Canales News Briefs

July 15, 2009

"...Twenty-Seven:

A good walker leaves no tracks;

A good speaker makes no slips;

A good reckoner needs no tally.

A good door needs no lock,

Yet no one can open it.

Good binding requires no knots,

Yet no one can loosen it.

Therefore the sage takes care of all men

and abandons no one.

He takes care of all things

and abandons nothing.

This is called ' following the light.'

What is a good man?

A teacher of a bad man.

What is a bad man?

A good man's charge.

If the teacher is not respected,

And the student not cared for,

Confusion will arise, however clever one is.

This is the crux of mystery..."

- Lao Tzu, " Tao Te Ching", Chapter 27,

Translation by Gia Fu Feng

To All,

Know the white, but keep to the black...:

Say You Want A Revolution...:

One of the more common tricks of the "trade" of the gungrabbers is "divide and conquer".

Whether it's a ban on ammunition due to Fish & Game rules, or regulation of ammunition sales of only a sub-category of ammunition, it is a common enough tactic of the Brady Bunch and the Packard Foundation and their Fishy Friends that firearms rights activists should be reminded of it periodically.

In the case of AB 962, by Assemblymember Kevin de Leon (D-LaLa Land), proposed legislation is asking for extraordinary regulations limiting the transfer of "handgun" ammunition in the name of making the work place safe for criminals and looters so that they an increase their market share in the "hot prowl" burglaries industrial segment.

After all, what else could one call legislation that not only would make it nearly impossible to procure enough practice ammunition at one time for a conscientious soul to stay proficient, but would essentially make it impossible for citizens to distribute ammo on hand to deal with civil disturbances or even the potential need to wet the roots of the "Tree of Liberty"?

Imagine the following "Twilight Zone" moment- Korean shopkeepers are battling looters along Western Avenue in Los Angeles in the middle of a civil disturbance of an un-named cause. It's Day 2 of a 3 day "outdoor" event, and all of the gun-shops are closed under "near-martial law" conditions. Some shopkeepers have been providing a "base of fire" more than others, perhaps due to their location-location-location, in repelling folks with a different idea of personal property rights than others. At the same time, a California Governor has signed AB 962 into law.

Assembly Critter de Leon's bill would make it a misdemeanor for neighbors to share ammo in the common defense of their neighborhood during a riot or in response to tyrannical state government (after all, 9 mm is a current military caliber...). Instead of protecting one's home or business, one faces misdemeanor charges for helping his neighbors. Yeah, right.

Now, Kevin de Leon is not currently targeting hunting ammunition, nor target ammunition, nor "plinking (rifle) ammunition, nor sporting clays ammunition, nor....well, you get the point.

Yet it might be said that there are some slothful souls out there who, while ensconced horizontally in their hammocks, will not come to the aid of their shooting brothers and sisters because their ammunition of choice is somehow not (currently) on de Leon's hit list.

Well, Wake Up, Shit for Brains!

Face it morons, either we all hang together or we all hang separately (Thanks Ben, we needed that...). The days of rimfire plinkers selling out IPSC guys, or duck clubbers pissed off over the 1991 Ban is OVER. They lost on the Constitutional Debate, but that does not mean the Gun Grabbers have gone home and cried in their Brewskies. Cats can be skinned several ways, and unless you want to be turned into a lot sample of disarmed bongos we had all better park it for the duration and zero those bead sights on those who would turn fine firearms into heirlooms (politically speaking, of course).

In other words, handgun ammo is rifle ammo is shotgun ammo is plinking ammo is long-range-dempsey-dumpster-perforating ammo is, well, ...you get the idea. We are strongest when we are not trying to sell out our confreres in secret back-room deals over market share and cronyism. And we are weakest when someone, anyone, tries to cut a deal over what is "sold" to them as an "inevitable" political reality in the name of "expediency".

In fact, the only inevitable political reality in this kind "sell-out" situation is the one where our descendants curse our names for not having the same fortitude as the guys at Valley Forge, Little Round Top, or Chosin Reservoir. And woe to the schmuck who decides that they "know better" than the rest of us when it comes to concession-making time.

Yes, it's hard when they offer accolades, chocolate bon-bons, and even (yes) your name in the local Lamestream Propaganda sheet. But then that's why Freedom is not Free. Hell, we are not even being asked to sustain combat operations in temperate desert conditions without access to fresh chow or field showers for weeks on end (Though, if it will help...). It's even hard when politicians refuse to answer our emails, or their advisors decide that it's better to answer to the money interests than the folks who vote religiously.

But I say slavery is harder still.

Recent debate with those of the Sell-Out variety tells me that we may have a long way to go in some sectors. Fine, swell, we may have to move out without them. But rest assured that "all debts will be paid" in the future once business is taken care of. For now, malinches like de Leon, his buddies, or even certain part time employees of a Federal Service will have to await their day of opprobrium. Rest assured it will come in due course. In the meantime, let the pols know you give a damn. Email them today, and every day, until they realize you are serious as a case of Ebola. Because if we are not, we are not free men nor free women. We will be serfs, barely. Now, go out and take that hill. The last one up is a rotten son of a ....

Links at:

http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab962&year=2009

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0951-1000/ab_962_bill_20090622_amended_sen_v97.html

Respectfully,

Anthony Canales

SFVMC-NRA

except as noted.