No Upsets Expected in NRA Board Election despite Controversy

And this year, despite a unique and emotionally-charged recall measure against a high-profile director, don’t expect to see any significant changes in the makeup of the board. [More]

Expect eligible NRA members to vote the way the Nominating Committee wants them to, with most unaware that the “pathway to citizenship” threat to gun rights favored by Hillary and Bloomberg is being intentionally ignored.

A Typical 'Progressive' Response

Time to ban gun sales until we find a way to keep them out of wrong hands [More]

Where were the good guys with guns?

Hey, where were the cops?

And where do newspapers find such full retard editors?

You think the drug cartels are dangerous, just wait 'til you get your wish and the gun cartels start claiming turf. But thanks for showing us what you mean by"reasonable common sense gun safety laws."

We're the Only Ones Secret Enough

Virginia Senate passes bill to keep police officers’ names secret [More]

We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you. After all, if it's a "law," authoritah can use an up-to-lethal escalation of force to make sure it's obeyed.

Brought to you by John Cosgrove, Jr., a "law and order Republican."

Plus he's endorsed!

How did the slogan go?  Oh, yeah:

Vote freedom first!

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Not Only Enough

"I'm one of the good guys," Hughes said. "Now they're trying to make me one of the people I protect society from." [More]

Please.  You have it to protect yourself and your own.

You're entitled to no more exemptions in this regard than I am, meaning, interestingly enough, that you're entitled to all of them. But enough with the self-serving BS.

If you can do it, I can do it. But that's not the claim I'm hearing.

[Via William T]

Leaving Money on the Table

I continue getting emails from state gun groups with announcements that can't be repro'd in full here.  We've talked about this before.

I cannot emphasize strongly enough how lack of a shareable link means your signal never makes it farther than the inbox with those of us who use blogs and social media instead of mailing lists to spread the word.

Speaking of Blind and Stupid

With his bodyguard in jail, now would be a good time to wall this jackass up in Al Capone's vault... [More]

Haunted by His Past

Donald Trump in 2000: “I Support the Ban on Assault Weapons” [More]

Yeah, we know.

What's the point of emphasizing it now? Especially by a guy who puts Think Progress first among his Twitter profile links?

The first time I voted for president, I chose McGovern. If you'd asked me back in the 80s, I'd have endorsed licensing and registration.

We grow. We learn. We change.

Have you never evolved on a position?

Sure, we can by default presume the guy is a phony and that he's just telling the rubes what they want to hear. If you do that without proof, I sure hope you never find your fate in the hands of jurors doing the same.

By all means, watch Trump -- and all the other candidates -- like a hawk for inconsistencies and fresh sellouts. Just understand that collectivist writers on collectivist websites are counting on being able to scream "String him up!" and watching the mob go for the rope.

[Via @pamnsc]

Burden of Proof

The hearing was over the temporary restraining order (TRO) and preliminary injunction (PI) being sought by the League of Women Voters and a host of other leftist groups to stop the recent decision of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to allow Kansas, Georgia, Alabama, and Arizona to enforce their proof-of-citizenship voter-registration requirement. [More]

So just make 'em all citizens and problem solved!

Right, Hillary? Right, establishment Republicans?

Question: If you don't have to prove citizenship to be eligible to vote, why should you have to prove age?

[Via Michael G]

At the Zoo

A zoo official testified in December that it operates a preschool on site, runs other education programs for children and meets the state definition of an amusement park, noting that Missouri law allows banning weapons in such places. The zoo said its preschool uses “the entire 90-acre campus of the St. Louis Zoo as a classroom.” [More]

Sounds like the same BS excuse Universal Orlando is using.

Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo.

[Via bondmen]

It's Almost Like There are Two Sets of Standards

Paul is being accused of making “terroristic” threats. [More]

Curious. This guy isn't.

We're the Only Ones Blameless Enough

Bradley said the department did a thorough internal investigation and found no one in particular is to blame for releasing Frustaci’s gun for destruction. [More]

I don't suppose anyone is responsible for proving it was actually destroyed, either.

Following secured stores procedures just ain't that difficult, people. If you want to follow them. Which is why my first thought isn't "negligence" or "honest mistake."

[Via cydl]

Setting the Tone

Santilli’s case has attracted the support of groups as disparate as the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon and the Oath Keepers, a citizen militia.  [More]

Well, thanks for linking to my piece, WaPo, but its not a militia.

You guys kind'a specialize in calling things what they're not, don't you?

Economics 101

$15/hr. meets reality.

I remember when I was a young foreman back in the late 70s and the union went on strike.  Within two weeks, we had office workers trained well enough in the floor jobs to where our production and scrap rates were comparable to what those who operated the machinery for a living produced. And this was a highly regulated industry, using state of the art (for the time) equipment and processes to make medical plastics, tubing and compounds. The lesson that taught was that if anyone can do what you do with that minimal level of time in training, how much effort have you put into yourself? What value are you offering to make doing business with you worth it?

Most of us have worked crap minimum wage jobs, often while going to school. They're not intended to be the end all.  And in terms of people having kids and needing more money, everybody who doesn't know how babies are made or that choices have consequences, raise your hand. You shouldn't get to make those choices and then use the up-to-lethal force of government to make those who made better choices pay for them.

The American Spectraitor

If white Republicans want white Europeans to dominate the American landscape once again, then they better start reproducing themselves. If they’re not making babies (they’ve sent their kids to liberal universities where they are systematically brainwashed), then they will be out-voted by Latino voters. [More]

So the solution is to empower the guy who wants amnesty?

This guy has verifiable evidence that'll reverse polarity on that 70% Democrat/anti-gun advantage?  Because every time the Repubs cave, betray their core and give the collectivists what they want, all our ships rise?

And it ain't a matter of "white Europeans."  Those who know the score would also oppose a mass influx of Swedes and Brits.

This is ideological, not racial.

The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shore

The administration has decided to let immigrants with three sexually transmitted diseases known for causing sores or lesions on genitalia to enter the United States, an expansion of a previous decision to let in those with HIV. [More]

I see the Opposite Day "progressives" running the Department of Health and Human Services have focused their agenda on those they're chartered to keep healthy and to serve...