Joe Biden: “If it only saves one life!” A gun saves yet another innocent life – a homeowner minding his own business

SigSauer P220 .45 ACPOf course, I do not classify one of the perps as ‘innocent, in the process of turning their life around”.  On the eve of President Obama’s pronouncement of how he is going to further restrict Citizens from their Second Amendment Rights (after all, guns can never be used to defend innocent, law-abiding Americans), comes this story of yet another incident where an innocent law-abiding citizen was able to “equalize” himself against a greater force of Strong Man Rule types (reformatted and emphasis mine):

Miami-Dade Police are investigating after a home invasion ended in one of the suspects being shot and killed late Monday night.  The incident happened around 11 p.m. at a gated community in the 800 block of Northeast 209th Terrace, Miami-Dade Police spokesman Det. Alvaro Zabaleta said.

As has been said in the past (paraphrased): gated communities are where the money is.

Zabaleta said police received a 911 call of a home invasion in progress involving two suspects.  Shots were fired and one of the suspects, identified only as a 22-year-old black male, was killed at the scene.  The second suspect fled in an unknown direction and it’s unknown whether he is also injured, Zabaleta said.

Two against one – imagine if he didn’t have a way to defend himself as they entered the home without invitation (after all, that’s kinda what “invasion” means, right?)?

The homeowner, identified as a 19-year-old black male, wasn’t injured. Police didn’t say who opened fire and no other information was immediately available.

Nearby residents said they heard several gunshots coming from the apartment.  “My wife heard five or six shots,” neighbor Jerome Irving said.

Police are still investigating the incident.

(H/T: Breitbart)

So, where DOES gun control really fall on the radar screen of Americans bucket list?  Gallup has a poll result – and it doesn’t seem to match the politician bluster:

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Obama WILL announce a gun registry tomorrow – and some want to track your buns, too

Tomorrow is the “rush it through day” for Obama to announce his plans for restricting gun usage as it is clear that he will not let this crisis go to waste.  Sure, you can be sure that he knows all of the stats of how violence stats have been going down – it doesn’t matter.  And if things go the way I think, he will act as if Congress doesn’t matter either with an overly broad use of Executive Orders (some of which, I believe, will end up in court); one of them will be to establish a gun registry.  No, it won’t be a brand new one, but a patchwork quilt of existing information that, all of a sudden, will no longer be deleted.  It will just sit there, waiting.  For some next crisis.

But once again, we see Government getting what it deserves – see a problem?  Government has to enact a ‘fix”.  Start meddling in other areas, to “fix” newly perceived problems?  All of a sudden, that first “Government fix” is broken – by Government.  So, Government being used to “Govt-think”, has a solution!  But has it been thought through?  Not in this case!

An on-again, off-again move by the Obama administration to scrap the federal gas tax in favor of a pay-per-mile fee would boost the tab to Americans as high as 250 percent, raising their current tax of 18.4 cents a gallon to as high as 46 cents, according to a new government study.

 But without a tax increase, said the Government Accountability Office study, the government’s highway fund is going to go dry. One reason the fund is going broke: President Obama’s push for fuel efficient cars has resulted in better mileage, and fewer stops at the pump.

 So, cars created a need for infrastructure improvement a hundred years + ago (and notice – cars came BEFORE paved roads; the opposite of what some central planners claim in genuflecting to that movie theme of “build it and they will come”).  So Govt put a tax on gas to pay for it.  Problem solved?  Not really – certainly here in NH, the Highway fund has been bilked for all kinds of reasons other than paying for road repair – and the same goes for other States and the Feds.

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Obama – always the victim

A primary tool of any Community Organizer is to create a set of people to believe they are victims.  Victims of a circumstance, victims by “authority”, victims by ginning up a fabricated storyline (see: Reverands Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as examples).  Well, isn’t it rather obnoxious to see the most powerful man in the … Read more

BlogHeadline of the Day – yes, it involves the Constitution

From the Washington Times: Congress has a Constitution problem — many don’t understand document The article talks about how various CongressCritters quote the Constitution in “defending” the constitutionality of their bills (pretty much, the results are what you would think). Many don’t know the Constitution nor the philosophy that undergirds it.  Thus, when they write … Read more

Blogline of the Day – on the size of magazines

From Erick Erickson at Redstate: You may think a 30 round magazine is too big. Under the real purpose of the second amendment, a 30 round magazine might be too small. Why?  Well, we’ve answered that question multiple times and in multiple ways.  I’ll let Erick answer it this time: The amendment is not about … Read more

“The ordinary people were not happy. They loathed the Emperor’s interference in every detail of their daily lives.”

“Why should they be forbidden to bake ginger-bread just because Joseph thought it bad for the stomach? Why the Imperial edict demanding the breast-feeding of infants? Why the banning of corsets? From these and a thousand other petty regulations, enforced by a secret police, it looked to the Austrians as though Joseph were trying to … Read more

NH Politics with John Burt – John Interviews Bill O’Brien

New Hampshire House Representative John Burt interviews NH House Rep and former New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O’Brien about the new session, proposed laws, Rule 63, and more…(Links to all the discussion topics available here.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HySDVvtN9WU

NH Police Chiefs Have a Gun Raffle To Raise Money

“If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators…” —Ben Stein

Not being a fan of the New Hampshire Association of Chief’s of Police, I now find myself in a peculiar position defending them…Narrowly and singly on this issue, of course. The Chiefs will hold a raffle….”31 days of Guns,” in May, drawing one winner each day.

 Gun Raffles are nothing new in the Granite State. Two organizations I am the leader of  have hosted such gun raffles or “Thirty days of guns,” and the raffles have shown to be lucrative fund raisers for those organizations.

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No Labels is Now New And Improved!!!

No labels new and improved
Now With Even More Bi-partisan BS!

No Labels has grown tired of being No Body, of No Interest, and having No point, so they are “shedding their centrist label.”

For those of you who slept through the first part of this ‘movie,’ No Labels started out under the assumption that we could get a lot more done if we left our political labels at the door.  “Not Left.  Not Right.  Forward.”  That was their slogan.

“Forward,” being a the same historical buzz word for left-leaning progressive socialist publications, should have clued everyone in as to the true purpose of a group founded by progressives from both the right and the left.

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US Environmentalists Caught ‘Doping’ – Stripped of “2012 Hottest Year on Record” Title.

chicken littlePeople who want or need to believe that human activity makes the earth warmer (so their sad, pathetic lives have meaning?) were excited to ‘hear’ that 2012 was the hottest year on record.  It was in the news, I’m sure you must have heard it.

So was it?  Hot?  The hottest year on record? It was hot in the continental US.

But if you defer to the full definition of the term typically used by the Chicken Little Climate Alarmist Community (which is not Anthropogenic “Continental United States” Warming), it was only the 9th hottest year out of the last 34.

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Jonah caught the stupid point – ignored the far more important point

Far be it for me to correct NRO’s Jonah Goldberg, best selling author of TWO books on Progressives (“Tyranny of Cliches” & “Liberal Fascism“) when commenting on something in the news, but I think he went for the “ha-ha” and missed the “ewwww”:

 From the Washington Post’s profile of Bloomberg:

NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg, America’s most prominent and deep-pocketed advocate for gun control, would rather rehabilitate Republicans than oust them.

 “Somebody got them the way they are now,” the mayor of New York said in a recent interview as he sat in the bullpen offices of City Hall, surrounded by a buzzing staff, blinking Bloomberg terminals and clocks telling the same time in each of the five boroughs. “Why can’t you change them?”

 Who knew that the worst part of crossing the Brooklyn Bridge is the jet lag.   I wonder if the mayor has ever said something like, “I’ve got to call the Queens Borough president. What time is it over there?”

 Hmm, what caught my eye was much worse than an ignorant reporter (the WaPo dude, not Jonah that caught him being stupid) – bringing the “ewwww” factor:

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Thanks, Jeanne Shaheen – for raising our healthcare costs TWICE!

Health-insurance premiums have been rising—and consumers will experience another series of price shocks later this year when some see their premiums skyrocket thanks to the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare.

We’ve already seen a lot of premium hikes – mine as gone up 20% this year.  And now, it’s going to get worse?  Glad to see that the Supreme Court decided this was a TAX, aren’t you?  Certainly, the cost of Obamacare is making me sick (yeah, I couldn’t resist) – you?  Especially if you pay for your own plan (you rich guy, you!)?

The reason: The congressional Democrats who crafted the legislation ignored virtually every actuarial principle governing rational insurance pricing. Premiums will soon reflect that disregard—indeed, premiums are already reflecting it.

I have seldom seen a worse pairing of words (congressional and rational) in a single sentence.  But hey, these are the dopes that can’t even pass a budget (any kind of a Federal budget, much less a rational Federal budget (yeah, I’m shaking my head at that one too)).

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Notable Quote – B.W. Hughes, Jr

On The Rule of Law: So few young people today understand that the rule of law is the precondition of an ordered society in which free men and women act in liberty. It is no overstatement to say that, without the rule of law, we cannot have liberty, and that this is a truth, not … Read more

Paint and fireworks: what could go wrong (in Slo-Mo)?

We’ve been doing a LOT of talking about things that go boom – not just because they go boom but for the underlying reason we need them: protection against the real reason why the Second Amendment exists: tyrannical government.  But sometimes, stuff that goes boom is good, if for no other reason that its FUN! … Read more

Hmm, is it legal for Illinois legislators to make US Currency illegal? And register your gold purchases?

Gold Bars

What ever happened to:

THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

A most disturbing post over at Zero Hedge – Illinois legislators think that gold is about on par with guns – you have to register your purchase and you cannot pay in cash (SB3144).  It’s sorta like, well, they want to track who has what. After all, Obama’s Progressive Hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt confiscated all private property gold on April 5, 1933 simply by issuing an Executive Order.

“…Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall obtain a proof of ownership, create a record of the sale, and verify the identity of the seller. Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall not pay for the precious metal in cash and shall record the method of payment.” (SB3144)

From the post, this pithy summary:

“So let me get this straight.  First they want gun registration and now precious metal registration?  I’m sure the government would only use such information in our best interests, because as we all know: Your Government Loves You.  Sounds reasonable, after all, only ‘terrorists’ buy guns and gold anyway.”

And you have to do that registration either at a Sheriff’s or Police station.  Gee, do you know what kind of database THEY have access to?  Hint: it ain’t the SEC, the Fed, the IRS, or Treasury.  I wonder whose database you’d end up in if you insisted on cash?

Let Rick Santelli ‘splain it to you:

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