Interesting week so far, huh?

Before the police arrive, it's just YOU, and ... Police response times vary widely, depending on volume of calls, and manpower levels; you must consider how long you want to cringe in terror, hoping they arrive, before some possibly drug or alcohol-crazed psycho gets to you first.

What if more clear headed burglars cut your phone lines, or your cell phone goes dead? If you don't realize that YOU are first, and foremost responsible for your own safety, in your own home, you've really missed something.

Proven fact is that burglars most fear armed homeowners, and even more so, aggressive ones, FAR MORE THAN THEY DO THE POLICE (who can't be everywhere at once), a well-documented fact!
Don't know about anyone else here, but if I'm "holed up" in my safe room, armed the way I would be armed, I wouldn't be "cringing in terror" from any threat short of a full bore military assault! It's about mindset, and tactics. Patience is a tactic. uscca

Mayor Noggin
It amazes me that Nagin got elected again. Not that there was much of a choice, but he is going around shooting his mouth off again. Here is an interesting article and website. I think this guy says a lot of good things.

Senator Landrieu was recently on CSPAN talking about the work being done and the status of things post Kartina. Read article here

Wal-Mart has announced an odd new domestic "partnership." They have teamed up with an outfit called the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Wal-Mart has caved in, obviously, to the pressure tactics such groups apply to large corporations.

Wal-Mart has made its billions of the backs of rural communities throughout America. It has never discriminated against homosexuals who want to purchase their products at low prices. Nor have they ever discriminated in hiring homosexuals. Wal-Mart is now a “corporate member” of the “National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce” and (pay for) some of the programs of the “National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce,” including two conferences.

Wal-Mart will also go out of its way to purchase products from businesses with “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT)” owners. How can Wal-Mart claim it is a “family-friendly” store and company if it continues to use consumer dollars to fund radical social activism?

IANSA
Just so we’re all clear on the philosophy of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), here’s a statement from its head, Rebecca Peters:

I think American citizens should not be exempt from the rules that apply to the rest of the world. At the moment there are no rules applying to the rest of the world. That’s what we’re working for. American citizens should have guns that are suitable for the legitimate purposes that they can prove. I think that eventually Americans will realize that their obsession with arming themselves in fear, in a paranoid belief that they’re going to be able to stave off the ills of the world through owning guns, through turning every house into an arsenal, eventually Americans will go away from that. I think Americans who hunt—and who prove that they can hunt—should have single-shot rifles suitable for hunting whatever they’re hunting. I mean American citizens should be like any other citizens of the world.

So… the Second Amendment is irrelevant. What we have is a “right” to hunt—and that only with registered, needs-based certification?
I don’t think so, Missy.

And why am I posting this piece now?

Well, apart from the educational aspect of it (know thy enemy), it should be noted that this foul bunch of internationalist GFWs is planning to get a U.N.-sponsored treaty passed which would mandate the above scenario. (Of course, I highly doubt whether the treaty would ever get ratified here in the United States; even our craven Senate would be—rightly—alarmed about the public backlash. But still.)

It should be noted that this Peters bitch is in the pocket of billionaire Democrat supporter George Soros (from whom IANSA received most of its seed funding).
And the details?

* Licensing for all gun ownership, based on a series of criteria, including minimum age, training and “establishing a genuine reason for needing to own a gun;”
* Arbitrary police discretion in the issuance of gun licenses;
* People subject to domestic violence restraining orders against would be subject to compulsory seizure of all firearms;
* All guns must be registered at time of sale or transfer and when the license is renewed;
* A 28-day waiting period to buy any gun;
* The “genuine reason” for having a gun must be proven separately for each gun, “effectively imposing a limit on the number of guns a person can own;”
* Guns cannot be bought or sold privately but only through a dealer licensed by the State;
* Strict requirements on how guns are stored;
* Limitations on the type of firearms which can be owned

Sometimes called the “Australian model”, this is the blueprint for the terms of the international treaty.

Here’s my suggestion to IANSA:
Don’t even bother trying this crap with the United States. Kim du Toit