After a citizen rightfully defends themselves against an armed and violent criminal, the family of that criminal or members of the media sometimes blame that citizen for shooting the criminal.  They argue that the crime victim didn’t need to use force to defend themselves, or used too much force. In almost every such situation, it [...]...

San Antonio, TexasFrom My San Antonio of October 15, 2008 Robbery victim wounds assailant A man shot by a robber at a Northeast Side apartment complex wounded the gunman after he dropped his gun during their struggle, police said.The incident happened about 9:30 a.m. in the 4600 block of Thousand Oaks Drive at The Crest of Thousand Oaks apartments....

Tuscon, ArizonaFrom the Arizona Daily Star of October 16, 2008Tucson police: Evidence at UA-area double-shooting consistent with self defenseEvidence in a fatal shooting of two home invaders by a University of Arizona student appears to be consistent with his story that he was defending himself, police said.At least one of the invaders was armed wi...

Gateway Pundit claimes to have a picture of Barack [redacted] Obama talking to a group of ACORN members, proving that Obama lied in the debate about his ACORN involvement. Funny, that’s not what I saw… ETA: Hat tip Sebastian       ...

This article also appears this week at USConcealedCarry.com. By Jim Irvine and Chad D. Baus According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (and other supporters of Barack Obama's presidential campaign), “more guns = more crime”. The logical conclusion they hope lawmakers reach is that guns should be banned, or at least be severely re...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier this month, Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson wrote an article entitled "Ohio Voting Has Begun – What Have You Done For A Pro-Gun Candidate Today?", saying "Buckeye Firearms Association believes that every effort must be made to aid pro-gun candidates, whatever office. Please feel free to submit your...

This is just one example, but I assume that this will happen more than once by the time this election is over. Aid worker wouldn't let the mentally challenged man vote the way that he wanted....

1. Deputy Director Edgar Domenech just got a government "golden parachute" out. It's impossible to sort out the internal politics involved, but he'd been demoted and said it was a result of exposing wasteful spending by the prior director. (GIven the byzantine politics of ATF higher levels, it's hard to sort out who is a whistleblower and who's ba...

Full transcript of Wednesday night’s follows (after the jump). Schieffer: Good evening. And welcome to the third and last presidential debate of 2008, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I’m Bob Schieffer of CBS News. The rules tonight are simple. The subject is domestic policy. I will divide the next hour-and-a-half...

From the debate last night:OBAMA: I mean, look, if we want to talk about Congressman Lewis, who is an American hero, he, unprompted by my campaign, without my campaign's awareness, made a statement that he was troubled with what he was hearing at some of the rallies that your running mate was holding, in which all the Republican reports indicated w...

Peter W. Wickham, Jr."Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.By order of the author."Mark Twain's warning to readers of Huckleberry FinnA long time ago in a faraway land, shortly after the last Great Melti...

When you break into the home of a family in the middle of the night, don't be surprised when it ends up being your last home invasion. We need more good citizens to be prepared to defend their home......

Via Joe Olson, comes the Attorney General's Opinion (pdf, one meg) that the mayor of Seattle is proposing to violate....

Six Breaking News!!! feeds from my local rag about Joe The Plumber today. All of them referring to a single guy who was picked by Barack Fucking Obama himself to talk to, the very type of person the leftists say they want to support, and doing everything in their power to smear him so that the question he asked Obama isn't repeated ever again. Obam...

GunVoter.com. It's an online forum. At the bottom is a forum for state races, and subdivisions for each State. If you know something about a candidate in your state, you can post it, and if you want to know, you can check them out. A very interesting idea....

Can you believe that Fumbletongue himself has lowered the price of oil so much recently? I never considered it his ability, but when oil was expensive, the lefties were screaming about how it was his fault so now I assume they're going to be giving him credit, right? Stupid people. Thinking the POTUS is actually an office with magical powers....

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If he had lived on campus it would have been illegal for him to have the gun that he used to save his own life early this morning when two thugs broke into his home. The headline likely would have......

"The Last Progressive: Justice Breyer, Heller, and "Judicial Judgment". "Progressive" here doesn't have its modern political meaning, but refers to a pattern of legal thought that began in the last 19th and early 20th centuries. It was, however, quite deferential to legislatures....

He asked me to post a link to his blog and to the pdf of his lawsuit in DC US District Court (pdf; 5 megs)....

...that a Lakewood homeowner fatally shoots intruder....

I am liking the unnamed author of this news article from Austin.From Austin News KXAN:AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) - A party at an apartment on Oltorf Street in South Austin turned into a crime scene over the weekend.Police got the call around 2:30 a.m. on Oct.11. The 911 caller said that "there was trouble." According to police reports, 26-year-old John C...

Texas Senate District 10 is currently represented by Republican Kim Brimer. Opposing Senator Brimer this election season is Democrat Candidate Wendy Davis. Wendy Davis has held a position on the Fort Worth City Council. While on the Fort Worth City Council, Wendy Davis attempted to make private transfer of firearms at Fort Worth gun shows illegal.T...

I’m a gun owner for just under 3 years now, and supposedly this (bottom of blog page) was circulating around during the Clinton years, it’s the Five Year Plan.  Not sure if it would become a reality, or just how much could possibly be done in 5 years, but if Obama gets in, with the Dem’s getting even more seats, who knows…&...

Bad form to quote yourself but me on Joe the plumber: Seems Joe articulates capitalist ideas better than the Republican ticket. ...

Dallas, TexasFrom the Star-Telegram of October 16, 2008Man shot in Dallas after breaking into home, police sayPolice believe a 21-year-old man entered a Dallas condominium early Thursday to steal a flat screen TV, but he was shot to death instead, police said.Gary Williams was taken to Baylor Medical Center following the shooting about 2 a.m. at th...

The only debate summary you need comes from The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison. A taste: Obama repeats his claim that he supports net spending cut. Eliminate programs that don?t work?bold move! These programs are always nameless, which is probably one of the reasons they don?t work. Ethic of responsibility? What? That?s dangerou...

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Legacy Media giant and famous McNewspaper, USA Today, notes an uptick in righteous self-defense shootings of goblins and, for some unknown reason, gets all hand-wring-y about it.SayUncle has the story on the story....

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People say Hey Uncle! Why not comment on the debate. And I say Well, the only real observation I had was that these guys had like all these various proposals to save the world. And, like, none of them seemed to be things that fell under the President’s jurisdiction since he doesn’t, you know, make laws. I mean, if these guys were sena...

I’m certain that Mr. Arne Duncan, Chicago Schools CEO, had his heart in the right place when he refused to accept this anti-gun group award . I’m certain that he considers himself a champion of children's safety. I'm also certain that the laws he fights for will endanger our children and their future rather than make them safer.That last statem...

Jack Murtha says Western Pennsylvanians are racist.  Wyatt lays out exactly where Lynn Swann’s locus of support was.  I would note, that Jack Murtha’s district is the 12th, which is mostly in the southwest corner of the state, which went Rendell.  Maybe people in your district are racist, Jack, but Western Pennsylvania pretty overhwe...

Like I said, the guy can lie convincingly and make it sound wonderful.  Apparently his bit on ACORN was another whopper. UPDATE: More from Another Gun Blog. ...

Tam says you need to get a better holster.  I particularly love this part: Nothin’ but Fobus and those godawful clip-on nylon sausage sacks with the spare magazine pouch sewn on the front of the holster. The reason I think that’s funny is because Bitter has one of those.  When I first saw it, I cringed.  I’ve offered to buy her...