Students at the University of Virginia voted overwhelmingly last week to change the punishment for an honor violation - expulsion - reversing a policy known as the "single sanction" that has been in place for 180 years ... For the past 180 years, if a UVA student was found guilty of lying, cheating or stealing, there was only one punishment, expelling the student. [More]
What did Moynihan call this societal trend?
[Via Mack H]
Researchers have found that states with permitless carry laws have experienced an 11 percent increase in handgun homicide rates after enactment [More]
Pretty definitive subhead, right?
Except the study he links to specifically notes:
Finally, we were unable to analyze the impact of permitless-carry laws because of the small number of observations. Only 4 states had permitless-carry laws in place during the study period. However, in the past 2 years, an additional 5 states have enacted such laws. Elucidating the impact of permitless-carry laws will require follow-up for the 9 states that now have such laws in effect.
We could get into the whole correlation/causation logical fallacy, the fact that permit holders are significantly more law-abiding than the "Only Ones," that criminals don't obey laws, and that homicides aren't homogeneously distributed throughout the population but concentrated among a hardcore lawless urban element, and that while rates can appear more impactful in lower-population areas, the real numbers in those high-population areas hardly reflect a prohibition success story.
Except there's no need to do that here because once it's been demonstrated this hoplophobic dweeb's either ignorant or lying, why waste any more time on him?
Here's a surprise: Columbus Alive is a Gannett Publication!
Let's see how they respond.
It took officers about 20 minutes to arrive after the homeowner called 911 because resources were tied up elsewhere in the East End ... One resident on Garber Street said he called 911 after hearing gunfire and that the phone rang about 25 times with no answer and no callback. [More]
No worries. Mayor Stoney's all about the fix!
[Via Mack H]
US Merchant Marine experts say this decision doesn’t take into account the age and status of the United State’s Military Sealift Command tanker fleet, which are the ships responsible for at-sea refueling of both ships and aircraft. Shipbuilding experts find it very unlikely that Austin will be able to find the funding or the shipyards need to build a fleet of merchant tankers with “equally advanced and resilient fueling capability.” [More]
They're assuming he actually wants to.
[Via Jess]
The ruling mullahs are carrying out assassination plots abroad with impunity. All the while, not only is the Biden administration suppressing the information and refusing to indict the assassins, but it also keeps appeasing the mullahs by lifting sanctions. [More]
Hey, it's not like they challenged election results, objected to Critical Race Theory in schools, or refused the jab or anything that would place them in the camp of our real enemies...
[Via Michael G]
All three candidates say they would vote for an assault weapon ban, expanded gun background checks, limits on high-capacity magazines, and “red flag” legislation allowing for temporary removals of firearms for people who present a danger to themselves or others. [More]
So how will primarying Republicans set themselves apart, especially after Toomey lowered the bar?
Or will the well-funded celebrity über alles Oz Machine ensure a candidate guaranteed to demoralize?
[Via Jess]
Congressman Cloud’s No REGISTRY Rights Act would require ATF to delete all existing firearm transaction records accumulated by the ATF, therefore dismantling their current database and preventing the possible creation of a federal gun registry. The bill would also require Federal Firearm Licensees (FFLs) to destroy their firearm transaction records once they go out of business, ensuring the ATF doesn’t continue to accumulate these records. [More]
We'll first have to see how the midterms go and then have to see if his Republican colleagues have learned anything since they had control last time. They'll also need to take the White House back in '24.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), a Democrat who has consistently opposed measures to make America energy independent, took thousands in donations from lobbyists for the Russian Nordstream 2 pipeline. [More]
And that's not the only area where she empowers herself by undermining "the security of a free State"...
[Via bondmen]
The far right is rising in the ranchland of Northern California, using special elections and veiled intimidation to spread political influence across a historically conservative region of this deeply liberal state. [More]
See how any pushback against the far left by people who just want to be left alone is portrayed by the DSM as menacing, racist, and evil...?
[Via bondmen]
Expedia and Microsoft traced the map to a single IP address. One computer had downloaded that map on the evening of May 20. That IP address was located on the service provider UUNET. When investigators contacted UUNET, they were directed to a residence in the 1000 block of Ford Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. [More]
Those of us who don't murder prostitutes but maybe do stuff on the internet the government may frown upon need to be aware that we leave trails and clues we might not think could come back and bite us.
Especially those who think they're browsing anonymously.
[Via bondmen]
New details also reveal that David Mora Rojas, 39, also used a "ghost gun" in the shooting. Mora Rojas also overstayed his visa after entering California from his native Mexico on Dec. 17, 2018, on a non-immigrant visitor visa... [More]
Sometimes you just get a sense of narrative issues from what they're not telling you.
[Via bondmen]
"Imagine being falsely accused of threatening to shoot up a school. Law enforcement concluded that he was being pranked by fellow students, but that did not stop numerous parents from spreading the false accusation online," said Dhillon Law Group partner, Matthew Sarelson. "The students who spread the false accusations against Mr. Ortiz were never disciplined in any way. Only Mr. Ortiz was suspended, without due process, and for no valid reason." [More]
It figures a "progressive" school boasting "a safe learning environment" would be the biggest bullying abettor and enabler.
"Mr. Ardieta" certainly sounds like he embraces The Keeper's "right thinking/wrong thinking" mentality.
[Via bondmen]
Olathe East student allegedly used ‘ghost gun’ in shooting at school ... “I’m a big Second Amendment person, but ghost guns (are) really only being operated by unlawful individuals who shouldn’t be having firearms," Howe said. "I think that’s something we’re going to take from this is that those types of firearms should be stopped.” [More]
That's an awful big "but" you've got their, pal.
Here's the real lesson anyone with a brain ought to be walking away from this with.
[Via Darrel W]
This week we need to provide some encouragement for another important gun bill--HB 2166. The bill would exempt firearms and firearm safety equipment from transaction privilege (sales) tax. [More]
Goal: “not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, but shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms.”… “You’re threatening their livelihood. And, you know, they’ve got reputations in their local communities.” [More]
What do they call the condition when such aberrations are incapable of shame?
[Via Michael G]
“We’re refugees from Kosovo, a country where me and my family had to flee because of ethnic cleansing and were saved, frankly, by U.S. and NATO intervention there,” Vedat Gashi, a Democrat challenging Mr. Bowman, said last week. [More]
Here's Vedat mugging with the Demanding Moms to trick Americans out of their guns.
He's been endorsed by Democratic Socialists of America, eh? Wonder if he knows how to sing these in Albanian...
"You came to support fascists?” the officer responded, a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s justification for the war. “What fascists?” the crowd asked. The officer then gave an order: “Arrest everyone.” [More]
Funny, how they use the same terminology as Antifa...
A 5-year-old allegedly beat up a teacher and left her hospitalized after attempting to contain an incident between two students, according to police. [More]
No wonder such invertebrates go into hysterics at the suggestion of protecting those whose care they are entrusted with.
Hey, I still got it, baby! Grab the little monsters by the ankles and swing 'em like clubs! (I'd have done better except the calculation lumps my age range in with up-to-90-year-olds.)
As the world witnesses what is happening to Ukraine, Americans were asked what they would do if they were in the same position as Ukrainians are now: stay and fight or leave the country? A majority (55 percent) say they would stay and fight, while 38 percent say they would leave the country. Republicans say 68 – 25 percent and independents say 57 – 36 percent they would stay and fight, while Democrats say 52 – 40 percent they would leave the country. “When confronted with a terrible hypothetical that would put them in the shoes of the Ukrainians, Americans say they would stand and fight rather than seek safety in another country,” added Malloy. [More]
There's a big difference between saying and doing.
Left unexplored is how many anonymous "Molon Labeists" would live up to their internet bravado. And how many Democrats would side with the invaders...
For the association, yes, it’s a win. For Wayne LaPierre, for whom the judge had “some unflattering things to say,” and for Letitia James, who is trying to save face by portraying this as good news/bad news with appeal options, not so much. [More]