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A Compelling Reason

"I can't find a compelling reason for anybody to have a gun in this courthouse," Commissioner Scott Gillenwaters said.

You'd better pray a compelling reason never finds you, foolish man.

Off-duty law enforcement officers will be allowed to tote weapons in the courthouse, the panel decided in a separate vote.

Ah, yes. As we've demonstrated countless times here at WarOnGuns, only "The Only Ones" are competent and trustworthy enough to bear arms.

A "Startling Success"

Police Commissioner Ed Davis had barely been on the job two weeks when the gun violence that has ripped through Boston’s neighborhoods took another life - a 14-year-old middle school student.

Ten days later, another 14-year-old was shot to death. Less than two weeks later, a 13-year-old boy was gunned down.

That's funny. The eggheads at Harvard's Kennedy School of Subversion...I mean...Government, would have us believe that "Preliminary date" from Operation Ceasefire "suggest that this strategy has had a dramatic impact on reducing gang violence."

I hope this doesn't mean that Project Exile hasn't yielded "startling success" in Richmond or Philadelphia...

Ai Chihuahua!

Mexican drug gangs are armed with assault weapons bought at gun shows in the United States and smuggled across the border, a report says.

Nice. The corrupt Mexican government does its utmost to facilitate illegal border crossings, and then complains the permeable border facilitates Mexican corruption.

So obviously, the solution is to curtail more freedoms of American citizens.

My cabeza hurts.

Everybody's bought and read this, right?

A List Addition

Criticize the need for guns, the obsession with guns, and you're labeled unpatriotic, anti-Constitution or - horrors - a liberal.

You forgot "Nazi."

Goodfella

"Goodfellas" actor Paul Sorvino pulled a gun on his daughter's ex-boyfriend after the man pounded on her hotel door and made threats, the daughter testified Tuesday.

As I noted here, Sorvino was one of the few from the Hollywood set I recall who attended California Rifle and Pistol Association banquets back in the days when I was a "true believer" and went to such events myself.

Now if he could just get his idiot other daughter Mira to lay off the citizen disarmament support...

A Snowball's Chance

Rep. Bartlett, of Maryland, has introduced HR 73. I'll paste its text in extended remarks below. It doesn't have a snowball's chance of getting out of Judiciary Committee, but the effort is praiseworthy.

As usual, David Hardy's opinion is something we should heed.

Thing is, the bill ain't exactly new. Bartlett has been shopping a variation around for many years now--here's a link to a GOA article from Sept. 1999 (scroll to bottom).

I guess the real question ought to be what the hell good was it having a Republican-dominated congress all those years before the Pelosi regime if something as straightforward and righteous as this couldn't get enacted?

[Via Straightarrow]

This Day in History: January 17

Relying upon strategic creativity, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and a mixed Patriot force rout British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton and a group of Redcoats and Loyalists at the Battle of Cowpens on this day in 1781.