Senator Ted Cruz: The Secret Freedomworks Speech

Senator Ted Cruz made an unannounced visit to the Freedomworks Texas summit today:




Highlights:

•  We're winning and it's because of what folks like us are doing

•  The Obama people tried to protest the Senator's office in Dallas and Tea Party folks outdrew them 3:1.

• There are few things elected officials like less than getting heat from their constituents.

• "We've had five or six lunches with a bunch of Republican Senators standing up and looking at Rand [Paul] and Mike [Lee] and me and yelling at us at the top of their lungs...I mean really upset...and they say 'look, why did you do this, as a result of what you did, when I go home my constituents are yelling at me that I've gotta stand up on principle!"
• I'm really not making that up.

• Before you did that [threatened to filibuster gun control legislation] the politics were great, the Dems were the bad guys and the Republicans were the good guys; now we just look like a bunch of squishes.
• "Well, there's an alternative, you could just not be a bunch of squishes."

•  Gun control isn't over.

• How do you get something bad passed in Washington?!?
• You do it fast and in the middle of night.

• Success begets success; if we stand up once, we'll do it again. 

Update: Welcome New York Times readers.

Update II: Welcome NRO readers; thanks Ramesh Ponnuru!!! 

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How 3D Printing Technologies will put the Gun Grabbers out of business (and boost Texas' economy!)

Two weeks ago, we put out a call to find the most innovative firearms manufacturer in Texas; this certainly qualifies:

HIGHLIGHTS:

• 3-D printed firearm anyone can download and produce.

• Defense Distributed.

• Preserving the Second Amendment over the internet.

• In the next decade, the majority of Americans will have 3-D printers in their home.

• This guy has five employees.

 This guy lives less than five blocks from us; we hope to have more from him soon.

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Ramparts360: Letter to the Sheriff, Travis County

Ramparts360 has a post about a local effort Cahnman's Musings wholeheartedly supports:

Texas MobFather: Greg Hamilton, Travis County Sheriff, recently affirmed his belief in the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms.  I sent him a letter congratulating him on his stand and asked him to join Oath Keepers.


Over 340 sheriffs nationwide are refusing any federal mandate to confiscate citizen’s weapons…it’s imperative that each of us urge our local Sheriff to “get on board” with Oath Keepers.  Sheriffs are the ultimate LEO authority and can tell the Feds to “take a hike” if they understand their power and their citizen’s anger!

Read the full letter here.

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Who is the most innovative Ammo Maker in Texas?!?

The other night on Facebook, I made this prediction:

Random Thought: We're close to the top of a bubble; before the end of the year, the price of ammo will collapse.

The reason I believe this is because the market for guns and ammunition is an example of what economists call 'perfect competition.'  The product is (relatively) homogenous and barriers to entry are (relatively) modest.  Given this backdrop, with rising demand causing shortages, Economics 101 suggests that new sellers will enter the market.

Obviously, that equation doesn't account for interference in the market by the federal government.  While I understand those concerns, I just don't think the Federal government is competent enough to pull it off.  I have a funny feeling the number of small scale entrepreneurs who will enter the market in the next 12 to 18 months will overwhelm Washington's ability to stop it.

Cahnman's Musings would like to solicit reader feedback.  Who, in your opinion, is the most innovative ammunition manufacturer currently operating in the state of Texas?!?  Why?!?  What have they done in the past 6 to 12 months that makes you confident they can consistently outwit Washington.  Cahnman's Musings would like to help publicize their business.

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TheBlazeTV: Five Rape Survivors Discuss Gun Control

The left loves to hide behind the victims of tragedy to advance their agenda during moments of crisis. But what do women who've actually lived this trauma think?!? The Blaze TV spent an hour talking to five women who've survived horrific assaults to find out what they think:



Highlights:

• The Sandy Hook Elementary School was the target because it was the only gun-free zone in the area
• Ditto Aurora, CO

• Amanda Collins was a concealed carry holder was was raped because she couldn't take her firearm onto the 'gun-free zone' on her college campus.

• Kim Weeks told her rapist that she had herpes.
• Rapist was caught three weeks later planning his next attack.

• Wanda Mills was attacked by a knife-wielding psycho for six hours.

• Felicia Smith was raped by her trainer.

• Julie White was picking up her kids from Church at noon on Wednesday.
• "We were trapped in the Everglades with a knife-wielding maniac."

• Three of them were not legally allowed to posses a firearm in the location where they were raped.

• One gun can stop a serial rapist.

• "My body was a walking crime-scene."

• "As I was on the ground in that parking garage being straddled by my rapist, that call box could have been above my head and it wouldn't have done anything."

• "I've never been more calm, cool, and collected than I was when I was negotiating with my rapist."

• The notion that a woman cannot handle a gun under pressure is sexist.

• How is it a 'War on Women' to force people to pay for birth control, but not a War on Women to refuse to allow a woman to defend herself from a rapist?!?

Get TheBlazeTV here.

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