Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he will defy NRA, take lead on gun background checks - ‘Someone in the Republican Party has to take the lead on this,’ Patrick said, of requiring checks when strangers sell to strangers. [More]That's some "lengthy and proven record" he's bragging about.
“There’s a lot of apathy and smugness and laziness here on the Republican side that’s got to be reversed or there will be a shock to the system at some point..." [More]Probably not until they're in the tumbrils.
Federal agents interviewed Mr. Dhingra’s mother on Aug. 16. She said that he had schizophrenia and that he had been committed to a mental health facility 14 years ago. [More]Just great. So this low-hanging fruit basically handed our heroes guaranteed court confirmation, even though this looks to be really more an issue of custodianship than anything else.
Interest in bump stocks surged after the mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas in October 2017. The gunman had a dozen rifles outfitted with bump stocks and killed 58 people and wounded hundreds of others.They never outright said those bump stocks were used in the killings.
Virginia is a ‘bellwether’ on gun control. Here’s how things have changed [More]Not one word about the obvious.
Why Ted Cruz was making a biblical case for gun rights after the Odessa shooting [More]That used to be preached from pulpits:
"He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one who has no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God has enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend itself."[Via Mack H]
Our elected leaders need to call out antifa for what they are: a hate group. [More]Yeah, who do those "anarchists" think they are, accusing everybody they hate of being fascists? The San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
Bernie Sanders Says Abortion Will Help Fight Climate Change [More]What about moving Third World populations with higher birth rates to areas where more energy consumption opportunities are available?
Sadly, not only does the Heritage Foundation appear not to have analyzed those bills, this recent paper appears to be nothing but a recitation of Bloomberg/Gifford’s talking points. [More]But...but...but lipstick...
“The president expressed interest in getting a result, so conversations will continue to see if there’s a way to create a reasonable background check proposal, along with other ideas,” a White House official said. [More]Well, if all they want is to make sure no one on the list can "legally" buy a gun, anyone advocating that who would reject BIDS immediately outs himself as a liar with a hidden agenda.
The reason for that bias is that political leanings of academic criminologists are liberal. Liberal criminologists outnumber their conservative counterparts by a ratio of 30-to-1. [More]If the object is to create a crisis that government can present itself as the solution for, who better to seek policy guidance from?
The letter accuses leadership at the FAMS and the TSA of “gross mismanagement” and describes “an unprecedented number of psychotic episodes suffered by air marshals, to include a recent murder suicide.” [More]Say, gang, I've got a swell idea! Give them all guns and put them on airplanes!
The Harris County District Attorney's Office has dismissed 27 criminal cases and is in the process of reviewing 14,000 other convictions related to the officers charged in the botched Harding Street raid. [More]Inigo raises a point of order...
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani has been identified as the American Airlines mechanic who admitted to tampering with a plane’s navigation system before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport. [More]There's one other fact I'd like to ask about, assuming entertaining the thought doesn't paint me as a hater...
“Rather than find clear and convincing evidence, [courts are] basically saying, ‘Better safe than sorry,’” Parris said. [More]None of which addresses a hard truth that is ignored at everyone's mortal peril.
Now there's an original thought.Geraldo Rivera says that AR-15 owners have ‘small penises’ [More]
