What Could Go Wrong?

Dredd in real life. Go Read It

Not a Part of The Solution

Mocking the idea that maybe there's a solution that we haven't thought of yet. Nice. Go Read It

Not Really a Surprise

It turns out that Police don't have a duty to protect anyone. Similar to a case back in 2005 where the Supreme Court said police didn't have to protect a woman from her abusive husband (even when there was a restraining order), a Judge has found that Broward County Sheriffs had no Constitutional duty to confront the shooter at Parkland. Keep that in mind when you turn your kiddos over to a public school with a resource officer. Just one more good example of how poorly Gun Free Zones work. Go Read It

Uncomfortably Close

We are getting way too close to background checks for everything becoming a reality. Unless you want to have to visit an FFL every time you give or inherit a firearm, you need to call and write your Representative to let them know how you think.

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Shedding Some Light on Fast and Furious

America's Misguided Children is telling of a positive move by the Judicial on the Executive.

A Federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committe against Attorney General Eric Holder may proceed.

'Bout time.
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Politicians Put On Notice

Recalled. Start passing ridiculous laws and it could some negative political outcome, just ask some lawmakers in Colorado.

The issue came to a head in Colorado after gun-rights activists accused Democrats of ramming through the gun control legislation in the aftermath of a series of shootings which included the killing of 12 people in a suburban Denver movie theatre last year.<br>Angered by the gun control push, gun rights advocates had sought the recall to send a message to current and future legislators that the bills had gone too far with efforts to curb firearm access. Opponents viewed the recall effort as a bullying tactic and not the proper way to handle a policy dispute.

It's a bullying tactic? I'm sorry, but when it comes to politics a recall is the best non-violent way to force politicians to listen to their constituency. Funny that it turns out the people with the guns chose the polite way to get their point across. Recalls can work both ways. Unfortunately when one elects to come down on the side of gun control they have chosen a highly emotional topic and should expect fierce opposition. They should know they will face tough opposition because the fighting spirit still exists in a large portion of Americans. I foresee more of this in the next few years.
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When Your Foreign Policy Isn't Working Out

Let's say that your grand idea to drop some bombs in Syria aren't being received well. What should you do? You should just go and bomb someone else. Pakistan is always up for a little thrill. But have your mouthpiece go around saying it could all come to and end soon.

“The program will end as we have eliminated most of the threat and continue to eliminate it,” Mr. Kerry said at the time in an interview broadcast on state-run television. “I think the president has a very real timeline, and we hope it’s going to be very, very soon.”

I'm Secretary of State and I think, I think, my boss might'a could, maybe, just possibly have a timeline to stop it in Pakistan and start it here at home. Ooops, wasn't supposed to say that last part. 

Madness.
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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.

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Things Are Looking Up?

I'm generally not one to trust the polls circulating, but this one stands with my own personally-observed anecdotal evidence.

...Pew finds that "a majority of Americans – 56% – say that federal courts fail to provide adequate limits on the telephone and internet data the government is collecting as part of its anti-terrorism efforts." And "an even larger percentage (70%) believes that the government uses this data for purposes other than investigating terrorism." Moreover, "63% think the government is also gathering information about the content of communications." That demonstrates a decisive rejection of the US government's three primary defenses of its secret programs...

Now if I can just start convincing some folks that being part III% is a good idea, too.

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Annoyed With Illinois

Will they ever get it right? I seriously doubt it.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn invoked his amendatory veto power to modify the state legislature’s high-profile concealed carry bill that was approved last month with a bipartisan consensus.

The really stupid stuff he's adding:

Signage: Under the bill, loaded guns would be allowed in stores, restaurants, churches, children’s entertainment venues, movie theaters and other private properties, unless the owner visibly displays a sign prohibiting guns. As a matter of property rights, the legal presumption should always be that a person is not allowed to carry a concealed, loaded gun onto private property unless given express permission.

Oh ho! A mandated opt-in for signage. Good one. And then there's this:

Number of Guns and Ammunition: The bill provides no cap on the number of guns, or on the size or number of ammunition clips that may be carried. Instead, it allows individuals to legally carry multiple guns with unlimited rounds of ammunition, which is a public safety hazard. In the interest of common sense and the common good, it should be clarified so that a license will permit an individual to carry one concealed gun and one ammunition clip that can hold no more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

That's right, one gun and one magazine. Clown.
Go read it over at guns.com.

I Have a Secret Room, Too

But mine doesn't have equipment to send information to the NSA. I have a phone and laptop to handle that for me.

Today’s revelations that the National Security Agency collected bulk data on the email traffic of millions of Americans provides startling evidence for the first time to support a whistleblower’s longstanding claims that AT&T was forwarding global internet traffic to the government from secret rooms inside its offices.

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This Pair Ain't Coming to Texas Either

Thank goodness. It wouldn't be pretty that's for sure. Probably would be another case of more pro-gun than anti-gun folks at any event here.

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and her husband, Mark Kelly, on Tuesday announced a nationwide tour to rally support for expanding background checks on gun purchases.
The weeklong "Rights and Responsibilities Tour" will begin on July 1 in Nevada, and include stops in Alaska, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio, according to USA Today.

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They Aren't Coming to Texas

Which makes me a little sad. But I'm glad they are moving. Dollar votes are the only thing that gets some people's attention.

It’s official. A Connecticut-based gun manufacturer announced its intention Monday to leave the state in response to the sweeping gun control legislation that the state General Assembly passed in April.PTR, a Bristol-based semi-automatic weapons manufacturer, started looking at a move south when the state made the sale of its guns illegal in Connecticut following the massacre of 26 people at an elementary school in Newtown.

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Huffington Post Says

That the Mississippi Open Carry Law is causing confusion. I say Huffpo is causing the confusion.

Confusion over Mississippi's concealed weapons carry laws prompted legislators to address the issue. The law was unclear about whether or not a person carrying a concealed weapon was in violation of the law if the weapon was accidentally exposed to view. House Bill 2 clarifies the issue, stating a gun can be partially exposed if it is in a proper holster, and can be carried openly without a permit.Some have argued that Mississippi was already an open carry gun state and that the law is causing confusion.

So really, the new law just brings open cary back up to top of mind for the residents of the state. No confusion there. 

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Go Read This Right Now

Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed widespread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.

This is how it would read on today's mainstream media sites. 

Pay No Attention to The Man Behind The Curtain

Don't fall in too much love with your suburban home because Barack Obama has his eye on it...and your money.

Krulig’s Agenda 21 Building One America group proposes the creation of a regional tax-base sharing revenues in which suburban tax money is directly redistributed to nearby cities and economically depressed concentric zones of inner-ring suburbs. Building One America also seeks to move the poor out of cities by imposing mandatory low-income housing quotas for middle-class suburban developments. 

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It's Just Sad

Organizing for Action held a gun control rally and three people came out. Now, I'm not pointing this one out because I want to ridicule them. (Well, maybe just a little.) I'm mentioning this because I think it shows a little bit of the gun control mindset.
The majority of people who show up after a tragedy are running on pure emotion. As time slips by, emotions fade and many of the supporters of gun control slip away. In this instance they were attempting to make it a patriotic thing by having a flag rally on Flag Day. Shame on them. They won't wrap themselves in the flag along with thousands at a pro-rights rally and fight to protect the rights they were born with. Those thousands that usually show up at pro-rights rallys are not there because of emotion. Most of those folks know there is something larger at stake.
So, if you hear of a gun control rally being held in your area go out and observe. Check out what they are doing and figure out what is going on in your community. Go read it.

Getting to The Point

Straight to it with no fooling around. The summation, for those with short attention spans, of why folks should reconsider their support of the president. Frankly it the list sounds like something from Chicago politics. Wait...oh yeah, that's right.
It's a shame, really.

U-Turn! Or Maybe Just Kinda Veering Off a Little

Hey Bub, we goofed. We know we're supposed to do things a certain way, but if we do it like that people will get wise and won't let us continue to do it the way we want. So, we'll keep doing it like this (which is to say, poorly) and just back a few things up, but only a little. Connecticut just can't get it right.

In response to the December murders of 20 school children and six educators at a Newtown elementary school, the legislature passed a bill in early April containing a number of new gun control restrictions. The bill was drafted by lawmakers from both parties through a special committee process which took place outside the traditional legislative process.

Critics of the law have filed lawsuits seeking to have it declared unconstitutional. Some opponents have alleged that portions of the new law are too vague for residents, gun shop owners, and firearms manufacturers to apply.

When will people--read that "the voting public"--learn? Go read it.

Don't Sign Mr. President

We're in trouble if the UN Arms Trade Treaty goes through. Two-thirds of those voting in the Senate is possible if some Republicans aren't in school the day the vote is arranged. Apparently the president plans to sign (though the Senate has passed legislation negating it already) on Monday, Jun 3.
A few people in the comments on the story were pointing to the harmlessness of the treaty concerning the effect within the borders of the U.S. To them I said, "Yes, some of us have read the treaty. It does not technically "clash with the Second Amendment." The most concerning things are between the lines.
Where do your Glocks, Springfield XD's, some Taurus's, Rock Island, most AKs, Mosin Nagants, etc., etc. originate? Correct, from outside this country. If the U.S. Government can go after/try to financially ruin Gibson Guitars for importing a relatively small amount of wood used in their production based on a treaty signed by a nation outside this country what do you think is going to happen with this treaty in effect? How many firearms importers wil be financially roughed-up or even bankrupted by this administration as they take advantage of the treaty?"
No matter how harmless Snopes or anyone else may try to make it sound it's a taking a step down a road that we don't want to travel. All legislation is to be considered an incremental step toward some larger goal, whether by direct route or flanking maneuver. Wake up, it's not all rainbows and sunshine.
No matter how harmless Snopes or anyone else may try to make it sound it's a taking a step down a road that we don't want to travel. All legislation is to be considered an incremental step toward some larger goal, whether by direct route or flanking maneuver. Wake up, it's not all rainbows and sunshine.
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