The Uninvited Ombudsman Report – No. 35
Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The uninvited Ombudsman Report”
2- Gun Arrests Working
The lamestream 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.
Click on 'Read More' to continue reading.
1- Empty Holster Protest
The lamestream 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.
The Gun-Free Zone Liability Act, which would allow such zones but make the people setting them up liable for any harm they cause, is posted at gunlaws.com. Details on the empty-holster protest are here :
3- Gun-Crime Offsets
The lamestream 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. 7- Gun Policy Shaken The lamestream media told you: 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: "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 Other topics covered in this weeks report, but not reported here: 4- ACLU Re-arming Felons? If you would like to read this type of reporting in your local paper, send the editor a note asking them to reprint the "Page Nine." If enough of us ask, we may be pleasantly surprised by the results. Page Nine is now a blog! You can sign up for automatic RSS feeds and find a wealth of interesting information at PageNine.org.
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."
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.
, 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.
5- Criminal Funds Democrats
6- Columbia Earns Rebuke
8- Minutemen Spotting Many
9- Debate Lacked Debate
10- Angering Turkey Useful
