Today's Five-Minute Activism Opportunity

GOA says tell your Rep. "No" to Paul Ryan. [More]

Or as I like to call him, Obama's Choice.

Anti-Texas Campus Carry Petition Trips over Inconvenient Truth

"I remember thinking, ‘All we need is a bunch of idiots running around with rifles.’ But what they did turned out to be brilliant. Once [Whitman] could no longer lean over the edge and fire, he was much more limited in what he could do. He had to shoot through those drain spouts, or he had to pop up real fast and then dive down again. That’s why he did most of his damage in the first twenty minutes." [More]

Oh, look: What the pro-murder lobby tells us will happen in their fantasy scenarios doesn't in real life. Rational adults are more than capable of identifying just who it is threatening them with deadly force.

We're the Only Ones Hosed Enough

Two Connecticut cops were hanging out together off-duty when suddenly, they feared for their lives, drew their firearms and hosed down a suspicious car in their driveway. Too bad the car was empty. And belonged to one of the officers. [More]

Aren't you glad highly-trained and trusted "Only Ones" are empowered to arrest you for "gun violations"?

[Via Neil W]

Seems Like Overkill

Not this. [More]

This, if the "Hundreds of military/swat/FBI vehicles ... dozens of swat and military guys" estimate is close.

[Via WNTP]

Never Again (Except When We Enable It)

In a sermon delivered over the weekend at a mosque in Gaza, an Imam encouraged fellow Palestinians to hunt down Jews in the West Bank, calling for Muslims to “stab” Jews wherever they find them. [More]

Thank G-d for "common sense gun safety laws"!

[Via Geordan]

Sealing Up the Wrong End of the Tunnel

America Should Be Prosecuting Straw Purchasers, Not Gun Dealers [More]

Not quite. I get what he's saying, but the net he's casting snags more than sharks, and can also capture the harmless, or "I will not comply" activists like... me. He's also making Bloomberg's case for background checks registration.

I have a right to purchase any gun I want for anyone I want, and it's no one's business unless I make it so. What I don't have a right to do is abet someone I have good reason to believe will harm others.

As a responsible adult member of society, I have a duty to help ensure such misfits who come to my attention are rendered incapable of predation. After all, if such a person has done something to legitimately disqualify himself from gun possession, he shouldn't be freely moving among us.

Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian.

Sowell Searching

If there is hard evidence that stronger gun control laws actually reduce gun crimes in general or reduce murders in particular, the Second Amendment can be repealed, as other Amendments have been repealed. Constitutional Amendments exist to serve the people. People do not exist to be sacrificed to Constitutional Amendments. [More]

Sorry, but I am not responsible for the actions of others, and repealing 2A would not erase the right.

[Via Michael G]

People Dead, Send Us Money

No, not gun owners we'd like to see killed that we set up for SWATting, other, financially exploitable ones. [More]

This, from the hive insects who say talking about any self-defense, not just the armed kind is the "ugliest [thing they've] ever heard"...

Hey, mustn't challenge their precious Prozi "monopoly of violence."  Otherwise, they might call you "white."

Spare the 'Rod'...

Prosecutors charged a Kansas City man Monday with two counts of first-degree domestic assault for allegedly shooting his 7-year-old daughter in the hand and in the back ... [More]

Ah, that takes me back to the days of potty training feral sons Uday and Qusay...

So the "man" has been a "prohibited person" since 2007...?

Well that didn't work.

If only they would disarm you and me.

[Via bondmen]

What's in a Name?

California became the first state in the nation to pass a law prohibiting public schools from using the term "Redskins" as a team name or mascot. [More]

But other racial stereotyping is just fine:

Ain't that right, fellas?

UPDATE: And yeah, I've always been kind'a amused by this:

Deliciously Manageable

WHITE HOUSE WOULD LIKE PAUL RYAN AS SPEAKER [More]

Ask yourself why.

Meanwhile, neocon tool Hugh Husefulidiot, deceptively portrayed as a "conservative" in order to smear the actual ones as "extremists," is giving the appropriately-named Crooks & Liars an opening to attack a man of principle for not betraying those who elected him -- specifically to challenge sellout crooks and liars.

Here's all you need to know about Charlie Dent vs. Dave Brat.

Thank goodness this has nothing to do with that "single issue."

[Via Mack H]