To our reader from Glock in Alpharetta, GA. BTW, I love my G30.

Now that’s funny.

In an update to this, I found this comment (#3) of note:

Here’s my problem. I don’t care about the issue at all – I’ve got no emotional commitment to either side. I’ll never own a gun, because I’m deeply suicidal. But it’s obvious to me that the gun rights nuts are right. So don’t play the game where you label both sides as emotional; that’s a copout. As for the particular text, we know what it says and what the authors believed it meant. And the gun nuts are just simply right. If you want a new compromise, amend the Constitution. Otherwise, you’ve got to go with what it says.

Update: Now, SayUncle is a bot. See comments there. I R amused. BTW, not bots here. But I think I saw this link through google news. Reminds me of a couple of things:

We’ve sucked down AstroTurf so long that we don’t know grassroots when it jumps up and bites us in the ass

Poor Lefties; they’ve been playing on astroturf so long that they don’t know grassroots even when fed a mouthful of divot.

Sebastian:

Reading Kevin’s open letter to Robyn Ringler, the impression I’m left with is the gun-control movement, because it has always had a friendly media willing to print anything without question or criticism, has never had to seriously defend its views in an open forum, and is discovering they aren’t prepared for it.

More security theater.

In other news, Uncle rhymes?

Really, Chris Wallace asked that? Unreal.

Update: Via Justin, yup, he did.

David:

Posting on gun forums can get you searched. And that’s all the “probable cause” needed to obtain a warrant in the police state we have allowed ourselves to devolve into.

Here’s the post detailing the incident.

No.

Gun control is based on the opposite of reason. It is based on emotional pleas, PSH, and advocating policies that have been shown not to work.

I think this may be the first time my little hometown paper has used the word blog:

Maryville businessman Tim Richardson, an author and nationally known keynote motivational speaker, is getting ready to throw the “World’s Biggest Blog Party.”
Richardson is recruiting 1,000 people from around the world who will, if things go according to plan, use blogging to raise at least a million dollars for organizations and charities with a global reach.

A blog, which evolved from the word “weblog,” usually refers to a magazine-style online journal or electronic diary. Starting Sept. 11, selected bloggers will begin creating what Richardson calls “an invisible matrix of global fund-raising.”

Each Internet blog host will write about a favorite charity or an organization that makes a difference, encouraging readers to donate to that charity with the intention of raising a million dollars globally between Make A Difference Day (Oct. 27) and Family Volunteer Day (Nov. 17). Richardson and the other 999 bloggers will direct attention and support to organizations working to solve problems facing people all over the world.

More info on the event here and here.

In comments here, Lissa Kay says:

I used to count myself amongst the ‘antis’ and it was truly based on emotions. A fear reaction, for sure. When I was 16, late one night I found myself on the wrong end of a gun being wielded by an old perv that wanted to have his way with my young, nubile body. It ended well with him in handcuffs and myself untouched, though completely traumatized. Ever since, I have had a total fear of guns, and sided with those that would severely restrict access.

However, in recent years, I have listened more closely to the ‘other side’ and have pretty much made a complete turn-around in my thinking. Keyword there … thinking, rather than gut reaction.

Now, due to circumstances that make it a prudent choice, I find myself seriously considering the purchase of a defensive weapon for myself … and I am wide open to advice and suggestions.

How about that … not only could you claim that you convinced an ‘anti’ over to the ‘pro’ side, you might even help place a gun in her hands.

Excellent. Since she may not be back to that comment section. Head over to her blog and give her some advice.

This quote:

The Brady Campaign – understaffed, underfunded, and generally floundering…

Of course, it’s the Christian Science Monitor so it has the usual misinformation about gun laws (which is no surprise to SayUncle readers – see here):

Two years ago, Florida enacted a law that allows anyone who feels threatened anywhere to use deadly force.

Untrue. You start off with a whopper, I can’t take you seriously. But taking dictation from anti-gun groups is what I expect from the CSM. But this bit is interesting:

The Brady Campaign put up a billboard in Miami that October, took out ads in cold climates where people often take Florida vacations, and handed out fliers at Florida airports – all warning tourists of their possible demise on their trips to Florida beaches and Disney World.

The campaign got the biggest reaction in Britain and Canada, where it fit perfectly into the notion of Americans as barbarians. A headline in the British Birmingham Post read, “Going to Florida? Beware the gun-happy locals.”

Because they can’t get traction here.

Update: More here and here.

Via MKS comes The Knoxville Blog Network, which is run by the Knoxville News Sentinel. Now, you have one source to keep up with Knoxville and TN blogs.

One note: I do find it odd that I can’t get to the original author’s blog from the aggregator. Disregard. I’m apparently bad at click-fu.

Two stories by the same guy note that DC v. Heller (or Parker v. DC) may impact other big cities with draconian gun laws. The first one is about Chicago:

Those who would do away with Washington’s near-total ban on handguns will tell you point-blank their next target: Chicago.

Gun-rights advocates scored a stunning success earlier this year when a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court in Washington swept aside the District of Columbia’s ban on owning handguns, which had been in place since 1976.

[…]

“There is reason to be concerned at this point,” said Thomas Mannard, executive director of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.

“Chicago would be the logical follow-up,” said Robert Levy, a libertarian activist who filed the case against the D.C. ban. Levy, too, wants the Supreme Court to take the case, making this a rare instance when both sides in a dispute hope an appeal goes forward.

And another story of the same nature:

But the district’s decision could have serious consequences for other cities that have similar bans, like Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.

If the right-leaning Supreme Court takes the case, it’s possible that it could deliver the most affirmative endorsement of a broad reading of the Second Amendment in history.

Such a result could knock out gun bans across the country. It’s why pro-gun groups also are eager for the high court to hear the matter.

And by broad reading of the Second Amendment they mean, you know, that it might mean what it says.

The Evolution of Form 4473.

I’m guessing it’s a Walther P99. Without scale, I couldn’t tell if it is a P99 9mm or a P22 loaded with those stubby Aquila rounds. But then I counted the number in the magazine.

OMG can we stop with Hsu puns? In other news, good question.

Poor, stupid Fenty: I’d rather live in a place where the local politicians want to make sure that I’m just as safe as they are, rather than them making sure they’re just as defenseless as everyone else.

Universal healthcare, my ass.

Saturate us with resources.

We can remove the question mark from Fred? now.

Jacob of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association has a blog on Gun Legislation & Politics in New York. Go give it a read.

Bane: Carl Bernosky took home top honors for the 8th time at the 2007 National Rifle Association High Power Rifle Championship Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. Using an AR-15 platform rifle with a Smith & Wesson M&P15 lower, Bernosky achieved a first place finish and now becomes the first person in the history of the event to win the overall championship using an AR-15 platform rifle.

But Bon Jovi will now suck worse since the latest album will be country.

I left this as a comment at Tom’s Blog and not sure if the comment went through:

Tom, I am not telling you what to do at your blog. Rather, telling you why I choose to allow them to comment and why I encourage others to do so as well.

Apologies if I’m coming off all preachy and as though I’m trying to order you around. That is not the case.

“Why argue amongst ourselves when we are striving for the same goal but through different means. By all means let’s collaborate but not waste time debating methods or or means. Or is debate the issue rather than furthering and protecting the 2nd Amendment? ”

Amen. But, again, I’m not arguing with you just explaining my preference.

Regards.

You have to love the marketing people at McDonald’s. They have no pride or remorse and they are quite brilliant.

Take their latest ploy. Many people want to save the Earth from Global Warming. So how can a company that sells hamburgers capitalize on this trend? Remember, their product is hamburgers. Perhaps the most dangerous product on Earth as far as Global Warming is concerned.

In Japan you can buy a Big Mac for half price if you download a form that shows how to reduce Global Warming. Do you think there is anything on that form that suggests eating fewer Big Mac’s will prevent Global Warming?

Genius. Give them an A, for audacity.

Bitter on how to solve DC’s crime problem. Say, do those officers have guns?

52% of Canadians support a ban on handguns.

I gave Tom King of Gun Talk a bit of a hard time for banning commenters and deleting comments here noting that we should:

let them say those things. And link to them to show what vile disgusting people they are. Let their vile flummery stand to show what their side is like. They’re losing and desperate. Highlight it, don’t hide it.

Tom responded in comments noting:

I don’t disagree with giving any one their say but I am tired of rereading the same debates over and over. That’s right for the past 10 years I’ve listened to the anti’s and pro’s saying the same thing over and over and not one anti has changed his mind. All we do is give them a forum to air their views.

But I’m not trying to change their minds. No amount of reason, facts, or logic will change their minds. They’ve made up their minds and if you expose them to things that are inconsistent with their worldview, their widdle bwains expwode. And they shut down comments and cry into the night into their little echo chambers. It happened with the Brady Blog, it happened with Robyn Ringler’s blog, and Bryan Miller sticks his fingers in his ears and shouts lalalalala like a whiny kid in comments at his blog. I want their comments out there so that we can refute them. Because, while we’re not changing their minds, someone who is on the fence may come to the good side when exposed to actual reasoned discourse^tm in which we logically refute their misleading claims. Or they may convert to our side by virtue of seeing commenters like jadegold wish others’ children injured. Stuff like that doesn’t sit well with most folks.

So, allow the liars, hacks, and pants-shitters to have their say. And we should refute their claims for the benefit of converting those on the fence and those who can be converted. The anti gunner consortium is so intellectually bankrupt that they’re lost causes. Forget them and target Susie Soccer Mom who won’t be too appreciative of foul rhetoric and intellectual dishonesty.

It’s an interesting time. The press has taken dictation from anti-gun groups for so long that most people are misinformed on gun issues. But that’s changing. Let them claim that a gun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a family member. Then shoot the misleading claim down for the bullshit it is.

Update: In comments, guav notes:

From what I can tell, Jadegold did not “wish” anyone’s child dead, they merely discussed the possibility that someone’s child could die from their own firearm (by accident or suicide). Changing what he actually said into “Jadegold wishes your kid would die” is doing the exact same thing that I hate when Jade does (change my comment of “most of the 15-18 year old kids killed by guns are gang members” into “Oh, so you think all underage gang members should die?!”).

I read Tom’s post here. And I don’t really read Robyn Ringler’s blog so I take guav’s word for it.

Update 2: Apparently, this jadegold person is still claiming I banned them. That is not the case. I don’t have a link because the person who emailed me that info didn’t provide one. Jadegold lying? Of course, this a person who was dropped from their ISP for their internet trolling, according to a commenter.

Update 3: Billy Beck in comments:

There is absolutely no question about it. Now, I’ve just spent the past hour searching the Google Usenet archives for the post from an administrator from Erols.com who actually publicly apologized to a man named Wayne Mann for not taking his complaint seriously after Jadegold accused him of being a wanted murder fugitive. I wrote the whole story up for that guy and he checked it out and summarily terminated Jadegold’s account within two hours. Everybody in the alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater group saw it. I’m thinking this was early ’98, but I’m not entirely certain about that without being able to dig it up.

I have the facts straight here: this really happened. I was party to it, and bloody proud of it, too. It was completely despicable what that little creep did.

I like to see him/her get in here and try to deny it. That’s when I’ll start lining-up witnesses who were there, and between all of us, we’ll find that Erol’s administrator’s apology post, announcing that the Jadegold account was terminated.

I’m telling you the truth.

Remember when CNN did that misleading bit on assault weapons with the help of a law enforcement officer? Well, that officer (Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne) is pleading to tax evasion.

Now, look here. We have our own problem children here on the pro-gun side (Gottleib’s tax trouble; Pratt’s various organizations; etc.) with such antics so careful about getting too happy. It may haunt us.

No, really, in the Chicago Sun Times of all places:

They’re scary. That’s the crux of the gun debate spurred by the AR platform.

The AR platform looks like a machine gun.

That’s why Kent Peacock, president of Firearm Safety Training Inc., invited outdoor media to a tactical rifle open house at the Illinois State Rifle Association range Aug. 28. I was the only one who took the opportunity to be enlightened.

Via thirdpower who notes: Boy, someone who goes out shooting, learns a little, enjoys it, then reports about it factually. I’m sure he must be new.

Because guns are banned in Japan.

Speaking of unpossible, there’s been a fourfold increase in gun related killings and crimes in England. That can’t happen since they passed gun control laws. Even more unpossible is that Britain’s powers-that-be were covering up the gun crime numbers. I wonder why? I mean, it can’t be because the factual evidence doesn’t support policy, can it?

Dude, we have a music video.

Update: and we’ll have video from the event. I think. I mean, I don’t I don’t know what skype is.

I’ve always been one to give store employees a hard time when they ask to see a receipt. But I’ve never been arrested for it. Anyway, R. Neal has a great idea that never occurred to me:

After reading Joe’s post, it occurs to me that the appropriate response is to walk right back inside and return everything you just bought.

Good idea.

Fact checking the fact checkers.

SCOTUS blog has the doc. It was Parker v. DC. Now, it’s DC v. Heller.

More on that gun culture.