There Oughtta Be a Law

I just received a jury summons. I'll try to get out of it on financial hardship grounds, because if I don't produce I don't get paid. But the thought -- or rather, the memory -- strikes:

When I was living in SoCal I got assigned to jury duty in Compton once. It's real interesting, having to park your car and then run the gantlet past clusters of face-tatted young "affiliates" of feral as hell defendants, and knowing your next stop is through a metal detector, meaning you can't have anything on you...

We know police have no duty to protect us, that is, they incur no liability should they fail to do so unless a legally-defined "special relationship" exists. If we're compelled under force of state arms to be be somewhere, and if compliance puts us at heightened risk and severely curtails our defensive options, why shouldn't such a relationship be mandated by law?

I'd love to see a legislator propose a law saying if you are subpoenaed and required to go somewhere, that those doing the compelling will be required to provide protection to, during and from the dragooning and on the hook for damages if they blow it.  If nothing else, it would be fun to see all the anti-gun poltiwhores and "Only Ones" who say you can't protect yourself blow a gasket saying they're not going to do it either.

We're the Only Ones Off-Roster Enough

Many of the firearms Gourdikian is believed to have sold are classified as “off-roster,” meaning they can not be purchased by the general public in California. Police officers, however, are exempt, and while its not illegal to sell an off-roster firearm to another individual, officers can run into trouble if they’re using their exemption to flip the weapons for a profit. [More]

What?

Privileges and immunities for one group that are "crimes" for everyone else result in corruption?

Oh go on.

Next you'll be telling me LEOSA beneficiaries would be happy to see me arrested for carrying where they can and I "can't."

And Another One Bites the Dust

“Lockton Affinity has notified the NRA that it will discontinue providing brokerage services for NRA-endorsed insurance programs under the terms of its contract,” Lockton said in a tweet. [More]

In a way, there's a certain schadenfreude to all this.

Maybe it's time to get back to core mission?  Except for the Lairds of Fairfax, that typically means secretly treating with Longshanks and leaving the patriots to bleed out on the field...

[Via Matthew L]

A 'Dear Dick's' Letter

Dick’s Employee Pens Epic Resignation Letter in Response to New Firearms Policies [More]

Good for him.  I respect a man who will quit a gig rather than compromise principles.

But again, this story and those linking to it on places like Breitbart and Weaselzippers don't even mention the bigger picture.

WTF, guys? You're leaving money on the table.

[Via Keith B]

We're the Only Ones Quantity Over Quality Enough

According to the police report released Tuesday night, seven officers fired 65 shots. The suspect fired two shots. That's a total of 67 shots and nobody was hit. [More]

A line from Cat Ballou comes to mind.

[Via William T]

Yeah? So?

Oath Keepers’ Dave Codrea says Dick’s Sporting Goods is “abandoning their brothers-in-arms on the battlefield in a time of dire need and leaving them to stand or fall while the cowardly profiteers who want the benefits of gun owner business without the rigors or risks slink away.” [More]

What of it?

And point of order...

You Can't Fire in a Crowded Theater

A North Carolina woman is jailed on multiple felony charges after she allegedly opened fire in a movie theater during a dispute over assigned seats at a screening of “Black Panther,” according to police and court records. Investigators allege that Shameka Latrice Lynch, 30, squabbled with other moviegoers around 11:45 PM Friday at a crowded AMC theater in Greenville. [More]

But...but...but...

I am glad my deeper fears have not been actualized, but I still think I'll pass, and not just on Panther...

And That, Benny, Tells Us All We Need to Know About You

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I'd ask "How about a free America?" but any coward who submits to the yoke so easily would be useless at producing one.

Ditto for "Ricky," who gave it an "up" vote.

Stop Missing the Bigger Picture on @Dicks

I've gotten several solicitation emails from "gun rights groups" decrying Dick's latest noisemaking. Every one of them missed the key point: Dick's is calling on lawmakers to pass new edicts.

It's not just a matter of it being "their business decision." They are actively the enemy trying to get the government to disarm me, you, our Posterity...

From the company “media statement”:

If the object is to urge members to boycott, don't just tell half the story, and the weak half at that.

A Tale. Told by an Idiot

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It's "full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing."

For now.