Cautionary tale gun owners can take from Jameis Winston

Cautionary tale gun owners can take from Jameis Winston

In case you aren’t that into sports allow me to rehash the tale of Jameis Winston.  Winston is currently the quarterback for the FSU Seminoles, the #1 college football team in America and the presumptive Heisman Trophy winner. All that might have gone sideways if a recent case of “he said/she said” played out differently. One need look only to North Carolina where convicted murderer Crystal Mangum falsely accused the Duke Lacrosse team of sexual assault.  Without evidence, without corroboration and without anything more than the sensationalized media frenzy exploiting the lie of “privileged white students rape black stripper” 3 Duke students nearly had their lives ruined by a corrupt Prosecutor looking to make a name for himself. Fortunately for Winston he had a few things in his favor.  The prosecutor actually took the time to investigate, he had corroborating witnesses to his innocence and he was black while his...
Read More
Today a young Nelson Mandela would have been sent to Guantanamo, and rightfully so.

Today a young Nelson Mandela would have been sent to Guantanamo, and rightfully so.

First off, let me say that I have great respect for Mr. Mandela and how he spent his life after he got out of prison. But unlike the sychophants on the news and President Obama I will not deify him as the greatest human being ever or this fictionalized man of peace who never did wrong in his life. The fact of the matter is that for most of his life Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.  Not a Muslim terrorist but rather a radical communist terrorist.  So an equivalent of Guantanamo Bay is most likely where he would end up today.  The world does not tolerate terrorists as much today as they did in Mandela’s youth. I’m willing to forgive the man for his communist leanings, he is free to have those, I mean Trotsky wasn’t as bad a guy compared to Stalin and that’s probably what got him...
Read More
Happy Freedom From Tyranny Day

Happy Freedom From Tyranny Day

On this day, 80 years ago, a majority of states banded together to overthrow one of the most egregious infringements levied upon the liberty of American citizens in this country’s history; Prohibition. With the ratification of the 21st Amendment, the states scratched out of existence the 18th Amendment to the Constitution that made the manufacture, transfer or sale of alcohol illegal. Though such un-American laws have been on the books periodically throughout our country’s history, the act of actually writing one down into the foundation of our country’s most important document is ghastly. We have the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and they’re great at limiting the power the Government can use to crush us with.  But after 11 through 15 that dealt with reconstruction and abolishing slavery we see the Amendments begin to be used to punish and attack American Citizens or for...
Read More
Commercial Shows What REAL Gun Owners Look Like; Stark Contrast To Media Sensationalized Caricatures

Commercial Shows What REAL Gun Owners Look Like; Stark Contrast To Media Sensationalized Caricatures

While the gun haters/controllers try to paint those who choose to exercise their right to keep and bear arms as vigilantes, cowboys and wannabe cops in order to try and marginalize the more than 80 million gun owners in America, there are others who actually like to promote little things like, you know, the truth. And the truth of the matter is that gun owners, by and large, are just regular folks going about their business and understanding that when the moment comes, they are on their own to protect themselves.  Sure, the police can come later and file a report or make a chalk outline but the chances of an officer being present to protect an individual personally are slim at best. Think about it.  How many rapes are stopped by police intervention?  How many home invasions are PREVENTED due to an officer being there by happenstance?  How...
Read More
Gun Controllers Bamboozle BOTH Major Parties on “Invisible Guns”

Gun Controllers Bamboozle BOTH Major Parties on “Invisible Guns”

In a tragic sign of bi-partisanship, Congress is on the verge of passing a 10-year extension to the Undetectable Firearms Act that bans all plastic guns that cannot be detected by a metal detector. The gun controllers argue about the criminals getting their hands on weapons that cannot  be detected and sneaking them into places that they could do damage with. The only problem with this “logic” is that with the advent of 3-D printers and the technology improving in that regard, criminals will just ignore this law too. Do I want an all plastic gun that is undetectable?  To be honest, until I started writing this article I would say no, and that I was only arguing on principle that to infringe upon the manufacturing and owning of plastic undetectable weapons was a violation of the 2nd Amendment. But the more I think about it, with instances of...
Read More
The NFL Promotes Sex and Booze, Bans Self Reliance in Super Bowl Ads

The NFL Promotes Sex and Booze, Bans Self Reliance in Super Bowl Ads

The NFL has banned an advertisement of a gun vendor from the Super Bowl. Was the ad promoting violence and a disregard for human life and went beyond all human decency?  Hardly.  It didn’t even have a gun in the ad, simply a man saying that it was his right to protect his family in the manner of his choosing. You can see the ad in its entirety below: You know what I see in that commercial?  A man taking responsibility for protecting his family. The NFL though, somehow sees this as too offensive.  The hypocrisy of that stance is galling.  The fact that the NFL would have the nerve to say a man speaking existentially about protecting his family is offensive while still promoting alcohol guzzling ads of beer companies and ubiqutious strip teases of Godaddy.com is pathetic. Here’s a taste of what the NFL deems appropriate http://youtu.be/9nvpD_eQgTo...
Read More
Gun Controllers push for Robot Apocalypse rather than arming teachers

Gun Controllers push for Robot Apocalypse rather than arming teachers

Sci-fi is only fiction until it isn’t. A company in silicon valley has created a 5ft tall, 300 lb R2D2 looking robot that they hope will keep tragedies like Sandy Hook and other school shootings from happening. “We founded Knightscope after what happened at Sandy Hook,” said the company’s co-founder William Santana Li. “You are never going to have an armed officer in every school.” No, because an armed “officer” (could be a teacher) would be effective and since gun controllers in general have an aversion to logical solutions that work, they march out idiotic ideas like have a robot monitoring the halls. Let’s just touch base with the obvious problem as it relates to Mr. Li’s statement.  Unless this monstrosity is armed with kung fu devensive programming or armament itself (which is another HUGE problem if it were) what you basically have is an oversized, overpriced, overly intrusive smoke...
Read More
Tragedy and Irony shouldn’t be used to limit Liberty

Tragedy and Irony shouldn’t be used to limit Liberty

In a tragic irony, Paul Walker, famed actor from the high speed car chase movie franchise  “Fast and Furious”,  lost his life Saturday in a motor vehicle crash.  The crash and subsequent explosion might as well have been out of one of his movies for it hardly seemed real.  The aftermath of the crash and fireball are below.   Now, i’m actually saddened by the loss of Paul Walker.  I liked his movies.  Sure, he wasn’t a young Marlon Brando but he had found his niche and his flicks were good fun most the time. What I don’t like is the hypocrisy.  If Paul Walker and his friend shot each other in a murder suicide, or a had an accident with a firearm that resulted in one or the other being killed there would be HUGE outrage by the gun controllers demanding that we outlaw the guns involved.  That...
Read More
“Mr. Editor, Is The 2nd Amendment Real?”

“Mr. Editor, Is The 2nd Amendment Real?”

Seeing as we have now entered the Christmas season I am reminded of a story some 116 years ago when an 8 year old girl named Virginia wrote to the editor of The (New York) Sun and asked him if there was a Santa Claus.  She asked because her intelligentsia little friends were telling her that he did not exist.  Because THEY didn’t believe in Santa they were intent on forcing other people not to believe either. The editor, Francis Church’s, response in the affirmative that there was a Santa Claus was as poetic as it was truthful and it can be read in it’s entirety here. Nowadays though, there are other groups of smarmy pseudo intellectuals who try to hijack the public consciousness and claim that there is no 2nd Amendment, that if there ever was one, it no longer exists because it is no longer needed. To...
Read More
Be Wary, Be Ready, Be Armed.

Be Wary, Be Ready, Be Armed.

With all the random acts of violence out there in the world, this holiday season brings two distinct things to two distinct groups.  To many it is a time of gladness and joy over the birth of Christ or the miracle of Hanukkah.  To others it is an opportunity to commit crime or acts of evil. I remember a quote attributed to a bank robber back in the day.  When asked by a reporter why he robbed banks the bank robber replied “because that’s where the money is”. So too, during our festive holiday buying fest, will those with evil intent find the things they desire; namely targets and opportunity.  For a mass shooter there really isn’t a better time or place than during holiday shopping at a mall to go off.  Most malls follow the inane policy of being “gun free zones”, they’re jam packed with people who...
Read More
Even if you’re right, don’t hold your breath for the media to be fair

Even if you’re right, don’t hold your breath for the media to be fair

A look at the media, especially the ones with heavy liberal bias like MSNBC, the Washington Post and NPR Radio, one would think that blood runs in the street and everyone is walking around with machine guns and that were purchased at “evil” gun shows.  Not only do media outlets sensationalize and overplay gun crime they do something even more disingenuous by hardly ever covering the many times when guns save lives. I used to think that this was solely an anti-gun mindset that the liberal media held and therefore would only cover stories that made guns and gun owners look bad.  But that is only half the tale.  It’s not just about guns, but rather the media only covers stories that fit into their chosen narrative. For instance, the Knockout “game” has been going on since last year, yet it has hardly gotten any coverage.  Why?  Because it...
Read More
The Danger of Appeasement

The Danger of Appeasement

While Obama is doing downward facing dog with regards to his “negotiating” with Iran over nukes, i just starting thinking of all the times the stance of appeasement failed.  You can read more about the compelling argument that appeasement now has shadows of Neville Chamberlain in 1938 Munich at Conservativebytes.com Mike Devine makes the amusing parody of Obama’s Iran policy as “If you like your nuclear enrichment policy, you can keep it, period.” The examples of failure, that the idea of appeasement provides, are extensive and cover the world over.  It all hearkens back to Benjamin Franklin’s famous line, “Those who would trade in liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither liberty or security.”  With appeasement, by continually giving in a little at a time in order to avoid making a stand and face the growing threat only makes the inevitable all the harder to recover from. I...
Read More
Inventor proves TSA security is a fraud, builds blunderbuss shotgun in the airport AFTER the checkpoint

Inventor proves TSA security is a fraud, builds blunderbuss shotgun in the airport AFTER the checkpoint

I have long argued that the TSA is just theatre and offers no real protection.  In fact, the TSA makes America a more dangerous place to live since it desensitizes Americans to having their liberties infringed, their 4th Amendment rights erased and normalizes the surrender of these freedoms to the “authority”. But these are philosophical arguments on what it means to be free.  Pretty much everyone can agree that the TSA failing to stop someone from bringing a sawed off shotgun into an airport is a failure on their part. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for guns on planes (would’ve made a difference on 9/11), but if the TSA is there to stop such things, one ingenious inventor has come up with a firearm that not only casts a spotlight on the fraud that the TSA is peddling but also how silly the notion of feeling safe is...
Read More
How will NYS enforce the SAFE Act? With a Rights shredding mindset backed with Military Grade Weaponry

How will NYS enforce the SAFE Act? With a Rights shredding mindset backed with Military Grade Weaponry

By now it should come as no surprise of the of disdain that the powers that be in New York State have for its citizens.  From the crippling high taxes, to the infringement of rights, to the promotion of a neighbor spying on neighbor program etc. Conversely though, those controllers in Albany seem shocked that people would finally have enough and say “NO” to continually bending over to the whims of those in power who disregard with “outdated” documents like the Bill of Rights or “silly” notions like Liberty. What is Albany to do when the citizens it has tried so hard to make into servants finally say enough is enough? Like all good totalitarian regimes, the one in Albany gets overwhelming firepower to suppress the masses. In New York, that comes in the form of 18 ton, armor-protected, military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass that...
Read More
Old and Bad-Ass

Old and Bad-Ass

I was having a conversation with Mike Furrer (father of Olympic Rifle Shooter Amanda Furrer) recently about a mutual hero of ours, Samuel Whittemore.  Sam was an ornery, grizzled, tough as nails American Patriot during the Revolutionary War. The short story of Sam Whittemore is that he single handedly engaged an entire regiment of Redcoats as they marched back to headquarters after the battle of Lexington and Concord.  At 80 years of age, Whittemore hid behind a stone wall armed to the teeth and laid an ambush on the British.  He attacked with his musket, then dual pistols killing 3 and fighting off the rest with sword in hand.  Eventually the numbers overtook him and he was shot in the face, bayoneted 13 times, beaten and left for dead. Two absolutely amazing things happened next.  First, not only was he found alive when the British moved on but he was...
Read More
Private Gun Sales Are The Lynchpin of Liberty

Private Gun Sales Are The Lynchpin of Liberty

There has been much talk from gun controllers about “common sense” gun control measures such as closing the so called gun show loophole and outlawing private sales of firearms between two people. Or the meltdown gun controllers are having over the private sale of firearms via instagram. You can read that story at Girls Just Wanna Have Guns. There are some usually level headed people who are buying into the controllers bunk and ask me what my problem is with the government checking in on the transactions of private citizens. My answer is quite easy to digest.  The government cannot be allowed to know, track and record every firearm transaction made.  The sake of our liberty demands that the government have a blind spot. The alternative is that they know the quantity, quality and model of every firearm that every law abiding citizen possesses.  The government doesn’t need to...
Read More
Would a Kennedy Conspiracy have occurred today?

Would a Kennedy Conspiracy have occurred today?

Fifty years ago today our 35th President was shot and killed in Dallas. For the past 50 years questions about who did it have persisted and the cover up has gone from extensive to downright legendary. As I was watching cable news this morning a political pundit was being asked to recall his day when Kennedy was shot.  Something he said really jumped out at me.  The pundit recounted that he gathered around the television with his family to watch one of the three networks.  He then highlighted that there was no internet, or blogs or twitter at the time so the only source of news was the big three channels. This got me thinking, perhaps that was the problem. How many times in recent years have the big 3 networks been snowballed by the government, fed some BS story to cover up something the government didn’t want anyone...
Read More
Knockout players are rabid animals that need to be put down

Knockout players are rabid animals that need to be put down

The title clearly states my feelings toward the matter.  In case you aren’t aware of the “game” knockout, it basically consists of striking an unsuspecting person on the street and trying to quite literally knock them out in one punch. Man, woman or child, it does not matter to the reprobates and vile scumbags who engage in the activity. Not only is the act itself reprehensible and cowardly, the punch along with the immediate aftermath can be deadly. Below are a few incidents of the act captured on camera.  Be warned, it can be disturbing if you still consider the people who are doing this as people instead of animals.  I think about it in the same sense as watching “When Animals Attack” type shows, it makes it a little easier to digest. http://youtu.be/fIvyAfLooR0 The last one was filmed in Pittsburgh.  I remember that day, I was only a...
Read More