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This man did not rely on the government to save him.  Instead he, with the help of friends and family, saved his house.

It puts a serious smile on my face. 

H/T Alan.

[I discovered this after investigating a probable case of reasoned discourse involving CSGV lying yet again.  Ignoring the fact that it was Twitter that made the final decision to suspend the CSGV account.  Facts and the truth mean nothing to these people. 

I do not understand how the pro-rights side of this argument is scary.  You have absolutely nothing to fear from any of us.  There is claim after claim that we are just going to go and shoot people we disagree with, yet it has NEVER happened.  I subscribe to the same philosophy as Capt. Malcolm Reynolds:

"You don’t know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed."

Again and again we are portrayed by them as nothing but maniacs who wish death upon everyone else but ourselves.  The facts though is that we wish for every person to be able to make the choice to defend themselves and prevent someone else from forcing death upon them.  We are not murderous, we are not short tempered, we do not want to see people needlessly injured or hurt.  Scary we are not, if you do fear us your fear is irrational unless you have behaved in such a way as to threaten us or our families.  We do not wish ANYONE harm yet again and again the other side has wished it upon us. 

Are we relentless, you bet your ass.  That is but one of the many reasons as to why we are winning.

CSGV attacked Linoge and was attempting to intimidate and harass him publishing information that is no one’s business for no other reason than intimidation.  If that isn’t the case, then why would the CSGV, Joan Peterson, or anyone else on the other side of the aisle make exactly that claim if we did the same thing.  Names are one thing, listing information geared at locating an individual, tying him to specific employment, and other acts is intimidation.  Blogging under a pseudonym isn’t to hide, it is done to separate one’s professional life from their personal life.  Blogging is personal, tracing down employment is an attack on their professional life.  So why shouldn’t Linoge be relentless in this case?  Their behavior could cost Linoge his job if his employer supports the anti-rights bigots.  It’s happened before. 

We are relentless because to enjoy freedom and liberty requires eternal vigilance from those who would seek to destroy it.  The Brady Campaign currently is using the crisis of terrorism to attempt to deny people an explicitly enumerated right without due process of law.  We are relentless because to do otherwise would mean that we think the rights that we fight for are without meaning or unnecessary.  Ultimately we are relentless because we do not think that anyone should have the ability to force their will upon another by use of force.  Should someone attempt to do so, that person should have the ability to fight back with the best tools for the job.  The anti-rights bigots would disarm us by force without our consent, to then be at the mercy of someone else.  Forcibly disarmed to not be able to defend ourselves.  Relentless, you bet and we don’t stop until the threat has stopped!

One thing though my wife took direct offense at was that Joan Peterson referred to all pro-rights bloggers as men.  This side of the fence is not just men, it is full of women and frankly I find it down right sexist and offensive as well.  Never do the bigots make mention of the fairer (and much more beautiful) sex.  My wife thinks its because it’s known that all the good looking ones with great figures are on this side of the debate.  I think it’s much more simple than that.

They can not argue against them.  Attempting to argue against them shows what they really think about self defense.  It shows that they don’t want women to be self reliant.  It shows that they think they should be at the mercy of anyone stronger who would do them harm.

All of these facts, don’t matter though because the other side has made up their mind.  We are sub-human to them and unworthy of life.  For that reason we will relegate those bigots to the dustbin of history.

-B]

H/T to Weer’d on the citation for the hypocrisy.

CSGV had the twitter account suspended today after a complaint was filed by Linoge.  They then proceed to play the victim card saying that they were falsely accused.

The problem is Linoge was not false in his statement and Twitter made the final statement in disabling their account.  They felt that the information and evidence provided by Linoge violated twitter’s terms of service and in fact showed their behavior as harassment.  Not only that, but Linoge did not ask for the account to be suspended, but the offending tweets removed.  Twitter disabled their account after reviewing the situation.  This is why you don’t play childish games and act like an adult.

On a side note, I find Jason Tippitt’s comment is interesting since they suffer from Peterson syndrome while we argue facts and logic.  I call out Jason’s statement since the gun grabbers have admitted that lower overall violent crime rates are NOT their goal.  They have an artificial goal of lowering “gun crime”, what actually happens is that overall violent crime rates increase in areas of heavy gun control, while it’s not “gun crime” so it fulfills their artificial goal. 

Gun rights activists are not pro-murder and to claim such is to ignore your own volition in supporting the Criminal Occupational Hazard Reduction Organizations.  I did my own research comparing the Brady Scores to the actual 2009 FBI crime statistics.  The FACTS state that there is absolutely no correlation between heavy gun control and a decrease in violent crime.  In fact of the 20 states with the lowest per capita violent crime rate, only 3 have a score above 20.

Mr. Tippitt you wish to disarm law abiding Americans, and support and organization who has been harassing, threatening, and intimidating people who disagree with their position.  You obviously have not done much research on the topic otherwise you wouldn’t make such a horrible statement without presenting facts and logic to back up your incorrect and down right offensive statement. 

I just realized the CSGV disclosure of peoples real names makes sense if you have the correct world view. Perhaps they think of gun bloggers as superheroes and themselves as the bad guys.

Joe Huffman – Random Thought of the Day

[I love this because from our point of view he’s right.  They are the villains and Heinlein had a very valid statement on the subject. 

Tango offered a olive branch last night and was frustrated by the idiocy that was put forth.  I would say in this case Tango has attempted to make them his friend.  He can now proceed to destroy CSGV without hesitation and without hate.  Making libelous statements while acting as the media director for an organization is a very dangerous thing.

I must say though, it’s fitting referring to gun bloggers as superheroes, especially since they fight for the rights of everyone not just themselves.  –B]

Guns on campus may be a heated issue, but liberty purists can take the controversy out of the question when we remember that being armed in large numbers is just as shrewd as teaching CPR to everyone for the Café Coronary which can take a life faster and sooner than EMS can arrive. The entire purpose of an armed citizenry is how to resist violence in the absence of first responders, e.g. police. Not only do police have no duty to protect individuals from the criminal acts of others, but there simply aren’t enough officers anyway.

John Longenecker, Guns on Campus, Churches, Workplace, Bars and Restaurants

[This is what the anti-rights organizations refuse to see or understand.  They project their own feelings and behaviors on to what they would do if they owned a firearm and assume all owners are that way.  Believing that we are all hell bent on killing others ignoring the fact that we are trying to protect our selves and families.

The pacifist methods of the CSGV and Brady Campaign have proven pointless and a method to ensure one’s one demise.  Yet time and time again, armed citizens fight off their attackers and survive. This movement on their part towards self reliance ensures that they do not become a victim, yet the Brady Campaign gladly counts the criminal as a victim to inflate their statistics.  The Brady Campaign and CSGV has done more than any other group to increase violent crime overall.  They are ok with this outcome, because really they don’t care about crime, they just care about “gun crime".  The fact is though, the choice of tool doesn’t matter, the victim is still violated and I care about the victim, not the criminal.  -B]

Often the CSGV and Brady Campaign claim that you should just give an attacker what he wants.  Nothing is worth taking someone else’s life over.  Well here’s the problem, what if all your attacker wants is your life?  Sadly this happened recently in Kansas City.

Bledsoe and the gunman “exchanged words,” police said. Bledsoe said something to the effect of, “You’re not going to shoot me,” police said, but then the gunman did just that.

…

Police said they don’t think Bledsoe resisted or challenged the gunman.

This man did exactly what the pacifists say he should do.  He offered no resistance, gave the criminals exactly what they wanted, and still ended up ventilated with lead for his troubles.  Unarmed this man was nothing but a cow being led to the slaughter.

He did exactly what the Criminal Occupational Hazard Reduction Organizations recommend and has been placed in a box to go six feet under.  These people value the lives of criminals beyond your own.  If you want to have the support of the Brady Campaign, CSGV or any other Criminal Occupational Hazard Reduction Organization, you need to commit crimes of violence against the innocent and law abiding. 

These groups support legislation and laws that would prevent the law abiding from obtaining one of the best means of self defense without due process of law.  Already innocent people are caught up by the no fly lists without legal recourse to correct the situation and now they want a specifically enumerated right to be limited just the same.  Their bigotry towards women, minorities, and the law abiding knows no bounds.  Their actions and support shows without limit they believe that a criminals life is worth more than your own.  That is why they count criminals who were shot while committing crimes by their victims in self-defense and “victims of homicide”.

If you support the CSGV or the Brady Campaign, you are a supporter of the Criminal Occupational Hazard Reduction movement.  Their goals are to make sure that criminals have the advantage in their trade of work.  Their goals include the following:

• Ensuring rapists are not ventilated while trying to arrive at work or forced into returning home without working for the day.
• Ensuring burglars are not shot as they arrive on the job.
• Ensuring that witness can be dealt with at the mercy of the operator to prevent a unnecessary lapse in job vacancy caused by the legal system.
• Ensuring that armed robbers are the only ones armed to making dealing with those witnesses easier.

The goals of the CSGV and Brady Campaign are simple, ensure that criminals can operate unhindered and violate women, minorities, and every other law abiding citizen in this country.  They are nothing more than Criminal Occupational Hazard Reduction Organizations.

H/T Patrick: Give Them What They Want, Even Your Life 

I’m doing some site maintenance and configuring the Drupal multisite configuration.  I was maintaining about 4 Drupal installs and was about to add one more.  I decided for my sanity I needed to move to the multisite configuration.  This blog is the main install but previously when uploading pictures I was dumping them into a non-site specific folder.  All old links will still exist, but from now on I’m going to use site specific locations and upload through the blogging service.  Here’s hoping it works.

This is the same rifle the owner, pictured at bottom, let me test drive. 

Barrett M82A1

Bruce aka “The Squirrel Hunter” was smacking boomers out at 650 yards with his 25’06, mounted on his tank of a tripod.

I still don’t fully understand the obsession with the tripod, though I do admit it’s downright impressive.  It also makes it much easier to self spot.