Options

Option 1. A majority of the Board circles the wagons in defense of Wayne LaPierre and his pals and tries to weather the storm. (They’ll fail, and the whole ship will sink.)

or

Option 2. A majority of the Board fires LaPierre and other executives (or accepts their resignations) and nullifies their contracts, suspends all vendor contracts pending thorough review and renegotiation, and purges culpable members of their own body – demonstrating a commitment to safeguarding NRA assets on behalf of the membership. (Plugging the holes and possibly saving the ship.) [More]

While my vote would be for #2, my money would be on #1.

I'd also bet on lawsuits being in the future.

[Via Neil W]

UPDATE- Option 3:

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Says He Is Being Extorted, Pressured to Resign - Group’s longtime leader says Oliver North, president of the NRA, wants him out

North is a creature of Ack-Mac, so I'm not looking at this as a development where the prime concern is serving the right to keep and bear arms.

UPDATE- Option 1 it is:

Taking the stage later Saturday, LaPierre got two standing ovations from the crowd of more than 1,000 NRA members...

I just hope Patrick didn't hurt his hands.

Trump at NRA Leadership Forum

It's live at this point but you can back it up to where Chris Cox introduces Mike Pence.

It figures they'd introduce "great champion of the Second Amendment" Donald Trump with Lee Greenwood singing about how rights are given...

And whose idea was it to end his speech with "You Can't Always Get What You Want"?

UPDATE: He's withdrawing from the Arms Trade Treaty and some idiot threw a phone onstage.

Out of Balance

“You know what? I didn’t even know what a bump stock was,” said Patrick Callahan, 61, from Wyoming. “I have no problem with a bump stock being banned, to be honest with you. I think there’s always balances.” [More]

Even most NRA members think it's about bump stocks and remain oblivious to the greater danger.

[Via Bear]

Bingo!

The original mission was to train warriors to effectively shoot in a war. [More]

Yes. Exactly. Perfect rebuttal.

Despite what contemptible gunkapos would have the ignorant believe...

No Accident?

If the catastrophic fire at Notre-Dame de Paris was a simple accident, why has the French government forbidden state-employed architects to give any further interviews about the fire? [More]

Next, you're gonna be telling me we haven't been told everything about Las Vegas.

So Much for 'Settled Science'

The universe is expanding faster than we thought, and no one knows why [More]

The first thing that came to mind was the line "'T is clear enough the Elephant Is very like a tree!"

Green New Deal, anyone? At least we know that's been settled. Right?

Stockholm Syndrome

The Supreme Court of Sweden has ruled that a rape conviction is not a sufficient reason to deport a non-Swedish citizen... [More]

I've been working Tommy Lee pretty hard lately.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Upholding Tradition Enough

Boone is the 11th South Carolina sheriff indicted or accused of criminal activity in the past decade. The accusations have included using inmates for personal work, running a scheme to create fake police reports to help fix credit problems and protecting drug dealers. [More]

See, that's not the whole barrel...

[Via Roger J]

We're the Only Ones Roadside Assisting Enough

Former officer gets 25 years in shooting death of stranded motorist [More]

Hey, he was just being active...

[Via Roger J]

Blame Trump

Oyer referenced President Donald Trump multiple times, comparing her client's racial slurs and targeting of Democrats and the media to similar views that the President has taken ...  "Donald Trump uses similar epithets in his everyday language and tweets," Oyer said. [More]

And by default, if you agree with the agenda he campaigned on, she's talking about you.

They all are.

[Via Jess]

A Model Inmate

Well according to this, Frank, he was a model prisoner.

Bishop argued to the parole board that his client was a "model inmate" and posed no threat to anyone in the community. [More]

Yeah, all the time he was under 24/7 custodial care he didn't shoot anybody.

Social Justice Warrior

It looks like a real one this time -- the good kind. [More]

It's nice to see a candidate for office who gets it and isn't afraid to explain to those who don't. I like what I'm seeing from Eddy Justice, and while I haven't found a campaign website yet, you can learn more about what he believes from his Facebook and Twitter pages.

The Opposite Day "progressives" have swindled too many useful idiots into believing "innocent until proven guilty" is a dangerous and radical idea. Justice's article on "red flags" does a good job explaining why that's the true radical danger.

[Via bondmen]

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Proven' Is

Reed, who lost a nephew to city gun violence, said it's time to try something new and that this is a program proven to work. [More]

Information on who the nephew was and what he was doing does not seem readily available in the reports I've seen that repeat this claim. 

And if it's been "proven" then it's not "new." I'm wary of proponents attributing causation for murder fluctuations to a program dependent on trusting the word of gang "leaders" that they'll be good. 

[Via bondmen]

A Situation Rich in Target Opportunity

International thieves from Chile are suspected of committing hundreds of burglaries across Southern California after obtaining visa waivers to enter the United States, authorities said. [More]

Based on what the politicians Californians elect encourage and discourage, I'm with Tommy Lee on this one.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Active Enough

“Actions are better than reactions,” Noor continued. “If you are reacting, it's too late to protect yourself."  [More]

Sweet. You could use that "justification" to kill just about anybody.

Sounds like we need us some LEO-only "Scorch Your Ground" laws...

[Via bondmen]

You CAN Stop the Signal?

[More]

I will be interested to see if this happens again, and'/or with any others of my online friends. Having been subjected to Google News feed blackouts and Facebook "community standards" rejections, I'm starting to feel like I'm at the end point of a Goldfinger quote.

Funny. Attack pieces on RKBA don't seem to have these problems...