Tony Oliva

Yes Virginia, there is a Second Amendment

On this day, Sept. 21st 1897 The New York Sun wrote a timeless editorial in reply to an 8 year old girl ,named Virginia, who asked if there was a Santa Claus. As someone who still believes in the answer that the Sun wrote over 110 years ago (yes, there is a Santa Claus), with respect I submit that yes Virginia, there is a Second Amendment despite what your gun control zealot friends may think. Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe in defending themselves except what protection they can get from the government. They think that nothing should be allowed that is not comprehensible in their little minds. In this great country of ours a true American is a lion at heart, as industrious as an ant, with the knowledge and intellect to see what the...

Intoxication and guns shouldn’t mix…nor should intoxication and driving

So then why are their parking lots at bars? There are states around the country that have prohibitions on having a drink while carrying firearm. Yet, while they are more than happy to infringe on the Constitutional Right of bearing arms, somehow, regulating the privilege of driving is somehow more protected. If things were equal (though in truth they shouldn’t be because rights should have more protections than privileges) then you would either have to leave your car at home and walk to the bar or you would have to be a designated driver and not drink at all, by LAW. But since most gun control zealots hate equality and rationality (i.e. everyone is free to think what they will, as long as you agree with them) the idea of prohibiting drivers from being served alcohol seems completely ridiculous yet banning a gun owner from the same is completely logical. Statistically, 31%...

The Story of Gonzales and How It Relates to Today

In case you have ever seen a black and white flag with a cannon, lone star and the words “come and take it” and wondered where it came from, I’m going to tell you the story. Because it is a story that still relates today and to the fight against governmental control…or as the zealots like to refer to it, gun control. Gonzales was a Mexican town east of San Antonio that was inhabited by settlers mainly from the US. In 1831, Mexican authorities gave the settlers a small cannon to help defend themselves against Comanche raids. Over the next four years, political unrest in Mexico reached a high point with several states revolting. Col. Ugartechea, commander of all troops in Texas, felt it unwise to leave the weapon in the hands of the settlers and demanded it back. Let me emphasis something, the government was fine with the...

Saved by a Semi automatic “assault” rifle, the story of Koreatown during the LA riots

Because the opponents of liberty have tried to demonize and mislead people into semi automatic rifles are lead spewing machine guns by calling them “assault” rifles, I will first explain the difference. A semi automatic rifle, your AR’s, AK’s and the like are weapons that fire a projectile every time the trigger is pulled, same as a pistol. But because these rifles tend to be black, the gun grabbing zealots wish to cast aspersions on them saying these dangerous black guns shouldn’t be in the hands of everyday citizens. They like to infer that just because you have a black gun that you are going to go on a kill frenzy. Just because a gun is black does not make it a machine gun or a true assault weapon. The National Firearms Act of 1934 heavily regulated all machine guns and assault weapons, what was known colloquially as “gangster weapons”. The Act...

The Humane Society is anything but

The Humane Society does not care about domestic pets. Less than 1% of all money they generate goes to actually shelters where funding is desperately needed. Despite what the ads on TV would have you believe, the Humane Society does not care about your pet, pounds, shelters or anything of the like. Their president, Wayne Pacelle, goes so far as to say the following: When asked if he envisioned a future without pets, “If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don’t want to see another dog or cat born.” “One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.” That’s right…these people are so out there on the fringe that they don’t even believe that pets should have the right to exist. No wonder they don’t want to see money spent on shelters, the Human Society’s endgame is the eradication of...

Weekend Hodgepodge

As September rolls on and harvests take place I am faced with a philosophical query that has been a recurrence for years now…Pumpkin or Apple. I’m talking about pies of course. No one says that a pumpkin a day keeps anything away. Nor do I think about plucking a pumpkin off the vine and take a big juicy bit out of it. In all common categories of eating it raw I will say that apple has pumpkin beat, hands down. But when it comes to pie is the choice so obvious? Why is it Mom, baseball and apple pie? Apples are not indigenous to this country (though one could say an immigrant fruit does make sense). I would make a case that Pumpkin pie might be MORE American than apple. What kind of pie do you serve at Thanksgiving? There’s no such thing as a Dutch Pumpkin pie. The pumpkin is so industrious, filled with the...

Blood in the streets

To continue on a theme that I started yesterday and in light of recent Islamo-fascist uprisings, I wanted to delve into actual blood in the streets. Basically, we haven’t won the war on terror. I don’t think it is a battle that can be “won”, it can only be fought. While our brave servicemen and women have been fighting it overseas that does not mean that it will not be brought back to our shores in the future. No amount of constitution shredding Patriot acts or liberty killing executive orders will eliminate that possibility. So the question remains, if we find ourselves with Islamo-fascist terrorists here in the heartland are you prepared to defend yourself. While the police are required to protect society on a whole from falling into chaos, there is a limit on what they can do when a full-on terrorist insurrection is occurring within the states. ...

Cops will not protect you…they aren’t psychic nor are they legally required to

The police have no legal responsibility to save you. No, seriously. You may have heard this before and have not known its origin. Maybe you just think since cops aren’t psychic they won’t be there in time to stop a crime. Well, they’re not, and they usually aren’t there to protect you when things go bump in the night Many of us have heard the old saying, “When seconds count the cops are only minutes away” Or that cops investigate crimes that happened not stop crimes that are happening. That is very true. And a rational person can understand that. Of course, Gun Control zealots aren’t rational so they believe that only cops and criminals should have guns. Criminals, so they can kill you and then armed cops can more safely capture the criminals. Little solace to your family that the bad guy was captured. Because he wasn’t “stopped”. The only person who...

Why do we keep apologizing?

I, for one, am tired of the constant apologizing that this country’s executive branch keeps doing. We have apologized for our arrogance, for our dismissive nature and our willingness to engage in violence. I believe that there is no reason to apologize for having pride in your country, for being willing to lead and to be willing to defend liberty and freedom for those who are in need. Why this President continues to undermine American exceptionalism by his constant kowtowing to foreign powers and bodies is sickening. Obama has claimed that America has a moral responsibility to act on arms control (i.e. gun banning) because we used a Nuclear weapon. But on top of apologizing for the beacon of freedom that America has lit in the world for the past 200+ years, on top of apologizing for our “savage” 2nd Amendment, Obama now apologizes that our First Amendment right has angered...

What we lost on September 11th 2001

On top of the tragic loss of human life, I look back over these past 11 years and I see something just as tragic that has been lost. Liberty. Sure we have the pretense of freedom but through 2 administrations liberty has been chiseled away ever so slowly so that we are like the frog in the pot. If it heats slowly enough the frog won’t jump and before he realizes it he is cooked and dead. That is what is happening to American society. It started with righteous fury at terrorists and a knee jerk reaction to do something. And I’m not talking about retaliatory strikes and invasion of other countries, I’m talking about the pacifying tactics that the sheep demanded in order to feel safe. This reliance on the government to beat back the boogeyman was in its nascent stage for many years prior to 9/11, but found...

How bloody do you have to get before you can defend yourself?

That is the question facing a motorist who was viciously attacked by a cyclist. After being struck through his window, seven or more times according to witnesses, Edward Meyers shot his attacker who died later at the scene. The event occurred when the cyclist, Henry Enoch, ran a red light and struck the side of Meyer’s truck. Enoch being oblivious to his fault in the matter sprung up, raced around the front of the truck to Meyers open window and began pummeling him. After the salvo of punches did not slacken Meyers shot Enoch, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Now prosecutors are deciding whether or not to charge Meyers with a crime. Michigan law states that you can use deadly force if you think your life is in imminent danger, you’re in fear of sexual assault or to save yourself from great bodily harm. Fear of death? A person...

Weekend Hodgepodge

With the first full Sunday of American football here in the states I just wanted to reflect on how great the fall season is in America. We have playoff baseball. Because lets face it…160 some odd games is a lot to stay excited about. But once the fall comes around the races matter, wild card births are being fought over and come October every single pitch and at bat matters. Hunting season really kicks in. Depending on where you are there there are numerous things to hunt and different times of the year but being raised in the North East I always associate the fall with deer and bear hunting. Of course, depending on the state Bear season can start as early as September (NH) or not until November (PA). Apple Pie. Yes, we all serve apple pie for on picnics and July 4th and so on, but the real...

Technology has rendered gun control pointless

In case you aren’t familiar with what “printing” is (and I don’t mean seeing your concealed weapons outline), it is the use of a 3D printer in order to make an object from plastic. Many objects can be made from it and among them are firearms. Yep. You can buy a 3D printer and from a block of plastic design and print out your own pistol, or AR receiver, made from about $30 worth of plastic resin. You can see the first confirmed example of a functioning 3D printed gun here. With fine tuning and home science the 3D printing technology will soon be able to make the main parts of any gun out of plastic requiring only a few parts needed to be made of metal. I pose the question to the gun control zealots out there. How exactly do you plan on stopping this? The moment criminals can...

DNC Checklist: First deny God. Second deny the rights He bestowed to us. Third, Government

In case it comes as a surprise to those who don’t believe that President Obama is just biding his time to enact sweeping gun control measures, an official plank on the DNC Platform calls for the re-enactment of the assault weapons ban. Diane Feinstein, with her government funded protection detail has no qualms with denying you the right to protect yourself and your home. At a delegates breakfast yesterday she stated that she would reintroduce an updated assault weapons ban declaring: “Weapons of war do not belong on our streets, in our classrooms or in our movie theatres”. Never a group to let a good tragedy go to waste, the gun control zealots always like to stir the most recent emotional nerve in order to get some quick press and make a cause célèbre out of such instances. Never mind the fact that the theatre was a gun free zone and...

The Brady Campaigns War on Women

To find the real war on women, one need look no further than the Brady Campaign which insists on stripping law abiding women of their right to defend themselves against rapists. Brady Campaign-approved guidelines about preventing rape say women should vomit, urinate, defecate or announce you are on your period. The Campaign seems to be following a study done by Yale which concluded the same. That is the extent that they believe women should be allowed to defend themselves. While I will not argue the research that Yale has done, how dare these gun control zealots limit their suggestions to women that they should debase themselves in the hopes that the rabid animal trying to violate them will be turned off. There is only one way to deal with rabid animals and that is to put them down. I’m not a woman, but I cannot think of an attack more brutal,...

All states are not created equally (in regards to your rights)

If you happen to live in a state where the cost or bureaucracy of getting your CCW is prohibitive, you should think about getting a non-residential permit from another state. In the news recently was an article about the rise in the number of non residential Virginia CCW’s issued that looks to coincide with a new procedure allowing people to take the “competency” test online. Basically, you take the online test of 15-20 true or false questions and if you pass you have the basic competency for carrying a gun. Examples of these questions are as follows: “The first step in cleaning your firearm is to make sure it is unloaded,” “Always keep firearms pointed in a safe direction,” Once the test is passed, you include it with your application, fingerprints for a background check, and the $39.99 fee. Since Virginia is a “shall-issue” state they must issue you a...

Old enough to fight for the Constitution? Old enough to exercise it

We give them a M-16, send them to a foreign land and tell them to defend the United States and what it stands for, but if you’re not 21 in some parts of the country you will be denied the 2nd Amendment rights enumerated in our Constitution. Well, FINALLY, a state has taken the step in overthrowing this theatre of the absurd. Missouri has passed Bill HB1657 that will allow US Military Personnel under the age of 21 to get their Concealed Carry Weapons permit. Currently, the law states that everyone must be 21 in order to receive a CCW. As I stated in my opening, we are giving these young men and women rifles, machine guns, tanks and cannons to fire with dire purpose in defense of Liberty, how hypocritical of a nation must we be to then deny them the simple right to defend themselves while at home. Now,...

In the heat of the moment, true stories of split second decisions to shoot

I got a little blowback from some about my recent blog post about the recent shooting at the Empire State Building. I heard a lot about how dangerous the profession is and how in the heat of the moment you can’t shoot straight so I thought I would look into some other recent examples. First, let me direct you to what an NYPD officer himself said on reddit.com: “Any average CCW citizen who practices more than twice a year pretty much has most of the department beat in terms of training” You can read more about the officer’s insight here. Training is definitely important for all gun owners, be they wearing a badge or not. As I said, some kept telling me that “if you’ve never been in that situation you can’t criticize”. I question that logic too, now that I think about it. I’ve never been President of the...

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