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Quote of the Day

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The international gun control movement keeps working on gun grabbing with an eye to eventually killing off the 2nd amendment. It’s a King Canute enterprise because the technology for distributed manufacturing is coming and guns are inevitably going to be on the list of things to build right along every other tool. Once every man can be a gunsmith simply by hitting print on a computer, the foolishness of control efforts via law instead of via personal responsibility will have been fully exposed.

T.M. Lutas

John Robb has related, more generalized, thoughts on resilient communities.

Friday, July 11 – Second Amendment Freedom Rally in Chicago

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[I repost below a press release from the Illinois State Rifle Association. Visit this site for more info about the rally. Jonathan]

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Friday July 11, 2008 from 11:00am – 1:00 pm at the
James R. Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph St. in Chicago

The first rally of its kind in the history of Chicago!

Come celebrate the the US Supreme Court’s recent ruling that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual right.

Join the launch of a renewed push for Concealed Carry legislation in Illinois!

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Quote of the Day

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[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home. Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

Justice Scalia, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER

Guns For Me, But Not For Thee

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Via Annie comes this gem from the Sun Times.   Here is the money:

Mell forgot to re-register the weapons as required every year by the ordinance that he helped to pass as one of the City Council’s most senior members.

So, what does an alderman do when he finds himself in violation of the law? He writes a new law. Mell has quietly introduced an ordinance that would reopen gun registration in Chicago and create a one-month amnesty for himself and other gun owners in the same predicament.

During the monthlong window, gun owners who attempted to re-register their guns between May 1, 2007, and April 1, 2008, only to be rejected on grounds the registrations had lapsed would be allowed to re-register without penalty.

Some things in Chicago change, some things stay the same.

I have a feeling that after the Heller decision, the  Honorable Richard  Daley and other municipal leaders  in the state of Illinois  will be the next in line with lawsuits to defend…and hopefully lose.

They Lead By Example

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Laura Washington is a journalism teacher at DePaul University and wrote this article in September of 2007, that I was pointed to by a link at Brillianter. Before doing a mini fisking on this, just a few words about technique.

It is easy to see why newspaper articles and articles in many online publications and magazines are poorly researched and hard to understand. When you have a teacher of journalism writing about something she clearly knows nothing about and provides no evidence to support her opinions, what does she expect her students to do?

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