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Today marks 11 years since Carlos Hathcock passed away. What a great guy and what a great shot.
Carlos Norman Hathcock II (May 20, 1942 – February 23, 1999) was a United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. Hathcock’s record and the extraordinary details of the missions he undertook made him a legend in the Marine Corps. His fame as a sniper and his dedication to long distance shooting led him to become a major developer of the United States Marine Corps Sniper training program. He has, in recent years, had the honor of having a rifle named after him: a variant of the M21 dubbed the Springfield Armory M25 White Feather.
via Carlos Hathcock – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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This could also be titled way to go dumb-ass. I think Obama is worse about staging photo ops than Clinton.
By ULA ILNYTZKY and SARA KUGLER – 1 hour ago
NEW YORK AP — It was supposed to be a photo op that captured images of an Air Force One plane with a majestic Statue of Liberty in the background. Instead, it turned into a public relations nightmare that led to recriminations from the president and mayor and prompted thousands other to ask, “What were they thinking?”
Just before the workday began on Monday, an airliner and supersonic fighter jet zoomed past the lower Manhattan skyline. Within minutes, startled financial workers streamed out of their offices, fearing a nightmarish replay of Sept. 11.
For a half-hour, the Boeing 747 and F-16 jet circled the Statue of Liberty and the Financial District near the World Trade Center site. Offices evacuated. Dispatchers were inundated with calls. Witnesses thought the planes were flying dangerously low.
But the flyover was nothing but a photo op, apparently one of a series of flights to get pictures of the plane in front of national landmarks.
It was carried out by the Defense Department with little warning, infuriating New York officials and putting the White House on the defense. Even Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t know about it, and he later called it “insensitive” to fly so near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
via The Associated Press: Recriminations fly after NYC jet flyover photo op.
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“The purpose of all wars, is peace.” — St. Augustine
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Mildly amusing.
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I guess there is a use for the 9th Circuit court after all…
9th Circuit Incorporates 2nd Amendment as part of the 14th Amendment » Right Pundits.
We therefore conclude that the right to keep and bear arms is “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.” Colonial revolutionaries, the Founders, and a host of commentators and lawmakers living during the first one hundred years of the Republic all insisted on the fundamental nature of the right. It has long been regarded as the “true palladium of liberty.” Colonists relied on it to assert and to win their independence, and the victorious Union sought to prevent a recalcitrant South from abridging it less than a century later. The crucial role this deeply rooted right has played in our birth and history compels us to recognize that it is indeed fundamental, that it is necessary to the Anglo-American conception of ordered liberty that we have inherited.
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I really like getting up in the morning and seeing the news headlines calling for a new Assualt Weapons Ban to get these evil weapons off the street. Most of these headlines are based on the Oakland Police Shootings (March 2009). While these shootings were tragic and my condolences go to the families; I can not help but wonder what the press is thinking.
One needs to look at this from a logical perspective. Lets say we had a current AWB in place banning the purchase of AK47’s (which I believe is currently the law in CA). This would ban all law-abiding citizens from buying an AK47. Lets look at the case of the gunman Lovelle Mixon.
From the SF Chronicle
Lovelle Mixon was convicted in 2002 of assault with a deadly weapon after an armed robbery in San Francisco, family members said. He served time in San Francisco County Jail and Corcoran State Prison. He had been released on parole in 2007, then was sent back to prison for nine months in 2008 after he had violated his parole. His attorney in the assault case, Lisa DewBerry, declined comment Sunday.
His family said that while he was behind bars, Mixon married his childhood girlfriend, Amara Langston, and worked briefly as a janitor in Hayward once he got out. He was most recently released from prison in November, his family said.
Then, about three weeks ago, Mixon skipped a home visit from his parole officer, his family said. Mixon’s grandmother said he had gotten angry at his parole officer because the agent had missed earlier appointments. Gordon Hinkle, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the family’s assertion that the parole agent had missed a meeting was “highly unlikely,” but added that he is researching the matter. He said the department had issued a no-bail, parole revocation warrant for Mixon’s arrest after he failed to appear for a meeting with his parole officer.
As we can all see Lovelle Mixon was a convicted and jailed FELON. From his history of bouncing in and out of the prison system we can tell he was an upstanding citizen. Being a felon, who could not complete parole, he certainly must have been a good person and would want to abide by any AWB.
Here is a note for the press, the State of California, and the US Congress. This person was a FELON who should not have been in possession of any firearm. Having and AWB in this case would have done absolutly NO GOOD.
Perhaps you should all work on the revolving-door prison system, rather than trying to take away everyones guns.
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Cruising through the new legislation I ran across H.R. 1448. I thought here is another bill that someone will try to tack Gun Control measures to; then I saw the last section of the bill:
Kudos to you:
* Rep. Ciro Rodriguez [D, TX-23] and 10 Co-Sponsors
o Rep. Henry Cuellar [D, TX-28]
o Rep. Thomas Edwards [D, TX-17]
o Rep. Bob Filner [D, CA-51]
o Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [D, AZ-8]
o Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
o Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
o Rep. Rubén Hinojosa [D, TX-15]
o Rep. Solomon Ortiz [D, TX-27]
o Rep. Silvestre Reyes [D, TX-16]
o Rep. Harry Teague [D, NM-2]
Maybe the House finally gets it … The Constitution has a Second Amendment
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From ABC News
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.
“As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder told reporters.
Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.
In response to both Holder and Obama… “NO NO NO… this is unacceptable.” Call you representatives now in Congress, to make sure we shut this down early.
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Congress Watch Legislation
H.R.45 Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 Latest Actions – Action
Jan 06, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Bill Sponsor: Rep. Bobby Rush [D, IL-1]
Call or write your Representative or Senator today!
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Congress Watch Legislation
H.R.257 Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2007 Latest Actions – Action
Jan 07, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Bill Sponsor: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
Call or write your Representative or Senator today!
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Congress Watch Legislation
H.R.257 Child Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2007 Latest Actions – Introduced
Introduced on Jan 07, 2009.
Bill Sponsor: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
Call or write your Representative or Senator today!
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Congress Watch Legislation
H.R.45 Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 Latest Actions – Introduced
Introduced on Jan 06, 2009.
Bill Sponsor: Rep. Bobby Rush [D, IL-1]
Call or write your Representative or Senator today!
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I was listening to Quinn and Rose this AM on the way to work and they were discussing some great points about the Christmas season, the economy and the current leaders of the United States. This was a great reminder for everyone.
From the WSJ Editorial Reprints:
When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.
Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there was stability, in government and in society, for the centurions saw that it was so.
But everywhere there was something else, too. There was oppression—for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar. There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people. There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses. There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed. What was a man for but to serve Caesar?
There was the persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was everywhere a contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world?
Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s….
And so Paul, the apostle of the Son of Man, spoke to his brethren, the Galatians, the words he would have us remember afterward in each of the years of his Lord:
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually in the WSJ since.
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On this day in history in 1791 the Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution. Every American should own a copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Bill of Rights
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
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Here is a story of a home invasion and the brave response of the home owner and his wife.
It always amazes me the intestinal fortitude that can be mustered in the time of need. In this case the wife pushed a shot gun barrel away from her head and the husband partially disarmed a 300 pound intruder.
Posted on Wed, Sep. 03, 2008
Blue Mound couple: ‘We’re fighting for our lives’
By BILL MILLER
BLUE MOUND — Grappling over a shotgun with a 300-pound man who had just burst into his home and threatened his wife, Keith Hoehn had but one thought.”It was like a horror movie,” he said. “I thought I was a dead man. We’re fighting for our lives.”
The overnight crime spree began late Tuesday when two suspects robbed a family in north Fort Worth and then drove the family’s van to Blue Mound where they tried to do the same thing at the Globe Street home of Keith and Kellie Hoehn.
“Very overt, very crazy” is how Blue Mound Police Lt. Thomas Cain described the fracas.
The Hoehns, both 34, feared that they and their children were about to be killed, so they battled the suspects.
Keith Hoehn struggled to get the sawed-off shotgun, while his wife grabbed the muzzle, trying to keep it pointed away from the rooms of the couple’s son, 12, and 5-year-old daughter.
That went on for about five minutes, Keith Hoehn said.
He finally managed to get the shotgun away from the larger of the two attackers and turned it on both of them.
Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills was fatally wounded and John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City was in critical condition and police custody at the hospital.
The homeowner summed up his conclusions with this statement:
He [the homeowner] concluded that his family was alive Wednesday through God’s protection and his wife’s courage.
“She’s the one who set things in motion,” he said. “Most people would probably say ‘Take what you want,’ but we thought we were going to die.
“I’m sorry it had to happen, but I can’t help the way people are.”
