Biden says state troopers at Sandy Hook 'need some help'; perhaps disarmament?

If seeking mental health care comes to be seen as grounds for disarmament, more and more cops and military personnel--you know, the "Only Ones" we should trust with guns--will be reluctant to seek help for their Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This, at a time when over a decade of harrowing combat in Afghanistan and Iraq is affecting hundreds of thousands of veterans. Is that what we want?

The objective here is not to imply that those Connecticut state troopers who have sought and received help after witnessing the horrifying aftermath of Sandy Hook should be disarmed for "mental illness," but to illustrate the dangers of failing to tread extremely lightly with any plan to suppress gun rights for reasons of mental health. [More]

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Feinstein's 'assault weapon' ban goes to committee, as bans become irrelevant

Oh, and while we're ruining the "Government Monopoly on Force" advocates' day, we would be remiss in failing to point out that 3-D printing is about to become vastly more accessible to the masses. "Regime change rifles" for everyone.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, "gun control," it tolls for your evil ass. [More]

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Anti-gun Missouri legislator plays 'race card'--badly

Is Chappelle-Nadal ignorant of the fact that the "KKK began as a 'gun control' organization," or is she deliberately suppressing that inconvenient fact, because it interferes with her agenda? Is she unaware of the fact that ethnic minorities still bear the brunt of the suffering inherent to forcible citizen disarmament, or is she comfortable in the role of "No guns for Negroes" enforcer? [More]

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Illinois another step toward legal armed self-defense; Politburo strikes back

This leaves Illinois' forcible citizen disarmament fanatics with two choices. They could appeal the case to the United States Supreme Court (with no guarantee that SCOTUS would take the case, and with the risk that they would lose there, as well, possibly jeopardizing strict firearms carry laws in other states). Or they could try to pass a brutally restrictive carry law, which would be basically a de facto ban, despite theoretically permitting defensive firearm carry.

That second option appears to be the one that Illinois Speaker of the Politburo . . . er, I mean House Mike Madigan has chosen (although a U.S. Supreme Court appeal is still possible). According to the Illinois State Rifle Association, Madigan's HB 1155 will soon (perhaps starting today) be amended into a regulatory monstrosity that would make legal exercise of the fundamental right of armed self-defense nearly impossible. [More]

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Essential Liberty is essential reading

David beat me to the punch in writing an Examiner review for Rob Olive's Essential Liberty, so I'll just put a quick word up here.

Consider it required reading for anyone who knows how fragile liberty is, and how worthy it is of fighting for. It is, indeed, worth dying for, and that implies, of course, that it is worth killing for.

And that, come to think of it, perhaps makes this book even more required reading for those who would undermine our liberty.

Anyway, if you liked John Ross's Unintended Consequences, the Matthew Bracken Enemies Foreign and Domestic trilogy, or are impatiently waiting for Mike Vanderboegh's Absolved book to be published in its entirety, you will no doubt find Essential Liberty impossible to put down.

Ranking federal 'gun control' priorities

As diverse as these anti-gun bills are, they all have one thing in common. They all bring us closer to the "government monopoly on force" so beloved of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence--and of anti-gun Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)--and such a monopoly brings us closer to genocidal tyranny.

That is what is at stake here. [More]

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St. Louis teenager suspected of 'knockout game' violence picks wrong victim

Murphy's perhaps not so tragically premature death is not the only reason for this to be a good time to talk about the "knockout game." Keep in mind these mobs can number in the dozens (the pack that put Matt Quain in the hospital is estimated to have numbered about 18).

Now, keep in mind that one of the forcible citizen disarmament lobby's (and the Obama administration's, and the Democrat leadership's, and mass media's) top three goals at the federal level is a ban of "high capacity" magazines. Now we're told that even supposedly "pro-gun" congressmen--of both parties--might be ready to cave on sending people to prison for possessing an 11-round magazine (for up to ten years), just as they seem prepared to send them to prison for buying or selling guns privately. [More]

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Colorado dusts off IL State Police rape prevention tip: Messy bodily functions

It is nothing less than misogynist evil to try to deceive women into believing that would-be rapists can be deterred by their chosen victim vomiting, nearly as effectively as by the fear of themselves bleeding. [More]

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Obama says shooting victims, families 'deserve a vote'; perhaps they do

And how about a look at what Obama apparently does not believe the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary atrocity "deserve a vote" on? What do Virginia Tech survivors and the loved ones of the fallen not "deserve a vote" on? That would be measures like H.R. 35 and H.R. 133, ending schools' status as designated "gun free zones" (which remain "gun free" only until someone bent on evil decides he wants a nice, juicy, soft target). Then again, why should Obama care, his kids are not subject to state-mandated defenselessness, and will not be for years.

If we the people believe we "deserve a vote" that is being denied us, Mike Vanderboegh reminds us there is always a way for an armed citizenry to "vote." [More]

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Eliot Engel reintroduces his perennial confiscatory gun ban bill

The point is not the infinitesimal danger that this abomination will ever pass, but that a long-serving (if Engel's oath-breaking abuses of power can be considered "service") member of Congress has the audacity to even try to confiscate citizens' legally obtained property, with no apparent fear of at least tar and feathers.

No "slippery slope" toward all-out gun confiscation? Wrong. Most of the gun banners just hide the end-game agenda better than Engel does. [More]

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Assaulted: We're almost there, but the deadline is almost here

David has been working hard to help get "Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire" off the ground, to turn the tide of public opinion back to the pro-rights viewpoint.

Although I've contributed as much as I can at the moment, I have been too quiet about promoting the importance of this project.

Please, give it a look, and do what you can to help.

The rights you'll help defend are your own, after all.

Help a great cause! Win cool stuff!

Walls of the City is running a fundraiser for Honored American Veterans Afield, a firearms industry-supported effort to help disabled veterans.

Like I said--a great cause, and the stuff you have a chance to win is quite a compelling extra incentive.

Please give it a look.

Why should gun rights advocates in Illinois support ANY concealed carry bill?

A "right" contingent on the government's permission is no right at all, and Illinoisans have no reason to be willing to ask for that permission. [More]

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NIJ memo shows new gun laws can only 'work' with registration, confiscation

Mandatory "buybacks" are not "purchases," any more than a rape victim is a "prostitute," if her rapist gives her a $20 bill when he's done. If the Obama regime wants to "buy" our guns, it had better be prepared to pay in blood. [More]

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S. 261: Conviction in foreign kangaroo court to mean lifetime disarmament in US

That a person cannot suffer a life sentence of disarmament, for a conviction won by foreign prosecutors without the accused having enjoyed every single protection demanded by the U.S. justice system, is not a "loophole," as Feinstein calls it. It's justice. [More]

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If right to keep and bear arms were treated like 'right to health care'

We impose no obligation on anyone, beyond shall not be infringed.

Gun rights advocacy is non-coercive, except to those who must be coerced into leaving free citizens alone. It should be remembered, though, that if such coercion is made necessary, it is unlikely to be gentle. [More]

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About Feinstein's hopes to ban 'bump fire' stocks

Friday, we talked about Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) wish to ban "bump fire" stocks. As she told the Associated Press:

Since the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban expired, we have seen a rapid rate of technological improvements in assault weapons, and that concerns me," Feinstein, a California Democrat, said in an email response to questions from The Associated Press.

"This replacement shoulder stock turns a semi-automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire at a rate of 400 to 800 rounds per minute," she said. Noting the strong existing federal regulation of machine guns, she added, "I strongly believe that devices allowing shooters to fire at similar rates should also be outlawed."

Well, just as 3-D printing and other fabrication techniques are rapidly making gun bans irrelevant (and doing the same thing even more quickly to magazine bans), a homemade bump fire stock is hardly an advanced engineering project:

YouTube, in fact, offers quiet a selection of videos about homemade bump fire stocks.

You lose, Senator. That's what the losers who wish to disarm the citizenry do. They lose, and therefore America wins.

Against citizen disarmament tyranny, resistance is far from futile

The government appears more and more to be preparing for war here at home, against the American people. That's a war that we the people can win, because to the dismay of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and to Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), there is still no "government monopoly on force." We shall overcome. [More]

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If 'assault weapon' ban fails, 'bump fire' stocks may be consolation prize

Nevertheless, when she announced her "assault weapon" ban bill, she promised to ban such stocks, as one of the "improvements" over her 1994 ban:

• Banning dangerous aftermarket modifications and workarounds.
  • Bump or slide fire stocks, which are modified stocks that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire at rates similar to fully automatic machine guns.

That language seems not to have survived in the actual text of Feinstein's S. 150, but that does not mean she has lost her passion to protect America from the plague of bump fire stocks (the next victim of "bump fire violence" will apparently be the first, but don't count on that making any difference to Feinstein), as illustrated in an Associated Press article yesterday . . . [More]

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Obama wants to ban 'weapons of war' for Americans, use them to kill Americans

Rep. Gowdy's best point, though, was reminding us that the unelected (and indeed unnamed) officials deciding which Americans are to be assassinated could very well be the very same paragons of moral virtue who authorized "Project Gunwalker."

Foreign soil, domestic soil--does it matter? If we can be "legally" killed while we travel, by our own government, on the basis of some faceless bureaucrat's suspicions (or his/her claim of such "suspicions") about "terrorist affiliations," are we supposed to be comforted when told that they cannot do it here (or that they have not--yet--claimed the "right" to do so)? Well, at least CSGV should be happy.

The Obama administration has again escalated its "cold war" against the American people. If American citizens are facing death by "weapons of war," those weapons will most likely be wielded by the U.S. government. Sounds like a good reason to expand the firepower available to private citizens. Speaking of which . . . [More]

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New St. Louis Police Chief dismisses right to keep and bear arms as a 'belief'

Meet the new boss; same as the old boss--except that even the old boss doesn't seem to have been so brazen as to openly dismiss the Second Amendment's protection of the individual's right to keep and bear arms as no more than a "belief."

Don't be fooled again, St. Louis. [More]

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Speaking of 'weapons of war' . . .

I guess it sorta makes a twisted kind of sense to call drone strikes on unconvicted, unindicted, and uncharged American citizens "legal, ethical, and wise," given the fact that we're told that law enforcement officers need the capability of "killing large numbers of people."

American hero becomes 'gun control's' latest exploitee

This means, of course, that people who genuinely do need mental health treatment, but who also do not want to be disarmed, will have a strong disincentive to seek that treatment--is that what we want?

Oh--there is of course one more reason the gun ban fanatics are celebrating Chief Petty Officer Kyle's murder: a great many of them despise American military heroes as much as they loathe gun rights advocates. [More]

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Fun with math and MAIG

"Mayors Against Illegal Guns" claims to have "over 800" members. Whether or not that number includes mayors who have quit when they found out what kind of fanatical, extremist organization they'd gotten hooked up with, mayors long dead whom MAIG claims have signed MAIG's petitions after their deaths, and mayors who never joined, but MAIG claims anyway, is left unanswered.

According to Wikipedia, there are about 30,000 incorporated cities in the U.S., and thus about 30,000 mayors. That means MAIG is claiming about 2.67% of U.S. mayors.

Meanwhile, at least 18 of MAIG's finest have been charged with (and some already convicted of) serious crimes, including assault, possessing child pornography, attempted child molestation, and ironically, breaking gun laws. That comes to about 2.25% of MAIG's membership.

In other words, the percentage of U.S. mayors participating in Bloomberg's forcible citizen disarmament jihad is only marginally higher than the percentage of MAIG members convicted of or charged with serious crimes.

And we're supposed to let them tell us what our rights are?

CSGV thinks that acknowledging purpose of Second Amendment is a 'gotcha moment'

Recently, has-been comedian Jim Carrey claimed that the lives of "assault rifle" buyers are not worth protecting. Horwitz might be tempted to claim that Carrey is just an infantile blowhard clamoring for attention (no argument here, so far), and not representative of the "gun control" agenda, but CSGV has revealed its own wish for the deaths of those who dare to speak of the true purpose of the Second Amendment.

They hate us, they want us dead, and they have allies within the government. They are themselves a good reason to be armed. [More]

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Senator Kirk wants to end gun trafficking to Chicago, unless BATFE does it

Interesting that Kirk would raise the issue of gun trafficking into Chicago as justification for yet another gun law. Interesting, because he seems not to have made so much as a peep about a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives scheme to deliberately "gunwalk" guns from Indiana to Chicago gangs.

This is hardly surprising behavior on Kirk's part. Kirk has been an enthusiastic backer of anti-gun extremist Andrew Traver as head of the BATFE (see photo above), and there are very real questions (still not answered) about the possibility of Traver's involvement in "Project Gunwalker." [More]

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