Random observations from the ADE community
We talked about this guy earlier… Rod Tuason threatened to kill people that expressed their 2nd Amendment rights by open carrying in a comment he made on Facebook.
Remarkably(ha!), there has been a very strong backlash in the Facebook community…. Fox has a nice story on that here.
Below is a screen capture of his comments from Kevin Thomason’s blog.
Seattle’s gun ban on City property was defeated today in Superior Court. The judge ruled that the ban was illegal because of state law preemption in regulating firearms.
“According to the judgment, the city must stop enforcing the gun ban by Feb. 17. They also have 30 days to take down the “No Guns” signs posted at parks and community centers around town.”
While the Mayor commented that they “worked long and hard to make sure the new law passed legal muster” he apparently did not read the preemption law. Good thing the taxpayers of Seattle paid for that failure.
AB962 will:
This will not reduce crime (obviously). This will create unnecessary burdens on ammunition vendors and firearm range owners. This is a waste of money and effort and only serves as a form of harassment against law abiding citizens. As CK mentioned, this now moves to the Governer’s desk for a signature or veto. If he does not act in 30 d, this will automatically become law. In the past, he has always signed or vetoed such legislation after waiting until the last minute to hear comment from the community — usually signed ( .50 cal ban, microstamping).
Please contact the Governor now…
Or, if you are a little less lazy, consider calling/faxing or writing him here:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-558-3160 ( new number )
Heck…. Just do all four.
As reported in Overlawyered (via NRA-ILA), David Michaels is anti gun. The evidence presented links to a blog post he made back in 2007.
In the blog post, Michaels voices his opposition to laws that reaffirm the peoples’ rights to bring firearms with them in the cars to their workplace parking lots. He expands that after tragedies we frequently pass laws to make things safer. He looks at the VA tech shooting and questions why we aren’t passing more anti-gun legislation. He is obviously missing a bit of his history. It was the Luby Massacre in Texas that prompted the passage of their much more lenient CCW laws. Since the CCW reform in Texas, crime (including homicide) has decreased. Like many liberals, he has an agenda against guns, and there is only one solution.
http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/faculty/michaels_david.cfm
If, by getting rid of all guns, we could end all violence and murder then, let’s do it! Unfortunately, things just don’t work that way. People that take advantage of other people (from asshole to psychopath) will tend to take advantage of victims that are more powerless. Gun control disparately reduces the power of honest people. For somebody that pushes the idea of using science to shape public policy, this is an interesting contradiction to hold as truth.
Anyway, why would David Michaels as head of OSHA be bad for gun owners? When I go to a firing range, I am glad that there are laws that require there to be proper ventilation. What if Michaels decided that there is “no safe limit for voluntary exposure to lead”? What if he decided that airport exposure to noise is acceptable, but, “sporting” related exposure to noise is not acceptable. If not for the participants, then, perhaps for the people that work at these establishments? There are definite health risks to people that work in ranges — they should have safe working conditions. But, it is a slippery slope and the right person in the right position should shut down the entire industry….
p.s. FTIW, I really do not know how much guns are on his agenda…
It looks like rumors of filing for chapter 11 were rightly founded, but a group stepped in at the last minute to save it.
T u r n e r ’ s Outdoorsman, a 13-store chain of retail stores in Southern California specializing in firearms, hunting, and fishing gear, was purchased Monday (June 8, 2009) by four investors …
Turner’s Outdoorsman languished under the new management and was rumored to be flirting with bankruptcy. But Lumsden said all that is changing as of this week.
“Finally there are people back in charge who know and love this business,” said Lumsden, who ran Turner’s from 2001 to 2004, some of the company’s most profitable years. Lumsden, a California native who was inducted into the California Trapshooting Hall of Fame in 2005, said the new controlling owners, are all avid outdoorsmen. “And many of the people who were here at Turner’s during its successful past will be here for its future, making this company very viable and helping it move forward.”
I am pleased that California is not going to lose another firearm retailer.
The local news section of The Seattle Times has an article about the Parks and Recreation department of Spokane Washington has been having a bit of a squirrel problem in Finch Arboretum. To solve the problem they are calling in the Rodenator Pro. This machine pumps propane gas and oxygen into the holes and ignites the mixture with a spark blowing the squirrels and their living space up.
This is my favorite part of the article”
“The parks department says the Rodenator is a humane way to kill the squirrels. But it warns area residents that the explosions sound like gun shots, and to not be alarmed by them all week.”
Now for the video of humane squirrel killin’
CNN just ran an article on the secretary who called 911 in Binghamton titled “Secretary played dead to avoid New York shooter.”
It is a simple reflection of our modern society that the unarmed Shirley DeLucia who has the intuition to play dead after being the first victim shot in the abdomen by a cowardly lunatic who went on to kill 13 people in less than 1 minute is being hailed as a hero for calling 911 after the rampage was done. I give her credit for having the intuition to play into the preconceived notions of a mass murderer that one bullet placed anywhere in a persons body will kill them, but she is not a hero. She seems to understand the difference and even rolled her eyes at her brother who told her that people where calling her a hero. It should not be surprising that we are told to admire helplessness as heroism in a time when our highest elected officials amateurishly bow to foreign monarchs, apologize for our countries just actions around the globe and our elected leaders beg foreign governments to buy our bad debt. The unarmed woman had no other choice than to play dead and desperately call for help since she had no means to defend herself. It was a matter or survival, not heroism. “I am shot, others are dead, please come help us.”
What bothers me most about the liberal use of words like bravery, courage and hero is that when we apply them to insignificant tasks they lose their meaning. When strong words like these get watered down and applied to common things people who are truly heroic, brave and courageous become radical vigilantes that are a danger to society and our ability to defend ourselves and enjoy our freedom abolished. I guess we are just that desperate for truly heroic, brave and honest people that we try to fabricate them wherever we can. Perhaps we just need to find something to celebrate in every tragedy. I can appreciate that, but don’t tarnish great words and people by making then ordinary.
In a classic case of love/hate relationship, Pakistan is again publicly interested in having the U.S. carry out predator drone operations over their territory. Hey, wait Mr. FlipFlopper Pakistan, weren’t you just saying that the U.S. should respect Pakistan’s sovereignty?
Well I guess when you have enemies of the government to eliminate at the same time you will cooperate or turn a blind eye to the targets the U.S. wants to take out. Whatever the reason I am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth … unless that is where Osama Bin Laden is hiding.
NRA-ILA California news website
For those not familiar with the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) they are the lobbying arm of the NRA that helps get our feelings about gun control and the right to bear arms to our legislators in Washington D.C. and here at home in California.
As the legislative session is getting into full swing we need to keep a lookout for bills that seek to limit our rights protected by the 2A or for those few bills that seek to protect them.
Another good place to keep up to date on bills and their status is the NRA members council of California
The Good Stuff:
I have already posted about AB357 which would make California a “Shall Issue” state. It is sitting in committee now, so keep sending letters to your Reps and the committee members to tell them you support this bill.
A similar bill is Assembly Bill 1167 which would grant CCW reciprocity to CCW holders form other states and visa versa. I don’t know if California residents who have a Utah or Florida or other CCW permit would benefit from this bill, but it is a step in the right direction.
SECTION 1. Section 12058 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
12058. (a) Persons holding a valid permit or license to carry a
concealed handgun from any state or a political subdivision of a
state shall be deemed a licensee under subparagraph (A) of paragraph
(1) of subdivision (a) of Section 12050.
(b) The Department of Justice shall enter into reciprocity
agreements with all other states that have the legal authority to
enter into those agreements so that licensees under Section 12050 may
carry firearms in those states pursuant to the conditions imposed by
Section 12050. The department shall each month maintain and publish
a list of those states with which this state has established
reciprocity.
The last bill, AB225, is a spot bill (place holder) that seems like the intent will be to define “Good Cause”. This is a great concept. Currently there is no firm definition of “Good Cause” that is universally accepted or published statewide. Basically the standard for “Good Cause” varies from county to county and Sheriff to Sheriff.
Now the Bad Stuff:
AB962 – The ammunition ban bill by DeLeon. Basically AB962 will limit you to purchasing 50 rounds of ammunition a month if it passes. Every legislative session DeLeon submits this bill. I don’t know how he gets away with it since bills that are not passed out of committee are not allowed to be resubmitted the next legislative session. Anyways, write you legislator a letter telling them you want them to oppose this bill.
AB697 – “Smart guns” = Dumb law. Yet another silly bill that wants guns to only fire if the user is authorized. Someone with fingerprint recognition technology is probably prodding State Senator Mark DeSaulnier to submit this every year. Note to self … never vote for someone withe a “DeSomthing” last name.
There are several more to be posted later. Write you Reps to tell them to support or oppose these Bills!
The world is a small place these days. Our computers and cell phones keep getting smaller, more powerful and more functional. If you take just a couple of the many functions that these devices can do you can put them in a tiny package called Motes. Tel Aviv University Professor Prof. Yoram Shapira is trying to market these devices as high tech security systems. So how do motes they work? Due to their small size and extremely low cost (25 cents per sensor) many of these small sensors of various types (sounds, vibration, light, humidity, magnetic, temperature, etc.) could be placed around a large facility to relay information to a central system via an ad hoc network that the sensors facilitate. Since they are so small and can be place almost anywhere they can avoid easy detection and it is unlikely that all the sensors could be located in a reasonable matter of time.
This is not new technology, but rather an interesting new application. DARPA has been investigating the utility of motes for a while. On a modern battlefield an array of motes can be placed by personel or dropped from an airplane. Magnetic and vibration sensors would allow information about troop and armor units to be relayed back to a central computer to be analyzed for action or follow up analysis.
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