Armed citizen rapid response- works every time it is tried. Note the armed citizen did not fire a single shot to disarm the assailant.
David Codrea’s New Year’s Resolutions
A reminder to regular readers to keep up with David Codrea’s growing list of suggested New Year’s Resolutions.
Pick out one or two and add them to your list.
Happily to date, there is only one resolution not already in my portfolio- Attend an Appleseed.
I trust everyone else can say the same.
Tantalizing Excerpt:
I will spread the word to fellow gun owners about the Gun Rights Examiner columns.
You’ll note “columns” plural. I include the link box at the bottom of each post for a reason–if you don’t care for my offerings, there are plenty of talented and insightful GREs who more than make up for my numerous shortcomings.
We’ve had pretty good success at this so far–in just over a year from when I started as the Cleveland commentator, Examiner.com has added 18 additional members to this category, and we have potential to add many more.
Young Economist And Marksman Too!
Now THIS is refreshing! A youngster in school whose extracurricular activities include marksmanship.
Rally round boys, we need to nurture all the gems we find!
His name is Tim Nuccio and here is an excerpt from his blog:
This may come as a surprise to my readers. I’m applying to the History Channel’s newest reality TV show, “Top Shot.” The ten episode show is designed to test marksmanship skill and declare one “Top Shot” who will win $100,000 in cash!
Wish me luck! I’ve been on TV before, in Fourwheeler Magazine and I had a great time. This competition presents an entirely new challenge, however. Sixteen people will be chosen as finalist, and one top shot declared. Anyone who knows me well knows that I have what it takes. I’ll be working on my casting video in the coming weeks, and with any luck, I’ll have a chance to be the first ever Top Shot!
Over the years, I’ve taken many people to the range, learned a lot, improved my marksmanship and taught others what a joy firearm shooting can be. Now I will have the chance to show the world my marksmanship skills and test myself in tough shooting scenarios with a wide variety of firearms. While I am not yet sure of the details of the show, I can only imagine that whoever the top shot is, he or she will be expected to make amazing shots at extreme distances. Of course, I’d love to be that guy, and that’s why I’m doing this.Complete Text CLICK HERE
Climategate-Only Police And Military Should Have Guns
Our friend the Welshman reminds us from his post at Columbia Conservative Examiner when the State (or UN) have a monopoly on force, they have a monopoly on everything.
Chilling Excerpt:
While the United Nations attempts to force every citizen in every nation on earth to disarm, touting the exceeding wickedness of guns, apparently firearms are preferred by U.N. officials themselves–particularly when their spokespersons are placed in the most uncomfortable position of having to answer questions about Climategate.
The incident in question occurred on Friday in Copenhagen during a press briefing. Professor Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, one of the U.N.’s mouthpieces on the ‘dangers of global warming,’ was answering questions from reporters about the Copenhagen conference. Veteran journalist and film maker Phelim McAleer began to question Professor Schneider on the ramifications of the Climategate scandal.
After a brief exchange that turned testy when Professor Schneider refused to answer questions and interrupted several of McAleer’s inquiries, this is what happened next:
However as the press conference drew to a close Professor Schneider’s assistant called armed UN security guards to the room. They held McAleer and aggressively ordered cameraman Ian Foster to stop filming. The guard threatened to take away the camera and expel the film crew from the conference if they did not obey his instructions to stop filming Professor Schneider.
More Plucky Free Staters Open Carry Rifles
Bless the dauntless, intrepid New Hampshire Free Staters!
Jihad Training Camps In The United States
Muslims of America undergo paramilitary training in camps around the country.
Christian Action Network Video Description:
A new Muslims of America (MOA) terror training video has been uncovered by the Christian Action Network.
This video show members of MOA participating in paramilitary style training on their compound in upstate New York, near the town of Hancock.
Please visit our website at www.christianaction.org for more information and for breaking news as it develops.
Chilling Excerpt From WorldNetDaily:
New training video: How to slit throats
Jihad maneuvers taught at New York compound
Posted: December 15, 2009
9:04 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Jihda training video
A new video released by the Christian Action Network shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.
The video was distributed by the makers of the movie “Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.,” which documents how a jihadist group has developed dozens of training camps across the nation.
Raleigh Constituent Response To Burr Senate Staffer ChrisJ
Editor’s Note: Published as written because I sure do not want to go “all wobbly” or anything like that.
Editor’s Note #2: ChrisJ’s remarks are in the comments section of this post: CLICK LINK HERE. It may help to read them first.
Editor’s Note #3: All Senator Richard Burr Posts are collected in their own category from the newest to the oldest: CLICK LINK HERE
You must click the individual posts to view the comments attached to each.
Dear John Jacob,
Good Gravy! Someone besides the paperboy reads your blog? Who’d athunk?
Originally as I read the ChrisJ posts I thought the obvious- he (or she–Chris?) was a poseur.
But now I believe the comments to be authentic because they perfectly mirror the mentality that made my phone calls to the Senator’s office so memorable. CLICK LINK HERE
The blather starts almost from sentence one, message one and continues through sentence last, message last.
Some of my favorite hoots:
1.Ohio and Maryland Voters should hold their officials accountable.
Really? Well maybe they could if the Feds didn’t spread so much LEO Grant and Funding Pixie Dust around!!!
Hey Barney Fife you want an M4 Patrol Carbine? We got a grant for that!
Maybe an armored personnel carrier? We got funding for that too!
Wanna go to “big boy” tactical training school? Here, sign on the dotted line.
The peasants will never know what hit them. Ask David Koresh or Randy Weaver.
2. Blowing Rock Voters should hold their officials accountable.
Really? It is to laugh……bitterly, bitterly laugh. The whole dispute revolves around secret meetings and closed door negotiations.
I guess Senator Burr, avid hunter and shooter that he is, never signed up for the GRNC Alert List.
Here are just a few tidbits from GRNC:
GRNC Alert 11-09-09:
Why Is Burr Supporting Blowing Rock Land Grab?
The issue started nearly a decade ago when the North Carolina Land Trust purchased a 192 acre tract of land from a local hunting club outside the city limits of Blowing Rock. Local hunters,believing they were protecting a treasured hunting area,generously donated to the Land Trust for purchase of the tract. As testament to the past use of hunting on the land, the Land Trust wrote language into the deed which designated hunting as an allowable activity on the land for perpetuity.
A few years later however, the Town of Blowing Rock, unbeknownst to the general public, purchased the 192 acre tract from the land trust for potential trade to the National Park Service. In late 2005 the purchase revealed itself to sportsmen when police tried to close the area, including the NC Gamelands portion, to hunting.
Hunters and GRNC members, concerned with suddenly being told they were not allowed to hunt public lands, began questioning recalcitrant town officials. It was then that the questionable land trade was uncovered.
Further investigation revealed that an influential town councilwoman’s expensive home overlooks the land, as well as the fact this very same councilwoman is an outspoken anti-hunting, anti-logging activist.
Some grassroots members are even beginning to question the Town of Blowing Rock’s role in the Land Trust’s original purchase of the tract. Letters written to Mayor J.B. Lawrence regarding these and other questions have not been answered. The town maintains the trade is necessary to gain full control of the town reservoir located on Park lands between Boone and Blowing Rock. This does not seem plausible given the fact Blowing Rock already has water interconnection permits with Boone as well as an unused intake permit at the confluence of Payne Branch and Middle Fork.
As a new twist, Mayor Lawrence recently declared the 190 acres as closed to hunting via a vague town code prohibiting loaded guns on town property (i.e. town hall). Coinciding with the Mayor’s announcement, National Park Service spokeswomen Shelia Dixon indicated that if NPS acquires the land, all hunting, trapping, and shooting will be prohibited as per NPS policy. This deal will cut in half the last public lands that Blowing Rock hunters, shooters and trappers can easily access. Hunters attempted to voice concerns with Mayor Lawrence during a March 10, 2009 town meeting, however the Mayor decided to convene an illegal closed meeting to discuss the issue. No recordings or minutes exist of this meeting.
Now it seems that Senator Richard Burr and Congresswoman Virginia Foxx are on board with this deal as well. Burr’s and Foxx’s offices purport that their support stems from the dubious water issue. Locals are skeptical about this and again point to the councilwoman’s home which overlooks this land. Several times GRNC members have requested from both Burr and Foxx to have a voice in the questionable land deal, but that has not happened.
3.Would I like to be able to shoot every day? Absolutely. Am I able to? Unfortunately, no.
What a howler!!!!!
Are we, the peasants, to believe ChrisJ does not play golf or tennis or raquetball or baseball or softball or badminton as well? The Senate, home to one of the most lavish exercise facilities on the planet could not fund a shooting range for use of members and staff if it so chose or colonize the old NRA shooting range abandoned somewhere in downtown Washington? The avid shooters on Burr’s staff know nothing about air rifles or pistols?
Just a guess here, but I would bet if some staffer picked up the phone and dialed Remington or S&W and explained their dilemma, solutions to the problem would materialize out of thin air.
As member of the Armed Services Committee I’d guess further the Senator has access to all manner of Military Practice range techniques.
Come on Senator! Man up and put a 3-D target range right in your office for all to see!
Put a framed poster sized copy of Swiss Militia Operations Order #2 right in the reception area of your office.
Teach your people to answer the phone: “Senator Burr’s Office, Home of the Right To Keep And Bear Arms”
4.S 669
That thing. Hmmm. S 669 trys to partially fix something that was broken long ago and needs complete restoration.
We are told by independent websites Senator Burr votes 92 % of the time with his fellow Republicans.
Here is a thought: How about he should start to vote 92% of the time with THE CONSTITUTION???
If there ever was a time to introduce Constitutional Legislation it is now.
Example:
S 1:
The National Firearms Act (“NFA”), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236, enacted 1934-06-26, codified as amended as 26 U.S.C. ch.53 AND Gun Control Act of 1968, Pub. L. No. 90-618, 82 Stat. 1213 (also known as GCA or GCA68, and codified as Chapter 44 of Title 18, United States Code)
ARE HEREBY REPEALED.
Wouldn’t that stir up the pudding in the old town tonight if someone introduced legislation like that??
Don’t go all wobbly on us John Jacob.
The Poster ChrisJ is cast from the same mold that made the Dole and Faircloth office staff legendary.
Right now Republicans are distracted by the bright shiny bauble known as Election 2010 while Obamanation pre-positions his ACORN men,munitions and money.
If the Senator does not move now and move fast he too will go the way of the DoDo Bird.
Raleigh Constituent
RINO Republican Richard Burr Strikes Again!
Dear John Jacob,
These are the times that make men vomit. Have you seen the latest Gunowners Of America Alert?
Mr. Milquetoast himself, Harry Reid, may pass some version of ObamaNationCare because NOT ONE Senate Republican has the brass to stand up and just say NO…..not one more lie….not one more penny… not one more day…. not one more usurpation.
What possible power does this pantywaist Reid have over Senators like North Carolina’s Richard Burr to silence him into submission? The State that gave the nation Jesse Helms (Senator NO), now has Richard Burr (Senator Go-Along-To-Get-Along).
In case you did not read the Alert here is the money quote:
Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has adopted a losing strategy that will, unfortunately, help speed up the passage of Harry Reid’s anti-gun health care bill.
The Senate can do little without every senator agreeing to do it — or at least not objecting to its being done. Hence, you hear about “unanimous consent requests.” This means that every senator agrees to considering a particular amendment or, at least, to voting on it at a particular time.
The thing about these requests is this: They almost always make it easier for the bill to pass.
Hence, we are at the point where WE SHOULD STOP ALL UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENTS TO FURTHER REID’S HEALTH CARE FREIGHT TRAIN. And a single senator can do this by simply saying: “I object.”
But instead, Mitch McConnell has already started allowing amendments to be offered which will let the Senate Democrats “clean up” the bill … just enough to get it passed by the Senate.
We need to stop this sort of deal making. We need to stop these requests which grease the skids for Harry Reid’s freight train.
And, in particular, we don’t want to clean up this diabolical monstrosity. We want to kill it.
So our message? Kill the bill. Kill the bill. Kill the bill.
AND NO MORE UNANIOMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENTS TO FACILITATE THAT BILL’S PASSAGE.
Previously I wrote to you about my attempt to find an actual upfront, out-of-the-closet gunowner in Senator Burr’s Office. (CLICK LINK HERE) Apparently staff insouciance extends past the Right To Keep And Bear Arms and flows directly into the all pervasive culture of tyranny that flourishes in contemporary Washington.
At the end of the day Richard Burr is just another Republican In Name Only. He is just a “beard” to give Bolshevik Liberal Ideas the appearance of normalcy.
If Burr can not throw speed bumps into path of ObamaNationCare even with symbolic objections why bother to keep him in office at all? Let a Democrat have the seat so they can take ALL the responsibility for their cockamamie schemes.
In disgust,
Raleigh Constituent
George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
[New York, 3 October 1789]
By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor–and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be–That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in thecourse and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions–to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually–to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed–to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord–To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us–and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go: Washington
