Doubling Down

I wonder if this will be available to We the People? [Read]

I mean, hell, we can't even be trusted with assault backpacks.

[Via AlvinSecOff]

The Common Good

This appeal to what advocates call "private property rights" ignores the fact that the common good — and a commonwealth such as Virginia is, by definition, devoted to the common good — is, in the order of things, a principle of a higher order, in specific instances, than private interests. [More]

Who wrote that, Marx or Mao? It sounds suspiciously like the tried and true leftist con of using the "general welfare" clause to justify EBT cards and other coerced wealth transfers.

The way to ensure the common good is by respecting individual freedom. 

We're NOT the Only Ones...?

The convention’s objective is two-fold:

To increase the understanding and awareness for all sheriffs and peace officers regarding the true power of our constitutional authority and duty to serve and protect the people for whom we work;

To unite in a concerted effort to uphold and defend the United States Constitution. [More]

I have a litmus test for that, included among the comments here.

[Via Rob Morse]

We're the Only Ones Stunned Enough

Teen disarms Chicago cop, shoots him with stun gun [More]

See, this is why you and I can't be armed--if they can do this to a trained professional, why what chance would rank amateurs like you and me have?

It was also the justification used to fund "smart gun" research--specifically to deter cop takeaway incidents. Somewhere along the way, though, their "Only Ones" exemption kicked in, and it became yet another infringement to be imposed on the rest of us.

American Gunfighter

Interesting...[Read]

We're the Only Ones with Sticker Shock Enough

And it's been there for four years...

Coalesced and Impassioned

"The bottom line is making people care about this issue and care about it personally and deeply," he added. "If you look at most gun (control) policy, you'll see the majority of Americans are in favor of it, but that voice has yet to be coalesced and impassioned to the point where it can effect change." [More]

What, the candlelight vigil didn't do it?

People do care about the issue, pally, and some can spot a slick ad man brought in for his sleight of mind tricks--interesting how your primary qualification seems to be "as a funder." After all those years you hive insects have been at it, along with your well-heeled patrons and more free sympathetic press than you can shake a stick at (as evidenced by USA Today assigning a crack "Authorized Journalist" to do a fluff job so you're ready to screw your countrymen on cue), and lo and behold, at this writing, every damn comment (with the exception of a spammer evidently soliciting fluid exchanges with total strangers--one of yours?) recognizes you for the charlatan you are.

Tripped right out of the starting gate, did you? I think y'all just got the wrong crowd coalesced and impassioned.

This Day in History: February 6

We make daily great improvements in natural—there is one I wish to see in moral philosophy; the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without first cutting one another's throats. When will human reason be sufficiently improved to see the advantage of this? When will men be convinced that even successful wars, at length become misfortunes to those who unjustly commenced them, and who triumphed blindly in their success, not seeing all its consequences. Your great comfort and mine in this war is, that we honestly and faithfully did every thing in our power to prevent it...[More]