Robert Kukla, Rest in Peace

Gun Rights Activist & Icon, Robert Kukla, Passes [More]

His book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the (relatively) modern drive to disarm the citizenry evolved. I got my (used) hardcover copy when they were still affordable. It would be nice to see someone with the resources negotiate reprint rights and make it available.

What would be even nicer is if there were enough gun owners interested to make such a venture profitable.

UPDATE: WarOnGuns Correspondent Ron W tells me a few affordable copies are available on AbeBooks.com.

UPDATE: I'm also told by David M. that "There are fair priced copies of Robert Kukla's book over on Alibris."

A Common Misconception

 As you’ll see in a moment, the latest figures demonstrate that all of the guns and magazines that Biden is hoping to ban are clearly in common use by millions of Americans for a variety of lawful purposes, and squarely fall under the protections offered by the Second Amendment. [More]

And as few "gunpundits" seem to see, no matter how long you give them, "in common use" is not about popularity. It is about "every terrible implement of the soldier," that is, "ordinary military equipment" capable of enabling citizens to prevail in "common defense" battles.  Were it otherwise, withholding new technology from We the People would be all tyrants would need to keep it forever out of "common use."

Kind of like those offensively intolerable “RESTRICTED LAW ENFORCEMENT/GOVERNMENT USE ONLY'' mandates have been designed to do...

I'm wondering when anyone of note and influence will start arguing core purpose...

Color Wheel

 School District Decides Asians Aren't Students of Color [More]

And naturally, there's a self-loather out there ranting about "yellow privilege."

[Via Michael G]

Preparing Them for the Future

 Texas A&M thanks account targeting, publishing information of conservative students [More]

Snitching and doxing will be important skills for successful apparatchiks, or just those who would like an extra potato, to master.

[Via Michael G]

Today's 'Stop the Steal' Links

 We'll start with a video from, of all sources, The New York Times:

And they were there to chronicle the change that made it all possible.

As usual, I will be adding links as the day progresses, and as usual, look at all of this with a degree of healthy questioning and evidence testing.

• Major developments in key states | Sidney Powell
• UKRAINE: BIDEN WANTED ON Class A felony charges
• The Rise of the Machines
• Michigan Changes Ballots Marked for Kanye to Biden
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[Via Mack H, Jess, 

Too Much Like Work

 The solution is easy: journalists can get jobs working with real people. [More]

Let's see how our test subject reacts:

Well, that's not very promising. What other options are there?

[Via Michael G]

That's Why We Call 'em 'Godless Commies'

Atheist Group Goes Full Grinch, Steals Christmas From Hundreds Of Poor Kids Around The World [More]

But as we've seen, such subversives really aren't about freedom from ALL "religion." Plus, none of them will go to bed hungry.

[Via Michael G]

It's a Big Club and He Ain't In it

 “Sun was a highly skilled engineer entrusted with sensitive missile technology that he knew he could not legally transfer to hostile hands,” said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers.  “Nevertheless, he delivered that controlled technology to China.  Today’s sentence should stand as a warning to others who might be tempted similarly to put the nation’s security at risk.” [More]

A more effective warning to others would be a firing squad.

Then again, I guess it's who you know.

[Via Matthew L]

Sticking It To You

Parson says statewide mask mandate could possibly lead to vaccine mandate [More]

Why not? I mean, they do it to cattle and those are safe enough to eat.

[Via bondmen]

Today's Low-Hanging Fruit Report

 According to court documents, the FBI were alerted to a user on YouTube advocating for violence on multiple occasions for several months. [More]

Of more interest to me is how he was allowed to violate "community standards""for several months."

[Via bondmen]

UPDATE-- And not to be left out:

Registered Florida Dem arrested for making online threats to kill DeSantis, Rubio and Scott

[Via Jess]

Handicapping the Odds

 Federal authorities in Oregon have released a wheelchair-bound ISIS terrorist in the town of Troutsdale, while he awaits trial early next year for allegedly working with ISIS against the United States. [More]

See, what harm can someone with a disability do?

[Via bondmen]

We've Established What You Are and Now We're Just Haggling Over Price

Local Texas Democratic Party paying Moms Demand Action “under the table”? [More]

As late TV pitchman Billy Mays used to say, "But wait! There's more!"

[Via bondmen]

Who Knew?

 ‘How Did We Not Know?’ Gun Owners Confront a Suicide Epidemic [More]

We knew.

We also know how that's being exploited.

[Via bondmen]

The Finest 'Democracy' Money Can Buy

Who are the Biggest Donors? [More]

Hey, useful idiot photo ops cost money.

[Via bondmen]

The Flamethrower Loophole

There are no laws banning the use of flamethrowers in the city, however there is currently a bill before the state senate that would make owning one a felony. [More]

Hurry, before this guy puts one on his tank!

What does it say about "our" society, when everyone in my circle of friends and relatives could absolutely be trusted to responsibly own one, yet we're the ones smeared as violent nazi extremists?

From Each According to His Ability

 New Zealand is pursuing a century-old idea to close the gender pay gap: not equal pay for equal work, but equal pay for work of equal value. [More]

That's because New Zealand is run by commies. So naturally, it gets full-throated praise from "the newsraper of record."

We can't have "I'll pay you X to do Y" and you saying "OK" or holding out for "Z" and me then either agreeing or not, can we?

As an aside, I don't suppose Marx statues are in danger of being torn down over his pronoun aggressions...?

[Via Steve T] 

Stop the Squeal

 Trump says Ohio governor's race will be 'hotly contested' after DeWine acknowledges Biden win [More]

What can I say but "DeSwine"?

And he's not the only Republic***.

[Via Mack H]

Career Suicide

 The Virginia police chief who brought felony charges against a state Democratic lawmaker and others for attempting to vandalize a Confederate monument was fired Monday. [More]

Totalitarians need to make sure those they trust with the guns can be counted on to follow orders.

[Via Mack H]

This is CNN

 So one can call President Bush Hitler, President Trump Hitler, demonstrators for Trump Nazis and Fascists, and the audience will nod sagely and take it all in. CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour shamelessly gets into the act. Hey, all’s fair in love and war, right? And this is war. [More]

Obviously fake news...

[Via Michael G]

State Victoriously Defeats One Man!

ATTORNEY GENERAL HERRING SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDS VIRGINIA’S RED FLAG LAW -  Judge agreed with Herring and dismissed the case [More]

And a formidable challenge it was!

Here's Mark in another fight to the finish!

[Via Mack H]

Numbers Don't Lie?

 Black Wisconsinites account for 6% of the state's overall population but 38% of all the people in jails and prisons, according to Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that examines mass incarceration. [More]

So which crimes do we turn a blind eye to, and do we do that for everyone or just give some demographics a pass, violating equal protection?

And the answer is even more wealth redistribution?

[Via Larry S]

Washington Would Have Wanted Biden!

 In the coming days, we Americans must stay strong and vigilant. We must defend our institutions, whatever our politics. And we must abide by the words of George Washington, perhaps our most selfless and principled president, not those of our least. [More]

Or as Democrats like to call him, a slave owner.

I wonder what Washington would have thought of this Obama appointee who is openly gay.

Just Like it Says in the Constitution

Appointing a Black woman to this seat is nonnegotiable — this must be done. [More]

Did someone say "content of their character"?

Twitter Election Fraud ‘Dispute’ Hypocrisy Extends to Treatment of Guns

 

Left intentionally unaddressed were the specifics for disputing report after report of “voting irregularities,” making the knee-jerk Twitter designation not only a logical fallacy but a deception designed to make readers discount concerns and instead embrace the all-pervasive, media-parroted narrative that such concerns are “baseless.” [More]

Dispute the disputers. Loudly.