It is what it feels like right now regarding gun control. You can say we are right smack in the middle of our Fog of War and you would not be far off and that is a dangerous place to be because we either lost track of something that might be important or simply get tired of the whole affair and wait for clarity. We cannot afford either option.

At the Federal Level, AWB II (Revenge of Dianne) appears to be dead as stand-alone bill bit drums are beating that it may be attached to other “better tasting” bills to endure approval. The problem appears to be that the host bill will be Sen Schummer’s Universal Background checks bill which is as bad as AWB II for the Second Amendment cause. One thing I ask everybody to do is to read the text of any proposed bill and do not trust the sanitized versions offered by the Media as they are not explaining or pointing out that the bill has little to do with keeping guns from Felons and everything to do with making private transfers of private property literally impossible and generating millions of felons instantly.

The other thing muddying the waters is the State-Level Bloomberg blitzkrieg shoving down gun control laws down the throats of people. NY’s SAFE act and the Colorado Transfer Law are just the beginning and the intent is to have us fight in several fronts on the old idea of divide & conquer. The good news is that there is a boatload of us against a small group of them and we can cover just about any front they create. Check ( that means you personally) with your State’s Legislature for any gun control bills introduced, read the text and if something stinks, raise hell. I don’t think there is a state in the Union that does not have a Gun Rights forum and Gun Rights organization and you should be a member or at least participate to keep yourself and others informed.

On the bright side, we have NY’s SAFE act and the Colorado Laws. Contradictory? Not quite. By now, even the media cannot hide the fact that SAFE act was passed in a rush and it is deeply flawed. Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature are now trapped and shamefully have to admit that the bill was an overreach and it is doing more harm than good. In Colorado, Gov. Hickenloper is facing open defiance from the majority of Sheriffs and was forced to admit the bill he signed might be flawed. This will come handy later.

Register to Vote! Nothing says to a representative to pay attention than the words “I am a Registered Voter and I want to talk about…” It is as important as actually casting votes in Election time. You can bet your sweet posteriors that politicians will take a pause before committing to piss off a big block of voters.

Contact your Elected/Selected Political Critters. Some may see this as a waste of time after the shove-down laws passed by the legislatures of Colorado and New York backed up by pressure from the White House and Mayor Bloomberg’s money. But one must remember that the upper echelons of the Democratic party and this administration in particular have no problem eating their own, abandoning them once they got what they wanted or throwing them under the bus if it is politically expedient. As John Ross wrote in his book Unintended Consequences, there is no loyalty down the chain of command and that makes for no loyalty the other way either. Don’t expect to see lots of changes in NY thanks to the Tammany Hall encroachment of power, but I think Colorado is going to be an object lesson in next year’s elections for other legislatures.

Join Social Media and make yourself be heard or at least stay informed. Traditional Media will either lie, obfuscate or simply fail to report the truth on the incoming bills both at State and Federal levels. They still hold power, but it is not as great as once was or they actually think they have and amazingly dumb when it comes to Social Media using it mostly as a “More news at eleven!” type of announcement. Facebook and Twitter are about the only way we can spread the message and counter the BS and to stay informed.

Join & Contribute to the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation. These two are the big guns but remember they do not necessarily cover the same ground: The NRA will work more at congressional/legislative level ans SAF will do courts. You can also dedicate the cost of one box of ammo a month to contribute to the war chest. Save the energy of particular gripes with any group and use it against the Gun Control fanatics. We can bitch about wine lists when things are under control.

Fight ain’t over yet by a far margin.

Stolen from Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children

Update: Original print can be found for sale at Tacticaldrawings.com

Flying in the face of the traditional image of a country seen as the land of good living, ‘France, A Clockwork Orange’ claims that mainstream politicians and the media have long masked a far more disturbing reality: it is rapidly descending into mindless violence and incivility.

“Nobody should ignore the reality,” the book claims, namely that “every 24 hours 13,000 thefts, 2,000 attacks and 200 rapes” take place in France – figures far higher than official national statistics

via Clockwork Orange: France a ‘savage’ nation, book claims – Telegraph.

This is not only a French problem. Almost all European countries shy away from reporting true crime figures and then model their Law Enforcement solutions based on those numbers. The result is obvious: people don’t bother to report the crimes and the criminals continue their deeds unmolested.
I still have family in countryside of Spain and their complaint is that bands of Romanian armed robbers go from town to town pretty much behaving like old time brigands. To this date I have not figured out why a bunch of Romanians criminals traveled 2,000 miles to rob farmers in Spain. Then again I don’t get Europe either.

In the so-called Gunshine State, home to the most gun permits in the country, firearm violence has fallen to the lowest point on record.

As state and national legislators consider gun control laws in the wake of last month’s Connecticut school shooting, Florida finds itself in a gun violence depression. The firearm-involved violent crime rate has dropped 33 percent between 2007 and 2011, while the number of issued concealed weapons permits rose nearly 90 percent during that time, state records show.

via Florida firearm violence hits record low; concealed gun permits up.

Facts! Stubborn little things that ruin The Narrative.

Hat tip to Florida Open Carry

Who is going to disarm us? Who is going to kill us to make that possible? Here’s something to think about before you answer. There are not enough jackbooted thugs to make it happen. There are not even enough grave diggers to bury the JBTs who might try. We were ready to rumble as three percent of America’s gun owners. At 20 or more times that, there won’t be enough targets to go around.

Your move, statists. Molon Labe.

via Gun ban advocates must decide if they’re willing–and able–to kill 50,000,000+ – St. Louis gun rights | Examiner.com.

My only comment to Gun Ban Advocates would be to pick up a Bible and look for
Hosea 8:7

Sometime today and thanks to a strike of a pen, the citizens of Colorado will be breath away from becoming felons.  People will lose their rights because elected officials thought themselves elected to kingdom, not office and thus also believe in their infallibility.

They are wrong but they don’t know it yet.

After July 1st, 2013 we will see the new Gun Control laws being abused by the powers that be. People that did not pay attention to the process before will be amazed that the simple fact of loaning a small metal box sent somebody to prison, a life destroyed and wonder how that happened and why weren’t them informed. They wonder why such unreasonable law was even considered in their legislature, much less approved. And they will also found out that an interloper from the East Coast was behind the whole thing buying their elected “legislators” with cold harsh cash for their re-election coffers carpetbagging the state with the influence of somebody who cannot control his own city.

The Legislators with a (D) after their names are smug right now thinking they are secure in their posts and that they will have backing when 2014 comes along and the election cycle starts. But the smugness has blinded them into not seeing what’s coming and it is not gonna be pretty. They pissed way too many people and many more will be pissed when tax income start to drop and they need to pay for those treats to keep the faithful followers properly content. And the potheads will not be voting for them again since they already got what they wanted.

And I am upset at what the Citizens of Colorado will have to undergo for the next couple of years, I have to smile at the thought of the beat-down the Anti Bill of Rights Dems will receive at the ballots followed immediately for the invalidation of their gun control laws. It will be an example for the rest of the country and a reminder to legislators everywhere that they are just people working for the people and not Aristocracy forcing cake recipes.

And that will be an awesome day to see.

So the bells are indeed tolling in Colorado. But the true recipients of the sounds do not realize it.

Their loss…our gain.

See? I always say that Excel is the software of the Devil. We need to impose tighter Spreadsheet Regulations! Can we have a conversation about Columns and Rows? Sue Microsoft now for the Sandy Hook Massacre!

Yes, it sounds as stupid as blaming the guns.