Hypocrite

The Joyce Puppet for Oregon left a comment over at Weer'd's claiming that we really don't care about kids' safety but he's an expert. What he really shows is that he's a hypocrite.

The friends I’m thinking of were truthful when I asked, and my kids still play there because I was wise enough to ask about how they were stored (in a locked safe).

Well that sounds like good parenting, right? What makes him a hypocrite then? Why this professed belief:

No home with children should have a gun, even if it's locked up

So even though he believes NO home w/ children and firearms can be safe, he allows his children to play in one. Does he ask every time they go over to the 'friends' if all the firearms are locked up? Does he personally inspect the home? I doubt it. So he's going on blind trust of certain individuals he's decided are 'safe' but anyone else is 'sick'. And the final kicker to just nail down his need to disassociate himself no matter the mental maneuvering involved ?

And you *always* downplay the dangers of guns in the home, scoffing at careful parents who ask critical questions, including about guns, trusting that gun owners are always going to be responsible with their weapons, yet you are so paranoid that the people you don’t know well could be sex abusers or heroin addicts or whatever.

Pot meet kettle.

Has it been 5 years already?

The County Sheriff’s office was kind enough to snail mail me a reminder that my Oregon Concealed Handgun License was going to expire soon and that I needed to renew it.

So that’s what I did today.

Showed up at the courthouse room 317 and stood both behind and in front of someone else doing the exact same thing. The nice cop lady processing the paperwork was an ABSOLUTE JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could tell she was a strong proponent of concealed carry based on the informal banter between her and the dude in front of me. I smiled and laughed a bit at some of their exchanges. There’s a raw sorta something about LEO’s and Joe-Shmoes conversing about guns, carry options and ballistics that made me lower my paperwork in front of my ever-growing chubber. I waited a total of 10 minutes for my turn and I spent that time reflecting on all my time invested on countering the antis, posting here on DOOT and just the whole concept of what it really means to fight a cold war, politically, instead of a hot one, literally.

After the nice cop lady finished with the dude in front of me, she smiled at me and said, “The same thing?”

I smiled back and simply said, “You betcha, this is my first renewal so be gentle with me.” She laughed and said, “excellent.”

I filled out the forms, I paid the $50 and got my photograph updated.

Nice cop lady gave me a temporary permit until my next 5 year installment of freedom shows up in the snail mail.

I don’t think that I need to coax Thirdpower to fight for the last spot on the totem pole as a resident of Illinois; but a friendly reminder that most of the rest of us can do this as a routine measure should agitate him “just enough” to justify some good-natured friendly ribbing from me.

Thirdpower, your State is the last one.

We’re rooting for you……….but we’re doing it while standing in line and renewing our CCW permits.

Join us.

Quote of the Day

On the lack of 'Wild West Shootouts' and 'Blood in the Streets' in Michigan after going to a non-discriminatory CCW system:

"We were all a little too caught up imaging what might happen,"
---Ionia County Prosecutor Ronald Schafer

The basis of most PSH when it comes to firearms.

SKS's Now Registerable in Chicago

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:

The Denial by the Chicago Police Department of David Lawson’s registration of the subject four SKS Rifles is REVERSED. The subject rifles are not prohibited under the Municipal Code of Chicago, 8-20-170, and therefore, registration certification shall issue accordingly. Pursuant to Section 2-14-102 of the Chicago Municipal Code, this decision is final and subject to review under the Illinois Administrative Review Act.

Many thanks to David Lawson, one of the litigants in McDonald v Chicago and one of the most active pro-rights individuals in the nation.

MSSA v Holder Appellant Brief Filed

Accordingly, the Court is respectfully requested to:

1. Overrule the district court’s decision to affirm the Attorney
General’s ruling that the Montana Firearms Freedom Act is preempted
by the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act;
2. Remand the case, with directions to enter a declaratory
judgement in favor of Appellants, and enjoin the Attorney General from
prosecuting anyone who acts in compliance with the MFFA;

Read the entire brief available here.

DOOT Milestone

Sometime yesterday morning. Days Of Our Trailers logged it's 500,000th visitor.

Don't you people have lives? :)

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Quote of the Day

Chicago is refusing to register SKS rifles because they 'could' be converted into the city's definition of an 'assault weapon'. Hilarity ensues. The defendants brought in an expert witness to prove the CPD is FOS.

"On cross, Chicago asked Mr. Queen if he was being paid to testify.

Answer: No.

They then asked “so you are doing this out of the kindness of your heart?”

Answer: As a matter of fact, yes."

Beautiful.

Now realize just how stupid this is. As was noted. Any shotgun can be 'converted' w/ a hacksaw. They allow 10/22's to be registered and those are even easier to 'convert' to an 'assault weapon' than a SKS but is missing the 'scary' factor of the name making the officers mess themselves over the mere presence.

Just Not Feeling It.

The whole thing w/ the 'Debt Ceiling' has really shown me that this country is screwed beyond repair. The politicians are patting themselves on the back for 'cutting' spending when all their doing is the equivalent of feeling proud they cancelled the newspaper delivery while they use credit cards to pay the mortgage.

Our education system is seemingly designed to make kids feel better about themselves but not actually learn anything. Little Johnny has self esteem but he can't read anything but the McDonalds menu or the TV guide.

I read a sci-fi story some years back that followed succeeding generations of a family and how it went from a fairly prosperous middle-class family to a street kid being interviewed by a foreign sociologist as to why the country collapsed.

Numerous people over the last few months, knowing I'm a 'gun nut', have asked me about recommendations for what they should do to prepare. Not only defense, but how to get food, water, where to go, what to do, etc. because they also feel we're beyond recovery.

It's bread and circuses time and the barbarians are at the gates.

Quote(s) for the day

What's better than spanking the antis with their own words? What's better than making them look absolutely bonkers? What's better than using facts, logic and a bit of wit to expose their huge pile of fail?

Uh.....when they do it all by themselves. Here's a comment and the most pathetic attempt at a supportive reply that I've seen in at least an hour.

Comments seen on HuffPo:

"If I'm killed by a drug dealer, will the NRA care about MY (lost forever) constition­al rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness being infringed upon?"

"That depends, would you be in your mothers fetus at the time?"

Seriously folks, there comes a time when observing the stupidity of others turns from mild entertainment into something which kinda freaks me out.

*Tee hee.......sigh..........shudder

Chicago v Toronto: UPDATE

Some gun control groups are touting a series called 'Under the Gun',(UPDATE: brought to you by a grant from the Joyce Foundation) proclaiming that we need Canadian style gun control here because of the violence in Chicago. Nevermind the fact that Chicago already has some of the strictest laws in the nation, let's take a look as some other factors that might, just might, have more to do w/ the difference:

That guy was looking for somebody to kill. He was a gang-banger, and he been back over here shooting since then,” she said...

Lawrence adopted her great-grandson Shawn when he was four because Lawrence's granddaughter gave up all three of her children. Lawrence says her granddaughter just didn't want to be bothered with raising them...

Back in Englewood, Shawn Carter's great-grandmother she says Shawn's killer later shot up their corner when kids and families were outside on their front porches.

She's had some contact with the detectives working Shawn's case and says she thinks Shawn's killer got arrested for shooting a little girl.

“I found out he was locked up, police say he was locked up. But the detective he thought he'd never get charged with Shawn's murder,” she said.

Lawrence says that's because the boy who was with Shawn when he was killed refused to point out the killer in a police lineup. She figures he's too scared to do it....

Violent gang bangers, a justice system incapable of dealing w/ it, poverty, broken families... just to name a few factors w/ the highest crime rates being where these factors are most prevalent (like the Englewood neighborhood). But like the fact that CCW holders are prevalently law-abiding, that doesn't fit that narrative that gun control advocates need to endorse to try and restrict firearms.

So Tell Me PEG-Heads

How many of you could have named Gabrielle Giffords as a Congressional Representative or even knew where she was from before Jan. 8th?



Will you say the same thing if she doesn't come out for your pet gun restrictions or will we start seeing the usual hit pieces against her?