Straight Case

Analysis: Joplin, MO as a mini-Armageddon

I've seen two of these analyses now, and this one, by Brownell's (the mega gun-parts place) is the best. Go read it.

OK, I'll save you the trouble of reading it again...you're right, it DOES NOT MENTION firearms as Emergency Equipment, either to have on hand (Shelter in place) or to take with you (Bug Out Bag).

There are two ways to look at this omission:

1. The writer believes we are smart enought to add guns in ourselves, and since mention of them is controversial, to say the least, in a major declared Emergency, he thought it better left unsaid.
2. The writer somehow feels that there won't ever be a need for self-defense during a major Emergency.

On the first hand, since the title of the author's ongoing series is "Frank talk about Guns", I think that he should have "talked frankly", and NOT left it up to our imaginations to fill in the blanks.

On the second hand, if he really feels this way (no need to consider self-defense), the writer is an air-head who should never have written ANY article on surviving Armageddon.

Frank Brownell, you owe us an addendum to this article. In that addendum, you need to tell us who advised you to NOT mention firearms and their place in any Emergency scenario. If it was yourself, tell us that. We don't need another Bill Ruger in our midst, and if you are of his persuasion (selling guns, but not selling the Second Amendment) we need to know that. If it was someone else, and YOU control that person's job, fire their un-Constitutional butt NOW. If you don't control their job, at least "out" them so we can be advised, should their garbage hit the web again.

Mr. Brownell, the Second Amendment IS controversial, and none of us can afford to shy away from that controversy. If we do, each time we do, it opens a little crack in our defense of our civil right to keep and bear arms.

Let's hear from you, Mr. Brownell: as much as you might want to think it, you're NOT above the fray.

Anti-gunners getting personal?

...according to Joe, who should know. He once lost a job because of his pro-gun stance. See also this post on Snowflakes in Hell.

My take on it? I've actually used my real name on my Rivrdog blog a couple of times, and I refer to my home town over there all the time, so I won't consider it much of a threat if anyone actually READS those old blogs and puts two and two together with the aid of the snoopy Google.

What I WILL and DO consider a threat is actual trespassers. They should be advised that they WILL be physically arrested, with force appropriate to their compliance to arrest, and booked into jail (at the option of the local PD, they might get a cite-in-lieu if they've turned nice by the time the squad car shows up). Trespassers' recording devices, if any, will be seized (I don't need a warrant, I am a private person on his own property), searched for evidence of illegal recording of private activity (illegal in OR without permission). If such evidence is found, additional charges will be added as appropriate.

If my interrogation of the trespasser(s) (again, I can do it, I'm a private person on his own property, having just made a lawful arrest and detention) demonstrates that an organization sent the trespasser(s) to my property to harass me, then I will engage counsel and sue that organization using the Federal RICO statutes. Having been the target of such types of suits myself when I was an active cop, I know how THAT game is played. Treble Punitive Damages is a powerful tool. That's a threat to CSGV's very existence, and they should think twice before sending anyone here.

To the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence I say this: come here (you know where I live) and do your worst. If your worst crosses the line, you will pay the price. Period.

I'm not going to lose any sleep, and I ALREADY go strapped to the mailbox up the street, so nothing much changes, except for CSGV, who has had their 15 minutes of fame, and can now crawl back under their rock, because the sunshine of the Internet is shining on them, and that's what cockroaches are supposed to do: avoid sunshine.

Stand by for PSH* over a stupid statistic

* PSH = Pants-shitting hysteria. This news will certainly set off the anti-gun people, or as we now see them here, the anti Civil Rights people (under the Second Amendment, you and I have a Civil Right to Keep and Bear arms).

Maybe, just maybe, we can put the PSH to good use to spread some sunlight under the cockroach-sheltering rock of the TSA called the "terror watch-list".

Considering that it's likely I could be on that watch-list because I write a gun-blog and maintain a Founder's View of the Second Amendment (i.e., it's a check on the Central Government), any sunshine on that dark place is beneficial.

I'm a retired cop, and did some work on the fringes of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force during my last 3 years in police service, so I know how the game is played. I am about ready to call for the end of the Terror Watch List, and the end of the Transportation Security Alliance and the  Patriot Act as well. None of these policing tools of National Security is being managed well under either the TSA's or the FBI's usage policies. The TSA is well-known for it's ham-handed approach to things, and the FBI uses the machinery of the Patriot Act to save them time and money, that's all.

It's a considerable stretch of the Constitution to even say that such things as an un-appealable placement on the Terror Watch List even passes Constitutional muster, and we're not supposed to STRETCH the Constitution, we're supposed to give Liberty the benefit of the doubt, according to the very Spirit of that guiding document.

 

JPFO outs the 900# Gorilla

[beamed over intact from my Rivrdog blog]

...in the never-ending debate over the Second Amendment.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership can be counted on to pointedly remind us of the seamy side of gun control. That would be seamy as in the seams in the shrouds that must be sewed up to contain the bodies of all the victims that tyranny has killed with the aid of gun control (that figure is estimated at 100 million, in the past century alone).

Continuing in that frame of reference, they started a "buy-cott" to encourage freedom-loving individuals to purchase high-capacity pistol magazines as a way to telling Rep. McCarthy of NY that she supports tyranny with her AWB-2 ban on NORMAL and high-capacity magazines. Their original literature listed 5 reasons to support the "buy-cott".

Now the JPFO has added the "Sixth Reason".

This is why we need to support the JPFO. Alone among major outfits claiming to support the 2A, the JPFO will actually FRONT the REAL reason we have the Second Amendment: to provide a constant reminder that an armed populace makes government tyranny of the overt kind difficult to pull off.

If you follow Sipsey Street Irregulars, you've seen this line of thought before, but you won't find it as a conversation-starter with the NRA, nor will you find the NRA headlining it as a reason to donate to their coffers. If you dig deep into some NRA discussions, you will find the REAL history of the 2A, but you have to dig deep.

Yep, it's the "Invisible" Gorilla in the Room.

[On my Rivrdog blog] I followed the NRA's lead a few years ago, and toned down my postings about a modern American Insurgency. I lost over 2/3 of my readers when I did that. It seems that almost 2,000 people a day came to THIS (Rivrdog) blog to be informed about how to stay awake to the possibility of having to engage the Government in acts of armed resistance. I cut those readers off at the knees, and they went away forever. That was MY decision, and MY bill of consequences to pay.

A few years older, and hopefully, wiser, I've come back to the REAL Second Amendment. No, it's not about hunting, which is NOT even mentioned in the Constitution, probably because it was taken for granted by the Framers. No it's NOT about collecting firearms, about shooting competitions, or even directly about commerce in firearms.

The Second Amendment exists because the Framers were wise enough, and knew their History well enough, to predict that Government would eventually get too large, and would likely trend towards tyrannical when it did. The only EFFECTIVE solution to that possibility, if it were to happen, would be an armed citizen uprising that removes such a tyrannical government from power. 

I hope the bold statement above didn't scare anyone. Heavens no, we don't want to scare anyone. It is useful, however, to identify those who ARE scared by the Second Amendment and it's possibilities, because those folks will be the new "King's Loyalists", and will have to be recognized as a force supporting tyranny themselves, when and if the time comes.

Now you know where I stand. I'm with the JPFO, and I'm NOT about to lay down this sharp stick I prod the NRA with. As I see it, the NRA, being the largest and most effective 2A lobbying group, has a DUTY to talk, OPENLY, about the REAL SECOND AMENDMENT. As gun-bloggers, WE have a DUTY to remind the NRA to get back on the job.

Attack on Civil Rights in Progress - UPDATED!

"Mayors Against Illegal Guns" Civil Rights just started a spin-off organization with the same goal, killing the Second Amendment, and the Civil Rights that this Amendment to the Constitution expresses and requires.

This oufit rolled through Stumptown yesterday, with attendant major publicity by the mainstream lamestream media.

They have a gaudy truck, a rolling billboard with a fancy electronic counter that supposedly adds up gun homicides, but apparently does so by some sort of timer, not some connection to actual crime statistics.

Portland's Mayor, part of MAIG, and like many of those Mayors, a corrupt individual, and one who escaped being indicted for sexual crimes against a juvenile ONLY because of Queer Power, fawned all over the rolling fooferaw, which is now down in Frisco (yes, I know that name is a curse down there, but they deserve cursing out just for letting that vehicle and those Civil Rights deniers into their City).

Oh well, this effort is doomed to failure just like Bloomberg's main effort. Signs of that failure can be found on the pages of today's newspaper.

My right to keep and bear arms will abide, I have faith in that. If it fails to abide, well, that's what the Civil Right of an Armed Citizenry is all about, isn't it? Resisting tyranny, and resisting it with sufficient force to make it go away.

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UPDATE: 032311 0945 PDT: Now we know what the "Fix Gun Checks" show is all about. It's about nothing less than the removal from our Constitution of the legal principle of Presumption of Innocence, which just happens to be THE guiding principle of American criminal jurisprudence.

Now we can add a new title to the MAIG gun-banners. In addition to being gun-banners, they are Fascists.

Heil Schumer! (Yes, I know he's a Jew, but he sold out his religion and ancestors a long time ago)

Let's just hold our water and see who signs on to this. We may be looking at the formation of a New American Nazi Party here...

H/T to Say Uncle

 

Who is "GunUp.com" and where did they come from? - UPDATED!

QUESTIONS ANSWERED! SEE COMMENTS! (on main Rivrdog blog) Thanks to the quick response from all the readers, I'm convinced that this is simply another commercial venture with a splashy launch. A Tsunami launch, actually!

OK, that said, the site is completely LACKING in support for the Second Amendment. In fact, when you put the words "Second Amendment" into the site's search window, you get only an ad for Olympic Arms and their offerings in AR-15s.

I like the effort to corral gunnies in one place, but I'm here to report it doesn't float MY boat because there's nothing in the way of support for the NECESSITY of guns there. Look, most of us who have been involved with guns all our lives (I made Junior Distinguished Indoor Smallbore 52 years ago) know where to find a gun to buy. If we want, we can even look up technical information on modifications, etc. What needs your help is STAYING ON TARGET, that target being keeping gun rights free and unfettered. We have too many enemies in this fight to count, and damn few who will take the time to point out those enemies and actually take them on.

Caleb, and the others putting this effort together, here's my plea: get political, get involved, and you will get the customers, including me.

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Yesterday, I'd never heard of this outfit, and today, BOOM! there they are today with a huge, expensive web site, social media links, the works. Also, in my email inbox (a private box, no less, not connected with my blogs), is a request via LinkedIn to "friend" a dude called Caleb from Seattle, and he is a "Community Relations Director" for GunUp.com for the greater Seattle area.

Suspicions arise, since this is EXACTLY co-incidental in time with a push for "reasonable restriction" gun control by Obama, as reported on Fox News this morning. Cloward-Piven, anyone?

There's a HUGE amount of money involved in this launch, and since there was no word via the gun blogs that it was coming, I suspect that it is some sort of Soros-financed trick to suck a litttle cream off the top of the gunny pail of milk, to puff up some stats for this new ObamaGun crap.

Anyone else got any answers?

If this IS a gun-grabber's Trojan Horse, "GunUp.com will soon becomce "GunGrab.com" at least on THIS gun-warrior's page.

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UPDATE: 031411 1420 PDT: OK, research says Caleb Giddings is a competition gunner from north of me. All over his bio is puffery about his glam stuff on "Top Shot", the "reality" program about top gunnies, supposedly. You can't convince me, I've only watched parts of two shows, I'm not a fanboy. Nor am I a Red Jacket fanboy ("Pawn Stars" with guns)

So, to the possibility that GunUp.com is a lefty political trick, I now have to add a (stronger) suspicion that it is a commercial venture.

People, we don't need more gun commerce right now, what we need is a few stiff spines to resist the continuing attacks on gun rights. If GunUp.com IS a commercial venture, and it tries to suck dollars from gunnies without helping the gun community survive politically, well, frankly, I hope they flame out.

BTW, for all you folks hitching rides on the back of Caleb's turnip truck, before you fall off of that truck (and you will), allow me to point out that the best way to increase gun commerce is to mainstream guns. First we win the political fight, THEN we build, buy and shoot more guns.

HR 308

Re-posted from Rivrdog blog.

Anti-Constitution rep McCarthy's monstrosity.

Useful for the list of other reps who refuse to read their Constitution. Cut and paste that list, you'll need it again.