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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, July 31, 2014

JPFO Alert: Anti-gun Writer Fears New Army Sidearm Will Cause More "Gun Violence"

Today's JPFO Alert explores the ridiculous "reasoning" behind fears that a new military sidearm will cause more civilian "gun violence."

If the military stumbles upon new technology to make firearms more effective, we the people are owed access to that technology, and we must take it, by whatever means necessary.

And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, Claire, and Mama Liberty, you owe it to yourself to fix that.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Don't read if blood pressure is a concern . . .

Mississippi Rebel notes that although the Border Patrol (oops--my mistake) the federal government is apparently disinclined to do anything about the endless waves of criminal invaders washing over our southern border, at least they're willing to use deadly force to defend our Alaskan border against Iowa Boy Scouts with cameras. How courageous and valiant of them.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Dems* want gun bans for 'suspected terrorists,' no standard of evidence for list

A Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual, and these people demand the power to take it away without a conviction, without an indictment, without an arrest or formal charges, and now without "concrete facts" or "irrefutable evidence." They seem more than a little confused as to who the "terrorists" here are--perhaps a mirror would help. [More]

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

JPFO Alert: Media Matters Twists Reality to Monger Fear of .50 Caliber Rifles

Today's JPFO Alert notes more large-caliber lies from Media Matters.

Johnson should probably be more careful about whom he chooses to accuse of lying, but I have no real objection to him describing .50 caliber rifles as "weapons of war." My preferred term, though, would be "every other terrible implement of the soldier," which is no argument against the fundamental truth that they should "ever remain, in the hands of the people."

And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, Claire, and Mama Liberty, you owe it to yourself to fix that.

Missouri legislature a bit unclear on meaning of 'unalienable'

Even so, that the right to keep and bear arms is "unalienable" has nothing to do with any vote on the matter, particularly when the measure being voted on also ensures that the state retains the power to make that right "alienable" for certain people. [More]

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Missourians will vote on whether right to keep and bear arms is 'unalieanable'

All of this, of course, comes to naught if Missourians vote the measure down, which would provide a reminder of the dangers of holding fundamental human rights hostage to the popularity contest of an election. Still, a similar measure won voters' approval by overwhelming margins in Louisiana last fall. Hopefully, Missouri voters will choose as wisely. [More]

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Monday, July 21, 2014

Pratt's position on 2nd Amd and politicians' fear is only morally defensible one

Gun rights advocates, in our abhorrence for unnecessary violence, fervently hope power hungry officials' fear of the armed citizenry makes that violence unnecessary. Why do those who claim to be motivated by a desire to end "gun violence" wish for deterrence to fail, and for violence to thus become the only alternative to abject submission to tyranny? [More]

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

JPFO Alert: Bloomberg's Self-Defense Catch-22 is an Old Trick in "Gun Control" Playbook

Today's JPFO Alert notes that Bloomberg's latest anti-self-defense ranting might be a new low, but it's also an old gambit.

Not a bad strategy, really--push laws to try to make guns as useless as possible, then justify further infringements by arguing that guns are already so useless that the new restrictions don't really affect us much. Just one more reason we must fight them at every step.

And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, Claire, and Mama Liberty, you owe it to yourself to fix that.

Monday, July 14, 2014

ATF's notional resource shortfall raises new questions about 'Project Gunwalker'

Well, in fairness, the only "investigation" they had in mind for the "gunwalked" guns was not particularly resource intensive--noting where the crime scenes and dead bodies were. Still, for those of us who cannot be quite convinced that senior Justice Department officials were really stupid enough to apply the "Underpants Gnomes'" business strategy to their own efforts to curb international gun trafficking, and must therefore have had some other motive, the fact that they supposedly lacked the resources to investigate problematic gun sales that were already happening makes the official explanation of Operation Fast and Furious just that much less convincing. [More]

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Friday, July 11, 2014

Are gun owners so naïve as to buy Christie's recent 'pro-gun' conversion?

Christie is clearly banking on the hope that gun owners are dumb enough to be fooled by his nominally "pro-gun" actions of late, and it appears, inexplicably, that his bet might actually pay off. If gun owners allow him to win the Republican presidential primary, they will get what they deserve. Unforgivably, though, the rest of us will get what they deserve, as well. [More]

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Ikea's 'weapon free' backtracking for 'Only Ones' makes things worse, not better

This correspondent would argue, on the other hand, that Ikea's willingness to be consistent, and apply its "disarmed victim zone" rules to everyone, even those bedecked in the trappings of government authority, is the one thing they got right. Well, except for the fact that it didn't last [More]

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Wednesday, July 09, 2014

JPFO Alert: Self-defense, or Defense Against Tyranny--Does it Really Matter?

Today's JPFO Alert argues that in some ways, it hardly matters whether the Second Amendment was intended solely a the final bulwark against government tyranny, rather than also protecting the people's means to self-defense against common criminals. The difference, after all, between a rights-violating government, and freelance dirtbags, is merely one of scale.

We are the militia, necessary to the security of a free state. Any violence against us, even individually, rather than against the people in general, and by freelance criminals, rather than agents of the government, is therefore nonetheless an attack on that which is necessary to secure our free state. We thus have not only the right, but the patriotic duty to defend ourselves against such violence. Anyone who attempts to undermine that right and duty has allied himself with brutal thugs, in and out of government, and has declared himself an enemy of the American people.

And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, Claire, and Mama Liberty, you owe it to yourself to fix that.

Functional printed semi-auto pistol shoots new nail into 'gun control's' coffin

3-D printing of firearms is still in its infancy, but it's a precocious infant, and growing fast. And the gun ban zealots are increasingly coming to believe that "It's Alive." [More]

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Wednesday, July 02, 2014

JPFO Alert: Trampling 2nd Amendment Not Enough for Gun Ban Zealots

Today's JPFO Alert notes that the First Amendment is becoming almost as much a target for the gun ban zealots as the Second has always been.

And then remember that the Obama administration has asserted (and indeed exercised) the "right" to use armed drones to assassinate suspected "terrorists," without regard to their American citizenship. And people like Franchi accuse us of using "violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes"?

And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, and Claire, you owe it to yourself to fix that.