2AM Commentary

"So NSA boss James Clapper is pretty irritated that he and his buddies got busted this week.  Here’s what he had to say, “The unauthorized disclosure of information about this important and entirely legal program is reprehensible and risks important protections for the security of Americans.'" (06/12/13)

"How could anybody in this age of well-earned cynicism expect anything other than lies from any of Our Glorious Rulers? Especially from one who’s already weaseled his way through years of Fast & Furious? Of course he lied under oath. That’s the norm for power these days." (05/28/13)

"A controlled man is an enslaved man and we should always be at least mildly suspicious to not buy into every story, especially when they involve sweeping measures which threaten the Liberty of every individual Iiving in the USSA. But ... the battle’s not over yet. We need a few loud-mouthed people to mobilize and refute these untruths in guerrilla warfare fashion. And before you decline my request, don’t think that NRA, GOA and JPFO are going to do it for you." (05/24/13)

"So now pediatricians are lying to try to get guns banned. Though they seem to be lying carefully. 'Where there are more guns in the United States, there are more people dying,' happens to be a blatant lie, as outlined in the Pew study outlined in Rant #9. Gun crime down 49%. Non-fatal gun violence down 70%. Firearms free violence down 72%. Gun ownership UP across the nation. 37 states now cannot refuse to issue a concealed carry license unless you are a felon. 4 states now do not require ANY license to carry concealed. 3500 children drown each year. 500 die by gun. Ban the swimming pools first, pediatricians. THEY aren't Constitutionally protected." (05/19/13)

"State Representative Joe Salazar recently drew fire for telling the Colorado legislature that college women should arm themselves with rape whistles rather than guns. 'And you don’t know, if you feel like you’re gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone’s been following you around, or if you feel like you’re in trouble when you may actually not be,' Salazar said, 'that you pop out that gun and you pop ... pop a round at somebody.'" (05/21/13)

"Adam Kokesh has come up with a project, an armed march on Washington D.C., and inevitably the Fudds and other assorted crybabies have come out of the woodwork. It's enough to make a strong man puke.In their writing, all sorts of bad scenarios are cooked up. 'They might play this trick or that to steal our liberty!' If machinations by provocateurs were all it took to eliminate arms in the hands of the people, then folks, it would have been done decades ago." (05/19/13)

"I have been frankly horrified at the things I have seen written relating to his 'arrest' at the Smokedown Prohibition V event. Gun owners, especially those who were not in favor of his planned armed march on DC, have been acting like statists. The War on Politically Incorrect Drugs and The War Against Gun Owners are not separate issues." (05/20/13)

"Most newspapers, radio and TV stations still operate on the hard-and-fast journalistic rule, 'if it bleeds, it leads.' You really can't blame the news media for this. Most people like stories about conflict and action. That's why the sports pages are so well read, and we have cable channels dedicated to every competitive activity and sport conceivable -- even golf. But there are hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of incidents where a firearm was used by a private citizen to prevent a crime or defend against a crime which are never reported to the police and never covered by the news." (05/17/13)

"It seems everyone is talking about Adam Kokesh, and his peaceful armed march on DC. And it seems everyone who is talking about it is casting stones at those who take a position different than their own. I'll try to not do that. So, what would I do? I wouldn't go. But maybe not for the reasons you might think." (05/19/13)

"The US authorities are armed to the teeth, and we're panicking about citizens printing out rubbish guns?" (05/16/13)

"A common trope of many Second Amendment advocates is to urge more vigorous enforcement of existing federal gun control laws, as the alternative to enacting additional laws. Rhetorically, that’s very effective. But as a policy matter, it is not always a good idea. Consider legislation recently considered by the Senate: The Manchin-Toomey amendment was supported by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), although the group later dropped its support for reasons unrelated to the issues raised in this post." (05/16/13)

"People who have already succumbed to an irrational fear of guns are easily frightened by anti-gun advocates and their cooperative mainstream media friends into supporting so-called 'reasonable' but unconstitutional gun control laws." (05/15/13)

"We had a world with no gun controls, once. A world in which you could hop a coastwise trader in New Orleans, and get off in any port north of Guyana. With your life preserver hanging on your belt, and without as much as a raised eyebrow from anyone. A world where wide areas of the world had four or five murders a year for every million population. Most as a result of some dude violating, or attempting to violate, the 'unwritten law against adultery.'" (05/13/13)

"Thursday’s revelation that the Washington State court system has been hacked and the records of hundreds of thousands of citizens may have been accessed clearly demonstrates why gun owners are adamantly opposed to background check records keeping, and want the state’s pistol registry destroyed, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. Reuters reported Thursday afternoon that up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and a million driver’s license numbers 'may have been accessed.'" (05/14/13)

"The Liberator is a wonderful innovation and its inventor Cody Wilson richly deserves an honored place in the pantheon of libertarian heroes, but wider availability of guns will not end the obscenity of government. That will happen when, and only when, there is no longer anyone willing to work for it. Americans are already rather well armed, with something over 80 million guns in private hands, and that has not prevented the monstrous growth of the state; why therefore double that number?" (05/13/13)

"So since 1993, firearms ownership has risen, the population has risen, and the use of force in self defense has risen. However crime, especially crime using firearms and specifcally murder with firearms, has fallen. This in spite of the end of the ugly weapon ban in 2004, the adoption of shall issue concealed licensing laws by most states, several states adopting Constitutional carry, and most states until recently liberaling their gun laws." (05/13/13)

"There’s nothing quite so funny as the sight of the authoritarian functionaries of a dying order trying to suppress a revolution they don’t understand -- and failing miserably." (05/12/13)

"Over the past two months we have all watched two major, high-profile fights in the Delaware General Assembly: the first over gun control and the second over marriage equality. What's interesting for me to reflect upon is that my personal ideological bent opposes the gun control measure, but supports marriage equality. So -- to put it bluntly -- I watched one fight from the the losing side, and the other from the winning side." (05/09/13)

"The problem with the advocates of 'gun-safety' laws is that they don’t think big enough. They favor expanded background checks, greater monitoring of those stigmatized as 'mentally ill,' and a ban on the manufacture of scary-looking semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. But we know these measures would not have prevented the horrible shootings that have occurred in recent years." (05/08/13)

"Defense Distributed's new weapon is named for, and obviously serves the same function as, the original Liberator. One news report says that the CAD files for printing it at home were downloaded more than 50,000 times on Monday alone, and that all the usual suspects are worried. And worried they should be." (05/07/13)

"President Barack Obama was right when he told a Mexican audience Friday that many of the guns used in crime south of the border came from the United States, and he should know since his administration allowed thousands of those firearms to walk during Operation Fast and Furious, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms observed. 'The Obama administration should accept full responsibility for illegally flooding Mexico with guns that are now being used by drug cartel gunmen,' said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb." (05/07/13)