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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. - MaxedOutMama I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. Kim du Toit
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. . . and so are you Wahabism Delenda Est      Hey, FEC!  BITE ME! I'm a Member of the McCain-Feingold INSURRECTION!    "Jeez, Kevin... calling you an asshole would be a huge understatement, wouldn't it?" -Jack Cluth, The People's Republic of Seabrook (Coming from you, Jack, it's an honor.)  email: gunrightsAT comcastDOTnet INVITATION: If you have never shot a firearm, regardless of your position on the right to arms, and if you live near or visit the Tucson, AZ metropolitan area, I invite you to go shooting for a day. I will provide the arms, ammunition, targets, safety equipment, range fees and instruction. All you have to do is show up. 6 Takers To Date DO YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE and want to try shooting? Click HERE  Proud Gun-blogging member of the Pajamahadeen since May, 2003!
Debates: "The Commentary" A OLD discussion on gun control between me and an Irishman living in London Start here. UPDATED! Now with archive! Post #1 by Alex, a Guest A multi-post discussion hosted here at TSM My short exchange with Professor Saul Cornell of the Second Amendment Research Center Best Posts: The "Rights" Discussion: What is a "Right?" What is a "Right"? Revisited, Part I Part II Rights, Morality, Idealism & Pragmatism, Part I Part II Part III Part IV The United Federation of Planets Is the Government Responsible for Your Protection? Part I & Part II 1975 in Washington, D.C. vs. 2004 in Canton, Ohio Go Ahead, Rely on the Government for Your Protection The Other Side Liberal vs. Conservative: Both are Necessary The Mystery of Government The Blog that Ate Poughkeepsie Updated and restated as: Of Laws and Sausages Militias A Mistake a Free People Get to Make Only Once The George Orwell Daycare Center This is NOT What I Wanted to Read TRUST The Lying "News" Media, Pt. II Say WHAT? Bias? What Bias? Agenda? What Agenda? The Church of the MSM and the New Reformation Let's See if I Can "Germinate an Intelligent Thought" Here The ACLU Hasn't Changed its Tune They Never EVER Stop It is Not the Business of Government Five Reasons Why It ISN'T They Keep Making Better Fools Five Month Investigation, 10 Tracer Rounds, Two Felony Convictions That Sumbitch Ain't been BORN! On Guillotines and Gibbets England Slides Further Towards Bondage Pressing the "RESET" Button Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothin' Left To Lose A Terrible Resolve The Courts Will Not Save Us Trilogy: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions "Game Over, Man. Game Over." An Important Question And the denouement: Hudson Was Wrong The Dangerous Victims Trilogy: "(I)t's most important that all potential victims be as dangerous as they can" Violence and the Social Contract Governments, Criminals, and Dangerous Victims In the same vein: Those Without Swords Can Still Die Upon Them The True Believers Trilogy: True Believers March of the Lemmings Reasonable People Also in the same vein: Tough History Coming The Culture Trilogy Culture Hubris Weltanschauung And its follow-on: In Re: Culture Technical Dissertations Why Ballistic Fingerprinting Doesn't (And Won't) Work Spin, Spin, Spin Speaking of Teddy Kennedy... This is the Kind of Thing That REALLY IRRITATES ME Questions from the Audience?
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PROTESTWARRIOR Some people who are taking the fight to the Left. And some GREAT T-shirts, too. DAILY READS I need a longer day! Day by Day InstaPundit Lileks' The Bleat Mostly Cajun View from the Porch Of Arms and the Law TFS Magnum Ravenwood's Universe Irons in the Fire Say Uncle The Adventures of Roberta X TRUE EXCELLENCE American Digest The Belmont Club Boobs, Injuries, and Dr. Pepper The Volokh Conspiracy Michael Yon Varifrank Eject!Eject!Eject! Eternity Road Oleg Volk ON INDEFINITE HIATUS USS Clueless The Safety Valve Ipse Dixit The Lopsided Poopdeck Acidman (RIP) Skywritings Publicola D.C. Thorton Kim du Toit Personal Effects Smoke on the Water OTHER GUN/RIGHTS BLOGS Airborne Combat Engineer AlphaPatriot Alphecca American Dinosaur A Day in the Life of an Ambulance Driver The Anarchangel Mrs. Anarchangel The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler Argghhh! The Bitch Girls Boots and Sabers The Breda Fallacy Gun Nuts Media Carnaby Fudge Clayton Cramer Cogito Ergo Geek Countertop Chronicles Cowboy Blob Critical Mastiff Cryptic Subterranean Found: One Troll FreedomSight From the Heartland Fun Turns to Tragedy!!! The Geek with a .45 Gunwatch Heartless Libertarian Hecate's Crossroad Hell in a Handbasket Individ Justin Buist's Blog The LawDog Files Lead and Gold Les Jones Live from the (upper) Texas Gulf Coast Mad Ogre The Michael Bane Blog Moral Flexibility Mr. Completely Murdoc Online The Munchkin Wrangler Ninth Stage No Looking Backwards No Quarters Oscar Poppa Outrageous Malfunction Pass the ammo Posse Incitatus Random Nuclear Strikes Reasonablenut Resistance is Futile! Sandcastles and Cubicles SlagleRock's Slaughterhouse Snowflakes in Hell Surly Curmudgeon Texican Tattler The Ten Ring South Park Pundit Triggerfinger The View From North Central Idaho Vox The War on Guns Weck Up To Thees! Wince and Nod Xavier Thoughts .45 Caliber Justice BLOGGERS I'VE MET A Keyboard and a .45  
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Friday, July 25, 2003 Glenn Reynolds for President! And Rachel Lucas for VP! Jeff at Alphecca states the case plainly: I mentioned that both the Democrats and the Republicans suck and we need something, someone in-between -- a libertarian -- to promote for president.I've said for a long time that the only way to get really good people into office anymore is to draft them. "Greetings! For the next (2, 4, 6) years you will be serving as (Representative, President, Senator). Please report to the Public Office Registration Center by 12:00 on such-and-such date." And anybody who actually wants to run for office above City Mayor should be immediately disqualified for mental reasons - they're either power-hungry or just plain nuts. But that'll never happen, so what we have to do is draft the candidates and run a And hack the vote counting machines. Great idea, Jeff! I can see the cabinet now! Eugene Volokh for Attorney General! Kim du Toit for Secretary of Defense! Bill Whittle for any damned position he wants! Who can name the other cabinet candidates? Poster art! We need poster art! Where's Cox & Forkum when you need them? Let's get this thing rolling! (You don't think the puppy-in-a-blender thing will come up during the campaign, do you?) Update: Triticale recommends Jane Galt for Commerce Joanne Jacobs for H.E.W. (I confess, I'm unfamiliar with Ms. Jacobs. Link?) Emperor Misha I for Homeland Security. Let's hear some more! UPDATED: 10:21PM Here's some more recommendations. I WANT FEEDBACK, DAMMIT! Cabinet: Agriculture ? Interior ? Can't we combine Interior and Homeland Security? Call it "Interior Security" or just plain "National Security"? Commerce Jane Galt (Don't know her well enough, myself, but she comes with a recommendation.) Justice Eugene Volokh Labor ? Education Mrs. du Toit - Connie knows education. State Steven Den Beste - he'll reason our enemies into insanity! And outthink them at the same time! And clear out the halls of the State Department in favor of people who THINK! Homeland Security Toss up: Emperor Misha or Kim du Toit - nobody should be able to do it better than a naturalized citizen! Energy Laurence Simon of Amish Tech Support has been recommended. Transportation ? Treasury Mindles H. Dreck from Asymmetrical Information has been nominated. Health & Human Services Two nominations: Joanne Jacobs and James Lileks. I go for Lileks. If he can manage home and Gnat, its good enough for me! Housing & Urban Development Can't we scrap this one? Veteran's Affairs Roll this into WAR! Environmental Protection Agency Scrap this one too. Office of Management & Budget ? I think Den Beste and Sensing and two or three others ought to combine on this one. Chief of Staff BILL WHITTLE! (Or maybe just make him head speechwriter?) Office of Drug Control Policy Another one to scrap. U.S. Trade Representative ? Ambassador to the UN The ambassador to the what? UPDATE! 7/26/03 10:00AM Jeff at Alphecca recommends Bill Quick of DailyPundit for Press Secretary, and has come up with a campaign slogan already: ELECT THE GREAT IN 2008! Scott Ott of Scrappleface has been recommended for Press Secretary, but really, we want to tell the world the truth (only as much as they need to know.) Scott wouldn't be that different from the various previous Press Secretaries, only more blatant. (But it would be fun!) And Bill Quick gets a nomination for the (useless) position of Ambassador to the UN. I think I'd leave him as Press Secretary. I'm going to have to build a spreadsheet, aren't I? I've got one of my own to recommend (a new advisory position?): National Technology Advisor - Eric S. Raymond of Armed and Dangerous. OK, NOW we're getting Ambassadorial nominations! Such as Frank J. as Ambassador to France! (Bejus, I LOVE IT!) Keep 'em coming! This is too good! As an adjunct to this, one respondent informs me: I've heard Glenn Reynolds has a place in Tahoe. Why not give him a warm up for the White House by electing him Governor of California this October 7?I'm not sure I'd wish that job on ANYONE. Fred Pruit of Rantburg has been nominated CIA/NSA director. Keep 'em coming! UPDATE: 11:00PM 7/26 I've got an IHMSA match to run tomorrow morning, early, but tomorrow afternoon I'll try to get a comprehensive list of the nominees for each position. And I'll even include the (immediately disqualified) volunteers. Such as Bill Hobbs who is vying for Press Secretary, too. UPDATE! @2:15PM I finally got the table of candidates up. Some formatting problems I can't figure out, but the data is right. WooHoo! | | |
