That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This column has observed in the past that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once noted that "a right delayed is a right denied." In no context can that statement be more true than that of the right to effective self-defense.
A "delay" of that right, after all, if it happens to extend past the unpredictable time when it is most urgently needed, is forever.. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The legislation referred to above, that would repeal the "disarm every veteran who can't balance a checkbook without help" law has still not passed, more than four years after that article was written, and "gun control" zealots still brand anyone who tries to overturn that law as monsters in favor of veterans killing themselves and/or others.
But wait a second--if any entity can be described as "unable to manage its financial affairs," the Detroit government would have to be high on the list, would it not? And yet not only has that very same government taken it upon itself to comment on self-defense in Florida, it also commands a large police force, with thousands of guns, most of them fed from dreaded "high capacity" magazines. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The problem--the contemptible, lower-than-snake-excrement shamelessness that this column hopes to illustrate--is the fact that these officials are openly, publicly admitting that in the interests of political self-preservation, they are willing to take action that they evidently believe violates their oath to uphold the Constitution--the most solemn, sacred obligation of any public servant.
Does the fact that they're utterly wrong about the supposed unconstitutionality of HB 436 mitigate their crime? That depends on one's point of view. Is "attempted oath-breaking" less heinous than success at that crime? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.If the group were truly against "illegal guns," this column would have some good news for them--there is a simple way to reduce the number of such guns to zero. All that would be necessary is to repeal every gun law. No gun laws, no "illegal guns."
The even better news is that this approach aligns perfectly with the Second Amendment's shall not be infringed. If, in fact, countering "illegal guns" were their real intent, they would be hard pressed to choose a better rallying cry. "Shall not be infringed"--now those sound like the words of a "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" that Americans could get behind. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.More fundamentally, though, if Rep. Lowey chooses to advocate empowering the government to designate political "enemies" as "suspected terrorists," to be disarmed and thus rendered defenseless, she had better expect some push-back. The entire purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the right to arms of even people the government dislikes--especially those people, because they are the ones most likely to need arms. If she attempts to defeat that purpose, she will be resisted--by whatever means necessary.
Mr. Dennis, Rep. Lowey, you have your explanation. That is all you will be getting from this column. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The termination of Defense Distributed's account sounds less and less like a banking decision, and more and more like a political one (but a political one, nonetheless, with plenty of cash incentive involved), all the time. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Granted, much of the harassment of Defense Distributed, including this latest interference, cannot be provably laid directly at the feet of the government. Then again, a government official who has wielded great power in both the Clinton and Obama administrations has urged banks to attack more traditional gun manufacturers in exactly this fashion.
In the end, perhaps it matters little whether or not the corporate attacks on Defense Distributed were directly orchestrated by the government. This administration is a corporatist government, and both the administration and the corporations in bed with it benefit from a meek and servile citizenry--something Defense Distributed threatens to deny them. Ironically, they'll pass their suppression off as "social responsibility," and will do so without challenge. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Going back a little further in history, "gun control" was in the killing fields of Cambodia. It helped fill the mass graves of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. It played a starring role in every genocide of the 20th century.
"Where is 'gun control,'" Sanghoee? Now you know. Pack your bags, and don't forget to write. On second thought, just pack your bags. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.We are often told that the terrorists "hate us for our freedoms." One might argue, though, that if that is what defines a terrorist, perhaps it is people like Rep. Lowey who should be taken down by Seal Team Six. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Perhaps this should not be so surprising. We know, after all, that the history of American "gun control" is rooted in oppression of certain demographic groups, with Constitutional scholar (and no avid gun rights supporter) Adam Winkler observing that the "KKK began as a 'gun-control' organization."
So, no--in the end, de León's advocacy of bigotry-based discriminatory gun policies is not in itself particularly surprising. The surprise is his cheerful willingness to admit it. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.3-d printed guns (oddly, Waxman has not yet signed onto the bill to try to ban those), "build parties," and "80% complete" receivers, widespread access to sophisticated CNC equipment--the government cannot block all of those avenues by which we the people can break any "government monopoly on force," and is indeed unlikely to succeed in blocking any of them.
That terrifies the likes of Rep. Waxman, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)--and that alone makes it a good thing for America. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.That's what this is about--a war of annihilation against an entire generation of the gun culture, which is being conveniently conflated with the "culture of violence." If, over the span of a generation or two, the kind of American who takes upon himself the responsibility for his security and liberty is driven to extinction, that plays perfectly into the hands of those for whom total forcible citizen disarmament of the entire citizenry is not the endgame, but only the beginning.
The beginning of what? Something that cannot be defeated by adults trained from birth to meekly accept abject servility to the government, and to never resist. Again, When toy guns are outlawed, only outlaws' kids will be worth a damn in a fight against tyranny. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Stand Your Ground did not kill Trayvon Martin, and neither did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, that bearing arms is an individual right protected by the Second Amendment, just as keeping them is. On the other hand, concealed carry might have saved George Zimmerman's life.
And "gun control" pushers can't stand that. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that "a right delayed is a right denied." When the right under discussion is the right of self-defense, that delay--that denial--can be a death sentence. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Illinois gun policies took an enormous step forward yesterday--but it's not nearly enough. Never stop fighting, never stop advancing. Leave. Them. Nothing. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Besides, none of the forcible citizen disarmament advocates object to the police being armed with so-called "assault weapons" (although in that context, they might call them "patrol rifles," or "personal defense weapons"), which we are told are "weapons of war, that belong on the battlefield, not on our streets," and are thus not suitable for civilian ownership. Does that not make the police who are issued them soldiers?
In the end, whether the courts buy the Third Amendment argument or not, it is past time for all 50 states to follow Indiana's example, and make that kind of unforgivable thuggery lethally dangerous to the perpetrators (as it is to the victims). [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.On both sides of the Mississippi, the governors seem to have forgotten the difference between governors and emperors. It's time they were reminded. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.For a person to be judged by the color of his skin, rather than the content of his character, is always unforgivable. One could argue that when such judgment is backed up by the overwhelming coercive power of government, it is even more unforgivable than the same execrable conduct on the part of a private citizen.
Bloomberg, though, will never face life in prison for it, despite all the unarmed black and Hispanic men gun downed by the NYPD, following procedures he approves of. That's a damned shame. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.An armed citizen is not only a free and secure citizen--he is one who does not depend on the government to keep him free and secure. That's what "progressives" cannot tolerate. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.If the override votes in both chambers come anywhere close to the numbers of the overwhelming bipartisan majority that passed H.R. 183, the veto will be overridden easily, which seems to be what most observers are expecting. Failing that, the bill needs to be killed outright, allowing unregulated carry. The worst possible outcome of all would be simple majority acceptance of Quinn's latest attempt to protect the "criminals' monopoly on force." [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.That this policy effectively classifies all young black and Hispanic males as suspects, on the grounds of nothing but race, clearly troubles Bloomberg not at all. And this man is probably the most powerful force in American "gun control" today. Some things never change. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.More fundamentally even than that, though, is that even if it were true that only the government's hired guns had access to armor, the entire purpose of the Second Amendment would be defeated by laws that made effective resistance against them impossible.
If oath-breaking cops choose to enforce tyrannical evil, "cop killer" bullets are just what we the people will need. [More]
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