Category: Guns

Ok, some thoughts from me on this.

While the argument is that there are limitations on the Constitution, that the gun grabbers use as their “moderate, rational argument”, it is anything but rational, nor is it intellectual. The premise that there are limitations on freedom of speech, because you can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater, is flawed from the beginning. The reason it is flawed, is because there are two different things affected by that premise. One is yelling “fire”. I can stand in the middle of the street and yell “fire” without incurring the wrath of law enforcement. Doing so in a crowded building invokes safety as the crime that I would be charged with, not speech. I would be charged with inciting a riot, because I am using words to gain a reaction, just as if I were to tell someone to kill my neighbor. If they did, I wouldn’t be charged with a violation on the limitations of free speech, but rather with conspiracy to commit murder. Same with the other Amendments.

What people are forgetting is that you are infringing on my 2nd Amendment rights, since my exercising of it in no way infringes on the rights of anyone else. To Keep and Bear Arms in no way, shape, or form infringes on the rights of anyone else, period. If I use one of those arms to commit a crime, then it really doesn’t have anything to do with the 2nd Amendment, since I would be infringing on the rights of someone else and that is the crime for which I would be in trouble, not keeping and bearing.

UpNorth sends us a link to Bob Owens‘ post about the West Palm Beach police chief who can’t tell the difference between a Soviet AK-47 and an American M-1 carbine. They also can’t tell the difference between a magazine for an AK-47 and a magazine for an M-1 carbine. And if they tried to fire that ammunition through the rifle in the picture, they might be surprised. But, hey, the M1 has a wooden stock and an AK has a wooden stock. The M1 is magazine fed and the AK is magazine fed. So they’re the same right?

So we don’t know what kind of weapon Demitri Polen pointed at Officer Christopher Nebbeling, but we do know that Polen won’t do that again. Good shooting, officer, even though it took 12 rounds.

The video of the police chief’s press conference auto-starts so it’s below the jump;

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That’s the question that Gallup asked a sampling of 309 Americans who own guns.Their top answer, overwhelmingly, was “personal protection” beating out “hunting” and “recreation” combined.

Personal protection is the top reason Americans own a gun, as was true in 2000 and 2005. This, rather than views on the Second Amendment, may explain why moving toward greater gun control, as Obama and many Democrats have sought to do, is so difficult. Those who own firearms for protection may feel that their own personal safety is a vital need on which they do not wish to compromise.

Yeah, unless the Obama Administration finds a way to disarm the criminals first, they won’t find anyone willing to give up their “last chance”. You can see the results of the poll at the link above along with the methodology.

Since my hunting days are far behind me, personal protection is my main concern – and I bought another one last night.

Andy sends us a link to ABC News in which they report that the Interpol Secretary General, Ronald Noble, an American, said out loud that maybe governments should consider an armed citizenry in response to the shift in terror patterns like at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi last month;

“Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”

“Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Col., if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly?” Noble said, referring to states with pro-gun traditions. “What I’m saying is it makes police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’ This is something that has to be discussed.”

Well, there were the attacks in Toulouse, France last year when soldiers and citizens were attacked by a terrorist with a handgun, and that didn’t affect France very much. It will probably take a large-scale attack like Westgate in Europe to force a shift in the way they view legally armed citizens there. Africa still seems a little distant at the moment.

But it is amazing that an organization like Interpol is talking about the subject, albeit a bit belatedly. Of course, he was doing the interview in Colombia, where they have an equivalent to our Second Amendment – Article 223 of their Constitution – gun ownership is guaranteed by law with certain restrictions.

On a ridiculously slow news day, the folks at NRA News send along the latest commentary from Colion Noir, Gun Control in a Vacuum; Colion Noir journeys into anti-gun hypothetical land, where everything works perfectly as planned.

Gun control supporters like to discount my arguments by saying, “No one’s trying to take the guns away. We just want to make it harder for criminals to get their hands on them.”

I’ve got news for you: No matter what the law says, criminals will still get their hands on guns. Realists like myself understand this, but anti-gunners tend to live in a place called hypothetical land.

People in hypothetical land dream up conclusions about what may or may not happen in reality based on a fabricated but possible set of circumstances. And where gun control is concerned, the hypotheticals are usually nowhere close to reality.

The folks at the NRA sent us their latest Colion Noir video;

NRA News Commentators Episode 30
FEEL SAFE | Mr. Colion Noir (@MrColionNoir)
Colion just checked the Constitution and still can’t find “The Right To Feel Safe.” Watch the video at the link below and tune in to www.NRANews.com/Commentators for episodes every Monday and Thursday.