In Denial

In an order on Monday, without explanation or comment, the Court rejected a civil rights lawsuit brought by the Calguns Foundation and the Second Amendment Foundation. [More]

This business of  "no historical authority suggests that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to sell a firearm" is subversive nonsense. As Edwin Vieira has noted:

All militiamen (except conscientious objectors) were to be provided with “small arms”: long guns and pistols. Those who were financially able purchased their arms in the free market, then possessed them as private property in their homes at all times. Those with insufficient means were supplied with firearms the Militia or some other governmental body usually procured in the market, in most instances retaining possession of those arms whilst enrolled. This reliance on a permanent private market for firearms guaranteed that most militiamen, through their own efforts, could always obtain firearms suitable for both collective and individual self-defense, and forestalled tyranny by precluding rogue public officials from monopolizing the production, distribution, and possession of firearms.

 I did not see that argued.

Do the Math

The mathematics that I’ve cited don’t bode well for the gun-grabbing collectivists. [More]

No, they don't, but they do show why the totalitarian wannabes fear and hate us so.

I'd like to see someone work this out by state.

[Via Bill C]

Hero Worship

Waffle House shooting hero posts photo with his hero, Emma González [More]

Bravo for the guy. He did good. One hopes more of us would acquit ourselves as well.

That said, one size does not fit all, and making people think the convergence of unique circumstances and reactions that allowed things to be resolved here will apply everywhere and in Everytown is irresponsible and dangerous.

It's not unfair to wonder if more could have been saved had a defender been armed.

[Via Mack H]

Another Bug Hunt

Department of State bug bounty pilot program [More]

And if the cause of "security vulnerabilities" is a criminal secretary and her top aide intentionally bypassing protocols and the law...?

[Via Henry Bowman]

Tin Man

Humanoid robot runs through the park by itself [Watch]

Asimov's "Three Laws" seem so naive.

[Via William T]

Every Picture Tells a Story

The logic here was that the camera must have caught him doing something wrong or else it would have never been triggered in the first place.  [More]

Yeah, it's not like something that ludicrously wrong could be, you know, completely wrong.

[Via Michael G]

The Day the Music Died

Someone called 911, but this man’s maple instrument wasn’t a gun. It was a bassoon. [More]

Why does anyone need a woodwind that large?

What I'd really like to see in this story is the name of the moron who called the cops. People ought to be accountable, especially when their actions put others at risk.

[Via Steve T] 

The Rainbow Conspiracy

Former Stanford University Maoists On The Cusp Of Choosing The Next US President, Creating A ‘One-Party-State,’ Part 1 [More]

Read and share.

[Via James Simpson]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

No go zones in the UK for police... [Watch]

Coming soon to a caliphate near you...

[Via Jeet]

Wynn A shares why.

Poplophobia

Someone had to say it. [More]

[Via Steve T] 

Well It Figures

A judge in Washington County has issued a temporary restraining order to several television broadcasters, ordering them to stop airing ads against Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson that her lawyers claim are "false, misleading and defamatory." ...[More]

And this surprises who, exactly?

Goodson received a campaign finance score of -0.48, indicating a liberal ideological leaning. 

Inigo has one concern with that assessment.

[Via Michael G]

How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didn't Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History

And then came the shots from the Capitol Police. [More]

What do you think, Yul?

[Via bondmen]

What This Country Needs More Of

Four men, at least three of them with Somali names, crashed a wedding party on April 22 at the Bektash Temple, where they wore red bandanas associated with a criminal street gang known as the Bloods, “yelled profanities and fired gunshots during a melee in the parking lot,” police told the Concord Monitor. [More]

Rigorous!

[Via Wynn A] 

‘The Only Purpose a Gun Has is to Murder’

Despite spending my teen years in a pit of depression and despair, I have largely fond memories of them. [More]

Yeah, nothing a sane and whole person likes better than being miserable and hopeless. Not to mention irrational...

For "progressives," every day is Opposite Day.

Huffington Post Fuddwriter Attack on 2A Gets Weak Disavowal from OWAA

The HuffPost hit piece is yet another example of “Fudds” subverting the Second Amendment. Before anyone gets too bent out of shape over the term, understand that, as used here, it is not meant to disparage hunters and sport shooters who promote the right to keep and bear arms. I call those people “friends.” In order to qualify for the “Fudd” designation, they have to go the extra mile of throwing fellow gun owners under the bus, especially those who are in it for the rights of armed citizens as envisioned by the Founders. [More]

Divided we fall, and they're doing their part to separate and then push.

Where NOT to Buy Ammo

Yo, Bulkammostore.com -- tell your serial spammer "paul limo" to stop trying to post comments that have nothing to do with the topic being offered for discussion. I don't put the work into this so you and yours can parasitize it for free ads. That this is evidently an approved business practice makes me not want to even know you, let alone trust you.

And as long as I'm on the subject: