Bloomberg Superbowl Ad Counting on Fan Ignorance and Apathy about Rights

As for the NFL, it’s hostility to the Second Amendment is no secret to Americans who care more for the right of the people to keep and bear arms than they do for bread and circuses. League gutlessness, on the National Anthem and in its “Standard of Conduct” mandating player defenselessness, tells us all we need to know. The hiring of ex-ATF honcho and Fast and Furious cover-up king B. Todd Jones as special counsel for player misconduct tells us a bit more. [More]

It figures he’d pose in front of a flag neither he nor many NFL players stand for.

Smarter than You

RNC Releases Ad Showing CNN Panel Mocking Trump Voters as ‘Rubes’: ‘They Think You’re a Joke’ [More]

You get the feeling that none of our superiors in sophistication could start a lawnmower?

Any Republican candidate who uses the services of "Republican strategist" Rick Wilson should be treated as giving aid and comfort to the enemy because that's exactly what he's doing.

Calling All Cars

Arrest warrant issued for woman who lied on red flag filing in Larimer County [More]

Good. It's past time the message was driven home loud and clear to family survivors that we can sympathize with their agony, but that does not give them license to then bend us to their will under force of government arms.

How About 'No'?

Elizabeth Warren introduces sweeping gun safety bill with licensing, universal background checks, and an assault-weapons ban [More]

You know, what the totalitarian liars have always called "a good first step."

What's More Absurd, Offensive and Outrageous?

That New York can charge you for a "stargazing permit" or that it authorizes its enforcers to use the full continuum of force up to lethal if you tell them to "f*** off" and make it known that you will defend yourself against assault and kidnapping? [More]

[Via Michael G]

It's Almost Like What They're Doing Doesn't Work or Something

“D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham has identified illegal firearms as a major factor fueling homicides.” [More]

Quick! Somebody make them more illegal and think up a new infringement against the "law-abiding!"

And shouldn't we be calling them "undocumented"?

[Via bondmen]

The 'Commonsense' Solution

10-year-old accidentally shoots self with stolen gun found outside home [More]

If only they would disarm you and me.

[Via bondmen]

That's Entertainment?

Then the lecture comes in the form of a PSA. [More]

Tell us what to believe, oh wise lottery-winning stage props!

Speaking of which...

I've heard of about, like, three of them.

But I've heard of the Astroturfer behind it before, and what a piece of ...uh ... work he is.

[Via Michael G]

What's Wrong with This Picture?

Anybody see any "wage workers"? [More]

[Via Michael G]

Putting a Face on the Oppressors

I wrote a best-selling book about Justin Trudeau in the last election. After the election, I received a letter by registered mail notifying me that I was being investigated for that book. Trudeau’s elections commissioner claimed it was an illegal campaign activity and demanded that I submit to an interrogation. So I went to Elections Canada’s Ottawa headquarters last week, where I was grilled for an hour by two 30-year veterans of the RCMP — and they refused to rule out a police raid on Rebel News headquarters! [More] 

Tyranny wears a suit.

Brave man.

I can't tell at this point if he made things worse for himself or not, but I suspect some are desperately seeking for a way to exact life-destroying revenge without blowback.

[Via Michael G]

WarOnGuns 2020 Political Questionnaire

The NRA Board of Directors Questionnaire was actually derived from a political questionnaire I developed years ago. I update and tailor it as I think necessary, and what follows are the questions I expect a politician to satisfactorily answer if he wants my support.

And yes, that's no guarantee he won't betray you, but at least this creates a record that can be used against him afterward and ever after to undeniably prove he lies to get what he wants.

Here are this year's questions:

• Do you believe that the Constitution is the “supreme Law of the Land” and that the Bill of Rights acknowledges the birthrights of all Americans? 
• If so, should these rights be proactively protected from infringement by all levels of government? How? 
• Please give some examples of gun laws you consider unconstitutional. 
• Please give some examples of gun laws you consider constitutional.
• Does the right to bear arms include the right for any peaceable citizen to carry them openly or concealed without a permit? 
• Do you believe that Americans have a right to own, use and carry full-auto weapons of militia utility? 
• Do you agree with “enforce existing gun laws” or "repeal existing gun laws"? 
• Do you support or oppose licensing requirements to own or carry firearms? Why? 
• What specific gun laws will you work to get repealed? 
• If elected, will you back your words of support for firearms rights up with consistent actions? How? 
• Do you agree that politicians should be held accountable in their NRA and other "gun lobby" grades for immigration actions that undermine the Second Amendment? If “No,” and if falling back on the “single issue” excuse, provide credible and testable evidence – not anecdotes and not just opinions – to show that will not happen.

Like I said, these are MY criteria. Feel free to use them or modify/develop your own, and don't forget to publicize a politician's answers or if he shines you on.

Well, If You Only Expressed Approved Sentiments, You Wouldn't Have This Problem

Facebook Is Now So Determined To Ban Free Thought, They’re Censoring Private Messages [More]

What can I say but "community standards"?

[Via Jess]

Common-Sense God Control

"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe." [More]

Well, I utterly failed in convincing our "pro-gun president" on that point, or I should say, in convincing anywhere near enough gun owners to give a damn.

[Via Mack H]

Couldn't Agree More

“[I]t is illuminating to review how Mr. Barr has directed his Justice Department on matters concerning the First Amendment... [More]

Yes, it is.

It is no irony that the real totalitarians project the label their position deserves onto opponents as a smear.

No, it's not.

[Via Mack H]

Binge or Purge

Bernie Sanders is reportedly considering dozens of executive orders to go around Congress ... [More]

What's the big deal? They'll support him.

If they know what's good for them.

[Via Roger J]

Good Question

Which one would you feel safer at? [More]

Now, which one would you feel safer from government at?

Giffords Flack Accusing 2A Defenders of Lying Shows Much about His Own Truthfulness

By revealing he was “a member of the ATF SWAT team,” Chipman reveals he had more in common with Lon Horiuchi than those “responsible gun owners” he has no problem enforcing against. With his disdain for those who stand down on unlawful orders, it's reasonable to surmise he would have obediently and unquestioningly followed those rules of engagement. [More]

If I'm reading him right, and I am, if you believe the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, you're an unpatriotic liar. And he's a "responsible gun owner." Who wants enforcers to arrest you if you don't obey disarmament edicts.