Documents confirm ATF surveillance in U.S. before gun found in Mexico

Today’s report, consisting of documents identified as #3, #4 and #5, will lay out the evidence that the dealer was cooperating with ATF in identifying and reporting on suspects being watched, establishing that it was well within the capability and power of agents to arrest the traffickers and intercept the gun Shipley sold before it was smuggled into Mexico, something that was later exploited with great effect by the prosecution to condemn the defendant in the eyes of the jury. For reference, those documents have been posted in this columnist’s Scribd account. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner exclusive follow-up report asks how a trafficking suspect under surveillance who lived in Juarez was able to buy a weapon under the noses of ATF watchers and then get it to Mexico.

Intelligence Dispatch to Obama #2

Really?  You're thinking about letting the string-pullers maneuver Hillary to within a heartbeat of the presidency?

Shalom in Our Time

The cowards at The Observer aren't taking comments. [Read]  

And the coward who grunted this out doesn't even accept them on his own.

On the plus side, it shows you the level of pathetic "argument" establishment-approved literati must resort to. But he's edgy, see, and really thinks he's clever, I suspect between bouts of self-realization that he's basically just an obnoxious fraud.

My friend Aaron would have called this despicable and worthless wretch a "bagel brain."

But I can't think of a more eloquent and deserved response than Arnhole's.

Intelligence Dispatch to Obama

STFU, you insufferable narcissist.  [Watch]

[Via Transsylvania Phoenix]

Malaysia's Deadly Love Affair with Tyranny

America’s deadly love affair with guns [More]

A Malaysian editorial criticizes our freedom.

Malaysia...isn't that where they arrest cartoonists?

And torture Christians?


And are ruled by a king they call "He who is made Lord", and "Supreme Ruler", and "Paramount Ruler", and "Supreme Head of State"?

Gee, bub, we have guns to help keep that kind of primitive insanity at bay. 

Religious groups divided on gun control, but united against guns in churches

Then they're not "divided on gun control." [Read]

What are they prepared to do about it if someone brings one in anyway?

The Immunity Syndrome

Gee, Officer Krupke,
We're down on our knees,
'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease.  

[From "West Side Story"]

Mike comments on the USA Today piece about the new push for the old deception to treat guns as a public health issue (I discussed this briefly on Sunday with Mark Walters on Armed American Radio). [Read]

I've got to get back into the next installment of the unfolding Shipley story, but wanted to make a few quick points.

First, note  one of the collectivist pseudo-scientists at the center of this is none other than the Hero of Medicine and star of "Where's Wintemute?"

Next, one of the assertions they make that  leaves a door wide open: If "gun violence" is a "disease," let's see if it behaves like others.  One of the things about a contagion is it spreads throughout a population, leveling those who come in contact with it, bringing down the high and the low without regard for trivial superficial social trappings, none of which result in immunity to basic biology where plague is concerned.

Now we need to ask if some segments of the populace are more susceptible to  the "disease" and if some show an inexplicable immunity.  I would submit that the 4+ million members of the NRA provide a good representative and statistically-valid sample of the latter. After all, they're one of the most heavily-armed populations on the planet, yet when was the last time you read about one of them doing a turf war drive-by or a liquor store robbery?  Why are there no recurring headlines documenting their being driven to kill because of "easy access" to guns?

Wouldn't a responsible methodology now consider the factors that exacerbate susceptibility for "gun violence" in one group and confer immunity in the other?

Otherwise, will the federal grant recipients at the Firearm Injury Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin suggest that the contagious be quarantined?

I don't suppose it occurs to those who would impose  a freedom quarantine on all of us that most "social diseases" are pretty much preventable with self-control and responsible behavior, like being mindful of who you choose to associate with and what you choose to do with them, and that the explanation for immunity lies therein?

"Teens"

Several residents called police, noting the suspects are black and inquiring whether Mahaney was specifically targeted because he is white. He was not, the chief said. [More]

Hell of an investigation there, chief, to be able to say that so soon and with such certainty.  I'm surprised the "Authorized Journalists" included that bit of information, even if buried--it's usually something they intentionally suppress altogether--as regressive mouthpieces ridicule those who point the deliberate avoidance out, and then make ridiculous, illogical and simply untrue denials like:

White-on-black crime comes from a position of power. The opposite -- the minority oppressing the majority -- is impossible...Yes, there's a double-standard. And until there's full equality and the long slow process of racial healing is completed, the double-standard has to remain.

Jesse and Al are counting on that.

This Day in History: August 16

Fought on August 16, 1780, the Revolutionary War Battle of Camden, South Carolina, pitted American forces under Major General Horatio Gates against a small British field force commanded by Lieutenant General. Charles, Lord Cornwallis. Despite numerical superiority, the Patriot forces suffered a humiliating rout, one of the worse defeats in American military history. [More]