I think I may buy a some of these for each of my neighbors who don’t want guns in “their” neighborhood.
Test the resolve of those who don’t support the 2nd Amendment by asking them to post one of these stickers on their front door. Let them know that research has shown that almost all violent crime offenders choose victims who are least likely to own a gun to defend themselves. Non-gun-owning households depend on gun-owning households for their protection because criminals don’t know the difference — unless they put one of these on the door.
*Disclaimer: For novelty purposes only — please do not actually post this on a household door as the occupants may be subject to visits by all manner of criminal molesters and miscreants.
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Reading the McDonald v. City of Chicago transcript I ran across the classic liberal debate technique of using false logic. I was wondering as I read, if Justice Breyer was going to bring up the fact that Chicago has all the gun bans to protect the children…and everyone wants to protect children. After all, anyone who believes different (such as gun owners), must be horrible and should be stopped. [see Amicus Brief section below]
JUSTICE BREYER: You are saying they can have — no matter what, that the city just can’t have guns even if they are saving hundreds of lives, they cannot ban them?
MR. GURA: The city cannot ban guns that are within the common use as protected by the right to arms.
JUSTICE SCALIA: There is a lot of statistical disagreement on whether the Miranda rule saves lives or not, whether it results in the release of dangerous people who have confessed to their crime but the confession can’t be used. We don’t — we don’t resolve questions like that on the basis of statistics, do we?
MR. GURA: That’s correct, Justice Scalia, and as your opinion -
JUSTICE SCALIA: Well, why would this one be resolved on the basis of statistics? If there is a constitutional right, we find what the minimum constitutional right is and everything above that is up to the States. If you want to have, you know — I think we mentioned in Heller concealed carry laws. I mean, those are — those are matter that we didn’t decide in Heller. And you may have a great deal of divergence from State to State, and on that I suppose you would do statistics, wouldn’t you? Or the legislature would.
MR. GURA: Well, Your Honor, we do agree that statistics are not important to determine whether or not a right -
JUSTICE SCALIA: For the judges. For the judges.
MR. GURA: That’s right.
JUSTICE SCALIA: But they would be for the legislatures.
SCOTUS Transcript McDonald v. City of Chicago (application/pdf Object).
Amicus Brief (McCarthy / Quigley)
Simply put, local governments need the latitude to address the unique problems that threaten the public safety of their communities,” said Congressman Quigley. “The conditions in Chicago, where 500 school children have been involved in gun-related incidents in the past two years, fortunately don’t exist in rural or even other urban areas across the country. We are by no means saying that a gun ban is necessary everywhere, nor are we trying to encumber the lifestyles or rights of enthusiasts, collectors, or hunters. But the children of Chicago and their families have a right to live without fear of gun violence as well, and the city must be allowed to continue protecting that right with sensible regulations.
Remember when you go vote in November to thank these people by voting them out of office. The following Members of Congress have signed the amicus brief mentioned above:
- Representative Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04)
- Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05)
- Representative Gary L. Ackerman (NY-05)
- Representative Timothy H. Bishop (NY-01)
- Representative Robert A. Brady (PA-01)
- Representative Lois Capps (CA-23)
- Representative Michael E. Capuano (MA-08)
- Representative Yvette D. Clarke (NY-11)
- Representative Wm. Lacy Clay (MO-01)
- Representative Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11)
- Representative Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
- Representative Joseph Crowley (NY-07)
- Representative Danny K. Davis (IL-07)
- Representative Diana DeGette (CO-01)
- Representative Eliot L. Engel (NY-17)
- Representative Sam Farr (CA-17)
- Representative Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
- Representative Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
- Representative Mazie K. Hirano (HI-02)
- Representative Michael M. Honda (CA-15)
- Representative Steve Israel (NY-01)
- Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
- Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
- Representative Henry C. Johnson, Jr. (GA-04)
- Representative Patrick J. Kennedy (RI-01)
- Representative Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (MI-13)
- Representative James R. Langevin (RI-02)
- Representative John B. Larson (CT-01)
- Representative Nita M. Lowey (NY-18)
- Representative John Lewis (GA-05)
- Representative James P. McGovern (MA-03)
- Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-14)
- Representative Doris O. Matsui (CA-05)
- Representative Gregory Meeks (NY-06)
- Representative George Miller (CA-07)
- Representative Gwen Moore (WI-04)
- Representative James P. Moran (VA-08)
- Representative Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
- Representative Grace F. Napolitano (CA-38)
- Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ-08)
- Representative Donald M. Payne (NJ-10)
- Representative David E. Price (NC-04)
- Representative Charles B. Rangel (NY-15)
- Representative Steven R. Rothman (NJ-09)
- Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
- Representative Bobby L. Rush (IL-01)
- Representative Linda T. Sánchez (CA-39)
- Representative Janice D. Schakowsky (IL-09)
- Representative José E. Serrano (NY-16)
- Representative Louise McIntosh Slaughter (NY-28)
- Representative Fortney Pete Stark (CA-13)
- Representative Edolphus Towns (NY-10)
- Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20)
- Representative Anthony D. Weiner (NY-09)
- Representative Lynn C. Woolsey (CA-06)
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The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence: is whining again. This time it is about the people legally “open carrying” weapons in Starbucks stores. Oh my what shall we do now… legal citizens, carrying legal weapons in a business. I think everyone should buy 2 coffees a day from Starbucks (one for you and one for your gun), to show your support for their refusal to ban guns in the stores. Brady Campaign whining:
But Starbucks is refusing to prohibit the open carrying of firearms in its stores, despite protests from loyal customers. Because of Starbucks’ refusal, the Brady Campaign has teamed up with CREDO Action to tell Starbucks to keep guns out of its coffee shops. The practice of packing heat in places like Starbucks is intimidating and could be potentially dangerous to our families and communities – and it must be stopped. It’s everyone’s right to sit in a restaurant or coffee shop with their families without intimidation or fear of guns, either concealed or openly carried. Under the law, Starbucks has the right to adopt a gun-free policy, with an exception for uniformed police officers. Such a policy can easily be implemented in most cases by putting up signs at store entrances. We need to tell Starbucks to bar guns in its stores. These individuals who have been carrying guns into Starbucks have all the firepower of a SWAT team, and none of the law enforcement training.
More here: Tell Starbucks: Offer Espresso Shots, Not Gunshots.
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Jimmy Carter… shut up already. This op-ed proves you know nothing of this subject. Go back to your peanut farm!
Carters conjecture on why none of us want to own an assault weapons is quite a leap in logic. It is the equivalent to: “None of us want to eat peanuts, because we don’t want to dig them out of our turds.” This kind of absurdity gets the ignorant masses wound up.
But none of us wants to own an assault weapon, because we have no desire to kill policemen or go to a school or workplace to see how many victims we can accumulate before we are finally shot or take our own lives. That’s why the White House and Congress must not give up on trying to reinstate a ban on assault weapons, even if it may be politically difficult.
An overwhelming majority of Americans, including me and my hunting companions, believe in the right to own weapons, but surveys show that they also support modest restraints like background checks, mandatory registration and brief waiting periods before purchase.
via Op-Ed Contributor – What Happened to the Ban on Assault Weapons? – NYTimes.com.
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Great comments from Coulter on Gun Control:
Let’s All Surrender Our Weapons — You First!
Ann Coulter
Wednesday, April 08, 2009The rash of recent shooting incidents has led people who wouldn’t know an AK-47 from a paintball gun to issue demands for more restrictions on guns. To be sure, it’s hard to find any factor in these shootings that could be responsible — other than the gun.
So far, this year’s public multiple shootings were committed by:
– Richard Poplawski, 23, product of a broken family, expelled from high school and dishonorably discharged from the Marines, who killed three policemen in Pittsburgh.
– Former crack addict Jiverly Wong, 41, who told co-workers “America sucks” yet somehow was not offered a job as a speechwriter for Barack Obama, who blockaded his victims in a civic center in Binghamton, N.Y., and shot as many people as he could, before killing himself.
– Robert Stewart, 45, a three-time divorcee and high school dropout with “violent tendencies” — according to one of his ex-wives — who shot up the nursing home in Carthage, N.C., where his newly estranged wife worked.
– Lovelle Mixon, 26, a paroled felon, struggling to get his life back on track by pimping, who shot four cops in Oakland, Calif. — before eventually being shot himself.
– Twenty-eight-year-old Michael McLendon, child of divorce, living with his mother and boycotting family funerals because he hated his relatives, who killed 10 of those relatives and their neighbors in Samson, Ala.
It might make more sense to outlaw men than guns. Or divorce. Or crack. Or to prohibit felons from having guns. Except we already outlaw crack and felons owning guns and yet still, somehow, Wong got crack and Mixon got a gun.
After being pulled over for a routine traffic violation, Lovelle Mixon did exactly what they teach in driver’s ed by immediately shooting four cops. Mixon’s supporters held a posthumous rally in his honor, claiming he shot the cops only in “self-defense,” which I take it includes the cop Mixon shot while the officer was lying on the ground.
I guess Mixon also raped that 12-year-old girl in “self-defense.” Clearly, the pimping industry has lost a good man. I wish I’d known him. I tip my green velvet fedora with the dollar signs all over it to him. Why do the good ones always die young? Pimps, I mean.
Liberals tolerate rallies on behalf of cop-killers, but they prohibit law-abiding citizens working at community centers in Binghamton, N.Y., from being armed to defend themselves from disturbed, crack-addicted America-haters like Jiverly Wong.
It’s something in liberals’ DNA: They think they can pass a law eliminating guns and nuclear weapons, but teenagers having sex is completely beyond our control.
The demand for more gun control in response to any crime involving a gun is exactly like Obama’s response to North Korea’s openly belligerent act of launching a long-range missile this week: Obama leapt to action by calling for worldwide nuclear disarmament.
If the SAT test were used to determine how stupid a liberal is, one question would be: “The best defense against lawless rogues who possess _______ is for law-abiding individuals to surrender their own _______________.”
Correct answer: Guns. We would also have accepted nuclear weapons.
Obama explained that “the United States has a moral responsibility” to lead disarmament efforts because America is “the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon.”
So don’t go feeling all morally superior to a country whose business model consists of exporting heroin, nuclear bombs and counterfeit U.S. dollars, and of importing Swedish prostitutes, you yahoo Americans with your little flag lapel pins.
On the other hand, the Japanese haven’t acted up much in the last, say, 64 years …
Fortunately, our sailors didn’t wait around for Obama to save them when Somali pirates boarded their ship this week. Stop right now or I’ll ask the U.N. to remind the “international community” that “the U.S. is not at war with Somali pirates.”
Gun-toting Americans are clearly more self-sufficient than the sissy Europeans. This is great news for everyone except Barney Frank, who’s always secretly wondered what it would be like to be taken by a Somali pirate.
Police — whom I gather liberals intend to continue having guns — and intrepid U.N. resolution drafters can’t be everywhere, all the time.
If a single civilian in that Binghamton community center had been armed, instead of 14 dead, there might have only been one or two — including the shooter. In the end, the cops didn’t stop Wong. His killing spree ended only when he decided to stop, and he killed himself.
“The shooter will eventually run out of ammo” strategy may not be the best one for stopping deranged multiple murderers.
But it’s highly unlikely that any community center in the entire state would be safe from a disturbed former crack-addict like Wong because New York’s restrictive gun laws require a citizen to prove he has a need for a gun to obtain a concealed carry permit.
Instead of having Planned Parenthood distribute condoms in schools, they ought get the NRA to pass out revolvers. It would save more lives.
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