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Saturday, February 02, 2013

Combative citizens confront officials over gun rights

A forum conducted by government officials and law enforcement concerning gun rights turned combative as citizens angrily confronted the officials over what they perceive as a frontal attack on their Second Amendment rights.

But the confrontation did not take place in areas one might associate with such defiance, such as Texas, Alaska, Wyoming, Arizona, or Utah. The combative exchange took place in Buffalo, N.Y. And the issue was the new gun and ammo bans the state legislature approved with the blessing of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Friday, February 01, 2013

Congressional leaders call for probe into ATF blunder in Milwaukee

Congressional leaders Friday called for a federal probe into a major ATF blunder in Milwaukee that has placed the beleaguered agency under the gun yet again in the wake of its gargantuan Fast and Furious scandal.

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley joined with Congressmen Darrell Issa, Robert Goodlatte, and Jim Sensenbrenner in writing an official letter to ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones asking that he conduct an investigation into a botched sting operation that left an innocent citizen holding the bag with $15,000 in damages to his business, which the ATF refuses to pay.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

The 2A News Roundup--Top 10 for Thurs., Jan. 31, 2013

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

From Mike Vanderboegh: "They leave only one thing out -- the part where they start a civil war and we kill their tyrannical asses."

David Codrea calls our attention to the fact that Hollywood continues with their infamous hypocrisy on guns.

Kurt Hofmann says that escapees from nations that restrict citizen rights are some of America's most ardent supporters of the Second Amendment.

WRSA points to some advice offered to law enforcement officers who have vowed they will never obey any order that violates the U.S. Constitution.

Tam informs us of some good news for those who have looked for AR-15s only to find empty shelves in the current run on gun stores.

Way Up North has some information on the ammunition shortage.

Conservative Nexus provides a video at the top of the page of Judge Jeanine taking apart, point by point, Hillary Clinton's "explanation" of the Benghazi massacre.

Pamela Geller, who is probably the most informed source of intel in America on Jihadists, explains the latest threat from al Qaeda to attack the United States.

Alphecca calls out some loony 'toons who actually blamed the violence in Chicago on global warming.

Stand Up America reports the latest info on the Israeli attack on an arms shipment in Syria.

Mexican drug cartels gain foothold in 1,286 US cities

An investigation by the Examiner reveals that in the current raging controversy over guns in America, the Obama administration and gun control proponents among Congressional Democrats and other gun ban activists have carefully avoided dealing with what is now the number one driving force behind gun violence in America -- Mexican drug cartels.

The cartels have gained a foothold in every major city in the United States -- 1,286 cities to be exact. Law enforcement officials across the country confirm that most of the gang violence that occurs in major cities is perpetrated by illegal alien criminals who operate as the foot soldiers on the front lines for the Mexican drug cartels.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Federal gov't fomenting 'blood in our streets'

My National Conservative Examiner column today focuses on a pro-Second Amendment rally held in Washington Tuesday. A black Christian pastor declared that the federal government is fomenting blood in our streets by pushing gun control.

Also, there is information from Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, the only no-compromise gun lobby in the country, according to Ron Paul.

And you will find a new assessment of the prospects for gun control laws during this session of Congress. Click here to continue reading at the Examiner.

Musings After Midnight--"I Shall Not Be Moved:" the bold declaration of patriots who have no intention of obeying unconstitutional laws

Good evening, Patriots.

Welcome to another evening of hot tea, coffee, scones, "biscuits" as the British call them, fire in the fireplace, good company, and interesting political chat.

It's been cold here of late, along with some snow and ice. And, I understand that tomorrow the weather will warm up as a front moves through bringing the potential of severe weather, thunderstorms, and even tornadoes in some areas. Once we get past tomorrow, it's back to the cold temps according to the prognosticators.

So, everyone be careful out there.

But as for tonight, let's just enjoy ourselves with some good refreshments, that is, enjoy ourselves as much as a conscientious patriot can under the present conditions.

For sure, there is much to be highly disturbed about. And although I would be the last to encourage someone not to be disturbed, I do believe that such concern can be funneled into beneficial action. For me, that means writing and phone calls. For you it may mean protests. For others it may mean training for the day when self-defense is not an option but an absolute necessity if one wishes to live.

Some of you, I am quite sure, are physically able to push yourselves to the limit in order to whip your body into excellent condition for the days ahead when we will surely need it. I am a bit limited in that regard, but there is still much I can do.

Further, an integral part of that training is the training of the mind. This is one of the reasons why we read the words of those who can articulate what we face and the actions that are needed to correct the present calamity with which we are confronted in the country. We need to THINK, to reason, and to do so logically.

The public school system has largely failed to teach people how to think. We have been taught facts and figures, which is beneficial in itself to a degree. But we need to learn logic, the ability to think through a problem, a crisis, an obstacle with a clear-headed knowledge of the steps one must take to fully understand and comprehend the nature of the problem and to come up with suitable solutions that are appropriate for the circumstance.

The fact that most Americans cannot do this is shown most fully of late in the irrational "solutions" that are offered to the problem of "gun violence." None of the solutions address the problem. Most citizens simply go off half-cocked, mouthing stupidity such as "we have to get rid of all the guns," when in fact, 99.9 percent of gun owners never break the law.

And it doesn't seem to matter to most citizens that the shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary was stopped from gaining access to guns by the laws already on the books. Had his mother exercised prudence in a house where there is a certifiable lunatic present and locked up her guns, then he probably would have never gotten hold of those weapons.

Further, the guns that the politicians want to ban were not used in the Sandy Hook shooting. But does that matter? Apparently not. It just "sounds good" to the dumbed down masses who were never taught how to think.

So, what are we to do in a society that seems to be increasingly overwhelmed by individuals who cannot think straight but who vote nonetheless, much to the alarm of those of us who suddenly realized in 2008 that the majority of voters today are bordering on the moronic.

My last entry in the Musings After Midnight series set forth at least some of the things we can do. That post was designed to draw the line in the sand, to let the powers that be in government know what we will NOT do, no matter what laws they pass.

Tonight's edition, however, takes that initial manifesto a step further.

America has a rich tradition of patriots who refuse to obey illegitimate laws. Contrary to the views of many who believe that such a thing is unpatriotic, or criminal, or subversive, this nation was born out of civil disobedience.

The early patriots had no intention of continuing to be taxed by a tyrannical king in England. They expressed their rage in the original tea party -- known as the Boston Tea Party.

But it went far beyond that. The tipping point came when the British crown attempted to strip patriots in America of their firearms.

Don't even say it. I know what you are thinking. You never heard that in school. Neither did I. But that does not mean it is not a vitally important factor in the run up to the Revolutionary War of 1776. That war was about independence from Britain, for sure. But a big part of that demand for independence was the issue of gun rights. The patriots had no intention of allowing the British crown to deprive them of their guns. But your government-run public school system today failed to teach that fact to multimillions of students.

In short, the citizens of this nation have a rich history of telling government what they will and will not tolerate, and NOT the other way around! And if government fails to listen to the patriots, the patriots have ways of making their point, sometimes in a stunningly swift and unequivocal fashion.

An old Gospel song puts this attitude in perfect fashion: "I Shall Not Be Moved."

When patriots are confronted by tyrannical laws passed by tyrannical government officials, their voices rise in one unified chorus, "We shall not be moved! We shall not comply! Try to make us submit! You will be very sorry!"

I shall not be moved. This is the rallying cry, the bold declaration of citizens who have no intention of obeying unconstitutional laws.

Now, I am well aware that progressives/leftists/lunatics (these terms are interchangeable you know) will always point to the fact that "only the courts can determine what is constitutional or not."

Well, yes and no. Under normal conditions, when government officials are serious about the original intent of the Constitution as envisioned by the Framers, then yes, we can affirm the power of the courts to make that determination. But what about a scenario where the courts no longer care what the Framers intended?

We are at that point today.

Half of the rulings that proceed from the courts, including the black robbed scoundrels of the Supreme Court, are a direct affront to original intent. It is as if they say when they issue their decisions, "The Framers be damned!"

Think about it. The court in 1973 gave women the right to commit murder with complete immunity in Roe v. Wade. The court has trampled on the property rights of citizens in the name of various asinine motivations, such as protecting blind, microscopic bugs that are endangered and have been found on your property. And this is not to mention the misuse and abuse of the eminent domain clause.

Plus, you all know what I think of Roberts' ruling in the ObamaCare case. He joined with the tyrant liberals on the court to create law out of thin air and made himself to look like a clown, a court jester, in doing so. I'm sure Ringling Brothers would be glad to give him a contract.

The courts are now rogue courts. Congress is now a rogue Congress. And you really don't want me to say what I really think about the presidency at this particular time.

Jefferson, Madison, and others made it abundantly clear what citizens are to do in the face of such tyranny. We disobey it! Their reasoning was that when government strays from the foundational concepts upon which the Constitution is based, that government automatically loses the moral authority to govern and is therefore not fit to be obeyed. In fact, the citizens at that point have a moral, ethical, and philosophical duty to defy that government.

And of course, most of you are fully aware of Jefferson's reset button. When all other tactics of civil disobedience fail, the only remedy is war. At that point the citizens must take matters into their own hands to remove the tyrants from office by force and replace them with those who actually believe in the American form of government as set by the Constitution.

Are we at that point now? Are we now at the tipping point where this government is so lawless and reckless that Jefferson's reset button must be pushed?

To be frank, I don't know. Such a question is hard to answer. But I will be quick to say that if we are not already there, we are getting very close.

The winds of war are sweeping across America, and I don't mean that which involves China, or North Korea, or Iran. I mean war right here on our own soil between our own citizens. Unless the minions of the anti-constitutional movement back off their radical agenda, war is inevitable, and it is just around the corner.

My hope and prayer is that we can get this stuff stopped by merely engaging in a massive display of disobedience. We will never give up our guns under any circumstance. We will never register our guns. So, that means that government will never know who has them or where they are located. If we have to, we will go underground just like many of our forebears did when the government decided that citizens were forbidden from selling or consuming alcohol during Prohibition.

Prohibition turned out to be one of the best things to happen to the liquor business and bars. Speak-easies were in abundance, and the alcohol flowed, in secret of course, as never before.

Why would the jackbooted government thugs think that we will do any different if they ban guns?

Let me make it abundantly clear to you, if you happen to be a dirty rotten "progressive" or a government thug: IF YOU HAVE A BRAIN IN YOUR HEAD THEN LET PROHIBITION BE A LESSON TO YOU!!!

We will create the biggest black market in the history of the world if you march forward with gun bans and other controls. Mark it down. The citizens did it during the early part of the 20th century during Prohibition, and we will do it again. You can only get away with forcing citizens to do so much in a free society. Sooner or later you will use up all your good graces and lose the cooperation of citizens. It is then that we will show you who is really boss in this country. HINT: It ain't you! WE THE PEOPLE are YOUR boss!

This principle of "I shall not be moved" can be applied to a myriad of issues. When it comes to ObamaCare, just refuse to cooperate. Refuse to join a state exchange. Force them to "fine you," and then refuse to pay it. Of course, you may be charged with something, and you have to decide if you wish to suffer the consequences. But you always have the option of simply refusing to cooperate with tyrannical government. The various states are already doing it. 30 states are now on record saying they will refuse to create the healthcare exchanges that ObamaCare mandates.

The same thing goes for encroachments on free speech. Just say it! Say what you think is right. Say it loud and clear!

Now, this does not mean you are to take leave of your intelligence. You have to use your head. You don't want to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, because if a stampede ensues and people are injured or killed, you will be charged with a crime, and rightly so. Similarly, you don't want to get on a crowded airplane and announce that you have a bomb, and then say, "Only joking!" Such a "joke" will  get you arrested and charged with a crime. That kind of behavior is plain stupid...almost as stupid as jokingly threatening the life of an elected official, or anyone else for that matter.

Free speech does not grant people the right to cause harm to others. That is understood and should go without saying. This is not the same thing as what progressives often refer to as "reasonable restrictions." It is assumed that free speech will be exercised with common sense. Common sense does not "restrict" free speech but enhances it. You are free to say whatever you want as long as you are not attempting to perpetuate criminal activity.

Thus, yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is NOT a free speech issue. It is a criminal issue because, should someone get injured or killed due to your idiocy, you will be arrested and charged with a crime. Threatening to kill me or my family is also not a free speech issue but a criminal issue. These important distinctions in the law are of vast importance. So do not let the lunatics, I mean, progressives, tell you these things are free speech issues. They are NOT.

Thus, when the leviathans claim that "since we place reasonable restrictions of free speech, then surely we can do so on gun rights," they raise a false premise, a red herring. We do not place "reasonable restrictions" on free speech. Criminal behavior does not qualify as free speech. Our laws are designed only to prevent and punish criminal behavior.

Granted, through the years we have been sliding down the slippery slope of crossing the line on free speech. The politically correct movement is one of the main culprits, and many have succumbed to the inherent encroachments on their free speech for the fear of being vilified by the speech police. And since 9/11, I will admit that we have allowed further incursions on our free speech that has tended to have a muzzling effect.

I admit I don't like these provisions. The attitude of our Framers was, "I may not like what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

My, how far we have fallen away from those lofty ideals.

Thus, if we treated free speech in the same manner some wish to treat gun rights, we would forbid all citizens from speaking at all so that we could prevent one person from saying something that harms another. Rather than deal with people who cross the line, i.e. criminals, the progressives would punish the entire society.

This is the philosophy of Nazis, Fascists, Marxists, Communists, and other totalitarians. It is dangerous. And it must not be allowed.

When faced with these politically correct mandates, the conscientious patriot must speak up and say what is forbidden. For example, Muslims often say that Jews and Christians are nothing more than fleas and roaches. Fair enough, if that is what you feel. But I can also tell YOU that you are a bloodthirsty barbarian.

I can also say loud and clear that Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and others like them are race-baiting demagogues, charlatans who are out to do nothing but stir up racial hatred to make a quick buck. Some black people would call me racist for saying such things. Well, if you think that, you have been drinking the kool-aid. You have been brainwashed, and thus, Jackson, Sharpton, and Farrakhan have done their job. And that only proves my point.

When it gets to the point to where any disagreement with a black president is racist, we know we have reached a tipping point and that it is time to fight back without fear. We must be bold in calling out those who say such things.

And this brings me to my final point concerning the concept of civil disobedience and holding firm to Constitutional principles in the face of tyrannical government. Conservatives are going to have to get over this notion that we have to be "nice and respectful" to those who wish to rob us of our rights. Why should I be obligated to be nice to such people?

These people are trying to remove your very freedoms from you, and you think you have to be "nice?" NO!

I am under no obligation to be respectful toward an individual or group of individuals who believe that my right to free speech should be muzzled, that I must be deprived of my guns, that my property is not actually my property at all but that  it ultimately belongs to the "benevolent, all-seeing federal government," or that my religious freedom is subservient to a bunch of Middle Eastern barbarians who believe I should be forced to live under Shariah Law!

No!

I will not be "nice" to such persons.

This is a fight for the very heart and soul of our country and the very survival of our Constitution and Bill of Rights! We are not going to succeed in preserving and restoring them by being "nice." These people have to be told that we're onto them, they are not fooling anyone, and we will fight them tooth and nail to the bitter end.

In many ways, it is to our advantage that the vermin are now coming out from under the dark shadows of the woodwork into the light of day and admitting they wish to abolish the Constitution altogether, as a Georgetown University professor told Charles Osgood on CBS "Sunday Morning" last Sunday. We now know who the enemies are.

And the sooner conservatives realize that unless we get gritty and fight like our lives depend on it, all it will take is less than four more years to totally destroy this nation. Totally. Yes, my friend, we are that close to losing it all. And once it is gone, we will plunge into what Reagan called "a thousand years of darkness."

I, for one, am not willing to let that happen. To my dying breath, I will fight to prevent it from happening.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Tues., Jan. 29, 2013

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Nicki tells the ugly truth that we need to get fixed in our heads, "You are the enemy."

Standing By declares that "gun control won't stop gang violence."

Brigid shares some interesting history worth reading on the Springfield Armory 1911. Most handgun enthusiasts insist that the 1911 is the absolute best pistol ever made. And it has changed very little if any in the past 100 years.

Days of our Trailers has a pointed message for the gun control politicians in Washington--what's good for the goose is good for the gander!

Alphecca reports that the father of one of the slain children at Sandy Hook articulates some clear headed thinking on guns. You won't hear this reported in the MSM.

Roberta X sounds the alarm on an NRA-backed "compromise" that some in the GOP support concerning private gun sales. Yes, it IS time for alarm. Time to pressure the NRA and the GOP leadership!

Blonde Sagacity calls our attention to something she calls "bullskeet." LOL!

The Wandering Minstrel pictures notorious gun-grabbers Dianne Feinstein and Carolyn McCarthy dressed up in a jackass suit trying to tweak something they know nothing about.

Karl Denninger provides great reading revolving around the theme, Obama still doesn't get it on the Second Amendment.

Traction Control comments on the ensuing "drone war." Read it all.

Gun ban attempt reveals broader agenda

The current raging dispute in America between citizens who believe in and cherish the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms and those who wish to ban guns has revealed a much broader agenda that gun control activists have kept muffled if not entirely hidden.

Conservatives have suspected this broader agenda for several decades. But now, those who consider themselves progressive, which is a misnomer due to the regressive nature of their core principles, are not only no longer attempting to hide their real agenda but are openly claiming it.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Monday, January 28, 2013

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Mon., Jan. 28, 2013

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea reveals more of the hypocrisy of the gun control movement.

WRSA has an important message for gun owners. Do not register anything. And make sure the gov't NEVER finds out where all the guns are!

Kurt Hofmann declares that the government is preparing for war with the people, and he provides the evidence.

Mike Vanderboegh warns that the Republican leadership is getting ready to sell us out on private gun sales. Time to read Boehner the riot act. McConnell too.

Way Up North has The Moody Blues--"When You're a Free Man."

Tam evaluates the little Bodyguard .380 that S&W is selling.

Conservative Nexus notes that government officials will be allowed to keep using the gun of their choice while we the people will NOT. Elitist snobs.

CLO says that the Firearms Policy Coalition has added some new members.

Pamela Geller alerts us to the fact that Barack Obama has declared Jihad on American gun owners while arming Jihadists all over the world.

Stand Up America reports late breaking news, confirmed by Israeli intel, that a major blast has been recorded at an Iranian nuclear facility.

Lies and elitism plague gun control proponents

Although it is highly premature for gun rights advocates to celebrate the fact that Barack Obama's initiative for gun bans has hit a significant snag in Congress, the proponents of the bans are plagued by lies and elitism that has hurt their cause.

Perhaps the biggest untruth being perpetrated by Obama, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Rep. Steny Hoyer, the mainstream media, and others who are pushing severe restrictions on the Second Amendment is that they "are not seeking to take guns away from citizens."

The goal, so they say, is to ban "military grade assault weapons."

The statement is flagrantly false...

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Conservatives offer clear-headed, rational solutions to 'gun violence'

A most curious phenomenon has developed in modern society that requires the suspension of rationality and logic. The problem is not so much that at the core of the phenomenon is muddle headed thinking but that so many Americans do not immediately recognize the inherent incoherence that such thinking entails.

For example, modern Americans tend to blame society's ills, and their own, on everything but the right thing. Criminals steal not because they are social deviants but because they grew up in poverty. Racism, bigotry, and hatred toward our fellow man is not due to the evil that lurks in men's hearts and in the world but due to politically incorrect terminology that leads the emotionally weak to unleash their verbal venom.

If only society could mandate that certain words not be used, then perhaps society could totally eradicate from men's minds the tendency to caricature and vilify people who are not like they are.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.