won’t until the coffin has been nailed shut, it’s been cremated, and the ashes dumped in a pig farm lagoon. Here is the story: “In discussions I participated in with the Department of Homeland … Continue reading
Muslims in the Arab world have a saying, “First comes Saturday then come Sunday.” Every Muslim in the Middle East knows exactly what this means. This is their way of saying that first they’ll get the Jews who observe the … Continue reading