Monthly Archives: October 2013

Interpol’s Secretary General supports Armed Civilians.

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Good news for a change:

The Secretary General of Interpol, the international police-coordination organization, says you either start providing “extraordinary security” perimeters around anything that might be a target, or else let people carry the means to defend themselves. Surprisingly, he seems to lean toward empowering individuals to take responsibility for their own defense.

In an interview with ABC News, Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said:

“Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”

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“For me it’s a profound question,” he continued. “People are quick to say ‘gun control, people shouldn’t be armed,’ etc., etc. I think they have to ask themselves: ‘Where would you have wanted to be? In a city where there was gun control and no citizens armed if you’re in a Westgate mall, or in a place like Denver or Texas?’”

Source: http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/22/armed-citizens-may-be-the-solution-to-te

 

It’s an interesting article from Reason, click the link if you want to read it in its entirety.

NRA fights Bloomberg-Backed McAuliffe.

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The battle for freedom is heating up in Virginia:

Bloomberg, an advocate for tougher gun control laws, is spending $1.1 million on anti-Cuccinelli ads that brand him as “too extreme,” adding to a crowded television rotation that is packed with political messages. At the same time, environmentalist Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate Action has spent almost $2.3 million on ads supporting Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe.

Sorry: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/cuccinelli-bloomberg-trying-to-disenfranchise-gop-voters-with-outside-anti-gun-ads/2013/10/22/069fa668-3b53-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html

 

The NRA is fighting back as well, but their war chest is smaller.

The political action committee of the National Rifle Association has spent $466,000 on television and Internet advertising highlighting the gun control measures supported by Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial race.

 

Let me tell you something, Bloomberg, you will not defeat people with integrity no matter what fancy ads you run:

Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, rejected the measure despite an advertising blitz by the pro gun control group funded largely by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Source: http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/Nevada_gov_vetoed_gun_bill/

 

So bring it on, Bloomberg. You’re only helping my NRA recruite more members. If you’d like to help the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, visit their website here: http://www.nraila.org/

 

Conservatives have reason to hate Common Core.

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I haven’t paid much attention to the common core debate, liberals hate it, but now conservatives also have reason to hate it:

Do the Common Core State Standards promote an anti-gun agenda? That’s what the Tennessee Firearms Association apparently thinks.

 

The nonprofit pro-gun group sent out an email last week calling for legislators to stop or delay the implementation of the new policy, which lays out a set of education benchmarks designed to emphasize critical thinking and deeper learning, and which has been adopted in 45 states and the District of Columbia. According to a written statement, the Firearms association takes issue with the way the new standards represent the Second Amendment.

 

“We are already seeing textbooks and teaching assignments that are a part of Common Core intentionally or recklessly misrepresenting the Second Amendment in schools across the country,” John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, said in the email. “And we want to insure [sic] that the liberal anti-gun agenda is not allowed to invade Tennessee schools.”

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/tennessee-firearms-common-core_n_4138688.html

So what’s so offensive about it?

TheBlaze has learned that a high school in Simpsonville, S.C., is supposedly using another textbook that includes a disputable definition of the Second Amendment.

“The Second and Third Amendments — grant citizens the right to bear arms as members of a militia of citizen-soldiers and prevent the government from housing troops in private homes in peacetime,” the book’s summary reads. In a separate box on the same page it paraphrases the amendment as “the right to bear arms,” not the right to “keep” and bear arms.
Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/17/publisher-of-ap-history-book-containing-questionable-second-amendment-summary-has-direct-ties-to-common-core-and-theres-more/

See? Another reason to support State’s Rights. Curse be the day Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education and all the trouble it has brought.

Si Robertson demands “Sin Control”.

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I like Duck Dynasty, I don’t watch it, but I like where they stand.

“The stars of “Duck Dynasty” are no fans of gun control, but there’s another kind of control they think the nation could use.

“It ain’t gun control we need; it’s sin control,” duck-call tycoon Si Robertson told Men’s Journal magazine in a group interview.”

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“We’re trying to infuse a little good into a culture in which gentleness, patience, kindness, self-control, love, joy and peace have become abnormal,” Phil told the magazine. “I go out into America and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.”

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The men admit they’re not perfect — Si was drafted during the Vietnam War and remembers those days as especially rebellious. “I kept a fifth of whiskey in my pocket everywhere I went,” he told Men’s Journal. “I tried dope one time, OK, like marijuana, but why would you smoke something that makes you feel 100 years old? So, drugs wasn’t it for me. In my mind, it was alcohol and whoring around.”

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/duck-dynasty-star-we-need-sin-control-not-gun-control-8C11439682

Now I don’t know how exactly you control sin, this country used to have Sodomy Laws but unless a cop was peaking through your window or broke in to the wrong apartment (Bowers vs. Hardwick), you were unlikely to be charged with anything.

But I do appreciate the fact that Si is focusing on people instead of their tools.

The Instagram Loophole.

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Another great example of why gun control never works:

A typical gun-toting Instagram post goes something like this: “‘LWRC 10’ SBR FOR SALE!!! Come get it! Includes AAC suppressor tip, ergo grip, 3 magpul pmags, 2 40 round mags, bungee sling, and about 500 rounds of .556. Message me if interested.”

 

The negotiation then unfolds in the comments.

 

“Great setup,” a user says, indicating his or her interest. “Asking $3000 for everything,” the seller replies. “I’m really trying to get a package deal. Don’t need want to part it all out.”

Not being a commerce site like, say, Craigslist, which has a policy prohibiting the sale of firearms, Instagram has no stated policy against gun sales. It isn’t in the business of monitoring every user-to-user conversation on its platform. Without demonstrating a clear intent to harm, or otherwise attracting the attention of the site’s community moderators, the posts are permitted to stay. Plus, while the laws around online gun sales are complicated, Instagram users trying to sell their guns really aren’t doing anything illegal.

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/22/people-are-using-instagram-to-sell-their-guns-and-it-s-mostly-legal.html

 

See liberals? People will find a way to buy guns.