tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66776527143824909652024-02-07T06:59:37.207-05:00Rise of the Anti-MediaThis blog is created and maintained by Brian Anse Patrick, Ph.D., M.A., B.A. GED, Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Toledo, OH, for the purpose of discussing ongoing publications and intellectual/spiritual interests. Anti-Media are the computer mediated communication channels that are used to horizontally inform the New American Gun Culture, as opposed to the old vertical media/propaganda systems that are used to disinform the masses. Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-16037859427814743422016-08-08T11:29:00.002-04:002016-08-08T11:33:13.410-04:00Sig Sauer P938: American Gun and Book Reviews by Professor Brian Anse Patrick <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sig Sauer P938, </i>9 mm, 3-inch
barrel, 2-Tone, Army Green. Exeter, NH: Sig Sauer.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Because I consider
myself a Second Amendment Ambassador rather than a Second Amendment
Exhibitionist, there are occasions when considerable discretion must be
practiced in choosing a concealed carry firearm. Moreover, as a general rule in
civic communication, one shouldn’t needlessly frighten the midgets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then
of course there is the Big Tradeoff. How much adequacy in a firearm are you
willing to trade for the sake of concealability?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smallish guns tend toward marginal calibers, poor
sights, crudity of features such as trigger pull and safeties, and, too often,
mechanical reliability. A firearm, whatever it may be otherwise, must above all
go bang, and too many of the wee ones fail to do so at crucial moments. I once knew
an Italian gentleman who had stuck his .25 caliber pocket pistol “into the
teeth” of his adversary, pulled the trigger, “and the son-of-a-bitch, she just
went ‘click.’” Fortunately for Old Sunoco Joe, his adversary fainted at that
point, so the firearm produced a substantial effect, just not in the quite way intended<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>(Joe
reported that his adversary sickened and died soon after this instance, so
perhaps Joe voodoo-ed him to death by the means already described.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joe took his revenge on the .25 by clamping
it into a bench vice and beating it with a hammer until it was scrap
metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While Joe was admittedly an
excitable fellow, many 25s and pocket .22s with which I have had experience
would seem to cluster similarly with Joe’s in terms of reliability.) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">For general carry
I have preferred lightweight 1911s in 45 acp with excellent sights and triggers.
These guns are safe if carried in a proper holster, reasonably powerful and
reliable. When discretion demanded it, I often chose small frame revolvers,
especially the J-frame Smith and Wessons, which are supremely reliable as well
as safe, even in in a suit pocket. But even these little gems lack good sights
and trigger pulls. They do go bang, however, and there is much to be said for
that, but at 25 yards they are iffy in terms of hitability, and 7-yard groups
are far from the ragged one-hole clusters that the 1911 produces so easily. At
night the vestigial sights disappear into the gloom <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
wait! says the online/Facebook expert, most gunfights are at 3-7 yards, so this
doesn’t matter. Nonsense, I say. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Close up it’s probably
even more important that one hits precisely and stops a deadly threat. Less and
not more room exists for failure. Just as in the zombie films, the old CNSD
(central nervous system disconnect) saves the day, because it doesn’t do you
much good when someone beats you over the head with a bat, irreparably damaging
that fine brain on which so much college tuition money was spent, or shoots you
in the liver, while he exsanguinates from a cluster of your poorly grouped
bullet wounds in his torso and arms. Good sights and other grown up handgun features
enable marksmanship, a practice that is overlooked by the 3-7 yarders, who seem
to regard their totemic spatial beliefs as absolution from the obligation of learning
to shoot. We seem to be training up a generation of handgunners who have
confused the ability to manipulate a handgun in contrived short-range drills
with actual marksmanship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ed McGivern
who shot fast and accurately used and advocated good high sights sets off with
gold bead on the front sights, even for quick aerial shooting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wanted
is a reasonably compact, utterly safe handgun in a serious caliber that can be
shot well under a wide variety of circumstances that define daily life: day,
night, close, far, in the twilight of the movie house or alley, subway, bus stop,
parking structure, stairwell, church or convenience store, wherever the zombies
may set upon you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is to have a
small gun available that gives you the most options, and not a small gun that virtually
precludes or handicaps marksmanship. The 3-7 yarders have already handicapped
themselves; there is no reason to add more difficulties for them. And handguns
by their very nature handicap a defender whom an attacker has already backed
into a corner, metaphorically speaking, and forced to respond with this little
last-ditch weapon. So it should be a good one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And
with that statement I arrive at the Sig Sauer P938, a gun that suits the need
for discretion, while providing some fine options. Nine millimeter is a good
caliber, usually less expensive and always more powerful than the .380, widely
available in many loadings, although I prefer simple ball ammunition, the
124-grain so-called NATO FMJ loading for the sake of functionality and
penetration (This is the bullet weight for which the caliber appears to have
been designed.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MidwayUSA’s website
lists for sale more than 150 variants of 9mm Luger ammunition (aka 9mm
Parabellum).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So there are bullet weights
and configurations to suit many tastes and needs. I seek (1) reliability, as in
must go bang! (2) accuracy (CNSD capability) and (3) enough power to penetrate to
vitals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At
the fetishized optimal 7-yard distance, the P938, operated with one hand,
shoots small walnut-sized groups that one expects of a good revolver or 1911. This
is possible not only because the gun is accurate, meaning well made, but also
because it has excellent sights and an acceptable trigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
P938 is a single action self-loading pistol. There is no double action style
trigger pull. No de-cocker mechanism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
Glock-style actuator. Instead Sig Sauer produced a longish single action
trigger pull of, I would guess, about 6-7 pounds. Other reviewers compare the
P938 to the 1911 in terms of general function, and suggest that those who like
the 1911 would also like the P938. I agree. The P938 seems designed to be
carried cocked and locked. An ambidextrous manual thumb safety disengages with a
fair amount of positive pressure, and is held in place by a detente-style
arrangement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The safety when
engaged still allows for operation of the slide, a good feature to have when
checking for a loaded chamber, or to load the first round into the chamber, all
while the pistol remains on safe. This feature is wise because there is a dangerous
moment when one loads or unloads the usual semiautomatic handgun, when the gun
is “hot,” meaning that the action is cocked, the chamber loaded, and the safety
disengaged, an inherently dangerous situation. Police ranges often have bullet
traps (essentially barrels of sand on metal stands) so as to catch an
accidental discharge when the pistol is being loaded or unloaded. One performs
loading/unloading operations while the pistol is pointed down into the sand. Homeowners
and apartment dwellers generally don’t have such conveniences. So one must
wonder where a bullet accidentally discharged at this sensitive instant will
go, into or through the floor or walls of the bedroom, and then where? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some damages cannot be undone. By working the
slide with the safety engaged the little Sig seems to have added a layer of
protection. No safety can excuse unsafe gun handling, however, and idiots,
simply by being idiots, seem capable of achieving randomly bad things that are
beyond the imaginings of sensible people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nevertheless the safety seems a good idea. It also allows the pistol to
be carried cocked and locked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while
I prefer cocked and locked as well, conditional on quality holster designed for
the gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would not drop this gun into
my pocket for carry. A Kramer vertical scabbard horsehide holster is on order
now for the pistol. But let me state now emphatically, I don’t yet have enough
experience with this gun to honestly make any firm recommendations re carry
options. Understanding takes times to develop and I’ve had this gun for maybe
two weeks as of this writing. I have been carrying 1911s for many years, and
trust them much more in the sense of prediction of outcomes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I carry 1911s in a high quality holsters,
designed for the gun, cocked and locked, trigger covered by the holster, well
concealed. And I am very afraid of them. I am also afraid of the P938. I regard
this as a healthy attitude. The thing that should be viscerally understood
about the Sig Sauer, 1911s and all other firearms is that they are absolutely
unforgiving of mistakes. Take heed. Beware. The ass you save may be your own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
P938 came with a molded plastic clip-on holster. I tried it and didn’t like it,
especially after it, gun and all, most indiscreetly fell off my belt in the
Walmart parking lot. No one noticed but my wife and me, and perhaps the security
cameras, but this is bad, bad business. The holster may work for someone of
different build than me, or maybe not. I was also wearing at the time a back
brace that seemed to interfere with the holster, but I still have grave reservations.
I await my Kramer holster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
pistol itself however is excellent in conception and execution. As a test of
reliability I had novice students in my concealed carry pistol class shoot it.
More than 100 rounds of ball ammo functioned without flaw for several different
shooters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since, I have shot perhaps
another 100 rounds of ball ammunition without malfunction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My contribution to reliability was perhaps
two drops of oil to the barrel shroud. If I planned to carry this gun with some
sort of expanding or hollow pointed bullets, I would fire at least that much of
the intended ammunition to be certain of functionality. But as said, I prefer
ball and ball seems to go bang.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
P938 came with prominent fixed night sights in the usual dovetails. These are
of the three-dot configuration and show up well in twilight. The point of
impact was dead on elevation-wise at 7 yards and required only the slightest of
drift to the right for windage. The front sight is about 1/8 inch in width,
about the same as one would expect on a good 1911, the rear sight sufficiently
wide to make a quick sight picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
I raise it to shooting position I am looking down the sights, as should be. The
sights work well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The groups fired
one-handed from seven yards would fall within a silver dollar. Comparatively, a
Colt Government .380 that I had considered and rejected for discrete carry
fires groups about the size of a cantaloupe, which at 12-15 yards opened up to
basketball size, although in terms of reliability the guns compare. The Colt
.380 lacked CNSD accuracy, even though it handled well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But if you can't shoot in the first place, then what is the difference? </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
magazine that came with the P938 was of the extended type holding 7 rounds, that
provided extra length in the grip, a sort of hook on the front much like the
Wather PPK and similar pistols, that allows for an extra finger on the shooting
hand to factor into the grip. I can live without this feature, and opted for
discretion by ordering a couple of flat base magazines that held only six
rounds, but made for a shorter less elongated grip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pistol handles well either way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All
in all I am well pleased with the P938.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s too early, however, to say whether I will adopt it. I will
prudently continue to test, and await the arrival of a more suitable holster. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
question of whether the P938 is a suitable concealed carry handgun for experienced
shooters is one thing. But would I trust it to a novice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the women and many of the men in my
last CPL class had some difficulties even in physically working the slide—although
they were capable of doing so under immediate supervision with some advice. But
supervision and advice won’t always be there for them. I have doubts generally
about neophytes and self-loading pistol designs. Plus there are conditions one
hears about such as “Glock Leg.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
whole situation makes me nervous. Few people in my experience commit themselves
sufficiently to training and practice to master basic skills, but if they are
willing, the P938 seems like a truly compact quality pistol worthy of choosing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">8 August 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-86240503227741814992016-07-10T16:43:00.004-04:002016-07-10T16:43:44.002-04:00Professor Brian Anse Patrick on NRA and the Death of Elite Media <span style="color: #f4cccc;">Good post from "Righton." Please see: <a href="https://www.righton.net/2016/07/10/the-nra-and-the-death-of-the-elite-media/">https://www.righton.net/2016/07/10/the-nra-and-the-death-of-the-elite-media/</a></span>Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-87085151195339070102016-06-28T17:38:00.001-04:002016-06-28T17:39:12.162-04:00Review of "Guns Across America"<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">American Gun and Book Reviews <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guns Across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights.</i> Robert
Spitzer, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, 277 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I am uncertain if this is a serious attempt at a scholarly
book, or merely a dashed off effort in the recent literary counterattack on the
successful advances of the American gun rights movement over the last several
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">In either case we can be fairly certain that owing to its
publisher, the prestigious Oxford University Press, it will find its way onto
the shelves of academic libraries where it will serve to dis-inform many an
earnest undergraduate essay on gun control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Professor Spitzer builds on sands of assumption with
structural materials that often appear substandard. His book is well organized
but poorly argued, his cites/sources often questionable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">An example, in a chapter on so-called Stand Your Ground
Laws, Spitzer reproduces a table from an Urban Institute blog that purports to
show patterns of racial discrimination in justifiable gun homicides in Stand
Your Ground versus Non Stand Your Ground states. Results reported in the cells
of the table are percentages. No sample or subsample sizes are reported.
Regarding operational definitions of terms, a crucial matter in social science,
there are none. It is unclear if the table includes—or not—shootings by police,
or how many shootings there may be. In other words there is no way to gain any
idea whatsoever about the magnitude of the phenomenon being alleged. Whether
Spitzer is talking about 10, 100, or 1,000 homicides is unknowable. This is not
how serious social scientific findings are reported. Generally, stand-alone
percentages signify a perceptual scam, an attempt to raise funds or alarm; if
the frequency of some phenomenon increases from one to three, then a 150
percent increase is reported. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The author also relies on sources such as the reflexively
antigun group Violence Policy Center, which is more public relations office
than research center. (In addition to sensationalistic journalism, which it
does well, VPC also frequently plays the percentages game.) To the semiotic
ingenuity of VPC staff we owe the popularization of perceptual red herrings
such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">assault weapon, gun show loophole
</i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> universal background check, </i>terms
that seem to mark the cognitive limits of the uniformed.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Spitzer seems to treat VPC and similar organizations as
sources of revealed truth. Evidence of this slant are comments on how the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“gun industry” has “poured money into NRA coffers.”
And, “NRA sealed its decades–long political hold on the gun industry when it
spearheaded enactment of national legislation that provided the gun industry
with unique protection from lawsuits, the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Spitzer doesn’t quite get it. Sure, the
gun industry gives money to NRA, but NRA’s finances derive largely from its
five million members. NRA is not a corporate lobby, but a citizens group. NRA
is not the gun industry, which has its own lobby. The 2005 Act was created more
to protect would be gun owners when anti-gun groups adopted a strategy of
frivolous (but expensive) lawsuits in an attempt to bankrupt the industry, and
destroy Second Amendment rights from the supply side. Spitzer seems to confound
these things, although appears unaware of the latter facts. Myself, I use VPC’s
polemical analyses as examples of equivocal language, tendentiously selected
data and ill-defined terms when I teach propaganda/persuasion classes. They
provide excellent examples of bad. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Spitzer also seems to misapprehend the nature and origins of
Stand Your Ground laws, even while discussing them at length. In his chapter,
“How Did We Get From Self Defense to Shoot First?” he seems to think that these
laws mean that anyone who feels threatened can kill someone. No, absolutely
not. The recent stand your ground laws have changed nothing in basic
self-defense law. Commensurate force is justified <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only</i> when a serious imminent threat to life or person exists, and
the person defending himself must be in a place or situation in which he has a
right to be, e.g., an armed robber cannot claim he shot his victim in
self-defense because the victim resisted. The standard applied is that of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reasonable person</i>, i.e., what would a
reasonable person do under the same circumstances? This does not equate with
“shoot first.” There is also room for reasonable error, e.g., a lethal response
to a realistic toy gun. Spitzer correctly understands that the George
Zimmerman/ Trayvon Martin case was not an incident of SYG, although he quotes a
vacuous comment by President Barack Obama about how if Zimmerman stood his
ground then Martin also stood his, which suggests that Spitzer stands not alone
in his misapprehensions. This homicide was justified on the grounds that Martin,
who was physically larger and more powerful than the diminutive and apparently
idiotic Zimmerman, was pounding Zimmerman’s head against concrete while
smashing in his face. I have seen photographs showing Zimmerman’s damages. This
seems to be reasonable self-defense; at least it did to an impartial jury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Spitzer seems indignant that stand your ground laws shield
self-defense shooters from investigation. (They don’t.) But he doesn’t get it.
Apparently he thinks the legislators who passed these things in so many states
are homicide enablers. What SYG does is (1) shield citizens from overzealous
and ruinous prosecutions, and (2) removes a burden of proof that had been
placed upon a citizen in some states to prove that she had attempted to retreat
before shooting. SYG laws were designed to prevent the horror situation where a
homeowner shoots in self-defense, and then is immediately jailed for weeks or
months, interrogated, losing job and home (signed over to defense attorneys)
because she cannot prove she attempted to retreat. Prosecutors have power to
destroy the powerless. SYG is meant as a shield to honest folk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spitzer then cites as an example of the evils
of SYG law a Montana case where a homeowner trapped (apparently baited) a
burglarious young person and killed him in a garage. But the homeowner was
convicted in the killing, a result that points in the opposite direction than
Spitzer’s conclusion of the uncivilized nature of SYG laws. The fact that
Spitzer uses what is really a counterexample to his point suggests his
fundamental confusion over SYG and self-defense law. Murder is murder and
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The big thesis/assumption of the book is based on a
historical argument against the straw man of Second Amendment absolutism.
Spitzer cites 20 pages of old gun laws dating back to colonial times proving,
he says, that the Second Amendment is not and was never regarded as absolute.
Therefore modern gun advocates have no case and must take whatever restrictive
legislation is imposed upon them. Thus, according to the book’s after-the-colon
title, gun rights are reconciled with rules governing ownership and use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">But who ever said the Second Amendment was absolute? No one
I ever met throughout gun culture, and I have known many from high to low, ever
stated such a thing. Spitzer has confused slogans with doctrine. Felons may not
bear arms. Guns should not be used to threaten or coerce people, not fired in
the town square, or randomly distributed to infants, children and the mentally
feeble. These are undisputed norms. In some places and times restrictions
extended to Catholics (in England), Blacks and slaves. New York’s 1911 Sullivan
law that restricted concealed carry and gun purchases was aimed almost entirely
at Italians and Southeast Europeans. A Florida law that barred possession of
Winchester repeating rifles was intended to prevent Blacks from having these
useful weapons, the assault rifles of their time; the law was never intended to
apply to white people, said a Florida judge, and would have been deemed
unconstitutional if such had been attempted. Many laws prevented hunting on the
Sabbath. Game laws affected magazine capacity and gun types, e.g., no punt guns
for duck hunting. Many post-bellum laws were aimed against free blacks; the
Fourteenth Amendment was necessary to correct this and other rights abuses.
So-called time, place and manner restrictions abounded and still do, e.g., no
guns in schools, which has not prevented murderous deviants with guns from
killing schoolchildren. Many of these past laws were obviously
unconstitutional, others not. Many were unchallenged, many obsolete, lapsed or
superseded. NRA has for many years attempted to shame governments into
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Spitzer’s argument is absurd despite its great length. A
parallel: do past laws against libel, counterfeiting and pornography mean that
the First Amendment’s protection of free speech and press is somehow invalid or
should not broadly apply?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course
not!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Free speech and expression are not,
were never, absolute, but remain rigorously protected. The 1798 Alien and
Sedition Act criminalized expressions that criticized the government, obviously
an unconstitutional law at odds with any kind of absolutist or liberal
interpretation of the First Amendment, but was passed by Congress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Espionage Act of 1917 made it a crime to
undermine the US war effort via criticism and also empowered censorship; so
many people were jailed that the ACLU formed as a result. I understand that
Spitzer is attempting to debunk historical arguments that favor the Second
Amendment, but his method does not convince. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Interestingly Spitzer seems to think he discovered something
new with the existence of these past laws. He crows about it, claiming that
some old magazine capacity laws are reported in his book for the first time
anywhere. Maybe the latter is true, but NRA has been reporting for decades the
existence of some 20,000-gun laws in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And Spitzer just discovered that such things existed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also seems oblivious to work by scholars
whose approach and conclusions fall outside of the narrow waveband of VPC
approval. Many scholars have discussed these laws, but he cites scholars financed
by anti-gun money. I suggest that Spitzer read St. George Tucker’s original
commentaries on the US constitution instead of relying on interpretations as
promulgated in work that came out of the now defunct (no longer funded by the
anti-gun Joyce Foundation) Second Amendment Research Center at Ohio State
University. Spitzer might also try Fordham Law Professor Nick Johnson’s volume,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition
of Arms,</i> because Spitzer doesn’t really seems to know all that much about
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Why do I say this? Because Spitzer in his apparent
astonishment over all these laws resembles exactly the kind of person I often
meet in academia, who has no clue that any guns laws exist at all. Seemingly
informed by hysterical editorials in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New
York Times</i> and television news, they are misled by the cognitive red
herrings mentioned above. After the recent Orlando murders some of my academic
colleagues were surprised to learn that no automatic weapon (machine gun) was
involved, the shooter had passed an FBI background check done by all licensed
firearms dealers on all sales, and that one cannot just buy assault weapons (or
any other firearm) online. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Spitzer ties up with a chapter on how he built a gun, an
AR-15, which must have really wowed the editors at Oxford University Press, and
also acquired a gun permit to purchase a handgun in New York State. For only
$160 he was able to acquire what he calls the “Legos–like” items to complete
the lower receiver which he had to purchase through a federal firearms licensed
dealer. Spitzer leaves it at that, but this amount may be misleading, because
the rest of the gun, upper receiver and so on, costs a great deal more—maybe
$600 additional—so one cannot put together an AR-15 for $160. With help, he
makes a New York compliant AR-15 that holds only 7 rounds. His gun permit
allows him to purchase a pistol that he may keep in his home and is not a carry
permit. If he want to learn the meaning of the word “no,” I suggest that he
apply for a New York concealed pistol license. Even though New York’s
relatively tough laws seem to be no more effective at what he calls “lax” gun
laws in other parts of the country Spitzer concludes that the New York SAFE gun
law, hurriedly passed in the days after the Sandy Hook murders, are “feasible” because
they are clear and therefore compliance is easy. This standard, like his other
arguments, also seems absurd to me. Is this how we formulate just and
reasonable laws? Whatever seems feasible may fly? God help us if this is
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">28 June 2016</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">American Gun and Book Reviews <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Brian Anse Patrick <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of the American Gun
Culture.</i> Pamela Haag, New York: Basic Books, 2016, 496 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">This book recalled for me an incident of acute moral
posturing that I was exposed to back in graduate school at the University of
Michigan in the late 1990s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">For politeness sake I had invited a fellow Ph.D. candidate to
shoot at targets with a pistol, who declined for what he called “moral
reasons.” Apparently mere possession, touching or association with a firearm was
inherently evil. I had not known this. I was also to understand, so I gathered,
that by sheer dint of this virtuous expression this sensitive soul had
established himself as my moral superior. Forever. Absolutely. At this point in
the semiotic exchange I declined and
still do. Prissiness is not in my world an acceptable medium of exchange for moral
worth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The parallel? From Dr. Pamela Haag’s history one gathers the
impression that Oliver Winchester and other “gun capitalists” snuck up on the
American playground in the mid-19<sup>th</sup> Century and immorally beguiled innocents
into a culture of firearm addiction. Until then, she seems to imagine, America’s
children enjoyed a largely bucolic existence, and while they might murder with ax,
fists, knife or bludgeon, they had existed in a largely gun free safe zone. The
emergent “gun capitalists” simply lacked the social conscience of more enlightened
beings; sociopathically they ignored collective moral accountability and grasped
for personal profit at human expense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Transcending mere history to speak as the voice of anachronistic
conscience, Haag views American gun culture as somehow inorganic or unnatural,
a synthetic product or chimerical trick; it is not a true social growth but an immoral
business enterprise that created its own fog of cultural dissimulation. In
advancing this case, however, she takes some highly impressionistic flights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">A first set of fancies might be called assumptive. Haag’s
work is not the first attempt by a publisher to package a sermon on the phenomenon
of American Gun Culture as counterintuitive scholarly analysis. One is reminded
of historian Michael Bellisiles’s allegation of a rarity of guns in colonial America </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">(</span><i style="color: #f4cccc;">Arming America,</i><span style="color: #f4cccc;"> Knopf, 2000)</span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">,
which was withdrawn by its embarrassed publisher after historian Clayton Cramer
showed that Bellisiles cited nonexistent sources and selectively misquoted
others </span><i style="color: #f4cccc;">(Armed America</i><span style="color: #f4cccc;">, Thomas Nelson,
2007). </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Early on in her book Haag makes a
crucial elementary mistake identical to Bellisiles, the assumption that because
American revolutionary armies experienced difficulties in obtaining firearms,
that guns were therefore rare in the colonies. No, there were many guns, but
the differences were immense between a ragtag collection of fowling pieces and blunderbusses
appropriate to farm life, and the uniform stands of arms necessary for a modern
colonial army. The colonies were inadequately industrialized for European style
war. This doesn’t equate that guns were unpopular or rare. Too much historical
and cultural evidence suggests otherwise, e.g., all those spent lead bullets
that litter old settlements came from somewhere. </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">She also assumes axiomatically, that firearms
are teleologically murderous. There is little demonstrated understanding of possible
positive benefits—the firearm as a tool, a necessity, a device to liberate or
preserve self or social unit from coercion and violence. She sees Oliver
Winchester as a sociopath for all the murders/killings committed by his guns by
individuals and governments, even though his conduct suggests elsewise. In the
same way we learn as the sermon thunders up, that modern gun industrialists must be
held accountable for their lethal products.</span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"> </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">She appears to believe she has made the case to hold them accountable in
an emerging era of social collective conscience and justice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Just an annoyance, but she repeatedly misidentifies the
Union Metallic Cartridge Company as the United Metallic Cartridge Company. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">A second set of flights might be described a highly fanciful
tropes, speculative in nature. In many ways this book appears to be a fusion of
Creative Writing 101 and an initial graduate class in historical methodology. Haag
uses terms in virtually idiolectic fashions derived in creative digressions
along the way, suggesting little understanding of the conventions or mechanics
that she attempts to describe, e.g., repeatedly referring to the lever action
Winchester rifles as “semiautomatic” and even “automatic.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She uses the terms “bullets” and “ammunition”
interchangeably. She weaves a huge romantic moral tale based on pure conjecture.
Sarah Winchester, the wealthy reclusive and deeply spiritualist widow of
Oliver’s son, the tuberculin Will, whose children had died in infancy, moves to
the California coast where, provided for by the immense Winchester fortune, perpetually
builds and rebuilds a bizarre 200-room mansion with parquet floors, an organ,
blind stairways, ghost cabinets (popular with spiritualists), minarets, and with
chimneys, windows and balconies opening to nowhere. The isolated insomniac
Sarah ghostlike flits through the rooms after midnight and furiously plays the
organ, sort of, maybe, like in that old Don Knott’s film <i>The Ghost and Mr. Chicken</i>. Haag speculates that the purpose of this
incessant building was some form of spiritualistic atonement for the legions of
Winchester-manufactured ghosts. Was Sarah’s mysterious house a spirit house,
built on spiritualist principles, meant to wash away or protect herself from the
Winchester blood legacy? Pages are dedicated to an imaginary meeting between widow
Sarah and a prominent spiritualist of the era. Haag evokes the stories of
Persephone and Demeter to amplify Sarah into a tragic mythical figure.
(Aristotle, in his <i>Rhetoric</i>, by the
way, recommended use of such classical tales when the orator needed to amplify
or celebrate some figure about which there might not really be all that much to
say.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At some point all this becomes
absurd, although I suspect it may play well on daytime television talk shows
where it would be treated more or less as a slogan. Now, the legend of Sarah vies
with the legend of Oliver Winchester, so we are told. Yeah, right. (Nevertheless,
I would like to someday visit the mystery house of Sarah, as it still stands as
tourist amusement site, and see what the poor rich woman had built for herself.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I am grateful to Haag for telling me
about it.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">As a scholar of propaganda, I must agree that history may
resemble creative writing more than any sort of historical reality. We live daily
with Orwellian revisionism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But just as
Haag accuses Winchester and Colt’s of manufacturing a gun culture mythos, Haag
appears to be engaged in the business of manufacturing an antipodal Sarah
mythos by the decidedly ahistorical methodology of free association.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Several excellent chapters are usefully straightforward,
informed by numerous archival sources. We learn of Winchester’s well-organized aggressive
marketing efforts; the company leaders’ realization that guns did not just sell
themselves on a civilian market; the early reliance on sales to foreign
governments that established the brand and financial footing; the
reorganizations, the overbuilding and collapse as a result of production in the
Great War, a time when Winchester officials wondered that the U.S. government
might nationalize their plant if they didn’t cooperate with demands for
armaments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon after the war demand
fails, the family connection in Winchester Repeating Arms Company is gone, sold
out, and the business was in receivership. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">We also learn that the Wild West wasn’t all that wild; a
setting-to-rights chapter is called, “The West That Won the Gun.” Buffalo Bill
was a fraud and all that Wild West Show stuff, hokum, Hollywood westerns, too.
But I suspect everybody older than about ten years of age already knew this. I
think that the measured version of the Western hero offered in books such as <i>The Virginian </i>is more true to the actual
ideal of the West. And yes, the gun merchants stimulated demand, but could not
create it out of nothing. Demand was and remains real, despite “gun cranks,”
whom may fetishize firearms along any number of dimensions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The above mentioned, well-grounded chapters read as if they
were written for a different book or occasion, for soon we are back to the heavy
handed interpretive overlay. This may have been an editorial decision: market
the book with drama. The penultimate chapter is “Merchants of Death,” wherein Haag
pulls out all the stops on her whacky organ. She even references an early
Superman comic book to support her argument. Enough said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Haag also drags the Pope into her picture, quoting his
denunciation of those who manufacture weapons. But the Pope is surrounded by a
machine-gun toting Swiss Guard, lives in a walled city (i.e., gated community),
travels about in a bulletproof Pope-mobile, and should not be throwing stones. Others
may not be so insulated from those who would do them harm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Haag’s imaginings run for nearly 500 pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a lot of imagining; sandwiching some good
history at times. The moral of her story is corporate accountability. She
dismisses efforts to control individuals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just control the manufacturers, the Evil Olivers of the world, and the
problem of American gun pathology will be solved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A chain of accountability is all we need,
manufacturer to aorta, as she quotes from a source. She has made this case, or so
she seems to think. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She mentions a gun
control movement a few times, but who cares about the modern NRA and the
millions of people who comprise the new American Gun Culture social movement that
has arisen steadily since about the late 1960s? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To Haag, such people apparently seem to be dupes of the
gun industry mythos-making machinery, and therefore lacking in political and mythos
validity. She has explained them away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I suggest also she might consider taking a law class in
torts to understand, if nothing else, the notion of proximate cause. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Casting about for paradigms to support her concluding argument,
she cites Chicago as an example of a successful approach to the gun problem.
Say what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of May 2016 Chicago police
reported that 318 shootings had occurred so far in 2016, and accounted for 317
victims, 66 of them dead. These shootings were attributed almost entirely to
gang-related violence among blacks. Corporate accountability? Whose?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When? Where? How? Are the killers just victims,
too, of what Haag keeps calling an “agnostic” gun industry? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Who then is to blame for the excesses in this book?
Gutenberg seems a likely candidate, although is perhaps too remote to be
convincing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can’t be the author, who
labors presumably under the influence of organized corporate outpourings on the
nature of books and scholarship, and is therefore a victim too. Maybe it should
be those Merchants of Books who run a publishing industry that produces luridly
simplified accounts of impossibly complicated reality in order to cater to the
ego-defense needs of people to feel smart and empowered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or superior. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Enough. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decline
this semiotic offering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">BAP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">2 June 2016 </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-50211367068831290222016-05-31T09:37:00.000-04:002016-05-31T09:38:23.479-04:00Link to Articles and Book Reviews<span style="color: #f4cccc;">This link will take you to a site that allows FREE access to a number of scholarly articles and book reviews that I have published: <a href="http://booksc.org/g/Brian%20Anse%20Patrick">http://booksc.org/g/Brian%20Anse%20Patrick</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The "Vikings as Rappers" article from J<i>ournal of Popular Culture</i> was especially fun to write.Several winters back, I was reading the <i>Icelandic Sagas</i> and was distracted by some noisy movie that my wife was watching. This turned out to be <i>8 Mile. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">As I watched it occurred to me that the rappers depicted in the film were doing the same exact thing as the improvisational poets were doing in the Sagas. </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"> Hence the article.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">BAP</span>Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-12621307381079115982016-04-04T15:23:00.003-04:002016-04-04T15:23:37.109-04:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Interior decoration, bottom up, whitetail and elk from Montana hunt November 2015; top, caribou from near St James Bay</td></tr>
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<br />Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-8675932221455948622016-02-10T11:27:00.004-05:002016-02-10T11:33:31.175-05:00King Hlllary<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">“REX
NON POTEST PECARRE”: THE KING CAN DO NO WRONG</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">What
are the limits to absolute power?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">by <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Roger Katz, Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Stephen L. D’Andrilli<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Edited by Brian Anse Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Historically
English monarchs wielded absolute power over the conduct and the lives of the
populace – subjects – in their realm. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">The
famous English jurist William Blackstone developed a rationale for the
legitimacy of the Monarch, going so far as to say that the King not only is
incapable of doing wrong, but is incapable of even thinking that he can do
wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In
essence this means that subjects of the realm have no redress in law for
alleged wrongs. The King has absolute immunity. A circular argument was offered
in way of explanation. Subjects have no redress because the idea that redress
is necessary presumes the King could do wrong and has committed a wrong for
which redress is required. Since the King can do no wrong, no wrong could be committed
that would require redress. Even if a subject dared claim the King committed wrong,
the King has absolute immunity anyway. And woe to that person who would claim
the King had wronged him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">What does
all this have to do with here and now in America under a system of government described
as a Free Republic? After all, to negate the possibility of our government
resembling the English monarchic system, the founders of our Republic created a
tripartite of government, so that law-making functions, executive functions,
and judicial functions were not concentrated in any one individual or group.
Powers of each branch of were carefully demarcated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In this
light, recent actions of the President Barack Obama and the proposed actions of
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stand as attempts evade this America
system of checks and balances against absolute power and return to the
absolutism of the monarch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Probably
the most disturbing aspect of Barack Obama-style governance is his claim to act
in accordance with his personal notions of what is right. Through absolutist executive
orders President Obama has rewritten laws governing immigration and firearms
regulation, claiming that he is not making law, only implementing law that
Congress has itself made. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Regarding
immigration, President Obama would have the American people believe that his
immigration orders are not an unlawful encroachment on the singular authority
of Congress </span><i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“to
establish an uniform rule of naturalization” under Article 1, Section 8 of the
U.S. Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Regarding gun rights,<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">President Obama alleges that his recent executive
directives redefining what it means </span><i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“to be in the business of selling firearms,” </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">are neither an unlawful constraint and
infringement on </span><i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“the right of the people to keep and bear arms” </span></i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">under
the Second Amendment<i>, </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">nor
an unlawful encroachment on the sole authority of Congress </span><i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“To make all Laws which
shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers,
and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the
United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof,” </span></i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">under
Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">President
Obama claims that his kingly directives do not involve the making of law but
consist only in acting within the authority of </span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Article 2, Section
3 of the Constitution,<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">which
says that the President </span><i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> But Obama punctuates these edicts with
his claim</span><i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“when
Congress doesn’t act, I will when it is the right thing to do.”<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">This latter remark seems to hark back to
the antique doctrine that </span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">King is absolute because in the person of the king lies
unimpeachable moral and legal authority. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Commentators
have described President Obama’s misuse of executive orders as </span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“executive
overreach<i>.” </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">His directives,
however, go beyond mere overreach and assert a kingly prerogative. His actions erode
the sanctity of a free Republic. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The
designated heir of the Obama dynasty is Hillary Clinton. Instead of a King we
apparently are to have a Queen, who appears every bit as imperious as her
predecessor. Mrs. Clinton’s lack of unaccountability and history of evasion
suggests that she too claims the royal prerogative of being beyond all possible
blame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">To anyone
who might complain Mrs. Clinton would likely say, as she said to those who
challenged her botched handling of the Benghazi incident: “What difference does
it make?” After all, </span><i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“The Queen can do no wrong!” </span></i><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-1929242755178892272016-01-26T09:41:00.001-05:002016-01-26T09:41:09.348-05:00BBC World Service Interview of Brian Anse Patrick My interview is in the last fourth of the 23-minute program. See <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fx16x">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fx16x</a><div>
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-29872056558385051682016-01-23T11:36:00.003-05:002016-01-23T20:27:31.508-05:00Brian Anse Patrick on Red Ice Radio: Zombies, Guns and PropaGUNda See: <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2016/01/RIR-160122.php">http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2016/01/RIR-160122.php</a><br />
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<br />Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-63795735500582085202016-01-20T11:32:00.000-05:002016-01-20T11:36:39.242-05:00 Anti-Trump Propaganda, Wishing and Hoping<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Media Experts Try to Explain Trump Away<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">The
Propaganda of Negative Interpretations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">by <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Roger J. Katz, Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Stephen L. D’Andrilli<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Edited by Brian Anse Patrick <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">With the
Iowa and New Hampshire primaries fast approaching, centrists of both parties
are squirming because the so-called extremist candidates Trump and Cruz command
an imposing lead over Republican Party status quo moderates Bush, Rubio, and
Christie. Meanwhile on the left, extreme socialist Bernie Sanders is giving Democratic
darling Hillary Clinton a run for her donors’ money. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The
curious thing is that, for months, mainstream media have operated to discredit
the “extremist” candidates, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extremist</i>
here being defined as those who have not fallen into lockstep with status quo
party Bigwigs and major donors. Recall how mainstream media such as the über-liberal
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> and the big
business-oriented <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wall Street Journal</i>
had for months previous pointed to </span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the impossibility<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">of a Trump primary victory. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Propaganda
thrives in the realm of hopeful interpretations such as the above. These
interpretations, stories we might call them, tend historically to reflect the
wishes and dreams of the people doing the interpreting. Media professionals may
call this “reporting” or “analysis,” but it is merely an attempt to bias
perceptions. For an excellent example, during the entire decade of the 1990s, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times</i> consistently reported in straight
news and editorials how the National Rifle Association was defeated, dwindling and
in decline. We all know, however, that NRA was anything but, and came out of the
1990s stronger than it went in in terms of membership, influence and finances.
But media professionals tended to hate NRA and acted as cheerleaders for its
destruction. So much for the notion of objective news! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="http://arbalestquarrel.com/nra-didnt-take-the-bait-at-the-cnn-guns-in-america-town-hall-meeting-de-bate/">http://arbalestquarrel.com/nra-didnt-take-the-bait-at-the-cnn-guns-in-america-town-hall-meeting-de-bate/</a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="http://arbalestquarrel.com/nra-didnt-take-the-bait-at-the-cnn-guns-in-america-town-hall-meeting-de-bate/"> </a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
also<a href="http://www.ammoland.com/2016/01/the-demographics-of-the-nra/#axzz3xeJYBapVv"> <u style="text-underline: #0000E9;">http://www.ammoland.com/2016/01/the-demographics-of-the-nra/#axzz3xeJYBapVv</u></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">And it’s
the same game they are now trying with Mr. Trump. First they reported Mr. Trump
was merely a flash-in-the-pan. Then they likened him to a petulant child who
would bow out of the race if he should encounter difficulties. Third came the
claim that Mr. Trump’s support consisted of disaffected rank and file
Republicans who were financially poor, uneducated, older, white, male, and blue
collar, the implication being that no one really should worry about such
supporters. Now they are attempting to the attempt to nudge rank and file
voters back to the vacuum of the center by means of the doubtful argument—that that
neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Cruz could win a general election. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Democratic
Party oracles are telling similar stories about Mr. Sanders, namely, that he is
not electable. The Democrats, though, contrary to the claims of the mainstream
media, have a bigger nut to crack than the Republicans, contrary to the
protestations and remonstrations against Trump and Cruz. For, even among the
rank and file of the Party faithful who would vote for Clinton come Hell or
High Water, virtually all of them agree that Hillary Clinton is a person who is
completely dishonest, lacking any semblance of personal integrity. The
alternative is Bernie Sanders, a self-styled economic Socialist, but a person
whose talk consistently reflects his convictions. So, whom will the Democrats
put up for election: a former first lady with obvious sociopathic tendencies,
or a somewhat whacky character who comes across as Pete Seeger without the banjo?
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Average Americans
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(the very definition of propaganda) that continue to be fed to them by the
mainstream media, the bigwigs of our two-party system and by the moguls who own
and run the major news outlets. The propagandists don’t seem to understand, or
don’t care, that large segments of the public have turned them off.</span><span style="font-family: "times"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-70944475611885466572016-01-09T16:00:00.005-05:002016-01-10T11:59:19.681-05:00A Brace of Savage 99 Wildcats Part II: 338 Federal Thumper<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Not Many of These Around in Savage Model 99</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">A Brace of Savage Wildcats<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Part II: Model 99 Conversion to .338/308 (aka .338 Federal)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Brian Anse Patrick <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">After a having achieved a workable
.270/.308, the second step in my conversion scheme was a Savage Model 99 in
.338/.308, a cartridge long known to wildcatters that is now available
factory-loaded as the .338 Federal. For part I of his article on the .270/.308 conversion see: <a href="http://riseofantimedia.blogspot.com/2015/11/savage-model-99-conversions.html">http://riseofantimedia.blogspot.com/2015/11/savage-model-99-conversions.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The
conversion platform was a late Model 99 EG in .308 Winchester, factory drilled
and tapped for scope mounts, with the tang-style safety and cartridge counter/window.
The stock featured the high comb suitable for scoped rifles. Overall the rifle was in very good
condition, and I was a bit sorry at not finding a more beat up specimen to
convert. I perceive that good quality 99s are becoming more and more
collectable; accordingly prices have been rising. Still, one makes do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">After
doing such a fine job on the .270/.308, gunsmith and gun-maker Mr. Steven P. Durren working out of Johnson's Sporting Goods in Adrian Michigan was asked to do the work on the .308/.338.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We specified a Shilen or a Douglas barrel, whichever was most available, 24 inches in length, of a medium but
not-too-light profile, with a one-in-ten-inch rate of twist suitable for the
200-210 grain bullets that I planned to shoot. No sights were necessary as this
would be a scoped rifle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Practical Experiences with .338s<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">My experiences
with .338 caliber cartridges had been largely limited to a .340 Weatherby
Fibermark with a 26 inch barrel that I purchased back in 1989 while living in
Montana, and which has served me well after a few basic modifications to suit
my needs and tastes: a 6X42 Leupold scope, Cone-trol projection-less scope rings
and mounts, a barrel-mounted sling band, a crisp Timney trigger and the
magazine floor plate pinned so as not to accidentally dump all the cartridges,
as happened to me once on a Montana mountainside. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also cut much of the safety tab away because
it was way too big and prone to snagging on brush and such and turning off, a
dangerous situation. I haven’t had any problems with it since making it less
prominent. It is an accurate rifle, too, no heavier than it needs to be, for I
have little use for a lightweight rifle when it comes to making deliberate shots.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A certain amount of weight seems
essential for good shooting. I have slain three elk, a bear and miscellaneous
deer with this rifle using 210-grain Nosler Partition bullets, and admire its
range and penetration. It is not a pleasure rifle in the sense of being a
casual plinker because it’s expensive to shoot and rears back a bit, but I find
the recoil no worse than the several .300 magnum rifles that I have fired. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Compared to the
.340, the lesser .308/.338 cartridge propels a 200-grain bullet at about 2,700
feet per second, quite a bit below the .340 at 3,200, but still quite
respectable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Actually I don’t entirely
believe the 3,200 FPS figure attributed to the .340 and tend to think it closer
to 3,000, which is still very good.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
Savage Model 99 in .338/.308 is intended as an elk rifle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I also thought the
.338/.308 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cartridge to be perhaps
optimal in the 99 because of it’s compact efficiency, both cartridge and rifle.
While I have seen bolt action rifles so chambered, in my view a bolt action
rifle in .338 caliber would be better in the longer .338 Winchester or .340
Weatherby calibers. While I understand the appeal of short bolt actions, and a
firearm should be no more than what it needs to be, what little advantage may
be gained by the short action is perhaps not offset by the loss of power/range
with the .308/.338.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also people talk
about the shorter bolt being quicker, which no doubt it is, but I have never
noticed a longer bolt as being a handicap in any significant way, not even as
unnecessary weight. But the Savage 99 in this caliber is perhaps a different matter,
being compact to carry and easy to work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth be told, though, I regard it as more an
interesting novelty that is only redeemable if it shoots and carries well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Although lacking
his vast experience, I agree with Elmer Keith’s strongly expressed views that a
long heavy large caliber bullet is superior on elk compared to a smaller
lighter one. The reason?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elk are big
tough animals, and have not in my limited experience cooperated with this
hunter by leisurely displaying themselves broadside in meadows at comfortable
ranges. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">A digressive example, this November in Montana I could not rely on my .340
because the scope had developed a problem. Instead I hunted with my Father’s
old Fabrique National Mauser in .270 Winchester. This is a fine, fine rifle and
caliber. I killed a nice 5X5 Whitetail at about 220 yards with one shot, just
like in the hunting videos on Youtube.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He ran about 30 paces and dropped, the aortal bundle at the top of his
shot away by the 130-grain Remington Core Lokt bullet, as perfectly as could be
imagined. Even though the bullet never penetrated the other side, it killed
splendidly and virtually instantly. Also I had done my job by placing the
bullet well from a good shooting position. Conditions were ideal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">But the elk that I
harvested was an entirely different matter. Conditions were not ideal and
neither was I. The following day, much higher and further, at about 7,000 feet
and 350 or so yards, I shot a bull elk. It had been my intention to take a cow,
as it was getting late in the season, and I wanted to go home with meat. My super-guide
Mitch and I had climbed up after spotting with binoculars from the valley below
a group of five or six cows. Actually he climbed up while I panted up, to be
more precise. We were just trying to set up on the cows, when a legal bull joined
them. Thank you, elk gods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">But I was beset with problems: the range was
far; I was out of breath; heart pounding; my hands so cold as to be numb; the
snow fell and the wind blew; and did I say he was far away? We were as close as
we were going to get, too, for we were on one mountainous bump and the elk on
another separated by a grass-lined declivity. I could achieve no firm or
comfortable shooting position, and settled for a yoga-like torture position where
my back was arched like a striking snake and left elbow rested the rifle atop
Mitch’s pack. It was not good. Much of my problem was related to the fact that
I am a fat flatlander when it comes to clambering up mountains. Nevertheless,
there I was and so was the elk. It was time, even though my right hand was so
numb from cold that I couldn’t tell the difference tactilely between the trigger
and the trigger guard. As the song goes, “My brain was writing checks that my
body couldn’t cash,” and had written a whole series by that point.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I fired, I think,
about six rounds total and suspect that I missed the first. The second connected
because he moved his left foreleg a bit and begin to favor that side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also sure I hit him on a raking shot as
he moved slowly away from the cows and into a drop-off of a well-wooded drainage.
After a wait—it took us a half hour to get to his original location—we found a
bit of blood, but not enough, and followed. My hope was that I had placed a
bullet deep enough where he would bleed out internally. But I was unsure and
worried that I had merely wounded or crippled a wonderful game animal who would
go off and die somewhere uselessly because of my mal-performance. Worse yet, I
felt like the quintessential dude. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Mitch, who could
cover ground up there at five times my rate, went ahead and came back with the
news that the tracks had joined other elk tracks. It was getting late and
snowing, quickly covering what little blood trail there was, so we decided to
go back down and return in the morning. I believe had I been shooting the .340,
my first hit would have gone through and produced a clear and copious blood
trail. Perhaps he would have gone down on that shot, as I have seen other elk
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">We returned early the
next morning, Thanksgiving Day, in the clear zero degree air while the full
moon was still high and the sun rising, and Mitch found him dead in the
drainage, but had I been by myself without expert advice and much help, I don’t
believe I would have been able to recover that elk, although I would have tried
my best. Obviously, personally, I did not do well, and still question my ethics
in taking the shot, for the .270 with 130-grain Core Lokt bullets is not the
ideal long-range elk rifle. Under conditions where one can pick and choose
maybe, but not when conditions are adverse and one is lucky even to get any shot.
I felt relief, joy and gratitude at finding the bull. A more appropriate bullet
in the .270 might have been an RWS H-Mantle or a 150-grain Nosler Partition. Next
time, however I will use a .338 caliber rifle with a well-functioning scope and
perhaps save elk, guide and myself considerable grief. As my Father used to
say, attributing it to "The Old Dutchman":<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Too soon old, too late smart.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">L to R: 99E in 270/308, 99M in 284 Winchester, 99 in 338 Federal</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">A benefit of the
.308/.338 is the availability of factory produced ammunition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Federal markets several weights of bullets
for their .338 Federal cartridge, ranging from 185 grain to 200 grain to the
210 grain Nosler partitions. Having little interest in the 185 grain, and unable to
find the 210 grain in stock anywhere, I bought a few boxes of 200 grain for
my experiment. This also saved the trouble of expanding the necks on .308
Winchester cases, although I did make a batch just for the educational benefits
of doing so. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Despite it being
an efficient and useful caliber, I would not be surprised to see the .338
Federal quietly disappear from the line of factory loaded cartridges in the
next few years because it lacks perhaps an ideally compatible, off-the-rack rifle out
of which to shoot it. For example, the old .300 Savage cartridge was probably such
a success because it so well matched the Savage 99 rifle. I hesitate to use a
trendy adjective such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">synergetic</i>, but
the 300 Savage in the 99 well fit this description. So does the 99 in .338
Federal, in my opinion. But for my use a .338 bolt rifle would be in a caliber
such as the .338 Winchester or the .340 Weatherby. And while I admire the
ballistic performance of the newer cartridges such as the .338 Lapua, I see
such big boomers more as social calibers with purposes that lie outside of the
game field and my general personal interests. (I would play with one if I had
it.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">L to R: 308 Winchester, 338 Federal, 340 Weatherby Magnum</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Once again, the conversion took less time than anticipated. The finished product look good. It handled well. I ran a Hoppes-soaked patch down the bore to clean out residual oil or grease, and went back to the range. I sighted the rifle in beginning at 25 yards, dead on, which only required three rounds, a trick that has saved me much ammunition and bother compared to back in the days when I would begin sighting in at 100. At 100 yards, the rifle was on paper and required scope adjustment down and right to print where I wanted it, about 2-3 inches high. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Firing ten rounds total, I noticed some of the cases extracted with difficulty. I believe the pressure may be high in the 2,700 feet-per-second, 200-grain factory loads. They print well however, and recoil while brisk is nothing worthy to flinch about. The case pictured below shows what I interpret as evidence of high pressure, a cratered firing pin impression. I will handload ammunition in the future to alleviate this problem, with the goal of finding an accurate and reliable 210-grain load with Nosler Partition bullets. Experiments will continue. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Alleluia! Another successful conversion! Now to find me an elk. I am booked for a hunt this fall. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">BAP</span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">9 January 2016 </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Excess pressure sign. Note cratered firing pin impression.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Note added 01/09/2016. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The useful online Speer datafile on the .338 Federal reports: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: 'Optima'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">"Owners of custom 338-08 rifles should not use factory 338 Fed</span><span style="font-family: 'Optima'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">eral ammunition; many custom 338-08 chambers are slightly shorter
than the 338 Federal case. "</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Optima'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Optima;">This came as news to me, and I wonder if it might somehow affect my problem with high pressure. My next lot of loads will use modified .308 cases and a 200 grain bullet, probably the Hornady interlock, as I happen to have a couple of boxes of them around, and a powder charge from the Speer data. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Optima;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Optima;">I also consulted the equally useful Hodgdon online datafile on the 338 Federal, which I especially like because it also reports chamber pressures of loads. The Savage 99 is a good rifle, the king of lever actions, but not as strong as a mauser-style bolt action. I have no desire to test its limits. Ultimately the goal remains a safe and accurate load using the .210 Nosler Partition, but I could certainly settle for a good load with a 200-grain bullet that would stay together and penetrate on a thick-bodied elk. </span><br />
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-60325222804887103092016-01-07T08:42:00.001-05:002016-01-07T08:42:47.798-05:00Brian Anse Patrick Radio Interview with Gary Rathbun on College Meltdowns <a href="http://aneconomyofone.com/2015/11/23/an-economy-of-one-thursday-november-19-2015-with-dr-brian-anse-patrick/">http://aneconomyofone.com/2015/11/23/an-economy-of-one-thursday-november-19-2015-with-dr-brian-anse-patrick/</a><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">This is a one-hour radio interview conducted by Gary Rathbun for his show "An Economy of One" while I was in a MacDonald's Restaurant in Hardin, Montana, on the edge of Crow Country, and just a few miles from where General George Armstrong Custer got his ticket punched. I was on my way to an elk hunt. Mr. Rathbun was in Toledo. </span>Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-52187325108457992392016-01-04T11:32:00.003-05:002016-01-05T14:37:42.644-05:00European Mounts<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Boiled and peroxided, my Montana elk and whitetail from this past November</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My heads are wall-ready. Boiled out and peroxided. Left is the Thanksgiving elk, right the Ruby Valley whitetail taken on Nov 24. Both taken with my Father's old .270 F.N. Mauser. Those Montana mountains get steeper every year.</span>Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-29047055659056902572016-01-01T14:15:00.002-05:002016-01-01T16:53:56.733-05:00Trump Phenomenon Part III: New York Times v. Reality <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;">Mainstream Media Mislead Public and
Themselves Over Constitutionality of Donald Trump's Proposed Immigration Policy</span></b><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">New York Times </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Blathering Nonsense<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Roger J. Katz, Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Stephen L. D’Andrilli
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Republican
Party bigwigs remain frustrated at the American electorate’s continued refusal
to support their hand-selected favorite, Jeb Bush. But while their money may
not buy public support it can certainly buy media coverage. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
latest episode in the big media attack on establishment outsider Donald Trump
falsely asserts that Mr. Trump’s ideas on limiting immigration are
unconstitutional. The assertion is absurd on its face. Syrians and citizens in
foreign countries do not enjoy the rights privileges and immunities granted
under the U.S. Constitution. In legal terms, they are not party to the U.S.
social contract. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The more
the threat of Mr. Trump’s popularity grows, the more desperately the leftist-leaning
</span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">New York
Times </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and the big
business-centric </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Wall Street Journal </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">have
attacked him. Mainstream media attempt to demonize Trump by sheer name-calling,
using “devil words” such as </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">demagogue</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">toxic,
extremist </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">racist. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even though FBI Director James Comey
admits that the hundreds of thousands of potential Middle-eastern immigrants
cannot be vetted, and clear evidence shows that Islamic terrorists pose a
tangible threat to the U.S, media bigwigs treat Mr. Trump’s appeal for a reasonable
exercise of prudence as if were an outrage. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr. Trump
simply proposes to protect Americans from Islamic terrorists by employing the
temporary expedient of banning non-citizen Muslims from entering the U.S. But
there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that precludes Congress from enacting
quotas, consistent with its authority under </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the editors of </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The New York Times </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">must know this. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nevertheless
an </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">NYT </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">editorial of December 10, 2015,</span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/the-trump-effect-and-how-it-spreads.html?_r=0">“The Trump Effect, and How It Spreads,</a>” </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">asserts: </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Trump has
not deported anyone, nor locked up or otherwise brutalized any Muslims,
immigrants or others. The danger next year, of course, is giving him the power
to do so. And the danger right now is allowing him to legitimize the hatred
that he so skillfully exploits, and to revive the old American tendency, in frightening
times, toward, vicious treatment of the weak and outsiders. </span></i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beyond
its yellow journalism aspect, this passage comprises a classic </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">straw man </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">argument. The newspaper attempts to beat
up Mr. Trump on matters he has never countenanced. Mr. Trump has never said,
nor suggested, that he would take or wish to take any illegal action against
U.S. citizens who happen to be Muslims, or who happen to practice Islam, or that
he would encourage Congress to do so. And Mr. Trump has never said nor
intimated that America’s Muslims cannot or ought not be able to practice their
religion. Nor has Mr. Trump ever said or suggested that American Muslims should
be deported or interned. If it were not for the U.S. constitution’s guarantee
of Freedom of the Press concerning political speech, such wild assertions as
made by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The </i></span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Times </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">would be deemed actionable as character
defamation. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The same </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">NYT </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">edition conveniently features an
essentially misleading article, </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“Is Trump’s Plan Legal?” by </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter J. Spiro, constitutional law
professor at Temple University. This article seems intended to support <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The </i></span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Times’ </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">quasi-legalistic mumbo jumbo, but this legal expert has
virtually nothing to say on supposedly unconstitutional aspects of Mr. Trump’s
proposal. Can it be because there is no sound legal argument to be made?
Instead Mr. Spiro dithers on about history and morality. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Times </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">editors appear to admit that their assertions do not stand,
at least not on any legal footing. This is reflected when the original title of
the article, </span><i><span style="font-family: Times;">“</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Is Trump’s Plan Legal?” </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">was
altered in the digital version to read: </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/trumps-anti-muslim-plan-is-awful-and-constitutional.html">“Trump’s Anti-Muslim Plan is Awful. And Constitutional.”</a> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the professor’s academic reputation
on the line, one suspects that he could hardly have been pleased with the
original title that seemed to advance </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">NYT’</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">s
ridiculous unconstitutionality claim under his name. Mr. Spiro apparently, one
guesses, requested a change to the title after the print version of the
newspaper had gone to press. The digital version of the article reflects the
change.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since Mr.
Spiro cannot sensibly assert the illegality, under the U.S. Constitution, of Mr. Trump’s proposal,
temporarily barring non-citizen Muslims from entering this Country, he
instead argues that the proposal is “awful,” that is to say, immoral. Deep philosophy this is not. Mr. Spiro then makes
a tortuous attempt to tie morality and constitutionality together by drawing a
distinction between a colloquial meaning for the word </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">constitutional </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and the legal meaning of the word. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr. Spiro
claims, highlighted by the </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Times</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, that Mr.
Trump’s proposal </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">might pass judicial
muster.” That doesn’t make it
constitutional.” </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But once
again this appears as an absurd remark. It is doubly absurd in that it appears
paradoxical in view of the altered title of Mr. Spiro’s article: </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Trump’s Anti-Muslim Plan
is awful. And Constitutional. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">That
Mr. Trump’s proposal would pass judicial muster remains the only salient point.
And it certainly would. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr.
Spiro, however, appeals to a vague metaphor, asserting that Mr. Trump’s
proposal is illegal in the </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">court of public opinion. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
unless there is something in our system of laws</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
demonstrates that Mr. Trump’s proposal, if implemented, would be illegal as
determined by a court of law, whatever the fictive </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">court of public opinion </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">has to say about the matter counts for
nothing. One must suppose that the editors of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Times </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">imagine
themselves as the chief spokespersons for
this illusory court. But it is the legal sense of the meaning of </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">constitutional </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">that is relevant here. And, what is the
legal meaning of the word, ‘constitutional?’ The word means, “</span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">consistent with the
constitution; authorized by the constitution; not conflicting with any
provision of the constitution or fundamental law of the state.” </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And this is certainly true of Mr. Trump’s
proposal. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
bottom line is that Mr. Trump’s proposal is legally sound, despite </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">NYT’s </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">assault on Mr. Trump policies, principles
and character. One wonders after reading the above cited articles, who exactly
is it that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Times </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">editors are trying so very hard to
mislead —the public or themselves? We suggest that they are doing a fine job of
the latter. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">___________________________</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-42024258603508999972015-12-22T11:27:00.003-05:002015-12-22T16:38:08.386-05:00President Christie the Destroyer <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF-WANNABE
WHO WOULD THOUGHTLESSLY COMMIT AMERICA TO THERMONUCLEAR WAR IS INTOLERANT OF
CITIZENS’ RIGHTS TO SELF DEFENSE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Schizoid
Governor Wants to Shoot Down Russian Planes While Disarming U.S. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citizens </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">By </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roger Katz, Attorney at Law</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stephen L. D'Andrilli</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Edited by Brian Anse Patrick </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">A statement
by a Republican Party candidate Chris Christie in the December 15 GOP debate
was so horrifically absurd it deserves commentary, even though it was ignored
by the usually hypercritical mainstream media.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We refer to
a remark of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in response to a hypothetical
question by Wolf Blitzer, CNN moderator, concerning how America ought to react
to a Russian plane entering into a U.S. created no-fly zone in Syria.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christie
said: </span><i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“Not
only would we be prepared to do it [shoot down a Russian military aircraft], I
would do it. A no-fly zone means a no-fly zone, Wolf, that’s what it means.” </span></i><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">This cowboy
response might be expected from Dr. Strangelove, but not from the Governor of
one of the most densely populated American states, and certainly not from a U.S.
President. Did it occur to the Governor that it might be a good idea to perhaps
talk with the Russians before committing to war? What if the hypothetical
Russian plane were in route to a relief mission or to interdict terrorists? The
Russians have every bit as much at stake as the U.S. in the matter of controlling
terrorism, for their experiences include the Metrojet Charter bombing, the
Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow and the murdered and raped school kids at Breslau. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
remark also underscores what appears to be a schizoid aspect of Governor
Christie, namely the abrupt inconsistency between his gunslinger attitude and actual
policy of his administration. This “quick-on-the-draw” executive governs a
State that ranks among the top five States with the most oppressive firearms’
laws. New Jersey treats even law-abiding non-resident handgun carry permit
holders with high-handed disdain. Should non-residents inadvertently bring handguns
into the State while in transit elsewhere, they are prosecuted to the full
extent of New Jersey law. This man who would irresponsibly start a war with a
nuclear power apparently cannot tolerate the idea of lawful carry by
responsible licensed citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc; mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And should
a law-abiding New Jersey resident wish to secure a handgun carry permit for
self-defense, forget about it! New Jersey has issued only a handful of handgun
carry permits – all of which have gone to “connected” politicians and judicial
officers in the State. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
elected President of the United States, Governor Chris Christie– ostensibly a
“Republican” but whose actions place him in the category of Antigun Progressive
Democrat – would most likely work toward securing a disarmed American public,
in the same mold as New Jersey. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
comparative purposes we might consider what would happen if Russia created a no
fly-zone and shot down an American plane. Imagine the outrage. And yet the
first idea that flies out of Christie’s mouth is to shoot first, with no
questions asked because, “a no fly zone means a no fly zone.” </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Socrates Mr. Christie
is not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russian
President Vladimir Putin, who has a perhaps undeserved reputation as a cowboy
in the Western media, appears restrained and measured in comparison to Governor
Christie. We have a non-hypothetical event by which to judge Putin when a
Turkish military aircraft recently shot down a Russian military craft. Turkey
being a N.A.T.O. ally, this act brings guilt by association upon the U.S. Fortunately
Mr. Putin appears to have a cooler head than Mr. Christie. So a Mr. Putin,
Christie is not either. </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a
chief executive Chris Christie apparently would see no reason not to directly
engage Russia. At the debate on Tuesday, he seemed eager to do so. Why fight
with Mother Russia over a group of murderous jihadists in Syria that comprise a
tangible, explicit threat to both East and West? Is this Mr. Christie’s vanity
speaking? His ego? </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even
though Christie’s attitudes may seem schizoid on the surface, underneath there appears
to be a unifying theme: a propensity toward unrestrained use of power by the
few. Mr. Christie shares this trait with Ms. Hillary Clinton. Both are scourges
of Americans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and would exercise
power to disarm law-abiding Americans’ of their natural right of defense against
criminals, lunatics, foreign- and homegrown radicalized extremists. And both
seem more than willing to do as they please, consequences for others be damned.
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-10978872524583233662015-12-10T18:48:00.001-05:002015-12-11T11:34:56.554-05:00Trump Phenomenon Part II: Establishment Attack Dogs <span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>The following article has been obligingly submitted by Roger J. Katz, Attorney at Law, and Stephen L. D'Andrilli. Regarding Mr. Trump, this past several days I have heard uttered numerous astounding stupidities from many sources, none of whom appear to realize that as a sovereign nation, the United States of America has certain rights and obligations to control its borders. Mr. Katz and Mr. D'Andrilli offer a useful, grounded perspective on the current attack phenomenon. See also my earlier post "<a href="http://riseofantimedia.blogspot.com/2015/10/aristotle-on-trump-phenomenon-of-donald.html">Aristotle on Trump.</a>" BAP</i></span><br />
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"> Attack On Trump’s Immigration Proposal
Undercuts Congressional </span></span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Authority</span></span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">DETRACTORS HAVE IT WRONG: TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION PROPOSAL
IS CONSTITUTIONAL!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Roger J.
Katz, Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stephen.
L. D’Andrilli </span><span style="font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The
recent attack on Donald Trump is most curious. It is coming not only from
sources that you would have every reason to expect, but from sources that you
would have every good reason <i>not
</i>to expect: Dick
Cheney, former Vice President under George W. Bush; Paul Ryan, Speaker of the
House of Representatives; Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader; and John
Yoo, U.S Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, who
served in the Administration of George W. Bush. These individuals have all
spoken out, vociferously, against Donald Trump’s recent remarks concerning
barring Muslims from entering the Country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The
mainstream news media and leading Democrats and, oddly enough, the Republican
leadership itself, finds Trump’s comments alarming. But, alarming to whom?
Muslims? Alarming, we see, to those Americans who don’t like Trump’s proposal
and, for that matter, those who don’t like Trump, and who seek to undermine his
campaign by whatever means possible. But, Trump’s proposal should not be alarming
at all to Americans who seek protection from the deadly impact of jihadism –
jihadism that exists around the world and has now made its appearance in the
United States. From that perspective Trump’s proposal is quite modest and
reasonable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Indeed,
if there is any national security proposal that should be alarming to the
American people it is <i>The
New York Times’ </i>call
for confiscation of firearms from the hands of law-abiding Americans. But, that
proposal, coming from the publishers and editors of a major newspaper, receives
precious little condemnation that it richly deserves. And, it is from major
mainstream newspapers, both left-wing papers, namely and particularly, <i>the New York Times, </i>and conservative newspapers,
too, namely, and particularly, the <i>Wall Street Journal </i>that
we see scathing editorials on Trump – editorials that attack him on both a
personal, visceral level, and on a public policy level. Fortunately, some news
commentators go to bat for Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Andrew
Wilkow, whose radio program, “The Wilkow Majority,” airs on SiriusXM 125,
weekdays, made the perceptive point, on Wednesday, December 9, 2015, that Trump
is being blasted not for what he actually said about barring Muslims from our
shores, but for what he never said. The mainstream media, with assistance from
Republicans themselves, is attacking Trump and, by extension, those Americans
who support him. And, it is important to take note that the attack on Trump <i>is definitely an attack on Americans
themselves. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">News
pundits assert that Trump’s immigration policies, barring Muslims from our
Country, until such time as this Nation gets a handle on the problem of Islamic
radicalism, is unconstitutional. The suggestion is that Trump’s proposal is
inconsistent with the First Amendment’s bar against the establishment of
religion clause and free exercise of religion clause. But, Trump <i>never stated </i>that <i>American </i>Muslims – citizens who presently reside in this Country and
who have resided in this Country for some time – cannot or ought not be
permitted to continue to practice their religion, freely. Trump’s proposal
pertains to immigration only. And there is nothing in the Bill of Rights or anywhere
in the U.S. Constitution that prohibits Congress from enacting laws or establishing
immigration quotas. So, the assertion that Trump’s immigration proposal is
unconstitutional is false, on its face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">In
fact the U.S. has maintained immigration quotas for decades and, while Congress
essentially abolished immigration quotas through enactment of the Immigration
Act of 1965, Congress can certainly reintroduce a quota system, consistent with
the powers conferred to it in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">If
the mainstream news media, and Government leaders, and news commentators, and,
of late, foreign governments, believe that Trump’s suggestion for reinstatement
of a quota system, temporarily barring Muslims from entering the U.S., is in
fact unconstitutional, they are simply wrong. And, if they know that the
assertion is false, then they are liars as well. There is absolutely nothing in
our Constitution that legally precludes Congress from enacting a law for that
very purpose and, in fact, there is explicit language in the U.S. Constitution
that permits Congress to do just that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i>It is
therefore extremely odd to say the least that those who would bring up a legal
issue, where there is none, express no reservation in denying to Americans’
their Constitutional rights, where there clearly exists one. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The
Obama Administration has clearly violated American’s Fourth Amendment right
against unreasonable searches and seizures, through creation of and
implementation of massive surveillance operations and campaigns against all
Americans. And they design new ones every day. That clear violation of
Americans’ Fourth Amendment privacy rights is claimed to be justified on the
ground of national security. It isn’t! And, on Saturday, December 5, 2015, in a
rare front page editorial, the New York Times urged a national campaign to
disarm Americans’ – in clear violation of Americans’ Second Amendment right to
keep and bear arms – on the absurd, and disingenuous ground, that taking guns
away from all Americans is the best way to protect Americans from radical
Islam. It won’t! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">But,
in the same breath, these Government officials and Government Legislators, and
mainstream news media sources have expressed no reservation in attacking
Trump’s immigration proposal on the ground that his proposal, if implemented,
would violate <i>the First
Amendment establishment clause and free exercise of religion clause </i>when, in fact, there is no
violation of the <i>First
Amendment </i>at
all precisely because the individuals that Trump is talking about aren’t
American citizens. They do not reside in this Country and never did, and should
not be allowed to do so now – especially, given the dire situation in the World
today. That is Trump’s message. That is Trump’s warning. And, there is nothing
in that message to suggest a violation of any American’s First Amendment
Constitutional Rights. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Trump
simply wishes to keep more Muslims out of the Country <i>at the present time </i>and until the Nation’s leaders
get the matter of Islamic extremism under control. Trump said nothing more; and
he said nothing less. He certainly said nothing about arresting and deporting
law-abiding Americans who practice the religion of Islam. And he certainly said
nothing about curtailing the practice of Islam by Americans. And nothing Trump
did say implies such actions. Had he done so, then there would, of course, be reason
to attack Trump’s proposal on <i>First
Amendment </i>Constitutional
grounds. That he did not do, so we gain nothing by pretending that he did. So
there is nothing in Trump’s proposal, if implemented, that would amount to a
violation of the First Amendment. And, <i>the liberal intelligentsia </i>in this Country certainly know this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">What
the <i>liberal intelligentsia </i>do is illustrative of a classic <i>“straw man” </i>fallacy. They set up an argument
for remarks that Trump never made and, for that matter, never implied, and they
attack him on those, rather on the remarks Trump did make and on the sensible
implications of those remarks. There is nothing – absolutely nothing – in
Trump’s proposal that suggests that <i>American Muslims </i>cannot
practice their religion, much less that <i>American Muslims </i>ought
to be deported. So, to say that Trump’s immigration policy conflicts with the
First Amendment is altogether unsound. He is simply addressing an immigration
matter that falls squarely within the powers of Congress. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Curiously,
those who excoriate Trump on his immigration proposal are actually undercutting
Congressional powers and authority. They do so by tacitly asserting that
Congress <i>does not </i>have the authority to preclude
Muslims from entering this Country. That suggestion is patently false. Under <i>Article I, Section 8 of the U.S.
Constitution, </i>Congress
has the authority and has sole authority to enact laws pertaining to
naturalization – which includes immigration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">To
assert otherwise is to say that Congress is forbidden to exercise its powers under
the Constitution. It is not Trump, then, but his detractors who are asserting
matters that directly and negatively impact the Constitution. Trump’s proposal,
itself, does not raise a legal, statutory issue, much less a Constitutional one
under any scenario. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">That
leaves one matter to be discussed: the matter of morality. Trump’s detractors
imply that Trump is attacking American Muslims who live in this Country and
those outside it because his immigration policy is offensive. That may be, but
so what? While some in this Country may condemn Trump’s proposal on moral
grounds, one might reasonably counter that argument by arguing that, to permit
Muslims to enter this Country, at this time, given the present circumstances,
is immoral, too. To allow Muslims into this Country at this time is immoral
precisely because such practice would increase, exponentially, Americans’
susceptibility to acts of violence committed by jihadists. Muslims cannot be
vetted. Government authorities haven’t devised the tools to do so, and they
have admitted as much. So, letting Muslims into this Country, at this point in
time, would definitely make this Country less safe – much less safe for
ordinary Americans. <i>That
certainly would be immoral! </i>Yet,
the attack against Trump continues. Trump, though, is among the few – extremely
few – candidates for U.S. President who actually expresses a desire to protect
this Country from its enemies, both foreign and domestic. He is vilified when
he should be praised. He is roundly denounced when he should be emulated. He is
ridiculed when he should be respected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Ultimately,
Trump represents a return to sanity in this Country; a return to security for
this Country; a return to the sanctity of the individual; and a return to love
for Country. Those who attack him both within the Republican Party and outside
it, both within this Country and now abroad, are really attacking the millions
of Americans who support Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The
attack against Trump is, then, really an attack against Americans and against
America itself. Those <i>un-American
</i>powers and
forces that control this Republic and who control the Republican Party in
particular are very afraid now, because Trump’s popularity among Americans
continues to wax, rather than wane. Trump is the last candidate these <i>un- American </i>powers and forces want to see
representing the Republican Party<i>. </i>If,
then, the majority of average American citizens, who are Republicans, do select
Trump as their candidate of choice, and if the Party ignores its rank and file
members and goes its own way, nominating a person who can be and will be
controlled – who represents the international, globalist, neoliberal community
– then the jig is most certainly up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">If
the will of the American people is ignored, those that control the Government
apparatus will no longer be able to work their illusions on the public. They
will no longer be able to fool the American people since it will be they, <i>not </i>the American people, who are making the decision as to whom
should lead the Nation. We will know that. And, we will know, too, beyond any
doubt, that the Republic is lost and that the Republic has been very well lost
for quite some time, now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Copyright
© 2015 Roger J Katz, Attorney at Law, and Stephen L. D’Andrilli. All Rights
Reserved. Article used with express permission
of copyright holders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">My father’s generation was partial
to Arthur Savage’s sleek lever action rifle design, the Savage Model 1899. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of the men depicted in my father’s old box of black-and-white
hunting photographs, many display Model 99s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">These fellows, all
long departed from this planet, ranged over Michigan’s woods and fields in the
early to mid 20<sup>th</sup> Century, back in the days when “going up north”
meant a full day’s drive on narrow high-crowned two-lane blacktops, aka “the
State Road,” and a half-day’s wait for the ferry at the straits of Mackinaw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That they meant business was evidenced by scads
of hanging deer, tongues lolling, in a series of photographs spanning four decades,
men outfitted in the Elmer Fudd-style checked wool outfits, jodhpurs and knee-high
lace up boots. They loved their venison, the getting of it and the camaraderie.
Their faces show satisfaction, as I interpret it, for then and now, the Model 99
is a very satisfying rifle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The Model 99 had a
lot going for it. More robust than most of the other lever actions of its time
(currently, too), the 99 could handle high-pressure cartridges. Influential
cartridge designs premiered commercially in the 99, such as the .250-3000 and .300
Savage. A big plus, because of its rotary magazine, the 99 could safely handle ballistically
efficient pointed bullets. Other popular lever action designs required flat soft
point lead truncated bullet designs in order to avoid disastrous premature
ignitions caused by recoil when a sharp bullet point or jacket met the primer
of the cartridge ahead of it in their tubular magazines. What’s more, the 99
handled exceptionally well for offhand shooting, especially with peep sights or
even if well scoped. It was a dream for a quick shot in heavy cover. Available
in all sorts of configurations from carbine to takedown to featherweight to
presentation grades, a .410 shotgun barrel was available in the takedown
variants for use as a single shot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The 99 is no
target rifle and was never intended as one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It won’t even accommodate itself well to
shooting off the bench because of a cross sectional profile that resembles a
halibut steak. But offhand it excels for game-getting purposes. Probably the
best shot I ever made on a running whitetail buck was with a scoped 99 in .243
Winchester as the deer overleaped an overgrown logging trial about 30 or 40
yards ahead of me. I fired when he reached his apogee. He came down on the
other side of the trail dead, save for a bit of thrashing. I was fairly
astonished and found that in the interval between shot and landing, I had
unconsciously levered a new cartridge into the chamber. It was all so natural. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reliability, ease of handling and ultra-cool calibers
made the 99’s reputation. It carried well in the field. My guess? More deer,
elk, moose and bear were taken with the .300 Savage, which was regarded as a
whopping caliber upon its arrival back in 1921, than have since been taken with
the bolt action magnum rifles that festoon the pages of modern sporting
magazines like so many airbrushed pinup photographs. The Savage 99 delivered. Savage
sold well over a million of them until production costs surpassed marketing considerations
back in the 1980s. A brief resurgence in the 90s was attempted with the 99-C, a
magazine loading version, but the rifle was expensive to produce and could not
compete with cheaper-to-produce bolt actions that had and continue to saturate
the market. Plus an endemic condition had set in of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Americus</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Magnumitis</i>, and
while the 99 had been available in effective modern calibers such as .243
Winchester, .284 Winchester, .308 Winchester, .358 Winchester and 7mm-08
Remington, it was simply not suited for the big long belted magnum and super
magnum cartridges that hunters had begun to find so seductive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Having my own
notions of seduction, I wanted to experiment with the Savage 99, maybe a
midlife crisis kind of thing. I decided to locate a couple of late-production
99s and re-barrel them to calibers that might have caused a sensation had they
been released back in the era of the 99. Although it should be noted that the
.300 Savage and the .250-3000 Savage were regarded as quite sensational back in
the1910s and 20s, when the .250 became the first factory cartridge to reach a
muzzle velocity of 3,000 fps. The .300 Savage with a 150-grain projectile approximated
the well-regarded US .30 caliber service load, which was regarded in those days
as a high power bruiser. The .300 shot flat as far as most men could shoot
under any conditions, and still does despite all the nonsense one reads in the
sporting magazines about 400 and 500 yard shots. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">For his highly publicized
expeditions to Mongolia and China, American celebrity naturalist adventurer Roy
Chapman Andrews conspicuously employed Savage rifles, specifically the 22 Hi-Power
and the .250-3000. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Savage advertisements
made much of this. (Nevertheless, based on his writings, Andrews personally
seemed to prefer a 6.5 mm Mannlicher carbine for his specimen collecting on
behalf of the Museum of Natural History. He also seemed to eat a lot of these “specimens.”)
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever the case, the Savage .250-3000
and the Savage .22 Hi-Power, both fine cartridge designs, were promoted beyond
the bounds of reason. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A reverend Harry
Caldwell who traveled at times with the expeditions was reported to have killed
a Siberian tiger with a Savage 22 Hi-Power, even though few would choose a 70
grain bullet at maybe 2,800 feet per second as their first choice on a
500-pound animal known for its 6-inch canines and a propensity to dig up and
eat bodies from graveyards. I am sure the 99 in its heyday would have been
recommended for dinosaurs had dinosaurs been available. Elmer Keith, however,
tried and rejected the .250-3000 for elk after having to finish a wounded elk
with his six-gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, there was a basis
for some of these claims. My father, a dedicated deerslayer who once killed 11
whitetail bucks in a season, regarded the .300 Savage with 180-grain bullets as
a better killer than the hotter .270 Winchester that he had adopted after his World
War II service. The .300 destroyed less meat, too, he reported, a matter of
considerable import to him. Range, however, was another matter, and here the
.270 prevailed, despite its tendency to leave huge jelled bloody areas around
wound sites. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Weighty Considerations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I sought out late
model 99s for my conversions for several reasons, the first being
scope-ability. Early 99s were not factory-drilled and tapped for scope mounts,
and many of those later modified for scopes were done by persons of dubious
skill levels. Some can be pretty crude affairs. More, the older stocks
accommodated the iron sights of the era such that the addition of a scope far above
the line of the bore necessitated an unnatural craning peek-a-boo motion that
brought the cheek off the stock to align with the new fangled scope. This is
not conducive to good shooting. Later production 99s had stock dimensions
suitable for scope use with higher combs allowing for a consistent stock weld. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">And then there is
the mutilation aspect of drilling holes in a fine old rifle, which seems
disrespectful if not outright heathenish. Plus, again, these alterations have
often been done so very badly. I once acquired a 99 in .250-3000 that someone
had botched such that the scope was out of parallel with the barrel by a few
degrees, making proper windage adjustment impossible. Who even looks out for
such things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Actually, I do, now that I
have wised up.) I had to heliarc fill the old screw holes, then redrill and
retap them in the proper locations to install a new one-piece scope base. There
are many butchered 99s for sale in the gun shops and should be priced
accordingly, so beware. Such modifications, whether adroitly done or not, also
tend to detract value for collectors, who quite understandably, prefer original
stuff with original holes, as holes can be funny things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Sometime after
World War II Savage began factory drilling and tapping for scope mounts. Factory
engineers consequently moved the Savage logo unto the side of the barrel just
in front of the receiver from its original location on the frame atop the
barrel shank. This “tell” is a sure way to distinguish later rifles from older,
the top logo position being a sure a mark of an older rifle. I learned this
from Douglas P. Murrow’s useful book on the Savage, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ninety-Nine: A History of the Savage Model 99 Rifle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Another factor
that weighed in conversion considerations was engineering. At some point in the
1950s Savage engineers modified the 99’s frame, lengthening it slightly and
modifying the rotary magazine spool to better accommodate cartridges of .308
Winchester length. I did not want to tamper with the rotary magazine if it
could be avoided. Metallurgy figured in, as well. Rightly or wrongly, I believe
that the metallurgy in the later rifles is superior. We might praise old time
craftsmanship, but I have seen a lot of old time junk around too. Metals,
alloys and production machining have steadily improved over the years. I notice
for example that my same old rifles shoot better groups then they did 40 years
ago. The superior performance of modern cartridges, powder and projectiles is
attributable to superior manufacturing technique and materials. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Two types of
safety may equip the 99s. The original type is a catch on the right side of the
lever behind the trigger. Smallish and not particularly well suited to ergonomic
operation, it also locks the lever closed, and must be pulled rearward to its
off/fire position. Much later, by about the 1960s, Savage also offered a thumb
safety on the tang, shotgun-like, a location much more convenient to the
shooter, which merely had to be pushed forward to the off/fire position. Utilitarian
grades of the 99, such as the 99-E, still featured the old tab lever safety
right up to the end of manufacture. I have used both types without any difficulties.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Another feature
peculiar to the 99 is a neat little counter that shows how many rounds remain in
the magazine. This counter, visible through a small slot milled in the left
side of the frame, was done away with on the later more utilitarian models. It
was a nice touch, however. Especially back in the day when the magazine rotor
was made of brass. The number of rounds remaining, between 1 and 5, was stamped
into the brass rotor that peeked through the little window. In later models a
white metal, possibly an aluminum alloy replaced the brass. The 99 also had a
cocking indicator on the frame above the tang, a little post that extruded an
eighth-inch or so above the frame, such that a cocked condition could be verified
visually or tactilely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This overview has
by no means been a complete catalogue of Savage 99 features, and for this
purpose I recommend Murrow’s book mentioned above. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">My choices in
wildcat cartridges were the .270/.308 and the .338/.308, the latter which has
been recently introduced in a factory loading by Federal Cartridge Co., the
.338 Federal, although wildcatters have been experimenting with it for many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The .270/.308, also well known to
wildcatters, propels a 130-grain bullet at .270 Winchester velocities, or
pretty close, and seems to achieve 3,000 fps safely. I planned, hoped, on using
Nosler Partitions, a bullet that I have used to good effect on a number of game
animals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
a platform for the first conversion, the .270/.308, I located a Model 99-E in
the low 1,000,000 serial number range in caliber .308 Winchester. I passed on
several guns that were too old or butchered, and also on some that were too
nice, e.g., a 308 Model 99 1895 anniversary commemorative with an octagonal
barrel. It seemed senseless to start with a clean and beautiful rifle for what
amounted to a total overhaul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One very
nice well-priced .308 99EG I simply bought to shoot as is. It was just too nice
to willfully mar and it shot well. Despite my wildcat impulse, the .308 stands
as a fine all around caliber, and if you can’t hit whatever you are shooting at
with a 150-grain .308 caliber bullet, then you probably can’t hit it with a 130
grain .277 either. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The conversion rifle
selected was extremely ugly but sound mechanically, although looked as if
someone may have been paddling a canoe with it. Gunsmith/Gunmaker Steven Durren, who works
out of Johnson’s Sporting Goods in Adrian, Michigan, did the conversion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the .270/.308 I wanted a 24-inch barrel,
not too light, of a medium configuration with no sights, as this was to be a scoped
rifle. Also I acquired a new set of stocks from Brownell’s, at a very
reasonable price, and they needed fitting to replace the old stocks that didn’t
appear to be original anyway. Maybe a porcupine ate the originals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God knows what happens to nice rifles in some
hands. If you think I am merely carping, I once saw a fine commercial Obendorf
Mauser with a stock that had apparently been used as a chew toy by a large dog
or animal, contrasting with the fabulous metalwork of a barrel rib and
checkering; a cousin had gotten it in swap for an old lawnmower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And although I am not one of those fetishists
who obsesses over honest indicators of use, for my stuff does tend to get used,
sometimes one can only marvel at what some people do to guns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Design Characteristics
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Brownell replacement stocks were
configured in the Schnabel forearm, a design characteristic of the old Savages
and some European firearms, and a classic touch. Mr. Durren recommended a
Douglas barrel in the more or less standard rate-of- twist for a .270, one-in-ten
inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although my plan was to shoot
the reliable 130-grain Partition bullet, this twist could also reasonably be
expected to handle 140-160 grain bullets if desired. Regarding the chosen barrel
configuration, I do not favor a wand-like or stubby barrel. Twenty-four inches
was the length decided upon—most of the older Savages were so equipped and
handled well—and in a medium profile, not too heavy, but not light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even pondered a 26 inch barrel but decided
this would be too much for a light hunting rifle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Of course at this
point in time, the .270/.308 was a still an academic exercise to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had done a small bit of research, and knew
the caliber existed, and also that by no means had I invented or conceived of
it on my own as I had imagined briefly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
admired the .270/.308’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>theoretical
aesthetics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course the cartridge
was entirely a custom hand-loading proposition. To my knowledge no commercial
.270/.308 ammunition or cartridge cases have ever been available. Redding Reloading
Equipment provided a nicely machined set of custom reloading dies. They had several
sets in stock, so obviously there is some demand for the caliber by riflemen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I also benefitted
by an 1978 article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rifle</i> by Mr. Jack
Huber who converted a Browning Lever Action in .308 Winchester to .270/.308 (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rifle: The Magazine for Shooters</i>, Vol.
10, No. 5, “.270-.308 Lever Action”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The BLR is a much different rifle than the 99, and the bolt, while
worked by a lever, is of a rotary design that cams into locking lugs more or
less like those on a standard bolt action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While the Browning is a strong and well-designed rifle, my personal opinion
is that it is clunky compared to the 99. Mr. Huber, however, was more than pleased
with his results. It shot accurately. I hope he hunts with it to this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I also learned elsewhere
that wildcatters had experimented years ago with custom barreled .270/.300
Savage 99s, and even talked to an elder in a gun store who had killed a deer
with one, a borrowed rifle, back in the 1950s or 60s, so I gathered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said it worked well, but beyond this had
nothing to report on accuracy, loads or details of the conversion. Certainly
some of these old rifles are still around and it would be interesting to see
how they compare to the more recently developed .270/.308.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The .308 Winchester, the parent case, by the
way, was based on the .300 Savage and did not appear commercially until 1956,
so the development of the .270/.308 seems like it would have been a natural
step at the time. It says much of the basic Arthur Savage design, that with but
slight design alterations for length, Savage was able to more or less
immediately offer the higher pressure .308 cartridge in the 99. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Mr. Durren
delivered an extremely well-crafted rifle in a surprisingly short time frame,
less than a month. Reblued, rebarreled, restocked, it was a handsome piece of
work that nowise resembled the aesthetic horror that I had provided to him as a
platform. Metal and woodwork were of superior quality. I installed a Leupold 6X
scope and was almost ready to go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Completed Savage 99 Conversion in .270/.308</span></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Care and Feeding<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The next step was
to form cases and load ammunition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Following the suggested starting loads in Jack Huber’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rifle</i> magazine article on the .270/.308
conversion (the only credible source I had for loading data), I started with a
load of 46 grains of IMR 4350 powder, a propellant that has given me very good
results in other cartridges. Mr. Huber chronographed this load at slightly more
than 3,000 feet per second out of his Browning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Here I ran into my
only difficulty. Never having worked at forming any wildcat cases, I was under
the impression that all I needed to do was run .308 Winchester cases to the
.270/.308 sizing die, check length, and load them. It was not quite so easy. I
started with a batch of once-fired Federal cases, which when sized, fit perfectly
into the chamber when tested before loading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But once actually loaded with bullets, the case necks expanded a few
thousandths of an inch, such that a press fit was created in the neck of the
chamber. The lever was very difficult to work in order to extract a cartridge.
This seemed a dangerous situation from the viewpoint of pressure, and I did not
dare attempt to fire any such cases. Improvising, I sized .308 cases with a .308
Winchester die and after the neck had been compressed sufficiently to grip a
.308 bullet, I reamed the inner diameter of the neck with a .312-inch (5/16)
reamer (A 5/16 drill worked, too, for this purpose.) Removal of .004-inch or so
of material from the inner wall of the case neck did it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After then sizing the reamed case in the .270/.308
die and seating a bullet, the finished cartridge chambered and unchambered
easily. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Trying another
route to .270/.308 ammunition, I also made some cases from new Prvi Partisan
7mm/08 cases, which also worked well through the action, but not quite as
effortlessly. Tinkering along these lines continues, and I will probably find
someway to remove .001 inches from the wall of the Prvi Partisan cases and see
what happens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Left to right: 270 Winchester, 308 Winchester and .270/.308</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">The 46 grain load
of IMR 4350 worked astonishingly well. After a few sighting shots to zero the
scope, the 130-grain Nosler Partitions were going into the X ring of 25 yard
bullseye pistol target placed at 100 yards. Wherever the crosshairs were when
the trigger broke seemed to be exactly where the bullet went. Recoil was
insignificant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may drop the powder charge slightly to 45.5
grains or even 45 just to leave a wider pressure margin. I also plan to try out
the Nosler 140-grain Partitions, although have as of yet no idea where to
begin with a starting load. Usually, I tend to experiment for a time to find
what seems to be an optimal load for a particular rifle, and then, once found,
search no more. I suspect I am already quite close to optimal with my brand new
old Savage Model 99 in .270/.308, thanks to Mr. Huber’s suggestion and Mr.
Durren’s gunsmithing. I am more than satisfied with this rifle.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">NOTE ADDED 25 January 2016. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I consulted P.O. Ackley's exhaustive two-volume <i>Handbook for Shooters and Reloaders </i>(1962, Plaza Publishing) and found sections on the 270 Savage, which is the 300 Savage necked down to .270. and the .270/308. Ackley lists a number of loads with 4350 powder for the 140 grain and 150 grain bullets. and describes the .270/.308 was "a fine efficient cartridge," saying, it handles the "heavier bullets at very satisfactory velocities." </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Aristotle on Trump<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">It would appear that Aristotle knew
Donald Trump, although one might doubt if the reverse is true. About 2,400
years ago in his work known today as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rhetoric</i>
Aristotle delineated factors of the persuasive discourse that underlies democracy.
His <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rhetoric</i> is essentially a work of
communication psychology and technique. The basic idea was that in a society of
political equals, a person advanced by means of persuasive proposals supported
by logical argument and good character. Toward this goal, Aristotle
systematically discussed factors and variables affecting communication. Aristotle’s
ideas permeate Western Culture and American democracy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">One of the character
types that Aristotle dissects is that of the wealthy man. I can do no better
than directly quote The Philosopher, as Aristotle has traditionally been known,
who in less than 300 words provides a great deal of illumination on the
phenomenon of The Donald: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">“The type of character
produced by Wealth lies on the surface for all to see. Wealthy men are insolent
and arrogant; their possession of wealth affects their understanding; they feel
as if they had every good thing that exists; wealth becomes a sort of standard
of value for everything else, and therefore they imagine there is nothing it
cannot buy. They are luxurious and ostentatious; luxurious, because of the
luxury in which they live and the prosperity which they display; ostentatious
and vulgar, because, like other people’s, their minds are regularly occupied
with the object of their love and admiration, and also because they think that
other people’s idea of happiness is the same as their own. It is indeed quite
natural that they should be affected thus; for if you have money, there are
always plenty of people who come begging from you. Hence the saying . . . ‘whether
it was better to grow rich or wise . . . . I see the wise men spending their
days at the rich men’s doors.’ Rich men also consider themselves worthy to hold
public office; for they consider they already have the things that give a claim
to office . . . . The wrongs they do others are not meant to injure their
victims, but spring from insolence or self-indulgence.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">There you have it, Trump per
Aristotle: arrogance, insolence, self-indulgence while considering himself
worthy to hold public office. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
certainly many so-called wise men or our era have lined up en masse at his
door. Unlike Aristotle, however, I really don’t know Mr. Trump, and have only
fragmentary mass media sources to inform my opinions, but Aristotle’s analysis
seems at least ballpark correct. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
is all this necessarily a bad thing under present circumstances?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
the surface, Trump appears no more and perhaps less arrogant and self indulgent
than other politicians, such as the Obamas with their lordly taxpayer-financed
lifestyle. As to the hubris of regarding oneself as worthy to hold office, many
do; look at the gaggle of GOP wannabes. If Trump is indeed venially self indulgent
within the limits of moderation, then, so what? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill Clinton stained the presidency in any
number of dimensions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honest veniality
in an executive might be a better choice than an ideologically driven extremist.
Trump at least appears to be a pragmatist who values a deal. He also appears to
know what a good deal resembles, unlike many current leaders. Most would say
that Trump has earned his arrogance. If he has sinned, he has done so on his
own dime, rather than at public expense. Trump also appears beholden to no one
but himself. This may be a big plus, for we know not to whom (or what) most
professional politicians have mortgaged their souls, although we intuit that
somebody holds the paper. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the end, what might trump all other considerations is the Aristotelian rhetorical
concept of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ethos</i>, the apparent social
ethic, the character, of a speaker. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good
ethos equates with virtue. As the Philosopher says, in absence of other information
we believe a good man more readily than a bad one, because no one, excepting the
extremist, is certain of the correct path to take, or the solutions to all our
problems. Aristotle said as much in the 4<sup>th</sup> Century B.C, and this
observation still applies. So we rely on the high-ethos individual to muddle through
by doing the right thing based on an apparent virtuous character. Mr. Trump
appears fairly virtuous by modern standards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Trump’s commonsensical
outbursts have already affected the other candidates, some of whom appear
compelled to alter their droning liturgical styles. By his presence Trump improves
the system. My wife approvingly calls him “the Trumpet” for his brazenness. Of
course all this bothers media intelligentsia who over-intellectualize mass political
drivel. They speak in terms of Trump’s supposedly inevitable destiny to “self
destruct” and so forth. Trump is perhaps too abrupt for them. Regarding ethos,
Trump seems to appeal to audiences tired of professional purveyors of that which
Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt has formally defined as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bullshit</i>, which is worse than the lie.
The liar at least has some knowledge of truth, merely seeking to deny it, but
the bullshit artist soars untethered from reality into a world of self-serving fabrication.
Trump may or may not be a good man, but in today’s political ecology he remains
an alternative to those surfeit with the professional patter of careerist
politicians. In the end it may all come down to ethos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Aristotle, it appears, also knows the
American electorate better than the pollsters and analysts who have been trying
to account for the phenomenon of The Donald.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Aristotle also discussed the right to keep and bear arms. He said, "There must be arms. for the members of a community have need of them, and in their own hands, too, in order to maintain authority against disobedient subjects and against external assailants" (from Aristotle's <i>Politics).</i> Mr. Trump falls on the correct side of this issue. In this regard Mr. Trump does appear to know Aristotle, and that may be a very good thing for Americans. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span>
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-69943911815588655242015-06-11T09:06:00.000-04:002015-06-11T09:06:08.880-04:00Testimony in Support of Ohio HB 48, June 10, Ohio State House, Government Committee<span style="color: #f4cccc;">On June 10, 2015 I appeared before the Government Committee at the Ohio Statehouse and gave testimony in support of HB 48, which liberalizes provisions of Ohio's concealed carry law, and also, importantly, allows university governance bodies to decide whether or not to allow lawful, licensed concealed carry on campus. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">My statement follows: </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Testimony by Professor Brian Anse Patrick,
Ph.D., in Support of <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Ohio H.B. 48, 10 June 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I am Brian Anse Patrick, a full
professor tenured in the Department of Communication at the University of
Toledo, and a nationally recognized expert on American Gun Culture. I hold a
Ph.D. in communication research from the University of Michigan. My books
include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The National Rifle Association
and the Media: The Motivating Force of Negative Coverage </i>(Peter Lang
Publishing) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rise of the Anti-Media:
Informing America’s Concealed Weapon Carry Movement</i> (Lexington Books). In
addition to academic journal articles dealing with gun culture, I have also
been an invited speaker at the annual Firearms Law Seminar conducted by the
National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, as well as at the
Second Amendment Foundation’s Gun Rights Policy Conference. Additionally I am
frequently quoted as an expert source in media on the subjects of concealed
carry and gun rights. I comment in this forum as an independent scholar and
researcher, in the spirit of academic freedom, and am in no way beholden to any
organizational interest or employer, and do not represent “official” views of
my university, whatever those may be. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I offer three sets of proofs in
support of HB 48.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These proofs concern:
1) empowerment of universities, 2) increased public accountability of university
administrators, 3) facilitating the continued diffusion of a positive,
pragmatic social innovation, represented in this case by the American concealed
weapon carry movement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1.
Empowerment of Universities.</i> HB 48 appropriately empowers universities by locating
the responsibility for determining campus policy on the lawful, licensed concealed
carry of firearms, in accordance with Ohio law, within university self governance
structures. Universities by their nature function as complicated organizational
forms involving various levels of governance by numerous elected and appointed committees.
These committees range from departments to faculty senates to oversight and
disciplinary committees to boards of trustees. HB 48 offers options to creative
elements within universities to develop their own plans and policies, in accordance
with state law. It would be a relatively simple matter for universities to
adapt policy in this matter seen as suitable by their unique governance bodies.
No one is talking about blanket carry or about arming teachers who may or may
not be qualified or willing to take on the responsibilities of lawful concealed
carry, nor about arming students under the age of 21, the large majority of
students on most campuses who would be barred by state law requirements from
obtaining a concealed pistol license. Beyond the basics as established by state
law, the universities could tailor their own programs, allowing or proscribing
lawful concealed carry by citizens, students, administrators or faculty as the university
community sees fit. Note, that none of this discussion applies to persons who
may feloniously or unlawfully carry weapons unto campuses, persons who would
presumably not be deterred by “No Guns Allowed” decals on doors. A difficulty
presented by the university environment in that it is open and permeable,
unlike K-12, schools where doors tend to be locked down, students contained,
and access restricted. In my 20 plus years of teaching at the university level,
I have yet to be assigned a classroom or lecture hall that I could even lock,
whether I wanted to or not. Doors universally open outward from classrooms into
hallways, in my experience, so even the possibility of barring or otherwise blocking
a doorway is remotely impractical, despite the common usage of terms such as
“lock down” to describe responses to so called “active shooters.” Currently Ohio
state law allows K-12 districts to set their own policies regarding concealed
carry, and the result has been that Ohio has de facto become a state in which
local districts have chosen to take reasonable and prudent steps in the
direction of training and preparation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It seems equitable that Ohio universities should have the same
options.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">2. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HB 48</i> as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Increasing Public
Accountability of Administrators. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>An
interesting and relevant fact that I have observed about university administrators
over the years is that they seemed to have offices that they could actually lock.
A university president that I observed had a buzzer/lock system installed to
control public access. He simultaneously claimed to have an “open door
policy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My point is that university administrators
have been well positioned to distance themselves physically and symbolically
from their charges. HB 48 places the onus of responsibility more on university
administrators to develop rational and responsive policies, instead of merely
symbolic responses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By giving them more options
in this matter of concealed carry policy, a certain freedom of choice, they are
forced to accept more responsibility. In the past I have observed what seemed
to be well-meaning employee training sessions conducted by administrators on
the subject of “active shooters” in university environments, it is my opinion
that these sessions may often consist more in placation than substance, although
I do not entirely dismiss the worth of such sessions. Advice such as “run and
hide,” or to lock or barricade one’s self into a safe room applies strongly,
and also to call 9-1-1 for help. But at one such session, located in a large
lecture hall at a major university in a neighboring state, I checked my cell
phone while this advice was being given. There was no reception in the hall. I
was told that this was typical of many areas in the college. Additionally, the
lecture hall was in the amphitheater design, with two doors that opened outward
above, and the 100 or so seats arrayed in downward semicircles toward the pit
containing the lectern. There was no other way out of the room, and it was not
possible to bar or lock the doors from inside, or, without having the keys from
the outside, either. Despite the human resource manager’s helpful admonitions
to run and hide, and call for help, and to resist if it became necessary, there
was literally no place to run or hide. Attendees could perhaps have thrown
their useless cellphones at any active shooter who entered the room. Emergency
instructions on disaster flip charts that I examined at the same university contained
unbelievably trite advice such as to try not to anger the shooter, along with
wordy definitions of “active shooter” that looked as if they had been copied
from a sociology text. I’m sure that such sessions and documents look very good
on an administrative resume, but their efficacy remains doubtful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">3)
HB 48 as Facilitating the Continuing Diffusion of a Popular, Positive, Pragmatic
Social Innovation, in this Case the Concealed Weapon Carry Movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Since 1987 when Florida’s concealed carry
law was passed, the Shall Issue concealed carry movement has swept the county.
Gun rights have become a well-organized and successful social movement,
involving millions of people. Legislators at the beginning were understandably
cautious and remain so, but tend to revisit the laws, sometimes several times,
to adjust and fine tune them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
testifies the success of the laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
such laws have ever been revoked. Two conclusions seem inescapable. First, the
laws work. They do not promote anarchy or violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anything the opposite is true. They
promote order and peace. Plus they do not take place at public expense. Many
objections to these laws seem to be based on lurid media stereotypes types
derived from mass mediated entertainment. Predictions based on these stereotypes
have not materialized anywhere to my knowledge in the 40 or so states that have
right to carry laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The filters imposed
by background checks and training have proven more than sufficient to ensure
safety and responsibility. A second conclusion is that that schools and the
universities and churches are the new frontier of the movement. Legislators
across they country are now cautiously finding solutions to the problems of
public safety in these institutional spaces. We now see various states
extending the accepted parameters of lawful concealed carry to these vital
institutions. These parameters may involve tiered systems of training suitable
for unique institutional settings and other factors, an example here is the
FASTER program (<b>F</b>aculty/<b>A</b>dministrator <b>S</b>afety
<b>T</b>raining and <b>E</b>mergency <b>R</b>esponse) that has been successful
in so many of Ohio’s K-12 school districts, safely training and arming hundreds
of teachers at private expense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The institutions
themselves in conjunction with state legislators will be able decide and
negotiate what is most appropriate. And I am sure that as the movement continues
to grow, this is not the last time that legislators will adjust and liberalize
the State’s concealed carry laws to accommodate the needs of the people and
their organizations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-26570446198413105802015-05-11T14:02:00.004-04:002015-05-11T14:02:53.086-04:00Brian Anse Patrick radio interview on Ten Commandments of Propaganda <span style="color: #f4cccc;">This interview is with host Gary Rathbun on his show "An Economy of One" on May 6, 2015.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><a href="http://aneconomyofone.com/2015/05/08/an-economy-of-one-may-6-2015/">http://aneconomyofone.com/2015/05/08/an-economy-of-one-may-6-2015/</a></span><br />
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<br />Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-5369177604311459252015-05-11T09:08:00.005-04:002015-05-11T09:08:45.964-04:00Brian Anse Patrick Red Ice Radio Interview<span style="color: #ea9999;">This is a two-hour interview on <i>The Ten Commandments of Propaganda, </i>zombies<i> </i>and other subjects: </span><br />
<a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2015/05/RIR-150504.php">http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2015/05/RIR-150504.php</a>Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-13472163023546915122015-04-25T23:04:00.003-04:002015-04-25T23:04:50.992-04:00Aristotle on Business Communication by Brian Anse PatrickMy latest book is now available on Amazon/Kindle. <br />
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Understanding the principle at work here, Lewis Carroll said con-cerning the archetype of the hero in his “Jabberwocky”:
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Th</span><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">e Vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He le</span><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">ft </span><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">it dead,<br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Th</span><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">e hero must have a weapon appropriate to the anxieties he or she
must face, especially in combating darker archetypal horrors such as
jabberwockies and zombies. And the child too must mature into the
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">arms if he is to carry on the works of his fathers and mothers.
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Aristotle used the idea of defense as the major premise to a syl-
logism, meaning that it was something that was universally regarded
as true. Arms and reason comprised the arsenal of the civil man. His
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<span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 10.000000pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable
to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend
himself with rational speech, when the use of rational speech is more
distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Th</span><span style="font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">e zombie, while not persuadable by rational speech, succumbs only
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Brian Anse Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707254250707914007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677652714382490965.post-48308826880730971042015-02-16T06:35:00.001-05:002015-02-16T06:38:35.598-05:00Interview in Christian Science Monitor<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Valentine's Day coverage of Professor Brian Anse Patrick. See: <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0214/Concealed-carry-without-a-permit-Will-crime-go-up-or-down">http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0214/Concealed-carry-without-a-permit-Will-crime-go-up-or-down</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I have talked to this reporter before. He usually quotes me accurately (which is rare) and fairly although sometimes in contexts that are a bit askew. Seems to try to get a different take on gun matters than the norm. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I am a little sad, though, that he did not use my line: "I carry a gun for philosophical reasons."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">My book <i>PropaGUNda </i>is coming along nicely. I promised this to Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation quite a while back and was distracted by two other books that just had to be written: <i>Zombology: Zombies and the Decline of the West (and Guns), </i>now out by Arktos Media,<i> </i>and <i>Aristotle on Business Communication</i> (now in the review/editing process at Peter Lang Publishing). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Alan, the book is coming!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Below is a photo taken by University of Toledo photographer Dan Miller:</span><br />
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