Free In Idaho!

Speaking of ePostal matches, Sebastian at Snowflakes in Hell is floating the idea of a gun blog rifle league.  He’s got a poll going to gauge interest, so if getting involved in a rifle league interests you, head on over and add your voice.  I’d say, judging from the results so far, there are many more who seem interested in the rifle shoots than actually shoot in the handgun matches, so this could turn out to be another great community building/skill building idea.  You DID say you needed another reason to go shooting, didn’t you?

Sailor Curt over at Captain of a Crew of One has posted the July edition of Mr Completely’s ePostal Match.  After last month’s animal cracker shoot, which drove everyone one step closer to crazy, Sailor Curt promises to finish the job.  No, I’m only kidding.  But this looks pretty challenging.   I’ve only tossed darts once in my life, sometime in the early Eighties, so I need to read the rules a few more times before I get the iron out.  But before July 28th, I promise, I’m shooting this one too, because it looks like fun.  Thanks Curt!

Whining about gas prices and bitching about glowball warming is for wusses.  Real men and women don’t give a rip, and in fact, they get together to celebrate the uniquely American icon, the custom automobile.  Last Saturday night, Boise’s “Capitol Cruise” happened in downtown.  Close off the city core, bring about half of the cars from the 1000 or so gathered at the annual car show at the fairgrounds, and let them cruise for three hours or so… yeah!

I thought about making this one into a “motivator” type post, but I just haven’t found the perfect words for it yet.  But the title of the post says it well enough for now.  Is this “in your face AlGore” enough for you?

It isn’t surprising to find out that some folks who don’t live in Idaho think that we’re all backwater hicks, or worse.  I’ve heard the “Aryan nations” comments from some in my own family if I mention firearms.  So I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise to hear the communications director for the Brady bunch, Peter Hamm, use the word “backward” when talking about Idaho, and Idahoan Dirk Kempthorne’s proposal to allow carrying in the National Parks.

“Idaho is Idaho,” said Peter Hamm, the communications director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and an Interior Department official in the Clinton administration. But he called the Kempthorne-backed proposal to allow firearms in parks a “backward” and unsafe” idea, and said that it’s not up to just the Idaho senators or Idaho residents to determine gun regulations for federal lands that belong to all Americans.

This guy has been in Washington D.C. too long.  The BS rolls off his tongue like he’s reading from a teleprompter.  Last time I looked, there was a pretty good representation of ALL states and ALL Americans asking the government to relax the carry laws in the Parks, not just Idahoans.  I wonder what got his panties twisted about Idaho?

The state has had “some marvelous people serving in office,” Hamm said, but he added that “on a lot of issues where most of the country has moved to the center, Idaho is far right. Politicians tend to pander to the lowest common denominator.”

Lowest common denominator, eh?  You must mean all of us backward, bitter, Bible clingers?  But we are not “far right” Mr Hamm, we’re FOR RIGHTS.  The lowest common denominator still believes in small government, low taxes, individual rights, personal responsibility, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from a coercive federal government, a strong national defense, a free and capitalist economy, and yes, the RIGHT to keep and bear arms.  And in Idaho, a member of that lowest common denominator has as much chance of being a Democrat as a Republican or a Libertarian.  Read the Constitution Mr Hamm, and then stretch yourself and read the Bill of Rights.  It might scare you, but do it anyway.  Heck, even the Democrats out here still remember there is a Second Amendment.  I’ve even hunted and shot with a few of them.

And remember this, it’s not up to just the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to determine gun regulations for rights that belong to all Americans.  You can paint Idahoans as “lowest common denominator” for your buds in Washington, and your pals in San Francisco and Chicago, but outside  the elite circle, you get a fail.