While reading the recent trumped up kerfuffle regarding Ted “The Nuge” Nugent’s comments that have earned him a JBT Secret Service investigation, I remembered an interview or three he’s done where he asserted “The Second Amendment is my conceal carry permit.” While I like listening to The Nuge speak to clueless and aghast lamestream media elitists and other collectivist subhuman monsters, I take issue with this point.

You see, even the black-robed tyrants affirmed that the right to keep and bear arms is not at all dependent on the Second Amendment, but precedes it as an individual, fundamental right. It is a human right.

As such, I am posting a photo of my conceal carry permit. Note that my right to keep and bear arms is not even dependent on this, as that would exclude those who have lost limbs or been born without, so for yourself, choose any part of your body (within limits, of course ;-)). The simple fact of my life is my conceal carry permit.

“The Second Amendment is my conceal carry permit” much like some open carry advocate groups like to say “Open Carry is the right, Conceal Carry is the privilege” may make good copy, but neither is true. The Second Amendment merely codifies and recognizes my right to keep and bear arms. And by what authority do supposed gun rights advocates assert that carrying concealed is not a right?

PS: I may be late, but I will be posting a review of my experience at the Appleseed shoot on March 24-25 with six other bloggers and several other folks. Also, I have a some pictures of a fun time I had with family, teaching a new shooter as well as a few friends of the family. And a rather funny “condition white” story.

Well, I’ll be. I’m amazed at the success of pushing this up to #2 in about a day. When I participated yesterday, I was prepared to be unimpressed.

Now if we can just get all those who participated to come to open carry (handgun and rifle) rallies, write and call their legislators and write letters to editor … something … anything, it might take less than a few decades to roll back what the regressives have done to our predecessors over the past century or so. Even if I think it may be too late for that, it at least will give us hope that we can, at least, prevent those who believe they control the levers of power from doing something so stupid, that even they rue the day.

It’s a start. Now let’s move on to bigger things, before there’s nothing left but “Second Amendment Remedies.”

Claire Wolfe is credited with this “awkward time” quote:

America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Mike Vanderboegh has said on many occasions, that there are times, particularly when targeted by the ATF, that all you can hope for is an unfair gunfight, because the deck is so obviously stacked against peaceable citizens.

Now comes this warning from another excellent piece by Drs. Gallant and Eisen:

How many believe that, in this firearm-hostile world, any of us would prevail in such a lawsuit?!

(Regarding our chances in the face of an international court system.)

Not me. And as is often pointed out, if there is no rule of law, that works both ways. If I have none of the protections that are recognized and codified in the US Constitution, then any jackbooted thug that comes to my door to cart me off to an international court will also have no protection of the rule of law.

Um. I mean, Uzis. Yup, I’m the proud owner of two new Uzis. Yes, they are real. Straight from Amazon.com, with no background check whatsoever, delivered straight to my door. Yes!

The black one has a glass breaker and the gun-metal one has a “DNA collector.” They were my first purchases with my trial Amazon Prime membership (which I believe could be my financial undoing — it’s just too easy to click my bank account down to zero before the next paycheck). The black one with the glass breaker is here and the gun-metal one with the DNA collector is here. Don’t know why I got two, but I guess it’s that whole “1 is 0, 2 is 1” thing.

They seem sturdy, and write well (nice gel pens that you can easily get refills for). It’s a bit hard to find something to test the glass breaker on, because, you know, I kind of value my car windows. The DNA collector would definitely collect some serious DNA if you had nothing else on you to defend yourself.

Like my 1 inch stainless steel balls, these pens, for the most part, pass as something innocuous. The SS balls are simply exercise balls, but could easily put a couple nasty dents in an assailant’s forehead. These are simply writing implements until called upon for more serious work.

So I wandered into Starbucks today to pick up a cup of coffee and a muffin, and I saw the Redneck wannabee below waving a gun around and…

Uh…

Oops…

Sorry, there. Had an attack of the Bradys.

Walked into Starbucks. Bought coffee. Had polite conversation with barista. Put half and half and sugar in coffee. Took picture. No one was hurt. No one ran out of the place screaming. Actually, I don’t think anyone even noticed, which is the way it usually is.

And it wasn’t my intent to draw attention to it, either. Not even for the sake of the buycott. This is to participate in offsetting, likely by at least a 10-fold ratio, any potential (unlikely) negative affect the anti-human-rights crowd’s boycott may have.

We outnumber them. By large margins.

A vigil for gun violence victims? We’ll participate, but for ALL victims of violence and encourage the survivors and others to end their victimhood by going armed.

A boycott? We buycott.

Twitter an anti-human-rights rally? We’ll drown you out simply by our sheer numbers. Sure, you have a right to speak, but you are in the infinitesimal minority, and we intend to show you that.

Update: Changed barrister to barista. As Sean says in the comments, small difference. :-/

Update 2: Also, I heard that the Brady Campaign itself is not actually participating in this boycott, though I don’t have a reference. Apparently, they are learning, and methinks there is a little bit of infighting in the anti-human-rights universe.

Heh. Thanks, guys.

Larry, of Last Refuge of Scoundrel and Knitebane of Knitebane Manor have each bestowed upon me a bloghonor.

The Liebster Blog Award:

The rules are:

1. Copy and paste award on your blog. Done.
2. Link back to the blogger who gave you the award. Done, above.
3. Pick your five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have received an award. I know Larry picked ten, since he got picked twice, but I’m going consider them overlapping. It’s hard enough to find just five that have below 200 followers in my list.
4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs. Man, this is tough. I follow over fifty blogs, but many are either highly popular (more than 200 followers) or inactive.

1. Alvie at The Cliffs of Insanity
2. Sean at An NC Gun Blog
3. Barron Barnett at The Minuteman (Probably has more than 200 followers. Eh.)
4. Agirlandhergun at A Girl and Her Gun
5. Knitebane at Knitebane Manor

Since there were some in the gun blogging community who were so quick to support hypocrite Martha Boggs for kicking out Tennessee state Senator Stacey Campfield for his views, I figured I’d ask what I didn’t see anyone else ask. Does her establishment ban guns?

Well, my message was summarily ignored, but apparently my email address was not. I got this in my inbox yesterday:

Dear Friends
I want to thank everyone for all the wonderful e-mails sent over the last few days. While I have read each and every one of them, I dearly wish that I had the time to respond to you all personally. The stories and emotions that you shared with me are deeply touching. I truly had no idea that the power of the internet would take this story of a simple act of defiance and take it all the way around the world in a matter of 72 hours and touch so many lives. Despite what may have been mis-reported in local media I do not regret my actions in the least.

Mr. Campfield’s statements are like salt on the wounds of segment of society which has been marginalized far too long. For those of us who watched the government turn a blind eye to the AIDS epedemic because it “only affected homosexuals”, we cannot allow an elected offical make statements which spit on the graves of all our friends and family we lost and continue to lose because of AIDS.

While I truly appreciate the sentiment to come by and patronize my establishment, that was not my intent so if you truly feel compeled to make a contribution against hatred and intolerance, please donate to the local politican of your choice where you money and your vote will do the most good to you personally. If you do have a chance to come to The Bistro, feel free to say Hi. I will be the lady with a pony tail bussing tables. let the healing begin, it will get better.
love
Martha Boggs

While I don’t deny Boggs her property rights, including the right to kick out anyone she damn pleases for any reason whatsoever, I thought it important given the article that Linoge pointed to that either she lied to the press, or Mary Scott of WBIR misreported it.

But that’s the rub. I don’t deny Boggs her property rights, as much as I think, (from what I can gather), she’s likely a leftwinger. By the same token, as despicable as racists are, I’d rather their freedom of association be preserved than the alternative of “I’m from the Government, and I’m hear to help.”

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/31/exclusive-wikileaks-to-move-servers-offshore-sources-say/

“Once you put yourself outside the realm of law, then you’re outside the realm of law, rules on search warrants and excessive force and all that — the reach of the Constitution — none of that applies,” Dempsey said.

Obama, take note.

I was thinking of these posts by Baron Barnett and considered my own experience about five years ago when I bought my first firearm.

I had moved down to North Carolina from Massachusetts about a year and half earlier and, though I had heard that the gun laws down here were much more permissive than my former location outside of the Free America, I had trouble picturing it in my mind. “You mean, I don’t have to fill out a mountain a of paperwork and hope that the local police chief likes me and isn’t having a bad day in order to get permission to own a gun? Nah, you’re pulling my leg!”

Needless to say, I soon started to make up for lost time. About 40 years of lost time. I had always been pro-gun, but didn’t really get liberty until I left that socialist hell hole up in the Northeast. (Sorry, JayG, I don’t mean to rub it in.) How many? More than I need, not as many as I want. After all, last I checked, the first ten amendments to the Constitution were referred to as the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs.

So in late 2006 or early 2007, I got the news that my sister had been mugged. She lives in another Northeast socialist paradise (New Jersey), and though her husband is a retired police officer and usually carries, I don’t think she has even ever touched a gun. It was dark, but the parking lot wasn’t really poorly lit and she had parked fairly close to the hotel lobby entrance. She had gone back to her car before entering the hotel to retrieve something, and there was this 6-foot plus thug standing right next to her pinning her between him and, the open door of her car, and the car next to hers.

Without a word, he simply grabbed her purse. But my sister, being unwilling to give in so easily, would not let go of the purse. The mugger proceeded to drag her until she let go.

Scrapped up knees and an injured right hand later, she wound up having multiple surgeries to repair damage to her hand. It’s still not 100%, but at least functional.

If I hadn’t already initiated the process to get my NC CHL and buy my first gun, I would have done it right then. In fact, I remember saying out loud to a friend, “that does it, I’m getting my conceal carry license,” even though I had already started in that direction.

My sister was violently attacked, but, fortunately, wasn’t killed. At the moment of her attack, there was no way for her to know whether or not she was going to make it through the ordeal alive. If statists in control of New Jersey hadn’t made it so difficult for her to keep and bear arms, and she was carrying and managed to stop the attack, possibly resulting in the death of her assailant, would CSGV, The Brady Campaign, and company have considered him a victim of gun violence?

Let me be clear. He would not have been a victim. He was the perpetrator, and should he have perished in that encounter, no matter the means, it would have been due to his own actions. And all you have to do is read a week of Sean’s posts to come to the conclusion that he’s likely a multiple law breaker that should have been behind bars, and may soon meet his demise, anyhow. How many victims must he rack up before it’s Too Many Victims? I’m not at all advocating that he should simply be killed, indiscriminantly, but that, one way or another, he should be taken off the streets to prevent him from creating yet more victims.

Alan Korwin is author of several books on state gun laws and, among other writings, the classic article, The Noble Use of Firearms. During a speech at a Gun-Control Symposium at Duquesne University, as the sole (brave, I might add) pro-gun voice, he said:

We can’t get to that world because of what I call the Four Horseman of Human Havoc — Angry, Hungry, Stupid and Wicked. Oh, we might be able to solve Hungry someday, but the other three? And that’s the rub. Until there is a fundamental change in human nature, the good guys need the guns to protect themselves from the bad guys. That’s why you have all those armed people in the room, right? No one disagreed. If guns suddenly disappeared, the good guys would have to invent them all over again. That’s because Guns Protect You.

A gun death is no worse than a non-gun death. A death is a death. And if those who hate guns so much were really concerned about the number of deaths in this country, they ought to be going after automobiles, given that about 50% more people die from their use (even though there are, from many sources, more guns than cars in the US), than do from guns. But even that would be a failed effort. Why? Because it focuses on the object, rather than the operator of the object.