There Are Bad Ideas...

...and there are really bad ideas.

Cryptic Subterranean alerts us to the latter: "Password-protected bullets."

Good grief.

Handgun Owners Irate Over Having Names Published Online

Dozens of readers have taken issue with The Journal News over its decision to run a list of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties as part of a wider investigative article.

The names of more than 30,000 licensed handgun owners were posted online as part of "Falling Through the Cracks," the paper's Dec. 10 report...

"The Constitution gives people the right to own guns in this country, and it also gives people the right to know whether they own a gun or not," said Henry Freeman, editor and vice president/news at The Journal News. "This is a public record. People have a right to know that.

"We did take it into consideration and did not publish your street address, which is also public information."

Irate?

Irate doesn't quite cover it, you miserable...

Your understanding of the Constitution is as broken as your moral compass. You're a betrayer of your countrymen and a betrayer of your name. You and your employers may yet end up with blood on your hands.

A Questionable Fellow

Gun control researcher Philip Alpers has accused the police officer in charge of firearms licensing of bias over a series of emails questioning his credentials.

Inspector Joe Green has written to two universities where Mr Alpers has held posts, questioning the former TV journalist's roles.

Mr Green has also written to Mr Alpers warning him he could be charged if he continued to use the title Harvard fellow.

So the co-author of the questionable Australian "gun death" study has questionable credentials?

We're the Only Ones Fumble-Fingered Enough

In an unrelated incident, a reserve police officer who was entering the building at the time of the evacuation shot himself in the arm and thigh as he tried to take a trigger lock off a Glock handgun.

And just which lock manufacturer recommends using their product with a round in the chamber?

He doesn't know how to use a lock or a gun, so naturally this damn boob and his kind are "The Only Ones" trusted by the City of Detroit to carry firearms.

Like Sheep to the Slaughter

So a school district actually comes up with a response to school shootings that will actually stop or lessen the blow of a school shooting, and some pantywaist gets upset and gets the program canned.

The Subversive comes to some maddening conclusions about schools, self defense, and mindsets.

This Day in History: December 17

On this day in 1777, the French foreign minister, Charles Gravier, count of Vergennes, officially acknowledges the United States as an independent nation. News of the Continental Army’s overwhelming victory against the British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga gave Benjamin Franklin new leverage in his efforts to rally French support for the American rebels. Although the victory occurred in October, news did not reach France until December 4th.