Friday, May 15, 2020

Lawsuit Filed Over DOJ’s Second Amendment FOIA Foot-dragging


“But ‘preconditions like these’ have a place in the United States of America when it comes to the right of the people to keep and bear arms?” this column asked in January. “So they’ll go after violations for other rights, but where the Second Amendment is concerned, state entities can do as they please without fear of federal checks? Even though infringements directly affect the ‘security of a free State’ by disarming the citizen Militia?” [More]
We hear the term “law enforcement” all the time. Considering the whole reason we have the Constitution in the first place (as articulated in its Preamble), we hear far too little about rights enforcement.

Vice Squad


Ha! [More]

Vice...

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Doing Over Enough

Fresno County Sheriff Mims Says She is Not Enforcing Stay-At-Home Orders, Too Busy Trying to Re-Arrest Freed Criminals [More]
At what point do constituents recognize and reject literal insanity?

[Via Michael G]

9th Circuit Unloads on 2A

Ninth Circuit Panel Stays (by 2-1 Vote) Injunction Against California Ammunition Restrictions [More]
Something else we can thank "Second Amendment rights are not unlimited" Scalia for, I see...

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Lecturing Enough

Mrs. Smith’s husband tried to explain to the officer that there were no guns in the house – other than the toy gun that their son had received. “He essentially lectured us on child safety and the fact that our children are too young to interact with any guns and weapons,” she said. The officer said it did not matter that it was a toy gun and he continued to lecture the couple. [More]
The only way we're going to stop this is if we make a point of naming names -- first of the damned snitch bitch, and more importantly, of the presumptuous and stupid "Only One," who, along with the department that dispatched him, really has earned daily mass ridicule.

[Via Mack H]

Apocalypsing in Style

"What you are going to have is people going door-to-door trying to do harm, trying to steal, trying to take food and trying to take possessions. "So what my clients want to do is go hide underground then they don't have to worry about what is going on outside as they are safe and secure inside their shelter." [More]
A line about "best laid schemes" comes to mind.

Who Was That Masked Man?

Robberies Increase By 50%, Suspects Using Face Covering Orders To Their Advantage [More]
If they'd just focused on committing crimes while masked, I wouldn't have said anything.

An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

If you're too dangerous to have a gun—you're too dangerous to be out in public! [More]
There oughta be a law!

Rope-Selling Capitalists

The left dominates the shareholder proposal space, annually filing 95 percent of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) proposals. With 400 to 500 ESG proposals filed per year, that’s a lot of opportunities to influence corporate behavior. Compounding this is the fact that the organizations that advise investors on how to vote for these ballot initiatives have become fully “woke.”  [More]
And if any balk at advancing the collectivist agenda, let the smearing and extortion begin!

[Via Felix B]

The End is Near?

"We want to emphasize there is a cure. There is a solution that works 100 percent," Dr. Henry Ji, founder and CEO of Sorrento Therapeutics, told Fox News. "If we have the neutralizing antibody in your body, you don't need the social distancing. You can open up a society without fear." [More*]
Then throw every resource at this comparable to mobilizing for WWII to validate that claim and then produce and distribute this.

*(Fox News does not allow direct access to links from Blogger)

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

Body image should be a protected characteristic like race or gender, to protect children and vulnerable adults online, says Baroness Bull [More]
Talk about an aptronym.

I'm reminded of what Paine told us about "the nobility."

[Via Michael G]

She Knows What You've Been Thinking. She Knows When You're Awake.

Gretchen Whitmer: State Police ‘Monitoring All of the Conversations’ of Capitol Protesters [More]
Getting in touch with her inner totalitarian again, I see. This authoritarian Gorgon doesn't have the brains to do anything but turn up the pressure, does she?

[Via bondmen]

Talk about Loaded Terms

Gun shops flouted... [More]
That and "The Trace [is] a nonprofit newsroom covering guns in America."

"News."  Right.

Brought to you by USA TODAY. A Gannett Publication.

[Via bondmen]

Reconstructing the Past

He stopped by a property under construction where he engaged in no illegal activity and remained for only a brief period.” [More]
This is one of my problems with this and another reason I haven't jumped on a bandwagon. When I was a child the tract we lived in was just starting to be developed-- our road wasn't even paved yet and ours was the first one on our end of it. Over the next few years, dozens of houses were built, and most sites weren't fenced off because people who lived there weren't the types to steal building materials or to sue over their children getting hurt while exploring -- which we regularly did.  One neighbor kid was a hero of sorts because he could jump from the top of a dirt pile all the way into the basement excavation, something I never dared try.

We just used to be fascinated walking through and playing in the structures as they went up and were developed and finished. I can still recall the smell of wood, of poured concrete... And somebody yelling at us to get out of there because we might get hurt was a rarity.

Nowadays, such construction is typically behind a chain-link fence that is locked at the end of the workday, so any unauthorized presence is clearly an act of trespassing. I confess if I saw a site being built today that was not fenced off, I'd be tempted to go in and look around, albeit I'd make sure to be obvious to minimize the impression that I was sneaking.

Has anyone seen any reports on whether the site was fenced off?

[Via bondmen]

Weapons of Choice

This effort is attributed to two things: the reintroduction of Senator Richard Blumenthal’s (D-CT) “Untraceable Firearms Act,” and a recent ‘60 Minutes’ CBS report claiming criminals overwhelmingly prefer them when committing crimes. [More]
Looks like this could use an update...

[Via Michael G]

Within Limits

Moreover, constitutional rights are not unlimited. See District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 626 (2008)... [More]
So we can shut down any news that departs from the narrative...

And thanks for volunteering biased limitations, Antonin...

[Via Michael G]

Power Corrupts

Black delivery driver held in gated community for half hour by HOA president demanding he justify his presence [More]
This reminds me of Witless and Titless.

[Via Jess]

Meanwhile, Over at the Un-American Civil Tyrannies Union...

The rules championed by DeVos effectively bolster the rights of due process for those accused of sexual assault and harassment, allowing for live hearings and cross-examinations. [More]
Innocent until proven guilty and the right to confront your accuser...? What kind of counterrevolutionary bourgeois nonsense is that?

[Via Michael G]

Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't Really Out to Get You

Yet conspiracism here and around the world has destroyed great institutions, eradicated knowledge, endangered democracy, and ended lives. Now—fueled by the internet, partisan media, and the 45th president of the United States—paranoid thinking is more powerful, and more dangerous, than ever, threatening not just individual facts, but the idea that empirical truth exists at all. [More]
Coming from The Atlantic, that's almost funny.

I'd like to see the empirical case for conspiracies not existing.

[Via Michael G]

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

Feinstein Questioned By FBI Over Pre-Pandemic Stock Sales, Amid Burr Investigation [More]
What's the point of being an insider if you can't trade on that?

[Via Michael G]

Ask the Experts!

It does not support their argument, for example, to point out that three states (New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts) have a combined 42,326 deaths from COVID-19, which is nearly half of all U.S. deaths from the disease. All three of those states voted for Hillary Clinton by landslide margins... [More]
Looks like my overlay idea wasn't that far off...

And yeah, of course I grok "higher populations." Including those most directly impacted by "progressive" political malpractice and incompetence...

[Via Michael G]

Despaired Even of Life

Alongside the thousands of deaths from COVID-19, the growing epidemic of “deaths of despair” is increasing due to the pandemic—as many as 75,000 more people will die from drug or alcohol misuse and suicide... [More]
The thought strikes to do an overlay...

If this isn't a call for new "gun laws" I don't know what is.

[Via Mack H]

GIGO



How many times have we discussed "parroting" and "talking points"?

"News" you can wipe with.

[Via Laocoön]


And Now It's Time to Play...


...guess the political sympathies! [More]

The Sounds of Silence

95 Celebs Who Smeared Kavanaugh are Silent on Biden [More]
Hello darkness, my old friend...