An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Gun Therapy for Liberals
Tried And Convicted In The Media
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Rushing To Judgment
Since I put my nickels worth in a couple of days ago, more has come out about the case of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. Texas Fred has an extremely interesting post about the “Black Male Code”. The whut? I always thought a man should be a man, no matter his color. Silly me for thinking such foolishness! I don’t know about you, but I, personally, am appalled that this incident has become a political tool for the “victim” mentality bunch. We all know who they are…the Al Shaprtons and Jesse Jacksons, and even the POTUS…who have turned this tragedy into a race baiting tool.
Rush To Judgment Over Florida Teen Slaying
by J. D. Longstreet
I want to head something off – right now. Florida is NOT the DEEP South! Southerners in the true Deep South joke of Florida as a “Yankee” colony, not so much a southern state, as the result of the influx of people from the northern states over the past five or six decades. It is a bit of uncomfortable humor that hews too close to truth — especially for those in the coastal municipalities of that beautiful state.
Another thing, the shooting of the Florida black teen by a Hispanic man is not representative of black and white relations in the south anymore than it is in the northern states, the eastern states, the Midwest, or the West.
I don’t know what happened there when those two people met on that Florida street. Only two people know what happened — and one of them is dead. There are now reports that police have an eyewitness to the incident. A TV station in Orlando, Florida located and interviewed the witness. You can read that story HERE.
Other than the death of another human being there are two more things that trouble me.
One — is the rush to judgment by both the black and white communities and the trial of the shooter in the media. It is reminiscent of those lynch mobs of days gone by. In my opinion, there is no place in America for this sort of emotional outburst.
An Unfounded Rumor In Tennessee
TICS employees have been receiving inquiries from some Tennessee FFL about whether we have heard anything about Wal-Mart intending to start selling handguns in March.
This morning I contacted the person in Bentonville, Arkansas who oversees Wal-Mart’s firearms program. Here is his response to my question (direct quote):
“We have no plans to sell handguns in any state in the near future (except for Alaska where we currently sell and have always sold handguns).”
So, if you have someone tell you Wal-Mart intends to sell handguns in Tennessee, you should realize they have no clue what they are talking about and MAY be blowing smoke at you for some ulterior motive.
Via Jack.
Some Important Info
TRUE STORY
This afternoon TICS received a phone call from a person who could not get his firearm out of pawn at a Tennessee pawn shop because when the background check was run and the firearm information was included, the firearm turned up a STOLEN GUN entry in the FBI’s NCIC Stolen Gun File. Of course, TICS dispatched law enforcement to the pawn shop to verify the firearm as being stolen and the responding officer confiscated the firearm.
The man himself had passed the TICS/NICS check but could not get his gun back. He called TICS to complain and told TICS that he had been paying the pawn shop on the gun for two years.
This is a great example of two things:
1) It is never a good idea to purchase a firearm from someone if you are not absolutely certain of its provenance and that it is not a stolen gun.
2) If the pawn shop had checked the firearm BEFORE taking it into pawn, this problem would have been averted by all. Now, the pawn shop probably has a disgruntled customer to deal with.
Use of the new online Stolen Gun Check function included in the TICS upgrade put into operation on January 9, 2012, can help eliminate this kind of problem.
Shared by Jack.
Bloomberg’s Push To Arm Criminals
Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control
Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in New York and Boston will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.
No, actually, what they want is people control. Control people, be a dick-tater.
The two mayors, whose local teams face off in the big game, are making the pitch for Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the organization they co-founded in 2006.
I don’t suppose both teams could lose, just to give both morons a black eye? No, didn’t think so. I won’t be watching the game anyway….I’ll be at church…”Lord willing and the creek don’t rise”!
Murder has been on the decline in New York and other major American cities for years, but the mayors say they still see too many dead cops and teens. On Tuesday night, Bloomberg was at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan visiting a New York police officer who had just been shot in the face in Brooklyn.
“We have someone who’s dedicated his life to protecting all of us, who has had a much too close brush with death tonight because of what appears to be an illegal gun,” Bloomberg told a news conference. He added that more Americans have been killed by illegal guns since 1968 than were killed in World War II.
I’m guessing Bloomberg doesn’t see the irony of that statement? ILLEGAL guns. Not law abiding LEGAL gunowners, but criminals, who can get their hands on guns about anytime they want….ILLEGALLY! Perhaps the weasel should reconsider allowing law abiding citizens to arm themselves, and push back against the thugs? Naw….that makes WAY too much sense. What the clown is doing, is violating the citizens of New York’s Constitutionally protected right to “keep and bear arms”. But that’s what libs do!
Blacklisting The Truth
Blacklist
by Oliver North and Tom Kilgannon
Blacklist (n.): a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted.
The definition above, from an old Webster’s dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. The committee unearthed spies and traitors — Alger Hiss among them. But when the HUAC turned its attention to Hollywood writers, directors and actors, civil libertarians cried foul. The American Civil Liberties Union and others insist those on the “Hollywood blacklist” were unfairly persecuted for exercising their constitutionally protected rights to freedom of assembly and speech.
Now there’s a new-millennium blacklist for American patriots who fail today’s political correctness test. Retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, a highly decorated special operations soldier with 36 years of service in uniform, is the newest name on the roster. The silence from the “civil liberties lobby” is deafening.
It often is said that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines serve to “protect our freedoms” and “defend our liberties.” All true. Now consider what took place this week at the United States Military Academy at West Point — an institution responsible for training young men and women to protect America from those who mean us harm. West Point cadets take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” Many West Point graduates will deploy to fight radical Islamists who commit acts of terror against Americans and our allies.
Read the entire column here.
I expressed my disgust, as politely as I could, here. Organizations like CAIR and the ACLU are working overtime to destroy a once great, and Godly, nation. Unless we reverse this trend, there will be no United States of America. The erosion of our 1st Amendment rights may provoke the use of our 2nd Amendment rights!
Self Defense
Gov. signs bill allowing homeowners to legally kill intruders
Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that allows homeowners to legally kill intruders.
The bill, nicknamed the “Castle Doctrine,” creates a presumption of legal immunity for someone who kills or injures a person breaking into his or her home, vehicle or workplace. The measure requires a judge to presume that the use of deadly force was necessary.
IMHO, this should never even be an issue. If someone is breaking into your home, it’s a pretty safe bet they aren’t there for tea and crumpets!
Exodus 22:2 If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.
Ezekiel 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life.
I had a very dear friend who was attacked in her own bedroom by a man with a knife. His intent was to kill her after….. If she had had a weapon, odds are, she would not have come so close to death, and lost a kidney. She is now permitted to carry at weapon at all times, even before carry was allowed in the state where she was living at the time, but if she had been able to prior to the attack?
Interesting Comparison
You will NEVER again ask the stupid question: “Why does anyone need a 50 caliber gun?” Pictures are worth a thousand words… If you can’t grasp this – you are “Stuck on Stupid!”
Shared by Jack.
Gun Wisdom
Some words to the wise. Shooting Advice from various Concealed Carry Instructors. If you own a gun, you will appreciate this. If not, you should get one and learn how to use it:
A: Guns have only two enemies rust and politicians.
B: Its always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
C: Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not you.
D: Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arms length.
E: Never say “Ive got a gun.” If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they hear should be the safety clicking off.
F: The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes, the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.
G: The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win – cheat if necessary.
H: Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets . . . You may get killed with your own gun, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, cause it’ll be empty.
I: If you’re in a gun fight:
1- If you’re not shooting, you should be loading.
2- If you’re not loading, you should be movin,
3- If you’re not movin’, you’re dead.
J: In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something!
K: If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to be paranoid about?
L: You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much a universal language.
M: You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family.
Shared by Jack.
Permits Should NOT Be Required
Gun rights groups to challenge limitations in TN
Gun rights advocates in Tennessee are embracing an Arizona law that does away with a requirement that handgun owners get a permit before carrying their weapons in public — part of a more aggressive push to loosen state gun laws next year.
After being shut out last spring, gun rights supporters are planning to step up pressure on the Republican-led legislature to ease at least some of the state’s rules on carrying a handgun before they leave to campaign for re-election next year.
Their wish list includes opening all parks in the state to handguns and making it easier to carry guns into school and workplace parking lots. Advocates also plan to test the water for legislation modeled after a law passed in Arizona in 2010 that would make a handgun carry permit optional, in what would be the broadest change to Tennessee’s gun laws in nearly 20 years.
What part of “shall not be infringed” is so hard to understand? Will criminals and crazy people get a hold of a gun? They do now, so why not have armed citizens that could take down the bad guy? The cops aren’t going to do much good if the bad guy is pulling the trigger while you are pulling out your phone! Bad guys are less likely to harass a person they KNOW are packing. Self defense is a right. It doesn’t come from the government, on any level. The right to protect yourself and your family, is a God given right.
I will add, for those who are going to get their knickers in a twist….I do believe anyone who buys a handgun SHOULD take safety glasses, and learn how to actually use their weapon safely before carrying it around with ‘em. 
H.R. 822 – National Reciprocity
I have been looking over this bill, H.R. 822, and I’m finding myself a bit concerned.
‘Sec. 926D. Reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms
‘(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the law of any State or political subdivision thereof, related to the carrying or transportation of firearms, a person who is not prohibited by Federal law from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm, and who is carrying a government-issued photographic identification document and a valid license or permit which is issued pursuant to the law of a State and which permits the person to carry a concealed firearm, may carry a concealed handgun (other than a machinegun or destructive device) that has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce, in any State, other than the State of residence of the person, that–
Sounds pretty good, right? Well, I’m all for reciprocity, but I have an issue with a national list of CCP. Isn’t it bad enough that the state already has such a list, and news agencies freely publish that list? I don’t think I like the Feds being involved in our 2nd Amendment rights. “Certain concealed firearms”? What if they decide my little Walther P22 shouldn’t be on that ‘certain firearms’ list? Or my itty bitty 5 shot derringer? There is nothing to stop them from listing all sorts of carry weapons. Not to mention, they could make it almost impossible to get a permit. What government giveth, government can also taketh away!
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Gun Packin’
Don’t Be A Victim
Tennessee gun crime rate is among highest
The high rate is difficult to explain. Officials at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation declined to comment, saying they didn’t collect that data and couldn’t comment on analysis the agency hadn’t performed.
Academia doesn’t offer much help, either.
“You would almost have to go in and look at every individual crime report across the nation,” said Don Green, executive director of the University of Tennessee’s Law Enforcement Innovation Center.
But Green offered three possibilities for the high rate: better police reporting, a large number of gang and drug-related crimes, or perhaps Tennessee’s high rate of gun ownership.
I’ve no doubt I’ll be accused of being racist.
I don’t know how much goes on Nashville, but we get the news out a Memphis, and I can tell you, 9 out of 10 shootings they show on the news, the accused is rarely white. And there is at least one shooting on the news nightly. Memphis is a totally Democrat run city. From little I know, it seems that Nashville is pretty much run by the Dems as well. Just sayin’.
The majority of legal gun owners are extremely responsible. We are less likely to attempt robberies, or assault strangers on the street for wearing the wrong color shirt. Anyone who tries to relate gun violence with legal gun owners are looking in the wrong direction. Gangs have become a major problem in the larger cities in our state. Drugs as well, especially meth, are a state wide problem. Combine gangs, drugs, and guns, you are going to find a serious upswing in violence. The statistics don’t seem to include how many of those involved in gun violence are legally qualified to buy and carry a gun.
Perhaps if our courts would use the death penalty more often, criminals would think twice about committing crime. Many times we hear about juveniles being used to do the dirty work because juveniles will get sentences a few years, and then they’re out. If a kid murders another human being, they should be sentenced the same as an adult.
Too many citizens have decided to be victims. It’s a conscious choice. Perhaps more legal, law abiding citizens should make the choice to NOT be a victim. If folks in certain high crime neighborhoods would join together, they could make the streets safer for their children. Instead, many have been so cowed by the gangs, they’re afraid to stand up. We should all remember, there are more of us than there are of them. Together we could make a big difference, and watch the crime stats decrease.
