From the PatriotPost.usMarch 31, 2008
Arizona House Ok's new concealed weapons exemption
The AP reports a bill approved by the Arizona House would make it legal for a person without a concealed carry permit to have a gun in a closed purse in an automobile.
The bill carves out a new exception to the state's weapons misconduct law.
Violations of that law are misdemeanors punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to 2,500 dollars.
It's already legal under the weapons misconduct law for a person without a concealed carry permit to have a gun in a case, holster or luggage in an automobile or in the automobile's storage compartments.
The 51-4 vote by the House yesterday sends the bill to the Senate.
I'd pay to see video of the knife fight, wouldn't you?
“Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has been accused in recent days of padding her foreign policy rèsumè while First Lady, admitted today that she may have exaggerated about an encounter she said she had with al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998. In an appearance on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday, Sen. Clinton told host Tim Russert, ‘I wrestled bin Laden in his cave in 1998 and had him pinned to the ground before the bastard got away.’ But a review of Sen. Clinton’s official White House schedule from that period revealed that the then-First Lady was nowhere in the vicinity of Mr. bin Laden on that day, but was instead greeting a group of honor roll students at Disney World in Orlando. ‘I may have misspoke about what went on that particular day,’ Sen. Clinton said today. ‘But it was a very busy time for me, what with having that knife-fight with Kim Jong-Il and all.’ Reporters peppered Sen. Clinton’s new press spokesman with questions about another purported exploit of hers, in which the senator claimed that she and a ragtag team of blue-collar drillers deflected an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth.” —Andy Borowitz
March 28, 2008
Florida House using common sense...
GunPundit tells us about Florida House allowing some gun owners to bring their weapons to work and leave them in their vehicles.
We already have that in Kentucky, with few exceptions. Now, just say that, even before the law allowed it, I had a firearm in my vehicle at work every day for the last, oh, say twelve years. Who did that hurt?
State legislators could use a good talking to from and about responsible, law-abiding gun owners who should be able to carry any where they have a right to be.
March 26, 2008
Need some clean drawers here...
Good example of typical PSH.
ATF says the increases (in AK type weapons. GBW) in the first half of the 1990s are partly the result of wider usage of its weapons database by local law enforcement agencies. But after that point, the numbers reflect a real increase in tracings of AK-type guns, the agency acknowledged.
The numbers corroborate what police chiefs around the country have been saying: AKs and other so-called assault weapons are terrorizing their communities and endangering their officers.
Gee, and all this time I thought it was CRIMINALS who were terrorizing their communities and endangering their officers. This must be an extremely rare variant of the AK-47 only found in the Southeast United States. They apparently have a BRAIN and LEGS with which to carry out their terrorizing and endangering.
Why, they just sauntered into that birthday part...
What? You mean they were carried in by PEOPLE?
Impossible! PEOPLE can't be the problem. Salt of the Earth, every one of them.
GUNS are the problem!! All those evil guns... Oh, the humanity!!!!
Right.
It's a good thing some of these "so-called assault weapons" (at least he got that right) apparently have brains, because otherwise there seems to be a severe shortage, at least as evidenced in certain journalistic circles.
Sheesh.
March 24, 2008
And the streets run red with blood...
.014% out of 50,000 Minnesota concealed carry permit holders used a gun in the furtherance of a crime, says John Reep in the St. Cloud Times.
Can't find the report online. If you know where it is, let me know. I thought the KY State Police were supposed to do something similar, but I've never seen it.
What will they think of next?
In keeping with my earlier post about what my young cousin may see in the next 89 years, I give you, "Printing Organs on Demand?"
According to MU, “the team used bio-ink particles, or spheres containing 10,000 to 40,000 cells, and assembled, or ‘printed,’ them on to sheets of organic, cell friendly ‘bio-paper.’ Once printed, the spheres began to fuse in the bio-paper into one structure.” Nature adds that “when they printed out cardiac and endothelial cells, the cells fused into a tissue after 70 hours, and began beating in time like regular heart tissue after 90 hours.”
Maybe they can do something with knees...
Gun statistics you seldom see...
from the Orange County Register. Common sense stuff. That's probably why we see so little of it.
Of course, whenever gun ownership rights are debated, anti-gun activists like to point out that about 30,000 people are killed by guns in America every year -- although they seldom note that about 60 percent of those deaths are suicides, or that the firearm murder rate has dropped by 40 percent in the past 15 years, or that far more people are killed by motor vehicles or medical malpractice every year than are killed by guns.
And they never mention how many crimes have been prevented by citizens bearing arms.
Once again, that's a hard thing to quantify. One U.S. government survey in the 1990s estimated that more than 80,000 Americans a year used guns in an effort to protect themselves or their property against crime. Other estimates put the number far higher, at more than 2 million crimes prevented each year by the presence of privately-owned firearms.
But those are estimates and extrapolations – which means we can argue about the numbers all day long.
Still, this much is clear. When faced with a violent criminal in his house in the middle of the night, it would be hard to argue that that homeowner in Irvine (CA) would have been better off without a gun.
89 years...
Posting has been a bit light, even for me. On the road quite a bit, house guests, my grandmother's 89th birthday. I'm fifty-something, but I'm still young enough that that boggles my mind. The 97 year old friend that was sitting beside her didn't help.
Five generations were present at her party. Her newest great-great-grandchild is eight months old.
I can't even begin to imagine what changes that child will see in the next 89 years, can you?
March 21, 2008
Outstanding!
If you can't do it at least this well, don't pick up the microphone.
Thanks to Red Sonya over at Sonya's Gotta Scream.
Thanks to Red Sonya over at Sonya's Gotta Scream.
GOP Targets Yarmuth; McCain Leads Obama and Clinton
from Southern Political Report
March 21, 2008 — GOP Targets Five Dixie Democratic Seats
The National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee (NRCC) has included five Southern congressional districts among its 24 targets for making US House gains in this fall’s elections. The five Democratic incumbents that the GOP will focus on in Dixie are Nick Lampson (TX 22), Tim Mahoney (FL 16), Jim Marshall (GA 8), Ciro Rodriguez (TX 23) and John Yarmuth (KY 3). All are freshmen, when incumbents are traditionally most vulnerable, except Marshall, who was elected in 2002.
Kentucky: McCain Leads Obama and Clinton
A SurveyUSA poll of Kentucky voters released March 19 shows John McCain leading both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton by significant margins. McCain beat Obama 64% to 28%, a whopping 36-point margin, and beat Clinton by a still healthy 53% to 43%. While the Democratic candidates were not pitted against each other, the fact that even among Democrats, McCain garnered more votes than Obama suggests that Clinton will win the Bluegrass State’s May 20 primary.
March 19, 2008
Listen to D.C. v Heller oral arguments
on DownRange.TV HERE, and commentaries from David Hardy, Dave Kopel and others HERE.
March 14, 2008
S.C Senate advances bill expanding reciprocity to Kentucky CCDW holders...
Columbia, SC - The state Senate, lead by the Republican Caucus, gave key approval today to a measure that will increase reciprocity for concealed weapons permit holders. The bill (H.3212) increases the number of states that will recognize South Carolina’s concealed weapons permit while allowing an additional 14 states’ permit holders to legally carry a concealed weapon in South Carolina.
Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), Majority Whip, led the floor effort that led to Senate approval today. “The Senate-passed bill has the full support of both the NRA and South Carolina law enforcement,”
says Senator Ritchie. “We were able to maintain the high standards South Carolina requires to obtain a concealed weapons permit while expanding reciprocity to 14 additional states. This is a victory for the second amendment and the people of South Carolina.”
H. 3212 provides for the recognition of valid out-of-state permits by residents of a reciprocal state as long as the reciprocal state requires applicants to successfully pass a state and federal criminal background check and a firearms safety and training course. Residents from other states will be subject to the same concealed weapons permit laws as South Carolinians while in the state.
States that currently recognize South Carolina’s concealed weapons permit include: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming.
The bill passed today would expand the states recognizing South Carolina’s concealed weapons permit to include: Colorado, Florida, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska and Nevada.
South Carolina currently recognizes the concealed weapons permits of the following states: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Tennessee and Wyoming.
Today’s action will expand that list to include: Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming. A reciprocity agreement with West Virginia is pending.
The bill is expected to receive a final Senate vote early next week.
Quotes of the week...
From The Patriot Post:
David Horowitz on the Left
“The Democratic party is very close to being the [Communist-controlled Progressive] party of Henry Wallace... Today’s left sees the world pretty much in the same terms as the Stalinists did. What has happened is that it has lost its faith in the working class, so its agenda is entirely negative. They’ve dropped the dictatorship of the proletariat and they all say they’re democrats, but so did Lenin. The vast bulk of the American left is a Communist left and they’ve introduced some fascist ideas like ‘identity politics,’ which is straight out of Mussolini. They don’t talk about the working class, they talk about women and race. There’s not much that they’ve learned from the history of the 20th century.” —David Horowitz
David Mamet from his recent announcement of his conservative realization.
Prior to the midterm elections, my rabbi was taking a lot of flack. The congregation is exclusively liberal, he is a self-described independent (read ‘conservative’), and he was driving the flock wild. Why? Because a) he never discussed politics; and b) he taught that the quality of political discourse must be addressed first—that Jewish law teaches that it is incumbent upon each person to hear the other fellow out. I, like many of the liberal congregation, began, teeth grinding, to attempt to do so. And in doing so, I recognized that I held two views of America (politics, government, corporations, the military). One was of a state where everything was magically wrong and must be immediately corrected at any cost; and the other—the world in which I actually functioned day to day—was made up of people, most of whom were reasonably trying to maximize their comfort by getting along with each other (in the workplace, the marketplace, the jury room, on the freeway, even at the school-board meeting).
I realized that the time had come for me to avow my participation in that America in which I chose to live, and that that country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace. I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.”
Just ask me and I'll tell you...
Oleg Volk is a a national treasure. Click the link to see much more. He's referring to TN law, but it's a felony in Kentucky, too.
March 13, 2008
Way to go, Jack. I hope you're paying attention, Poodles. (but I'm not holding my breath)
The column by Nicole Brochu in The Sun-Sentinel is the usual mass of PSH cliches. And as usual, the comments are lively. Some not very well thought out, but lively
Poodles comments:
"A person would only have a split second to react, and that's only if they KNEW what was going on. If you listen to the witness statements, you'll notice that most folks weren't really sure what was going on until it was almost over. I don't know what the answer is, maybe we should start licensing guns the way we do cars, with titles and yearly fees - not that it would help if a deranged person wanted a gun, but we gotta start somewhere. Do they still have the gun buy-back program? We also need more AFFORDABLE mental health care. The average person struggling from check to check cannot afford it, and if they do have insurance, it's still so expensive that many feel it's out of reach for them. The free mental health care is often un-advertised to the point that most people don't know it exists.
And Jack Burton replies in the comments...
Do I need the governments permission to buy a car? No.
Do I need to buy the car from only certain people with licenses to sell cars? No.
Can I buy as many cars as I want each week/month/year. Yes
Can I buy small cars, big cars, slow cars, fast cars, cars that look dangerous? Yes
Can I buy Hummers virtually like the troops use? Yes.
Do I have to wait from 5 to 15 days to pick up my car. No
If I traded in one car for a newer model do I still have to wait five to ten days to pick the new one up. No
Can I modify my car to allow more fuel, more performance, or better cornering. Yes
Would I have to turn over to the government without compensation some models of automobiles that might be banned years after I buy them. No
Do I need a license to buy a car? No
(in most states)
Can I buy a car at age 16? Yes.
Are driving lessons mandated in most high schools? Yes
Can I buy a car from anyone in any state? Yes.
Can I sell my car to anyone in any state? Yes
Can convicted felons buy, own or drive a car. Yes
In some places (e.g. NYC or New Jersey) would I first need a permit to buy from the police department which sometimes takes up to 2 years to obtain. No
In some cities (e.g. Washington D.C.) would I have to store my car partially disassembled. No
Do I need to register a car that I own? No (as long as I keep it on my own property)
Do I need a background check or waiting period to buy a car? No
Is my car held responsible if I misuse it? No
Would failure to register my car be a federal felony (prevents me from owning another one). No
Do I need to "safe store" my car even though many are stolen and used for criminal purposes? No
Will I lose my driver's license if I violate the law with my car? Most likely not
Can I legally drive my car into any state/city in the nation with every jurisdiction honoring my registration/license? Yes
Shall I go on? Or do you really, really want to treat guns like cars?
D'oh! They said what?!?
Mostly what Novak's article shows is that the GOP may have known how to win the elections, but still don't have a clue how to govern.
The president and his senior staff were stunned to learn, on the day it was issued, that Clement's petition called on the high court to return the case to the appeals court. The solicitor general argued that Silberman's opinion supporting individual gun rights was so broad that it would endanger federal gun control laws such as the bar on owning machine guns. The president could have ordered a revised brief by Clement.
and
The more plausible explanation for Clement's stance is that he could not resist opposition to individual gun rights by career lawyers in the Justice Department's Criminal Division (who clashed with the Office of Legal Counsel in a heated internal struggle). Newly installed Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a neophyte at Justice, was unaware of the conflict and learned about Clement's position only after it had been locked in.
Ken Blackwell and Sandy Froman on D.C. v Heller
from Townhall.com
Part I
Judging Gun Rights: Are They Inalienable?
Part II
The Roe v. Wade of Gun Rights
Tuesday looms, and I am getting nervous. Waiting until June for the ruling will seem interminable.
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