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(Multiple Expletives Deleted…) THIS is What We’re Fighting

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Via AR15.com I found this… (*ahem*) propaganda video produced by those concerned citizens of the Brady Center. The NRA is “bullying” Congress into “ending” the AWB! No, we concerned gun owners are “bullying” them into letting the damned useless law sunset like it’s supposed to. But that’s not how the Brady people spin it, oh no! It will “put dozens of illegal weapons back on the street!” Excuse me? It never took them off the damned street. At least they got the quantity right. Dozens is about it.

But what do they do? Frighten the kiddies! “Criminals will have access to a terrifying arsenal!” You morons, they already do! Even in England, where guns are banned, they have access to machineguns and handgrenades!

Oooh! Look at the scary guns! Right.

“12 rounds into a cop’s body in 2 seconds.” Suuuure! Can you pull a trigger twelve times in two seconds and hit anything?

Oooh! “In a recent poll, 70% of Americans supported keeping and strengthening the Assault Weapons Ban.” Well, how surprising. Who funded the poll? Who worded the poll? And who is responsible for ensuring that the populace doesn’t understand the idea of Constitutional protections of individual rights?

“Favor #2: Slam the courthouse door on victims and their families.” Oh, right. It’s the gun manufacturer’s fault when somebody is shot during a robbery. It’s the gun manufacturer’s fault when some moron points a loaded gun at someone and pulls the trigger. Are we going to sue cutlery manufacturers for stabbings with evil “assault knives?” Willl we sue them when someone cuts a finger while chopping celery? The Lousville Slugger company for baseball-bat assaults? Or players injured by flying ones? Ford, when someone deliberately runs someone over? Or drives drunk into a tree? That’s not justice, it’s a perversion of it.

“The NRA is pushing a bill giving sweeping immunity from civil lawsuits.” Well, YEAH, because the Brady Foundation and others have been using civil lawsuits in an attempt to bankrupt gun manufacturers. Here’s what several decisions in these lawsuits have said:

“Although this public nuisance lawsuit is brought by the Attorney General on behalf of the State of New York – while the Hamilton action was one initiated by private parties for negligent marketing – both were brought against handgun manufacturers and sellers. Plaintiffs attempt here to widen the range of common-law public nuisance claims in order to reach the legal handgun industry will not itself, if successful, engender a limitless number of public nuisance lawsuits by individuals against these particular defendants, as was a stated concern in Hamilton (96 NY2d at 233). However, giving a green light to a common-law public nuisance cause of action today will, in our judgment, likely open the courthouse doors to a flood of limitless, similar theories of public nuisance, not only against these defendants, but also against a wide and varied array of other commercial and manufacturing enterprises and activities.

“All a creative mind would need to do is construct a scenario describing a known or perceived harm of a sort that can somehow be said to relate back to the way a company or an industry makes, markets and/or sells its non-defective, lawful product or service, and a public nuisance claim would be conceived and a lawsuit born. A variety of such lawsuits would leave the starting gate to be welcomed into the legal arena to run their cumbersome course, their vast cost and tenuous reasoning notwithstanding. Indeed, such lawsuits employed to address a host of societal problems would be invited into the courthouse whether the problems they target are real or perceived; whether the problems are in some way caused by, or perhaps merely preceded by, the defendants completely lawful business practices; regardless of the remoteness of their actual cause or of their foreseeability; and regardless of the existence, remoteness, nature and extent of any intervening causes between defendants lawful commercial conduct and the alleged harm.” – from the appeals court decision upholding the dismissal of New York v. Sturm Ruger et. al.

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“Knives are sharp, bowling balls are heavy, bullets cause puncture wounds in flesh. The law has long recognized that obvious dangers are an excluded class. Were we to decide otherwise, we would open a Pandora’s box.”

“The city could sue the manufacturers of matches for arson, or automobile manufacturers for traffic accidents, or breweries for drunken driving.

“Guns are dangerous. When someone pulls the trigger, whether intentionally or by accident, a properly functioning gun is going to discharge, and someone may be killed. The risks of guns are open and obvious.

“We hold that the trial court properly dismissed the city’s complaint. The city’s claims are too remote and seek derivatively what should be claimed only by citizens directly injured by firearms. The city cannot recover municipal costs. We overrule its assignment of error and affirm the judgment of the trial court.” – Judge Ralph Winkler, Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals in the decision upholding dismissal of Cincinnati’s lawsuit.

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“As an individual, I believe, very strongly, that handguns should be banned and that there should be stringent, effective control of other firearms. However, as a judge, I know full well that the question of whether handguns can be sold is a political one, not an issue of products liability law, and that this is a matter for the legislatures, not the courts. The unconventional theories advanced in this case (and others) are totally without merit, a misuse of products liability laws.” Judge Buchmeyer in the dismissal of Patterson v. Gesellschaft, 1206 F.Supp. 1206, 1216 (N.D. Tex. 1985)

But you won’t be hearing any of that from these people.

“Even the notorious Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply will be protected by the bill. 52 crimes were traced to guns sold by Bull’s Eye. The government discovered 238 guns missing or stolen from Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply, including the Bushmaster used by the DC snipers. Victims will have no recourse against dealers who supply guns to the criminal market.”

Where do I start? First “52 crimes were traced” is exactly backward. The BATF traces guns not crimes, so did we have one guy committing 52 crimes with one gun, or 52 different guns and different crimes? It’s pretty damned vague. How old were the guns? Were they in the possession of the original owners? Were they illegally purchased by felons? Were they “straw purchases”? Were they stolen? None of this matters to the Brady people, because all guns are bad to them. So, the “government discovered 238 guns missing or stolen” from Bull’s Eye. Wonderful. If the company was so fucked up, why did it take years for the BATF to pull the license? Regulating licensed dealers is their goddamned job! And Bull’s Eye was the source of the DC sniper’s Bushmaster? But I thought the sunsetting Assault Weapons Ban kept these guns off the street! Guess not, huh?

Get this straight – if it can be proven that the DC snipers bought that Bushmaster “under the table” then Bull’s Eye’s previous owner is civilly liable even if the preemption law passes. But if the gun was, as Malvo has confessed, stolen it’s not his fault. But you won’t hear that either.

“The NRA wants complete immunity for Bull’s Eye and other bad gun dealers and justice denied to victims and their families.” HORSESHIT! The NRA wants immunity against nuisance lawsuits that are nothing more than blatant attempts to litigate businesses into bankruptcy. The Brady bunch doesn’t give a rat’s ass about “victims and their families” except as poster-children for their pogrom against guns. They know that these lawsuits are groundless, but it hasn’t stopped them from filing them all over the country, and appealing defeat after defeat. If they actually gave a damn, they’d be giving “the victims and their families” the money that the greedy fucking trial lawyers are expecting.

“Right now gun victims can sue irresponsible gun manufacturers and dealers. The NRA wants to change this.” Fucking-A right they do. For all the reasons listed above.

“Right now, military style semi-automatic weapons are illegal.”

NO THEY ARE NOT

That is a blatant lie and the Brady bunch doesn’t give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut about lying to you if it furthers their agenda. And their agenda is to make that statement true.

“STOP THE MADNESS” Here’s an idea: STOP THE BRADY BUNCH AND THEIR ILK!

Here’s the source of this shameless bullshit, hunted down by AR15.com contributor colinjay:

Kenneth Lerer Associates
331 West 57th St
PMB 465
New York, New York 10019
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: NRAMADNESS.COM
Created on: 29-Sep-03
Expires on: 29-Sep-05
Last Updated on: 29-Sep-03

Administrative Contact:
Lerer, Ken [email protected]
Kenneth Lerer Associates
331 West 57th St
PMB 465
New York, New York 10019
United States
917.254.8732 Fax —
Technical Contact:
Lerer, Ken [email protected]
Kenneth Lerer Associates
331 West 57th St
PMB 465
New York, New York 10019
United States
917.254.8732 Fax —

Domain servers in listed order:
VARICK.DATAGRAM.COM
VANDAM.DATAGRAM.COM

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
1225 Eye St, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: NRABLACKLIST.COM
Created on: 26-Sep-03
Expires on: 26-Sep-05
Last Updated on: 26-Sep-03

Administrative Contact:
Hall, Keith [email protected]
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
1225 Eye St, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
United States
(202) 898-0792 Fax —
Technical Contact:
Hall, Keith [email protected]
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
1225 Eye St, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
United States
(202) 898-0792 Fax —

Domain servers in listed order:
VANDAM.DATAGRAM.COM
VARICK.DATAGRAM.COM

Campaign, Brady (ZSATDLEOQD)
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
1225 Eye St, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
US

Domain Name: STOPTHENRA.COM

Administrative Contact:
Campaign, Brady (35898741P) [email protected]
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
1225 Eye St, NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
US
202-898-0792

Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, Inc. (HOST-ORG) [email protected]
13200 Woodland Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20171-3025
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1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620

Record expires on 04-Sep-2006.
Record created on 04-Sep-2003.
Database last updated on 24-Feb-2004 03:24:21 EST.

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AR15.com contributor rayra googled and found this:

“Ken Lerer” pops up as a publicist / shill in New York. There is another hit for “ken lerer” in DC, and joining AOL / TIme Warner.
Then there is a “ken lerer” who left AOL Time Warner, and joined something called the “New Democracy Project” – http://www.newdemocracyproject.com/about/board/
http://www.newdemocracyproject.com/about/board/#Lerer
which states –
past Executive Vice President at AOL Time Warner, is currently head of Kenneth Lerer Associates, LLC and a lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Don’t let anybody tell you that gun owners are paranoid and that “nobody wants to take your guns away.”

These fuckers do. And they’re well organized and well financed. And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to find out that Mr. Lerer has one of the few NYC gun carry permits, or employs an armed bodyguard.

(Pardon my language, but these people really piss me off!)

Now, call your Senators and tell them that you want Senate Bill S.659 to pass without amendment.

The number is 202-224-3121. You have to call twice, once for each Senator. Do it now.

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And it Started off SO Well



Via Keepandbeararms.com

Playing with weapons breeds violent behavior, if only for a moment

BY DEBRA-LYNN B. HOOK

Several of us couples were gathered for dinner at the home of a friend, when one of our young desperados emerged from playing.

The little bandito must have been packing heat because we heard the hostess sing out from the kitchen:

“All weapons in the playroom!”

I caught the eye of my conscientious mother friend sitting across the table from me.

Weapons?

It’s not like my friend and I are purists.

Her son has in his toy chest two vintage Army tanks that once belonged to her husband. My son has a plastic box filled with miniature Revolutionary War soldiers. Her son has a toy gun his grandparents gave him for Christmas one year. Both our kids own plastic swords.

But a pack of boys of varying ages and sizes playing outside their parents’ view with a random bunch of violent toys? Hmmmm.

How times have changed. I used to play “War” with my friends literally for hours “outside my parent’s view.”

When I became the mother of a son 15 years ago, I didn’t consider toy weapons for playtime, mostly because my own girlhood toy du jour was Chatty Cathy.

As the years went by and my normal American boy began to notice he was the only male child on the block without an Ouzi (sic) for a squirt gun, I felt compelled to research the appropriateness of weapon play.

I learned that while some childhood experts believe kids who play with toy weapons become Columbine shooters, that there is no conclusive evidence to support such a theory.

Who’dathunkit? “no conclusive evidence to support such a theory”? How about any evidence to support such a theory?

I learned that Mister Rogers thought war play an appropriate, dare I say necessary, way for kids to act out a violent world. Even peacenik Joan Baez reportedly let her kids play with toy guns, contending if she didn’t, they would want them even more.

I learned from my own experience that boys will be boys, that a pork chop bone readily becomes a Colt 45 in the hands of a 4-year-old, even a 4-year-old who’s never seen anything on TV more violent than Barney.

Amazing, that, isn’t it? And another nail in the coffin of the idea that “boys and girls are the same, it’s just the way we raise them that makes them different.”

As time went on, as I watched my first son and his friends grow up – some of them with toy guns, others not – I concluded that weapon play does not necessarily breed violent tendencies, that whether a child should play with cap guns depends partly on the child, that it is not necessarily a bad thing for a child to play with toy weapons, that it may even be good.

I still didn’t like it. When all was said and done, expert wisdom or not, I simply didn’t like the way kids acted when they played with certain violent toys. Never mind violent tendencies later. The way I saw it, weapon play produced violent behavior now.

And this is a bad thing….why? Shouldn’t children learn the effects of violent behavior when they’re young, rather than find out after years of being coddled and protected? Violence often hurts, but if you don’t learn that as child, doesn’t that leave you unprepared to learn it as an adult?

And yet, knowing the power of culture and a little boys’ urges, I ultimately decided to take it one supervised weapon play at a time. Two well-behaved boys playing toy soldiers on the floor became acceptable. Ouzis (sic) in the hands of 6-year-olds, or 15-year-olds, for that matter, did not.

Even if they’re just squirt-guns? Why?

An occasional sword fight in the living room, as long as there was no actual contact, was tolerable. Neighborhood gun battles were not. All weapon play, regardless, was heavily monitored and controlled, so it didn’t escalate into something it shouldn’t.

Oh for Jebus’s sake. They’re CHILDREN, not porcelain dolls!

I didn’t say anything the other night to the hostess – a mother whose parenting I trust, by the way – even though eight boys, and, I might add, two girls, apparently were chasing each other around with what I later learned were pretend guns, swords and firefighters’ axes.

As a matter of fact, after my initial eyebrow-raising, I didn’t think much at all about the kids’ choice of play, partly because I trusted this particular group of kids and their parents, partly because I didn’t think it was my place. It wasn’t even my house. Who was I to order the kids to put down their toys and find something else to do?

And yet, as it turns out, as we parents all later realized, that’s exactly what one of us should have done. Because things did escalate, because one of the kids ended up getting hurt, because halfway through dinner, my conscientious friend’s 6-year-old son emerged scared, crying and asking his parents to take him home. She later said he had bumps on his head and a cut on his face.

Direct contact with a weapon was not the cause. The kids assured us of that. But I doubt very seriously this would have happened, had they been redirected to a rousing game of, say, Tiddlywinks.

“Bumps on his head and a cut on his face.” I shudder to think what generations of kids who are raised killing and maiming characters on a video game display, but who have never been injured when playing “War” would be like when they hit adolescence. Boys play rough, and “bumps and scratches” are a normal part of that. Wrapping them in cotton and only allowing them to play Tiddlywinks is idiocy. Pain is a corrective feedback mechanism. Eliminating all pain and injury from childhood is a sure way to leave kids unprepared for life.

It would appear that Ms. Hook is the same kind of parent who would oppose competition because it might affect her child’s “self-esteem.”

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Joke of the Day

A minister was seated next to an U.S. Army Ranger Officer on a flight to Fort Benning, Georgia. After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken. The Officer asked for a whiskey and soda, which was brought and placed before him. The flight attendant then asked the minister if he would like a drink.

He replied in disgust, “I’d rather be savagely raped by brazen whores than let liquor touch my lips.”

The Officer then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, “Me too. I didn’t know we had a choice.”

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It’s Official!

Ralph “Unsafe at Any Speed” Nader is out to spoil any chance the Democrats thought they had. Again. He’s running for President as an independent. He got a whopping 2.7% of the vote in 2000, but in more than one race his totals were more than the difference between Bush and Gore. I hope the race this year won’t be so tight as to make a Nader candidacy important, but you never know.

“It is an offence to deny millions of people who might want to vote for our candidacy an opportunity to vote,” he said

Well, he might generate “millions” of new “protest” voters, but he’s more likely to draw the Deaniacs and the PETApeople and their ilk who would be inclined to hold their noses and vote DEM.

Meanwhile, I and many like me will hold our noses and vote for Bush, because as James Lileks wrote

Bush is serious about the war. The Democrats are serious about the war against Bush.

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First Alaska, then Colorado, now New Hampshire?

According to this story the New Hampshire Senate on Thursday passed a “Vermont Carry*” bill which now proceeds to the House. Colorado’s legislature is debating such a measure (though I think it’ll die on the vine) and Alaska passed “Vermont Carry” last year.

Now New Hampshire?

Did some elected officials get replaced with reasoning beings when no one was looking?

(*For those of you new to this blog, “Vermont carry” is legal, permitless carry of a concealed weapon. i.e: You don’t have to prove to the state that you’re worthy, they have to prove you’re not.)

One Before I Resume Programming

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Via KeepandBearArms.com

David Codrea, professional writer for gun magazines, wrote this excellent letter to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, acting Chief of Police Heather Fong, and Judge James L. Warren, which I will reproduce here in whole:

Dear Mayor Newsom , Judge Warren and Acting Chief Fong,

Mayor, I see you are authorizing city employees to perform homosexual marriages, Judge Warren, you are allowing them to proceed, and Chief Fong, you are allowing California law, as enacted by a vote of the people, to be publicly and repeatedly broken without making any arrests.

I’m not commenting on that issue, per se, so much as observing that you are all three instigating and abetting the violation of that law.

Judge Warren, you went so far as to state that you couldn’t issue a restraining order to halt the marriages because, as Reuters reported, “there was not enough evidence presented showing that immediate damage would be done by allowing them.”

Which leaves me with an interesting dilemma.

You see, I also belong to a group that is forced by social prejudices to keep a low profile—often times to hide my choices and practices lest I suffer disapproval and ultimately, life-threatening persecution by the state.

I am a gun owner and I live a gun owner life style.

I don’t know if I was born with a tendency to be this way, or if it was an acquired disposition. All I know is, I don’t see why I should be forced to change. Truth be known, I like owning guns, and am happy with who I am. I hope I suffer no repercussions by “coming out of the safe,” but I just can’t hide the truth any longer.

We gun owners have been living and working among you. Our kids go to school with yours. We may be your doctor, or minister, or your child’s teacher. We may even work in city administration, or the courts, or on the police force. And we are sick of being abused for simply being who we are, all because of hoplophobic* prejudice and fear. We don’t see any reason why we should have to put up with it any more.

Which brings me back to my dilemma and the reason I am writing you.

You have shown progressive thinking and tolerance for that which the majority condemns. So I was thinking of coming up to San Francisco and exercising my right to keep and bear arms, maybe showing up at City Hall with a state-banned AR-15 and a couple 30-round magazines, and also carrying several pistols concealed without a permit.

Yes, I know, it will be a violation of California laws, but you’ve shown that you’re willing to disregard those when it serves your goals. And because I am a peaceable citizen, I should easily meet Judge Warren’s criterion that no immediate damage would be done by allowing this.

So what do you think, if I visit your city and proudly display my lifestyle choices, can I count on your support? As a private citizen, don’t I have as much right to disregard laws I find reprehensible as you public officials? Isn’t that what equality is supposed to be all about, where no class of citizen enjoys privileges and immunities not extended to all?

How about it? You wouldn’t have me arrested, would you?

Please let me know if I have your support.

Sincerely,
David Codrea

* Credit and gratitude to the peerless Col. Jeff Cooper for coining this term.

The response to this excercise of freedom of speech? An investigation by the San Francisco Police Department because the letter was perceived as threatening. David received a phone call from a Inspector Peter Walsh of the SFPD who conducted an interview. Read David’s account of whole thing, but these are the parts that I think are important here:

He explained several times that it was just routine to follow up on things like this, that his job was apolitical, and they just have to investigate. I told him I understood that, and hoped he also understood what a chilling effect a police response to political speech created.

He indicated I did not sound like a threat and sounded “intelligent”.

I was left with the impression that they were probably not going to put much more energy into it — although I would be surprised if they haven’t checked my background, records and gun purchases, and wouldn’t be surprised if a judge didn’t consider the circumstances probable cause to tap into my phone and internet. But anyone who is an activist is an automatic target, especially if it’s about something that scares the hell out of civil authority (people with guns!!!), and I’ve felt there’s probably a good chance the government has been doing that for some time.

He told me he had also asked the Redondo Beach Police to drop a message off at my home as backup to the message he left on my machine, so to just ignore the message they delivered. We then said our goodbyes.

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I do find it bizarre that civil authority is so fearful of an armed citizenry that if they feel there is any chance of it happening, their response is to send armed men. It also confirms my opinion of the corrupt gangsters in charge of San Francisco’s city government — ready to use the force of law to advance their agenda, but publicly flout the law when it doesn’t.

But of course. They’re the government. That puts them above the law.

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STOP THE PRESSES!

Fox News reports:

Nader to Jump in Presidential Race

Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate who ran for president in 2000 as a Green Party candidate, will enter the 2004 race for the White House as an independent candidate, advisers told Fox News on Friday.

A formal announcement by Nader is expected this weekend.

“He’s felt there is a role for an independent candidate to play,” Linda Schade, a spokeswoman for Nader’s presidential exploratory committee.

Yeah – spoiler of any hope the Democrats have.

Run Ralphy, RUN!

(Return nose to grindstone, shoulder to wheel, and ear to ground. How am I supposed to get any work done in this position?)

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Last One for a While

And it’s a doozy! Via Instapundit comes a Reason piece about a recent Arizona gathering of morons racists idiots um…. Oh! Yeah! “White Supremacists.” It seems that Arizona was the home of “Aryanfest 2004” (doesn’t that sound like a real good time – sheesh!). However, one of the attendees didn’t quite get the idea:

Aryanfest’s gates opened at noon, and about an hour later, the gathering assemblage gradually hushed as all eyes turned upon the young man who had just paid his entrance fee and was casually perusing the hate-rock compact discs, swastika flags and white power watch caps at Panzerfaust Records’ merchandise booth.

He was in his late teens or early 20s, had a shaved head and sported Nazi and white power tattoos on both arms, in addition to wearing the white tee shirt with bold, black script.

He would have fit in just fine, except for one thing: He wasn’t white. Not even close. There was at least half a cup of Kahlúa in his cream.

He was also wearing a “WHITE POWER!” T-shirt. Read the whole thing. And the comments. And read the link to the original Phoenix New Times story that covers “Aryanfest 2004” in more detail. (Why does “Aryanfest” make me think of beer in steins and fat men in lederhosen?) Man, those are some sad, sad people.

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Well, I’m not Posting Much,

But Ravenwood is, and in his typical brief and wickedly pointed way. Go thus and read. Start with “GOP becoming the Tax and Spend party” on Virginia’s “limited government” party wanting to raise taxes more than $2 billion more than their Democrat counterparts, then 1984: NM House approves mandatory car breathalyzer (self-explanatory). Keep working your way down, but monitor your blood pressure. You don’t want to blow a major artery.

Now, where did I put my tar and feathers?