Brown Won

I am speechless. I got home last night to hear that Coakley had conceded. I was shocked, but glad. Apparently, the progressives have finally realized the danger of holding sham elections and massive, obvious voting fraud. Or maybe I am reading too much into it. Brown won by a margin of 5%, which may have been to large to manufacture a win.

My understanding is that the new Senator from MA is not a conservative as you or I understand the word. But he will not vote for ObamaCare, and maybe for now, that is enough.

Update: This piece by C. Edmund Wright in the American Thinker. I hope he is right.

Now, Why Didn't I Think Of That

A letter to the editor of the Bellingham Herald points out that If you don't like guns, don't own any. Simple!

Of course, Mr. Stevens is correct. It really is nobody's business if I own guns, and only becomes someone's business if I misuse them. If "do gooders" really wanted to do something about deaths due to objects, perhaps they should take on the auto industry, which accounts for around 24,000 deaths a year in auto accidents. But if it is simply deaths, then I would suggest they take on heart disease, which accounts for 631,000 deaths a year, then when they solve that problem, work their way down to cancer deaths at 560,000.

Here's the thing though, they could care less about the actual people who die from gunshot wounds. These people are just props to them. For them, the more society breaks down, the better. Theirs is the progressive agenda to take away the peoples' means of fighting back against crime and a tyrannical government. We can not let that happen.

But, Mr. Stevens, it's always good to ask-just don't expect them to respond.

Update: As always, David Codrea has more on the topic in an October 2008 Gun Rights Examiner article entitled Peaceable Armed Citizen:

It sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it, a peaceable armed citizen? If they like peace so much, what are they doing armed? After all, aren't we told the only purpose of a gun is to kill people?

If that's true, though, America's pea...y'know, this is getting unwieldy. Let's just agree for the rest of this column to call 'em PACs. Anyway, if that's true, you couldn't tell it by the PACs--they have pretty much been utter failures at slaughtering their fellow human beings. So I have to wonder about that--especially since I know people who have an encyclopedic knowledge of guns and their workings, people who design and build them, hunt with them, target shoot with them, carry them for defense, and even (GASP!) train with them with the intent of being "well regulated" (hey, there's another future column). And none of them go around killing people. How is it these experts and aficionados have been so spectacularly incompetent at getting their firearms to accomplish their "only purpose"?

But we know why. It is the people doing the killing, and not the tools used to kill that need to be locked up. After all, Cain killed Able with a rock, and ever since, some people have been willing to kill others with whatever means come to hand. But guns make it possible for the weaker, less strong and less skilled to be able to defend themselves from the predators. As Mr. Stevens says above, if you don't want to do that, don't own guns. Simple!

Comments on the Raleigh Gun Show

Dixie Gun Shows held a show the weekend of 16 & 17 January 2010 in Raleigh, NC at the Fairgrounds. At the C&E gun show last month, the crowds seemed smaller than those to which we had become accustomed. But this month, the crowds came roaring back, making Obama, one year after his inauguration, the still undisputed "Gun Salesman of the Year." If gun shows in other regions are showing the same pattern, I suspect that this year will be another record breaking year.

Guns of all types were being sold, but just from my observation, the great majority were handguns, closely followed by AR variants. I saw someone sitting down to fill out paperwork at nearly every gun dealer. Ammunition and supplies that had been in short supply, or were unobtainable were back on the shelves, if in limited supply. I found plenty of .380ACP, 9mm, and .45ACP at reasonable prices. Most of the reloading dealers had large pistol primers, an item that was simply unobtainable throughout last year. People were also spending money on accessories such as magazines and holsters. Of course, one can never have too many magazines when the SHTF.

I am one of the volunteers manning the table for Grass Roots North Carolina. GRNC did alright at the show. Our table was in the hallway leading to the trading floor, and I think our new position made us more visible to the public. We had many people stop by to make a comment, and as always I was impressed with how knowledgeable these people were. We also had inquiries about CHL training, and I was happy to direct them to Frontline Defense, who had a booth in the back of the hall. I also saw more families at the show. When wives become interested in a gun show, guns are no longer seen as "Dad's expensive hobby," but as a necessity to save the family. I pray for my country.

What if Scott Brown Wins in MA

Rick Moran has an article today at the American Thinker analysing how the Democrats might react if Scott Brown wins the election. The piece, entitled Health Care Reform Scenarios if Brown Wins is a must read. Note that there are multiple ways for the Democrats to pass ObamaCare, and only a few ways it can be stopped. Hold on to your hats though, because the only way Scott Brown wins is if he wins by a margin too large to be ignored. If it is close, I believe the Dems will steal the election the way Franken did, and proceed with business as usual.

To my liberal friends, let me say that when the vote counting appeared to be going against Franken, ballots were suddenly discovered in the trunk of a car. How convenient! Oh, and look, they mostly went for Franken. How fortuitous! While it will never be proved, I can not believe that the incident represented vote manufacturing so blatant that it would have made a Chicagoan blush.

Armed and Safe: 'Licensed' defensive handgun carry: Are we doing it wrong?#links

Armed and Safe: 'Licensed' defensive handgun carry: Are we doing it wrong?#links

I am sorry I missed this several days ago. The examiner article, written by Kurt Hoffman, and linked to on his blog has an excellent analogy of the position gun rights people find themselves in:

There's an old joke in which (to be brief) a man asks a woman if she would be willing to sleep with him for a million dollars. She allows that she probably would. He then shows her a $100 bill, and says "let's go." Deeply offended, the woman asks him, "What kind of person do you think I am?" He replies, "My Dear, we have already established that. Now we are merely haggling over the price."

It's a droll little joke, but the underlying theme is perhaps not so funny. The moment a woman enters into negotiations over the price of what would otherwise have been a priceless gift, to be shared with a lover, she has degraded it to a mere commodity, to be sold to a customer. Restoring it to "priceless gift" status becomes enormously difficult.

I do not think we will ever see uninfringed gun rights in my lifetime. But gun rights are only one of the rights of a free people. They are the "canary in the coal mine" when it comes to freedom in general. All of our liberties are under assault right now, but especially our gun rights, and the sad part is that it is we ourselves who have put the noose around our own necks.

GOP Should Present the Conservative Message

As is often the case, Jonah Goldberg has hit the nail squarely on the head in his Townhall.com article today entitled What the GOP can learn from a Pizza Chain. Goldberg's prescription is not to try appealing to moderates and independents, as the GOP has been trying to do. Rather, admit, as Domino's Pizza is doing, to losing their way, and then propose bold, conservative policies. As Rush Limbaugh is fond of saying, they work every time their tried.

Armed and Safe: New Hampshire proposes state sovereignty law--with a twist#links

Armed and Safe: New Hampshire proposes state sovereignty law--with a twist#links

Good to see Kurt Hoffman back on the case. The New Hampshire law adds an interesting twist to the State sovereignty movement. It would make any Federal employee or contractor who tried to enforce Federal laws in New Hampshire subject to prosecution. This will be interesting to watch.