Now This Really Grinds My Gears

A school officer found a Swiss Army knife in Chandler’s car’s console. Under the school’s zero tolerance policy it was an automatic suspension for Chandler.

The next day, the Chandlers found out Will had also been charged with a felony.

I just sent the following email to the Superintendent of Cobb County Schools:

What in the world is wrong with Cobb Schools that they would destroy a young man's life over this?

Whoever possesses such rigid lack of judgment and discretion that the rules supplant the reason for the rules--educating young people--ought to be ashamed of themselves.

This is like a bad reenactment of "Les Miserables."

Stop this evil foolishness at once and get real. Good grief.

[Via KABA Newslinks]

Microstamping Not Ready for Prime Time

"It gets a lot of attention because it has the word 'guns' written on it," said Fred Tulleners, director of forensics at the University of California, Davis, where a graduate student conducted a small-scale test of microstamping this year. "But it's not really ready to implement in prime time."

But that won't stop anti-freedom politicians from imposing it on those they rule. Anybody who wonders why they would do that hasn't been paying attention.

Incidentally--have you called Arnold yet? If not, good grief, why not?

[More on "Microstamping" from WarOnGuns]

We're the Additional Ones the Left Wants to Disarm Enough

"These were highly trained police officers," Soneson said during an open forum on campus last month. "The UNI campus security guards have asked to carry guns for years now. ... Guns are unsafe."

Even highly trained police officers make mistakes, and no amount of training will keep this from happening," Soneson said.

Yep, guns are unsafe. You can take that straight from the experts, an associate professor of religion and philosophy, a professor in social work who's a Quaker from Norway, and the head of a socialist foundation.

Cool. Campus Commies for Gun Control. What an unexpected shock.

Here's an argument we will see more of--Paul Helmke has already released the talking points, and they go something like: If we can't even trust highly-trained "Only Ones" with guns, how can we possibly trust mere mortals? As his case in point, Helmke even has the gall to reference the Godfather of the Only Ones, Lee Paige.

Here's something else that will start gradually working its way into the public consciousness through time-released manipulation and propaganda--so far, the antis have been cautious not to tip their hand on this, but the day will come when the police will be required to check weapons in and out of lockers, and when not on duty will be required to trust their safety to the system, just like everybody else.

In other words, guys, keep on doing what you're doing. Eventually it will be your turn in the barrel.

For whom the bell tolls and all that...

We're the Only Ones Saving a Room Full of People Enough

"Now what you have here is a sawed-off, 12-gauge shotgun," he said, snapping the weapon's foldable stock into place. "A very good street sweeper. You can conceal this gun and take out a room full of people with one shot."

And that could conceivably have been the case had the Brunswick Police Department not held its gun buy-back program in conjunction with the Anguilla Freedom Project at Howard Coffin Park in Brunswick Saturday.

Hyperbole, anyone?

But "authorized journalist" Cody Trawick isn't finished! He tells us about "killing machine[s]," and a "sinister appearance" and how "It doesn't take too much work to make a weapon like this fully automatic," not to mention filling even the stoutest of hearts with dread over "completely fresh, hollow-point rounds," or the horrible, narrowly-averted fact that "There's no telling where they would have ended up if they hadn't been willing to sell them to us."

And we can have confidence Cody (and his police informant) knows what he's (she's?) talking about, because of the reference to the "75-round clip," plus the creative way he spelled "Reuger."

And all this in the name of "Freedom," Only Ones-style. Great job there, Cody. Nothing like reporting straight news, although next time, you might want to bring your pom pons.

Darwin...Paging Mr. Darwin...

"When Callan saw me flinch away he reacted by saying `hey, I had better make sure this is empty' and he cocked the gun back once causing a bullet to fall out of the gun on to my bed," Mr Popple said.

"He held the gun up to the side of his head and pulled the trigger. I don't think he realised the gun was loaded. I think he just didn't realise ... that there were bullets left in the gun."

The solution to preventing such future tragedies, of course, is to disarm you and me.

This Day in History: September 17

On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. The National Archives and Records Administration celebrates this important day in our nation's history by presenting the following activities, lesson plans, and information. We encourage teachers and students at all levels to learn more about our Constitution and government.

Yeah, that would be nice, particularly since many of the history books being foisted on unsuspecting students/future voters "teach" them all about states' rights to form militias.