Right Attitude, Wrong Tool

"The National Parks Service has announced it will not challenge a court order that temporarily stops the late-term Bush administration policy of allowing CCW-permit holders to carry in National Parks."

...How many abuses and usurpations need we endure before people take to their pitchforks? [More]

It won't be pitchforks.

UPDATE: The source for this attributed authorship to Dave Kopel. He did not write it--see "Comments."

Killing Machine Rampage Terrorizes Public!

Four people were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Thursday when a driver hurtled his car into a crowd at a parade, narrowly missing an open bus carrying Queen Beatrix and members of her family. [More]

You know what we need for cars? Licensing and registration.

And maybe "smart cars," where you'd need some kind of device or key or something to get it to operate... (I stole/paraphrased this last line from pal and GunTruths colleague Dan Schultz--I need to look and see if I can find where he originally wrote that many years ago.)

The Trademark Smell of Marijuana

Hey, then they ought to be able to calibrate it to pick up the trademark smell of gunpowder too, right? [More]

All us "conservatives" still think the increased police powers from the war on drugs is a good idea, right? If I had used the word without quotation marks, I would not have asked the question.

One word: PULL!

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones "Faces of Death" Enough

The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn't allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter's body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users' easy access to the "Forward" button, there are now nine photos of the accident scene, taken just moments after Nikki's death, circulating virally on the Web. In one, her nearly decapitated head is drooping out the shattered window of her father's Porsche.[More]

But God forbid you should take a picture of "Only Ones."

An investigation had revealed that the images, taken as a routine part of a fatal accident response, had been leaked by two CHP dispatchers: Thomas O'Donnell, 39, and Aaron Reich, 30.

I can't imagine seeing a beloved child like that. I can't imagine soulless ghouls considering it entertainment. It is a perverted cruelty I cannot fathom.

How is it the state employs so many who not only can, but who actually get off on it?

[Via Ed M]

Not Like There are Any...

...dots to connect...[More]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.

There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent. [More]

Just so you know where some would like to lead us.

I will not disarm.

[Via Jeffersonian]

A Real Non-Starter

Should schools ban starter's pistol?

They don't fire bullets, but deadly symbolism triggers call to keep them out of high school track meets [More]

Oh, for the love of...

I have a better idea, Brian Keaveney. Insert one of these, and when you're ready to start 'em off, simply bear down until you get a loud POP...

Where do these creatures come from?

[Via ---oops, that's the 2nd email I've lost today! Sorry, tipster.]

OK Full Auto Shoot

It's almost a year old, but this is fun to watch. [More]

I wish more reporters would just get into the spirit of why people are there instead of bringing a tack-on agenda into the commentary. This young lady does a good job--a lot of older ones could learn from her.

[Via Gerhard Paul]

CUM ULLA SELLA IN PUGNO...CRUISE SHIP?

A British vacationer is being hailed a hero after he thwarted gun-toting pirates attacking a cruise ship — by throwing a deck chair at them. [More]

The unreported crime on the high seas is he could not throw lead at them.

But I like his attitude, regardless.

[Via Steven K]

Everybody Benefits from Gun Sales

Even the local rescue mission! [More]

[Via Avg Joe]

Party in the Park

Ohioans for Concealed Carry is having one in July. Click here for details.

Coincidence?

Elizabeth Edwards writes in a new memoir that news of her husband's affair made her vomit in a bathroom. [More]

And the AP lead says "New York"...

We're the Only Ones "Sexy Time!" Enough

A New York City police officer accused of raping an intoxicated woman after helping her home “had sexual intercourse with the physically helpless victim as she lay face down on her bed, having previously vomited multiple times,” the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, said Tuesday in announcing charges against two officers. [More]

There's something about a passed-out drunken woman reeking of vomit that just really does it, isn't there? Just knowing that by virtue of being a New York "Only One" she couldn't lift a finger even if she was capable of it...?

Bloomberg's Finest. Just plain better than us.

[Via Kevin S]

My Comment is Awaiting Moderation

I've had two people independently contact me to tell me to approach Bitter in private about this.

Nuts to that. I decided posting a "Quick Note" was a better way. Although I understand why she would want to keep things quiet.

So far, it looks like the official position is to ignore. They learn well from Fairfax.

Like the click through sidebar graphic? It's staying up.

People deserve to know what they're dealing with.

Threeperwear Back in Stock

Patches, I'm dependin' on you, son. Click here for details.

We're the Only Ones Escorting You Enough

Ship operators should instead explore non-lethal solutions, said Jeff Pierce, Washington-based executive director of Maritime Police International (MPI). MPI is a global security organization whose membership includes former U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and law-enforcement officers.

Arming civilian maritime crews “is a very bad idea unless there is enough firepower to repel the pirates effectively and repeatedly…not something that merchant crews are capable of doing in most instances,” Pierce said.

“Many insurance companies either forbid weapons or dramatically increase rates for ships with weapons on board,” Pierce said. The insurers “have historically told crews to surrender peacefully and to let the insurance personnel handle the situation. ... Arming crews has always been a concern within the industry due to the potential for mutiny.” [More]

Right, Jeff. And there's no financial incentive for you to say that, is there?

First of all, we saw your absurd conclusion put to the lie yesterday, with the tale of the Somali "vigilantes" I mentioned here.

Secondly, why don't you tell the "Eleven...killed and 21 reported missing and presumed dead" in 2008 about the benefits of telling "crews to surrender peacefully"?

If you don't trust their crews, or value your cushy contracts more than the worthless lives of these replaceable nobodies, shipping companies need to high better help and treat them better. And you're worried about mutiny? Yeah, leave the command staff outnumbered and unarmed--that'll certainly reduce the chances.

Funny, Jeff--once you get a lucrative gig, your hirelings are magically trustworthy enough to "provide armed convoy escort protection." Aren't you worried they might mutiny?

Oh, built I forget. You're all "Only Ones," aren't you, Jeff? Just all-around more trustworthy than the rest of us who don't have powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men...?

Y'know what? If I need an escort, there's always the Yellow Pages. At least I'll know what I'm getting, and if I get screwed using one of those services it won't be as morally reprehensible as what you're pulling.


[Sorry--no tip credit--I lost that email]

New York 'Gun Day' Showcases False Crime-Fighting Promises

So with people worried about things like...uh...basic survival, and their "leaders" looking for new ways to wring even more out of them, how is it the state has $500,000 laying around for the SNUG program ("that's 'guns' spelled backwards")? And how are they going to blo...uh...allocate it?

"The money would be used to provide intervention in hospitals, to hire people to talk to gang members who are shot, right in the emergency room to keep them from retaliating."

You're kidding, right? Tell me you're kidding. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the transparent fraud that is "gun control." It's just so obvious.

Also see the latest from my fellow GREs.

Hey, all you regular WoG visitors are also regularly sharing my Examiner column links with your friends, right?

This Day in History: April 30

I want to form a Company for my Guard. In doing this I wish to be extremely cautious; because it is more than probable, that in the Course of the Campaign, my Baggage, Papers, and other Matters of great public Import, may be committed to the Sole care of these Men. [More]