Via David Codrea, Dave Workman:

Yesterday, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s hand-picked police chief, Kathleen O’Toole, was sworn in to lead the beleaguered department, and tomorrow at 1 p.m. he will hold a special meeting with the city council to address “gun violence,” which could be a learning experience for one and all.

O’Toole has been in and out of law enforcement in Massachusetts and recently in Ireland, but she’s yet to walk a beat west of the Mississippi or north of the Columbia and when – not “if” – the mayor starts talking about gun control, she’ll be facing something not found in the Bay State. Gun owners in Washington State don’t need permission from police or politicians to exercise their rights, and they know it. Local governments can’t set their own firearms policies, and gun owners know that, too.

Ah.  It’s always nice to see the reaction of communists when they land in a free state.  During the DNC when so many cops from around the nation were in Charlotte assisting the “Federal Protection Police” to keep Obama safe, local news reported that the Chicago [and other] cops – during their off time – had found a new favorite place to hang out: Hyatt Gun Shop.  Not coincidentally, I like Hyatt too, and I know Larry on a first name basis.  Hyatt Gun Shop, if you’ll recall, was the store that sold $1 million worth of AR-15s in a single day just prior to Christmas several years ago.  Perhaps the cops had never seen so many law abiding citizens buying and carrying weapons.  To Ms. O’Toole, welcome to freedom.  Don’t expect to change it.  You’ll fail.

David Codrea:

“We are at present two peoples, two countries really, living within a common border and sharing (mostly) a common language but divided upon the answer to this question: does the government serve the people or do the people serve the government?” Vanderboegh elaborated. “This is not a question that the answer can be finessed, negotiated or ignored. It is one or the other, that of individual liberty as the Founders intended or of collectivist power in service to a few.”  “Yet we shrink from the honest conclusion,” he continued. “And that conclusion is that such mutually exclusive worldviews cannot long coexist without one or the other winning out.

David is covering Mike, and Mike is telling hard truths.  We won’t vote our way out of this mess.  Upon my last (and only visit) to New York, I remarked to my son that although I share a common language with them, I hardly even consider them to be fellow countrymen.  We have almost nothing else in common.  If I publish on labor unions and Remington (as I have), I make enemies of even the most ardent gun rights advocates in the North.  I mean no disrespect to my Northern readers, but if there is one day a rebirth of America, it will include you or not, but you will get to make that call.  Right now, I have my doubts about your willingness to participate.  There are good folks in Connecticut and New York, but we may be approaching the time when you need to get out.  The die may have been cast in your home states.

Mike Vanderboegh has a link to The Soldier’s Load.  It’s a good and educated study.  Drop by and read it, and then take a turn into history and recall what I said here about combat load, and then here concerning the ability to live and function in your environment.

Kurt Hofmann:

Any restriction on guns, ammunition and accessories justified by their failure to meet the government’s idea of “sporting purposes” is very clearly a violation of the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, as the court ruling in Pennsylvania helps illustrate.

Sean Linnane has an article up entitled Operation Zero Footprint on Benghazi.  It is absolutely must read for those who care about the badness that is the current U.S. government.