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By Stephen, on December 7th, 2011
As gun control has ceased to be a mainstream issue, gun control proponents have gotten more extreme to the point of becoming silly — not surprising for a movement who’s leadership has become people victimized by gunfire and know nothing about guns/the gun culture and don’t want to. And the fact that they just plain hate guns, hate them so much they don’t care if people die so long as no one can buy or carry a gun, becomes more clear. Here is an exchange on the Wisconsin Anti-Violent Effort Facebook page about a confrontation between a sword wielder and a (possible) CCW holder that ended peacefully, i.e. with no one getting hurt. And yet to anti-gunners it’s proof that horrible and violent people are getting their CCW’s.
Now … there are obviously some bizarre sides to this — brother’s fighting over cigarettes, etc. — but I’ve got to say that brandishing a firearm at someone brandishing a 5 foot long sword is not unreasonable. Whether or not you should be able to use deadly force against someone about to kill your dog just to be mean is more arguable, but jeez … he was going to kill the guy’s pet AND he had a deadly weapon. No shots were fired and I don’t think that brandishing a firearm is out of line.
If someone were threatening to kill my dog just because they were angry at me I would damned sure get in their way and they would have to go through me to get to her. If they brandished a deadly weapon they would be brandishing it at me, not the dog.
Yeah — great intelligent discourse.
And I don’t want to copy the picture, but follow this link to a cartoon I still don’t understand, but which may be proof of the whole concept that an armed society is a polite society. Basically it shows the MSM stereotype of a TEA partier holding a sign and a scary black rifle of some kind (a rifle by someone who doesn’t know/care what rifles look like), while a fat bellied police officer sprays a hippy-chick OWS protester with mace. The cop is saying “Well, you can’t expect me to pepper spray the Tea Party protesters — those people carry guns!”
Of course … there was never a need to pepper spray TEA party rallies, because they didn’t camp out overnight, got proper permits for their rallies, didn’t block traffic or “occupy” private property, respected police, etc. But apparently WAVE just hates guns so much they think this is proof that guns are bad? If you were truly such an idiot you believed that the TEA party and OWS were completely comparable and equally legitimate and one was getting pepper sprayed and the other left alone … wouldn’t that make a strong argument that the 2nd amendment really is an important protection to the 1st amendment?
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
By Stephen, on December 3rd, 2011
 Walls of the city has a pretty cool promotion going to raise money for the organization Soldier’s Angels. Read all the details at the link, but basically you either spend money on certain websites to send presents to soldiers or you donate money and you get tickets. When the promotion ends a whole lot of very cool prizes are given away, and most are gun related.
I’ll be getting a few tickets myself here in the next week or so. I hope you will as well.
By Stephen, on November 30th, 2011
The law banning firearms in post office lobbies and even post office parking lots is ridiculous. I often carry a firearm in my vehicle, and if I forget and park in the Post Office parking lot to get my business mail I’m a criminal. If my wife borrows my car (the gun is secured in a car safe which she normally doesn’t even have a key to) and drives through the parking lot to mail a letter she’s likewise automatically a law breaker.
The law/regulation is a legacy from anti-gun days and now only exists as part of a web of laws to snare law abiding gun owners and make gun ownership just that much more legally dangerous.
But now a normally liberal and sometimes anti-gun paper, the Denver Post, has actually taken a common sense stand — against a law which does nothing but endanger the futures and livelihoods of law abiding gun owners:
We don’t think that a post office — let alone an adjoining parking lot — qualifies under the court’s standard as a “sensitive place” where guns may be comprehensively banned. So we’re glad a federal judge in Denver has allowed a lawsuit to go forward challenging the U.S. Postal Service’s ban on guns.
Read the whole thing if you’re interested. It’s not really pro-gun, it’s just common sense. Real common sense.
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
By Stephen, on November 28th, 2011
 AR-15s at Wal Mart I was doing some late night shopping at a nearby Walmart in Littleton, Colorado, and what did I find? Several sporting type “black” semi-automatic rifles in the rifle rack. Nicely priced, too. I’ve seen plenty of .22LR semi-auto rifles at Wal Mart, but here are some .223 AR-15′s in both carbine and hunting configuration. One even has a normal capacity (30 round) magazine and telescoping stock — both nice features.
I plan on buying another rifle this summer, my daughter’s first (probably a Ruger 10-22) and Walmart will now be on my A-list of possible stores to purchase it from.
I don’t know if Walmart went through with its plan from a while back to video tape all gun purchases and etc., but I’m not as concerned about that as I am about making sure that semi-automatic modern rifles stay in the mainstream. And “mainstream” and “common use” (the latter a phrase referenced by the Heller Supreme Court case) means Walmart to most of America.
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
By Stephen, on November 10th, 2011
When I was a kid, youth took to the streets to protest war and civil rights issues. Now, they take to the street to protest that other people make more money than they do.
I understand their anger, because the ongoing recession is grating on us all, and it’s easy to give up and believe there will never be a recovery and that the whole system is irreparably failed. But the system has looked irreparably failed before and with a little time and faith we’ve not only recovered, but prospered. I’m just not sure why these kids are attacking the business people who have the capacity to bail us out rather than working to vote out the current administration that keeps us stuck in the mud.
An interesting fact … my family has long generations, and I’m basically the same age during the growing OWS protests as my own WWII Veteran father was during the Vietnam protests. And it’s helping me understand the outlook he had at the time — on the one hand he and his generation knew war and understood why the younger generation was against it and certainly the reasons for the war were questionable. But he didn’t understand what they thought they would accomplish by doing sit-ins and mob protests that turned violent on the fringes (just like we’re seeing now) and working outside the system rather than within it.
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
By Stephen, on November 2nd, 2011
I’d love just once to have a presidential candidate I can be proud of rather than a “lesser of two evils.” In my life I’ve voted in every Presidential election save one (traveled unexpectedly) but on few occasions was I voting for my candidate so much as against his opponent. I hope I don’t find myself in that situation again as I watch the Republican front runners stumble.
But … I have a few thoughts on the criticisms the top line Republican candidates are facing even IF they turn out to be true …
- I’d rather vote for a Herman Cain that’s pinched a couple of fannies than an Obama who’s pinched off oxygen to the American economy with extreme regulations and Western European type socialist policies.
- I’d rather vote for a Mitt Romney that flip flops to please the American public than an Obama who rolls over the American taxpayer for liberal causes (Solyndra, Cap and Trade, drilling embargo, etc.) that do nothing to make our lives better or our country stronger.
- I’d rather vote for a Rick Perry acting a little tipsy during a speech (watch the whole thing, not just the 8 minutes that his opponents stitched together, he actually looked fine) than a sober Obama.
- And I’d danged sure vote for a Rick Perry that gets results than an Obama who promises hope and change but drives our economy further into the ditch with Greek sized unsustainable debt.
In fact … while there are some headlining news stories that are less than favorable for just about all the Republican candidates … I’d vote for any of them over the incumbent. And while it would be another “lesser of two evils” votes it would be the one I felt strongest about.
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
By Stephen, on November 2nd, 2011
Earlier I was worried that we on the pro-gun side were going to lose a grassroots type online vote. Turns out to be a non-issue.
The first pro-HR822 (nationwide CCW) poll went down with less than the 5,000 votes in 30 days required for an administration response, but it did come fairly close.
The anti-HR822 poll, promoted by Mayor Ramsey of Philadelphia, skyrocketed quickly to 8,000 votes and seemed on track to hit the 25,000 votes currently required for an administration response, but died as quickly as it exploded. It has been stuck at less than 9,000 votes for some time with only 10 days left and little chance of making the grade.
There is a new pro-822 bill to vote on, and I hope you will, but unfortunately pro-gun/conservative types tend to be adverse to posting their contact information to a white house server (though I really don’t understand why).
So the whole poll thing is pretty much a joke. The administration will (supposedly) have to make some statements on some odd subjects that got enough votes, many having to do with legalizing pot, but with the new threshold for a response set to 25,000 votes in 30 days … it’s unlikely many polls will make the cut.
Meh.
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
By Stephen, on October 11th, 2011
I realize that some pro-gun and conservative types have a problem registering to vote on the White House’s Petition Site, not wanting to give the administration their email address and zip-code even though they already have our IRS history. But we’ve got to get over it, my friends! While I realize that winning a petition on this site will have no real effect, losing on an issue will bolster our opposition to claim they they actually have a grassroots following. Which they really don’t, so let’s prove it.
VOTE on these petitions, or see this anti-gun/anti-carry petition succeed where we’ve failed. It still has less votes than the pro-gun/pro-carry petition, but it’s gaining votes much faster. And again … I realize it’s not a big deal if it does succeed, but I really don’t want to see anti-gunners gloating about how they got a few more thousand people out of 300 million to choose their side than we got to choose our side. They never get to win these contests because they don’t have millions of supporters — or virtually any — so why are they getting more numbers in this case?
So here are petitions to vote on, and vote on TODAY. Several of these have a good chance of reaching the threshold that require an “official” administration response, so let’s force this administration to take a stance before the election, eh?
Petition to allow ownership of post 1987 automatic weapons.
(the above is mine, and at least it’s got a response from all 50 states and nearly 1,000 individuals)
Petition to end the stupid Federal laws banning silencers
(does being quieter make a gun more dangerous? Does being louder make it safer? To whom?)
This is our most popular petition, to support the bill for national CCW.
(Another common sense gun law that supports the positions of 40 shall-issue states)
This petition supports ownership of short barreled rifles and shotguns.
Thanks! Pass these links around to your friends and promote everywhere.
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
By Stephen, on October 4th, 2011
Future petitions at the White House petitions site must get 25,000 votes in 30 days to mandate an “official review” from the white house, but it looks like existing petitions still only have the original 5,000 vote threshold. So please … take a minute and vote on these petitions now as they aren’t yet garnering votes fast enough to force a response (though they are doing many, many times better than the anti-gun petitions I’ve seen). Let’s see if we can get the Obama administration to take a position on these common sense changes to gun law — because this is the kind of change I’ve been hoping for!
Petition to allow ownership of post 1987 automatic weapons.
(the above is mine, and at least it’s past the 150 vote threshold to be searchable)
Petition to end the stupid Federal laws banning silencers
(does being quieter make a gun more dangerous? Does being louder make it safer? To whom?)
This is our most popular petition, to support the bill for national CCW.
(Another common sense gun law that supports the positions of 40 shall-issue states)
This petition supports ownership of short barreled rifles and shotguns.
Thanks! Pass these links around to your friends and promote everywhere.
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
By Stephen, on September 29th, 2011
One truly common sense fact about guns is that being loud doesn’t make a gun safer any more than being silenced makes it more dangerous. The law forcing us to pay a punitive tax to own a simple device to make a gun less loud is ridiculous, and it’s time to petition the government to remove it. Which is exactly what Sean at A NC Gun Blog has done by putting a petition on the Obama White House website (he beat me to it — I was going to post such a petition today).
The petition is here if you want to go directly to it. And while you’re there …
Sign this petition to allow ownership of post 1987 automatic weapons.
And this one to support the bill for national CCW.
And this one to support ownership of short barreled rifles and shotguns.
Any of these issues that get over 5,000 votes have to get an official response from the administration. And I hope we can do it, because I’d love to see the current administrations views on these items.
Off Road
The best book ever written!
By me, anyway.
Set against the background of the American civil war of “progressives” vs. patriotic American traditionalists and a family caught in the middle, Off Road is a journey into the uniquely American world of God, guns, big trucks … and family.
More information here. Buy it at amazon.com in paperback or Kindle (only .99 for Kindle, which can also be read on a PC with a free reader). Or at Barnes and Noble in paperback or Nook (only .99 in Nook format). Or from the iBooks book store for Apple products. Or in any Ebook format, even .html or .pdf, for .99 from smashwords.com.
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