Archive for June, 2008
Mugabe’s endgame: To die in office
Murdoc’s endgame: Mugabe out of office now
I don’t see a conflict here. I’m positive something can be worked out.
“Terrorist bread?” It’s in Hezbollah’s zone, so that probably helps move sandwiches.
Murdoc’s guess is that they won’t be importing any “terrorist meat” from Iraq or Afghanistan…
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled this morning that the 2nd Amendment guarantees what is an individual right.
It’s important that we keep a few things in mind:
- The official position of the United States of America is that the keeping and bearing of arms is an individual right.
- The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution does not grant that right to citizens.
- It guarantees that government cannot infringe upon that right, the right that Just Is.
- The Court’s ruling does not change what the 2nd Amendment means. It doesn’t mean something different this afternoon than it meant yesterday. It has always meant it. Some people and some laws were just wrong when they claimed otherwise.
- This isn’t the end of the gun control battle.
- But, to coin a phrase, it might be the end of the beginning of the gun control battle.
- Future debates will center on thing like the definition of “arms” and what “shall not be infringed” and “keep and bear” mean.
Also of note is the fact that the decision was 5-4. Murdoc was expecting 6-3 or maybe even 7-2.
What if this case had come before the Court two years later with an Obama-appointed justice on board? I know that many Conservatives distrust John McCain on a lot of issues, but the fact is that nearly half of the SCOTUS thinks the 2nd Amendment means something totally different. Damn scary, as a commenter over at GunPundit noted.
More than ten years of personal arguments with people about this were just won because their “it means state militias” point was invalid all along.
I can’t wait to see how the Brady Bunch tries to spin this into a victory.
In honor of this momentous day, I’m going to post the entire GunPundit.com blogroll here on MO. Check them out. A lot of them will go into far greater depth on this issue than I will, either here or at GunPundit.
- Alphecca
- A Keyboard and a .45
- Amigos Cantina
- The Arsenal
- Bitch Girls
- Bloggo, the dog boy
- Call Me Ahab
- Chicago Handgun Rights
- Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog
- Cryptic Subterranean
- Dave Kopel
- Days of our Trailers
- Defense Review
- The Firearm Blog
- Freedom Sight
- Gear Cult
- The Gun Shots
- Great Blue Whale
- GunPro
- Gun Talk
- Gun Truth
- Heartless Libertarian
- Hell in a Handbasket
- I Am The Militia
- Instapundit
- Joe Huffman
- Joe’s Crabby Shack
- John Lott
- Les Jones
- The Liberty Sphere
- Michael Bane
- Mr. Completely
- Murdoc Online
- Of Arms & the Law
- Ol’ Broad
- Oleg Volk
- Other Side of Kim
- Page Nine
- Pro-Gun Progressive
- Random Nuclear Strikes
- Real Gun Guys
- Ride Fast & Shoot Straight
- Right to Bear Arms
- Rustmeister’s Alehouse
- Sailor Curt
- Say Uncle
- Sear and Hammer
- Sharp as a Marble
- Smallest Minority
- Snowflakes in Hell
- Squeaky Wheel
- The Ten Ring
- Traction Control
- TFS Magnum
- The War on Guns
- The Unforgiving Minute
- West, By God
- Xavier Thoughts
- XRLQ
UPDATE: Fixed point #7, which I apparently didn’t finish writing.
A picture taken on June 24, 2008 shows Azeri soldiers participating in the dress rehearsal of a military parade in Baku. Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, will host the nation’s first full-scale military parade in 20 years on June 26, 2008.
I didn’t know they used TAR-21 Tavors. I guessed I just assumed they were AK all the way.
Freedom To Travel: Such A Pre-9/11 Concept
Apparently the requirement to show ID and/or identify yourself before flying means the terrorists have already won.
Last week:
Navy christens newest attack submarine
GROTON, Conn. – The Navy’s newest attack submarine, the New Hampshire, was christened Saturday, delivered eight months ahead of schedule and $54 million under budget.
She’ll join the fleet this fall. She’s the fifth Virginia-class boat and the first Block II.
I believe that the biggest difference between Block I and Block II boats are the construction methods. I can’t seem to find much information about other improvements. The Block III (starting with SSN 784) will have an improved bow section with two “six-shooter” launch tubes rather than the current 12 tubes.
I totally forgot to post anything about this, but Sgt. Gibby has a write-up so check it out.
I’ve just been waiting for Murtha to apologize about the “cold-blooded murder” thing.
The Guard’s two-year mission is to end by mid-July, but there’s controversy about its withdrawal as there was about its deployment, which some criticized as excessive militarization of the nation’s southern boundary.
The Soldiers and Airmen were here in a supporting role for the Border Patrol: They built roads and fences, flew helicopters for surveillance or transport and manned observation posts along the border, but they never made the arrests.
While the federal government–and the governors of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — have lauded the military’s work, the Bush administration is rejecting the states’ requests to prolong the mission.
For what it’s worth, Murdoc has no problem whatsoever with putting troops on the border. Our nation is at war, and in some cases a little bit of “militarization” is called for.
Granted, actually securing the border does not seem to fit in with the current state of homeland security…
