Montana Command Authority Bill Raises Founding Intent Militia Concerns

 

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. 

Nazi Kangaroo Fascists!

 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] 

There's Majorities and There's Majorities

 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]

There's Battles and There's Battles

 I wrote The Enemy Within because we’ve reached the point in our history where we either win these political battles or lose everything that makes us prosperous and free. [More]

Does it look to you like the battles that determine that will be political?

[Via Mack H]

Yumpin' Yemeni!

 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]

Off the Wall Remarks

 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]

Tipping Points

 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]

Well, Obama Did Call Them 'Corpsemen'

 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 Woldesenbet

And why do our bases have racist signs?

Mentioned in Passing

 Congressman Alcee Hastings, after career of triumph, calamity and comeback, dies at 84 [More]

As long as we're memorializing... 

[Via Jess]

To Their Discredit...

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]

Which Granted Power Is This Again...?

 Rachel Levine Wants Transgender Drugs and Surgery for Minors [More]

Who does zie think zie is?

Asa Hutchinson?

[Via Michael G]

Summer of Love

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]

Not Without Presumption

 Oregon's largest newspaper, The Oregonian, has published a mea culpa over their previous endorsement of defunding the police, after 266 shootings and 25 homicides in the first quarter of 2021. [More]

So they've established a verifiable causation correlation? 

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Escaping Enough

 Capitol Police Union Head Warns Of Officer Exodus [More]

Been a while since we checked in on Tommy Lee...

[Via bondmen]

My Kind of Razzmatazz

Chicago Shootings In March Top Four Year High As Mayor Lightfoot's Plan To Combat Crime Fails [More]

Forget it, Jake. It's Chi-Town.

[Via bondmen]

Fall Violence

 Federal 2018 Data: Falling Killed 126 Times More People than Rifles of Any Kind [More]

We obviously need some commonsense gravity safety laws.

[Via bondmen]

Coming Soon, To a Cellblock Near You

 Inmates at the St. Louis Justice Center rioted for the third time in less than four months Sunday night. The riot broke out around 8:45 p.m. on the third floor. Police said at least 60 inmates escaped from their cells and busted windows, set fire, and threw things to the ground from third-floor windows. [More]

So this is what total government control of a disarmed populace looks like!

[Via bondmen]

Now THERE's a Statue I Could Tear Down!

Newly unveiled Greta Thunberg statue rankles students, local community [More]

The artist did not capture his subject at all. It's smiling instead of scowling like it's trying to strain through a bowel obstruction.

[Via Michael G]

The Real Racists

  I don’t know how many times I’ve heard gun restrictionists claim that if African Americans owned firearms in large numbers, conservatives would quickly turn on the Second Amendment. Yet, all gun advocates I see cheer it on. It seems to me that others are doing the scaremongering. [More]

True enough.

That's why they also spook women out of having and mastering (mistressing?) the means of self-defense.

If they were honest, they'd admit they don't believe their core constituents are capable of assuming the rights and responsibilities of free people.

But they're not honest, are they?

[Via Michael G]

JFK Assassination in 4K 360° VR

 This Encyclopedia Brittanica interactive video is a few years old, but it's the first time I've seen it. [Watch]

I've always wondered if you set up a course with an elevated firing position and a target following the same track as the limo, how many of us would be able to reproduce Oswald's reputed results using the same rifle and ammunition. Anybody know if it's been tried? 

[Via TM]

Captain's Log

This commentary by Garcia reeks of a demand for agreement with Rob, with the tool of extortion being the appearance of lack of unity. [More]

I'm debating whether I want to sink into the Waive the Second cesspool again. Their trivialization, redirection, mischaracterization, and avoidance of the issues are just so full of crap and begging for evisceration...

Anybody think these characters are qualified to "reform" NRA?

Whose Rights Are They, Anyway?

 Why Introducing DRM into 3D Printed Firearms Files Is A Bad Idea [More]

I confess I don't know enough about the subject to weigh in with an informed opinion. I guess my gut reaction is to favor intellectual property rights and to wonder why anyone thinks any transaction they make on the internet won't be discoverable, either through covert keyword or targeted monitoring or by subpoena to suppliers. But that's kneejerk and I can't say I've given it a lot of thought.

The other thing I haven't explored is ITAR data implications. Are there?

I'll try to get to comments every couple hours or so until bedtime, so feel free to educate me with pros and cons.

[Via DDS]

This Qualifies as a 'Mass Shooting,' Right?

 4 shot, 3 dead in shootings in Detroit ...Police describe the suspect as 19 years old, heavy set and hair in dreadlocks. [More]

And why so coy about IDing the perp in Wilmington?

It's almost like if it doesn't advance a narrative it's best flushed down the memory hole...

If only they would disarm us right-wing extremists!

UPDATE - And then there's this:

The facts as of now show that this shooting was actually 3 separate incidents, two were connected but happened at different times. And one had nothing to do with the original shooting AT ALL!

[Via Jess]

Reaching Out Around to Our Friends Across the Aisle

 “We want to send a message of tolerance and diversity,” Hutchinson said. [More]

I wonder if he thinks these guys are going to love him now...?

UPDATE: 

Looks like the haters won. 

Zie will not be happy.

[Via Laocoön]

And Leave the Driving to Us!

 “Tens of thousands of immigrants caught illegally crossing the border and then released under the new leniency policy of President Joe Biden are now dispersing to four corners of the United States on buses, with some of the more moneyed ones taking passenger jets.”[More]

And yes, "they overwhelmingly appear to be the right age and deportment, where distributing as many as 30,000–the equivalent of 3 divisions–to Red States would be potentially catastrophic."

Good thing none of this has anything to do with that "single issue"!

[Via BoyDownTheLane]

Machine of Lies

America is right where the left wants it, mired in the quicksand of trying to distinguish the truth while new lies are invented every hour. [More]

Reality can only be denied for so long, and ultimately those doing it fall. The truth will out, eventually.

But the way things are going, it could be a very long time.

I'd Expect Nothing Less

 Would it surprise you to learn that names have been added to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) that don’t belong there? [More]

No, no orders they would follow to curtail the freedom of their countrymen would surprise me.

I thought I'd already blogged on this, but I'll be damned if I can find it now...

I Guess They WERE Entitled...

 Two teen girls accused of car-jacking and killing Uber Eats driver in D.C. 'reach plea deal ensuring they'll not be held past age of 21 or go to prison' [More]

I'm sure that's the last we've heard of them!

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Mental Enough

Amid outcry, states push mental health training for police [More]

I know the story speaks to something else, but that headline makes me think of NatLamp's Frank Rizzo...

[Via Mack H]

Speaking of the 'Most Dangerous Threat'...

 SPLC Predicts 'More Violence' Because Republicans Don't Buy the Left's Narrative on the Capitol Riot [More]

That's hardly the only gaslighting narrative. Curious, the lack of uprising if "we" were truly inclined to violence as a first resort...

Me, I wonder how many Republicans are planning on torching a cop car and looting a Target the second a "Not Guilty" verdict comes in for Chauvin... Or is that fact that none will further proof of their irredeemable racism?

[Via Michael G]

Speaking of Obtuse

 

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Holy Toledo!

 At around 2:30 a.m. last Monday, Chicago police officers were responding to a ShotSpotter alert of eight shots fired when they came upon Toledo and a 21-year-old man in an alley near 24th and Sawyer in Little Village. They say a foot pursuit ensued and during an "armed confrontation," an officer shot Toledo in the chest. [More]

There appear to be as many photos of the proto-banger as an adorable little boy as there are of St. Trayvon Martyr. 

Unclear on the Concept

 Our God-given right to defend ourselves is protected by the 2nd Amendment, which gives us the right to keep and bear arms. [More]

I received an email solicitation for donations from this guy and decided to check out what he knows about 2A. We shouldn't have to explain this to someone presuming to be a leader. He should be explaining it to us.