Send in the clowns

Cue the clown music...

The "9th Circus" strikes again!

More CCW hand wringing

In Minnesota, law enforcers brace for change in "gun culture". Actually, they're merely going to get used to an idea that officers in most states already live with: An American citizen with a firearm is not an intrinsic threat. The rank-and-file officers already know this. Why their superiors fail to grasp this is a bit of a mystery.

More on the missing mommies...

Betsy Hart writes about the decline of gun control as a political issue.

The principle reason: Gun control has been shown, through careful experimentation, to be a failure. The "assault weapon" ban had no effect on crime rates. No gun control law has ever been shown to reduce crime. Right-to-carry laws, on the other hand, not only failed to produce the predicted daily Wild West shootouts on America's streets, they reduced violent crime rates. Overseas, Britain and Australia did yeoman's work showing just how bad things can get with comprehensive gun control laws. Their rates of violent crime are now twice that of the US. Canada, ever the good neighbor, showed us how expensive gun registration and gun owner licensing really is. Their program has cost them three orders of magnitude more than was originally quoted.

Gun control does not work. This fact has become so obvious that even John "Waffles" Kerry is pretending to support the 2nd Amendment.

997,500 Milk Cartons

Steve Chapman takes a turn at Unraveling strange logic at the Chicago Tribune.

An organization called the Million Mom March held a rally in Washington on Mother's Day to urge a renewal of the 1994 assault weapons ban. If you must know, the turnout was about 997,500 short. But the advocates are not easily discouraged. Afterward, they launched a vehicle called the Big Pink Rig on a "Halt the Assault Tour." The bus will crisscross the nation between now and September, when the ban is scheduled to expire.

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[S]imple realities, are lost on groups like the Million Mom March and the Violence Policy Center. For every failure of gun control, they have a solution: More of it.

...something we've known for quite some time.

FBI Issues List of AL Qaeda Suspects

BOLO...





From The Salt Lake Tribune.

The anti-hunting left, at it again

More grizzly tales of the anti-hunting left. So-called "conservationists" (They're more properly called "preservationists"; yes, there's a difference.) want to ban US hunters from bringing back Grizzly Bear trophies from Canada. Ursus Horribilis is threatened in the US, but plentiful in British Columbia. But, that doesn't matter to the environmentalist whackos. To them, the bruins are cute and fluffy; just like they are in all of the Disney movies they've watched.

Armed citizen, part... I've lost track!

Three armed robbers learned the hard way not to rob one convenience store in Colton. Two were wounded and the third has assumed ambient temperature.

Some people just don't learn

The Houston Chronicle reports that the Democrats are still  toying with the "assault weapon" ban. They are doing this despite the toxic effect the issue had on Algore's campaign less than 4 years ago.

John Lott: Whither Gun Control?

John Lott asks Whither Gun Control?. Since a mere 2000 of the Million Mommies bothered to show up this year, it's a fair question. Also, the presumed Democrat candidate has dodged the issue. Simply put, gun control became electoral poison of late.

Welcome

This is the SF Valley NRA-MC "official" blog.

I've replaced the old "news" page with this blog because, after much patience, I realized that the newsfeed wasn't being very selective about what it called "news". (At the very least, I'd have hoped that it would have make some effort to follow my intended search parameters!)

Since what I originally intended was a blog-esque page anyway, using Blogger seems to be a good idea.