We're the Only Ones Plundering Enough

This financial incentive, combined with the relative ease with which law enforcement agencies can seize property, is a recipe for abuse, as the countless stories of innocent people subjected to abusive forfeitures attest. [More]

And while they have unlimited resources and get paid every step of the way, most of us would be hard pressed to take just a day or two off to appear in court, let alone finance a legal defense that would wend its way through the courts and appeals for years. Especially with our own assets being tied up.

So much for a main justification for even having a government in the first place: "...to secure the blessings of Liberty..."

[Via Michael G]

Are We Not Men?

Are we animals? Or are we human beings? [More]

I remember that movie!

What is the law?

Why not do the humanitarian thing, and have a secured route with transports to take them all to Merkel's German border, where an unlimited invitation and welcome has been extended?

It's a win-win.

[Via Geordan]

Speaking of Mockery...

Many have asked me, “What about the question of constitutional eligibility?”

My answer is direct: Obama and the establishment media have made a mockery of the Constitution in many ways, but none more than their attacks on the “natural born citizen” requirement. So much damage was done to that simple clause in the last eight years, I don’t believe there’s any going back. [More]

Really?

So rather than explain how your position is consistent with the intent of the Founders and with Constitutional rule of law, you come back with the equivalent of "Billy's mom let's him do it"?

Two wrongs make a right?

You couldn't even pretend to find an argument to justify your unexplained polarity shift? Or if you could, you believe that counter-arguments are more credible, and leave you vulnerable with their inconvenient reminders of of your unprincipled surrender?

So if there's no going back on damage to RKBA in Democrat strongholds, we should just accept and embrace the infringements? Where else will your resignation to lawlessness lead?

The one person who can put a stop to all of this is Ted Cruz.

Motormouth City Madman

You talk about halting the dangerous, America-destroying invasion of illegals across our borders, but you do nothing. [More]

What, you mean the dangerous, America-destroying invasion of illegals across our borders you're helping with?

That's What Friends are For

A federal judge clamped a lid on allegations of misconduct against several U.S. Department of Justice attorneys in a case involving retired ATF Agent Jay Dobyns of Tucson. [More]

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

Spot-On?

Strange bedfellows? [More]

What difference does it make?

Opposite Day 'Progressive' Tolerance and Diversity

USC student senator faces impeachment for being conservative [More]

Dr. McCoy would like to explain:

[Via Laocoön]

An Extraordinary Bethel Mom

I work in a retail environment and occasionally see a gun on a belt. Do I feel unsafe? Of course not! [More]

And she's not even a gun owner. But she certainly sounds receptive to being invited to an all-expenses paid range day, lunch included, by someone qualified to give instruction on a range of options. Maybe qualified women from an established, organized group could reach out, and extend the invitation to her husband, so she's not creeped out by an unknown stranger approaching her...

[Via OF THE GUN IN CT]

Meanwhile, Over in Fundamentally Transformed Paradise

Murder Up 27.5% in Los Angeles in 2016 — So Far [More]

Looks like there's trouble in #1 Brady-rated/#blacklivesmatter/Norquist Paradise.

Interesting commonalities in those "six most violent areas":

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The conclusion to draw is more complex than the easy one we're being misdirected to. These are populations most directly affected by "progressive" power grab policies, from effecting generational dependencies for votes and control, to over-"immigration" for votes and control.

Then the social techs can apply culture problems incubated in their petri dishes to the entire damn experimental lab. Ergo, "we" need "gun control," etc. 

In a way, they're right, but not for the reasons they state: It is a "public health" problem.

No?

Moneyed #GunsOut Selfie Campaign Relies on Ridiculous Emotion and Ignorance

Supporters are urged to take “selfies” while flexing their biceps and to tweet them to their followers using a #GunsOut hashtag. [More]

Just when you thought the gun-grabbers couldn't get any more ludicrous...

"Unlocked Door"

A burglary goes wrong when the homeowner returns home to find the door ajar. Entering the home unarmed, he confronts the burglar and makes a run for his handgun. The worst happens! [More]

This week on "Stop the Threat"...

Ken, Ken, He's Our Man!

If he can't do it, no one can! [More]

Right...?

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE: Well that was fast. I can't read it because they say I've reached my five article limit,but the headline says he withdrew his name.

I, Paranoid

Within Patriot group circles, the response has been more like paranoia, outrage, and some tactical patience. “This action is leading to justifiable speculation and worries that others who assisted in security operations and who were at Bunkerville to show solidarity with the cause of resolving western land disputes may now find themselves rounded up,” David Codrea, a columnist for GUNS Magazine, wrote on the Oath Keepers website on February 18. “… It may be that a massive operation is in the works, but to react imprudently without actual intelligence is a good way to escalate things to the favor of those who wish to discredit the Patriot movement.” [More]

How is being accurate in expectations you're now confirming "paranoia"?

I guess I should be glad he chose to cite me as the one counter voice to the DoJ and SPLC, but it sure ain't hard to see where the "correspondent's" sympathies lie.

Opposite Day 'Progressives' Know Best

The gun-control lobby and groups representing domestic-violence survivors both have said in General Assembly committees that women would not be capable of defending themselves with a firearm in an emergency. [More]

Yeah -- didn't we just prove that at the Louisville mall...?

[Via Keith B]

Breaking All the Rules

Hero woman shoots her stalker in the throat after desperate chase through mall that began when he started following her in food court [More]

These people would evidently rather she had been killed:

Please know that Fourth Street Live! has a code of conduct ... no weapons ...

[Via William T]

Sounds of Silence

Headline and lede aside, this is surprisingly non-hysterical for a HuffPo piece. [More]

[Via Keith B]

Mixed Feelings

Chaffetz wants to take guns away from 'Rambo' BLM, Forest Service agents [More]

That's the cold end. The hot end, where actual meaningful change can be made, addresses the constitutionality of those departments in the first place.

I could accept taking away arrest powers as a good first step. That said, infringing on having means of DEFENSE as a job condition carries with it a special relationship duty on the part of the employer to protect -- or at least it should.

I don't expect anything to come of this, but we'll know more once we have a bill number. Then we can get the GovTrack assessment on its likelihood to even make it out of committee -- anybody want to lay odds it'll be more than 2%?

Yeah, pretty cynical. I haven't been that impressed with Chaffetz actually doing anything, as opposed to making self-serving noises.

[Via Mike M]

For When I Win the Lottery

[Via Len Savage]

Como un Buen Vecino

A Mexican national suspected of killing his neighbor and three other men at his neighbor's Kansas home before killing another man about 170 miles away in Missouri was arrested early Wednesday, authorities said ... Serrano Vitorino is in the country illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. He was deported from the U.S. in April 2004 and illegally re-entered the country on an unknown date.  [More]

These guys never seem to live next to Grover's house, do they?

[Via Geordan]

Just What I've Been Looking For

A way the authorities can track my guns! [More]

I'm sure this would never be abused. Aren't you?