Larry talks about the CCW class he gives:

Basically, I send one student out of the room, wearing a rubber gun. Then I set up a scenario inside the room, brief the student in the hall, and then when they walk in, they have to act like it is real life. They talk like they really would. Draw the gun when they really would. Shoot when they really would. Sometimes they should just walk away. Then we discuss, as a class, the legality and the tactical soundness of their decisions.

There’s more. Give it a read.

What about the people?

Michael Silence is calling him out.

R o n P a u l (forgive the spaces but I don’t want the usual suspects hijacking the post with how I’m not a real man because I say he can’t win) seems to have lost his cool. He came across badly this time. He was nervous and fidgety.

I was a bit annoyed with the way the candidates treated the gay general. They had that whole Thanks for your service but you have gay cooties. Ick. thing going on. Turns out, the gay general is a member of Hillary Clinton’s Gay Steering Committee. An effective plant too. He made the candidates look bad.

No matter what he does, Mitt Romney comes across as either 1) a guy saying anything to get elected; or 2) a total douchebag. Nice job on the Bible question there, Sparky. As far as I can tell, the only folks who support you are the religious folks and you blew that. And, for the love of God, don’t answer every question while staring at the camera. You’re freaking people out. Look at your moderator.

Thompson, P a u l and Giuliani seemed to be the only candidates who knew what they were talking about while the others seem to repeat talking points.

I think the question about why Republicans couldn’t get votes from blacks despite blacks often having conservative views was a good one. Of course, the counter to that is why can’t Democrats get the South?

Update: CNN really screwed up.

Also, it looked like Anderson Cooper was as annoyed with Romney as me. Boy, he rode him hard.

Here’s the gun portion of the YouTube debate:

Giuliani did his homework and his answer conveyed that. Got booed for saying ‘reasonable restrictions’ were allowable. I was impressed that Giuliani really did his homework on Parker/Heller. He still seems to think there’s some urban exception to the Second Amendment. He didn’t convince me but he knew his stuff. Credit where it’s due and all that.

Fred blasted him hard though and obviously knew much more than Rudy. Seems Fred, unlike Rudy, knew Rudy’s record.

Hunter got all gun safety and told the questioner not to throw the firearms. Good.

When asked if they own weapons and if any of them required tax stamps, no one jumped up except the hunting story guy. McCain, Giuliani and Romney don’t own guns? Who knew? Line of the debate from Fred Thompson: I own a couple but I’m not gonna tell you what they are or where they are. That’s an indication Fred knows gun people.

Update: Seriously, no Ron Paul on guns?

Update: More at bitter’s. And here I thought I was first.

Update: Thompson is sticking with the old school conservative stuff. I’m digging it. You know, if he leaves out all the God said so and hating gay cooties stuff.

I recall the first time I saw the word blogger in my local newspaper. Now, it’s a second. At some circle jerk (oh crap, there goes that language again) for an embattled local judge, our mayor takes issue with us bloggers:

“Judge Young’s not only been attacked by the unfair reporting, he’s been attacked by some of these bloggers,” he [Cunningham] said. “And the bloggers that do the attacking — if you ever have time to look at that trash — are always anonymous.

“If you’re going to do that, at least have … the testicular fortitude to say it to my face,” he said.

I’m not sure who he’s talking about. Despite being an anonymous blogger in Blount County and the only anonymous blogger in Blount County I know of, I haven’t mentioned judge Young. So, who’s he talking about? It’s a mystery not just to me:

I suppose there have been some anonymous comments re. Judge Young here, but the most outspoken critics, including an attorney involved in one of the cases, have signed their names. Perhaps there are some other blogs he’s referring to.

But seriously. Mayor Cunningham is seriously worried that people are getting involved and actually talking about local government in a forum outside the corporate and government controlled media? What is he so worried about? Was this some kind of preemptive diversionary tactic to head off some other trouble brewing?

By the way, who sent all the letters to Mayor Cunningham demanding an investigation into alleged conflicts of interests involving the few Democrats on County Commission? As far as we know, those people are all still “anonymous”.

I was at Coal Creek Armory the other day and noticed they had a Ma Deuce for sale up front. They posted pics of it on their blog. It’s quite pricey at $24K but it comes with about $10K in ammo and lots of accessories.

It’s a fine trait in house paint but in anti-gun talking points, not so much. Thirdpower addresses Helmke’s latest on Miller.

In this post, I used some, err, crass language. In comments, I wondered if it was a detriment to the blog and, you know, if maybe it could haunt me one day should I try to legitimize myself. A reader emailed that he likes to forward news/blog items to people and if the items are laced with profanity, he opts to not forward them. Any way, I don’t use that language all the time and use it when I want something that is either 1) shocking or 2) funny. What say you?

Update: more language issues. I don’t mind and John Timoney can go fuck himself.

The Armed Canuck looks at 308 v. 7.62 Nato and 5.56 Nato v. 223.

After the conclusion of Heller, I’m sure there will be some language regarding reasonable regulations and such. So, what are those? Well, I think it should be illegal to shoot people. Some, however, think a total ban is reasonable.

Testimony of Richard Gardiner on ATF enforcement actions. Read it all.

Up next, here’s a Petition to US Congress and the ATF for Fair Treatment of FFL Dealers by the ATF. 5,000 signatures so far.

Since warrants are just so darn inconvenient to obtain, despite the rubber stamp most judges have for them, the powers that be have to come up with alternative ways of snooping. One way of doing that is to have you submit to a warrantless search when you apply for government assistance. If you refuse to comply, no government cheese for you:

The San Diego district attorney adopted a policy in 1997 under which applicants for welfare benefits must agree to a “walk through” of their residence while they are present. The inspectors check on whether the applicant has an eligible dependent child and has the amount of assets claimed. They also check on whether a supposedly “absent” parent lives at the residence. If residents refuse to permit a home visit, they can lose their benefits.

When that fails, have the local firefighters and emergency personnel search houses since, you know, they’re already there:

Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as American icons and infringing on people’s privacy.

Unlike police, firefighters and emergency medical personnel don’t need warrants to access hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings each year, putting them in a position to spot behavior that could indicate terrorist activity or planning.

[…]

When going to private residences, for example, they are told to be alert for a person who is hostile, uncooperative or expressing hate or discontent with the United States; unusual chemicals or other materials that seem out of place; ammunition, firearms or weapons boxes; surveillance equipment; still and video cameras; night-vision goggles; maps, photos, blueprints; police manuals, training manuals, flight manuals; and little or no furniture other than a bed or mattress.

It’s getting harder and harder to trust the good guys.

Rustmeister on media coverage:

it’s a shame they had to say it at all.

Colt 380 Hammerless.

Remember Cowboy Blob’s AR-15 Kaboom? Well, the cause was diagnosed. POF will send him a new one and invoice the ammo maker for it. Here’s to service!

Looks like they’re scheduling a meet up on 12/15 at the range in Oak Ridge.

Tonight, I expect full blown hysteria on ABC news. Why? Well, the name of the segment is the same name as a Violence Policy Center report. And, of course, they get the gun laws and facts wrong:

This surge of deaths stemming from semiautomatic assault weapons seems unnecessary. In 1994, President Clinton signed a law banning the sale of these weapons. But in 2004, President Bush and Congress allowed that ban to expire. Since then, Congress has made it illegal to keep nationwide statistics data on crimes committed with assault weapons.

More here. Via insty.

Past chicks and guns posts here.

Henceforth and probably forever, pingbacks and trackbacks are disabled. Stupid spammers.

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Gonzo, Karlin and crew stay busy setting up sham groups.

Yes, this poll. It was a trick question. What I did was start out with option three and then, due to the PSH that followed, resorted to option one. And, to maintain my moral superiority, I pointed out that, despite her antics, I (the guy who was armed) managed to maintain his cool and that the same could not be said for her. No wonder she doesn’t want people armed, she can’t be trusted to act reasonably in public.

And option 2 was solely to poke fun at, well, you know who I mean.

Seems Thomas C. Vanden Berk realized what sensible people knew all along. Candlelight vigils are about as useless as a cock-flavored lollipop. And such vigils are what you do when you have no money. I personally love this bit:

But community vigils are not going to change the illegal manufacturing, marketing and distribution of guns that are intended to kill people. This will be accomplished only through a comprehensive political strategy, one that can outmaneuver, outspend and outwork the gun lobby.

Notice we start out using the term illegal then switch to discussing the gun lobby so as to conflate that somehow the gun lobby is behind illegal manufacturing of guns. BTW, wouldn’t marketing things that are illegal be a good way to draw attention to your illegal activity?

Second verse same as the first:

We need to understand everything about illegal guns and gun sales. Why do we allow guns designed to rapidly fire?

Again, preface with illegal then discuss something else that may or may not be so as to conflate the two.

And here it comes, send money:

Unfortunately this means we have to raise enough money to offset the millions that our elected officials now get from the gun lobby. But politicians listen to their constituents and won’t vote the gun interests if they see that people are fed up with the carnage wrought by weak regulation. A strategy that combines advocacy with money can force politicians to stop straddling the fence on gun issues.

Err, politicos are not straddling the fence on gun issues. They’re just, largely, on the right team.

Thirdpower notes:

The Anti’s have rich sponsors but not the numbers and that hurts them.

Basically he admits that they need us. We don’t need them.

So, as a mostly single issue type of guy, I’m perusing my options for president. Only three candidates seem to be solidly pro-gun. Fred Thompson, Ron Paul, and Bill Richardson (Bill even has a CCW permit).

On Thompson: Unless he gets his shit together soon, he’s not gonna do much.

On Paul: Can’t win but probably the most pro-gun candidate.

On Richardson: He’s kinda like that hot psychotic girl you had a fling with in college. You know, fun to have around sometimes but mostly comes with a lot of baggage.

Guns are for liberals too. Well, yeah. I’ve been trying to woo this crowd for a bit. They seem to be coming around on their own.

The phrase individual rights is rather redundant. Only individuals have rights. No group, be they a corporation or activist group, has any more or less rights than any individual in that group.

As you were.

Gettin’ their bigotry on. The sponsor of the PA gun bills that failed Rep. Jewell Williams, D-Philly, said,

The yahoos win again.

Barack Hussein Obama:

“And by the way, Michelle, my wife, she was traveling up, I think, in eastern Iowa, she was driving through this nice, beautiful area, going through all this farmland and hills and rivers and she said ‘Boy, it’s really pretty up here,’ but she said, ‘But you know, I can see why if I was living out here, I’d want a gun. Because, you know, 911 is going to take some time before somebody responds. You know what I mean? You know, it’s like five miles between every house.’

“So the point is, though, we should be able to do that, and we should be able to enforce laws that keep guns off the streets in inner cities because some unscrupulous gun dealer is, you know, letting somebody load up a van with a bunch of cheap handguns or sawed-off shotguns and dumping them and selling them for a profit in the streets.”

So, it’s OK to arm us crackers!

Update: Jewell Williams lies to cover up his stereotyping ways.

Reminder from David:

IMPORTANT REMINDER…

So, this morning’s local talk radio was about the DC Gun Case. People called in to discuss the second amendment and other stuff. Due to the lag in traffic, I caught 45 minutes of it. Not a single anti-gun caller. I like East Tennessee.