Armed Females of America
Armed Females of America is a group led by Carma Lewis and Lori Broadhead. Their Mission Statement is worth writing in gold. Strong stuff. Good stuff. Don't miss the About Us page, especially Angel Shamaya's piece. Carma Lewis' story on the bios page blew me away. A mother who lost her son to "gun violence", but properly blames the shooter, not the gun. The networks were all set to put her on the air just before MMM 2000, but she never got to speak because her message was not in line with their gun-grabbing agenda. I haven't yet followed the links on their articles page. There's a good quotes page, including the following:
By a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be? -- Joseph Sobranand:
Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins. -- Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, whose testimony convicted John Gotti.and:
Ninety-eight percent of the people in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. -- Lily Tomlinand:
There is no doubt in my mind that millions of lives could have been saved if the people had not been "brainwashed" about gun ownership and they had been well armed. Hitler's thugs and goons were not very brave when confronted by a gun. Gun haters always want to forget the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which is a perfect example of how a ragtag, half starved group of Jews took up 10 handguns and made asses out of the Nazi's. -- Theodore Haas, former prisoner of the infamous Dachau prisoner concentration campand:
You may have my guns, but the ammo must go with them. P.S. All ammo leaves my possession from between 1150fps and 2650fps. -- Leslie E. StarksTheir Safety Tips page has a copy of Jeff Cooper's Rules of Gun Safety, summarized below:
RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADEDThe have a Yahoo email discussion group.
RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY
RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET
RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET
L. Neil Smith - Toward a Disidentification Movement - Time to get rid of the numbers that the control freaks use to run our lives. All of them. If you haven't signed the petition asking L. Neil to run for president in 2004, it's not too late. Head right on over to smith2004.org, and sign up. Only 999,764 signatures to go. Think you don't need to keep your papers in order in Amerika? I've got a bridge for sale...
As most of those reading this column are aware, this is undiluted horseshit. Just try travelling from state to state in America without a driver's license and proof of insurance, to be yielded up to the first uniformed road-thug who demands it. Keep the title to your vehicle handy, too, as well as your dog's shot records. America has an internal passport system just as stringent as that of any former communist country -- only we don't call it that. To criticize anybody else about it is blatant hypocrisy.
Even with all the right papers, there's no guarantee. Last week a friend from Arizona was telling me about a friend of hers visiting Tennessee who was stopped by a cop from the Elvis State for no other reason than that he had Arizona license plates -- "we get a lot of drug traffic from Arizona" -- apparently probable cause to stop and ransack the cars of several million individuals each year. Here's my tourist money, Tennessee, that's the closest you'll ever get to it.
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We have to assume that it isn't too late, or simply lie down and die like the dinosaurs. Lots of folks I know try to hide one way or another. They move around a lot, won't give out their phone numbers, use mail drops, encrypt everything, or play other games that can only result in a scornful smirk from those who treat us like cattle. Me, I want -- no, need -- to stand up in the sunshine like a free man, one reason I always attach my e-mail address to these diatribes.
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People aren't meant to be tracked and herded like cattle, no matter how unsafe it may prove, or inconvenient for the cops. Let's write a Constitutional amendment and circulate it as widely as we can (because, once again, that's the point), outlawing the practice of slapping identification numbers on everything and everybody.
Under the amendment, it will be a felony to leave serial numbers on weapons -- or watches, cameras, engine blocks, computers, or anything else -- once they're out of the factory, where such numbers are useful. No more Social Security, no more library cards. It will be a capital offense -- punishable by death by public hanging -- for a government employee to record or transmit any number associated with individual human beings or their possessions.
Kathryn A. Graham at KeepAndBearArms.com - Self Defense - A Moral Imperative - Have We Been Duped? - Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Gun control = tyranny. [sas]
You've been told violence is a terrible thing. You've been told that folks are killing each other all over the world, and they will certainly stop if we can just control this terrible flood of weapons and keep them in the hands of the officials who should properly have them. Most recently, the U.N. is trying desperately to improve everybody's life by getting firearms off the open market. The world will be a safer and kinder place if they can just manage it.
If you truly believe that, my friends, please allow me to sell you some oceanfront property in Utah.
Jeff Head at Sierra Times - I was an Eyewitness to The Stand At Klamath Falls (Week Two) - Mr. Head reports on his experience on July 20-24. Worth a read even if you think the crisis is now "over". It won't be over until the local people are given legal control of the dam. If you haven't done so yet, sign Jeff's petition. [kaba]
Michael Gaddy at Sierra Times - I Should Have Voted for Gore - Another patriot duped by King George's political rhetoric. [sierra]
I know. I can hear the yelling and gnashing of teeth now. How can he say that, you scream? I have witnessed the incredulity here in my own home. But you must understand, I'm the kind of guy when I go to the grocery and buy a can of beans, I expect there to be beans in the can when I open it. I like surprises for my birthday, but don't really care for it in my politicians!
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Bottom line is this. If I had voted for Al Gore, at least I would have known what I was getting. I knew he had only contempt for the Constitution. I knew if his lips were moving he was lying. I knew he would trash my rights at will. I knew he had no honor. I knew he would appoint political hacks to prominent positions in the government. I knew he wanted to disarm America. I knew his hand would constantly be in my pocket. I knew the troops were considered a "pizza delivery" service for him.
Brian Puckett at KeepAndBearArms.Com - Either Turn Bush Around on Second Amendment, or the Game is Over - Extols gun owners to let GW know how important it is for him to let expire in 2004 the unconstitutional federal ban on certain semi-automatic weapons and magazines holding over 10 cartridges. [market]
It is an absolute OUTRAGE that the federal government -- which is basically nothing more than a temporary collection of our employees, including George Bush -- is enforcing an edict banning the very firearms that the Second Amendment implies, via the militia clause, are the most important. That is, rifles suitable for military (militia) use.
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If you want another look at this situation, read "We May literally Have to Fight".
Ron Paul at LewRockwell.com - Faith-Based Socialism - Dr. Paul reminds us of why GW's faith-based initiative will destroy the organizations it is supposedly designed to help. Instead, we should provide tax credits for charitable contributions by individuals. [lew]
The primary issue both sides of this debate are avoiding is the constitutionality of the welfare state. Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government given the power to level excessive taxes on one group of citizens for the benefit of another group of citizens. Many of the founders would have been horrified to see modern politicians define compassion as giving away other people's money stolen through confiscatory taxation. After all, the words of the famous essay by former Congressman Davy Crockett, that money is "Not Yours to Give."
American Wisdom Series looks interesting. I received #205, Lost Remembrance via email. There are also plenty of other Gun Rights screeds. #503 is a good anti-drug-war screed. Warning, lots of religious language mixed in with the politics. Doesn't bother me, but if that sort of thing bothers you, don't click.
Charles Mandel at Wired - Mining the Depths for Dope - Brent Zettl is growing 185 kilos of cannabis in an abondoned Manitoba mine shaft, for the Canadian government. [wired]
Jon Katz at Slashdot - Review: Planet of the Apes - He thinks it disappoints in comparison to the orignal 30 years ago, but still thinks it's worth seeing. I still remember the encounter with the half-buried Statue of Liberty at the end of the original movie, which I saw in the theater, that being the only choice at the time. [/.]
I don't want to give anything further away, except to say that either Burton or 20th Century Fox went for still another memorable ending to this Planet of the Apes. I suppose you have to admire their guts, and this one is also a jaw-dropper, but alas, mostly because it's so dumb.
