We're the Only Ones Frozen Enough

An armed, veteran police officer stood idle for several minutes last October as the Las Vegas gunman slaughtered dozens of concertgoers from a perch one floor up, and now that cop’s actions — and inaction — are being reviewed by the Metropolitan Police Department... [More]

Hey, all you second-guessers, did he make it home safely at the end of the shift or not?

The Democrat Economic Agenda

We want you to be poor, dependent and resentful. And to turn to us. [More]

That's not to say we can turn our back for one second on the Republican agenda.

Great Point!

That reality happens to be that the rate of spouse-abuse / domestic abuse is frighteningly high in the law-enforcement community. The same is true of anger issues and depression, including tendencies toward suicide…. you know…. those “red flag” behaviors…. [More]

Unintended consequences meet the best laid schemes. But don't tell Wyatt ERPO.

If I Could Only Ask One Question Here about This Story...

...and I have many -- including how it "secure[s] the Blessings of Liberty" to feed Lauren Branchini with tax plunder -- it would be: Why the hell is the accused named but his accuser is not? [More]

[Via Michael G]

Fools for Radicals

You're a privileged upper middle class millennial enamored of romanticized socialism after being brainwashed in a fabulously expensive college.  You're the least "radical" person there is. [More]

Riding that "Jenny from the Block" vibe, eh, Chequita...?

New York's newest Stalinista gets her incompetent ass handed to her on social media -- not that it will make a bit of difference with her useful idiot racist, cultist enablers.

[Via Jess]

And You Think YOUR Job is Bad...

Lions eat 'rhino poachers' on South African game reserve [More]

That's a real dilemma for "progressives." On the one hand, they want to celebrate maniacally.  On the other, whose lives matter...?

[Via Michael G]

Off Beam

China’s New Hand-Held Laser Rifle: Less Lethal or Less Believable? [More]

So this was "fake news"?

Some day.

In a time not that long ago, it would have required a room's worth of equipment to be capable of a fraction of the computing power contained in those phones we casually slip in our pockets. Yeah, I know, that's an apples-and-oranges analogy, but it's less flawed than some blowhard posing like he knows what the limits are on future possibilities.

The real concern is if such a development will warn:

LAW ENFORCEMENT/GOVERNMENT USE ONLY

[Via Florida Guy]  

The Do-Over

A state lawmaker is planning a do-over after a ribbon-cutting photo from the revitalized Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis included only white people. [More]

Who better to rule over us than such as these?

[Via bondmen]

A Liberal Firebrand

Former MSNBC host Ed Schultz dies at 64 [More]

I'll always remember him for this.

[Via bondmen]

It's Time to Play...

..."Who's the Bigger Lying, Flip-Flopping Piece of Crap?" [More]

[Via bondmen]

It's a Big Club and You Ain't In It

Days before trial, prosecutor seeks dismissal of charges against St. Clair County judge [More]

Haven't citizens been ruled felons for lying to authorities?

And speaking of a perversion of justice...

[Via bondmen]

♫ Reach Out, Reach Out and Touch Someone... ♫

 What The Pros Use – King of 2 Miles Edition [More]

What that competition needs are some outraged, screaming Hogglets and MILMs demanding to know why anyone needs such long-range murder machines, and accusing contestants of being racist yokels compensating for their inadequate endowment.

And maybe a "die-in"...

[Via Wynn A] 

Well Regulated

Received via "Comments":

Does the word "regulated" in the 2A mean as used today, to control or direct, or does it mean well equipped? I have been told that at the time of the writing of the Bill of Rights regulated meant well equipped.

Both. Others say precision-adjusted like a clock.

The Militia Act of 1792 specified required gear including:

...a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of power and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and power-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a power of powder... 

The Militia clauses in the Constitution calls "for organizing, arming, and disciplining ... and for governing."   Hamilton explains his understanding in Federalist 29.

My key takeaway:

“To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss...Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped…”

In other words, we are entitled to what even modern courts have recognized as "ordinary military equipment" that is "in common use at the time" and "that its use could contribute to the common defense."

Once they show up for militia duty, citizens are subject to discipline. But the equipment they keep and bear in everyday life is not what is "regulated" and, significantly, there is no delegated power to allow for an override of "shall not be infringed."

(I didn't post this as a reply in "Comments" because I require those to stay on the topic being offered for discussion. That and if it were buried beneath a post, it wouldn't get enough eyeballs to be worth the work. I'm happy to try to answer questions, so please use the contact form in the left sidebar.)