Jimmy Who?

Oh right, the president before Ronald Reagan. The one-term peanut farmer whose unremarkable presidency was followed by him trotting the globe as self-appointed ambassador regardin whatever he thought was important.

Today, Jimmy Carter thinks reinstituting the ban on competition rifles would be a good thing. And wants to know why, when we have an economic meltdown occurring, when swine flu has crossed our borders, when people continue to lose their homes due to the flip attitude of many Congressional leaders, why, he asks, isn't President Obama pushing a new ban?

Read about it in the New York Times.

BTW, just as he didn't know what he was doing when he blundered with North Korea during the Clinton administration, he doesn't know what he's talking about in this piece either. Its like he is writing from a Brady Campaign, Violence PolicyCenter or Legal Community Against Violence talking points fax. Read it for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

Quote Of The Day

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” — John Stuart Mill, 1800s liberal British philosopher

Pirates Surprised When Cruise Ship Crew Fights Back

Smoe passengers say it sounded like a "firefight," though many of them had never experienced anything like that before.

Six pirates off the coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean, using a small speedboat. tried to attack a cruise liner carrying some 1,500 passengers. They didn't expect to receive small arms fire in return and be blown off their boat by cruise line crew members deft use of a water hose (normally used to fight fires).

Nicely done. Fighting back is what slows these attacks, much to the dispmay of both pirates and the "just give in" crowd.

Associated Press Tries To Define 'Assault Rifle'

The AP is trying to figure out why pro self defense advocates such as myself point out "errors of fact" when the news service uses the phrase "assault rifle" to describe incidents where a semi-auto competition rifle is used.

Check out the piece at Alphecca, where the AP essentially blames the BATF for the news services' confusion on the matter.

The reality is, if the editors and reporters would just learn something about the subject they love to cover with inflammatory language . . . well, people just might take them more seriously.

I Am Back

Sorry for the long absence. Issues close to home to priority. I may not be posting as often as usual to start out, but I will ramp up over time.

Thanks for your patience! I have enjoyed the comments and emails from TRL readers wondering what was up . . .

Posting Will Be Sporadic For The Next Couple Weeks

They say when life gives you lemons, make lemonaid. Well, life is throwing me mudballs. Actually mudballs are being thrown at a family member and I need to do what I can to help that individual.

I am rather distracted from my reearch and wriing through all of this, so my posting may be rather spotty for the next few weeks.

Bear with me. I'll be back more fully as soon as possible. And thanks for your continued visits to The Ready Line.

Sen. Feinstein Prepares To Wage New War On Competition Rifles

As expected, another head of the hydra just popped up in war to preserve the basic human right to self defense.

"I am prepared to wage the assault weapons battle again and I intend to do so," Feinstein said in a speech to the Senate last month. "I have been quiet about this because there are many other pressing needs of this nation. But with the help of the president, the administration and the people of this great country, we do need to fight back." -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein

This obsession with "scary black rifles" by anti self defense politicians is a sickness. Their focus should be on criminals and criminal behavior.

Anyway, despite protestations by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that "the timing is wrong" to go after competition rifles, or by other pro-gun democrats that gun control is wrong, Sen. Feinstein appears ready to wage war on the lawful ownership of sporting firearms.

Read the full story in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Big Gun Show March 28-29 in Columbus, Ohio

C&E/Showmasters Gun Shows is returning to Columbus again, this time at the Westland Mall, just off West Broad Street adjacent to I-270. Steve and Annette Elliot put on a fantastic family event with their shows, and this one likely will be no exception.

Admission is $8 and parking is FREE.

I will be there with the crew from PRO once again selling NRA memberships just outside the entrance onto the show floor. Be sure to stop by and say hello! BTW, if you're not an NRA member, or want to renew or extend your annual membership, its a great deal. You get $10 off the normal $35 membership rate (you will pay $25 instead), PLUS you get a free, snazzy NRA hat, PLUS you get into the gun show FREE. How can you beat that?

See you this weekend!