We're the Only Ones Rolling You Enough

The first time many civilians saw armored vehicles deployed by police officers was when news broadcasts showed them rolling onto streets in the Boston area after the April terrorist bombing. [More]

You've heard of waterboarding, done to captive individuals. I propose adopting the term "Watertowning" for when authoritah pulls this crap on captive populations.

[Via Florida Guy]

It Depends on the Meaning of the Word "Expand"

Among the proposed changes are measures that would allow public officials to carry firearms in the Statehouse and other "non-secured" public buildings... [More]

Why would I be for that?  How the hell does that "expand" things for any but the elites?

Why would I, in fact, not oppose that?

Who did Mr. Mason recognize as the militia of the Second Amendment?

"Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

What is this, Opposite Day in Columbus?

BUSted?

The Bloomberg bus is MIA?  Anybody know anything about this? [More]

UPDATE: It turned up in Nashville.

Certified

The Giron recall will proceed. [More]

[Via cydl]

It's in Their Nature

I guess I'm not the only one to notice these people are hardly impartial observers. [More]

We're the Only Ones Making It Personal Enough

Burgess used taxpayer money to buy guns for his personal collection, investigators say. [More]

I wonder if the plea deal will keep him from becoming a prohibited person...?

[Via Harvey]

A Selective List

Bear says he didn't get notified even though he signed up for the Bloomberg bus tour notification,

Anybody else have that happen?

Bloomberg Annexing Las Vegas

City Hall officials are arguing that the trip was entirely appropriate despite Kocher’s attempts to hide the city’s involvement because the laws would make New York a safer place. [More]

If it's on the level why hide?  They're like sneaky damn kids.

Be nice to find some NYC ordinance making this an actionable violation.  Not that selective enforcers would do a damn thing about it if it's a violation that serves their agenda.


Be careful, Sin City.  What do you think a guy who won't allow trans fats and Big Gulps is going to do with all the "bad for you" stuff your economy depends on if you give him a chance to influence decisions?

[Via Michael G]

Find the Best: Compare and Rate Guns

I don't normally do hardware posts, but was just reminded of this resource: Check it out and let us know what you think.

I've already commented on their page for FFLs and posted on it a while back.

Incomplete Nature gun article correction puts agenda over truth

It’s unfortunate that Nature's editors were deliberately indifferent to all of the needed corrections, leaving their readers with wrong information that could have been easily set straight. And it’s telling that absent from their coverage of “gun studies” is any acknowledgment of criminal violence being deterred and lives being saved through defensive gun uses. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report exposes illogical assumptions, muddled thinking, carelessness and indifference to the truth where most people would least expect them -- in the scientific literature.  What do you expect from people who can't even accurately quote my blog, and who then address me as "Dr"?

Welcome to the Present

This fight will be won or lost by the way women perceive guns. [Watch]

Sorry, but that assumes a ruling or an edict will be enough to prompt surrender. This fight  will be won or lost based on willingness of serious people who understand the core purpose behind the Second Amendment to go to the wall and beyond.

I hear the "self defense" argument and the "shooting sports/fun" argument, but I'm not hearing the "women also need to claim their place in the whole people's militia" argument.

That's their liberating (and truly progressive) choice, too. 

I agree that oafs shouldn't be condescending and presumptuous. And I welcome all people becoming aware and jealous of their rights, and acknowledge there's no one-size-fits-all best way to become introduced to and immersed in them.

But we can't talk full enfranchisement for women and leave out any mention of the reason for the right in the first place.  Welcome to the present, sisters. We're going to need your skill, judgment, counsel, courage and resolve.

 

A Walter Williams Classic

This one is from 2002.  It merits resurfacing and sharing. [More]

We're the Only Ones Scribbling Enough

Nice to see they did not try overt enforcement. I do hope they felt humiliated. [More]

Good job confronting and recording them.  A suggestion for future such actions: Try to note names and badge numbers. Ask them for their business cards.

[Via WRSA]

This Day in History: June 25

The Reverend James Madison, second cousin of the president of that name, was in residence with his wife when General Cornwallis arrived June 25, 1781, and turned them out. St. George Tucker, an American officer who would return after the war and raise the St. George Tucker House, reported that the Madisons were given other campus quarters but were treated contemptuously. "They were refused the small Privilege of drawing Water from their own Well," he wrote. [More]