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Obama Owes Us an Apology

This according to Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I agree.

OBAMA SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR INSULTING MILLIONS OF ARMED CITIZENS, SAYS
CCRKBA

BELLEVUE, WA – Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday insulted millions
of legally-armed American citizens when he told a Pennsylvania
newspaper that concealed carry poses a threat to innocent people, and
he should immediately apologize for that remark, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

Senator Obama, quoted by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, admitted,
“I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a
potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot
during) altercations.”

“American citizens have been responsibly carrying concealed
handguns for years in 48 states,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan
Gottlieb, co-author of America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a
Violent Age, published by Merril Press. “These citizens go through
background checks, and in some states complete required training
courses. Statistically, these armed citizens are far less likely to
ever be involved in a crime than average citizens. They have stopped
crimes. They have sometimes aided police officers.
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Corruption In The Anti-Gun Crowd

The NSSF did some research into some of the leading anti-gun rights crowd. In addition to the “Why are the anti’s so violent?” question, we could ask “Why are they so corrupt?”

“In recent years, big city politicians and trial lawyers have filed lawsuits seeking to blame law-abiding members of the firearms industry for the criminal misuse of guns. In the wake of the recent resignation of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who as that state’s attorney general sued the industry, and the recent conviction of two of the leading trial attorneys whose firm represented many of those cities in their failed lawsuits, NSSF decided to take a closer look at what became of some of the politicians that sought to scapegoat the industry.

Take a look at what was discovered. It just might surprise you—or maybe it won’t.”

Click here for the dirt.

(h/t) The Gun Shots

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What a Sanctimonious Tool!

This guy really pisses me off. This from a story done on him on the SFGate site. How fitting that his last name is ‘Ricker’.

About eight years ago, Ricker began crafting more explicit works, including a “Gun Coffin,” a box-shaped frame composed of distorted guns welded together. The piece includes curving AK-47s Ricker purchased from a Czech arms dealer, a pancake-flat .357 Magnum allegedly owned by Hunter S. Thompson, a .38 Special from a former San Francisco police officer and a pearl-plated pistol once carried by an officer in the Italian National Fascist Party.

“If you have a gun, you have to envision who you’re going to kill,” Ricker said. “I want people to think about who they think it’s OK to shoot, and where that puts them morally.”

How about someone trying to kill me or a loved one? Oh, I forgot, idiots like this don’t believe it’s right to defend yourself. *spits* How about the mentality of this brain donor who took a classic 1911, over 100 years old, to this idiot to destroy, even though his uncle had wanted it to stay in the family.

After Heath Maddox’s father died unexpectedly in 2006, Maddox was clearing out his dad’s belongings when he found a surprise: a U.S. military-issued .45-caliber handgun wrapped in a towel and tucked into a kitchen drawer.

Maddox vaguely recalled a story about his grandfather owning the gun, but he wasn’t sure why, or how, it turned up in his father’s kitchen.

Yet on a recent Friday evening, two years after the discovery, Maddox stood inside artist John Ricker’s San Francisco studio, ready to smash the gun flat with a sledgehammer.

“My uncle wanted to keep it in the family,” said Maddox, a planner in the city’s transportation agency, before he delivered the first blow. “But I knew about John and what he does with guns. … I wanted it destroyed.”

All I can say is, how disrespectful! This would be like me taking my dead grandfathers guitar, cutting it apart and making “art” out of the pieces. What a disgraceful thing to do! The least he could have done was give it to the Uncle who wanted it instead of taking it to this butcher to destroy.

Hmmm… Looks like the Butcher has a website. Some select quote from his site:

Guns kill. In the countryside hunter kill their prey. In the city and suburbs guns are for killing people. Guns create hate.

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Donate your gun to Guns Into Art before the gun kills somebody you love.

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Hate groups love guns. Go to a gun show and you will see Neo-Nazi groups recruiting under the banner of gun owner rights. Timothy McVeigh stole and sold guns at gun shows.

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Then I ask most white male gun owners who it is they think they may need to shoot in self defense they will speak directly of blacks or Hispanics or use code words like “Gang Banger”, but in general, the person they image they may need to shoot has darker skin then theirs.

Our national gun fetish and increasing racism go hand in hand. You just can not have a decent society when a significant portion of the population is walking around thinking who it is ok to kill. It just is not neighborly.

Rape, robbery and murder are not neighborly either. Of course that’s assuming gun owners walk around thinking about who they want to kill. Project much John?

I take great exception to the bile this gun bigot is spewing. I will admit to being white and male, but I’ve never fantasized about killing brown skinned people. I’ve never belonged to a racist organization. There are racists who own guns, but that doesn’t make every gun owner a racist. Correlation does not equal causation. I have also never seen racists recruiting at gun shows. I think he’s lying. I’ve never hunted or killed anyone, but I will do whatever I need to do to keep my family safe, no matter what their skin color is. Criminal, just like Muslim, is not a race.

Anyway, I’ve wasted enough electrons on this bigot. Go read the article, check out his site…comment if you want. I was surprised to see almost a 98% negative reaction to the story in the comments. This is good, but doesn’t help anything, unfortunately.

Ah, looky here….his site has a forum…

(h/t) Xavier.

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With anti’s like these…

What is it with the anti-rights crowd? There are a few common things they do when confronted with an argument they can’t refute. The most common tactic I’ve run across on the internet is the “stick my fingers in my ears and keep repeating the same thing over and over” gag, the next one is the old “change the subject and refuse to answer a direct question” tactic. They keep repeating the same discredited “studies” over and over again, as if repeating them one more time will make them true…And then, when they truly are out of options they resort to personal attacks.

I ran into one of these the other day while reading Michael Hawkins blog. He is debating a guy on another blog which focuses on “no-violence” as the panacea to all of societies ills. After reading some of this guys drivel I made a comment on Michael’s blog that I’d wanted to slap the idiot.

Of course, the anti-rights bigot proceeded to criticize Michael for not deleting this “threat of physical harm” I’d made against him. Something tells me that this guy seeks out things to be offended by. Anyway… So I apologized to Michael for this because I had not intended to open him up to this guys attacks. Ever since then, the anti has brought up my name numerous times in an attempt to win his argument.

And then in an act of desperation the guy proceeded in on a personal attack on me. He brought up some physical issues I have.

“By militia you mean people like Yuri? The people who have likely never served a day in the military…never seen combat and are VASTLY out of shape (I am being kind here…I could get really ugly) The people who can’t run two blocks….you mean this militia?”

This guy doesn’t know me or my situation. He is apparently so desperate he’s now resorting to personal attacks on people he sees as lesser than him just because he disagrees with them. Apparently pro-rights people are the only minority it’s okay to attack and discriminate against.

I had resisted the urge to respond to him until he said this, and so I responded with:

I see awalk has seen fit to draw me into the debate again even though I have never posted a single comment on this site. This will be my only post on this site about this matter.

I addressed your assertion that I threatened you in depth on Michael’s blog so I don’t feel the need to respond to that here. Go read it if you want, or not. I don’t care.

Yes I’m out of shape. It’s not news to me, I’m well aware of the fact. What you don’t know, and if you did you wouldn’t have been so caviler about making an ad hominem attack on my character and physical condition, is that for twenty two years now I have battled an inherited genetic condition called Phlebitis.

I have little circulation left in my legs. They swell up and have become grossly disfigured and heavy. An infection in my right leg almost resulted in it’s amputation six and a half years ago. I still have reoccurring bouts of infection which put me flat on my back for days. I can barely walk, let alone run, so any form of exercise is out of the question. I’d love nothing more than to be able to walk normally and run, but it isn’t going to happen. I’m just thankful at this point that I’m not confined to a wheel chair.

I own guns for three reasons. First, it is my right as an American citizen to do so. Second, I enjoy the hobby and in addition own a few WWII rifles. I enjoy the history associated with them and unlike something you read about in a book, this is history I can actually hold in my hands. Lastly, as a disabled person I carry a gun for the defense of myself and my family. Running away is out of the question for me. Criminals target the old and ill to commit their crimes against, and I will not become a statistic. I went through a home invasion when I was a teenager and I’ll be damned if I’ll be unprepared again.

So awalk, I hope you feel happy and satisfied that you can libel someone you’ve never met and know nothing about.

Now, who’s the bigot?

A little wordy I know, but I was upset over his mis-characterization of myself and what I’d said. Of course his reply is everything I’ve come to expect from an anti-gun bigot. They’d have you believe they’re all about peace, love and understanding, but if you disagree with them, they treat you like you’re subhuman. His response, in part, is below.

Then goodbye…good riddance.

You are more than out of shape. You are vastly obese and your obesity fits into the topic on hand (I will discuss the topic of the militia later).

First, your friend, Mr. Hawkins, wrongly labeled me as a bigot. Then you added your little sadistic remark. And now, you seemingly want compassion when you were unwilling to give t.

Kindly stop accusing others of your shortcomings. I am writing fact. On the other hand, you write about emotions of frustration and desires to slap people…right after your friend called whole a group of people bigots.

I really do not care. I don’t know you. I don’t want to know you. This absolutely changes nothing. You can’t make hateful sadistic remarks and then run behind some type of problem. Kids do this…little boys and little girls. Not grown men.

Grow up

He seems to have mistaken my explanation for a plea for compassion. It wasn’t, but the fact he isn’t willing to show any is telling. Grow up indeed. Since when is expressing frustration, i.e. the desire to slap someone a hateful or sadistic remark?

Make no mistake, these kinds of people don’t care about anyone but themselves. If you dare disagree with them you’re instantly worth less than dirt in their eyes. This is what we’re up against folks, this is the true face of the other side. The kind of people who will look you in the face and lie. People like Paul Helmke, Adrian Fenty and Josh Sugarman. There’s no hope for an individual like this, but there is for the other people reading who haven’t yet made up their minds.

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