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It is a good day for Liberty.
The Missouri Supreme Court upheld its previous
decision on the constitutionality of the LTC law.
ALL counties, including Jackson County, can issue if they want.
As of this writing over a third of Missouri counties are taking
applications. The only
obstacle is the Hancock problem which does not allow sheriffs to use the
fee to pay administrative costs. A
bill to fix this is in the legislature, but many legislators do not want
to do anything with it. Some
are nervous about the issue. Some
want to use it as an issue in the fall elections.
Others want to tack unacceptable amendments on the fix. They want to make felons of license holders who blunder into
schools or school activities with gun.
This used to be a misdemeanor before it was decriminalized for
license holders (and only license holders).
They want to take away car carry, they want to take away out of
state licenses. These changes
are unacceptable. When
Proposition B was stolen from us, no one came to us and offer to give us
part of what we wanted because we felt so strongly about it.
We had to fight for every inch, and we shall not give up a fraction
of any inch we have gained.
My Mother has had her knee replaced. The
old one was not economically repairable.
I asked what was the trade-in value of old knees, but it appears
that after 80 years they are fully depreciated.
I was asked what caused her knee problems.
I am convinced it is due to turning us kids over her knee for all
those years. Perhaps now she
will stop..
Magicians Penn & Teller say that they are
“registered Libertarians”. I
didn’t know Libertarians registered people.
Perhaps there are licenses and permits to be Libertarian as well.
As I understand it, President Bush did not act
quickly enough to prevent 9-11 and too quickly regarding Iraq.
Like Goldilocks he searches for a perfect policy in an imperfect
world..
The Scholar’s Bookshelf catalogue has a book
entitled “A History of Orgies.” I
try to imagine an orgy with a guy in the corner keeping the minutes; but I
keep getting distracted.
Since we have won License to Carry the
prohibitionists seem determined to harass the process.
Our fight is not over, but now it is just over the details.
The Eastern District Court of Appeals in St. Louis
(of Course) has ruled that a Special Process Server can only carry
concealed when actually serving process.
The Fahrenheit Gallery in the West Bottoms held an
art show entitled the “Gun and Knife Show”.
It was not as bad as I thought.
Many of the pieces were entirely too abstract for me.
A number of pieces featured bullets erupting from a variety of
unlikely places. They all
looked like lipsticks to me. Some
were lame depictions of violence. There
were some clever sculptures of guns made of tape.
One is a nice tape 1911 inside of a tape suitcase.
There was an exhibit of pillows and a chair with guns embroidered
into the covers. As a chair
it was very nice, as art it was $800.
The exhibits seem to be by people who do not understand guns, to be
appreciated by people who hate guns.
There was a framed letter on stationary from a London hotel telling
someone that the author had received letters like his when he marched with
Martin Luther King in 1961. The
Constitution won the day then, the same Constitution which guarantees the
right to keep and bear arms. The
writer encouraged his correspondent to read “that sacred document”.
It was signed by Charlton Heston.
I got to the range, something I don’t do as much as
I’d like. I shot a magazine
without my glasses. When I
took Jim Cirillo’s course he had us shoot with a film of soap over our
safety glasses, to prove to ourselves that we could hit a blurred target.
Since there is a better than average chance that I could loose my
glasses in a fight, I thought I’d give it a try. I wouldn’t like to qualify that way, but I put them in the
black during both exercises. .
A talking head claims that it is a violation of the
Geneva Convention for US troops to fire on a mosque being used as a
fighting position by terrorists. This
is unbelievably stupid. The
Geneva Convention says quite the opposite.
When a protected place is used by belligerents, for any reason, it
looses protected status. The
Alamo was a church before it was a fortress..
I was reading about a holster which recognizes the
fingerprints of authorized users, allowing them to draw the weapon.
The problem is that it takes a second to recognize a print.
This defeats the purpose of having a gun handy.
“A gun may not be the answer; but if it is I want
it to be in my hand”. Eleanor
Frutt, “The Practice”..
I do not think that guns are the answer, only that
they reduce the question to manageable proportions.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear
Arms has opened an office in London.
The office is funded by British gun owners and hopes to assist in
restoring rights to own guns, hunt, and act in self-defense.
I have determined that my new bullet should be of .27
or .28 caliber, for the compelling reason that there is no pistol
cartridge of that caliber and therefore a desperate need.
I could call it a 7mm, 7mm short, or 7 mm KPC (Kevin’s Pistol
Cartridge). However, this
puts an effete European air to it. Inch
pattern calibers show that it was made in America by immigrant labor.
Deciding between .27 and .28 is of great importance.
Since there are .22, .221, .222, and .223 cartridges, it is obvious
that even one-one thousandths of an inch provides enormous difference in
ballistics, otherwise why would these different cartridges exist?
So split the difference and make it .275.
It is interesting that the charge of insider trading
against Martha Stewart were dismissed.
She was convicted of LYING about insider trading, that she never
did. You have the right to
remain silent for a reason.
I note that I have not followed the lead of all other
commentators by writing what I think of the Janet Jackson half-time show.
This is because I don’t think about the Janet Jackson half-time
show. It has started a
stricter examination of obscenity in the media.
I remember George Carlin’s routine called “7 Words You Can’t
Say on TV”. Some radio
station played the routine and was cited.
It turned into a First Amendment case, and I remember my
Constitutional Law professor reading the 7 Words in the same dry measured
tones he used for all cases. It
is definitely Mr. Carlin’s delivery that makes them funny.
There is some use for obscenity in art and elsewhere, it should be
confined to those places where persons expect such things, and can avoid
it if offended. I remember
the case of a soldier who was separated from his unit between the lines
and saw an American patrol. Realizing
that they would kill the first thing they saw or heard, he got behind a
tree and shouted an obscene euphemism for sexual intercourse.
Given his enthusiasm and familiarity with the word, he was
immediately recognized as an American.
I see that the government of Sudan and the Southern
Rebels have entered into another peace agreement.
They are getting real good at this; illustrating the value of
practice. I believe that
these agreements would last longer if the Government would stop raiding
the South for slaves. Yes,
this time it’s the Damn Yankees who are practicing slavery.
Missouri Sheriffs have met with the Attorney
General’s office to coordinate the fix to the funding problem in the
License to Carry law. The
sheriffs want the law fixed so that they can apply the fee to
administrative costs. The AG wants it fixed so that he does not have to defend the
law in 114 county courts. The
legislature, however, is dragging its feet.
The Al Brooks legal team has sued the sheriff of Moniteau County
for issuing the first license to Rep. Crawford, who sponsored the law. They want the license revoked and further licenses stopped.
The sheriff, who has known Rep. Crawford for many years, issued the
license after conducting such investigation as he saw fit, which was very
little in this case. There is
no requirement to wait for the fingerprint check to come back.
The local plaintiff is a political opponent of the sheriff and Rep.
Crawford. This same mob threatens to sue other sheriffs who issue
licenses. Even after loosing
on this issue this mob continues to harass us.
This indicates the mindless hatred they have for us.
As of this writing, 43 Missouri counties are taking
applications for licenses. The
number grows rapidly. We are
winning and need only keep on.
Dean Johnson, Gary Davis and I went to meet
Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry; we were in the crowd meeting
him, not the crowd welcoming him. There
were signs with shower shoes hanging on them to honor his history of flip
flops when it was politically expedient.
The Democrats had a much large crowd of course.
I was struck by how rude they were.
Obscene gestures and snide remarks were the order of the day. Dean attempted to use the bathroom and was told one a loyal
Democrat that he could not, that he could stay outside and “piss his
pants”. Backed by a number
of, by then, outraged Republicans, Dean went in and used the facilities.
I strongly suggest that we do NOT emulate these people.
Good manners will get us further than abrasive behavior.
Someone wrote that we are trying to dismantle fear, not elicit it.
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Years ago Tawana Brawley claimed to have been
kidnapped and raped by racists. Later
she was more specific saying that it was racist police, prosecutors, and
anyone who questioned her story. The
usual suspects supported her. She
gained some support from persons who reasoned that there were racists,
racists did that sort of thing, so she must be telling the truth; despite
forensic evidence to the contrary. We
run into this in our movement. Opponents
believe that anything that supports their theory must be true, anything in
opposition must be a lie, and evidence is irrelevant.
I saw a history of cowboys which explained the birth
of cowboy song and poetry. Being
months on the trail the same story got dull, but put to rhyme or song it
was entertaining and would be repeated over and over.
There is something about meter and rhythm which engaged a
person’s attention. We
should try thing, putting the old stories to songs from commercials, folk
songs, nursery rhymes and the like.
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We shall overcome.
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