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Armed and Safe is a gun rights advocacy blog, with the mission of debunking the "logic" of the enemies of the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.

I can be reached at 45superman@gmail.com.You can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/45superman.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 28

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David Codrea/National:

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St. Louis dangerous for the unarmed and unprepared

A bit less than a year ago, we discussed St. Louis gaining the distinction of being "the most dangerous city" in the nation, in terms of violent crime. Three recent developments perhaps indicate, at least anecdotally, that the situation is not improving, and that to neglect personal security preparations for oneself and loved ones remains even more irresponsibly foolhardy here than in most other cities. [More]
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 26

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'Gun control' advocates suddenly embrace state sovereignty

As it happens, though, there is nothing inconsistent in supporting both state sovereignty and federal enforcement of the "bear" in right to keep and bear arms. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court made Constitutional protection of the individual's right to keep and bear arms a settled point of Constitutional law. In McDonald v. City of Chicago, the court confirmed that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the rights protected by the Second Amendment against state and local governments. [More]
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 25

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Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

David Codrea/National:
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'Gun control': Historically racist, and racist still

But Winkler may have retreated farther than he needed to, because many gun laws on the books right now place a disproportionate burden on racial minorities. Specifically, every policy that drives up the cost of gun ownership and use imposes a wealth test on exercise of the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms. Given the socio-economic realities, such a wealth test is inherently racist in effect, if not by intent. [More]
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Monday, October 24, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 24

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Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

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Libertarianism 'number one warning sign' for mass shooters?

The belief that the rights of the people as a whole depend on protecting the rights of the individuals within that whole is the "number one warning sign" for a mass killer? And it gets worse if this lover of individual freedom had once agreed to put his or her life on the line for the American way of life (guess he really hates the Oath Keepers)? Not a word about the risk factor posed by rules that mandate that the plentiful supply of potential victims is unarmed and defenseless? [More]
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Gun ban 'logic'

We've all heard about the sick degenerate who walked into an International House of Pancakes in Nevada, and started machine gunning patrons with an AK-47 variant illegally modified for fully-automatic capability.

What to do about it? Well, the Las Vegas Sun tells us that according to some, what Nevada ought to do is ban semi-automatic, detachable magazine-fed rifles.

A deadly shooting rampage at a Carson City IHOP restaurant last month has prompted a call for a review of Nevada's gun laws.

Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman William Horne said it would be appropriate for lawmakers to consider changes to the state's gun laws after a man with a history of mental illness shot 11 people with an assault weapon at the restaurant, leaving three Nevada National Guard members and two others dead.

Horne, D-Las Vegas, told the Reno Gazette-Journal that while he's a gun owner who supports gun rights, he questions why citizens need to own an assault weapon.

"I think it's a good question to ask: Why does a typical citizen need to have an assault weapon?" he said.
I bet Horne would just love California's "assault weapon" ban. California not only bans so-called "assault weapons," but has perhaps the most exhaustive list in the country defining these oh-so-scary firearms. California's model is indeed the one favored by groups like the Brady Campaign:
Congress should enact a comprehensive federal assault weapons ban modeled after the California assault weapons ban. The California law banned assault weapons based on a “one-feature test” that requires a firearm to have only one military-style feature in order to be banned. The Brady Campaign was instrumental in helping to enact and implement the California law in 2000.
The Violence Policy Center also strongly approves (pdf file):
Legislation to address the industry’s subversion of the 1994 ban has been introduced in the 108th Congress by Representatives Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and John Conyers (D-MI) in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 2038) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in the U.S. Senate (S. 1431). The legislation is based on California’s 1999 state assault weapons ban, which, unlike federal law, addresses the “copycat” issue.
Sounds like a California-style "assault weapon" ban is just the ticket, doesn't it?

But wait a second--what's this at the end of the Las Vegas Sun article?
Despite being diagnosed as schizophrenic, Sencion [the IHOP killer] legally purchased the weapon from a private seller in California.
So, to prevent violence committed with "assault weapons," Nevada's laws should become more like those in the state where the weapon in question was bought? That sounds like the forcible citizen disarmament advocates' "logic," alright.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 20

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Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

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Reps. Chaffetz and Gowdy ask Obama key 'Gunwalker' question

This ignores the fact that Holder is himself a prime suspect of serious criminal wrongdoing, and any worthwhile investigation of the scandal would have to take a very close look at his possible culpability. Holder, in ordering an investigation by the Inspector General, who works under and answers to him, has in a very real sense offered to reassure the nation by undertaking to investigate himself--and apparently Obama and many other Democrats think we should be satisfied with that. [More]
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 19

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Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

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A chief of 'Only Ones,' and a felon?

So apparently, this is the situation in Illinois: private citizens cannot legally carry a defensive firearm in public; felons can become police chiefs (but if they were not "Only Ones," could not legally buy so much as a single round of ammunition or a Taser); and in jurisdictions like East St. Louis, a police department that was already unable to effectively rein in crime is further depleted with strikes and lay-offs.

And groups like the Brady Campaign have committed to maintaining the state-mandated defenselessness inherent to Illinois gun laws (even to the point of lying about the effects of proposed legislation). Whose side are they on? Certainly
not the peaceable armed citizen's. [More]
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Guess I struck a nerve

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) "blocked" my Twitter feed (and those of many other gun rights advocates) months ago--our "insurrectionism" was apparently too terrifying for them.

Or maybe not. Perhaps their "taking their ball and going home" act was just for show, because when I sent a tweet their way about today's column, they noticed it in a hurry:

The latest in gun nuttery: Insurrectionists threatening to make AK-47s out of printers if new gun laws enacted....
Even funnier though, was their Facebook post about it, and the comments:


So now I'm not only an "insurrectionist, but a "traitor to our government," as well?

As for the "toaster" reference, I can only assume that CSGV mouthpiece Ladd Everitt is enjoying some recreational pharmacology. Accept the reality or not, Ladd--home 3-d printing of scary "assault weapon" receivers is coming--fast.

GRE Round Up, Oct 18

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Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

David Codrea/National:
Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:
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What if the revolution that ends 'gun control' is a technological one?

And now, as CNC milling machines and stereolithography (three dimensional printing) devices fall in price to the point of being not out of reach for a hobbyist's workshop, home manufacture of scary "assault weapons" will soon be a few mouse clicks away. [More]
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

St. Louis man 'just gives them what they want,' is murdered

As National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea once asked of someone who had repeated the "just give him what he wants" advice, "What if 'what he wants' is your life?"

A firearm, when combined with proficiency in its use and the will to excercise that proficiency at need, is the means by which the (nominally) human predator can be denied "what he wants." Anyone who finds that morally objectionable is on the side of your would-be killer--not yours. [More]
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Friday, October 14, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 14

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Obama knew about 'Fast and Furious' before Holder?

Obama could, of course, have "read about it in the news" about a month before that, when Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News first brought the story to the mass media (we should probably not expect him to have kept up with those in the "new media" who had been covering the scandal since December).

And we, of course, are to assume that Obama's first knowledge of the program came when he "first read about it in the news." Perhaps that makes sense, since although one would normally expect his Attorney General to tell him about such things (hopefully
before they make the news), Holder was supposedly a few weeks away from learning about it. One might fairly ask that if Holder cannot be expected to read all the briefing documents sent his way, could he at least read the same news the president finds time to read? If not, should Obama maybe have told Holder? Not the usual way of doing things, admittedly, but it might have saved a fair amount of embarrassment. [More]
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 12

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Brady Campaign offended by truth about Second Amendment

The Second Amendment was written to guarantee the existence of the last bulwark against tyranny--an armed citizenry, and the abolishment of the CSGV's beloved government monopoly on force. That was well known when it was written in the 18th century (ask Tench Coxe), and was affirmed in 2008, when the Supreme Court made the Second Amendment's guarantee of the individual right to keep and bear arms a settled point of Constitutional law:

. . .

Rep. Walsh explained himself, Henigan. If you oppose the people's Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right to bear arms in defense of their families, lives, homes and liberty, perhaps it is
you who have some explaining to do. [More]
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 11

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David Codrea/National:

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Will GOP presidential candidates take stand on 'Gunwalker' in tonight's debate?

The candidate who is the first to embrace this issue stands to separate himself/herself not only from the rest of the Republican field, but from Obama and the rest of the Democrats, as well.

The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has spearheaded the congressional investigation of "Project Gunwalker," under Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), is Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD). Cummings has not only fought the investigation, but when Democrats controlled the committee, willfully ignored whistleblowers' allegations of corruption within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), and thus bears some culpability for the fact that the "Gunwalker" monstrosity wasn't stopped before it ever began.

Meanwhile, President Obama continues to express every confidence in AG Holder--something else that Republican presidential candidates could (and should) be hammering him for. [More]
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Monday, October 10, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 10

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Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

David Codrea/National:
Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:
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Eric Holder's incompetence defense is also a lie

In other words, Holder absolutely knew about "Operation Fast and Furious," and the fact that that operation centered on "gunwalking," not a "few weeks" before Representative Issa asked him when he knew about it, but a few months before--at the very least. Even if we are to believe his rather suspicious claim to have not bothered to keep himself informed last summer, and even if such incompetent dereliction of duty is not itself grounds for replacing him with someone more able and willing to carry out the duties of United States Attorney General, we still know he committed perjury in his testimony on May 3.

The president who appointed him is still defending him. What does that say about
his fitness for office? [More]
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Thursday, October 06, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 6

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From Obama administration about 'Gunwalker': 'Be reasonable,' and 'Calm down'

Now, consider the fact that if the government is an accessory to mass murder, then we, as taxpayers, could be said to be, at least morally (if not legally), accessories as well. And now we're being told to "be reasonable," and to "calm down."

We'll consider "calm[ing] down" when the people responsible for this monstrosity are in prison. Oh, and as for being "reasonable"? I said "in prison," rather than hanged. That's stretching "reasonable" about as far as it will go. [More]
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 5

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'Gunwalking' then and now: The differences

It should also be pointed out that by 2009, even the most Underpants Gnome-stupid government officials had the benefit of hindsight (provided by "Wide Receiver") to see the folly of "gunwalking" as a "crime-fighting" tool. By then it should have been clear that the only value such a technique offered was the pile of dead bodies that could then be blamed on U.S. gun dealers.

"Operation Wide Receiver" should be investigated, and any found guilty of criminal acts should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But before
TPMMuckraker gives the Obama government a pass on its gunwalking, because "Bush did it, too," we should probably ask ourselves if a past administration's atrocities justify their repetition now. [More]
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

GRE Round Up, Oct 4

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From Eric Holder, we get a liar's 'justice'

Lying to Congress under oath is perjury. Perjury is a crime. We the people, however, are expected to trust our nation's justice system to this . . . criminal. This we cannot do. A government that puts "justice" in the hands of a criminal bears no legitimate claim on the people's loyalty. If the government seeks to illegitimately claim that loyalty, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is going to have a lot of updates to make on their "Insurrectionism Timeline." [More]
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