Contingency Plans

Should the worst happen on November 4, nothing is as important as being prepared in advance. Thus, there are 'contingency plans.'

Barack Obama stated in an interview not long ago that he is not intent on 'taking away anybody's guns.' But what he went further to say is very telling.

Obama stated, 'Even if I wanted to do so, I could not take away anyone's guns because I would not have the votes (in Congress).'

And herein is the problem.

He might!

With Democrats slated to increase their majorities in both the House and the Senate, a President Obama could have a veto-proof majority in the Congress to do basically whatever he, Pelosi, and Reid want to do.

This means he WOULD have the votes to enact massive gun-control legislation, including doing what he has stated as his goal all along while in the Illinois legislature--the complete ban on all handguns in America.

Thus, the contingency plans.

In dark and oppressive days such as what we may be facing should the doomsday scenario become reality on November 4, it is important, at least in my way of thinking, to be both
practical and minimalist.

My main objective is to exercise my Constitutional rights while they are still viewed as individual rights guaranteed to free citizens.

But I also want sufficient hardware to stay safe from criminals and JBTs while at the same time avoiding unnecessary baggage. The goal is to buy what you can reasonably expect you will need.

Thus, I have been doing some shopping.

And, I still believe that for most of us with fairly limited funds, the following article is essential and the best I have seen on surviving on a minimalist budget.

I commend for your reading enjoyment, 'The Poor Man's Survival Arsenal.'

The Revolver vs. Semi-Auto Gun Phenom in D.C.

Fresh from its stinging defeat by the U.S. Supreme Court which struck down its gun ban, the District of Columbia quickly put together a new set of local laws governing the issuing of handgun permits.

Perhaps D.C. should have taken a bit longer to implement those new ordinances.

D.C. has specified that in its massive gun registration drive, which it began Thursday morning, that it would only place revolvers under consideration, not semi-automatic handguns.

But semi-automatic handguns are the most popular guns of choice for the millions of Americans who wish to protect themselves easily, cheaply, and expediently.

Nowhere in the Supreme Court ruling did the justices specify a type of handgun that was 'unacceptable.'

No doubt revolvers are wonderful and have stood the test of time. They are less likely to jam and encounter some of the other problems inherent in semi-automatic models.

But they have definite limitations.

In a home invasion involving multiple perpetrators, the limited firing capacity of a revolver may mean the death of the homeowner. With a semi-automatic, the frantic victim can fire off round after round without having to worry about reloading before the thugs are stopped.

To gunnies I am aware this is beneath elementary stuff. But to those who are not into the whys and wherefores of self-defense, these commonsense facts may be elusive. In other words, when it comes to personal protection and safety, the revolver vs. semi-auto issue is a major consideration.

Supposedly Mr. Heller showed up to apply for his license without bringing his handgun with him. D.C. wants to do 'a ballistics test' on each gun it approves.

But this is beside the point. The point is that D.C. has absolutely no legal basis for which to deny citizens the right to purchase, register, and use the handgun of their choice, whether it be semi-automatic or not.

Coulter Makes the Case for Concealed Carry

Washington, DC (TLS). Ann Coulter's latest column makes the case for allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. Virginia Tech is a 'gun-free zone.' Thus, no law abiding citizen was allowed to carry their concealed handguns on the campus. They were sitting ducks for a madman like Cho Seung-Hui.

As we saw with the case of the Muslim who went on a shooting spree in Salt Lake City, a concealed handgun carried by an off-duty police officer took down the perpetrator before he could take more lives.

Had someone been on the campus of Virginia Tech with such a concealed weapon, Cho would have been gunned down long before his rampage became the largest single-perpetrator massacre in U.S. history.

Click here for Ann's article:
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=179