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Some guy wanted to shoot up a church. He got one round off before a firearms instructor popped a cap in his face from about 20 feet. Other parishioners were also strapped and showed up to provide cover. No other injuries, no wild west, none of the delusions of the anti-gunners and their thoughts that […]

A judge blocks the open carry law because of fears of the wild west. Or something.

Clayton Cramer: I need every example that you can find where opponents of shall-issue laws claimed that there would be murder, mayhem, increases in road rage arguments escalating to gunplay, and so on, that you can find. Here’s a list of ‘blood in the streets’ and here’s one of ‘wild west’. That’s a good start.

Wild west references from editorial boards about gun laws. They keep saying that and it keeps not happening. Also, this got a touch of dehumanization in it.

We knew that already. Yet we still hear claims about turning some place into the wild west whenever we liberalize gun laws.

The AZ press is pooping its britches over a couple of pro-gun bills. They get style points for evoking the Wild West but lose out on lack of dick jokes.

More guns, less crime: The District of Columbia’s murder rate plummeted by an astounding 25 percent last year, much faster than for the US as a whole or for similarly sized cities. If you had asked Chicago’s Mayor Daley, that wasn’t supposed to happen. The Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to strike down DC’s handgun ban […]

Some idiot: Guns Didn’t Save Their Lives and Guns Won’t Save Your Life That statement makes sense, if you’re a moron. Because, if you’re a moron, you think we gun rights people walk around saying that guns make us ten feet tall and bulletproof, which we don’t. We say that a gun is the most […]

Back when the legislature was in the process of passing the guns in restaurants that serve alcohol bill, one of the vocal opponents of that bill was Mike Chase. Mike Chase yammered on about Wild West shootouts and whatnot along with a host of other ‘ifs’. (So, Mike, how many shootouts you had?). Anyway, I […]

Well, they said if we passed carry laws, it’d be like the Wild West.

One year ago, Georgia passed a law that legalized the wearing of arms by permit holders in places that sold alcoholic beverages. Prior to its passage, Georgians were subjected to the hysterical media editorial pages predicting blood in the streets and death and doom and gloom. And how they were all going to die because […]

I’m sure his re-education is coming The autoegocrat tells his fellow progressive bloggers to have a nice big cup of cool your shit juice: Maybe, just maybe, if bar patrons in thirty-seven other states are able to resist the urge to get loaded and proceed to go on drunken Wild West-style shooting sprees, the people […]

Tom Humphrey reports: House members of a conference committee on the so-called “guns in bars” bill voted 3-2 to abandon restrictions adopted by the House and accept the Senate version of the bill. The bill (HB962) would for the first time allow handgun permit holders to take their weapons into restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages. […]

Local Restaurateur Mike Chase chats with Betty Bean about the guns in restaurants bill. Mr. Chase owns a few of the prominent local chains, most of which are OK but Calhoun’s has some good beer that they brew themselves. I like their Porter. Says Chase: Water goes with scotch. Coke goes with Jack Daniels – […]

Anti-gunners often think that we gun owners view guns as having these magical powers that make us indestructible. Like the guy mentioned here who also threw in a wild west reference. It’s a load of crap. Gun owners stress training and practice as well. This whole accusing us of worshiping totems thing, in which one […]

Your bigotry is showing. A prominent lefty blog talking about the gun rights crowd, in one short post, manages to use: Wild west Saying we want to arm everyone Postal workers Gun owners are dangerous All that’s missing is saying we have small peckers. And, remember, it’s right wingers who are the bigots. And this […]

A few days ago, I noted that on a local radio show: Throughout the whole bit (that I listened to, anyway), not one person called in in support of more gun control. Today, that changed. Dave Foulk (who has a blog) was basically stating that, in light of recent events, that if people wanted to […]

Let’s count: Cho’s purchases met Virginia law at the time, but a judge’s recent ruling on his competency should have sounded an alarm with federal officials, had they been notified as part of the background check. Incorrect. Cho broke the law. There simply wasn’t a mechanism for reporting his adjudication as a mental defective. Some […]

Nicely breaks bad: In a bit of crafty maneuvering, state Rep. Frank Niceley says he will try to amend his latest “Wild West” gun bill to force the state to begin reporting mental-health records to the FBI’s national instant background check system. “If they vote against it now, they’re voting against sending the names of […]

These Wild West short barreled lever guns are pretty neat looking. Those are classified as short barreled rifles and require a $200 tax. However, these mare’s legs are classified by the ATF as pistols. Not sure why.

Alan Korwin of gunlaws.com writes of Arizona’s measure to allow concealed weapon permit holders to carry into a bar: Why on Earth would the National Rifle Association promote laws so “gun-toting” people could “pack heat” in bars and not drink? Say what? That doesn’t even make sense. It’s beyond stupid. And in fact, the NRA […]

Delaware might get a handgun-only deer season: Under a bill passed last week, Delaware hunters will have a one-week deer hunting season in which only large-caliber handguns can be used. Hunting with handguns had not been allowed at any time previously. Hunters will be allowed to use pistols ranging from .357 caliber to .50 caliber […]

I dig it: We need a Godwin’s Law for guns. I’m proposing one: “As a discussion about guns grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Dodge City or the Wild West approaches one.” However, I’d change it from discussion about guns to discussion about concealed carry.

On CCW in Louisiana: Concealed handguns haven’t been as bad — or as good — as forecast [snip] Legislators and former Gov. Mike Foster OK’d the law amidst predictions that more than 40,000 gun groupies would line up for permits in the first year alone — instantaneously transforming the state into the wild, wild West. […]

Say Uncle does a fantastic job keeping us apprised of the anti-gun nonsense out there. One thing I’ve noticed is that the gun-grabbers keep re-using the same old tired bromides, so I propose a little game to go along with the articles: Gun Control Poker. Spades (The Bad Guys) A – Terrorists are Enemy Number […]

While I generally opposed the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004, which granted retired and off duty police the means to carry concealed weapons any where in the country, because it granted special privilege to special citizens, I understand why it was viewed as a good idea. More armed and trustworthy people on the […]

Another case of concealed carry law going into effect and, well, nothing happens. No blood in the streets, no wild west gun fights. In fact, the number of people applying for them was actually half of what was predicted.

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Via Geek With A 45, comes this BBC article (yes, the BB fucking C) which states Britain needs more guns: Old stereotypes die hard and the vision of Britain as a peaceable kingdom, America as “the wild west culture on the other side of the Atlantic” is out of date. It is true that in […]