It was never really a conversation. It wasn't even a monologue.
It was a dictation of the terms of surrender: Obey or die. [Read]
Good job, Kurt, as always.
I'm exhausted, it's snowing, I've had a hell of a day, it's Friday night and I'm shutting down. Don't expect emails answered or comments moderated for the rest of the day.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Today's NRA Press Conference Live Streaming
Watch below at the appointed hour:
I just noticed I can see this in IE but not in Firefox. If you have problems viewing this here, go to the NRA site.
The Nazgul Speaks
I say all of this as a gun owner. I say it as a conservative who was appointed to the federal bench by a Republican president. [More]
Sounds more to me like you say this as a traitor. Really, judge? Confiscation?And if you could ignore the rest of the Bill of Rights you talk about making it "a capital offense to so much as look at a gun"?
What a bloody-minded fascist. I guess at some point, if things don't simmer down, he and his are going to try to kill me and mine.
And, depending on where you stand, you and yours.
Get Smart
"I was literally pulling my hair out," McNamara said. "I thought, we have a technology that could have helped prevent that massacre."
That technology places a radio chip in a gun handle and a corresponding chip on a ring or bracelet or even implanted in an authorized shooter's hand, McNamara said. If the two chips are not within an inch or two (2.5 to 5 cm) of each other, the trigger will not unlock. [More]
Keep pulling, Mac. Your stupid gizmo would have had no effect on Sandy Hook. All Adam would have had to do is kill his mother by other means and he could have helped himself to the bracelet or ring, or pried the chip out of her cold, dead hands with a screwdriver.
What a dumb idea.
It always has been.
Our Opinion
A reasonable question is: Who needs what kind of weapon? [More]Some of us don't find that presumption a given.
Grassley Wants Knife Control, Too
What an idiot. No wonder Obama and Holder outsmart these guys at every turn. [Read]
We'll Leave the Seat Up for You
Both hotel chains' Facebook pages are full of messages urging them to "get out of bed with the NRA", many of them threatening to stop using their hotels until they do. [More]Those are the types who probably bring in bedbugs anyway.
If you're on Facebook, fight back with a message of your own:
Shooting Destination Night
Reminder: American Trigger Sports Network will feature an encore presentation tonight on the Tueller drill. [Details]
A Market-Based Stand
Y.es, throwing your core customers under the bus has always been a good strategic moved in a highly-competitive market place. God forbid we would expect a business supported by gun owners to take a principle-based and a freedom-based stand. [Read]
Of course, prognostications of a financial genius move notwithstanding, we are dealing with a commentator/analyst who believes:
As for glossing over "well regulated," no we don't. Some of us, who have actually read the Federalist Papers, know exactly what was intended:
Of course, prognostications of a financial genius move notwithstanding, we are dealing with a commentator/analyst who believes:
Yes, the Second Amendment does grant the right to bear arms, but gun advocates always seem to gloss over the phrase "well-regulated militia." The founding fathers were wise to include that language.Or at least he says he believes it . It's tough to think anyone still buys into that "grant" lie after it's been debunked so many times, including and by no less than the Supreme Court, so my guess is the writer knows better but doesn't want his readers to.
As for glossing over "well regulated," no we don't. Some of us, who have actually read the Federalist Papers, know exactly what was intended:
"The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of being carried into execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country, to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped [emphasis added]; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.And yes, the founders were wise. How wise may astonish some.
This Day in History: December 21
"...And were not the taxes of Britons, and the number of her armies increased, to make up the deficiency...offered to drop the act for raising a stamp duty in America provided the colonist would grant...their reasonable aids towards the support of their own civil establishment & the national defence...Not to oppress--not to injure, much less to reduce the Americans to slavery..." [More]
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