Sunday night's program has been posted. I joined host Mark Walters and George Hill (Mad Ogre) in the second half of Hour 2 to talk the latest Gunwalker developments. [Listen]
Also check out Hour 1 and the Hour 3 "Roundtable".
Monday, May 07, 2012
Republican ‘Young Guns’ solicited Democrats to support anti-gun Lugar
The strategy is insidious: “[I]t is targeted to non-Republicans, as it reminds voters that Indiana's GOP primary is an open one in which Democrats and independents can vote.” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at some domestic enemies with "R's" after their names.
Uncivilized People
Before this is all over, people will be rolling cigarettes with stock certificates, or shredding them and using them as fire starter. [More]Gee, this isn't anywhere near as comforting and reassuring as dealing with civilized people.
We're the Only Ones Rocked Enough
A fame-hungry former Concord private investigator admitted Friday to helping pilot a scheme that turned a Contra Costa narcotics task force into a clearinghouse for illicit drug dealing, entering his plea the same day an ex-San Ramon officer was sentenced to federal prison for his part in the scandal that rocked local law enforcement. [More]I wish I could say "unbelievable." Especially about that "36 months" sentence for co-defendant Lombardi.
[Via Dave Licht]
It's Our Duty
Regressive gungrabber Sylvia Larsen wants to keep you safe by limiting your options. [Read]
The Essence of a Free Society
“There is a right under the Constitution, under the Second Amendment, to have guns for self-defense and for family protection and presumably for hunting, but reasonable regulations of such guns are the essence of a free society.” [More]After all, who are the Founders to argue with Alan Dershowitz?
[Via Jess]
We're the Only Ones Disciplined Enough
"We have up to 2,000 employees working in the jail system, and I am proud of the fact that nearly all do their jobs without complaint and without complaints against them," Garcia said. [More]Earlier in my career I worked for companies several times that size. We never experienced anything close to that termination/suspension for cause rate.
[Via Michael R]
Getting Their Talking Points Straight
MSNBC says the "most peaceful" states are Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. [Read]
The Bradys rate those state respectively 7, 6 and 6 out of 100. While "least peaceful" Louisiana is arguably lower with a 2, and that's assuming we stipulate the ratings criteria are, you know, rational, Tennessee performs "better" on the Brady scale with an 8.
What this actually tells us is their idiotic rating system is stupid and meaningless in terms of real-world assessments.
This is my shocked face.
[Via Carl S]
The Bradys rate those state respectively 7, 6 and 6 out of 100. While "least peaceful" Louisiana is arguably lower with a 2, and that's assuming we stipulate the ratings criteria are, you know, rational, Tennessee performs "better" on the Brady scale with an 8.
What this actually tells us is their idiotic rating system is stupid and meaningless in terms of real-world assessments.
This is my shocked face.
[Via Carl S]
No Questions Asked
They're buying new ones? [Read]
Have they given back all the ones they stole yet?
Oh wait, I forgot: We're not supposed to be asking questions.
Have they given back all the ones they stole yet?
Oh wait, I forgot: We're not supposed to be asking questions.
By Hook or By Crook
Canadian gun owners did not fight 17 years to free themselves from Ottawa’s monstrous gun registry only have provincial chief firearms officers (CFOs) create a new gun registry via the backdoor. [More]Wanna bet?
It's what they do.
An Eye-Opener
It was an eye-opener for some people who haven’t thought about these things in the past... [More]Why the hell not? Are these adults?
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find Out What it Means to Me
The defense attorney who wore a traditional Islamic outfit during the rowdy arraignment of the accused Sept. 11 terrorists is defending her courtroom appeal that other women in the room wear more "appropriate" clothing to the proceedings -- out of respect for her client's Muslim beliefs. [More]Because we see how much respect they have for others.
So, when this...this thing Cheryl Bormann wants a U.S. Court to order other women to wear Muslim garb so her self-control-challenged clients don't get all bonerific and "commit a sin under their faith," a few questions come to mind (including why, with some of these guys, they don't require boys to wear burkhas):
See, it's not simply tolerance of Muslim beliefs--there can be no satisfaction unless they're embraced and obeyed, and by all--kind of like everything else the diversity crowd militantly demands. So if we need to show "respect" for Islamist fanatics in the courtroom by ordering women to don what Oriana Fallaci called a "stupid medieval rag" (as she took her chador off while interviewing the Ayatollah Khomeini), then why wouldn't we need to order them to show that respect everywhere? Never can tell when what you choose to wear might trigger a response...
I'm not clear on what Bormann is saying here, mainly because I, and all other men I know and call friends, aren't forced to avert our eyes from non-cloaked women in order to keep our salacious urges in check. So is she saying her clients are inferior primitives?
Not that I'm entirely unsympathetic. Unless she is being accompanied by her husband or male relatives, I'd have no problem with those she "respects" administering the lash, maybe even burying her up to her neck, gathering some hefty stones and and warming up the ol' pitching arms...especially if she drove there on her own.
Civilized People
"Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you’re a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939," the Berkshire vice chairman said," but I think civilized people don’t buy gold, they invest in productive businesses." [More]Of course, we civilized investors have connections and opportunities the rest of you barbarians don't...
The Assault Weapon Menace
A man used a blood-filled syringe to steal thousands of dollars in prescription pills from a Maryland pharmacy, according to authorities. [More]Those assault weapons can be pretty scary in the wrong hands.
This Day in History: May 7
On May 7, during the Charleston expedition of Gen. Henry Clinton, Capt. Charles Hudson, from the HMS Richmond, and 500 Royal Marines received surrender of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, and its 216 man garrison, from Lt. Col. William Scott, after threatening to storm it. [More]