Snowflakes in Hell

I hope the reporter on this article got this bit wrong:

Giuliani, who is banking a large part of his campaign on public safety as well as defense of the Second Amendment, told the audience that he would protect the right to bear arms in the way he did as a former federal prosecutor in the Reagan administration and as mayor of New York.

“I’ll work to make sure that if somebody commits a crime, they go to prison. If somebody commits a crime with a gun, they’ll go to prison for even more time and for mandatory sentences. No plea bargains, no exceptions; you go to jail. That’s the way to reduce crime,” Giuliani said. “We need to have zero tolerance for crime committed with a gun. After all, it’s people that commit crimes, not guns.”

Emphasis mine.  If there’s anything Rudy did as Mayor of New York City, protecting the right to keep and bear arms was not among them.  In fact, I’m pretty sure Rudy actively pissed on it every chance he got as mayor.  A fact that I hope he’s not thinking we’ll just overlook.

Somehow I think more than a few of my readers probably fit this profile :)

Choosing to rob gun shops is one such poorly thought out career choice.   What’s surprising to me was he wasn’t wearing the firearm on his person.  I don’t know any gun shop owners around here that don’t do that.

I completely sympathize with Megan McArdle over the process for getting Sudafed. Is there a constituency that’s really pushing this kind of law? Or is this how far our political class as sunk in terms of how they view their fellow citizens?

If you click through the link she supplies to Overlawyered here:

For a while now, lawyers in Minnesota, Oklahoma and elsewhere have been suing companies that make over-the-counter cold remedies containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine on the grounds that they were aware some buyers were using the drugs as raw material for illegal methamphetamine labs. Now such litigation appears to be gaining momentum in Arkansas, where many county governments have signed up to sue Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and other companies. “If successful, it could open up litigation against manufacturers of other produce used in making meth, such as drain cleaners and acetone.”

Those of us in the gun blogosphere are all too familiar with this tactic, since it was also used on gun manufacturers.

Go read Keyboard and a .45’s account of a negligent discharge by a retired police officer in a Dallas synagogue.  The importance of a proper holster can’t be stressed enough.   Few guns risk discharge by being dropped, but as JR points out, it looks as if he probably grabbed the gun on the way down and pressed the trigger.  If a gun falls out of your holster, and it’s happened to me once, the best thing is just to let it go.  You risk more from trying to catch it than you do from it hitting the ground.

Ahab has a pretty good summary up of this.  I haven’t covered it, because while I think these cases are good for everybody, just to get people debating the issue, I do kind of wonder why she’s taken this route.

If it were me, under threat of violence from another person, there’s no law or policy that’s going to prevent me from defending myself.  In that circumstance, the last thing I would want to do would be to draw attention to the situation.

I do hope she wins, however, because it honestly doesn’t make a lot of sense to restrict someone who is licensed to carry everywhere else, from carrying in schools or other public building.  A concealed weapon doesn’t suddenly become more dangerous by entering certain buildings.

Bitter gives us an update.  My main fear with this bill is that, if it gets stalled, and starts to be debated, that will provide opportunities for anti-gun amendments.  Fortunately, so far, it’s only provided opportunities for amendments that are unobjectionable.

Time to do a few more blogroll additions:

1. The Unforgiving Minute
2. Days of our Trailers
3. TFS Magnum
4. West, By God
5. Gun Legislation and Politics in New York
6. Gun Talk
7. NJ Voices: Scott Bach

Again, there’s more room, so don’t feel offended if I’ve left you out. There are a lot of blogs on my radar screen than aren’t on my roll yet, so keep getting my attention and I’ll get to you.