Getting your enemies to underestimate you. It’s a good read.

Fuck yeah. He has no shot whatsoever at winning but I would love to see him in a debate with the other nanny-state prick Republican contenders.

Libertarianism can’t work, you need only watch an episode of Cops.

I forgot I said that. Heh. Any hoo:

Every once in a while, Tom gets it in his head to make the assertion that a criticism of something is invalid unless the person doing the criticizing offers a better plan. Sorry, but that’s horseshit. I can tell you that something sucks and not have a better solution. For example, abortion sucks. Making abortion illegal sucks. They both suck. I have no solution for that problem but when someone says we should make it illegal, I point out all the problems that will create. And I do so without offering a solution to make everyone happy.

Apparently, I should give accolades and a Coca-Cola to someone because they have a plan, any plan. Even a bad plan. Let’s take a scene from any action movie where the hero is about to cut the red wire (or maybe the blue one). He’s got a 50/50 shot? He cuts the wrong wire and everyone dies. Well, good for him. He had a plan.

On the universal health care bit, I’m not a fan. I don’t want the same people who spend $900 on a hammer having any say in my medical decisions. Period.

And one more canard:

Nearly 50 million Americans without health care?

That’s horseshit too. Now, if he’d said 50 million Americans without health insurance, he may have a point.

He also says that libertarians have no solution to global warming. He’s right. And neither do you. Not one that is workable, any way.

One week in, and we have six firearm related bills. GLN has the scoop.

Every once in a while I have to remind people that I am a crazy-assed gun nut. It’s even more fun with friends and family because, well, they never expect it. So, I sat down figuring I’d write some elegant, well-thought out, convincing piece on freedom, sovereignty, and responsibility that detailed precisely why I am a gun nut. I couldn’t do it, I wrote this instead:

I am a gun nut and proudly so. Some folks say it like it’s a bad thing. I don’t know why, we’re mostly harmless. It’s true. As I’ve said before, people don’t walk down the street leery of gun nuts (well, except in England). They walk down the street either not leery at all or leery of criminals.

What makes me a gun nut?

Not the number of guns I own. For someone who yammers on so much about guns, I probably own considerably less than the average reader here. I own the following: Ruger 10/22, a Walther P22, Kel-Tec 380, an AR in 9mm, Glock 30, an AR in 5.56. I think that’s it. Six firearms. I have a lot on my to buy list but they always get pushed back due to other priorities or whatever. And here lately, I’ve actually sold a couple of firearms. One, because I didn’t care for it and one because I was offered too much to turn it down.

It’s not that I like how they work mechanically or tinkering. I do that with other stuff and I’m not nuts about that. I like to do woodworking but I am not a woodworking nut. And I don’t blog about woodworking.

It’s not hunting. I don’t hunt.

It’s not the zen of target shooting. I zen playing cards, golf, and other activities as well.

So, what is it? I thought about it long and hard. And it’s this simple truth:

If you fuck with me bad enough, I’ll kill your ass.

Simple. Not elegant. But that truth is what scares the shit out of others and it’s that truth that makes people look at you like you’re crazy. It won’t be a NRA slogan any time soon. But it’s what you’re asserting when you claim to be a gun nut, whether you like it or not. Now, this is the part where some ninny chimes in with well, that’s crazy or you’re not going to make converts that way. They may be right, but it’s the truth.

Now, that is not to say that I’ll kill your ass if you cut me off in traffic or generally do me wrong. I’m talking like if you really, really egregiously fuck with me. I’m mean life-altering, I’m fucked in a major bad way kind of fucking with me. If you enter my home uninvited and intent on doing me and my family harm, I’ll kill your ass. But it goes beyond just petty criminals. By your ass, I mean all manner of yous and their respective asses. That is to say, be they individual criminals trying to cause bodily harm, nefarious bureaucrats with nothing better to do, or tyrannical governments. I’ll kill their asses if they egregiously do me wrong.

If you, say, lie about a crucial piece of investigative work that lands me in jail, I’ll kill your ass. Or if you prosecute me for a crime that I’m probably innocent of based on scant evidence and for political posturing, I’ll kill your ass. If you try to take my house, I’ll kill your ass. If you arrest me and charge me with a non-crime out of revenge or to teach me a lesson, I’ll kill your ass. Sure, I’ll exhaust every legal manner with which to fight these abuses first but, at the end of the day, if I get royally fucked, I’m willing to kill their asses.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to kill anybody. I just realize that some things call for it. And that is what makes me a gun nut.

Since the CMP will be selling some carbines soon, everyone is getting excited. Les has all kinds of stuff on the M1 Carbine.

There was a reason I didn’t like Democrats. In the last six or so years, I couldn’t quite recall why. The guy I voted for in 2000 (but not in 2004) was spending like a drunken sailor, growing the government, and anti-gun like his daddy. And generally doing all the things that I thought I hated the Democrats for. So, I sort of forgot why I didn’t care for Democrats. But Ted Kennedy reminded my why.

In Ohio:

As most all 2nd Amendment active people know, when an anti-gun person says something, it is usually an exaggeration, or it contains some hidden methodology that the American public would not normally associate with their wording, or it is just flat out wrong. So when I came across an interview with The Brady Campaign’s Paul Helmke, I read it and asked myself, “Which of those three choices is this?”

Tam:

Besides, they generally want to let me keep my guns, so if they get too annoying in the future I figure I can always shoot them.

Some AK porn from Jay.

We’ll need a boat.

Some Memphis news org:

Fire arms score high as cause of children’s deaths

…

Here’s a list of some of the major causes of childhood injury and death.

1) Motor Vehicles

2. Fire and Burns

3. Choking and Strangulation

4. Poisoning

5. Falls

6. Fire Arms

And by scoring high, they mean they happen to be on this list where they cut it off. After all, from 1999 to 2004, accidental firearms deaths accounted for fewer than 1.7% of accidental deaths among children under 14 in Tennessee.

In comments about the new made-up handgun, Sailorcourt says:

I looked up the Maryland Code. They actually do criminalize possession of “assault pistols” but the affected weapons are identified by model. Colt revolvers are not on the list.

Armed with this information, I emailed the author of the piece yesterday and asked her about it. She replied that it was the editor’s fault. The editor called her at 7:00pm and requested that she put in “those details”. She said that the two named weapons were the ones that the attorney general’s office “mentioned from the warrant they had at their fingertips”.

I responded that the phrasing indicates that the two named firearms are examples of “assault handguns” and that the paragraph implies that their mere possession indicated criminal activity. I further mentioned that, out of the 143 firearms seized, the most “scary” ones they could come up with to specifically name were two revolvers?

She has not, at this point, responded to my second email.

Aunt B. says broccoli cheese soup makes her happy. Well, here’s my recipe, which is easy, fast and tasty:

super easy, fast and tasty

2 cups frozen or fresh chopped broccoli

1 medium onion, diced

1/4 cup flour

1 to 2 cups milk depending on desired thickness

14ish ounces of chicken stock (homemade or from a can)

Pepper to taste

1 cup of grated American cheese (or Velveeta – am I the only one concerned about a dairy product that isn’t refrigerated at the grocery store?)

In a large pot, bring to light boil onions, broccoli and chicken broth. Reduce heat and simmer for 8 or so minutes. In bowl, combine flour, pepper and milk mixture. Stir milk/flour mixture into broth/veggie mixture. Stir regularly for several minutes to allow mixture to thicken.

After mixture has thickened, gradually stir in cheese. Cook until all cheese melts. Good stuff!

Can be substituted for shoe polish for a short time.

Assault handgun. Apparently, they’re also known as revolvers. And what’s the hubbub about:

Mr. Winik said his client did not willfully violate Maryland gun laws.

“This case involves Mr. Vaisman’s failure to properly perform paperwork and administrative functions required by firearms laws,” he said.

Heh:

An Iraq war veteran who drew national attention when he ran for Congress criticizing the president chased three men who had crashed into a fence outside his home, then guarded them with an assault rifle until police arrived, according to police reports.

[snip]

According to a police report, officers were called to Hackett’s home on Nov. 19 after a car crashed into a fence and sped away. The officers arrived to find three men lying face down near their car and Hackett with an assault rifle slung over his shoulder.

“He said he had done this about 200 times in Iraq, but this time there was not a translation problem,” the police report said.

Hackett told police later that he was carrying a civilian model of an AR-15 and that one round was in the chamber but the safety was on. He said he never aimed the weapon at the men or put his finger on the trigger.

Think the Knox County School System has problems? You don’t know what real problems are. Take for example this story from St. Paul, Minnesota.

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I wish Junior would realize that my morning dump is not a team sport.

Subgunner Walther1 on the ATF’s recent compliance plan for the Akins Accelerator:

The ATF could use this as the mechanism to insure (sic) who has AA devices and then only allow amnesty registration by those that sent in the springs

Or should I just start digging a hole in the back yard for my poor fucking dog?

Seen at bitter’s:

By the way, in my daughter’s history class yesterday, she was the only one who raised her hand when the teacher asked who was against gun control.

Seems The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Ownership’s Paul Helmke is kickin’ out the propaganda. Helmke is all googoo over David Hemenway’s book that says to treat the gun issue as a health issue.

What’s that? Hemenway sounds familiar to you? Of course it does. He’s the anti-gun Harvard hack who asserted that folks who carried guns were more likely to indulge in road rage. This despite the fact that there were no notable increases in instances of road rage after states passed concealed carry laws. And, of course, Hemenway refused to release his data. He also has provided some rather questionable numbers to the press.

Anyway, back to treating guns has a health issue: No. I don’t buy it, in the same way I don’t buy forced smoking bans on restaurants. It’s an issue of personal responsibility and freedom. That said, Hemenway’s thesis regarding treating guns as a health care issue is bogus. He neglects to take into consideration the between 750,000 and 2,000,000 defensive gun uses that occur annually.

Bitter tells us that chicks are big spenders. I know, I have 16,000 pairs of shoes taking up closet space to attest to that.

No, wabbit season.

I’ve yammered on before about how the NRA isn’t all that popular with us evil black rifle types. Well, now hunters aren’t too pleased with them either:

After years of close association with the Republican Party and hard-nosed opposition to federal land-use regulation, the National Rifle Association is being pressured by its membership to distance itself from President Bush’s energy policies that have opened more public land for oil and gas drilling and limited access to hunters and anglers.

“The Bush administration has placed more emphasis on oil and gas than access rights for hunters,” said Ronald L. Schmeits, second vice president of the NRA, a member of its board of directors and a bank president in Raton, N.M.

Some EBR folks are upset because they cater to the fudds. The fudds are upset because they aren’t fuddy enough. I think we EBR folks need to have a sitdown with the fudds.

The paper of making up the record quotes yours truly and Ben. But not about any of that fine gun related Bloomberg stuff but about the fact NY smells like ass. Or NY smells like NJ. Same thing.

Looks like there’s a 2007/2008 Pontiac Trans Am in the works. Article here. Pic here. SWEET!

Here’s a link to their ruling, which is nothing new. It should be noted that if this ruling stands, it’s not a far stretch to assert that any semi-automatic firearm can be classified as a machine gun.

Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them in. In this document, they give instructions and ask that you mail them the spring. Not only that, you should also inform them who you sold yours to in the event you no longer have it.

So, is a simple spring now a machine gun? Wouldn’t surprise me since a shoestring is.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — The Bangor City Council approved a measure Monday that prohibits people from smoking in vehicles when children are present.

When the law goes into effect next week, Bangor will become the first municipality in Maine to have such a law. Similar statewide measures have been adopted in Arkansas and Louisiana and are under consideration in several other states.

Aaron Prill of Bangor told the council that the ordinance was a “feel- good option” that was not intended to protect children but rather to “moralize” against smokers. Most smokers have enough common sense not to smoke around children, he said.

There is a whole lot of “moralizing” going on. I should call Mom and tell her she was a child abuser. Except she would smack the taste out of my mouth.

Stephen Colbert, who is apparently funny again:

Sir, we have lost the war on drugs when we withdraw from the war on drugs. While we’re still in it, we haven’t lost it.

Now listen up, America, you got a pretty good record in wars against, you know, actual countries. But abstract ideas are really kicking your ass. The War on Drugs, Poverty, Terror, Christmas, Science, Fat, etc., don’t look like they’re going all that swimmingly. So, let’s stop these various Wars of Words and recognize that they’re generally wars on freedom or wars on our brain cells.

Here.

BTW, one of these days I’m going to find some actual pornography from 1911 and fool you all. You’ve been warned.