NRA holds a key to contempt vote as Holder dares Issa to proceed

The NRA must be involved. Now is not the time to avoid confirmation, now is the time to show the leadership it claims, and that its membership expects of it. [More]

This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report notes now is the time to back up all those fine words that have received such thunderous applause at the last two conventions.

High profile wedding provides key to keeping Chicago free of ‘gun violence’

The results were predictable. The wedding went off without a hitch, with no pink-dressed girl or little boy blue even remotely menacing the protected private entourage of “public servants.” Results were predictable in other parts of the Windy City as well, the parts where police personnel had been pulled from, not that their presence has ever made a bit of difference anyway. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes that a royal wedding party need not trouble itself about the fate of loyal subjects--there are plenty more where they came from.

Help Wanted

Oath Keepers explains. [Read]

Vanderboegh Medical Update

Just got off the phone with Mike. He's recovering but it's rough, and the pain medication makes it tough--he needs to "time" his moments of lucidity to be able to communicate. He says the pain is better than yesterday, but he doesn't know if they're going to keep him overnight again yet or not.

Hold your emails and SSI comments to him until he's back and ready to handle them?

We're the Only Ones Punchy Enough

Man on life support after Minneapolis cop punches him for ‘talking loud’ [More]

And then our sucker-punching Hero of the Fatherland fled the scene.

File this one under "proof that an assailant doesn't have to be 'armed' to justify using deadly force to repel him." Assuming you get the chance.  There is absolutely nothing morally wrong with using a gun on someone intent on beating you up with his fists, because we see what a good shot to the head can do.

Any doubt that had there been time to do so, and circumstances appropriate to ordering the attacker to freeze, that snout boy would have pulled a badge on him and then his own gun?  And had he then claimed his victim made a move and shot him, is there any doubt it would have been ruled justified?

[Via cycjec]

We're the Only Ones Thanking Heaven for Little Girls Enough

The agents entered the 14-year-old girl’s room first, shouting “Get down on the fucking ground.” The girl, who was lying on her bed, rolled onto the floor, where the agents handcuffed her. Next they went to the 11-year-old’s room. The girl was sleeping. Agents woke her up by shouting “Get down on the fucking ground.” The girl’s eyes shot open, but she was, according to her own testimony, “frozen in fear.” So the agents dragged her onto the floor. While one agent handcuffed her, another held a gun to her head. [More]

Oh, and it turns out:

At the time the warrant was issued, DEA Agents believed that a vehicle belonging to suspected drug trafficker Luis Alvarez was registered at the Avina residence. After executing the search warrant on January 20, 2007, the agents discovered they had inadvertently written down a license number of a vehicle belonging to Thomas Avina instead of a vehicle belonging to Luis Alvarez.

All these names being bandied about...except for those of "the agents," naturally.  We need them out there serving and protecting, and if you blow their cover, why, they might get a taste of their own medicine.

What I want to know is, what's the big deal?

[Via William T]

What Am I Missing?

Judicial Watch Sues ATF for Fast and Furious Records Detailing Communications Between ATF and Obama White House Official [More]

While it's nice to see others picking up on the NSC connection, I thought the NSC function of the White House was immune to such FOIAs...

Sleeping with the Enemy

She says the bird is expected to be released at an area park. [More]

Where it will assume all cats are just big, cuddly mattresses.

An Argument for Licensing and Registration

If you're looking for one that says they keep bad things from happening, his won't be much help. [Read]

[Via William T]

We Can't Wait To Say "We Told You So!"

Our own worry, although we acknowledge that statistics in other states have yet to bear out our concerns, is that legalized concealed carry — on the expressway, on the L, on the sidewalk — will result in more irresponsible gunplay in public places. [More]

Jeez, you'd think with every state in the union having some form of carry besides ours we'd have seen no shortage of blood-in-the-streets Dodge City fender bender massacres by now.  Especially considering all the years that have gone by.

Come on, those of you who took pains to be "legalized," make our dreams come true. Pleeease?

This Day in History: June 19

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