By the time you read this, the WhiteHouse.gov petition to make Obama, Biden, and their families safer by creating a gun-free zone around them will have earned the 25,000 signatures required to earn a response from an Official White House Policy Wonk. It’s just 320 shy as I write this Wednesday night. Good thing, too, because the WH has just announced that, henceforth, it’ll take 100,000 signatures in 30 days for a petition to be worth bothering with. Look, I know just as well as you do that all this petitioning is useless. Of course it is. Except for one…
Category: Guns and Gun Rights
Of course.
Everybody — everyblogger — is supposed to make some comment on Obama’s anti-gun announcement today. I’ve been thinking about it and here’s mine: I don’t care. It doesn’t matter whether he called for outright confication (he didn’t; not yet) or whether he actually wussed out under “conservative” pressure. (H/T D for the link even if I don’t buy its nice, hopeful content.) Yeah, it kinda ticks me off that the Washington Post, which surely knows better, calls some of Obama’s most facile propaganda (page two of this Post artitorial) a “Constitutional argument.” Constitutional argument my Aunt Fanny; Obama’s remarks about…
In 2009, her young husband was killed in an accident. After the shock of coping with the planning he and she had left undone, Chanel Reynolds started a website whose name the New York Times is too proper even to print. It’ll help you Get Your Shit Together. We have met the 1% and he is us. (H/T S) Some people have doubted that the White House can give an interesting answer to one of those WhiteHouse.gov petitions. Think again. (Via several people including S, who offers to build a Death Star for a mere $450,000,000,000,000,000.) Stealth wear anti-surveillance fashion.…
“Hunger Games ‘Lite’” = USA ca. 2013. And “I prefer not to.” This multi-part post by Todd at Survival Sherpa is an important read. That would be true even if it didn’t also plug Rats!, the FREE anti-snitch book. (Thank you for that, Todd. And thank you, D, for the find.) —– I attended a local preparedness fair over the weekend. It was, to say the least, sparsely attended. There was a smattering of people there when it opened. But by 1:00, when I returned to attend a presentation on preparedness for pets, the exhibitors had been reduced to browsing…
Via Joel: A WhiteHouse.gov petition to make the president and his family safer by establishing a gun-free zone around them. It’s close to reaching the 25,000-signature threshhold that’s supposed to guarantee a response from a “policy expert” chosen by WH staff. And it’s still getting hundreds of signatures even on this slow ‘Net day. That’ll be a response worth seeing …
With all the news about teachers rushing to accept invitations for free firearms training, I got to wondering how that might fit in with the tragically misnamed Gun-Free School Zones Act. Turns out school districts can allow guns if the boss-o-crats want to. But I realized something else interesting. The clause the feddies inserted to make this otherwise bogus law “constitutional” could also mean that those guns manufactured and carried in-state under all those new firearms freedom laws ought to be legal for school and near-school carry. And those instate guns ought to be exempt from whatever the Biden/Obama/Feinstein crowd…
Five facts on guns and violence. Inside the snakepit of ignorance that is Dianne Feinstein’s office. And DiFi’s gun policy. Three hundred cats. Not crazy. The thing that makes this article interesting is that it comes from Mother Jones and not Fox News. You go, Wyoming! Once again, a kingpin gets off lightly by snitching on his underlings. (H/T J.) Things that are more popular than Congress. 🙂
I am a woman of a certain age. I have silver hair. Wrinkles. I’m tired. I don’t like conflict. I have never been arrested nor committed an act of violence. I want to lead a peaceful life. I sincerely hope you get to live in peace, too. I am also a gun owner. Some of the guns I own are ones you want to take away or limit my ability to possess or use. You want to do this despite the fact that I’ve never used them for any aggressive purpose — and don’t want to. You want to do…
The part of me that still believes the civics lessons I learned in school wonders what Obama and cronies think they can accomplish with an executive order about firearms. Because of course, no EO restricting gun ownership or sales in any way would be constitutional. Not even remotely. The older, wiser, large part of me remembers that EOs have been used to tighten the noose around guns before. And, of course, used for even worse things. Ironically, our best hope is that they’ll go too far, too fast — and make the line in the sand very clear. Any thoughts…
Two from North Carolina: Vehemently anti-gun state senator (they have those even down south, apparently) shoots an intruder. How many times can these self-righteous hypocrites get away with this kind of thing before slinking away into the murk from which they’ve barely emerged? (H/T G for the link.) (NOTE: LarryA caught that this is actually an old story. But the follow-up (link in the comments) is quite interesting.) Gun center gets overwhelmed after it offers free training to teachers. —– Thanks to jed, I’ve added Bob Owens’ blog to the blogroll under Self-Defense Rights. That’s one powerful voice. I fear…