Gun Control is a Basic Freedom?

Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of gun control. Just like the Founding Fathers intended.

Sebastian notes success on the street, which doesn’t always translate from legal rights.

Noted is the fact that open carry often isn’t tactically sound, but just as successful use of a gun in self-defense doesn’t always mean pulling the trigger, successful deterrence doesn’t always mean even drawing.

For deterrence to work, the enemy needs to know that the threat exists. Concealed carry implies that the threat might exist, but open carry leaves no doubt.

Not that I’m advocating open carry over concealed. But open carry is often portrayed as a death sentence by pro-gunners and as unnecessarily threatening by anti-gunners. I don’t believe that it’s necessarily either.

Robb is experiencing some Pure, black evil

So far, no urges to go downtown and spray fire the homeless shelter, but I’ve only had her for a few hours.

And poodles beware!

Go check out the pics.

I had never heard of this before. Cool.

The Great New Orleans Gun Grab by Gordon Hutchinson and Todd Masson should be a must-read for all gun owners, not only because of the troubling issues it portrays but because it can help get people into the right mind-set for the aftermath of a natural disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.

I knew a lot of what went down in the streets of the flooded city in late summer 2005, but my eyes were bugged as I read this book. Really, events should shock and outrage all Americans, not just gun owners. Anyone who owns a home and anyone who believes in personal liberty should be deeply disturbed by what government officials did (and did not do) during a huge disaster that should not have been completely unexpected.

After the hurricane hit and the levees were breached and overtopped, the city was cast into general chaos. Many people had been unwilling or unable to leave, and without power or assistance they were left to fend for themselves. Some, realizing how things were going to unfold, had a change of heart and decided to make a run for it.

A couple of families banded together, and two women were quite disturbed that one of the men had brought some firearms with him. As they loaded the van they would use for their run for safety, a band of looters approached down the street. The man gave his 12-year-old son, familiar with guns, a rifle.

“Stand here,” he ordered, placing him at the rear of the van. “Guard us.”

He left the boy, the rifle held at port arms across his chest, a young conscript in the Katrina War. He went to the front and out into the Street, checking the situation. He then went back inside.

The van pulled into the street, and three looters ran up, sloshing through the water, surrounding the front of the van, cursing, yelling for everyone to get out. The one on the passenger side stood against the door, pushing his head and upper torso through the window, almost climbing into the front seat. He twisted left to see who was in the van, saw the women in the middle seat. He then looked past them through the rear window, at the boy at the back of the van with the rifle.

His eyes bugged out, he stuttered a second, then blurted: “Is that a real gun?”

The women in the rear seat, new converts to the gun culture, snapped a quick and loud answer: “You bet your ass it’s a real gun!”

They made it out of the city safely.

The book covers a number of people, areas, and situations. LeRoy Hartley and his family rode out the storm, but the days following Katrina were tough and he had his family leave town for safety. He stayed behind with his dog Buster to protect their home from the looters that had already threated them several times.
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Pizza Hut delivers pink slip to employee held at gunpoint

James William Spiers III, first mentioned here for using a gun to defend himself from a premeditated ambush, has been fired by Pizza Hut now that media attention has died down. He violated company policy by carrying a hand gun. Good thing, too.

Here’s a letter to the editor on the subject:

I am writing in response to the article in the April 19 paper about the Pizza Hut delivery driver who was victim of a robbery attempt. I am specifically concerned with the comments made by state Sen. Brad Zaun calling for a boycott of Pizza Hut.
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While not impugning the integrity of this specific delivery person, I don’t want armed individuals coming to my door when they make a delivery, whether for Pizza Hut or any other company. I would rather have Zaun working to eliminate the situations that may lead a delivery driver to feel the need to carry a weapon.

I think we would all be better served if Zaun devoted his energies to solving problems rather than suggesting a boycott of a legitimate business.

Again, like Dave Musgrove in his Russian Roulette column, we get a bunch of “there must be something better than letting citizens defend themselves,” which is ridiculous on it’s face. Then no specific examples of this wonderful “something” are forthcoming.

Incidentally, the decision to wait until the spotlight passed on just shows how cowardly these guys are. Can’t really, blame them, of course. If I ran a company that fired a guy for violating a policy that put his life in danger, I wouldn’t want people to know about it, either.

More on this at:

• ‘Russian Roulette’
• More on the latest Pizzza Hut guy in trouble for defending himself
• Don’t ‘F’ with the Pizza Guy

Via Caleb.

UPDATE: Lots of comments at Say Uncle’s.

This wasn’t too far from Murdoc’s current HQ:

WYOMING, Mich (WOOD) – Three armed robberies occured in less than 45 minutes late Thursday night, but police are not officially linking the incidents. Two suspects are in custody for one of the robberies, and are undergoing questioning.

In the last of the three, shots were fired. One of the store clerks exchanged gunfire with the robber. The bullet pierced a metal cabinet wall and struck Hung Ngyn in the leg. Ngyn, 42, is being released from the hospital and is said to be doing well Friday.

Two men, one with a gun, went into Gerk’s Party Works on 36th St. around 11:15 p.m. and demanded money. That’s when the exchange of gunfire took place. Police aren’t sure if anyone was hit.

A police dog tracked the men after they ran from the store, but lost their scent in an area where investigators think they got in a car and took off.

I hadn’t heard about this. More at WOOD-TV’s website.

My wife tells me that there have been a number of burglaries in our neighborhood with the past week. We live on a quiet street in a quiet neighborhood in a quite city. But not as quiet as it appears, it appears.

Sonny, move out to the country.

Murdoc still finds this funny. Click for bigger image.

At the Univeristy of North Carolina – Charlotte:

Participants had to give their teachers a heads-up at the start of class if they wore a holster.

You have to alert your teacher that you’re wearing an empty holster? Do people wearing pink ribbons or rainbow pins have to give the teacher a heads up? How about people wearing Livestrong wristbands?

Via Instapundit.

ABC News: U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?

U.S. efforts to stop the smuggling of tens of thousands of guns to Mexico, including high-powered assault weapons, have been hampered by lenient American gun laws and the Bush administration’s failure to give priority to anti-gun smuggling efforts, officials tell ABC News for a report Tuesday on ABC News’ “World News With Charles Gibson.”

They then go on to detail a number of specific weapons, including fully automatic AK-47s, M60 machine guns, short barrel rifles, and M203 40mm grenade launchers. All of which are either illegal or tightly restricted in the US.

But they don’t mention that, of course. And they don’t seem to understand much about the 1994 Federal assault weapons ban. It’s almost like they’re making mistakes on purpose or something.

Maybe Mexico should just lock down its border with the United States. I’m sure that suddenly the drug cartels would be unarmed.

See Confederate Yankee for much more.