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Posted at 12:35pm on Jun. 27, 2008 Obama's Gun Obfuscation

Obama Sraddles On

By California Yankee

Yesterday, reporting on reactions to the Supreme Court's decision striking down the D.C. gun ban, the Associated Press headlined "McCain backs gun decision, Obama straddles issue."

Here's video of Obama straddling the issue:

Just before the Supreme Courts decision was public, Obama disavowed his "inartful" statement calling the D.C. gun laws constitutional.

Wait. There's more.

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Posted at 8:45am on Jun. 27, 2008 One tendentious opinion away.

From the same tyranny.

By Paul J Cella

A quick read of this article will surely leave you outraged. The story is simple enough: a neat amalgam of barbarism and PC bureaucracy, the sort of anarchy compounded by oppression that Liberalism so excels at producing.

A former British soldier endures as his neighborhood terrorized by a pack of feral young thugs (“yobs,” as they call them over there) for several days. He calls the police; they never come. He looks for an officer; finds none. Coming home one day to find his wife in tears and terrified, he finally has enough, and goes out to execute a citizen’s arrest, dragging one of the thugs into house and calling his mother. Thereupon the police arrive with the mother — and naturally arrest the homeowner.

This is justice under Liberalism.

Let it be noted that there was a somewhat similar case in Illinois five years ago, where a man who fought off an intruder in his house was charged with a handgun violation. State Sen. Obama voted against bills to remedy this manifest injustice twice.

Yesterday we all sat around in worried anticipation, hoping the Supreme Court would manage, this time, to maintain the plain meaning of the words of our Constitution and restore to us our self-government. The outcome was a good one — barely. But the tyranny of the Court is still in place. The four Liberals very frequently succeed in persuading Justice Kennedy to join them in their usurpations. They care not one whit about the plain meaning of the Constitution. They do exactly as they please.

Here in America, packs of feral youths exist in appalling abundance, just like in Britain. But most of them are well aware that their potential victims may be armed. On that fact, friends, much of our liberty hangs.

And we are only a tendentious opinion from one of the Liberal Usurpers on the Court, or their creature Kennedy, under the spell of the New York-DC elite adulation — one tendentious opinion citing foreign law, or sweet mystery of life, or mystical evolving standards, away from the same tyranny that would send the homeowner who defends his wife against thugs to jail, while showering the thugs with sympathy.

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Posted at 11:55am on May 8, 2008 The Best Commentary You Will Read on Marvin Harrison and the Second Amendment

By Ben Domenech

This link to KSK has language that is NSFW. There, fair warning. Now go read it - it's the best response to silly anti-Second Amendment columns you're going to find: total ridicule.

Posted at 9:41pm on Apr. 12, 2008 "Me and My 30'06..."

The copyright below is 1995, by the way. Obama's not the first one to get guys like this wrong, you see.

By Moe Lane

It's a song by W.J. Bethancourt III, who is one of the Banjo Gods; he's also known as Ioseph of Locksley. For the SCAdians reading this; yes, that Ioseph of Locksley, which is why I'm not going to violate his copyright by reproducing the whole thing. But the lyrics are still... of note for a certain condescending junior Senator from Illinois, so let me pass along the first and last stanzas:

I like to punch holes in pieces of paper
At a thousand yards or so
Me and my thirty ought six have a good time
That's where I like to go
I don't care for fishing, and I don't drink at all
Nor camping far out in the sticks
I just like to punch holes in pieces of paper
Me and my thirty ought six!

[snip]

So please, Mr. Congressman, think about me
As you sit 'neath the Capitol dome
I'm just one guy of two hundred million
Sitting back here at home
I'm no one important, I'm not very rich
But -I VOTE- on Elections Day's mix:
Punching small holes in pieces of paper ....
Me and my thirty ought six!

(Sample tune here)

Mind you, Mr. Bethancourt's not "bitter." Indeed, that's the whole point.

Moe Lane

PS: Good banjo album, by the way: it can be ordered here.

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Posted at 2:38pm on Mar. 24, 2008 Attention DC Residents: Don't Let the Police In!

By Mark I

David Freddoso notes in The Corner that the authorities in Washington DC must be a bit nervous about the way the oral arguments in District of Columbia vs. Heller went at the Supreme Court last week. If they were confident that the District's handgun ban would survive the Constitutional challenge, why would they be implementing a new program to try and get as many guns as possible forfeited before the Court's ruling comes down in June?

A crackdown on guns is under way in the District. Police are asking residents to submit to voluntary searches in exchange for amnesty under the District's gun ban.

The program is starting in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of southeast Washington on Monday and will later expand to other neighborhoods. Officers will go door to door asking residents for permission to search their homes. (emphasis mine)

Now, we at RedState certainly don't want to advocate any lawbreaking, but I hasten to point out that the program is voluntary (see bolding). DC residents don't actually have to...you know...let the police in. Fourth Amendment and all that. No warrant = no entry.

Chances are good that by June, this "crackdown" will be a moot exercise anyhow.

Posted at 6:57pm on Jan. 14, 2008 Notice Anything Missing?

By Dan McLaughlin

CNN.com's list of "What to put between you and burglars" seems to be missing a particular home-security device - see if you can guess what it is. (Hint: it's the one mentioned in the Bill of Rights. It's also the only one left once the burglars are actually inside the house.).

Posted at 5:51pm on Nov. 20, 2007 High Hopes, Pass the Carrot Cake

By Thomas

Apropos of Alex's note on the Supreme Court's decision to grant cert in the D.C. gun case:

We all realize, I hope, that this won't resolve whether the 2nd Amendment is, gag, incorporated, right? I mean, whether the 2nd Amendment enshrines an individual right or a collective one (so to speak) is still only a Federal question, and is only applicable here because D.C. is (and will remain forever if I have my way) a Federal protectorate.

If the Court decides that it is an individual right, they're going to have to stand Miller on its head, or just flat-out overrule it. I'm not sure this Court goes there.

(As to incorporation: I know, but I'm not convinced this Court is going to expand the incorporation doctrine. Actually, I just hope they won't, even though I love the policy result.)

Posted at 3:01pm on Nov. 9, 2007 Murder in Finland. (A shocker, despite permissive gun laws.)

By Mark Kilmer

Finland is become a firing range. Eighteen-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen rampaged through his high school Wednesday, killing six of his fellow students and two members of staff before turning .22 caliber pistol on himself.

Now, it should be noted that this most important part of this story from the BBC is that Finland's gun laws are nothing if not out-and-out LAX.

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Posted at 8:39pm on Mar. 28, 2007 Attention Wayne LaPierre: Your NRA Folks In Georgia Are Frigtards

Heck of a way to ruin the pro-2nd Amendment Coalition!

By Erick

The NRA, really without an agenda these past few years because it has been so successful, apparently got dumb and stupid in Georgia this past week and took a well deserved drubbing at the hands of Georgia's Republican Lieutenant Governor. This is the first time I can ever remember myself being on the opposite side of a fight from the NRA, but they truly conducted themselves like a bunch of frigtards.

The NRA, desperate to revitalize its flagging membership (a victim of its own great success), discovered a terrible travesty that only it could see -- some employers were daring to tell their employees that the employees could not bring their guns onto their employers private property, including the evil Wal-Mart. How dare these evil employers set rules for conduct on their private property.

So, the NRA drafted S.B. 43, pitting private property rights against gun rights and then had its activists begin harassing allies in the state legislature who actually thought private property rights were more important than gun rights of employees on private property.

The law was opposed by realtors, the Chamber of Commerce, other business allies, and a number of other groups and individuals usually on the same side as the NRA who actually think that governments should not tell private property owners what they can and cannot do on their land. The result? The NRA stabbed the GOP in the back by negotiating with Democrats who'd been threatening to highlight the fact that a local employee was killed this past Tuesday in Atlanta by another employee who brought a gun to their place of business. The GOP ran the NRA out of town. The NRA burned its bridges with some of its best allies in the state legislature, and now the NRA is crying over its treatment. In the process, the NRA said S.B.43 is the only bill it really cared about this year and will grade legislators commitment to guns only on that bill.

Note to the NRA: Grow up [and if this weren't a family site, there'd be a "the . . . ." between those two].

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