More Evidence That Irresponsible Right Wing Rhetoric is Responsible for San Bernardino Murders

"Kill Trump." [More]

Two countries, folks. Who thinks they're interested in letting us live in theirs?

Any guesses on where any of these psychopaths stand on "common sense gun safety laws"?

Trump Under Fire

Critics ranging from the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, a Republican, to the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, a Democrat, assailed Mr. Trump’s proposal as self-defeating and un-American. “Tell Donald Trump: Hate is not an American value,” Hillary Clinton wrote on Twitter. [More]

In other words, controlled opposition establishment trough feeders are corroborating everything Quigley admitted:

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy” (Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966.) 

Comment poster Jack M appears to get it.  Meaning trolls rush in to poison the well with talking point responses like:

Islamic terrorists still kill fewer Americans than right-wing and Christian terrorists.

Two countries people. And we'll only be able to live in one of them.

Moms Demand Jihad

Shooter’s Mother Active In US Branch Of Pro-Caliphate Islamic Group [More]

How does this secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity again...?

The Force Awakens and Rolls Back Over

Any bets on how they'd view a real life rebel alliance resisting a monopoly of violence empire? [More]

I am reminded of my first magazine article, "The Fandom Menace," published in the Nov. 1999 issue of GUNS & AMMO. It's not online and I've not been successful  in my attempts to obtain contractual reprint rights, along with "The New Eloi" and some others.

[Via Jeet]

Crying Time?

From a comment left under my latest AmmoLand offering:

One more Democrat in the Oval Office and it’s all over but the crying.

A comment over at WRSA regarding my latest Oath Keepers piece comes to mind.

Put the Guns Down!

This is gawdawful. The problem is, they're obviously too ignorant to be embarrassed.  [More]

Still, in a lemonade out of lemons kind of way, the "add your verse" function offers some interesting possibilities...

[Via Steve T] 

Neocomns

We're neocons! We're ex-communists and ex-socialists who have seen the light and acknowledge the horrors visited upon millions of people by those collectivist ideologies in practice. What, however, are we for? We're for the status quo! Whatever that is or may be at any given point in time. [More]

And of course they require our principles to be as malleable as theirs.

This reminds me of a quote I recall seeing many years ago that goes something like:

There is no creature more useless than a centrist Republican.

[Via cycjec] 

Speaking Truth to Power

Microaggressions in safe spaces will not be tolerated. [More]

[Via Mack H]

"I'm the NRA"

So it must be my fault. [More]

The guy sounds like his mind was already boggled.

But let's ask those who know him best about this mediocrity.

[Via Michael G]

Squirrely in Progressiveland

Novato Couple Recount Terrifying Squirrel Attack [More]

I don't suppose giving your kid a Daisy or a Crosman is an option?

No, I didn't think so.

[Via William T]

What Evidence?

The media was invited in to destroy a crime scene, the apartment of the San Bernardino Islamist killers. [More]

I was going to jump on the bandwagon asking "WTF?" but then I saw this:

An hour later, Lourdes Arocho, spokesperson for the FBI Los Angeles field office, told Mashable: "The search is over at that location." ... During an afternoon press conference, FBI Los Angeles Assistant Director David Bowdich said that the federal investigation at the property had ended. Bowdich said investigators had seized several pieces of evidence from the home but had turned it back over to the owner. "Once we board it up, anyone that goes in at that point has nothing to do with us," said Bowdich.

Nothing to see here?  And nothing for other (local) agencies to find?

Who thinks this looks like the feds wanted something in the apartment to be obscured and tainted, and the chain of custody on certain evidence broken?

Oath Keepers will be keeping an eye on this story and posting updates as appropriate.

Open Inquiry to NYSP in re SAFE Act Enforcement

To: New York State Police Public Information Office

PIO@troopers.ny.gov

Subject: SAFE Act Enforcement

Per a 12/08/15 post on AR15.com:

The New York State Police have launched an investigation into alleged SAFE Act violations and appear to have possession or copies of 4473s showing who purchased firearms. Consider speaking with a lawyer if contacted.

No related information appears on your NYSP News page. Similarly, NYSP social media sites including Facebook and Twitter are silent on this.

Will you issue a statement confirming or clarifying/denying the posted information?

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PROOF OF DELIVERY UPDATE:

I do not see a messaging function on their Facebook page.

Second UPDATE: I see all kinds of assumptions being drawn about this-- please keep in mind it is an INQUIRY about a FORUM POST. The best thing people concreted about the potential of this can do right now is to join me in asking them about this.

Collective Responsibility

A collectivist would say that. [More]

Via W3]

The Children of the One Percent

Anti-free speech demonstrators at one of America’s most vaunted universities ... [More]

I really don't need to say any more about our future anointed leaders, do I?

Except getting rid of the title "master" for administrative titles is one thing, but couldn't we press and demand that the degree title be eliminated as well? What horrors must that hate word evoke!

And come to think of it, how must the exclusionary "bachelor degree" make participants in polyamorous transspecies marriages feel?

Here -- as long as we're sympathizing, we might as well be fully cognizant of their kampf -- or at least of their parents'.

We're the Only Ones Permitting Enough

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones in a Twitter exchange called on people to get a conceal and carry permit ... Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer agrees. [More]

Why do I require your permission? If I don't get it and you find out, what do you intend to do to me? What if I say "No"?

Those are questions that should be asked of all self-proclaimed "pro-gun" cops.

UPDATE:

Texas, too.

Urgent Action Alert!

Friend Laocoön shared his reply to another of those inane Call Your Politician advocacy group emails:

In Lieu of lobbying a politician who might be receptive, you ask me to call Comrade Ted Lieu (F-, aka Henry Waxman Jr.), Comrade Diane Feinstein (F), and Comrade Barbara Boxer (F).

Even on Pearl Harbor Day, you have your troops attack the ocean instead of strategic targets. Pass. My time is valuable. If you want me and my list to call, give us an option to lobby a focused list of legislators, outside our districts, who might be receptive or vulnerable. If we can volunteer or donate for or against someone outside our districts, then we can lobby them and they have an incentive to listen. They would have still more incentive, vastly more, if you stopped making excuses for not organizing and targeting a focus list at election time.

If I call a legislator, his staff better damn well at least pretend to listen or my next check will be to his opponent. We're losing our country. Why in God's name are you leaving power on the table? Because politicians tell you they don't want to hear from us? And you take that at face value? Of course they don't want to hear from us. That does not mean they ignore potential donors and activists who can make political survival easier or more difficult. And they will ignore anyone, even in their own district, who isn't organized and focused, who isn't a credible threat or ally -- such as your members, since you insist on keeping them harmless.

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Put your hand out in the sun on a cool day. Feels good, right? Now focus the same energy through a magnifying glass. How's it feel now? Diffused and dispersed use of limited power is worse than harmless, it aids, assists and gives comfort to the enemy. To attack everything is to attack nothing. - Laocoön, Mutual Defense

This is something more and more are waking up to, and those who play a cynical numbers game to create an illusion of relevance are going to find more and more of their emails automatically relegated to the "junk" folder, where they belong.

Meanwhile, Over at the Old Paradigm

Anonymous comment left under my WoG announcement of the latest AmmoLand SCOTUS piece:

Well, this ruling certainly makes things less ambiguous. If appeals to the highest court in the land have failed then we can, and should, look for other ways to protect our freedoms and ensure that the people pushing us all towards civil strife, economic depression and war cannot help but see how determined we are to protect our liberties. Even the most clueless among us should be able to recognize that none of the three branches of government is on the side of the people, the bureaucracy is hopelessly compromised, and they don't even care to pretend that our thoughts on the matter are worth considering in the least. I'd say that we are long past the point where working within the system will do anything other than give us false hope. Short of an event that is big and terrifying enough to awaken the clueless there is little hope for meaningful redress of grievences without a whole lot of other battlefield preparation before hand. They won't stop until the cost of their actions is no longer spread across our society, but rather entirely applied to them personally. In other words the penalties for their actions must be severe enough and personal enough to cut through the BS so that we can convince anyone else who is inclined to take this same path decides not to start in the first place. The tree of liberty hasn't been tended to in quite a long time. Somehow I think that's going to change, and soon. 

There is much truth in the growing realization and sentiment this commentator has shared with us, and I believe it deserves more eyeballs than it will get by staying buried in comments.