Roy has a post over at Days of Our Trailers that got me to thinking what would Josh Sugarman do if he didn’t get his 100K a year salary out of the money the Joyce Foundation gives to the VPC, would he still be actively working (if you consider google searches and op eds to be working) to get guns banned or would he move on to a cause that pays. As it is he does the bare minimum of work advocating for gun regulations and bans, his opinion pieces on Huff Po get torn apart by pro gun liberals and he can’t even be bothered to respond or defend his viewpoint.
Contrast that with the people like Roy or hundreds and thousands of others that are active on the pro civil rights side, that post on Huff Po and the Daily Cos or DU, write blogs, fact check the media, go to state houses and petition their elected representatives and just generally be a noisy, unpaid, stubborn pain in the ass to people like Josh who are advocates for discrimination and hate.
I wandered into the Firing Line for the first time in a long while and found this post on the process Chicagoans have to go through to have a handgun in their home. Note the costs associated with getting permission to legally own a handgun. How Daley and the city council are going to avoid getting spanked by the courts for charging exorbitant fees and creating delays to one being able to exercise a fundamental civil right should be interesting to watch.
I have a Chicago Firearms Permit – TheFiringLine Forums.
As an aside it is cheaper to get most states handgun carry permits. Indiana for example is 125.00 for a lifetime carry permit and there is no training cost. Iowa’s new carry permit is 50.00 for five years and there is a training requirement which looks to run about 100 bucks. My Minnesota permit to carry was 190.00 for five years including training. In Wisconsin, another Illinois border state, there is no CCW permit but open carry is both legal and free.
Very cool article on long range shooting in Sports Illustrated of all places. I am amazed by the skills of shooters like this, after about 500 yards my ability to be consistent goes to hell. I think lack the OCD personality traits championship rifle shooters seem to have whether it be bench rest, high power or this. Thanks to Turk Turonistan for the pointer
An interesting interview with Breitbart. He’s awful good at winding up the MSM and it’s kinda fun to watch. Linky
The Ugly Racial History of Gun Control | Richmond Times-Dispatch.
A great article on the history of the 14th amendment and McDonald.
Tam has a post and associated comments on the po-po and government from a couple days ago that’s worth a read and spending some time thinking about. As a bonus she references Hunter S. Thompson who was not too far behind Heinlein in accessorizing my wookie suit.
Taxes Are for the Little People, not John Kerry | Cato @ Liberty.
It’s becoming more evident that politicians seem to feel they are exempt from the laws they write and endorse for us. Kerry is the latest but pointing out others takes no more than reading the paper.
