Notes from the Resistance
CERTIORARI DENIED
21-159 APOSHIAN, W. C. V. GARLAND, ATT’Y GEN., ET AL. [More]
All the Supreme Court has to do to let tyranny stand is…nothing.
I’m wondering if anyone will revisit this in light of Bruen, but then again, the court has pretty much told us they’re not going to touch it.
Some of us will keep fighting in other ways.
Gun Rights Make for Good Manners and Safe Nations [More]
For proof, look at how childishly rude those who don’t believe in them are.
[Via bondmen]
Classical Liberalism vs Modern Liberalism (Socialism) — A Primer by Miguel A. Faria, MD [More]
A fine article, like a fine wine, can improve with age.
Then again, I’m clearly biased.
At least 16 hurt in 9 shootings during bloody day in NYC: cops [More]
Ah, the original Bloomberg City! The one he and his fellow violence monopolists are bent on remaking the rest of the country in the image of…
How are those “sensitive zones” working out?
[Via bondmen]
CONNECTICUT CITIZENS DEFENSE LEAGUE AND SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION SUE CT OVER BAN ON MODERN SPORTING ARMS [More]
I dunno– “in Common Use for Lawful Purposes Throughout the United States” seems to exclude everything that’s not, including what will be developed in the future.
The Supreme Court, in its infamous Miller decision, nonetheless recognized the function of the Militia, defined as “all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense [and] bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time,” was — and still is — to field citizen soldiers. These citizens bore arms that were suitable for that purpose, “ordinary military equipment” intended to be taken into “common defense” battles. The Militia did not assemble on the green bearing clubs and spears. They came with the intent to match and best a professional military threat. A modern Militia would require citizens to keep and bear exactly what the gun-grabbing politicians are trying to take away from them, what they pejoratively denounce as “weapons of war.”
Second Amendment will be Nullified if ‘Common Use’ is Restricted to ‘Popularity’
The AzCDL Annual Meeting of Members is going to be televised on YouTube for those who live out of state or are unable to attend! [More]
If you’d like to virtually attend on Sat. Oct. 8, including being able to ask questions and get answers live, this explains how you can, introduces you to the lineup of guest speakers, and more.
Barnes once said he “really could not care less about a 2nd Amendment ‘right’” to bear arms. [More]
This just proves what a damned idiot and a tool he is, and how willfully ignorant his supporters must be.
What the “our democracy” string-pullers don’t seem to be taking into account is when you erode respect for a position by offering obvious boobs like this as placeholders, you replace it with contempt for the office. Or maybe they are taking it into account, and it’s all part of a plan to bring about the day when they can drop all pretenses because their rule will be unchallengeable.
[Via Michael G]
They don’t want you to have guns and they don’t want you to have free speech. Hey, if you can get away with ignoring the Second Amendment, why should you respect the First? [More]
What’s more, a globalist collectivist tyrant from New Zealand is joined on her pathway to tyranny by what our media pass off as a “conservative.”
Texas will fight to block 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns [More]
Well, you can buy the Ted Olson excuse, that regardless of how he feels, the AG is charged with defending existing state laws, or you can just as easily conclude that “Tea Party conservative” Paxton has reasons of his own to douse the fire in gun owners’ bellies before November to help turn the state blue.
[Via Jess]
[Watch]
Thanks, NSSF! What could go wrong?
How does all this fit in with “a historical understanding,” again…?
[Via Jess]
“Elegant and important essay by @RepRaskin debunking the disturbingly persistent idea that the 2nd Am gives citizens the right to take up arms against the government.” [More]
For being an “LATimes Legal Affairs Columnist. Former US Attorney, DOJ official. Teach con law at UCSD& UCLA” you’d think this f***ing idiot would know the Second Amendment doesn’t “give” any rights.
As for Marxist weasel Raskin, the rotten fruit doesn’t fall far from the corrupt tree.
It’s funny that the Democratic Underground uses a web archive link to avoid the NYT paywall. It’s dangerous that no one there understands the basics of the most egalitarian power-sharing arrangement ever devised.
[Via Jess]
“Busse was listed as ‘unaffiliated,’ but that is not true… He is an advisor for the Giffords gun control group and has openly advocated the ban on the most popular selling centerfire rifle in America…” [More]
Yeah, put the fox in charge of the henhouse. What could go wrong?
As he spoke, an audience member yelled out, “Violence doesn’t solve violence.”
“It actually is the only thing that does,” Cruz said. [More]
It’d be nice to see that genius get an opportunity to personally prove the effectiveness of his alternatives.
What? He doesn’t have any except to make you defenseless?
This is another example of why I never debate with antis.
[Via Jess]
We normally don’t post a blog entry for a single academic paper, but this one is important because it is the largest well-conducted survey concerning gun ownership and self-defense with guns (as well as other topics) to date. The survey size makes most of the data unassailable, and thus “gold standard.” [More]
[Via Antigone]
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says in a new court filing that Metro is too sensitive a place to allow regular commuters to carry handguns, because trains and buses carry large numbers of federal workers and also D.C. school children on a daily basis. [More]
What’s “a historical understanding” say about this?
[Via Jess]
Democrat Congresswoman Angie Craig receives endorsement from Minnesota law enforcement organization [More]
And that’s after:
Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig Took Part in Fundraiser with Group That Supports ‘Defunding the Police’
I’m a gun owner and supporter of the Second Amendment, but…
That’s why Gungrabby Gabby’s group says:
We are proud to endorse Angie Craig for the US House of Representatives.
“Back the blue,” right, Minnesota “Only Ones”?
The only question left: Who’s the bigger liar, Angie or these oath-breaking thugs?
Yesterday, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) re-filed a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of New York over the poorly named Concealed Carry Improvement Act, which took effect September 1st. Several additional plaintiffs who are willing to break the law or are currently in violation have joined the lawsuit, which was originally filed on behalf of a GOA member from Schenectady County. [More]
I posted this to my WoG Placeholder site because all that’s up on the GOA site at this writing is their July announcement.
The previous record of 4 miles set in 2020 was defeated by a 4.4-mile target hit in the high desert of western Wyoming. The bullet took 24 seconds to hit the 8-inch bullseye… [More]
Why does anyone need a dangerous “weapon of war” like that? And shouldn’t such mad skill be restricted?
And “a team of extreme long-range enthusiasts”? Like a right-wing conspiracy?
[Via bondmen]
They’re forbidden to have the means of defense. Instead, those who demand they stay this way offer useless advice guaranteed to leave them at the mercy of those who have none: “Give them what they want.” [More]
The question must be asked: “What if what they want is your life?”
“…to these should be added the personal rights guarantied and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as the freedom of speech and the press; the right of the people to peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, a right appertaining to each and all the people; the right to keep and bear arms;…”[More]
But wait a minute — that would mean Michael Waldman, The Brennan Center, and everybody else who parrots similar bulls*** are f***ing liars…
No longer science & technology projects, high-energy laser weapons are now operational [More]
So when power packs shrink and individual infantry weapons become a reality…?
This is why, understanding core purpose, “in common use at the time” has to be applied not to what is “popular” with sportsmen, but to what is available on conventional battlefields and to enforcement authorities.
Remember when it took a roomful of computers to attain a fraction of the calculating power of your cell phone? I remember when a prominent mathematician precited a limit to computational capacity based on a point where tubes burn out and need to be replaced.
What I’m using now would have been considered the stuff of mad scientist fiction.
[Via Jess]
Ownership of Arms Protected under Takings, Second Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment [More]
Ultimately, it’s protected by individual will, regardless of what any branch of government dictates…
A group of Senate conservatives is calling on President Joe Biden to fight the nation’s violent crime wave by deploying all available resources to American cities across the United States. [More]
If they were true conservatives they’d understand principles of federalism and what the Founders knew to be “necessary to the security of a free State.”
[Via bondmen]
* Jefferson
A witty and informative email reply by attorney Donald Kilmer to a discussion on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors banning .50-caliber handguns:
As long the ban doesn’t exceed the .64 caliber U.S. issued smoothbore flintlock boarding pistol, we have nothing to worry about. Maybe the Board of Sups should read a little history.
Take that to mean you can’t have a permitted gun with you in a private automobile, either. The entire city is being turned into a “patchwork quilt” designed to make it impossible to travel within its limits without violating the law. [More]
By ignoring the Supreme Court’s decision with impunity, this has effectively become not just a real insurrection, but a sanctioned secession.
In a letter today to FTC Chair Khan, the senators highlighted the firearms industry’s efforts to mislead consumers about the safety of guns and the employment of advertising tactics that target children and teenagers – including using video games, popular musicians and television shows, and even Santa Claus to market its deadly products. [More]
There is no level of obsession too ludicrous for these power freaks to demand control over. None.
[Via Jess]
To promote the education, protection and exertion of students’ inalienable right to keep and bear Arms. [More]
Is it just me or does this feel like your grandma gave you a book?
The idea is needed, I don’t mean to be negative, and Lord knows I’m the last one to consider myself competent in graphic design or young adult outreach, but I’m trying to imagine how what I’m seeing here will excite and inspire anyone under 40. Or over, for that matter.
I hope some young people with expert communication and technical execution skills help them across the street with this.
Is a U.S. Civil War on the Horizon? [More]
That’s pretty much on those doing the squeezing.
[Via bondmen]
