New holiday

The recent SCOTUS decision in the DC vs. Heller case is only the beginning in restoring our individual right to own firearms. There is much left to do.

But in the meantime, I call for proclaiming June "national firearm ownership month" and 26 June as "Dick Anthony Heller Day" - a perfect prelude to the Fourth of July.

Could we be on the way to the restoration of individual rights in America?

God, I hope so. Once we get this whole 2nd amendment thing straightened out and we completely establish the individual right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms, next we should move onto the restoration of property rights and eliminate eminent domain.

One my favorite comics, Drew Carey, has some thoughts on eminent domain: "You know the great thing about America is once you own property - you own it," says Drew Carey in a new Reason.tv video examining eminent domain abuse. "You can do anything you want with that property. You can build a house on it, a business. You can plant flowers, grow daisies. Whatever you want to do with it, it's your property. You own it. And the only way somebody can take your property is if they steal it. Am I right? That's why the government invented eminent domain."

Think about it, the government has the power to uproot you from YOUR home and steal YOUR property for "the greater good." As Neal Boortz has said in the past, "The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals."

There is hope for America....

This is preliminary, but it looks as if our individual right to protect ourselves with firearms is alive and well. wOOt!!!

Foxnews.com: Supreme Court Strikes Down D.C. Gun Ban, Upholds Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Court: A constitutional right to a gun: "Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion for the majority stressed that the Court was not casting doubt on long-standing bans on gun possession by felons or the mentally retarded, or laws barring guns from schools or government buildings, or laws putting conditions on gun sales.

In District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), the Court nullified two provisions of the city of Washington’s strict 1976 gun control law: a flat ban on possessing a gun in one’s home, and a requirement that any gun — except one kept at a business — must be unloaded and disassembled or have a trigger lock in place. The Court said it was not passing on a part of the law requiring that guns be licensed."

More bad logic for gun control

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has come down in favor of Washington D.C.'s gun ban in the D.C. vs. Heller case.

The ADL then had this to say: according to a recent ADL press release: "This case is about allowing states to protect their citizens' lives, liberty and property by regulating the purchase and possession of firearms. Gun violence and the caching of dangerous weapons are commonplace among extremists. If states lose the right to regulate firearm ownership, it would help violent bigots in their efforts to create an America based on hate and intolerance. We urge the Supreme Court to ensure that states have the tools to counter these agents of hate. We are also deeply concerned about the possession and use of firearms by children. The Court must permit states to keep guns out of the hands of those who would bring violence to our schools. The regulation of firearms is a rational response to these twin evils and is consistent with the Second Amendment's call for a well-regulated militia."

While the ADL does a lot of good things, on this particular issue I must call "bullshit!"

Whatever happened to citizens being able to protect themselves?? Why does everyone want to rely on the government to take care of them?? People who are bent on killing due to bigotry (or any other reason) are not going to worry about breaking an additional law that regulates firearms. I thought that it was already illegal to use a firearm to commit a crime. We ARE NOT going to legislate the removal of firearms from these psychos who want to kill to "cleanse" our society of people like myself. Gun control DOES NOT DISARM THESE PEOPLE!!!!

All gun control does is disarm law-abiding responsible citizens like myself. When my family and I encounter these racist scum, or any other people who want to do harm, I'd prefer to be able to fight fire with fire by being armed.

Great News For Criminals

An excellent article by one of my favorite political commentators and radio hosts, Tammy Bruce: Great News For Mass Murderers.

"Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has signed an executive order to ban guns on all property owned by the city.

After the roar of approval from psychotic murderers died down, Nickels explained the new ban was necessary after a shooting at the Folklife Festival wounded two people at the Seattle Center.

You know how that works–make it illegal for law-abiding citizens to carry guns making them even more vulnerable to the beasts who don’t care about laws, also known as “criminals.” I do hate to break it to the mayor, but shooting people is also banned, but criminals do it anyway.

After years of certain cities finding their violent crime rates on the increase after banning firearms, we now have proof that gun bans actually create more violence and subject law-abiding citizen to more risk. — Just ask the people of Washington, D.C., who know all too well how banning guns simply broadcasts a message to violent criminals where the most vulnerable population lives. Just this week, the “gun-free zone” of D.C. (on whose handgun ban we still await the Supreme Court’s decision) has been reduced to implementing road blocks into certain neighborhoods in an attempt to stop, er, gun violence.

After all, it’s just so much easier to invade a home, jack a car, or murder someone when you know your victim won’t be able to protect herself. Despite the history of gun bans putting more people in danger, and to say nothing of the unconstitutionality of that act, politicians still have the gall to exploit instances of bad guys ignoring existing laws (like those against shooting people) to pass laws banning the best self-protection method we have.

Make no mistake–just as climate alarmism has nothing to do with fear over a 2-3 degree increase in temperatures and is simply a manufactured excuse for government to tax and fee us to death–the acts of criminals continue to be used as a manipulative excuse to disarm the law-abiding public while keeping government officials immune from the law, and well protected."

The Armed Citizen

One of my favorite sections of the monthly NRA publication "America's 1st Freedom" is the "Armed Citizen" pages. The accounts of average law abiding citizens protecting themselves and their families are also posted online.

For your reading pleasure: Armed Citizen

Man goes on killing spree (without a gun!)

Foxnews.com: Man Plows Into Crowd, Goes On Stabbing Rampage; 7 Reported Dead

One person with a weapon, properly trained, could have prevented a lot of this. Of course, Japan has incredibly strict gun control laws. Maybe they should also ban trucks and knives, too?

I don't mean to make light of the killings. The killings are horrible but the reality is (in my mind, at least) that without Japan's strict laws which limit the right to protect yourself (i.e. strict gun control), the outcome could have been a lot different.