We Decide Who Gets to Say What

It puts the state in the position of defining what is a legitimate news publication.

What have we been saying about "authorized journalists"?

Besides--what kind of idiot would think we're entitled as sovereign individuals to free political speech?

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Buyback

A 33-year-old Milton man faces gun and assault charges after he allegedly shot a man who was said to have been trying to rob him at gunpoint outside a Mattapan store, prosecutors said yesterday.

But the defendant's family and friends said yesterday that the accused man, Robert Washington, had a gun last Thursday only because he was on his way to turn the weapon in to a police station in exchange for a gift card under Boston's gun buyback program...

"We're assuming that if he didn't have the gun, we'd be burying him instead of watching him go to jail today," she said.

Wonder if he still wants to trade in that gun...?

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

Glenn Fine said the ATF should have included all firearms-related violent crimes. By that measurement, Greensboro's results were stable with 353 gun-related crimes between June and November 2003 and 351 during the same period in 2004.

Dang. And we were counting on the lapdog media and their readership not realizing that you can't establish trends from such limited data sets...

We're the Only Ones Oral Enough

A rookie Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, accused of fatally shooting his friend in the head, told police his gun accidentally fired when his friend grabbed at his arm, according to police reports made public on Monday.

Christopher Sullivan's story, however, was not supported by autopsy findings, which suggest Sullivan's service pistol was inside Cesar Valdez's mouth when it discharged.

Yo, Mr. Coats: When you say you want cops to be "just as bad as the criminals," is this what you have in mind?

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

We're the Only Ones Bad Enough

"I think what we need are really hard-core cops just as bad as the criminals," he said.

Bleat a little louder, Mr. Coats. I'm not sure the wolves heard you.

He evidently hasn't seen "The Only Ones" files.

[Thanks to Jason M]

Teaching the 2nd Amendment

It is time to demand that our nation's education system duly recognize our Bill of Rights and teach the Second Amendment according to its true intent.

I agree in spirit, but our nation really shouldn't have an education system in the first place.

As for at the state level, separation of school and state would suit me just fine--right now, with confiscatory taxes to pay for educating others and sustaining collectivist teachers union monopolies, and with compulsory attendance in mandated Second Amendment-free zones, the entire corrupt system is inevitably one big inmate-conditioning hive.