'Gun Owner' has Big 'But'

I'm a gun owner myself. But I don't want to shop in a mall, a supermarket or convenience store while other patrons are walking around armed.  [More]

Because there are no safer zones than "gun-free zones," right, Paul?

This is bait and switch anyway -- he starts out talking about emotionally-charged demonstrations to trick the ill-informed into sympathizing and then suddenly reveals he doesn't want armed citizens anywhere.

[Via Mack H]

Three Strikes and You're Out?

Why is this in-your-face domestic enemy still on the federal bench? [More]

Unclear on the Concept

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It's considered good form to actually read the article first, "Robert"... if for no other reason than to keep you from looking like an idiot.

Clarifying Remarks

Have you seen the "new" movement to add a "clarification clause" to the Constitution to clarify the meaning of the Second Amendment? [More]

Yeah, some of us have.

We all clear on the proper response?

[Via Kenneth G]

Talking Points

Because their real aim—an outright ban on all civilian use of handguns and most rifles—would require a repeal of the Second Amendment. They can’t or won’t call for such a repeal because, for all their brandishing of opinion polls and claims to speak for the majority, they stand no chance of accomplishing it. It’s not impossible to repeal an amendment. The Eighteenth Amendment, establishing Prohibition, was repealed by the Twenty-First in 1933. [More]

Repeal would not eliminate the right. Even the hopelessly "Establishment" Supreme Court has acknowledged:

This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

I'd like to think if they're going to invite debate that such distinctions would be fully grokked.

And speaking from experience: Nobody's minds are changed, and the only ones getting deep enough into the weeds to do more than peruse a couple slanted headlines have already picked their sides.

Captain's Log

• An establishment "conservative" *
• The nuclear option
• False modesty
• Doing the rounds
• Sweating bullets

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We're the Only Ones Reinstating Enough

After years of litigation over the 2012 firing of a single Cook County sheriff’s police officer, dozens of other officers, jail guards and courtroom deputies fired for misconduct could get their jobs back, and hundreds more suspended without pay could be in line for possibly six-figure payouts. [More]

Who says crime doesn't pay?

[Via bondmen]

The Real Hate Group

SPLC, of course... [Watch]

[Via Michael G]

Ideological Arsonists

The media has deliberately fanned these flames. But all of it is based on a lie. [More]

Yes it is.

That's another reason why I've taken to calling "Authorized Journalists"/Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists the DSM.

Read My Lips: No New Bushes

George P. Bush Is ‘Re-Imagining’ Reality With A ‘Kinder, Gentler’ Alamo ... Texans who wish to honor the dead, and their stand for Texas independence, or young men wishing to see Jim Bowie’s knife and Col. Travis’s letter, will have to go across the street and into a basement where the real story of the Alamo is to be stuffed away like yesterday’s garbage. [More]

That's because:

This entire family needs to go away.

[Via Mack H]

But No One is Trying to Take Your Guns

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes it unlawful to deliver, sell, or purchase or cause to be delivered, sold, or purchased or cause to be possessed by another, an assault weapon, assault weapon attachment, .50 caliber rifle, or .50 caliber cartridge. Makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly possess an assault weapon, .50 caliber rifle, or .50 caliber cartridge 300 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act, except possession of weapons registered with the State Police in the time provided. Provides exemptions and penalties. Prohibits delivery, sale, purchase, or possession of large capacity ammunition feeding devices. Provides exemptions and penalties. Prohibits the knowing sale, manufacture, purchase, possession, or carrying of a trigger modification device. Defines "trigger modification device". Effective immediately. [More]

Repurposed "Blues Brothers" dialog comes to mind...

[Via William T]

Not What People Want to Hear, But When You Get Right Down to It...

Republican candidate says bump stocks saved lives in Las Vegas shooting – and that’s not all [More]

He's not the first.

[Via Jess]

Speaking of Disconnects

JESSICA CHASTAIN'S CALL TO ACTION: HOLLYWOOD HAS "CLEAR DISCONNECT BETWEEN HOW WE PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH" [More]

You don't say.

And you don't say.

[Via Matthew L]

Call to Action

I read the letter and can't figure out what the hell it is they actually want. [More]

Except the guy in the t-shirt gives a clue.

How about if people get paid what they're worth in a mutually-agreeable exchange? And anybody not understand how babies are made?

[Via bondmen]

Gone to SEED

Because everyone knows we ought to be judged by the color of our skin and by other circumstances we had no control over. It's the Opposite Day "progressive" thing to do! [More]

Talk about looking for things to bellyache about, and most of them made up and refutable at that. If this is what causes the angst, the sufferers have no clue how lucky they've been.

Of course, Peggy operates out of Wellesley, so that goes without saying.

This whole phenomenon of overprivileged guilt-ridden debs being suddenly converted to the cult of "social justice" has precedent, you know.

[Via Florida Guy]   

‘Modest Proposal’ Eviscerates Founding Intent on Second Amendment

That’s the key point being ducked. The function of the militia, defined as “all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense [and] bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time,” was—and is—to field citizen soldiers. And these citizens bore arms that were suitable for that purpose, “ordinary military equipment” intended to be taken into “common defense” battles. The militia assembled with the intent to match and best a professional military threat. [More]

And all you've got to do to make the globalist dream come true is surrender everything you believe in and bare those throats.

Neck-and-Neck

Fox News Senate poll: Doug Jones, Roy Moore are tied [More]

Jones supports a pathway to citizenship and prior restraints on guns. His would be a vote to confirm Supreme Court nominees. Letting him win will be all the signal establishment Republicans need that upstart principled challengers can be nipped in the bud by pointing out "extremists" will lose general elections.

Yes, I get the "we're not going to vote our way out of this" argument.  That's no reason to knee jerk limit tactical choices, and to not to pick up and swing every chair at hand.

All Things Being Equal...

LeBron James Wears 'Equality' Shoes... [More]

Well, yeah. Nike's a $pon$or.

And who better to run an "equality" campaign?

Or to speak for it?