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Alan Korwin on the Manchin-Toomey betrayal

Published April 16, 2013 8:33 am by Claire

Alan Korwin is something I’m very much not: an expert on gun laws and someone who actually reads the wretched bills (an act I consider akin to diving into Charles Schumer’s septic tank, but somebody has to do it).

He just sent around his take on Manchin-Toomey & I think it’s a strong analysis. That, and a link to the latest text (which I’m actually attempting to read despite not having a hazmat suit or a gas mask), after the “more” link.

Everything that follows is from Alan, not me. The short version is: Yes, as you already knew, this is national gun registration and yes, Gottlieb’s “trinkets” and “sweeteners” don’t make up for the fact that you DO NOT surrender a right in order to gain illusory, revocable, government-granted privileges.

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I think the traitors are going to be hoist on their own petard

Published April 16, 2013 7:00 am by Claire

Brilliant piece from David Codrea, a man who has the special genius of being both reasonable and hardcore-passionate at the same time. That said, my right to buy and sell my property to whomever I damn well please is not his to bargain with. I do not authorize CCRKBA to negotiate deals on my behalf for that, and don’t recognize any such bargains agreed to. If the rejoinder to that is “they” might pass something “worse,” let them try. I’ll fight them every step of the way (and if just a tenth of gun owners took that position we would…

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Gottlieb the traitor

Published April 14, 2013 7:12 pm by Claire

He’s always been … well, I’d rather not say the words. Earlier this year he was willing to sell out Washington state gun owners. He failed at that. But he’s just backed the sell-out Manchin-Toomey bill. Oh yeah, look at all the “benefits” it’s going to give gun owners. It’s like putting warm “showers” in the concentration camps. I am absolutely frosted and flabbergasted by political activists and lobbyists who don’t understand how government really works. ADDED: ‘Nother loving appreciation of Gottlieb from Rivrdog. And more. It appears Gottlieb’s not only misrepresenting both current and proposed law, but may have…

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Random observations on mood and its meaning; and of course, guns

Published April 11, 2013 9:24 pm by Claire

On guns and “mental illness” You know I don’t usually get into conspiracy theories, but some connections are just too convenient. First, you build a medical/pharmaceutical industry that successfully pushes the notion that every little sorrow, nervous twitch, or bit of restlessness is a “disease” that needs to be treated with psychoactive drugs. Then you go on a holy crusade to take guns away from the “mentally ill” (and all the bobbleheads who haven’t thought about the implications repeat “good idea, good idea, good idea”). So with the consent of the ignorant, complacent, well-programmed, and the devious slimeballs who take…

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Wednesday links

Published April 10, 2013 2:14 am by Claire

The “scariest search engine on the Internet” could be ripe for some mayhem in the right wrong hands. Borepatch has more. Hey, if our children really belong to the state, or the “community” or whatever, doesn’t that mean everybody else ought to have to buy them their expensive sneakers and put up with them when they’re having a case of the raging hormones? Just — boom! — hand ’em off to some random bureaucrat or neighbor for a while whenever they get a little out of hand. “Whaddaya mean, you won’t take Maddie Mae and Jacob? They’re your kids as…

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Monday miscellany and random thoughts

Published April 8, 2013 2:09 am by Claire

Strange bedfellows. But I’d be willing to commit a whole lot of unnatural acts with the ACLU as long as they’re on our side on guns and databases. Great idea for great activists. And great use of the power of social media. Sure, the thugs could rip the bracelet off, but surely this would give them pause. Maybe you have to know the people and place involved, but I think this video from Joel and Friends is a screaming hoot. Let’s just say you had one of these. But in semi-auto. With quite a few extras. (Here’s a more thorough…

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Can the U.N. Ban America’s Guns?

Published April 5, 2013 7:31 am by Claire

You probably know that, after 12 years of planning and two conferences that ended in chaos, the United Nations finally managed to pass an anti-gun treaty on Tuesday. BHM asked me a couple of months ago to track this monstrosity and write an article about the treaty and its implications. Here it is as a website exclusive. Bottom line for those who’ve been worried about it: As always, be fierce, be prepared, but don’t panic.

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Emergency management and the rest of us

Published April 2, 2013 2:38 am by Claire

Was growling over last week’s semi-useless disaster preparedness talk and pondering the wisdom of some of your comments. Then I came upon this: John Longenecker’s thoughts on why emergency management (EM) “experts” are having such a hard time getting through to the rest of us. (Tip o hat to the Dutchman over on Sipsey Street.) Longenecker says (in short) that the fact that millions are buying guns shows we’re more than willing to take responsibility and prepare for danger. We’re just not buying the elitist, top-down, “do it to us” (as opposed to “do it with us”) approach to disaster…

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