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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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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 You'll Notice that Corporal Punishment isn't One of the Considered Options. Reader Aaron sent me a link to an MSNBC story on Britain's "Yob Culture" and the (pathetic) efforts to rein it in. Sweet bleeding jeebus. Targeting badly behaved BritonsThere it is again, "antisocial behavior." That's British for "violent crime." This is one of those things I both admire and despise the Left for. Controlling the language allows one to control the debate. I'm not certain if it's a case of "magial thinking" in that, by altering the words they believe they can alter reality, or if it's only a cold-blooded understanding that changing the definition will allow them to invalidate the arguments of the opposition without actually having to refute them, or if it's some combination of both. I suspect the latter. Look how well they do it. It's almost unconscious now. The Right does it, too, but the Left has mastered the art form. The perpetrators of the thuggery have been identified as "hoodies," young people who wear hoods and caps to avoid detection and give off a threatening image.Yes, I imagine they did. Prescott being an elderly man faced with ten youths should have found it intimidating. I'm 43 and I'd find 10-to-one odds intimidating, especially if I were unarmed. But wait! Prescott, who was rescued from any possible attack by his security detail, is one of the big supporters of Blair's decision to focus on street crime.Rescued "from any possible attack" by his security detail! How nice! Too bad Thomas Noble didn't have a security detail. Neither did Mi Gao Huang Chen. No, Mr. Chen had to depend on the police, who failed him for fifteen minutes, even though he Although gun crime here pales when compared with the United States, binge-drinking, street brawls, vandalism, muggings, and general menace are seen to be terrorizing the public.No, it won't be tolerated. And if they continue to do it, the Brits will emulate the UN and issue another sternly worded warning! “I think it's marvelous,” Bluewater shopper Jill Hopper said of the initiative this week.Until, of course, they do work up the balls to do it. Or until they try to intimidate someone, and failing, become violent. I mean, wait until one of them gets a knife and a nice young Briton like Laura Thomas asks "What are you going to do, stab us?" Cropper, a doorman, and Thomas, a bar manager, both added that they would like to see a complete ban on caps and hoods in city centers.That should go remarkably well with the semi-automatic weapon ban, the handgun ban, the knife ban, the "offensive weapon" ban, the... Well, you get the picture. How about we just ban clothes? Won't that work? But no, they have better ideas! Bluewater’s code of conduct follows in the footsteps of other government and private initiatives to quash hooliganism that include:ASBOS: Antisocial behavior orders. This would be similar to our restraining orders. Go peruse Zendo Deb's site, TFS Magnum for some stories on just how effective restraining orders are here. Remember, some of the The other options? Yellow and red warning cards? Want to bet on how many of them end up stuck in public toilets, used with a little scatalogical imagination? Chocolate give-aways to "prevent alcohol-fueled violence"? I thought I'd never heard anything stupider than "midnight basketball" in association with youth violence prevention. Banning Burberry? So they switch to Tommy Hilfiger? How do human beings disconnect from reality this way? I can't finish the MSNBC piece, I'm too disgusted. All of this reminds me sickeningly of Theodore Dalrymple's The Frivolity of Evil though. Read that if you have the stomach for it. Labels: self-defense, UK | | |
