So unelected bureaucrats have assigned to themselves the power to deny fundamental rights supposedly guaranteed in the Bill of Rights and it’s on the innocent would-be gun owner caught up in their screwup to prove his innocence -- and hope he won’t need to take out a second mortgage to cover lawyer fees if the government gets it wrong again. Meanwhile, as Martin Luther King once observed, a right delayed is a right denied. And for the hapless citizen who lacks the wherewithal to fight it, the phrase “Sucks to be you” comes to mind. [More]
Monday, December 13, 2021
Secret Disarmament Lists to Deny Rights are No Way to Run a Free Country
It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Honor' Is
One of the nation's leading gun-control groups on Monday entered Florida's highly contested Senate race, endorsing Democratic congresswoman Val Demings over Republican incumbent Marco Rubio. [More]
I guess having your negligently stored gun stolen deserves some kind of "commonsense safety" award.
Fear not. Marco is working hard to douse any remaining fire in the bellies of his gun-owning consitutents.
[Via Mack H]
Chip Off the Old Block
Chris Wallace Is OUT at Fox News [More]
Informed gun owners won't miss him.
That's one fruit that didn't fall far from the tree.
[Via Mack H]
Wrong Politics, Wrong Place, Wrong Profession
Alan Swinney, a self-proclaimed member of the Oregon Proud Boys, was sentenced to ten years in prison last week after shooting an individual in the eye with a paintball gun during a riot in Portland, Oregon last year. [More]
He should have been a New York "Only One."
[Via Roger J]
We're the Only Ones Lovin' It Enough
Sheriff deputies are investigating the death of a man who was shot by an off-duty UC Berkeley police officer Sunday. Investigators said the off-duty officer was dining inside Nation’s Giant Hamburgers when a man walked in and tried to rob the place at gunpoint. [Watch]
And if an "Only One" had not been on scene...?
[Via 1Gat]
Speaking of Human Rights Violations...
To help his team optimize their designs, Cheng and his employees, over the course of the six-month project, bought more than 60 replica guns on Taobao, one of China’s most popular shopping platforms, owned by tech giant Alibaba. None of the toy guns were lethal, according to the listed product descriptions, and each cost less than $20 ... In June 2017, police showed up at Cheng’s Beijing residence and arrested him on charges of holding guns illegally. A total of 137 people, employees and their family members, were arrested in the same case... [More]
[Via Michael G]
You Keep Using That Word...
Lawyer for NEA Teacher Union Says It’s Not About Children or Education, It’s About Power [More]
Well, to get back to MSNBC's claim, and to paraphrase Stalin's supposed question about the Pope...
[Via Michael G]
I'm Just Not Seeing it
MSNBC’s Heilemann Claims ’30 Million People Right Now’ Ready to Take Up Arms for Trump [More]
You'd think if he really believed that he'd already be packed and gone. Hell, I'd be happy if 1/1000th of that would be ready to share article links.
But it figures they'd find a way to conflate those who question election integrity with those doing the lynchings.
[Via bondmen]
Organization Man
After antifa arrests, FBI director under fire for denying violent militants are an 'organization' [More]
In fairness, he was busy making the case that "white supremacists" are...
[Via bondmen]
Fun Facts to Know and Tell
Stand and Deliver
The 14-year-old son of a pizza shop employee shot one of three would-be robbers in the face after he started choking his mom in Philadelphia, police said [More]
So some minors can be trusted with guns, and treating all gun owners like the Crumbleys and mandating "lock up your safety" edicts could have unintended consequences?
[Via bondmen]
So They Really Ought to Be Called 'Opinion Checkers'?
Facebook Court Filing Admits 'Fact Checks' Are Just A Matter Of 'Protected' Opinion [More]
So "right" and "wrong thinking" are subjective...?
What does that make "community standards"?
[Via bondmen]
Making Nuisances of Ourselves
“The conduct of a gun industry member shall be deemed to constitute a proximate cause of the public nuisance if the harm to the public was a reasonably foreseeable effect of such conduct, notwithstanding any intervening actions, including but not limited to criminal actions by third parties.” [More]
So Garden State authoritarian swine don't just demand that you not have guns -- they demand you not talk about them approvingly?
Modern Times
H.R.6225 - To modernize the business of selling firearms. [More]
No, we don't have text to analyze yet, but these ladies seem to think Robin Kelly is pretty "commonsense" when it comes to guns...
[Via TM]
Where Can We Send 'Get Well' Cards?
Texas Mother, Daughter Killed When Human Smuggler Crashes Into Their Vehicle During a Police Pursuit – All 6 Illegal Aliens Survive Crash [More]
Thank a "pathway to citizenship" Democrat and a "cheap labor" Republican today.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
[Via Michael G]
Of Course It Is
"I always say at the end of my videos that guns and the Second Amendment are not political." [Watch]
Hey, it's not us stumping for gun-grabbing Democrats, it's Megan Good.
An unsourced truism frequently attributed to Pericles comes to mind. We ignore it at our peril.
[Via An Hour of Wolves]
Speaking of Perverts
“I understand we can’t change the perverted values of the Second-Amendment society overnight, values that prioritise gun ownership over the lives of our children,” he said, referring to the US constitutional provision that grants the right to bear arms. [More]
Geoffrey Fieger, of course, is a militant Democrat.
The perversion is the policy that he supports, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is forbidden in the one place that requires vulnerable children to gather en masse.
[Via 1Gat]
The Insincerest Form of Flattery
In response to the Supreme Court's ruling largely precluding pre-enforcement challenge of the Texas abortion law, Governor Newsom calls for similar action on guns. [More]
Well, that explains why FPC got involved.
I'm still waiting to hear why they remain silent on the larger threat...
[Via several of you]
One Last Kick on His Way Out
Spider & the Fly
- When Antifa Returns from winter break
- Peru’s socialist president escapes impeachment
- Biden removes Marxist FARC from terror blacklist
- Honduras elects socialist president
Well, It's a Marvelous Night for a Blood Dance
Michigan Senate Democrats Introduce ‘High Capacity Magazine’ Ban Bill [More]
So what kind of chance do Michigan gun owners have when the Democrat who proposed this agrees with a leading "Republican" on even more infringements?
Seeing how close the race was, I do wonder if gun owners could have made a difference in Bayer's last election. Maybe if they'd been offered someone who didn't oppose permitless carry...?
[Via Jess]
UPDATE:Michigan State Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D) says the Republican idea of allowing teachers to have guns for classroom defense is “insane.” [More]
Time to Play 'Who's the Grifter?'
Rep. Dan Crenshaw fires back at Gun Owners of America: 'They want to make you outraged' to raise money - [He] is pushing back at a gun-rights group that has accused him of supporting so-called red flag laws aimed at taking guns away from people deemed by a judge to be a threat to themselves or others. [More]
So GOA made this up?
[Via Jess]
Case in Points
Mixed Signals
Supreme Court Signals Game Changing ATF Smack Down Is Coming!!! [Watch]
He provides a good analysis of what is going on with "bump stocks" in the courts, but I don't see where the title conclusion is coming from. They may or may not hear it and if they do, there are no guarantees on who they'll "smack down."
I do have a "logic" question for the Supreme Court:
If a bump stock is legally a machinegun and I turned and raised it when confronted by law enforcement, would they be legally protected if they shot me because I didn't put down a "gun"?
[Via Jess]
The Continued Worsening Violence Assurance Act
The Reimagine Public Safety Act became law in June, but the expansion signed Friday clarifies guidelines in the original bill and gives the Illinois Department of Human Services and a newly created Office of Firearm Violence Prevention greater grant making flexibility. [More]
Blame everything but the system that makes predators inevitable? Check.
They may as well call it the Reimagine Reality Act for all the good it'll do.
[Via Jess]
'Settled Science'
While based on limited data that could be skewed, the information from Statens Serum Institut also shows that almost 75 per cent of those infected by Omicron had received 2 doses of Covid-19 vaccine. [More]
And then we have:
Pfizer CEO says fourth Covid vaccine doses may be needed sooner than expected due to omicron [More]
Wasn't it just a month ago they "put in a request on Tuesday to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize third doses for all adults who are at least 18 years old"?
At what point does it become obvious to all that people who can't predict short-term effects are utterly incapable of predicting the long-term ones? At what point does believing the most outlandish "conspiracy theories" over the official one become the more rational alternative?
And at what point does it become an unlawful order?
Speaking of Self-Evident Truths...
'We say, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all women and men are created equal endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,'' he said in quoting the document but changing it to be inclusive of women. [More]
By presuming everyone is binary, doesn't that make him a hater?
What about the other 31 flavors...?
Because You're You
Pennsylvania Teacher, NEA Director Wants Unvaccinated Shot [More]
When it comes to violence-minded leftists, not just the unvaccinated, but anyone they accuse of not being "pure."
That's why they end up resorting to gas.
Get Serious
Kamala Harris Needs to Get Serious [More]
Why, Peggy Noonan?
And does it occur to you that she is, at least as much as she's capable of?
Bloomberg Coalition Runs the Table on Homicide Cities
All 12 mayors of the highest homicide cities are Democrats. All 12 are members of Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns ... It’s true that correlation does not equal causation, and that saying it does is a logical fallacy. That said, 12 out of 12 not once, but twice, is one hell of a correlation. [More]