Rick Olson

“If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.”   —John Dingell

Tallahasse. On December 10, 2013, the 1st District Court of Appeal — in an en banc decision, ruled in favor of University of North Florida student, Alexandria Lainez and Florida Carry, Inc. a gun rights group in a challenge to university policy banning students on campus from storing guns in their personal vehicles.

A preemption law passed in 2011, prompted the court to decide that the Sunshine States twelve  public universities fall within the purview of the law. This recent ruling also states that while universities have the power to restrict lawful conduct such as drinking or smoking on campus — that same power does not extend to the regulating of guns.

In opining for the court, Judge Clay Roberts wrote, “Restricting recreational activities is a far cry from restricting a fundamental, constitutional right to keep and bear arms for self-defense…”

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“Sarcasm…Because beating the shit out of people is illegal.” —unknown

Here we go…Another smarmy, “look how wonderful we are, Good Morning America” show. Nothing says, “I have an ego bigger than Montana,” like being a host of the ABC News (News” and I use the term extremely loosely) show “Good Morning America.   How many of these shows can a network possibly do?

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“An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.”  —Michael Korda

Duck Dynasty Patriarch Phil Robertson “initiated” a firestorm with his recent comments featured in a GQ article. Well, not really….Here’s why. The largest purveyors of so-called tolerance speech is the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual Community and the pop culture community. Millions upon Millions of dollars have been spent by the Hollywood elite to tell America, “If you do not ascribe to the LGBT lifestyle, you are not tolerant…you are ignorant…you are homophobic…you are bigoted.” That is the script, the template, the message and the mantra. the verbiage might change, the nuances made less obvious, but the message remains the same.

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“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.” —First Amendment of the United States Constitution

“Or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the importance of this freedom in the 1937 case De Jonge v. State of Oregon, writing that “the right to peaceable  

“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”   —Aristotle

This is one of those stories where a judge gets to pick the winners and losers .I read this article in the Union Leader 13 days ago about a guy who threatened another with a Shotgun at Eastside Plaza. The narrative written by Kathryn Marchocki, sums up the thesis as follows: Guy pulls into handicapped parking and takes up two spaces. Along comes another guy (with a handicapped placard) and he is indignant…angry perhaps about what he sees…perhaps, even because he was denied the space because of guy number one.

Guy Number 2 attempts to pull into a spot while being told to wait, which…I am only guessing here, only fueled his anger more.

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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”   —Benjamin Franklin

French author Victor Hugo once quipped, “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” But I disagree. So here I sit with my hat off to Representative Annie Kuster because she proved Victor Hugo wrong. (see the video below the jump)

At a recent town Hall Meeting a constituent asked her about “BenGhazi.” Representative Kuster responded, “I am here to talk about the Middle East not Ben Ghazi.” GOOD FOR HER! Way to go, Annie…We all know you have never met Ben Ghazi…You have never had a conversation with Ben Ghazi and you don’t know what his position on social policy is, much less Middle East diplomacy. THE NERVE OF THAT WOMAN TO ASK SUCH A QUESTION!   

“A libertarian presidential candidate isn’t going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn’t the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.”  —L. Neil Smith

There is a bill in the legislature to implement a fee on Canoes and Kayaks. Not a good thing. In fact, it is a very bad thing. Moreover, such a small fee could actually have a deleterious impact on other areas of the Granite State’s recreational economy. But do also notice there is no outrage or love shown for those who foot the bill… fees paid by the hunters, anglers, trappers and boaters. In essence the canoers and Kayakers have been getting a free ride. That is an observation, not a complaint. (Other than the obnoxious bastards who claim ownership to public boat launches with their kayaks.)

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“We will pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers. That is because I am willing to wait until you die, hopefully of natural causes. Guns, except for the three approved categories, cannot be inherited. When you die your weapons must be turned into the local police department, which will then destroy them.”—LTC Robert L. Bateman (USA retired)

Update to this article: 12/8/13

I received an email of clarification from one of our readers. Ray writes,

Bateman On Guns – It’s Time We Talk About Guns – Esquire

 Retired from the Army, Bateman is president and founder of Alliance Defense Marketing Associates LLC, a “global premier risk management” firm that does work for the DHS.

Bateman writes in Esquire, 

My entire adult life has been dedicated to the deliberate management of violence. There are no two ways around that fact. My job, at the end of the day, is about killing. I orchestrate violence.

This is how Bateman prefaces his, “in-your-face-styled,” lunatic rant to take guns away from the American populace.

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“I don’t believe people should be able to own guns,”—President Barack H. Obama (Then Professor of law in Chicago speaking to John Lott)

In case anyone should still have doubts that our sitting President is a charlatan, one needs only to look to his activities over the past year.

In the aftermath of the Washington D.C. Navy Yard shooting, President Obama turned the memorial service into a political platform for his gun control agenda. He cites the UK and Australia as examples of what America should consider for tighter gun control measures.    

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“Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.” —Mark Twain

You can’t make this stuff up, but first things first. Who is Mark Glaze? Glaze is the Executive Director for Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). He is also a wind bag and a doofus. Back in August he was on Hardball with Chris Matthews. During the segment he managed to outdo Joe Biden in self-defense commentary. Chris Matthews asked Glaze if he considered an attacker wielding and axe handle rose to the level of meriting an armed response.  Here is the exchange:

Matthews: “Would you consider the guy with the axe handle, armed or not?”

Glaze: “Well, not with a gun.”

Matthews: “No? would you call him —well, I call him armed.”

Glaze: “Well, I have a word for him, I have a word for him. I grew up in Colorado where my dad was a gun dealer and a guy who shoots somebody who has anything other than a gun when they could have done something else like talk or fight with their fists…”

Matthews: “Well, how do you talk to a guy with an axe handle?”

Glaze: “Well, you might fight him. You run away. You de-escalate the situation. I mean, thats the way it was.”

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“If your neighbors think you’re a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.”  —Jeff Foxworthy

A disturbing trend is getting a great deal of face time in the lamestream media. It is called the “Knock-out Game.” Victims can be the elderly, mothers with kids virtually anybody.  It is a trend that has even ended in the death of a person.

The lamestream media has covered this as a new trend, But it is not a new trend at all, In 2004 in the South London Borough of Lewisham, youths would walk up to an unsuspecting victim and simply “bitch slap” the person. “Happy Slapping,” as the trend was named, grew for some time until they met American visitor David Hernandez. Hernandez, being wholly ignorant of English law,

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“The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.” ? C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

Educational Corruption abounds. Ergo, Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington. What is Gonzaga University? A visit to Gonzaga’s website reveals a college like so many others, wrapped in themes of tolerance and diversity…in other words, its the same as any other…Liberal and left-wing, progressive, long ago abandoning its Roman Catholic Jesuit roots.

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“Wow! You’re brighter than Las Vegas at Christmas time!” —Daffy Duck

On October 6, our esteemed Grok Chief Skip informed the Grok audience of one Moonbat from Hampton Falls who had submitted LSR’s seeking to ban assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, require registration for each firearm a person owns or possesses and requiring background checks for firearm sales.

On October 10, my pal and fellow Grok writer Steve MacDonald also informed the Grok Audience of more moonbattery from Rep. David Pierce and the Mass-plant Druid of Hampton Falls, E. Elaine Andrews-Ahern seeking to require background checks for firearms sales and transfers.

A quick survey of public statements made by the Druid quickly resolves the, “why” behind the bills: She is a leftist nutter. A true-believing Kool-Aid drinker who is working to advocate an “everybody-gets-a-trophy, mediocre leftist utopian world, sans guns. Normally, I like to begin my entries with a pithy quote at the top. In the case of E. Elaine Andrews-Ahern, the pinnacle of pithy is hence, Daffy Duck.

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“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” —Voltaire

Last week, as I was reading Londonderry Patch, I came across Marc Fortier’s October 29 entry entitled, “Assault Weapons Ban, Higher Speed Limits and Gambling“. Fortin writes, “New Hampshire lawmakers will debate these and other controversial issues in the upcoming legislative session.” Fortier also informs, “Friday was the deadline for members of the New Hampshire Senate to submit Legislative Service Requests for 2014.” I give a big hat tip to Marc Fortier because none of the mainstream newspapers have really talked about what is in store for Legislative Service Requests.

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