Packing My Stuff for Battle Road Shotgun

About to put all my junk in the car for a Fighting Shotgun Class at Battle Road USA. Temps promise to be over 100 degrees (looks like it might make it to 103) and it's a two-and-a-half hour drive down I-35. Hot and a long way away, but the knowledge will be worth it.
Time to hit the road.

What a Surprise [Sarcasm Off]

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy has just released a study of the relative effects of stringent gun laws. They found that a country like Luxenbourg, which bans all guns has a murder rate that is 9 times higher than Germany, where there are 30,000 guns per 100,000 people. They also cited a study by the U.S.National Academy of Sciences, which studied 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and it failed to find one gun controlinitiative that worked.

Go read it at Examiner.com.

Unintended Consequences

The editors at the Florida Journal News who published a map of gun owners in a couple of counties in Florida were fired from the newspaper. The firing may not have been directly related to publication of the map, but the article sums up the law of unintended consequences quite nicely.

Layoffs took place company-wide for the Journal News parent Gannett. There is no indication the gun map played a role in the layoffs, however the controversy may have had an effect on the Journal News’ bottom line as multitudes of subscribers bailed on the daily paper.

Go read it.

Chemical Deterrent

Why, oh, why do I keep hearing people recommend using wasp spray for self-defense? Sheesh. If you are interested in defending yourself--and aren't interested in carrying a firearm--please use something that is labeled as such, i.e. pepper spray. You know that some criminal is going to sue you because they have some sort of "neurological damage" after you hit them with bug killer. Don't. Just don't.

Signing Up!

For a Fighting Shotgun class, that is. Anyone have suggestions for equipment? I'm taking a plain-vanilla 500 with me as of this point.

Transnationlism [hark, ptooey]

This is something that people have been worried about for a long time, the U.S. losing its sovereignty to an international bunch of bureaucrats. Shifra over at TammyBruce.com sorts it out quite nicely. 

And during Obama’s push for gun control, there was talk of the United Nations taking control of guns in the U.S. “What in the world,” I thought, “does the U.N. have to do with our Second Amendment rights?”
Then, two weeks ago, I came across a Wall Street Journal interview with former Senator Jon Kyl, entitled “American Sovereignty and Its Enemies.”
And suddenly, “The Big Picture” became all too horrifyingly clear.
Because all of these news items were, in fact, very connected, by a term called “transnationalism.”

Transnationalism, it turns out, is just a fancy, non-conspiracy theorist sounding term for a "New World Order." Imagine that.

Go read it.

Helped A Friend Recently

He made a video about it.

Cheap fixes are the best.