SECOND AMENDMENT

Guns Blazing and ... Empty Holsters?

By Alan Korwin
Oct. 18, 2007

1- Empty Holster Protest

The mainstream media told you:

Nothing.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

During the week of October 22-27, 2007, college students throughout
America will attend classes wearing empty holsters, in protest of state
laws and campus policies that stack the odds in favor of armed killers.

By disarming law-abiding citizens who are licensed to carry concealed
handguns virtually anywhere else, misguided officials create dangerous
and reckless "supposedly gun-free zones," where only criminals will be
armed.

2- Gun Arrests Working

The mainstream media told you:

Mexican police officers came to a gun show in Phoenix and illegally
bought guns for smuggling back to Mexico. Gun shows make it easy for
criminals to obtain guns due to lax laws.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Proving again that we do have gun laws in this country, and that
enforcement not additional statutes is what's needed, officials in
Phoenix arrested Mexicans buying guns in Phoenix recently. The arrested
alleged criminals are employed by the Mexican police dept. Any gun
obtained for criminal purpose has been severely illegal for decades,
though officials admit enforcement is spotty.

In other news, at least six discount airlines have sprung up in Mexico,
offering one-way fares to the U.S.-Mexico border that rival the slow and
uncomfortable bus fares immigrants used to rely on for sneaking into (or
legally entering) the country. Locals have nicknamed the carriers Aero
Migrante.

Mexican officials, who have pledged cooperation in resolving the border
crisis, insist that their laws prevent them from determining if one-way
ticket buyers from south and central Mexico plan to illegally slip into
America. As undocumented immigrants such people would not be in the NICS
background-check system, and might be able to buy guns here, even though
it would be illegal.

Mexico prevents most gun possession within its borders except for
authorities, the rich, and heavily armed para-military drug gangs that
provide a significant portion of the nation's revenue.

Although gun-crime arrests have been seriously abused in the past by
some authorities, gun-rights advocates typically support arresting armed
criminals who are up to no good.

3- Gun-Crime Offsets

The mainstream media told you:

Hollywood movie stars who emit 100 times more CO2 flying in their
private jets than public airliners are buying "carbon offsets," so their
"carbon footprint" is erased, and they live "carbon-neutral" lives. This
will help save the planet, and removes any nasty guilt the stars might
otherwise have to endure. They are fortunate to have the vast sums of
money needed to live lavish lifestyles without harming the Earth.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Gun owners concerned about the amount of criminal activity that
involves firearms, which casts their own guns in a bad light, can now
buy "gun-crime offsets" to ease their consciences and help do good.

When you buy a gun-crime offset, the money buys ammunition for poor
people in bad neighborhoods so they can go to the range or back alley to
practice, thereby providing a deterrent to local crime.

For every 1,000 rounds of ammunition you fire in practice, a poor
person gets ten rounds, reflecting the national average ratio of
good-gun-to-bad-gun use of 100 to 1, unreported by the "news" media.*
This makes you "gun-crime neutral" and is a good thing.

You can continue to build your gun collection, support the industry,
join the clubs, go to the range, plink, hunt and defend your home, while
helping your fellow man by being gun-crime neutral. Thanks go to liberal
Democrats for introducing the idea of carbon offsets so we can continue
to enjoy our lifestyles while easing any guilt we may feel.

*The 13 scholarly studies that back up this ratio are cataloged in
Armed, by Gary Kleck and Don Kates, available from Bloomfield Press, and
will be posted at gunlaws.com soon.

4- ACLU Re-arming Felons?

The mainstream media told you:

Nothing.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The ACLU has begun a campaign to restore the rights of felons. In
Arizona, the "civil rights" groups claims it would add 166,000 new
voters to the rolls. People with felony convictions automatically lose
the right to vote, run for or hold office, circulate candidate or
referendum petitions, or to own, have, buy or use guns.

The current plan is to only restore the right to vote however, treating
these people as half citizens whose rights are not really restored, but
who, it is believed, will tip the voting balance in the country.

Felons, or so the thinking goes, will vote largely with the various
takings coalitions, and the people running the restoration effort, who
are essentially Democratics.

"America is the land of second chances," the ACLU claimed in its Fall,
2007, Arizona newsletter, "and when the gates of prison open, the path
ahead should lead to a better life."

That path is less than clear however. "If a person is now whole, and
the right to vote is reinstated, then surely that person should have all
rights intact, and be free from the disabilities that a felony
conviction imposes," said the Uninvited Ombudsman in an interview.

"If the person remains dangerous, or is not sufficiently free of the
past to exercise all civil rights, then how can such people be given the
vote? Can the ACLU truly justify marginalizing that group by declaring
them fit for only a single civil right? Are these felons members of
society or aren't they?"

Critics charge that the ACLU's move is a perverse attempt to tip the
nation in favor of Democrats in the upcoming presidential election, by
adding a new voting bloc to that party. Whether being known as the party
of former felony convicts with a single civil right is a good thing is
unclear, though the extra votes might swing elections, so who cares.


5- Criminal Funds Democrats

The mainstream media told you:

Captured bail-jumper Norman Hsu has been running ponzi schemes and has
bilked $60 million from people nationwide. He used the money to help get
Democrats elected, none of whom knew Hsu was involved in criminal
activity. Hillary Clinton, who got a lot of the money, has agreed to
give $850,000 of it back.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

News reports have failed to say who Hillary is giving this money back
to. To Hsu, who stole it in the first place, to use for his legal
defense? Government agents, as a gift? Some other campaign fund? If
reporters reported, the story would say where the money is going.

It's too late now to get the criminal-fund financed Democrats out of
office, assuming they would have lost the elections without all the
tainted money. Perhaps they would have won anyway, since they all seem
to have enough cash to "give it back."

6- Columbia Earns Rebuke

The mainstream media told you:

Iran's president gave a speech at Columbia University, to mixed
reviews.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Mahmoud Ahmabadjihad's speech at Columbia University was a good thing.

Nothing else could have brought the well-deserved and heartily earned
shame and disgrace, that this dictator's appearance brought to the
school.

No amount of commentary by U.S. commentators could have demonstrated
the politicized education the students must be getting, as they cheered
the man's bald-faced lies and total evasion of the questions he was
asked. No one else could have sparked the national debate about this
enemy that wraps itself in a cloak of dignity, virtually abetted in some
respects by the U.S. media.

Only Ahmabadjihad's appearance could have shown the world the
sniveling, spineless, groveling cowardice and anti-American sentiment of
the school's feckless leader, Lee Bollinger, who balanced his approach
with a caustic introduction.

The Iranian's biggest misstep may have been insisting there are no gays
in Iran, shaking the multicult students' faith in the gay agenda and
provoking the only boos and laughter of the event. Was the true nature
of the student body ever revealed in that or what.

Other outrageous lies and distortions met with silence or applause from
the assembled students, who recently booed, attacked and forced
secure-borders advocate Jim Gilchrist from their hallowed halls. No
reprisals from Bollinger or the school were taken against the
hooligans.

Yes, the Iranian mullahs' hand-picked puppet's visit here was a good
thing.

7- Gun Policy Shaken

The mainstream media told you:

Referring to the Parker case, which challenges Wash., D.C.'s total ban
on gun possession at home, professor Jonathan Turley, a declared
liberal, said, "D.C. politicians have put gun-control laws across the
country at risk with a (Supreme) court more likely to uphold the rulings
than to reverse them. It has also put the rest of us in the
uncomfortable position of giving the right to gun ownership the same
fair reading as more favored rights of free press or free speech."

Writing for USA Today's online opinion column, he refers to, "the part
of the Bill of Rights that shall not be named by liberals. For more than
200 years, progressives and polite people have avoided acknowledging
that following the rights of free speech, free exercise of religion and
free assembly, there is 'the right of the people to keep and bear
arms.'"


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

In an extraordinarily rare event, a plain and simple statement of the
left's distaste for the civil right to arms has been widely published.
Turley refers to the case as D.C. v. Heller, using what many observers
see as the D.C. lawyers' effort to obscure the fact that Parker,
originally named in the case, is a black woman living under difficult
conditions, whose life has been threatened by warriors in the drug war
near where she lives. Heller is a special police officer permitted to
carry a handgun on duty as a guard at the Federal Judicial Center, but
not at his home.

"Like many academics, I was happy to blissfully ignore the Second
Amendment. It did not fit neatly into my socially liberal agenda. Yet,
two related cases could now force liberals into a crisis of conscience,"
Turley says. "Principle is a terrible thing, because it demands not what
is convenient but what is right. It is hard to read the Second Amendment
and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be
an individual right...

"None of this is easy for someone raised to believe that the Second
Amendment was the dividing line between the enlightenment and the dark
ages of American culture. Yet, it is time to honestly reconsider this
amendment and admit that -- here's the really hard part -- the NRA may
have been right."

Concluding, he says, "while we might not celebrate it, it is time that
we recognize it."

Why USA Today, which exhibits constant bias and hostility to the right
to keep and bear arms, would publish such opinion from one of its own
(Turley is on their board of contributors) is unclear -- unless, by
openly recognizing that RKBA exists, they can REALLY start regulating it
now, especially is the Supreme Court really takes it out of the closet.


8- Minutemen Spotting Many

The mainstream media told you:

The Minutemen, worthy of saturation coverage when they first began
observing the borders for undocumented workers slipping into the
country, must have evaporated, because there have been virtually no news
reports about them for nearly a year.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The Minutemen, in the latest of numerous ongoing campaigns, issued a
status report, which is widely distributed across the web and by email
to all interested parties.

"As of Sunday, the end of our first week (of this campaign), we had 146
volunteers that had signed in and pulled at least one shift. These
volunteers came from all over this great nation. The following states
are being represented in AZ on the border with the Minutemen Civil
Defense Corps.: AZ(93), NY(3), VT(1), MA(1), ID(2), IL(1), MS(1), OK(1),
IN(2), CA(4), TX(7), WA(7), AL(6), FL(6), OR(1), UT(1), NV(3), CO (4),
KS(2).

"We have also been effective in supporting our United States Border
Patrol. As of Sunday afternoon, Minutemen Civil Defense Corps volunteers
had sighted 104 illegal aliens and the border patrol apprehended 46 of
them. This comes out to 44%, which is up from years past. The Border
Patrol agents have been great. Their response times have also been
great."

MCDC is the original Minuteman organization, headed by Chris Simcox.
Several splinter groups have also set up operations and are making
similar reports, to total silence from the "news" media.

9- Debate Lacked Debate

The mainstream media told you:

The recent Republican presidential debate saw candidates vying to
appear as the most conservative of the lot. In various combination the
crowded field of white males offered to eliminate IRS, close the
borders, make tax cuts permanent, pass a fair tax, eliminate pork-barrel
earmarks, stop social-security-tax increases, and institute portable
health care plans, among numerous other promises.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

A debate is an event where people debate each other. The mainstream
media has repeatedly and incorrectly labeled as "debates" the Republican
(and prior Democrat) candidate auditions, also known as showcases or
dog-and-pony shows. No debate took place during the prime time TV
broadcasts falsely labeled debates.

"The promoters call them 'debates,' so we do too, so that's accurate,"
one newsman was overheard saying.

Reporters also failed to note that the policies promoted by the
auditioners are not within presidential power to enact, a job strictly
reserved to Congress. Congress could not be reached for comment on
whether it might vote for any of the promises the showcasers promised.

Though the candidates differed little on "major fiscal policy issues,"
they were not asked significant questions about their positions, such
as, "What is the purpose of government," or, "What are the limits on
government power, has government exceeded those limits, and how would
you address that if you're elected?"

According to the Founding Fathers, the only legitimate purpose of
government is to protect our freedom, and discharge those duties
specifically delegated in the olden Constitution, nothing more. Both
parties have flatly rejected this as a matter of policy for decades, but
no arrests have been made. Yet. Large segments of the public still seem
to think the Founders had a pretty good idea.

10- Angering Turkey Useful

The mainstream media told you:

Correcting decades of negligence, the U.S. House wisely voted to
recognize the Turkish slaughter of helpless Armenians starting in 1915
as a genocide, infuriating the Turkish government.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Helpless in their attempts to cut off funding and strand American
troops battling radical Islamist murderers and jihadis in Iraq,
Democrats have crafted an extremely clever plan to outrage the Turkish
government, and get them to refuse U.S. access to their land, sea and
air bases. By some estimates, 70% of all U.S. support to Iraq goes
through Turkey. Mainstream reports failed to mention this angle in
covering the 90-year-old terminology debate.

In other news, a new study by Dave Kopel and co-authors has found that
disarmament of the Armenians by the Turks lead to the massive
slaughters, and those Armenians who retained arms were able to resist
the attacks.