Will Red Flag Laws Be Used to Set up Gun Owners?

What’s to stop false accusations, and incentives offered to make them? [More]

No worries: Lindsey Graham says those who object to the evisceration of due process and who oppose such things are "the fringe of the fringe" who want to let "multiple murderers" buy guns.

Not the Only Alternative

Swalwell Envisions Jail Time for Those Who Defy his “Assault Weapons” Ban ... but I also offer an alternative, which would be to keep them at a hunting club or a shooting range.  [More]

No. Your move.

[Via Greg K]

Fact Check

Sen. Gillibrand's Latest Talking Point About The NRA Is Completely False [More]

It would be hard to find someone with more contempt for her than me, but the claim that "NRA is largely funded by the gun manufacturers" should be evident to anyone who has ever looked through one of their magazines and seen all the ads.  In a few weeks members will be going to a convention where the industry has spent a fortune renting booths.

Add to that the Round-Up program, endowments, corporate sponsorships and the like -- here's just one example.

That doesn't invalidate the "five million members" claim (although I'd like to see that substantiated) or say that those members don't provide substantial funding themselves -- but that's not the claim being made here, is it?

The "completely false" assertion misinforms. And it does so in a way that transitions what Gillibrand claims into something she did not.

[Via Michael G]

Lies of Omission

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Forget to mention a certain detail, Bloomberg lackeys...?

Thing is, I thought "progressives" and "feminists" lauded preemptive strikes, but I guess just not with a gun.

[Via Michael G]

If You Don't Want to be Raped, Don't Dress Like a Slut

Newspaper Suggests Conservative Speaker at UMKC Wanted to be Attacked [More]

Just keep your eyes down and follow the rules and you'll be fine.

[Via Michael G]

The Perfect Choice

A group of more than 30 top leaders of the conservative movement sent a letter to President Trump pushing a terrific idea: Appoint former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli as the next secretary of homeland security. [More]

I guess if you like excuse-making gun-grabbers.

I reject the argument that it's his duty to back diktats he says he personally disagrees with. Bull. That pathetic.

His duty is to the supreme Law of the Land. If his paycheck conflicts with that, he's shown us where he stands. A man of conviction would have denounced infringements and quit.

I expect nothing less than what I expect from myself. I have risked and even given up jobs based on principles before. Once you can be cowed into betraying yourself you will betray anyone they order you to, and they own your soul.

[Via Mack H]

Get Smart

The Smart Gun Doesn’t Exist for the Dumbest Reasons [More]

I agree. 

Compliance Monitoring

FOIA Request Confirms Zero Standard Capacity Magazines Turned In to NJ State Police [More]

This is one reason some of us say "peaceable gun owners" instead of "law-abiding." I forget who I heard that from years ago, but it makes sense.

A Non-Solution

Dumping unvetted migrants into the cities of political foes was done by Obama first [More]

Since they'll still be in the country and free to disperse from there, what's the point of Trump doing it?

[Via Mack H]

Northern Exposure

A suspect is in custody after four people were shot and killed in Penticton, B.C., on Monday... [More]

But...but...but:

[Via Roger J]

Life Imitates Art

Hunt on for ‘hitman’ who posed as delivery guy, shot woman with crossbow [More]

Candygram.

Did he just violate the "one hand" law?

[Via Roger J]

Pathological

Victim disarmers will segregate gun owners from parks and public buildings, but these noncitizens, in the country illegally, who we know came from an area experiencing one of the worst ebola outbreaks in history (not the worst… yet), are not segregated from others. [More]

And they want to treat gun ownership like a public health issue.

Hell or High Water

PELOSI TAKES A CRACK AT OCASIO-CORTEZ: ‘THIS GLASS OF WATER WOULD WIN WITH A D NEXT TO ITS NAME’ [More]

Our diversity is their strength.

The Good Fight

Check out CBS’ “The Good Fight” tweeting an easter egg about assassinating President Trump… [More]

As noted before, Trump is an avatar for those who want to see his promised agenda enacted. If you're one of those, these people want you conflated with "Nazis" and then attacked.

We're the Only Ones Doubling Down Enough

Former officer arrested for animal sex abuse now charged with 31 counts of child porn [More]

In fairness, his dog should have known he would be unfaithful.

From a Friend of a Friend

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If what more and more are suspecting pans out, look for the lid on this to be clamped down tighter than the one on Las Vegas, lest the flames spread throughout Europe. This time set by those who have had enough...

I'm wondering if a whistleblower will come forward.

And There was War in Heaven

NRA Sues Ackerman McQueen, Mercury Group [More]

I have not verified but have heard that many of NRA's spokespeople are actually Ack-Mac employees -- Anybody have insights on that? If so, I wonder what this will do to their presence at the upcoming Indy group grope.

This could get ugly, with accusations and counter-accusations, and pulled threads unraveling Wayne-knows-what.

And me out of microwave popcorn.

Could Be...

Officials in Paris said the fire could be linked to restoration works... [More]

Whos fault is it that the first thought for many is to wonder if the official story is the true story, and if a subsequent headline will feature the phrase "claims credit for"?

UPDATE: Lovely people. The West needs more, n'est-ce pas?

A Method to Their Madness

The Supreme Court announced it was taking up the case in January. The city proposed the new policy change because it didn’t want the issue to come up in the Supreme Court case, officials said. [More]

Everybody sees what they're trying to do here, right?

[Via Alan Chwick]

UPDATE: The Ninth Circuit is reminded of the Young v Hawaii stay.

'Definitely Yes'

And remember, for "progressives," every day is Opposite Day. [Watch]

[Via  An Hour of Wolves]