Thursday, April 10, 2008
Law Abiding Gun Banners..
Showing the levels they'll take their hysteria, they pass ordinances in violation of state law. Just like in California, courts will have to show them how to follow the law. But remember, it's bad if we don't follow or are unaware of unconstitutional or vague anti-gun laws but it's perfectly justified to pass illegal laws if it's for their cause.
Zombie bills
One Gun a Month and Mandatory storage bills were (sort of) defeated in the Illinois House. They were withdrawn during the vote when it was noticed that they wouldn't get the 60 votes required for passage. They are now under the classification "CONSIDERATION POSTPONED" meaning they can come back from the dead at any time.
Not quite as good as the SF victory but it'll do for now. Now we just need to defeat the magazine and private sale ban.
Armed and Safe has more.
It's interesting to note that Gov. Rod met w/ the anti-gun protesters but has refused to meet w/ pro-gun advocates.
Not quite as good as the SF victory but it'll do for now. Now we just need to defeat the magazine and private sale ban.
Armed and Safe has more.
It's interesting to note that Gov. Rod met w/ the anti-gun protesters but has refused to meet w/ pro-gun advocates.
And then there were 73.
73 counties have passed Pro-2A resolutions w/ 5 more proposed. Yet the politicians in Chicago feel they should force their ineffective laws on the rest of the state.
Good thing he gave them what they wanted..
otherwise he may have gotten hurt.
A 30-year-old man standing in a mall parking lot was shot four times during a robbery Wednesday night on the South Side.
The man was standing in the parking lot of a “mini-mall” at the 2000 block of East 95th Street when two unknown black men approached and one of the men shot the victim four times on the right side of his body during a robbery, according to a South Chicago District police sergeant.
Let them protest..
Numerous blogs have commented on the Brady Bunch and PEG heads stating that they'll ignore the law and have their demonstration on 4/16 at VT anyway. While there are some reports that the University has decided to allow it in some capacity.
I encourage them to continue w/ their plans. The statements by Peter Hamm and in this editorial by PEG head Elilita Habtu show how disingenuous and hypocritical these organizations are:
So they aren't pushing an agenda but are pushing an agenda. Gotcha.
Let them protest. Let them show not only the students at VT what they're all about but all the people watching the coverage. Show them that the PuSH'ers will do anything and dance on anybody's grave to get what they want.
I encourage them to continue w/ their plans. The statements by Peter Hamm and in this editorial by PEG head Elilita Habtu show how disingenuous and hypocritical these organizations are:
There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of the author of the article, "Protest Easy Guns Not Welcomed On Our Campus." The author seems to think that protesteasyguns.org simply wish to push an agenda and use the tragedy at Tech to further its cause. This is absolutely false.
Let me explain to you who stands behind protesteasyguns.org. They are concerned Americans who are tired of gun violence in America, who want a change in current U.S. gun laws that make it far too easy for dangerous individuals to purchase guns.So they aren't pushing an agenda but are pushing an agenda. Gotcha.
Let them protest. Let them show not only the students at VT what they're all about but all the people watching the coverage. Show them that the PuSH'ers will do anything and dance on anybody's grave to get what they want.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
You do not need to be in congress to rip the people off
Would you like a job that you can “on the company credit card” blow $14,000 on Internet dating and a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse dinner for 81 people. $360 on lingerie. Then Uncle Sam wants you. Yes the Good Old
News Update: SailorCurt is a Spammer ..
As he goes around making off topic posts stumping for the VCDL Blog of which he is an author. Maybe if he didn't go around advertising the VCDL blog he might get a little more done. Really. Who needs another pro-gun blog anyway? I think we should all boycott the VCDL blog just out of spite. The VCDL should know better.
So where did the bullets go?
Police fire shots at boy they say raised gun
Chicago police officers fired shots at a 15-year-old boy who allegedly started to point a gun at them during a chase Wednesday morning on the West Side, but no one was hit, police said.
The incident occurred about 10 a.m. near 23rd Street and Millard Avenue, police said. The teen was suspected of selling drugs and was running from officers when he raised the gun toward them and they opened fire, police said.
The boy was not hit and did not fire back. He was arrested on the scene, and his gun was recovered. Charges were pending.
Ok. Drug dealing teen in Chicago. Nothing new there. However, the CPD fired "shots", that would be plural meaning more than one, and did not hit him.
Where did the bullets go?
Chicago police officers fired shots at a 15-year-old boy who allegedly started to point a gun at them during a chase Wednesday morning on the West Side, but no one was hit, police said.
The incident occurred about 10 a.m. near 23rd Street and Millard Avenue, police said. The teen was suspected of selling drugs and was running from officers when he raised the gun toward them and they opened fire, police said.
The boy was not hit and did not fire back. He was arrested on the scene, and his gun was recovered. Charges were pending.
Ok. Drug dealing teen in Chicago. Nothing new there. However, the CPD fired "shots", that would be plural meaning more than one, and did not hit him.
Where did the bullets go?
No Check Left Behind
as the fourth Chicago Public School Official is caught stealing thousands from the coffers.
Mirna Diaz Ortiz, 54, of the 4400 block of West Hutchinson St. was charged with two counts of theft between $10,000 and $100,000, 36 counts of forgery and four counts of official misconduct, according to Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Russell Baker. If convicted, she faces up to 5 years in prison.
Yet they can spend thousands busing students for lobbying while at the same time crying they don't have enough money to educate them. Maybe if they spent more time teaching instead of lining their pockets and pushing political agendas, Chicago would have a higher than 51% graduation rate.
But that would make sense.
Mirna Diaz Ortiz, 54, of the 4400 block of West Hutchinson St. was charged with two counts of theft between $10,000 and $100,000, 36 counts of forgery and four counts of official misconduct, according to Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Russell Baker. If convicted, she faces up to 5 years in prison.
Yet they can spend thousands busing students for lobbying while at the same time crying they don't have enough money to educate them. Maybe if they spent more time teaching instead of lining their pockets and pushing political agendas, Chicago would have a higher than 51% graduation rate.
But that would make sense.
Snuffy publishes hit list..
After calling for shop owners and legislators who oppose him to be "snuffed out", the Rev. Plfeger has published a list of those he wants taken down just days before he heads to Springfield to threaten lobby legislators against legal gun ownership.
Should the legislators on his list be concerned? Think the ISP should provide extra protection for them in lieu of the threats made? What would the response be if a prominent pro-rights advocate made the same comments?
As Uncle has asked, why are anti-gunners so violent?
Should the legislators on his list be concerned? Think the ISP should provide extra protection for them in lieu of the threats made? What would the response be if a prominent pro-rights advocate made the same comments?
As Uncle has asked, why are anti-gunners so violent?
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Can Hillary be President?
An interesting case:
Stupid? Yes. It makes an interesting debate for those that try to split hairs over wording though.
Article. II.
Section 1.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
An 80-year-old Reno man has filed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. Constitution doesn't allow for women to run for president.
Douglas Wallace says the Constitution refers to "he" and "his" in describing presidential duties and because of that, a woman can't hold the office.
Wallace says the Constitution would have to be amended to allow New York Senator Hillary Clinton to appear on this November's presidential ballot.
Legal scholars call the suit "without merit."
Stupid? Yes. It makes an interesting debate for those that try to split hairs over wording though.
Article. II.
Section 1.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Dishonesty, thy name is Brady..
The Brady's are pushing for a magazine ban and universal background checks in Illinois. Here's the Magazine ban bill:
Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the sexual exploitation of children.
Wait,that has nothing to do w/ firearm magazines. But the amendment does:
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1
Deletes reference to:
720 ILCS 5/11-9.1
Adds reference to:
720 ILCS 5/24-1.8 new
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that beginning 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act, it is unlawful for any person within this State to knowingly manufacture, deliver, sell, purchase, or possess or cause to be manufactured, delivered, sold, purchased, or possessed a large capacity ammunition feeding device. Provides that these provisions do not apply to a person who possessed a prohibited weapon, device, or attachment before the effective date of this amendatory Act. Provides that on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act, such person may transfer such device only to an heir, an individual residing in another state maintaining that device in another state, or a dealer licensed as a federal firearms dealer. Specifies penalties for violations. Provides exemptions. Provides that the provisions of the Act are severable. Effective immediately.
So good ol' Sen Kotowski, the same man who was caught lying to the legislature about .50 cal rifles is still trying to push a bill under false colors.
The second bill is they typical "force people to use FFL's that we're trying to sue and legislate out of existence" garbage.
Does anyone think that it's a coincidence that these bills, promoted and endorsed by Daley puppets, are coming up for votes at the same time another puppet is busing Chicago highschoolers to lobby for them?
Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the sexual exploitation of children.
Wait,that has nothing to do w/ firearm magazines. But the amendment does:
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1
Deletes reference to:
720 ILCS 5/11-9.1
Adds reference to:
720 ILCS 5/24-1.8 new
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that beginning 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act, it is unlawful for any person within this State to knowingly manufacture, deliver, sell, purchase, or possess or cause to be manufactured, delivered, sold, purchased, or possessed a large capacity ammunition feeding device. Provides that these provisions do not apply to a person who possessed a prohibited weapon, device, or attachment before the effective date of this amendatory Act. Provides that on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act, such person may transfer such device only to an heir, an individual residing in another state maintaining that device in another state, or a dealer licensed as a federal firearms dealer. Specifies penalties for violations. Provides exemptions. Provides that the provisions of the Act are severable. Effective immediately.
So good ol' Sen Kotowski, the same man who was caught lying to the legislature about .50 cal rifles is still trying to push a bill under false colors.
The second bill is they typical "force people to use FFL's that we're trying to sue and legislate out of existence" garbage.
Does anyone think that it's a coincidence that these bills, promoted and endorsed by Daley puppets, are coming up for votes at the same time another puppet is busing Chicago highschoolers to lobby for them?
Public funds for lobbying. ...
For the second time in as many weeks, Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Arne Duncan is using public education funds to bus students to lobby legislators for personal agendas. This time takes them to the state capitol. Two hours away from the city. As usual, emotion is clouding logic:
"My uncle was killed due to guns, so I want to give him his voice," said student Emmanuel Izaguirre.
No kid, your uncle was killed due to criminals using guns. While extracurricular activities will hopefully make a difference, the fact that the gangs run the streets while too many in the CPD are showing they're little better will negate most positive influences. If guns were really the problem, you'ld see much higher crime rates in the rest of the state where legal ownership is more prevalent.
"My uncle was killed due to guns, so I want to give him his voice," said student Emmanuel Izaguirre.
No kid, your uncle was killed due to criminals using guns. While extracurricular activities will hopefully make a difference, the fact that the gangs run the streets while too many in the CPD are showing they're little better will negate most positive influences. If guns were really the problem, you'ld see much higher crime rates in the rest of the state where legal ownership is more prevalent.
Licensing rights...
Works both ways..
Yet they're already trying to find "loopholes":
"I think we'll have to figure out what's going on," said Brady Campaign spokesman Doug Pennington. He added that students and friends of last year's shooting victims are among those who want to participate in the demonstration, "so, I'm sure where there's a will, there's a way without breaking any rules."
So are they admitting they are the same ethically as the firearm manufacturers they attack so much for violating the spirit of the Clinton AWB?
I'll admit there's a little schadenfreude when a group that advocates restricting others rights by the same methods gets bit by them.
Virginia Tech said yesterday that it will not allow a national gun-control advocacy group to hold a campus demonstration on April 16 while the school commemorates last year's massacre.
Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said neither the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence nor the co-sponsor of the planned demonstration, ProtestEasyGuns.com, had applied for an assembly permit, and even if they had, Tech only issues permits to student groups.
Tech's position threw the Brady Campaign's plans into disarray yesterday: The noon demonstration at Tech was supposed to be the centerpiece of a nationwide series of events on April 16 in more than 70 cities and towns.Yet they're already trying to find "loopholes":
"I think we'll have to figure out what's going on," said Brady Campaign spokesman Doug Pennington. He added that students and friends of last year's shooting victims are among those who want to participate in the demonstration, "so, I'm sure where there's a will, there's a way without breaking any rules."
So are they admitting they are the same ethically as the firearm manufacturers they attack so much for violating the spirit of the Clinton AWB?
I'll admit there's a little schadenfreude when a group that advocates restricting others rights by the same methods gets bit by them.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Guns and Godlessness..
Are apparently the two most dangerous things in America according to Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago).
Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, "What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it's dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!
"This is the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God," Davis said. "Get out of that seat . . . You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon."
That's right Rep. Davis. Let's have some good old fashioned censorship. That's the American way.
Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, "What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it's dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!
"This is the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God," Davis said. "Get out of that seat . . . You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon."
That's right Rep. Davis. Let's have some good old fashioned censorship. That's the American way.
Englewood, violent repeat offenders, murders, nothing new here
South Side man charged in teen's fatal bat beating
A 22-year-old man on parole for a weapons conviction was charged with murder Monday in the beating death of a South Side teen in a melee that erupted after a weekend party on the South Side, authorities said.
Records show Tucker is on parole for a 2005 conviction for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison in that case, and his parole was scheduled to end in June 2009, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
The party in an Englewood home was supposed to be a haven for young teens, a chance for them to drink Kool-Aid and dance to their favorite songs, free from the fear of violence that often stalks the streets outside, according to neighbors.
Then enter the ones who really drink the Kool-Aid:
At a news conference Monday morning at the Englewood High School campus, schools chief Arne Duncan said the latest killing shows how fractured neighborhoods are becoming. He said residents must do more to make sure guns are off the street and children are safe.
Wait. Did I read that right? He's going on about "guns" during an interview about a teenager killed w/ a bat by a convicted felon out on parole?
He goes on:
"People are walking with baseball bats . . . with golf clubs . . . with guns. We have to take back our streets. We have to take back our communities. We cannot give in to the gangs," Duncan said.
You already have Chief, you already have.
A 22-year-old man on parole for a weapons conviction was charged with murder Monday in the beating death of a South Side teen in a melee that erupted after a weekend party on the South Side, authorities said.
Records show Tucker is on parole for a 2005 conviction for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison in that case, and his parole was scheduled to end in June 2009, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
The party in an Englewood home was supposed to be a haven for young teens, a chance for them to drink Kool-Aid and dance to their favorite songs, free from the fear of violence that often stalks the streets outside, according to neighbors.
Then enter the ones who really drink the Kool-Aid:
At a news conference Monday morning at the Englewood High School campus, schools chief Arne Duncan said the latest killing shows how fractured neighborhoods are becoming. He said residents must do more to make sure guns are off the street and children are safe.
Wait. Did I read that right? He's going on about "guns" during an interview about a teenager killed w/ a bat by a convicted felon out on parole?
He goes on:
"People are walking with baseball bats . . . with golf clubs . . . with guns. We have to take back our streets. We have to take back our communities. We cannot give in to the gangs," Duncan said.
You already have Chief, you already have.
Someone in Chicago gets it...
CPS Interfaith Director, Rev. Renaldo Kyles said, "This is a situation where the gun wasn't used. It's not just guns, it's violence. That's what we have to get to our young people, to teach them better conflict resolution, let them know better way of resolving their differences."
He and others say children need to learn the difference between right and wrong from someone. They need to learn to value life.
Exactly Rev. , the murder rate for the rest of the state is half that of the city while legal firearm ownership is exponentially higher.
He and others say children need to learn the difference between right and wrong from someone. They need to learn to value life.
Exactly Rev. , the murder rate for the rest of the state is half that of the city while legal firearm ownership is exponentially higher.
The state of US education.
Perhaps the fact that the US is falling in it's education of our youth is due to the professors who are teaching the students. Case in point:
Barack Obama believes the Second Amendment creates an individual right, and he greatly respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms.
Yep. You read that right. This former Constitutional Law Professor believes that the COTUS CREATES rights and they are not inherent. What can be created can be destroyed.
Notice what is missing in the next statement?
He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting.
Yep. No "self-defense" or "protection" in his world. As has been reported elsewhere, he opposes CCW. No surprise there.
And then come the weasel words:
He also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and
commonsense regulation.
Ah yes, like those "reasonable" handgun bans and calls for semi-auto bans. Just like all the "reasonable" and "commonsense" measures promoted by they Joyce Foundation of which he was a board member including lawsuits against manufacturers*, deliberate misinformation about regulations**, and forcing people to store their firearms at "gun clubs"***.
Now why would a Professor tell his students that the right was "created"?
*One of the health systems is considering suing gun manufacturers to recover the
costs of treating gunshot wounds, Heins says,
**In fact, “people are surprised when they
hear that guns are not regulated,” she says,
***IPGV urges people to seek secure, locked storage of firearms
outside the home, such as storing rifles at gun clubs in the off-season.
Barack Obama believes the Second Amendment creates an individual right, and he greatly respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms.
Yep. You read that right. This former Constitutional Law Professor believes that the COTUS CREATES rights and they are not inherent. What can be created can be destroyed.
Notice what is missing in the next statement?
He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting.
Yep. No "self-defense" or "protection" in his world. As has been reported elsewhere, he opposes CCW. No surprise there.
And then come the weasel words:
He also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and
commonsense regulation.
Ah yes, like those "reasonable" handgun bans and calls for semi-auto bans. Just like all the "reasonable" and "commonsense" measures promoted by they Joyce Foundation of which he was a board member including lawsuits against manufacturers*, deliberate misinformation about regulations**, and forcing people to store their firearms at "gun clubs"***.
Now why would a Professor tell his students that the right was "created"?
*One of the health systems is considering suing gun manufacturers to recover the
costs of treating gunshot wounds, Heins says,
**In fact, “people are surprised when they
hear that guns are not regulated,” she says,
***IPGV urges people to seek secure, locked storage of firearms
outside the home, such as storing rifles at gun clubs in the off-season.
absolut backfire
So nice to see that a company wanting the
I do not think they “Get it” I for one can say I will never drink their swill again. What will they do for an Oncor?
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Charlton Heston. 1923-2008
Statement of Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association of America:
Today, my heart is heavy with the loss of Charlton Heston. America has lost a great patriot. The Second Amendment has lost a faithful friend. So have I, and so have four million NRA members and eighty million gun owners. And so has every American who cares about the Bill of Rights, individual liberty, and Freedom.
My heart is heavy, but not without a sense of pride. Pride in a man who devoted his life to his profession with grace and dignity. Pride in an American who devoted himself to civil rights, to correcting injustices around him, and to standing up for what he knew was right. Pride in a friend who stood with me and stood with fellow NRA members to preserve our freedom for future generations. Pride in a patriot who believed with every fiber of his being that our Bill of Rights is the foundation of our freedom that makes Americans singular among the masses of nations.
And now, Charlton Heston has passed that duty to us - the next generation. I am as proud to continue his cause as I am to have known him as my friend.
But today, my thoughts cannot leave the Heston family. They have always had my utmost respect and admiration and, today, they have my deepest sympathy and most earnest prayers, And they will always have my friendship.
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