Yes, these are anecdotal, but there’s something to be said for the supposition that these misfits are projecting. They know they can’t be trusted with a gun so they presume you can’t be either. Otherwise, that would mean the problem was not with your rights but within them. [More]Just the Democrat politician to help enact citizen disarmament edicts…
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Gun-Grabber Charged with Murder Reminiscent of Others
A Nation of Immigrants
The media narrative today is that America has become “xenophobic” and is turning its back on new immigrants. But that narrative is sharply contradicted by the fact that the United States maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. In this week’s new video, CRTV host and best-selling author Michelle Malkin explains how ill-conceived immigration policies threaten to destroy the American Dream for everyone. [View]Not for the Democrats -- at least until the Old Guard has outlived its usefulness...
[Via Darkfyre]\
Just Like in China
FACEBOOK is rating users based on how "trustworthy" it thinks they are. Users receive a score on a scale from zero to one that determines if they have a good or bad reputation – but it's completely hidden. [More]How is that not potentially actionable defamation and restraint of trade that someone will have no way of even knowing about let alone appealing/fighting?
Those Who Can't
Members of the @BrowardTeachers union were making fun of my son @PollackHunter’s head on Facebook... [More]I remember the names of fewer than a dozen "teachers" and most of those memories are negative. Most were incompetent bullies and jerks.
The ones I remember fondly were the rare exception. One was Mr. Yowell, a Kentuckian teaching at the Community School in Tehran, who on my 10th birthday gave me two paperbacks, one by Twain and the other by Steinbeck.
Anybody Know All the Words to 'Kill the Boer'?
South Africa Calls for 300,000 Gun Owners to Turn Over Their Weapons [More]This came out a few months ago -- here's another writeup that helps explain the "legal" situation. For now, enforcement in mass has not started.
Give it time.
And if you have time, here's a bit more history.
[Via Keith B]
The New 'Deplorables'
Wrong for Power
Steve Sisolak, Wrong for Nevada Governor [More]Because of Clark County and the service unions, it'll be close. If you're a Nevada gun owner, you need to understand that the last gun-grab measure "won" by less than 1% because of Vegas interests, so anyone claiming their participation can't make a difference is just making excuses.
UPDATE-- Speaking of which:
A Nevada District Court decided Monday to toss out a lawsuit brought by the proponents of Nevada’s Background Check Act, also known as Question 1.First they don't know how to write a law and now they don't know how to mount a legal challenge. Keep spending Bloomberg's money.
[Via Don Turner]
We're the Only Ones Entangling Enough
Check Out This New Police Tech That Allows Cops To Lasso Crooks Spiderman-Style [More]Can I buy one?
Evidently not:
[Via Florida Guy]
Yesterday's Paradigm
Please contact your legislator and urge a NO vote – and do it now! Click here to find who represents you in the Senate or the Assembly and make sure your voice is heard! [More]If your rep is a safe district gun-grabber, why?
And has anyone asking you to do this ever even so much as hinted at a major reason why California politicians are increasingly immune to gun owner concerns?
[Via Felix B]
Curses, Foiled Again!
"I was fighting for my life, and that’s what the whole point of having a concealed weapons permit and having a firearm is — to solely defend your life, because I thought he was going to take mine,” she said. [More]and
A Portland woman fended off an attacker last month by pulling a concealed handgun from her purse, prompting him to flee, records show. [More]Shannon Watts reacts to the news:
[Via William T]
Faulty 'Reasoning'
I will confess that I have historically not been a fan of the armed teacher idea the NRA pushes after ever shooting. My reasoning is straightforward: these shootings are a such a statistical rarity that schools shouldn’t be going to great lengths to prep for them. And if that prep involves arming up school staff across the country, then the number of negligent discharges (or firearms left unattended) will go up, and the negative press will blow back on gun rights. [More]First of all, NRA has never come out in full recognition of the uninfringed right of the people -- including teachers -- to keep and bear arms. Matter of fact, historically, they've discouraged it.
Second, thanks for advancing an Everytown hand-wringing scareative that just ain't the case.
Good grief. School fires are a statistical rarity too. Care to extend the analogy?
It's useful to know Pinellas County's top "OnlyOne" is less neurotic about such things than the Fudds are. So is knowing that stunted capacity magazines were used.
[Via Jeet]
Connect the Dots
Point/Counterpoint
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the federal lawsuit filed Friday alleges that Mansur Ball-Bey was unarmed in August 2015 when he was shot in the back as he ran... The officers told investigators that Mansur Ball-Bey brandished a gun as he fled after police served a warrant at a home. [More]Beats me who to believe, and that in itself says much about the state of things.
[Via bondmen]
Blame Canada
The arms landscape in Canada has been shifting in recent years. Government figures showed 223 homicides by firearm in 2016, which was the highest number since 2005, the original “summer of the gun” when gang violence flared as it has this summer...There are also simply more guns today. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the number of lawfully registered restricted weapons, predominantly handguns, rose from 660,000 to 840,000 between 2013 and 2016. [More]Who besides the Cukier among them thinks guns in the hands of the peaceable are the problem? That makes much less sense than blaming Canada.
[Via bondmen]
Amazing Grace
A Mugged Liberal
Condition White
Woman stalks elderly victim before stealing her wallet [More]I see thoughtless women doing this all the time. It's no coincidence that their demographic is for the most part clueless about other defensive options and thus receptive to the message from those that would ban them.
With Friends Like These
It’s a beautiful day, and Pearl Jam’s social media comment sections are up in arms because the band’s latest concert poster features an illustration of the White House engulfed in flames as a bald eagle strips flesh from the flaxen-haired carcass of Donald Trump. The alt-rock vets shared the poster from last Monday night’s (August 13) show in Missoula, Montana, which doubled as a get-out-the-vote event supporting the reelection of Montana’s Democratic Senator Jon Tester. [More]What, you mean the "Legislator of the Year"...?
My Name is Legion, for We Are Many
"We all have our demons," Danielle said. She smiles at the memory of him. [More]I believe you, lady.
Anybody got a herd of swine handy?
We're the Only Ones with a Bad Rap Enough
According to a probable cause affidavit, Clay Moses was arrested by of Boynton Beach police late Saturday after cops say he flaunted the stolen weapons on Instagram Live. Officials said he waved the customized gun in the air as he danced and rapped to music. [More]I guess what I'm most curious about from what this story doesn't say are the deputy's working hours.
[Via Roger J]
Security Theater of the Absurd
A man made it through Austin Bergstrom International Airport with a loaded gun after it was missed by a Transportation Security Administration security officer. [More]On the bright side, at least Mom isn't going to hurt anybody.
There's a Dogcatcher Joke in Here Somewhere
Chelsea Clinton says she has not ruled out running for office [More]Don't you just love strong women of achievement?
Better Late than Never
Israel eases gun controls following lone-wolf attacks [More]Maybe they learned something by observing good goys with guns.
A Weapon of War
Why the 114-year-old Lee-Enfield rifle is only now being retired by the Canadian Armed Forces - Once shouldered by nearly 50 armies, Canada becomes the last military in the world to remove it from front-line service [More]Wait... Rifles developed for the military with the sole purpose of killing as many people as possible are "on our streets"???
[Via Steve T]