Is You There? Or Is You Square?

As these words are posted, the Second Amendment Freedom Rally is commencing in downtown Chicago. Before it's over, we're going to have a lot of fun.

Ralph Conner, the Chairman of CORE Chicago,
is going to talk about appearing in JPFO's movie
No Guns for Negroes and the racist roots of gun
control.

Valinda Rowe is going to speak about
her experiences going from victim
to political activist.



Richard Pearson and Mike Weisman are going to tell us what ISRA has planned for the next year.

I hope you made it, but if you didn't, I hope you check in and see what's happening. Chris Conmy will be Twittering SAFR this year . . . actually, he started last night at Portillo's. This is the strength of the pro-gun movement: people. Numbers. Boots at the grassroots. The anti-gun side has great sticky gobs of money with which they do their best to drown us, and they're now moving to raise more in Illinois specifically to try to unseat pro-gun politicians--they've threatened to spend $75,000 in a single Illinois race to frighten their enemies. We don't have those gobs of money, but we do have what they don't: ordinary people who will give the small amounts of money they have, take time off work, and vote. SAFR is our expression of that difference writ large; the other side doesn't do anything like SAFR, despite the general belief that Chicago is "their territory," because they cannot do it. They don't have the ability to put out a call for large numbers of people to take a day off work and gather somewhere; most of the people who do such things for them are being paid in some way, while the people attending SAFR today took the day off and paid their own way.

That's the Illinois pro-gun movement. That's our strength. That's us.

Pink Pistols On TV

Current TV has a show called "Vanguard Journalism"--sort of decentralized journalism done on shoestring budgets. Today their show was called "Pink Firepower."
"Does that mean what I think it means?" I wondered.

Indeed it did.

Apparently it first aired months ago. There was more to the show than the segment on the Pink Pistols, but the link will take you straight to the good stuff. Oleg Volk's "Bash This!" poster is featured. The report is a pretty fair one; if anything, it gives short shrift to opponents of the Pink Pistols. Only one dissenter is featured, actually, one Abbe Land of the West Hollywood City Council. It's not clear why she was consulted, unless she has some history of opposing the Pink Pistols. But even she isn't really refuting the Pink Pistols per se; she's the standard-issue California anti-gun politician . . . well, you'll see. Although she looks a little like a pug with a pickle in its mouth when she says it, she even has to conceded that "this is America, and if people want to form groups, they can form groups."



Best comment so far:

This story made me realize that there are, sadly, some places our country that are not as accepting of individual differences. Personally I don't think an armed weapon would be ideal. think just displaying a unarmed weapon would have the same effect without having the potential of causing death. Hopefully as time goes on, compassion for others will become widespread over-shadow the negative energy out there.

Far out. Lemme know how that whole energy think works out. See, Shaggy, the thing is, an "unarmed" weapon is essentially just a weapon that doesn't work. So as long as there's no need to use the thing, the effect might be the same. However, if you whip out your "unarmed" weapon and the local glee club continues to surround you, then you've got a bigger problem than the man with an "armed" weapon. He has the option of shooting his way out; all you're going to be able to do is wonder why it didn't work.