The proponents of this bill say they want to save elephants. How in the world do you save an elephant by rendering valueless an item that has ivory that’s 99 years old in it? And what could they possibly be thinking by including “mammoths” in this legislation? Mammoths are, well…extinct. Really. It was in all the papers. [More]That's why they're called "progressives."
Monday, March 23, 2015
The West Ivory Coast
Sad News
Four Richmond, Virginia Men Killed in Friday Morning Crash ... The sheriff could not confirm, but did hear, that the four men were travelling to Detroit to participate in a gun walk. [More]Here was one of them.
More here.
[Via Mack H]
Spotting More than Shots:While Putting the "New" in New York
Is NYC’s new gunshot detection system recording private conversations? [More]Probably. After all, it picked up a man's voice in Oakland. I recall when the system had not yet been challenged in court because it was "not dead-on accurate," and how Boston cops had "called it a joke."
Matter of fact, why they're calling it "new" is a bit of a mislead, as we've been talking about it here for some years (and Vin Suprynowicz wrote about it before then, hence the arrow).
From one such post in 2008:
Let's do an experiment.
BANG BANG BANG
Now imagine how far away you could be in the two minutes "average time" Newark says it takes them to respond. And why on earth would we not believe a Newark police official?
"Currently ShotSpotter is deployed in more than 29 major U.S. cities," we are told.
Anyone got numbers to demonstrate a reduction in "gun violence" attributable to the system?
The word "fraud" comes to mind. But I guess when you're part of the problem, there's nothing to do but keep the con game going as long as you can find suckers to fall for it.It does keep the money coming in though, does it not?
[Via Felix B]
Do permits tread on the Second Amendment?
Oh, I dunno... would speech and worship permits tread on the First Amendment? [More]
How about permits protecting from cruel and unusual punishment, or (pick a right, any right)... ?
How about permits protecting from cruel and unusual punishment, or (pick a right, any right)... ?
Penn and Neeson flops show audiences shunning anti-gun ‘geri-action’ heroes
Unknown is what effect Penn and Neeson running their mouths off in the press and alienating millions of potential movie-going gun owners has had on the willingness to spend hard-earned dollars enriching privileged belittlers of freedom. Both have made no secret of their contempt for guns and gun ownership, with the former maligning them as “cowardly killing machines” and the latter calling for UK-style gun bans in the U.S. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes enough may have caught on to these fraudulent stage props and decided there are other things they'd rather see than privileged statist hypocrites pretending to be champions of individual justice.
Talk About an Understatement
The report casts new doubts on whether Clinton was being entirely truthful... [More]Ya think?
There Oughtta Be a Law
Since 2008, the federal government has finalized over 2500 regulations. Those regulations required over 500 million hours of paperwork hours, and ring in to the tune of almost 734 billion dollars in total cost. [More]And then there's the burden we are forced to bear on top of paying for the bureaucrats.
Imagine how freedom would soar if...
Anyway, there's an online tool to help navigate through the Gordian knot, although Alexander's solution to that problem is looking more attractive every day.
[Via Michael G]
We're the Only Ones Privatized Enough
It has a potential the collectivist model do not. [More]
I would want to see what oversight policies are in place to make sure they know at all time who they're working for and only involve themselves when justified by a need to discourage life and property threats through presence, response and investigation.
[Via Florida Guy]
I would want to see what oversight policies are in place to make sure they know at all time who they're working for and only involve themselves when justified by a need to discourage life and property threats through presence, response and investigation.
[Via Florida Guy]
We're the Only Ones Not Indicative Enough
Police officer charged with holding gun to man's head ... "These actions are not indicative of the high standards we expect of our officers." [More]Yeah, why couldn't that one bad apple been more like the barrel?
[Via William T]
We're the Only Ones Politically Incorrect Enough
In the text message exchanges, the former officers used racially derogatory terms to refer to people they encountered while on duty, included racially insensitive material from the film, "Django Unchained," and talked about getting drunk and "killing n*****," according to investigative documents. [More]Yeah, just what this country needs -- more idiot cops stoking race war embers.
They should have picked a more acceptable group to joke about shooting, like gun owners-- that would have guaranteed their bosses and their bosses would do nothing.
[Via Florida Guy]
A Primer on Street Gangs and How They Get Arms
You know what would fix this? Universal background checks for you and me. [More]
For Opposite day "progressives," that's only "common sense."
[Via Florida Guy]
For Opposite day "progressives," that's only "common sense."
[Via Florida Guy]
A Lager By Any Other Name
You know, joycamps ... and guess who will be having all the fun.As I have gotten older, I have decided we really need camps for adults,” she said to laughter ... I think we have a huge fun deficit in America. [More]
[Via Florida Guy]
A "Progressive" Defense
"While we don't endorse her views, we do defend her right to say them," Jellinek said in a statement posted on his Facebook page. [More]Yeah, and I'm sure you'd have said the same thing if one of your white pieces of meat had said she hated blacks, and gone on to claim she wanted to commit racial genocide using sorcery.
Playboy always has set the standard for "progressive" ethics.
This Day in History: March 23
Congress have had too many unequivocal proofs of the Zeal—the attachment to—and important exertions of this young nobleman in the American Cause, to entertain a doubt of the propriety of his present absence... [More]