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 Regular readers are familiar with my “Only Ones” files, named in “honor” of a DEA agent who told a roomful of school kids he was the “only one…professional enough” to carry a gun and who then proceeded to shoot himself in the foot. As I’ve explained numerous times, I don’t post such stories to “denigrate” cops, but rather, to counter the argument that they are the only ones trustworthy enough to keep and bear arms. And the term is not synonymous with all police, either–only those who buy into the citizen aren’t as responsible as us nonsense, or that unequal legal treatment is a job perk.
Here are a few recent examples to test that sentiment.
From WBALTV 11 Baltimore:
A deputy accidentally left his service revolver in a Royal Farms store…The gun was left in the restroom. When the officer returned to the store, the gun was gone.-[source]
Fearful that America’s Supreme Court will soon strike down Chicago’s handgun ban, page frustrated by the Illinois legislature’s rejection of his anti-gun agenda, and repudiated by American courts and legislatures over his plan to sue federally licensed manufacturers and dealers of firearms for third-party crimes, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) is showing contempt for his own country’s and state’s institutions, by seeking a foreign entity to enforce his anti-gun agenda against the American people.
This week, Daley called for “redress against the gun industry” in the World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands. Forgetting or not caring who his constituents are, Daley blurted “This is coming from international mayors. They’re saying, ‘We’re tired of your guns, America.’”
Daley’s global gun control fantasy received the endorsement of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter (D), whose enthusiasm for international law is apparently matched by his novel interpretation of the United States Constitution. “I love the Second Amendment,” Nutter recently said, but “I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.” Nutter’s utterly ignorant statement proves that in our country, you can be elected to public office while knowing remarkably little about the Bill of Rights. Nutter acknowledged that the Daley’s scheme is a “long shot.” But, he said, “you never know until you try,” adding “The political establishment in many state capitals—and certainly in Washington [is] so deathly afraid of the NRA that people cannot make the right decision for their own constituents.”-[source]
 I propose that the “firearms fraternity” begin placing as much emphasis on voting and voter education as we do on safety and safety education.
Unintentional firearms injuries and fatalities have dropped by some 60% over the past 20 years while the number of firearms in circulation has more than doubled. These amazing results are not due to government programs, drug laws, or regulations.
They are a result of education and an almost universal acceptance of and insistence on adherence to the basic rules of firearms safety. Gun owners not only practice firearms safety, they advocate for it and expect it from others, and they shun anyone who fails to abide by the rules. The improving firearms safety record is a stellar example of positive peer pressure. We in the firearms fraternity need to extend that success into the realm of voting.-[source]
Some 4,000 American females are murdered each year. A female in the United States is 3 times more likely to be murdered than a female in Canada, 5 times more likely to be murdered than a female in Germany, and 8 times more likely to be murdered than a female in England and Wales. The firearm homicide rate for US females is 11 times higher than that in the other high-income countries. (Source: Firearm Availability and Female Homicide Victimization Rates among 25 Populous High Income Countries, 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association)
These statistics are worthy of attention to some, worthy of action to Vicki Kawelmacher. In 2004, Vicki and her husband were accosted while sitting on a beach. In 2007, the Kawelmacher’s ten-year old daughter barely escaped from being abducted in their ‘kid-friendly’ neighborhood. In 2008, their 28-year old son was a victim of a home invasion he barely survived. Were these incidents sheer coincidence or signs of a calling?
In January 2008, she opened The Women’s Shooting Academy (WSA) in Reno, Nevada (http://www.womensshootingacademy.com/). The Academy provides women with a place to attend firearms use classes. The courses include Women’s Introduction to Handguns (for novices and future gun owners), Introduction to Tactics (for hands-on handgun use), CCW (a firearms qualifications course required in order to carry a concealed weapons permit in Nevada, Utah and Florida) as well as a Gun Cleaning and Maintenance course.-[source]
While the Obama-led federal government appears indifferent, if not averse, to the Constitution, various state governments across the country are embracing the founding document anew.
We’ve seen this via the 10th Amendment movement and the state-led opposition to Obamacare. And recently, Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer has shown another way back to the Constitution by signing a law which views the 2nd Amendment’s constitutional right to keep and bear arms as a concealed-carry permit within the borders of her state.
While Obama treats the Constitution as a body of negative rights which justify federal expansion and intrusion into our lives, Arizona has just passed a law based on the premise Ted Nugent once expressed when he said: “The 2nd Amendment is my conceal-carry permit.”
This new law allows Arizonans who are at least 21 years old and who have no felonies on their record to carry a concealed handgun on their person without a permit.
Since 1994, Arizonans who wanted to carry a concealed handgun had to apply for a state-issued permit and pass “a one-day course which [covered] everything from when state law allows the use of deadly force to proving the ability to handle and fire [a] gun.” But Brewer realized this approach was nonsensical because Arizonans have always been able carry a gun that is not concealed without any type of permit process whatsoever.
Simply put, Brewer had the common sense to ask why people who carry guns in a holster that’s visible are allowed to do so without regulation while those who carry a gun that’s hidden under a sports coat have to get the government’s permission first? Brewer’s spokesman, Paul Senseman, said: “If you carry a weapon and it’s exposed, it’s totally legal, [but] if your T-shirt hangs over it, [or] you’ve got a coat over the top of it, you’re carrying it illegally.”
And the clear language of the 2nd Amendment certainly stands in Brewer’s favor: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”-[source]
 Since our officers will now have to spend time on the road delivering criminals to Riverside County Jail in Indio, response times will of course be long or not at all. Therefore, I guess I’ll be heading to the local gun shop to arm myself. Thank goodness my father taught me to shoot in my teens.
All the criminals have better guns than the general public but maybe we can surprise them. We should post a sign at Windy Point for tourists so they know to arm and defend themselves. I have lived in Palm Springs for 32 years and this has to be the dumbest thing I’ve heard. And closing the fire station that helps the elderly nearby. Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen once the first person dies because of slow response time.
I arrived home on Monday from a trip and on one of my flights the gentleman seated next to me was moving out of California because of the sad state we are in. I’m sure there are thousands like him. The taxes are unbelievable and you get nothing in return.
Pat Herrick
Palm Springs-[source]
Pistol-packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for wily coyotes out there: Don’t mess with my dog.
Perry told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he needed just one shot from the laser-sighted pistol he sometimes carries while jogging to take down a coyote that menaced his puppy during February run in an undeveloped area near Austin.
Perry said he will carry his .380 Ruger pistol — loaded with hollow-point bullets — when jogging on trails because he is afraid of snakes. He’d also seen coyotes in the area.
When one came out of the brush toward his daughter’s Labrador retriever, Perry charged.
“Don’t attack my dog or you might get shot … if you’re a coyote,” he said Tuesday.
Perry, a Republican running for a third full term against Democrat Bill White, is living in a private house in a hilly area southwest of downtown Austin while the Governor’s Mansion is being repaired after a 2008 fire. A concealed handgun permit holder, Perry carries the gun in a belt.-[source]
 The National Rifle Association announced its support for critical legislation being introduced in Congress today by Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Representatives Travis Childers (D-Miss.) and Mark Souder (R-Ind.). The Second Amendment Enforcement Act will restore Second Amendment rights to residents of the District of Columbia. This legislation is necessary because the D.C. Council continues to circumvent the Supreme Court’s historic 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.
Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, said, “It’s a shame that this legislation is even necessary to restore rights that citizens of the District should already have the freedom to exercise. We are grateful that a bipartisan group of members of Congress led by Senators McCain and Tester, and Congressmen Childers and Souder, have taken this significant step to require the D.C. Council to abide by the Heller decision and allow law-abiding citizens in D.C. to protect themselves and their loved ones.”
The Second Amendment Enforcement Act seeks to secure for District residents the rights reinforced by the Supreme Court’s decision in Heller. The legislation would repeal D.C.’s ban on many common semi-automatic firearms, restore the right of self-defense in the home, authorize purchases of firearms and ammunition by D.C. residents, repeal the District’s burdensome gun registration requirement and ensure that firearms may be transported and carried for legitimate purposes.
“Since the Heller ruling, the D.C. Council has willfully disregarded the intentions of our nation’s highest court,” Cox continued. “NRA remains committed to restoring the right to self-defense for law-abiding citizens in Washington, D.C. by whatever legal or legislative means necessary.”
The legislation introduced today is similar to the Ensign Amendment adopted by the Senate in 2009, and to the Childers Amendment that passed the House in 2008. Both measures passed their respective chambers with broad bi-partisan majorities. -[source]
Six years after the state Supreme Court dismissed his $433 million lawsuit against the gun industry, Mayor Daley today called for a change of venue — to the World Court normally reserved for disputes between nations and crimes against humanity.
Wrapping up the sixth annual Richard J. Daley Global Cities Forum, Daley convinced more than a dozen of his counterparts from around the world to approve a resolution urging “redress against the gun industry through the courts of the world” in The Hague.
“This is coming from international mayors. They’re saying, ‘We’re tired of your guns, America. … We don’t want those anymore because guns kill and injure people,’ ” Daley told a news conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago. -[source]
The false paranoia was thick last week during the Second Amendment March in Washington where gun advocates were demonstrating for their right to bear arms.
Granted, viagra 100mg Washington is no stranger to groups protesting injustices, social or criminal. But gun advocates’ fear for their Second Amendment rights seems about as misplaced as the banking industry’s fear of running low on foreclosures.
If anything, the Second Amendment March should have been a celebration of the rampant growth in gun freedoms and ownership in the last two decades.
Today there are more guns in the hands of citizens of the United States than at anytime in history. We are the most armed nation on earth. More than a third of all Americans own firearms. Two hundred seventy million firearms — that’s 42 percent of all the civilian firearms owned throughout the world — are in the hands of U.S. citizens. Based on population that’s 90 weapons per 100 U.S. citizens.-[source]
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