We're the Only Ones Hip-Shooting Enough

A Houston police officer was recovering after he accidentally shot himself in the hip, authorities said.

As we've seen time and again, "The Only Ones" are hip to that.

[Via Lane]

What This State Was Built On

It’s dangerous to the progression of this state. And it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists! Now you will go to court to fight kids to have the opportunity to be quiet for a minute. But damn if you’ll go to [court] to fight for them to keep guns out of their hands. I am fed up! Get out of that seat!

...You have no right to be here! We believe in something. You believe in destroying! You believe in destroying what this state was built upon.

Hey, when you have no respect for the Second Amendment, why should you have any respect for the First?

[Via Stephen Stamboulieh]

Please to Stick Your Neck in Here...?

YAMAGUCHI -- Local prosecutors shot themselves in the foot when they set a bizarre trap for the owner of an illegal pistol -- placing a poster at their office asking the owner to come forward to claim the weapon so they could be arrested. Not surprisingly, no one has stepped forward.

Everyone Felt Better

Ban not enough to end gun violence...

The committee then passed a motion calling on Ottawa to ban handguns.

O-Ka-a-ay...

I sure am glad "everyone felt better."

David Miller. What a guy.

"I'm not your guy, buddy..."

A Mountain of Gold

"Were we disappointed we didn't get that [the amendment]?" Abraham said. "Yeah, but, all right, so you take away a stone and you give us a mountain of gold," she said.

Aside from complicating going off the grid and creating a near-useless bureaucratic registry that leaves out all stolen guns coming in from out of state, and aside from the fact that it reinforces all this nonsense as some sort of solution, here's the part I thought stuck out the most:

* Anyone simply possessing a firearm with an altered or obliterated serial number would be charged with a felony instead of a misdemeanor.

If zealously pursued, I can see this netting innocent collectors who might have some old guns that are showing wear, as well as people who bought a cheap old firearm in a private sale and never really noticed, or even heirs of old guns found in Dad's old trunk in the attic.

Of concern ought to be why the DA perceives a golden opportunity, especially since anyone who really thinks this pretentiousness will reduce violent criminal acts must be stoned.

We're the Only Ones Shielded Enough

An Orange County Register investigation has found that the program, designed 30 years ago to protect police from criminals, has been expanded to cover hundreds of thousands of public employees – from police dispatchers to museum guards – who face little threat from the public. Their spouses and children can get the plates, too.

So naturally, they're abusing the advantage by blowing red lights, not paying tolls, ignoring parking tickets...you know, stuff that would get a non "Only One's" license revoked and vehicle impounded.

Sure glad equal protection is alive and well in the Golden State.

We've talked about the expectation of "professional courtesy" before.

Big damn crybabies.

[Via DONE! SEO]

When Hedgehogs are Outlawed...

...only outlaws will have hedgehogs.

Good grief.

Why do I envision Moe grabbing Larry by the hair and growling "C'mere, porcupine"...?

[Via SameNoKami]

The 10 O'Clock Scholar

I stumbled across a few references to my work that I hadn't realized were out there.


I wish I could read this article, but all you can access without a subscription is the preview page.

The referenced article is "A House Divided," and unfortunately, my old GUNS & AMMO articles are not online. As they own the copyrights, I can't just post those column here, but this is the passage being cited:

Has NRA caved in on gun rights, or are its critics just too radical and naive to understand real world hardball politics?

"Look at what NRA has given up," some may say.

"Look at what where we'd be if they hadn't," others might reply.

I was really trying to be even-handed, but leave the success of that attempt to those of you who have copies of that issue.

Next we have "Men, Dogs, Guns and Cars," a screed that marries "rugged individualism" with "seven bipolar tensions."


Researcher Elizabeth C. Hirschman goes off on a tangent about "nonwhite racial identity" and "white male dominance" and "self-abnegation, altruism, multiculturalism and interpersonal harmony," and to tell you the truth, knuckle-dragger me can't figure out what the hell she's babbling about, but it doesn't seem like she'd know what to do with a real man, a real car or a real dog. She reminds me of nothing so much as "Rebecca" from the famous (or it should be) tandem story assignment. And I've never met a true "rugged individualist" who lets advertising form his opinions anyway.

Likewise, the referenced article is copyrighted and I can't give it to you here. It was an examination of the causes of rebellion against England, with a comparison to "Intolerable Acts" we endure today.

I just find it interesting that the eggheads have given my stuff a nod, however minor, particularly since I've never been one to let establishment schooling interfere with my edjoocayshun. But I guess I shouldn't let it go to my head--I understand some of them also study chimps in the wild.

A GLOWing Review for Common Sense Gun Control

The owners of Glow Inc. support the legal and responsible ownership of weapons by both law enforcement and citizens. In the unfortunate scenario where there is a need to discharge a weapon, improved accuracy lowers the probability of injury to an innocent bystander. We feel that phosphorescent paint is a vital component of increasing this accuracy in dark environments. Your typical criminal will not take the effort or pay the cost to apply phosphorescent paint to his weapons. Therefore, we believe that making this information available is for the good of the community and hopefully will save a few innocent lives.

Accuracy control is important?

So--to use another example--when anti-gun legislators vote to ban pistol grips or thumb hole stocks that help stabilize a rifle, they're actually creating a more dangerous situation where the likelihood of hitting something besides what you're aiming at is increased--and doing it in the name of "common sense gun control"?

Anyway, kudos to GLOW, Inc. for advocating common sense gun control that is, in fact, sensible.

[Via Paul W. Davis]

Another A+ NRA Rating

The campaign has asked gun rights advocates like state Rep. Dan Surra, a Democrat from rural Elk County with an “A+” rating from the NRA, to form a coalition of supporters who can vouch for Obama.

“It is clear out there that I am for Obama, and they have reached out to me as a sportsman and a gun owner,” Surra said Thursday. “There has been an outreach to pro-gun legislators, pro-gun people who are sympathetic to Obama’s message.”

So who you help gain even greater power doesn't count toward your rating? And we're sure his supportive votes are because of deep, abiding principle, and not because he knows any other course would be politically suicidal in "rural Elk County"?

Keep dancing with the devil. Just don't make the mistake of thinking he'll ever let you lead.

Max Gall

Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent (Wahlberg) whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin (Kunis) out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.

Ah, our old pal anti-gun Pokey-Poke, making a ton of money off a film adaptation of a third-person shooter game.

I notice anti-gun champion Beau Bridges co-stars, meaning he's not above a little unprincipled profiteering, either. Yeah, study "martial arts," Beau--and be sure and let the next guy who puts a gun to your head know how good you are at it.

You're right about one thing--it must have been "a little chicken joint." You were in it.

[Via AlanDP from "Comments"]

This Day in History: April 8

Over the first few days, the congress organized itself and formed committees to oversee aspects of the province's government and military preparations. On April 8, 1776, it created a select committee to consider the "Usurpations and Violences attempted and committed by the King and Parliament of Britain against America, and the further Measures to be taken for frustrating the same, and for the better Defence of this Province."