April Fool's Day

I keep hoping I'll wake up and the last seven years will have been one big April Fool's joke played on me by God. No such luck. Time to suck it up and soldier on.

Trash

An Alabama newspaper editorial calls for a renewed assault weapons ban using as their reason the recent mass killings in Alabama and North Carolina. They don't explain how an assault weapons ban would have made any difference in the North Carolina incident since by all accounts a bolt action rifle and shotgun were used. Neither covered by the 1994 AWB even using the Brady Campaign's broad definition of assault weapons. That's actually a minor matter. The real problem with this editorial is the scumbag writer trying to push a political agenda over the deaths of innocents.

H/T to Uncle

"If you can't drive...

...give me the fucking wheel"




From Michael Ramirez

Heh! Heh!

From John Cox

More on Mexico

Over at the National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea quotes David Ogden, Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice. This came from testimony made on March 25, 2009.

According to ATF’s Tracing Center, 90 percent of the firearms about which ATF receives information are traceable to the United States.

Today I read this over at Sipsey Street Irregulars. Go read both then do the math and see if two plus two equals four. I believe Ogden is being truthful. Ninety percent of the Mexican guns traced by the ATF do come from the United States. Only they're not coming through gun shops or gun shows. They're weapons sold to the Mexican government with the permission of the the United States government that then found their way into the hands of the cartels. David is right. Officials within the United States Government are telling half-truths with the intent of depriving us of our rights. He calls it...

outright conspiratorial fraud

I agree. So what are we going to do about it?

And where the hell...

...has MSNBC been since November 4th?

I read a story on MSNBC on the increase in gun sales since Obama was elected. My first thought was "...and where the hell have you been?" It's not like it's news anymore and they have reported on the phenomena multiple times already. So why another story? The same reason as the others. Fear mongering pure and simple. Just like the guns into Mexcio = drug violence here and there meme. That's what I've come to expect from MSNBC.

7 Residents, 1 Nurse Die in Nursing Home Shooting

In Carthage North Carolina...

A lone gunman burst into a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning and started "shooting everything," barging into the rooms of terrified patients, sparing some from his rampage without explanation while killing seven residents and a nurse caring for them.

Authorities said Robert Stewart also wounded three others, including the Carthage police officer who confronted him in a hallway of Pinelake Health and Rehab and stopped the brutal attack.

The shooter is in custody and charged with eights counts of first degree murder. the weapon used was a deer rifle. My condolences to the families of the slain.

Enough again

So it's not legislation, yet, its an international treaty. My reservations remain the same. I see no reason to keep the contents secret unless the writers are afraid of a negative reaction. It's not as if anyone in the House or Senate give a crap what the voters think on these matters. They'll vote the way their major donors tell them to.

Massachusetts court shoots down gun storage law

Over at The Volokh Conspiracy there's a piece on the Massachusetts gun storage law. A local trial court found it to be unconstitutional.

The locking mechanisms [required by the statute] are the functional equivalent of those enumerated in the D.C. statute struck down in Heller.

In Heller, the Court held that the Second Amendment not only protects an individual's right to possess firearms but that the right requires that the firearms be available for "the purpose of immediate self-defense." The Massachusetts statute mandating lock boxes or similar devices would frustrate an owner's ability to immediately access an operable weapon.

Although the statute exempts firearms that are "carried" or "under the control of the owner" from the requirement that they be locked, the statute applies to the lawful owner of a firearm even when he is at home. People can be subject to prosecution whether they are home or not. The term "under the control of the owner" is a question of fact and subject to interpretation. Any ambiguity in the statute as applied to a person lawfully keeping a firearm in the home must be resolved in favor of the holder of the right. Legislation requiring an owner to store firearms in a place inaccessible to children or unauthorized persons would satisfy the Supreme Court's holding in Heller and protect the safety of others.

In light of the foregoing, the Court finds that, based on the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, G.L.c. 140, sec. 131L is unconstitutional.

I know that in reality what happens in a local Massachusetts trial court means jack in the North Carolina courts, but maybe the argument would hold in regard to the proposed Rapist Protection Acts part one and part deux. Just a thought.

NC: SB 987 Rapist Protection Act, Part Deux

From GRNC

Apparently in some cultures - namely the NC Senate - if you have a really bad idea then you try it twice... at the same time. At least that seems to be Sen. Malcolm Graham's thinking in introducing SB 987, SB 664's nearly identical twin. The second edition of the Rapist Protection Act is pretty much the same as SB 664 with the exception that it also would require signs in gun stores to threaten potential gun buyers about this measure.

Like SB 664, SB 987, the Rapist Protection Act Volume II, is the reincarnation of the Rapist Protection Act which anti-gunners attempted to enact back in 2001. The bill at that time came from the House in the guise of HB 320. Research has shown that mandatory storage laws lead to increases in rapes, murders and aggravated assaults. This is due to an increased sense of safety "on the job" experienced by the criminal
element. Who do you wish to feel safer in your home, you or uninvited violent criminals?

Call or write your State representatives and ask them to vote against this bill.

Vote Freedom

The Al Gore sycophants are urging us to Vote Earth and turn off our power tonight between 08:30 pm and 09:30 pm. It about the Earth and Global Warming baby. Myself I tend to side with the Cajun.

Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm, local time. I’m thinking about lighting the place up and checking load balance on my house distribution panel with all the burners on the stove lit, the central heat on, and maybe just idling the car in the drive.

Hippy a**holes!

These environmentalist wackos aren't going to be happy until every liberty we have is ground under the heel of saving the earth. The environmental movement has been high jacked by Marxists. They can't win with a direct assault on Capitalism so they try to flank us with this global warming bullshit. So I'm going to crank up everything I can tonight and vote for freedom and against these one world, Marxist-Leninist fucktards.

Apocalyptic Solar Flares?

The Cajun looks at what might happen if we had a massive solar flare sufficient to shut down the electric grid. Would it be Dies the Fire or Lucifer's Hammer?


Apocalyptic Solar Flares?

Enough already.

So the Obama Administration, under the guise of national security, is pushing legislation that will allow the Fed to search your computers or players for copyright violations without a search warrant. It's already obvious that no Republican or Democrat considers the Constitution a bar to any activity in their campaign contributor's best interests. Best interests would be defined as anything that helps their contributors get the changes in the law they want. In regard to copyright, Hollywood, the music industry, and software companies, ie, Microsoft and Apple, get whatever changes in copyright law they want and damn the Constitution and our rights. Money talks and always has. I understand this. I don't agree with the theft of movies, music, and software but with the legislative shenanigans they continue to pull I find myself caring less and less. In their search for copyright violations their property rights shouldn't trump basic concepts like probable cause or the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments to the Constitution, and if you think they'll stop at copyright violations you are living in a dream world. Enough already.

Tea Parties

Jihadi goes boom and takes his buddies with him.

This ain't the funniest thing I read today. That would be this letter over at Big Dick's Place. But it comes in a close second.

Via Jules

UPDATE: Link repaired.
UPDATE: Here's a link to a transcribed version of the letter. Reading the jpg at Dick's Place is a bear.