Mmmmm.... Bacon

Meatloaf w/ a layer of weaved bacon & BBQ sauce.

Before the oven



After the oven



Most yummy.

Endorsement Policies

There's been lots of chatter over the various endorsements and grades made by the NRA, ISRA, etc. One of the most contentious issues has been of Debbie Halvorson, D, IL-11.

Agree w/ it or not, the NRA and the ISRA have a defined policy of who they're going to support.

Something I noticed today was the GOA's grade for Halvorson. I checked a few weeks ago and for the 110th Congress, they had rated her an "A" on their website for the 110th Congress. Looking now, that old list is no longer available through them but can be found elsewhere. According to 'Project Vote Smart', the GOA's 'April Ratings' gave her an 'A'. Now they rate her a "D".

What is the policy that had her drop 4 grades in less than a year? Inquiring minds want to know.

Broad Brush Smearing Is All That's Left

Dennis "I Forgot The People" Henigan, fresh from having his rear handed to him over the Mexican Gun Canard, decided to cover up his foible w/ some good old-fashioned NRA bashing.

The usual fabricated talking points. Militias are controlled by the NRA, Tim McVeigh, insurrectionist, blah blah, yak yak.

This is the same slide that Josh Horowitz and his CSGV went down in their road to irrelevancy.

And Paul Helmke's ghostwriter pops up today as well w/ a post following the VPC tactic of trying to label all concealed carry holders as "untrained, under-trained, emotionally unstable or impulsive people" w/ a whopping two incidents out of the 3-4 million license holders in the US.

Pathetic.

And yeah. I'm enjoying it.

And what's really entertaining as the comments come up are their supporters aren't saying phrases like 'reasonable' or 'common-sense', they're using words like 'ban' and 'confiscate' showing just how far the mainstream they really are.

Bye Bye AHSA.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Back in May, it was noticed that the AHSA almost lost their domain name. And that they hadn't updated it in some time.

Well I decided to pop by for a visit today to see what was up. This is what I found:

So I wonder how all those alleged 'hunters and shooters' that supported them feel now?

73% Of Statistics Are Made Up On The Spot

From John Rosenthal, founder of Stop Handgun Ownership Violence and 'I'm a gun owner but..."

the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reports that 90% of guns used by Mexican drug cartels are purchased from federally licensed gun dealers in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California

Ummm, no John. Either you're stupid or lying (or both). The BATFE says no such thing and you know it.

He also says:

"just 1% of licensed gun dealers are responsible for selling 57% of gun traced to crime in the US"

Again an outright lie or stupidity showing he either knows nothing about firearm laws or he's blatantly trying to confuse the few people that listen to him. Here's the CRS report on just how Rosenthal's misusing information:

ATF has consistently stated that trace frequency,
in and of itself, is not indicative of criminal activity by an FFL.

Honestly, I don't think the 'tipping point' for him has anything to do w/ guns. Sounds more like he's been tipping bottles.

No Correlation in Canada

I love gun control advocates. I really do. Pretty much every time they argue for it, it gives me more information to argue against them, particularly when they don't bother reading the reports they cite as 'proof'.

Case in point. An alleged Canadian claimed that gun control there reduced crime. She cited a report from statistics Canada that was very carefully written to support that claim with nice charts right in front showing decreasing deaths by firearms and marks to the various laws enacted.

Two problems:

1) The suicide deaths by firearms were decreasing before the various gun control schemes were enacted. A weak correlation at best.

2) The rate of firearm homicides did decrease. In proportion the the decline in homicides overall. "the share of homicides in which a firearm was used remained
fairly stable over the entire period". No correlation there at all.

So for all their attempts to maintain the myth that gun control works, their own numbers show different.

AON Corporation Supporting Gun Control

From the ISRA:

The ISRA is calling upon all lawful American firearm owners to stop doing business with AON Corporation and its subsidiaries. This call for a boycott comes after published reports disclosed that AON is bankrolling a fundraiser for the political arm of the nation's most radical gun control organization. Not only is the fundraiser being financed by AON, it is also being held in a posh club atop AON's Chicago headquarters.

The October 4th event, which AON will hold on behalf of the "Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence," will raise money to fund the Brady Campaign's efforts to impose severe restrictions on citizens' 2nd Amendment rights. Such restrictions include bans on civilian ownership of handguns, target rifles, and popular hunting firearms. The Brady organization also seeks to shutter small firearm retailers and prohibit law-abiding citizens from using firearms to protect their homes and their families.

So the BC is trying to raise money for for their PAC. My guess would be to support Emanuel's Mayor Campaign and to try to keep their losses in N. Illinois to a minimum.

Obviously He's Confused

Rev. 'Snuffy' Pleger had people who were victims of beatings call for more gun control in Chicago.

Huh?

Yeah. Good ol' Snuffy, who called for violence against firearm dealers, decided since no-one is listening to him in his own neighborhood, he'ld go to one of the nice neighborhoods and ask them for support. Of course the people there have lots of police, private security, money, and very low crime.

Maybe Snuff should think about the fact that those neighborhoods have the exact same laws and less crime. Or the fact that the rest of the state, with much less restrictive laws than Chicago, has 1/5th the crime rate of the city.

But he won't because looking in that mirror is to painful.