Otis Mcdonald Passes

Via ISRA:

It is with great regret that I inform you of the passing of Otis McDonald.  Otis was 79.  I have always considered Otis as one of those people who lived everyday bravely and was not a hero because of one event but was a hero every day of his life.

Richard A Pearson

Executive Director

Illinois State Rifle Association

I had the great pleasure to meet Mr. McDonald on several occasions and spend an evening over dinner w/ him after an IGOLD:


He was a gentleman and an advocate.  Starting out from humble beginnings, his contribution to society is immeasurable.  He will be missed and mourned by many.

Private Citizens and the Ivory Tower

Private citizen runs afoul of the law, pays his fine, then works to change the law. 

Sounds exactly like what the process is supposed to do, right? 

Not according to elitist politicians who feel legislation is their exclusive arena. 

“If I got a ticket and changed the law because I got a ticket, people would be screaming bloody murder,” said state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, a gun-control advocate.

If you changed the law to benefit yourself, kind of like what Alderman Mell did in Chicago a few years back, then that would be true.  If you pushed to change the law AFTER the fact to help people in the future, what's the problem? 

The problem is that Cassidy hates this particular private citizen, Todd Vandermyde, a firearm rights lobbyist, with a passion because V. has been kicking Cassidy's @ss back and forth across the legislative floor the last few years. 

Media Bias: Criminal Minds

I've talked about the bias against firearms on this show several times.  Since it's the series on queue that the other half and I are currently watching, I've gotten the chance to find more.  This one is from Season 6: Hanley Waters. A distraught and mentally disturbed woman goes to a gun shop to buy a gun. The owner tells her that without a license or carry permit, she has to wait 72 hours to get the gun.  Then he puts an application in front of her, leaving her and the handgun alone. 

Florida has no handgun licensing that I'm aware of but that's minor compared to the next bit. 

She loads the gun and blows away the owner and all the customers.  Cut to BAU headquarters:

Computer person does a victim check.  The owner and all the customers are described as middle-aged white men, divorced, with anger issues and histories of violence.  She tries to find .38 revolvers through a gun registry and finds 'hundreds' that meet their profile.  Florida has no registration. She then goes on a rant

Penelope Garcia: Florida's a stand-your-ground state.
Dr. Spencer Reid: Castle Doctrine based on English common law that allows homeowners to use deadly force to protect their land.
Penelope Garcia: Yeah, it's a highfalutin way of saying that the gun laws are lax at best. After the 2008 elections, the Floridians were nervous about losing their second amendment rights, and gun sales shot through the roof, pun intended.

So we have demonization/stereotyping of firearm owners through negative portrayals, attacks/commentary on pro-gun laws that had nothing to do w/ the case at hand, and even some Obama propaganda added into the mix. 

Gotta love it.

.@CSGV's 'Well Regulated Militias"

Ladd Everitt and his cohort of statist fanatics have called for the restriction of firearms in civilian hands and any 'militias' to be under strict government control.  Kind of like in Venezuela:

Similar shootings across Venezuela by gunmen allied with the socialist-led government have claimed at least seven lives and left more than 30 people wounded since the anti-government protests began in mid-February...
 President Nicolas Maduro has done nothing to publicly discourage the violence by armed pro-government militants, loosely known as "colectivos," which are also blamed for scores more cases of beatings and intimidation in multiple cities...
At the latter gathering, Vice President Jorge Arreaza told his guests, "If there has been exemplary behavior it has been the behavior of the motorcycle colectivos that are with the Bolivarian revolution." 

Government approved terrorism is just fine.  Peaceable protests are 'insurrectionism'.

That's the gun control way.

Living In Fear

Woman meets a guy who's allegedly a 'machine gun' manufacturer and calls the cops on him just because she's scared of the idea.

Another one of those 'blue state' transplants that want to get away from the problems they've created and then start trying to create them in their new nest. 


But I bet she'ld still vote for State Sen. Yee in a heartbeat.