Mom Demands Answers

So what can we do as parents? You should know if homes your child visits have firearms. Period. You should know where they're stored and how they're secured, and if the owner won't tell you, your child shouldn't be there. [More]

Think it through, lady. Think it through.

[Via Florida Guy]   

The Elephant in the Room of Which We Dare Not Speak

A largely peaceful country remained peaceful... [More]

I suppose everybody is too worried about how others will demonize them and demand their heads to point out an inconvenient truth, one that can be observed throughout this country as well...

Just don't jump to a collectivist conclusion. As noted before:

And we also can't forget to look at race--not as a cause of violent crime, but as an indicator of populations most directly affected by and responsive to a continuing history of destructive government policies. If we're afraid to even address this, we're never going to be able to make things right. And those hurt the most by this self-imposed blindness will continue to be the least prosperous and protected among us.

[Via Neil W]

Maybe It's an Oversight?

I've read this thing forward and backward, and if there's an "I" word or an "M" word anywhere in there, it sure slipped past me. [More]

Imagine, being so intolerant of cultural diversity as to identify your enemy!

Reset

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday threw out a 2014 federal court ruling that upheld new Colorado gun laws. [More]

I suppose we should view this as an incremental "win," but why anyone should have to go through this "legal" nonsense in the first place is an intolerable outrage. Is that because no one running things is smart enough to understand what "shall not be infringed" means, or is there a different explanation?

And yeah, I agree. Stupid question.

[Via cydl]

Using Administration Criteria, James Taylor Contest Discriminates and Disenfranches

If untold millions of illegal aliens have “earned the right to be citizens,” why haven’t they also earned the right to win OFA’s James Taylor contest? ... OFA believes it should be way easier to vote than to win James Taylor tickets. [More]

If they run a background check, will your name be on the secret "No James List"?

About That 'Single Issue'

What do these guys have to do? Move to Fairfax? [More]

The Nerve of That Man!

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The One That Got Away

High court rejects appeal over ban on guns at post offices [More]

I plan on addressing this soon, probably tomorrow on Oath Keepers.

Where There's a Will, There's a Third Way

Yeah, George, go with Garland. [More]

That would be the same George Will who wrote:

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago, when the requirements of self-defense and food-gathering made gun ownership almost universal. But whatever the right is, there it is ... Gun control advocates who want to square their policy preferences with the Constitution should squarely face the need to deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrassing amendment.

What an irrelevant, cloistered nitwit, representing everything the base has absolutely had it with the Establishment over.

[Via Mack H]

No Repercussions?

The disturbing pattern of liberals conflating the idea of protests or free speech with criminal disruption of commerce and infrastructure continued yesterday... [More]

And will continue today and tomorrow...

Even if there's no "legal"price to pay, a growing number of Americans is seeing these vandals for what they are and getting sick and tired of both them and their "cause." Don't be surprised to see a corresponding "unintended consequences" political backlash.  Especially if (when) there's violence in Cleveland.

[Via Mack H]

A Stunning Development

Supreme Court: 2nd Amendment applies to Stun Guns [More]

But...but...but...the Founders could never have imagined....

This one could establish interesting precedent for future attempts to deny technological developments based on "common use at the time" arguments.  Not that I think they're gonna let us anywhere near these babies...

[Via Michael G]

UPDATE: Bluesgal sent a link to the decision. She also has a relevant question:

[I]f they are applying Heller to the "Stun Gun" and the right to carry one, why does this not then apply to the "gun" as well in Massachusetts and elsewhere?

What Would Total Enforced Gun Control Look Like?

Pretty much like this... [More]

[Via William T]

Campus Hijinks

Funny, we just got done talking about those in the last post, and another example pops up:

Queer Devil Worshipers for a Better Future

Time was, sending the first child to college was the often unattainable fulfillment of a dream for families that started with nothing and endured a lifetime of labor and sacrifice most in our generation have never known. So it figures the "progressives" need to spit on that and make it profane, and as with all things Opposite Day, are steering toward a future of misery, horror and death.

[Via Robert F]

Covering Their Tracks

We have more developments in re "College Debate Team Argues Whites Should Die":

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This was a "Response to Skeptics" note under the video.  Guess what you see at the link now?

Ditto for "The University President just ADMITTED this video is authentic: https://twitter.com/PIPability/lists/status":

Hmmm... where have we seen this technique applied before?

Are you people reaching for excuses ready to focus your concerns on why the powers that be want this to go away, instead of coming up with unsubstantiated speculations to absolve the "debaters"?

Coming Soon, to a Terminal Near You.

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I wonder if they had "rigorous security screenings"...?

Sharing is Caring

There is a huge wealth of knowledge out there, so many intelligent voices, and brilliant articles – and many of them are ones you have read and learned from – but, then you move along, and line your proverbial birdcage with those articles and blogs, when you COULD have shared them with a friend or two (or 1,000) with the click of a button. [More]

Agreed.

Why not share a message about where roads lead?

The Art of the Steal

Rancid Prepuce and Dead Elephant co-conspirators plot out a heist. [More]

Where are the McMinn County veterans when you really need 'em? If the GOP Establishment gets away with this, I suspect many of the latter day Athens counterparts will be staying home this time.

Stick a Fork in Him, He's Done

['Top Chef' winner Paul] Qui told police he "only was grabbing and holding her." [More]

Why tell them anything?

Did you think Mike Martinez giving you the "Qui to the city" made you anything more than a stage prop? Guess what Martinez wants to do to everyone.

And now, "thanks" to Lautenberg, you go to the head of the line. In spite of those marks on your face.

Appreciation for Value Received Makes Vanderboegh Appeal a Different Kind of Fundraiser

I don’t refer to helping Mike as a “donation.”  I call it a “gratitude offering.” That’s proper, as this is being directed to those of you who have received value from Mike’s work over the years. That gratitude should also extend to Mike’s wife, Rosey, who has had to make plenty of sacrifices of her own to enable Mike to do so many necessary things we have benefited from. [More]

Besides, his new "100 Heads Life Insurance Company" T-shirts could end up being collectors items.

Super Common Sense Gun Safety for Kids

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Back before Opposite Day "progressives" co-opted both the term and the comics...

And the shooting group was headquartered in Chicago....