Bullets First

In Georgia, gun controllers are once again proving that common sense gun laws to them only include ones that seek to stamp out the 2nd Amendment completely.

The gun haters are currently foaming at the mouth at HB-60 that is currently awaiting Governor Deal’s signature to be enacted into law.

HB-60 basically tosses in a whole helping of common sense but the gun control zealots are once again doing their prognostication of blood running in the streets.

Here are the highlights of HB-60:

It allows CHOICE of private business owners on who they allow into their establishments

• Removes bars from the off limits list and treats them like every other piece of private property in GA in that the property owner has the right to eject a person from their property.
• Allows church carry if the church agrees to allow guns in churches and establishes up to a $100 fine if caught carrying in a church that does not allow.

It forces the government to adhere to the rights of the people

• Allows firearms in government buildings that are not restricted or screened by security personnel during the hours the building is open for business.
• Require public housing to allow tenants to have firearms in their dwellings unless required by

I finally got a chance to break out the cruiser from its long winter slumber yesterday and take her on the road.

Even though it was still a little brisk, cruising around on two wheels still invigorated me with the rush of freedom that it always has.  While I was riding I started to think about the similarities between motorcycle owners and gun owners.

Riding a motorcycle instills in the rider a sense of freedom, of liberty if you will.  The feeling that with the wind in your face and your hand on the throttle you are the master of your own universe.  That destiny and fate are in your own hands and at your command.  Something those who drive in cages can’t truly understand, though convertible drivers have a taste.

Motorcycle owners come in a myriad of different shapes, sizes, colors and genders.  They drive high powered crotch rockets and tricked out tour bikes.  Factory standard dual bikes and customized choppers.  Some riders yield to the safety provisions of helmets while others rage against the government trying to enforce its will on them to do so.

1 percent of bikers are outlaws, yet the stigma of that minuscule number is used to taint the 99% by those who irrationally hate both motorcycles and bikers.

If a couple of motorcycle enthusiasts get together to go for a

The Second Amendment was put into the Bill of Rights to remind government that the right to keep and bear arms by the people limits their power.

But that doesn’t mean that guns are only supposed to be used for tyrant killing and revolutions.  Firearms can be used for hunting, self defense, sport and so on.  When it comes to self defense and protection, there is always the amorphous “unknown”  that gun owners use as reason to carry; rightfully so.  You do not always know when trouble and danger will spring up so it makes all logical sense to have the means to defend yourself on hand.

That rings true in a persons home as well.

I’m not saying you march around with your AK-47 at the low ready at all times but having it readily accessible may prove valuable.

I mean, you never know when THIS is gonna come atcha:

Here’s another pic to see it’s ratio:

I’ve been saying that Leland Yee was a criminal for years…federal authorities finally paid attention.

Yee was arrested by the FBI Wednesday morning for public corruption.  While this isn’t terribly surprising given Lee’s track record of ignoring what was morally and ethically right, what IS slightly surprising is that among the charges being leveled against Yee is GUN TRAFFICKING.  How poetically ironic.

Yee doesn’t seem as happy in the back of a FBI Agent’s car as he was when he was persecuting law abiding gun owners in California.

This isn’t even your typical white collar politician crime which consists of kickbacks and quid quo pro arrangements.  Yee is being charged with conspiring to traffic in firearms and who is conspiring with?  Yee is now being linked to Chinese Mafioso Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, former soldier in San Francisc

The idea of a standard in education sounds good at first blush.  You don’t want to have anyone fall behind.  But the problem arises when a few are allowed to dictate what is “Common” and their views are allowed to indoctrinate the children of this country even if those views are contrary to the truth.

Case in point, the textbooks and teaching materials that are approved by the Common Core Standards have warped interpretations of the 2nd Amendment.

Examples in textbooks on how the 2nd Amendment is taught:

United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination:

The Second Amendment: The people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia.

The Americans (history textbook):

The Second and Third Amendments – grant citizens the right to bear arms as members of a militia of citizen-soldiers and prevent the government from housing troops in private homes in peacetime.

This might have been acceptable (WRONG, but acceptable) prior to Heller v DC and McDonald v Chicago but those cases were 6 and 4 years ago respectively.  The issue is done, the Supreme Court has ruled (twice) that individual people have

The desire to be free, to enjoy liberty, to sever the yolk of tyranny…these are not choices.  These are inherent in me from my birth.  And the ONLY way that I can live my life following the aforementioned endowments I was bestowed with by both the law of nature and my Creator is to be properly armed against those that would threaten my liberty.

In other words, in regards to being a gun owner…I was born this way.

And in AMERICA, we are SUPPOSED to protect people from discrimination.  We protect groups based on the color of their skin.  I contend that a person has as much choice being born a certain color as I do in my innate desire to be armed from tyranny.

Unfortunately most of the country still lags behind in this realization, hence we have Jim Crow like laws that add “poll” taxes to owning a gun, segregation of places where gun owners can’t go without even the facade of “separate but equal” and just downright bigotry against gun owners.

Imagine a state passing a law that says if you are too black you must leave the state or turn yourself into police.  In New York State, that is what the SAFE Act basically says.  The AR-15 is “too black” and as such must be driven out.  Sure, the brown guns can stay (but well keep a close eye o

So apparently all is not lost in public education.

In Pueblo County, school officials have opened up their eyes to the importance of teaching children both safety and respect of firearms.  Where gun controllers be all end all method of teaching kids about guns is to say “guns are bad and run away from them” school officials have actually decided to do something that works.

You see, if anyone has kids or have had an interaction with a child, simply telling them “NO” and “DON’T TOUCH THAT” will do one of two things.  One, it will instill in them a crippling and irrational fear of whatever you are talking about (in this case, firearms) that will haunt them for years thus making them freeze in panic when faced with it, especially if in the hands of a criminal.  Two, the prohibition and mystery of the taboo object will just make them seek it out on their own and all too often such things end in tragedy.

So, in short, the methods gun controllers support lead to mentally crippling people and child shootings.

Pueblo County School officials on the other hand have accepted that the best way for children to learn about guns and safety is to ACTUALLY TEACH them about guns and safety.

While this

In a story that is just full of fail a man from Maine had his home besieged by SWAT troopers armed with assault rifles because he had a tattoo.

In Norridgewock Maine, Michael Smith works nights so when a tree removal crew entered onto HIS property and started making a racket at 10am he was understandably upset.  Smith arose from his bed and went outside to tell the intruders to get off his property and to keep it down.  Coming directly from his comfortable bed Smith didn’t feel inclined to put a shirt on.  It was this inaction that revealed his “dangerous and frightening” tattoo; that of a handgun by his waistband.

Smith went back to bed and the tree removal crew called the cops and filed a false report.  The crew said something to the effect that Smith had threatened them with a gun and as a result a few minutes after returning to bed the Sheriff of Somerset and Maine State Troopers besieged his house and demanded via bullhorn for him to come out and surrender himself.

Once again Smith quickly came out of his house without wasting time putting on a shirt because as he later would say: “I got plans today. I didn’t want to get shot.” 

The police quickly realized that they had been deceived.

I first read about this story from Girls Just Wanna Have Guns wherein 40 Sheriffs from around Oklahoma gathered at the state capitol for their annual meet and greet.

Somehow, even though the sheriffs meet annually there for a meet and greet, and the state troopers had no qualms with their gathering some state senator got his/her panties in a bunch and complained.  The complainer has remained anonymous but what they were complaining about wasn’t.

The State Senator took offense that the sheriffs were armed.  That’s right, this gun hating state senator demanded that the sheriff’s be kicked out because he/she didn’t like the notion that they were legally armed within the lobby of the State Capitol.

Once again, this only goes to prove that gun control politicians do not care one lick about anything other than CONTROL.  I mean, these were duly elected law enforcement officials from around the state yet they weren’t deemed “worthy” enough to go about the State Capitol building armed.

How exactly is disarming or expelling these Sheriffs making anything safer?  The answer is, “it’

While covering CPAC earlier in March one of the highlights was listening in on the panel discussion entitled: “More Guns,Less Crime: How Law Enforcement is Beginning to Embrace a Well-Armed Civilian Populace.”  Obviously having the law abiding citizens of this country armed in order to protect themselves from criminals is a logical certainty.  But it has always seemed that Law Enforcement has rejected the notion.

Every time you hear of a pro gun bill there seem to be police organizations spouting off against it, or gun control measures that are so inane only their sponsers and those same police organizations are the only ones who support it.

Yet, if you look closely at WHO exactly is doing the anti gun tango it is often times not the rank and file officers but rather those big city police chief organizations that owe their patronage, not to the citizens that one would think they are sworn to protect, but rather the political machines that placed them in positions of power to begin with.  A very easy way to validate this is too take a look at Law Enforcement Officers who DON’T have to kiss the gun controller’s ring in order to stay employed.  Take a look at the Sherriff’s in places that gun control has passed.  Places like New York and Colorado.  The Sheriffs