We're the Only Ones "Until Death Do Us Part" Enough

A former California Highway Patrol officer was convicted Monday of first-degree murder for shooting her husband, collapsing in the courtroom when the verdict was read. [More]

And then there's this bit of responsibility acceptance:

When I grabbed it tight, it fired.

Who am I to argue? She's obviously more highly-trained than me. Except, when she's scared and needs it the most, she just doesn't think about "tactics from work."

Don't Think of it as a Tightening of the Vise

Think of it as a "multi-agency tactical exercise." [Read]

Besides, "similar exercises have been seen in Miami and Boston."

Wonder what they're expecting...?

Only One Day Left to Be Ignored

I already did.

Apparently, I ask too much:

It's not what I really wanted to ask him anyway.

The Magic Christian* Redux

Reality is stranger than fiction. And be warned in advance--this links to something really gross. [Read]

This isn't overcoming fear--there is no test of courage here.  This debases the concept of true courage, of truly overcoming fear to do what one must, and of paying an ultimate price if one fails.

Who wants fame and prizes that badly? What the hell is wrong with the people who would think up this degradation, the people who would produce it and the people who would do it?  What "contestant" with any sense of dignity wouldn't tell whoever expects him to go through with this to go to hell?

What kind of degenerates would squander freedom paid for with blood, powder, lead and steel on such disgusting and perverted exhibitionism, and can a "culture" that embraces this truly expect to survive?


From the network "family" that promotes "progressivism," naturally, and one that hasn't told it's viewers a damned thing about Gunwalker. 

As an aside, it's telling how the feds will use health concerns over its consumption as an excuse to send armed raiding parties to keep small raw milk producers from selling to willing neighbors.

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"Liberty and Prosperity"

That's some state motto they've got for themselves there in New Jersey, considering:

Common hunting, target, and self-defense ammunition would be subject to ban under A588, along with BB’s, airgun pellets, and plastic airsoft pellets!

Additional legislation being considered (A1013) could land gun owners in jail for refinished or damaged firearms that might be deemed “defaced” [More]

I wish Sandy and Diane well, but I don't want to set foot there.

A Furious Headache?

Goody. [Read]

Although I'd have probably sent Furious Mike a remedy more appropriate to what ails him.

SF Sheriff Mirkarimi caught in gun control net he helped cast

And while I don’t pretend to give a damn one way or another about what happens to this Mirkarimi character, who as far as I’m concerned is hoist on his own petard and not likely to have an epiphany on individual liberty even if he manages to beat the…uh…rap, his predicament points to a disconnect between crime and punishment driven more by the political correctness he and his kind have demanded, enabled and enforced, than by public safety. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a rat caught in a trap of its own making.

A High Wire Act

Clinton: Done with the ‘high wire’ of politics. Really. [More]

Via Scott J, who speculates:

Before any of gunwalker can stick to her.

I wouldn't want to test the safety of my net from that height, either. But I also don't think we've "really" seen the last of this circus act, and somehow can't shake the feeling that she still plans to end up featuring her freak show in the center ring.

Just What Illinois Needs

More "gun control"... [Read]

We're the Only Ones Acting Reasonably Enough

Knox County prosecutors will not file charges against two off-duty Oak Ridge police officers accused of pulling a handgun on a motorist during an alleged road-rage incident last month. [More]

Why in the world not?

"We determined they acted reasonably," Gill said.

And...wait for it...

The officers' names have not been released.

But yours has, "Brock Estep, 31, of Knoxville."

I wonder what would have happened had outnumbered Brock been an HCP holder who thought he was the one being reasonable...? Sounds like he's not the...uh...only one these two are flipping off.

Nothing to see here, move on...

[Via William T]

Night of the Teaching Dead

Vanderboegh at his best, performing an autopsy. [Read]

In a rational world, he'd be in an overflowing lecture hall educating rapt students who couldn't wait for the next class.

That and the publishers would be lining up.

This Day in History: January 27

I should be wanting in justice to their zeal and attachment, and to that of the inhabitants of the state in general, were I not to inform Congress, that they gave the earliest and most chearful attention to my requisitions, and exerted themselves for the army s relief in a manner that did them the highest honor. They more than complied with the requisitions in many instances, and owing to their exertions, the army in great measure has been kept together. [More]