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It is a good day for Liberty.

We are seven months away from election day.

Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, infected 47 people with typhoid fever, killing three. She was diagnosed as a typhoid carrier throughout her life but never believed she was the cause of the outbreaks that followed her. Dr. Linda Hazzard (1908 to 1935) ran a clinic in Washington State. Her treatment regardless of the patient’s complaint was to feed the patient a few ounces of dilute tomato soup and nothing else. Patients died and Dr. Hazzard went to jail, but never lost faith in her methods. When she fell ill, she employed her own starvation treatment and died. In China it was believed that eunuchs would resist corruption because they had no children to leave their wealth. Experience proved that eunuchs have very little else to do except amass wealth, and no children to support their old age, which encouraged avarice. Eunuchs became infamous for corruption, yet Imperial China demanded their use until the throne was abolished. Communism produced various advocates who claimed that they had found a successful formula for Marxism. All of them proved that there were many Marxist formulas for economic disaster. Yet Cyprus just elected a communist chief of state. Some people cannot change a course of conduct despite obvious, persistent and massive proof that what they are doing does not work. This is often given as a functional definition of insanity. This is the attitude we see in the anti-gun crowd. They ban guns, violent crime goes up and they say it would have been worse if they had not banned guns, and they must have more restrictions. They establish “gun free zones”, people use them as murder zones, and they demand more such zones. All their programs fail to perform as advertised and they demand more of the same. They proclaim that License To Carry will result in blood in the streets and are proven wrong. They warn that the Castle Doctrine will result in murderers going free but cannot point to such a case. They claim that it is unnecessary to give immunity against lawsuits to people who act in self-defense because no such person has ever been sued; although we all heard of Bernard Goetz who killed four attackers in the subway, was acquitted on the grounds of self-defense then was sued for $43 million, and lost. For some reason the media continues to regard these hysterics as reliable sources.

Pet Burmese pythons have escaped or been released in Florida and have formed a significant immigrant community in that cosmopolitan state. They are large enough to eat an adult alligator. An alarmed newspaper reporter writes that they are migrating to San Francisco which is said to have favorable conditions for the beasts. It is not reported how the pythons know that San Francisco is a favorable environment. A casual student of geography would point out that between Florida and San Francisco lie a number of rivers, snow-capped mountains, desserts, and farmers with shotguns. It may be early for San Francisco to worry about the great snakes, however given the city’s hostility towards gun owners, perhaps we ought to give them a lift.

I have obtained a number of old American Rifleman magazines. In 1952, the year of my birth, there were many articles about rifle teams, often college teams, many with women. The articles tended toward the highly technical and hunting articles abounded.

In a 1931 American Rifleman the NRA reprinted a note complaining that a club didn’t get it’s NRA charter. The note was signed only “Roger Secretary”, no address, no name of club, not even a full name. If this is an example of Roger the Secretary’s correspondence, this may help explain why they did not get their charter.

The July 1931 American Rifleman had an article about the 5th annual Missouri Rifle and Pistol Association shoot, now the Missouri Sport Shooting Association (MSSA). This would have the MSSA founding in 1927, while my records show it was founded in 1928, no matter. There were a variety of shooting contests, including a machine gun crew shoot. It is not clear if this involved shooting machine guns or teams were composed of machine gun crews firing individual weapons.

An angry contributor to an e-mail forum declared that he would not give the NRA a dime. It seems they had fallen behind on what he believed they should accomplish. Many of us have disagreed with the NRA over some point or another, but there are accomplishments that we should bear in mind. The NRA was instrumental in passing License To Carry and legislation to prohibit confiscation of guns during an emergency and to preserve shooting sports in the flood plain and protecting shooting ranges and other matters for which I do not have sufficient space. This is not everything that we might desire, but it is certainly worth a dime.

Going through my wallet I find a voting card, driver’s license, LTC, Bar Association card, courthouse pass, Social Security card, and library card. The government likes to give us ID cards; they make it seem closer to us.

Guns seized during the Katrina disaster are still rusting in government trailers, a constant reminder of government abuse. When people claim that the government will never seize guns or never seize hunting guns, mention Katrina. Greenwood Kansas suffered the same abuse. Following the Greenwood tornado guns were not just confiscated they were flat out stolen. Homes that had not been damaged were forcibly evacuated and guns were stolen. No record was made of the homes the guns were stolen out of and many simply disappeared. After Katrina, New Orleans was sued, successfully. The experience of Greenwood proves that the government does not learn.

On 18 March, 2008, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the Second Amendment case District of Columbia vs Heller. There is a very good chance that we can play a tape of the arguments at Rally Day on 29 April, 2008 at 10:00 AM in the Rotunda of the Capital Building in Jefferson City.

It is proposed that the rule against guns in national parks be repealed. The usual suspects are horrified making the same hysterical predictions of bloodbath we have always heard. Now they claim that it will lead to poaching as well. Perhaps it has escaped the notice of prohibitionists that places where guns are banned attract a certain breed of homicidal lunatic. Although typically suicidal they do not gravitate toward gun shops or gun shows. They go where unarmed people will be easy targets before armed opposition can be summoned. It is claimed that we could not really use guns in self-defense, that it is simply not possible. Recently a terrorist entered a religious school in Israel with a machine gun. Killing was good until a student drew a pistol and shot him in the head. This proves that a pistol can be used against a terrorist with an automatic weapon. It also proves that when such an event happens, it will not be reported in the Kansas City Star. Where mentioned the student is described as an “off duty soldier” instead of the more accurate “armed student”. The media will not tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth if the truth if the truth is good for us. They do not want us thinking we might be right. They do not want us thinking they are wrong. They do not want us thinking.

On the eve of the Supreme Court argument in the Second Amendment case, Washington DC police are going door to door asking residents to allow them to search for guns. The project is doubtless designed to tell the Court that guns are a constant danger in the District. It also tells the Court that after 30 years of a gun ban, there are still guns illegally held. Citizens should have a chance to hold them legally.

The District is arguing in their brief that their ban is not a complete ban, that if someone were attacked, that would be justification for unlocking or assembling their gun, loading it and acting in self-defense. However, the District is lying. The District has prosecuted people who have used a gun in self-defense with the argument that they are entitled to act in self-defense, but not have a functioning gun. By denying citizens the means of self-defense, the District makes the right of self-defense a cruel joke.

The Cass County zoning authority says that it is enforcing a ban on more than four pets on rural property because it thinks that having more than four pets is “odd”. I think it is odd that they are concerned about it. I think they are odd for being concerned about it.

A bill was proposed in the Missouri legislature to mandate guns that will mark cartridges when fired. This is technologically unlikely, easily defeated, and if employed will succeed in tracing a gun to the person from whom it was stolen. It is designed to register guns so the government can more easily steal them. The bill has not gone anywhere, but we expect to see it again and again.

A lunatic shoots up a school and we are blamed. A lunatic shoots up the Kirkwood city council, and we are blamed. Gangs shoot up a street and we are blamed. We are even blamed for things that did not happen and will not happen. But if there is a single act of self-defense it is covered up as if it doesn’t count. The theme of this Rally Day is “Don’t Punish Me”. We did not commit any crimes and will not be punished for what others do.

The governor of New York is found to have paid thousands of dollars for an hour with a prostitute. This provides some question as to his judgment, but perhaps there are other matters of which we are unaware. Hiring a prostitute is a crime however the governor is not charged with this error in judgment. He may be charged with a violation of the Mann Act. This well-named statute criminalizes transporting women across a state line for immoral purposes. In law school we were advised that when taking our girlfriends across the state line we should stop and make them walk across. It was not mentioned that the statute is discriminatory, as it does not criminalize women taking men across the state line for immoral purposes, let alone men taking men across state lines.

My local library his DVD’s of the old “Have Gun Will Travel” series. I have watched a few and it strikes me that for a gunfighter, the star typically resolves the conflict without gunfire. This is the way things usually happen in real life.

We have heard nothing more about Sheila declaring martial law, or about the lawyers rioting over lawyer jokes. This proves they are connected. Live in fear.

We shall overcome.

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