I wish I knew where that "bad" impression came from. Even the feral sons' carni-pigs didn't fear me.TODAY on AAR Mark closes the week strong with TWO powerhouse journalists, @HT_GunWriter Lee "The Gunwriter" Williams the new @2AFDN Investigative Editor, and @dcodrea David Codrea, longtime AAR contributor and bad ass! 4-5p ET WATCH or Listen live at https://t.co/KjfoJfuN3P pic.twitter.com/FJu5KlQ8c9
— Armed American Radio with host Mark Walters (@aarmark) April 30, 2021
He held his thumb and forefinger together with his other three fingers extended ... This, whether intentional or not, resembled very closely a gesture that has been coopted by white power groups, alt right groups, and an anti-government group that calls itself the Three Percenters. [More]
What did the founder of the Three Percenters, a proponent of Constitutional government, consistently teach about racism being a manifestation of collectivism?
I thought you had to be smart and informed to get on Jeopardy. And isn't there a saying about people in glass houses throwing stones?
I guess this means that overwhelmingly white and privileged contestants are saying it's not OK to be white...?
The agency is charged with improperly withholding records it is required by Freedom of Information Act laws to produce regarding its role in the case of a gun belonging to Hunter Biden. [More]
It would be ironic indeed, if Runcie is convicted, to note that as a felon, he will become a “prohibited person,” forbidden by “law” to possess the guns he would deny to those of us who aren’t trough-feeding perjurers. [More]
[Deleted remarks about an objectionable threatening comment that violated comment policy and has been removed. "Our side" should be endorsing the American Revolution, not a French one of mobs and guillotines.]
As regulars here know, I'm on limited blogging until further notice. That said, several of you have asked me what I think about the Supreme Court taking on the carry case 2A activists are all excited about and the antis are screaming "end of the world" over.
I've been disappointed so many times before, this pretty much sums up my sentiments:
Like the sign says, change my mind. Because I'd really like my pessimism to be proven spectacularly wrong.
Wake up, America. [More]
You know that she is living in a material world
And she's an immaterial girl.
The report also provides some nebulous “justification” political talking points, like “it appears that the use of unmarked ‘ghost guns’ in shooting sprees, shootouts with police, and other crimes have also increased,” along with some anecdotal incidents to emphasize the point. What it does not do is quantify the scope of the perceived “problem” or qualify how such a rule change will do anything more than infringe on the rights of those inclined to obey laws. [More]
But if you object, guess what that makes you...
I went to the DC Metropolitan Police Department Facebook page looking for a potential photo for an AmmoLand article I'm prepping for publication and came across this. Interesting, that FB said my wishing everyone a contemplative Bill of Rights Day violated its "community standards" within minutes of it being posted, yet this has been up for three days.
I wanted to get this posted before they take it down. I wonder if the Secret Service knows...?
I know I said for the time being, as my wife recovers, I'm going to limit blog posts to article announcements and the like. I'm breaking my own rule here, but this is, after all, my blog.
I just got done watching the pre-ordained Chauvin "guilty" verdicts and I saw something I considered curious about CBS News' go-to guy for their after-action discussion, Lorenzo Boyd, the University of New Haven's VP for Diversity and Inclusion and CDO. I wonder how many noticed what I did on his bookshelf:
This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.
Supposedly adult Americans exercising their right of self-determination vote for celebrities based on all they know about them—which is generally “informed” by scripted, directed, optimally angled, and lighted images projected on a screen, and on the gushing praise of publicists. That they would cede great powers based on professionally-manipulated illusions speaks more to starry-eyed childishness than anything else. [More]
Ultimately, it's citizenship malpractice that gives political power to stage props like this.
Watts’ tweet introduces another chilling motivation, “replacement theory.” And that’s doubly curious because the “political left” smears and tries to discredit citizens who object to the Republic being culturally terraformed for political power. [More]
The useful idiots believe it's all about "gun safety."
About that family medical emergency: My wife was in the hospital, the neurological intensive care unit. She's home now. She suffered a stroke. The good news is, so far speech, motor skills, and vision appear unaffected and the prognosis is hopeful.
She was outside pulling dandelions from the yard, and when she came in she suddenly was slammed with a headache she equated with a hammer blow, followed by excruciating pain. We went to the nearby Cleveland Clinic hospital. A CAT scan showed some bleeding and they airlifted her to the main campus where they have more specialists.
An MRI and angiogram, and several days of tests, concluded it was a benign perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage. Say that five times real fast. They determined there is no active bleeding, and she was told it is unlikely to recur. I guess if you're going to have a stroke, she says, that's the kind to have.
What this means for me is, with her being on ordered taking-it-easy for a while, I get to confirm exactly how much she does around this place by assuming those duties myself.
The result, at least for the interim, is that when I do find time for internet stuff, I'll need to focus exclusively on my articles. That means this blog is going to have to be limited to my article promotions and announcements. I'm just not going to be able to respond to email or social media inquiries and newslink tips, at least for the time being. So please, hold off while I figure out how much time I'll have for the necessary things and how to best apportion it.
I would like to thank those of you who, reacting to Monday's post, sent prayers, best wishes, and offers of help. It's gratifying to think that what I do resonates with a handful of my contemporaries. As you can imagine, it has been an intense past few days that included no small amount of frustration at being powerless to help her and fearing the worst.
For what it's worth, I don't blame the dandelions and will not be demanding any laws.
I may be gone for a day or two, I may be gone for longer.
I will not be posting/responding to comments, social media messages, or emails in the interim. Thank you for understanding and holding on to what you've got.
Noah Davis will be on Tom Gresham's Gun Talk Radio today during the 4:00 (Eastern) hour to talk about sanctuary counties. [Listen]
These five “actions” will all allow the citizen disarmers to advance their agenda and gun owners need to join in opposing them, both with the groups we belong to and individually as force multipliers educating those within our spheres of influence. The sixth “action,” nominating David Chipman as Director of ATF, is something that is in our power to thwart and maybe even have some fun doing it. Aside from being a careerist with his snout in the ATF trough, he’s a creature of the Giffords machine and a demonstrable liar... [More]
Includes a proposal to monkeywrench Chipman, plus yesterday's Armed American Radio "Daily Defense" conversation with Mark Walters.
Sheridan County, Nebraska, passes resolution in support of Second Amendment [More]
You know, what the Unity and Healing President's ATF pick calls "bullies" and "renegades"...
NYT Journalist Erases ENTIRE Twitter After National Pulse Unearths Posts Admitting ‘Working’ For The Chinese Communist Party. [More]
Think of it as carrying on a tradition.
[Via Michael G]
Arizona is the home to at least 80 remaining Holocaust survivors [More]
How do they feel about "gun control"? How do they vote?
[Via TM]
Biden Adviser Richmond: Republicans Need to Stop Hiding Behind Second Amendment — It’s Not Meant for ‘Weapons of War’ [More]
Where can I go to tell this @$$hole to his face he's a f****g liar?
Tennessee has become the latest state to soon allow most adults 21 and older to carry handguns without first clearing a background check and training after Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed the measure into law. [More]
I'd like the names of some of those "gun instructors" badmouthing it.
[Via bondmen]
The “Second Amendment Preservation Act” is the legislation in Missouri lawmakers are working on. It protects Missourians from federal gun laws and would hold police departments liable for up to $50,000 if an officer violates a person’s Second Amendment Rights. [More]
Would it defend Missouri citizens' rights against federal infringements?
[Via bondmen]
That could mean safe storage laws, especially for homes where children are present. And it could mean red flag laws that allow law enforcement to temporarily seize guns from people at risk of hurting themselves or others. [More]
Yeah. Better these children had died.
[Via bondmen]
In Delaware, Senate Bill 6, the Delaware Large Capacity Magazine Prohibition Act of 2021 -- bans magazines that hold 17 or more rounds. Gun owners with magazines of that size must sell them to a law enforcement agency by June 30, 2022. If they refuse, they face charges for a class B misdemeanor. Future offenses bump that up to a Class E felony. [More]
When it passes, Connecticut rules will apply...
Or you could just listen to "gun rights leaders" who advise us to "enforce existing gun laws" and "punish felons caught with guns."
[Via Jess]
The Right to Vote is the Cornerstone of our Democracy. [More]
It's was never intended to be a democracy, and citizens have a right to not be disenfranchised by fraud.
Who does giving aid and comfort to the enemy serve? And yeah, it's tough to be pure, as evidence by the fact that we're all using computers and on the internet. That's why I'd like to see one or two of the most egregious violators made examples of -- but my experience is that most gun owners will spend more time squabbling and badmouthing about why something won't work than just giving an idea a completely unburdensome try.
[Via Laocoön]
After they arrived the officers were approached by an off duty PFPA officer who stated that he had fired his service weapon at suspects, saying they fled after not obeying his commands when he confronted them for what he believed was an in-progress car break-in. [More]
You try that and see if the response would be "administrative leave."
Except for the "Only One" part...
[Via Jess]
In the post, he also spent “a lot of time” writing about his disappointment with how the television series “The Office" ended, Felty said. “He thought it should have ended much differently and he was upset...” [More]
So it's Steve Carell's fault...?
[Via Jess]
Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax focused his answer on the 2019 calls for his resignation that came after two women accused him of sexual assault. Fairfax said the calls for him to step down demonstrated how “African American men are presumed guilty” and “given no due process.” “Everyone here on this stage called for my immediate resignation, including Terry McAuliffe,” Fairfax said. “He treated me like George Floyd. He treated me like Emmett Till. No due process. Immediately assumed my guilt.” [More]
That's pretty funny coming from a guy whose party leadership demands we #BelieveWomen and demands "red flag" edicts.
Between that and McAwful being accused of a "backroom deal" with NRA, it's almost like we can't believe anything Democrats striving for more power have to say.
[Via Mack H]
Richard Kyte: Why gun owners need a change of heart [More]
Right. Those of us "who own guns and know the most about them [and use them] safely and without malicious intent" are responsible for the predictable outcomes of Democrat social destruction.
I'm seeing this argument more and more, a talking point/meme/narrative in the making.
It looks more to me like Richard Kyte needs a change of brain. You'd think for an "ethics professional," he'd feel an obligation to know what the hell he's talking about before presuming to influence others.
Then again, this isn't the first time we've seen anti-gun "ethics"...
[Via Mack H]
‘I don’t go anywhere’ St. Louis resident says after a string of murders [More]
Yet the prisoners keep voting in the same wardens.
And are "future leaders" more like rising "stars" or "aspiring rappers"?
[Via bondmen]
Since his arrest, Ryan Samsel has been held in Washington DC. On March 21, he was awakened by correctional officers, his hands zip-tied, then walked to an unoccupied cell and brutally beaten by the officers. Then Ryan Samsel lost an eye in the beating. [More]
Yeah, well, if he didn't want to be tortured he shouldn't have been arrested.
[Via bondmen]
Soros-backed Kim Gardner officially loses her bid to stay on the McCloskey case after being removed from the case in December ... after she was caught fundraising on the incident. [More]
Don't worry. She'll keep her cushy gig and there will be plenty more mob-leading opportunities.
Democrats say "voter disenfranchisement" like it's a bad thing...
[Via bondmen]
Naturally, he writes for The LA Times.
He's a former US Attorney and "DOJ official."
He teaches constitutional law at UCSD& UCLA.
This sentiment garnered > 21K "likes."
He and his "fans" probably don't even think of themselves as fascists.
Virginia legalizes recreational marijuana [More]
And no, of course, the law doesn't apply to Hunter Biden.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
In the concurrent press release on Neuralink's website, the company states "our first goal is to give people with paralysis their digital freedom back: to communicate more easily via text, to follow their curiosity on the web, to express their creativity through photography and art, and, yes, to play video games." [More]
Worthy and exciting.
What's the second goal?
Any chance of stored memories and subpoenas? How about directed infantry? Hacking...?
Why does "Neuralink" remind me of "Skynet"? This could go science-fiction dystopia in no time. Even beyond where we are now and are headed without it.
Baby Steps toward a Workable Middle Ground on Guns [More]
Who wants a middle ground with someone raping you at gunpoint?
Who does this guy think he is? Rob Pincus?
[Via Michael G]
Poll: Nearly 50% of Americans want Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson to run for president [More]
.@ATFHou is enroute and responding with Special Agents and a K-9. Please direct all inquiries to @BryanPolice https://t.co/5Hu5r3WONu
— ATF Houston (@ATFHou) April 8, 2021
Leave it to arrogant statists on the bench not to recognize the basics of the Constitution they swore an oath to uphold. [More]
Listen live at a station near you, via live streaming at the AAR website, or watch on Facebook.@JoeBiden declares war on millions of lawful gun owners today PLUS Nomination of Giffords gun-grabber David Chipman to head the ATF is a slap in the face. Armed American Radio today at 4-5p ET, 1-2p PT will slap back and hold those who put us here accountable w/guest @dcodrea pic.twitter.com/VAFznJbh8l
— Armed American Radio with host Mark Walters (@aarmark) April 8, 2021
Government Teachers’ Union Boss Attacks Jewish ‘Ownership Class’ For Criticizing School Closures [More]
As long as we're on the subject:
NFL player Phillip Adams killed 5, then himself [More]
And there must be something wrong with the profile...
Scrap another star in the resurrection mission...
Yet somehow, I know my selfishness is to blame.
Facebook did not hire Black employees because they were not a 'culture fit,' report says [More]
Really? So the excuse is they didn't live up to "community standards"...?
[Via Michael G]
After school shootings, NRA exec sought refuge on 108-foot yacht: ‘Thank God I’m safe’ [More]
I had to open the link in an incognito window to access the story. And yes, of course, it's a smear job. The point is, with $40,000 weddings, who is providing the material with which to smear?
Wish I had more time to dig into this...
Yeah, they're "bankrupt," all right.
[Via Mack H]
House and Senate Democrats endorsed the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) “Year in Hate” report that brands mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits “hate groups” and plots them on a map with the Ku Klux Klan. [More]
They're bound and determined to make us really start hating, aren't they?
If you have the time, here's a pretty good discussion of how the gaslighting works.
[Via Michael G]
As during the Obama era, it will likely escalate in intensity with each passing year. At this point, any jurisdiction in the country that wants to keep control of its zoning and development should decline to apply for federal housing grants. No matter how good the money looks, sign that promise to “affirmatively further fair housing” — as the Biden administration will define it — and you are signing away your birthright. [More]
Or, just accept a low-income highrise across the street from the Cleavers...
Funny, the howls of resistance and screams of racism when a noncoercive opposite tack is tried...
[Via Michael G]
That means 74% of Democrats and 44% of people overall are clueless or simply refuse to think. [More]
I've been calling that citizenship malpractice.
[Via bondmen]
Supreme Court Could Greenlight Warrantless Gun Seizures [More]
If government doesn't have to respect the Second, why should it fear going after the Fourth?
[T]he Mason County Sheriff’s Office, which led an investigation into officers’ use of force in the shooting, notified the public that Arlo had been shot by friendly fire. But it wasn’t until weeks later that local outlets like The Olympian, a paper based in Olympia, reported on what had actually happened. By that point, Arlo’s story had taken on a life of its own. The Thurston County Deputy Sheriff’s Foundation organized a GoFundMe page and raised more than $73,000 for Arlo’s medical bills. [More]
I don't suppose anyone did an audit to make sure none of the funds ended up on bar tabs and stuffed into g-strings...?
[Via bondmen]
[P]er World Health Organization Statistics, “gun-free” Japan comes in at #17. The “easy access to guns” United States comes in at #50. What they also don’t tell you, and this is curious, seeing as how they’re big proponents of police being the “Only Ones” with guns, is that a Philadelphia Inquirer report from some years back concluded: “New York City officers kill themselves at a rate of 29 per 100,000 a year. The rate of suicide in the general population is 12 per 100,000 …”
[Via bondmen]
In sum, the legal standard of a technical legal defense crafted by the courts has been improperly manipulated by the media to tell a false narrative. Ms. Powell is not backing down or retracting her previous statements concerning Dominion. Dominion’s case lacks legal merit and should be dismissed in its entirety. [More]
In any case, high-priced lawyers seem a lot more effective at slowing the thing down than Medusa's head...
[Via bondmen]
As the bill hit a wall, House Speaker David Ralston, R-Ellijay, said the timing of the bill, two weeks after mass shootings in Atlanta and Colorado, wasn’t right for him...[More]
The timing will never be right for such swindlers.
So, Georgia gun owners: You got nobody to boot this self-serving poltroon?
[Via Jess]
So draw your line. Decide where it is. It won’t be the same for all of us. Maybe you’ve tolerated a lot but refuse to tolerate vaccine passports. Maybe you can’t imagine giving up Coca-Cola products (they do own a lot of stuff, after all) but you decide to lay off their soda for a while. Maybe you start a calling or letter-writing campaign to your state legislator demanding they protect girls’ athletics and children against oppressive transgender legislation. Maybe you give up your MLB tv package this season. Maybe you run for the school board. [More]
Is that seriously what Red Staters equate with line-in-the-sand battles?
[Via Michael G]
Brown Has One Surveillance Camera for Every 9 Undergrads [More]
So Nineteen Eighty-Four was an instruction manual...?
Guess who has the original manuscript.
[Via Michael G]
"I am sure, had [Green] been blessed to come through the crisis that he was going through, he would have been a star in the mission of the resurrection of our people," said Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. [More]
He coulda been a contender!
Instead of someone "progressives" will gloss over and abandon because he didn't fit their narrative...
[Via Mack H]
Current and former students at evangelical Christian colleges sued the Education Department to get the religious exemption to antidiscrimination protections granted to the institutions declared unconstitutional. [More]
This is the group doing the agitating. I wasn't able to define who they are and who funds them from either a WhoIs search or from an Oregon corporate search, and didn't have the incentive to get further into the weeds on this to grok what they mean by "taxpayer-funded."
Are they referring to tax exemptions that all non-profits enjoy, or do the schools in question get actual handouts? If the former, I trust they're also intent on forcing themselves on Islamic schools? If the latter, hey, there's a rendering price when dealing with Caesar.
Or is this simply another tolerance demand from the anti-Christian intolerant, and a power grab to take over and repurpose by adherents of the original rebellion?
[Via Mack H]
Gun Control Wins Debate...When Advocates Argue With Voices In Their Heads [More]
Tom Knighton does a pretty good job of deconstructing an anti-gun fool.
He did miss one significant opportunity I'd like to see more "gun writers" be sensitive to:
However, the Second Amendment gives people the right to have them.
Even our friends, it seems, have trouble with this one, meaning correcting such a destructive misassumption can't be overstated. Even though, based on results, most readers disagree with me on that...
[Via Jess]
WND has a transcript of the release the CBP posted and then took down. [More]
We touched on this yesterday, including how the foreign watchlisted can be of service to the administration...
"Rigorous," Opposite Day "progressive"-style on steroids...
And then there's this:
"Mental disorders"...?
We must close the COVID Loophole on gun purchases! And that includes the Catch-22 of those so "nuts" they refuse the jabs!
UPDATE: And don't go out without your poisoned masks!
I'd tell you who they're from but the thought of being accused of spreading hate scares me more than the virus.
[Via DvD]
Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax [More]
So, taxation without representation...?
Without a state defense force, if there is any conflict in orders to the adjutant general from the governor and from the Department of Defense, the DoD will prevail. The adjutant general and all those in his command, including the unorganized militia, are required to ultimately serve the Pentagon. Now recall who requested HB 31. [More]
The Founders considered the Militia to be necessary for the security of a free State for a reason. Being willing to make a simple fix will tell us if the potential negative consequences of the bill were intended or unintended.
Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors [More]
In other words, they're racists trying to disenfranchise minorities?
[Via Steve T]
Majority of Latinos Support Georgia Voter Security Bill [More]
Eh. With the exception of older Cubans and some outlier exceptions, as a group, they still vote Democrat by a landslide.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
[Via Mack H]
Yemeni Muslims on Terrorism Watch List and No-Fly List caught at California-Mexico border [More]
And CBP retracted its presser and has now clammed up? Tell me that wasn't done on orders from the top.
No worries-- the ones they haven't caught promise to use "assault weapons" when their time comes so the narrative can be redirected from deliberate negligence to "Enough with the guns!"
[Via Mack H]
Biden Should Finish the Wall
… Or the next Trump will. [More]
I'll take Option Two...
Because anything Bret Stephens proposes advances an agenda we won't like, and Option One looks like Kabuki theater anyway...
[Via Mack H]
VCU offers lifesaving tips after back-to-back shootings leave 2 people dead near Monroe Park campus [More]
Curious. I don't see anything that would, you know, stop an attacker...
And not a word about rat tail combs and vomit...
[Via Mack H]
Navy medic shoots 2, is shot and killed on base [More]
Don't these guys go through background checks or something...?
Who will be surprised if there is a record of concerning signs and incidents?
[Via Jess]
UPDATE: Fantahun Girma WoldesenbetCongressman Alcee Hastings, after career of triumph, calamity and comeback, dies at 84 [More]
As long as we're memorializing...
[Via Jess]
The move Friday comes after an independent panel of forensic experts concluded the lab made an error testing ballistics evidence in two 2015 murder cases and then refused to acknowledge the mistake. The auditors also determined the lab then “misrepresented” the mistakes when the accreditation board investigated the allegations. [More]
Incompetent AND dishonest? You'd think they'd fit right in...
So CSI it's not...?
[Via Michael G]
Prominent BLM Activist Threatens Cities ‘on Fire’ if Chauvin Not Convicted [More]
Democrat cities, right...?
And no Democrat demands for sedition charges?
Let's ask Mr. Benny how much we who avoid such places need concern ourselves.
[Via bondmen]
