Anybody Smell Anything...

...burning?

No Reasonable Expectation

In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. [More]

Truly.

Since when is expecting fascists to respect privacy reasonable?

Why Not?

If the you don't need one to carry a nuclear football, why should you need one to carry a gun? [Read]

A Way Out of Violence

Gun control! [Read]

Then our urban areas will be all free Bubble Up n' rainbow stew!

Why hasn't anybody thought of trying this sooner?

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

Judges call for change in gun laws after Merseyside man has sentence cut [More]

We must make them more illegal!

We're the Only Ones "Just Let Me Whip This Out" Enough

Two off-duty Los Angeles police officers were arrested Tuesday night after allegedly pistol-whipping and injuring a Whittier man during a fight.

Whittier police said one of the suspects thought the 31-year-old resident was paying too much attention to an argument the officer was having with his girlfriend.

The officers had been drinking... [More]

He's lucky he didn't make any "furtive movements"--otherwise "2 week off!!!"

[Via HZ]

We're the Only Ones Advising Enough

Vallejo police advise citizens against arming themselves [More]

Don't you people know that's why we have "Only Ones"?

[Via Talie]

A Counter Terrorism Brief

Just in case you want to keep your eye on the bad guys...

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[Via Anonymous]

We're the Only Ones Trafficking Enough

Thirteen officers and a trio claiming to be corrections officers were charged with conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute for collectively accepting $145,000 to transport what they thought was cocaine from Miami-Dade County into Palm Beach County, authorities said. [More]

See? Just a few bad apples.

[Via Harvey]

Senator Gronstal, You Have the Floor

We presented these petitions to him and respectfully asked him to help move this bill and guess what he did with your petitions: he threw them on the floor!!!! [More]

So isn't it time you showed Sen. Gronstal what you think of him?

[Via Zachary G]

A Safer Community

“We feel our community is safer having this kind of weaponry off the street,” intoned a spokesman for the Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts police department. [More]

William Grigg has a different opinion.

[Via lots of you]

We're the Only Ones "Rectum? Damn Near Killed 'im" Enough

The City of Boise wants to make it clear that they are not admitting guilt in the case of a man sodomized by Boise police with a Taser gun. [More]

What a crock of...

Just a few bad dingleberries...?

And get a load (sorry) of the "Only One" who filed a suit of his own.

What an a******.

We're the Only Ones Terribly, Terribly Wrong Enough

They said Campbell, who was shot in the back by officers and was not armed, should not have died that day. [More]

So if I do the same thing, we can chalk it up to flawed policies, incomplete training and my bad, but otherwise we're cool?

But then again, I don't have any "Only Ones" protocols to fall back on, do I?

[Via FFFW]

We're the Only Ones Suffering the Children Enough

Langer was arrested at his home July 2, 2009 by Center Police on a warrant issued out of Mesa County alleging nine counts of sex assault against a child and one count of first-degree sex assault. [More]

You'd think by now I could get an answer to my question...

[Via FFFW]

Yo, Angela...

This is why:

Cuban police will begin an unprecedented program for registering unlicensed weapons in the hands of private citizens, the state-run media reported on Thursday.

Armas para que?

McGlowan Damage Control on Guns Does More Damage

Quite simply, she has lost all credibility with me. Sorry, but I just don't believe this latest round of claims--and as a matter of fact, I find them insulting. The way you've tried to handle this convinces me I'm right not to trust her or you. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at how not to do damage control. I'm sure it will anger some who place a movement over why there's a need for one in the first place.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: February 12

February 12, 1778
Desertions were "astonishingly great." B.G. James Varnum to Nathanael Greene (Trussell, "Birthplace of an Army," 66) [More]