If We Must Die

Claude McKay's collectivist leanings notwithstanding (which he ended up disappointed with, converting to Catholicism toward the end of his life), there is still truth inspiring to freedom fighters in this work:

If We Must Die

If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Of course, all things considered, it may not be as romantic and poetic, but there is a preferred alternative...

This Day in History: October 18

My Lord: To avoid unnecessary Discussions and Delays, I shall at Once, in Answer to your Lordships Letter of Yesterday,declare the general Basis upon which a Definitive Treaty and Capitulation must take place. [More]

Divergent views emerging on ATF gun trust rulemaking

In a related development, Gun Rights Examiner has learned that the National Firearms Act Trade and Collectors Association recently posted their petition that started this process. Previously, they had only posted an overview of their request. [More]

This evening’s Gun Rights Examiner column notes that collected comments, as opposed to collector comments, can be two very different things.

It's Not the Gun

It's the person. [Watch]

A-yup.

And this is the most right-on bit of common sense I've heard in a long time:

...If I ran a large corporation, I would make personal protection training a part of coming into work...

Compare that to what these gasbags insist on.

I'd add that I'd encourage people be armed, have an on-premises range, host and subsidize after-hours training sessions and  come up with perks for personnel who obtained basic and advanced certifications.

We'd also have one hell of a company picnic.

Revolvers are Obsolete?

HPS says you might want to rethink that. [More]

One size does not fit all.

We're the Only Ones Whistleplugging Enough

In Furious Mike Paradise, naturally... [More]

[Via Florida Guy]

Brady LoonFest '13

[More]

We're the Only Ones Not Passing the Smell Test Enough

Police smell meth, raid home, kill 80-year-old man, find no meth [More] 

This guy Steve Whitmore is a real piece of...work.

Damn Lax American Gun Laws....

...it adds to the toll of lives taken with weapons trafficked by suspects U.S. officials watched but did not stop. [More]

Ah yes, more fallout from Project Bombwalker...

Say, maybe if we required border gun stores to report multiple sales of grenades and IEDs...

DOD ‘authorized leakers’ directive bodes ill for whistleblowers

Pointing out parallels and equivalence between “authorized leakers” and “Authorized Journalists” hardly seems unfounded. Extrapolating the same principle, it’s easy to envision Dianne Feinstein demanding special protections for “real leakers,” and Joe Biden envisioning how “legitimate news leakers" can help the administration advance its goals. [More] 

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes the new protocol for getting government‘s OK to ta…uh…make a leak.

Minority Report

From the files of the Department of Pre-Crime... [Watch]

Hey, if you never intend to do anything "wrong" by breaking any laws, including those that haven't even been written yet, you've got nothing to worry about.

[Via Florida Guy]

Does Not Fit the Narrative

I don't get it. I mean, Violence Policy Center calls 'em "Concealed Carry Killers," and has done Google searches and everything to come up with a handful of anecdotes over the years... [More]

Freezing Your Assets off

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided on Wednesday on whether criminal defendants can challenge a court's decision to freeze their assets before trial. [More]

What kind of idiot thinks we're supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty?

Besides, no one cares about this, as the ongoing ordeal of the Reese family demonstrates. I prove that every time I publish an update about them and watch readership plummet after begging readers to share what no one else will report on, and maybe kick a couple bucks their way.  But I keep doing it anyway, because I'm stupid or something.

[Via Mama Liberty]

No Big Deal

Was it good for you? [More]

Hey what do you expect? It's Yale.

Lux et veritas!

EXACTLY!

Representative Aaron Schock of Illinois said the lesson of the episode was that Boehner should cut out the far-right flank and work with centrist Democrats. [More]

J**** C*****, where do they get these f****** idiots?

A Question for the "Enforce Existing Gun Laws" Crowd

So when this passes, that sentiment will apply here, too? [More]

A Message for Nigel

Some Brit from the UN presumes to condemn "Stand Your Ground" as a human rights violation, but is frustrated by those bloody rebellious tea-partying colonists. [More]

I say, Nigel, old bean, do try to enforce your demands, there's a good chap.  And Happy Up Yours at Yorktown Day!

[Via Florida Guy]

This Day in History: October 17

[More]

Excuse for firing clerk over gun defense reeks of corporate double-talk

“At Nouria Energy, our employees are our most cherished assets,” they unctuously proclaim on their website home page. “Their safety and the safety of our customers is priority number one.” 

Somehow, the immortal line spoken by John Vernon in “The Outlaw Josey Wales” comes to mind. [More]

This afternoon’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes gutless corporate management sure makes those gas station stores convenient – for predators.

Supreme Court gun case decisions highlight uncertainty of outcomes

Why the court rejected the Woollard case, and what they will ultimately decide in Abramski remain unknown. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes a court that understands full well where power grows from.

The Mothers of Invention

Kurt looks at some of those mothers and their stupid invention... [More]

Have You Done This Yet?

And/or have you told people about it? [More]

Illegitimi Non Carborundum

I don't have an hour-and-a-half to watch this right now, so can't endorse it from personal experience. I'm trusting based on my source that it will prove worth the time investment. [Watch]

[Via bondmen]

Good Samaritan

American Trigger Sports Network presents "Stop the Threat":

In this week's crime reenactment: In an age where there are often too few good samaritans, becoming one costs one man his life.

Hosted by James B. Towle with Special Guests: Wes Doss, Kathy Jackson, Rob Pincus

Watch on the PURSUIT Channel!
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You can also catch past "Stop the Threat" episodes and other programs on ATSNtv's You Tube channel.

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Deserving of Neither

More disturbing than the predictable push to eliminate privacy rights is the public’s utter acquiescence in the face of the growing police state. [More]

Liberty nor safety, that is.

[Via Florida Guy]

Occam's Razor

If a power is not listed, then the federal government does NOT have that power. [More]

At least not lawfully and morally.  But practically, they have whatever power over us we allow them to assume.

We're the Only Ones Insulted Enough

Well, I never...[More]

Welcome to the party, pals.

Support Grows for U.N. Arms Treaty?

Not from anybody who matters, it doesn't. [More]

We're the Only Ones Fingered Enough

Police Director Michael Mordaga has called for a national fingerprinting system to screen gun buyers...[More]

Here's mine, you stupid fascist. Guess which one it is? 

We're the Only Ones Just Joking Enough

Justice Department officials said the photo was included as a joke and that they were unaware it was viewed as offensive by agents. [More]

What's the matter, can't you take a joke?

Jeez, some people have absolutely no sense of humor.

Defeat Garden

Oh, I see, Michelle's garden "fell victim." Dysfunctional rot at the White House can't be  blamed on its caretakers.  [More]

Ed makes an excellent point. Seeing as how she has no Constitutional duties, how many dishes has the First Housewife washed since the administration began furloughing "non-essential workers"? How many toilets has she scrubbed?

At least we know what's "essential".

This Day in History: October 16

On October 16, Cornwalis made a desperate attempt to break out by sending some of his troops across the bay in small boats. A gale-force wind, however, scuttled that plan. [More]

Bloomberg tied to German move to occupy New Jersey ‘smart gun’ market

As for the company’s move to terminate ownership of non-disabled guns in New Jersey and then branch outward to the rest of the Republic, Stephen Teret from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, who has been working on “smart gun” technology for 30 years, was happy to weigh in. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes shrewd profiteers behind the “smart gun” conspiracy. 

Moms Press Staples for a Gun Ban

Just when you thought it was safe to buy office supplies, a small group of misguided moms is demanding that peaceful and law-abiding gun owners render themselves defenseless before they peruse the aisles for toner cartridges and mechanical pencils. “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America,” or more accurately, “Moms Demand Gun Bans,” is insisting that the office supply chain, Staples, post its stores against the legal carry of firearms. [More]

That's part of the Bloomberg network, of course.  So naturally they describe themselves as a "grassroots movement," which makes me think of nothing so much as what  there's plenty of at the local dog park...

In re Staples, remind 'em of this and the 40 stores they closed earlier this year, and ask if they'd really like to staple things shut with gun owners.

Honor Guards Needed

Apply within. [More]

The Truth About British Crime Rates

Joanne Eisen, Paul Gallant, Alan J. Chwick & Sherry Gallant note the numbers don't add up. [More]

Orders We Will Not Obey

Sure looks like it... [More]

[Via Florida Guy]

We're the Only Ones Winging it Wildly Enough

An off-duty Richland County sheriff's deputy is in hot water after allegedly assaulting a woman, handcuffing her and slamming her head into a table at a Columbia restaurant on Monday. [More]

So naturally, Sheriff Leon says his boy was well within his powers.

He was, too. Look where this happened. Who could resist?

[Via bondmen]

Don't Shoot the Order-Follow...er...

...uh...messengers. [More]

I was thinking ... with no visitors, that means no pic-a-nic baskets, meaning Yogi's gonna start getting mighty hungry, and that Smith character always was an annoying petty tyrant who is starting to look...

Two from NRA

• Feel Safe: I totally agree with what Colion Noir is saying--I've made similar observations myself over the years.  But whoever put the caption beneath the video didn't do him any favors by implying rights must be specifically included in the Constitution in order to be valid.
• The Third Century: Meet some new faces.

‘That’s Probably Why You Don’t Have As Many Viewers’

Exactly. [More]

We know what he did to Larry Pratt--did you see what he said about John Lott?

Every time "our" guys go on this insulting media pig's show, his ratings go up.  So stop going. It's not like his regular viewers have minds to change.

[Via Michael G]

Oh Snap Part Deux

Here's my contribution to WRSA's quest to authenticate:

Also, Andrea Shea King just called for a cleanup in aisle 17...

This could all develop into quite the interesting convergence of reaction-driven opportunities...

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

Well, he does fight a never-ending battle for lies, injustice and the unAmerican way... [More]

This Day in History: October 15

The Whigs suffered practically no casualties but the Loyalists had sixteen killed and about fifty wounded. [More]

Plan in Vermont is to 'inch forward' on guns in spite of state law

“So, this is a way to inch things forward on the gun control issue,” she observed. “You go to one of Vermont's most liberal municipalities and you get a tiny bit, then maybe you inch forward." [More]

This afternoon’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes the way you eat an elephant is one bite at a time.

Tear Down Those Walls

Oath Keepers notes DC Barrycades being swept aside... [More]

We're the Only Ones Dancin' in the Streets Enough

Welcome to Bloomberg's Idiocracy. What a moronic sow. [More]

Why should any whole person feel compelled to submit to this moral and mental defective?

A Low-Tech Counter-Measure

I'm thinking a gallon of gasoline could prove a significant deterrent here.  That or a big net. Or... [More]

[Via Florida Guy]

We're the Only Ones Adding Insult to Injury Enough

White's gun went off when she put it into her purse after getting off duty. Horn Lake detectives say the gun may have fallen out of her purse in the parking lot where she was injured. [More]

I can't tell you how many times that's happened to women I know.

[Via Steve A]

Oh SNAP

“You don’t want children going hungry tonight because of stupidity,” she said. [More]

"Whose stupidity?" might be a fair question to ask.

Quite the eye-opener, eh?  How close we are to mass desperation, and all that it implies.

And it certainly did reveal a weak link, the physical location of which could provide all kinds of opportunities to those who would benefit from prolonged chaos.

Or Give Me Death Panels

In a rational world, Chris Muir would be syndicated in every major newspaper in the country. [More]

Of course, if this were a rational world, he'd need to find something else to focus on.

See that "support dbd" button in the upper right corner of his site?  I'll bet it's not just there to add graphic balance.

Anyone?

Bueller? [More]

Are they really that restrictive?  It seems nuts to have to even ask, but with what's been going on over there, the whole situation is nuts anyway.

I can't tell from this.

Armed American Radio Redux

From host Mark Walters:

Crime victim Buddy Simpson, Carol Craighead from Crossbreed Holsters, Neil McCabe-AAR’s Washington Editor, journalist Tom Skoch, retired SEAL Matt Bracken, David Codrea, emails and more as Mark welcomes new listeners in Altoona PA, Elmira NY, Corning NY, Avon Park FL, Lynchburg VA, Myrtle Beach SC, and Georgetown SC!

• AAR 10-13-2013 Hour 3
• AAR 10-13-2013 Hour 2
• AAR 10-13-2013 Hour 1

We're the Only Ones Riding the Gravy Train Enough

The Sun Sentinel obtained city payroll data and found a dozen undercover narcotics officers since 2010 have collectively earned $1.2 million in overtime. A sergeant who has run the stings collected more than $240,000 in overtime during that three-and-a-half year period. [More]

And that's just what we know about.

So they're luring dangerous criminals into their towns?  In other words, to keep the trough full, they're actually endangering people in the areas they're being payed to ... what are they being paid to do again?

[Via William T]

We're the Only Ones Defensive Enough

What about you? Ha! [More]

This "officer" would happily arrest you.

[Via William T]

Can't We All Get Along?

The trio mixed with a gun show crowd that was mostly welcoming [More]

And the organizer gave them a guided tour? And some actually applauded? 

No wonder New York is such a mess. 

[Via bondmen]

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/13/4550646/giffords-to-attend-1st-gun-show.html#storylink=cpy

"The Sensible Choice"

You know, a ban. [More]

Because we said so.

So there.

What do we actually know about them?

What does that have to do with it?

Simply Unacceptable!

How dare they try to share the truth with us, of all people, especially on a day that marks our past rejection of it...? [More]

Selective "Reporting"

It's what the "legitimate news media" does. [More]

What else would we expect? It's Slate.

[Via Michael G]

Increasingly Desperate New York Republicans

Boy, I'll say. [More]

How about "No"?

Note to stool sample Establishment RINOs: Get with the program -- out of principle or basic survival instinct -- or feel our pain.

Author Bracken offers free ‘bleeding-edge dystopian thrillers' downloads

From October 14 through 17, readers can download the first book in the series, “Enemies Foreign and Domestic.” The second novel, “Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista,” will be offered from October 21 through 24, and the final installment, “Foreign Enemies and Traitors,” will be offered from October 28 through 31. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes reading is fundamental, especially when the material is written by someone who understands the dynamics involved.

Scrambling for Cover

There are many others out there, too, like Mike Vanderbough [sic] and David Codrea who broke the story on the Project Gunwalker scandal. What are the chances they’ll be covered? [More]

I guess that depends on whether we're referring to government approval or fill dirt, seeing as how we're traitors 'n all...

If You Can't Trust a UN Messenger of Peace, Who Can You Trust?

Michael Douglas lied? [More]

A candle in the wind always did kind of flicker every which way.


Stupid trees!

A Capital Crime

Remember when Obama postured like he wanted everyone to tone down the rhetoric?

He just meant for his thinly-veiled accusation to shut the opposition up while the media portrays him as the voice of tolerant moderation and reason.

Here's his senior adviser throwing out words like "economic traitors" against those who oppose his policies. 

Ace of Spades reminds us who else used that terminology.

And Kurt constantly reminds us of another group that throws out such terminology.

Follow that to its end point.

This is why ceding an inch of ground to these people is a fatally flawed approach. Of course they'll take it.  And then they'll "lean forward" for more.

I...I'm Only a Dolphin, Ma'am...

Was does CSGV insisting they no longer wish to ban handguns remind me of this old SNL skit?

This Day in History: October 14

I have the honor to render you an account of the corps under my command in your attack of last night, upon the redoubt on the left of the enemy’s lines. [More]

Ooop--screwed up and had to change the title date--see, the Hamilton entry was for the 15th, but he was writing about what happened the day before, on the 14th... Anybody wants his money back, fill out a refund slip.

Tonight on Armed American Radio

Mark Walters will be joined in-studio by Buddy Simpson, the subject of one of the case stories he and Rob Pincus wrote about in their new book "Lessons from Unarmed America."

Joining Mark later in the first hour will be Carol Craighead of CrossBreed Holsters. Neil W. McCabe of Human Events/ Guns & Patriots will be coming on in the second hour, and I'll be calling in for Hour Three, as will pro-gun journalist Tom Skoch.

The program broadcasts from 8 to 11 p.m. Eastern. Click here to find a station near you or to listen via live streaming.  You can also watch the studio feed hosted by producer Sean "Seanto" Young at IRF News.

UPDATE: Matt Bracken will call in at 10:30 to tell how you can download his EFAD trilogy for free.

New Boston ATF head’s Fast and Furious ties raise questions

Someone might also ask new ATF Director B. Todd Jones if a plum assignment is what he means by holding personnel involved in Fast and Furious accountable. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner exclusive report asks questions literally no one else is asking.  Why do you think that is, and will you join in demanding answers?

The First Amendment According to Park Rangers

As I approached the top of the steps, one of the three (!) guards told me to leave. I mentioned the First Amendment exception, and that freedom of assembly seems to be part of that. He advised me that the area to assemble is only down below the monument, not at the monument itself. Somehow I missed that exception to that particular amendment. So I proceeded to read the First Amendment, loudly, for the audience below. [More]

Is it any wonder we all love government enforcers so?

Connecticut gun group shows Gov. Malloy does not understand law he signed

This is not the first time an anti-gun politician has proven to be clueless about edicts they would impose on gun owners under force of punitive law. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes ignorance-based fear is at the heart of all bigotry.

Gov. Brown Issues Temporary Stay of Execution

Good news for now. But to paraphrase the last governor, they'll be back. [More]

[Via Geordan]

Workman tells us hunters weren't so lucky.

We're the Only Ones Putting Guns ON the Streets Enough

Unsecured and in plain view on the back seat? [More]

Really?

[Via Jeffrey M]

On the Water & In the Air Redux

My discussion yesterday about the UN Arms Trade Treaty and more with Lynn Jurrens and Jeff Anderson on South Dakota's KSDR 1480 is now archived online. [Listen]

More Than One Way to Skin a Database

I’m not trying to be insulting, but any database that doesn’t have the input, guidance, formatting and QA to ensure its fidelity from the civilian population doesn’t stand a chance of being anything other than a joke.  That’s why the progressives want it codified into law. [More]

Like the NFRTR?

My own belief is some 4473 copying is probably going on for specific LE investigative purposes, but that's not an efficient way of getting around the law.  Since the government has oversight and monitoring on banking, I would not be surprised if credit card transactions and even signed checks for gun and ammo purchases were able to be sorted out of the mix--I'd actually be surprised if that is NOT happening, and I'd like to see some oversight inquiries made.  Since it would not be ATF doing it, I don't see how Congressional funding restrictions would be applicable, but I'd still like to have that investigated.

And while we're at it, why not compile in all those permit records? 

We're the Only Ones Confirming the Stereotypes Enough

Among those clocked was a trooper who got off the interstate and traveled 80 mph en route to a Dunkin’ Donuts. [More]

You cannot make this stuff up.

[Via Portly Pirate]

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/10/4379379/nc-highway-patrol-responds-to.html#storylink=cpy

Caught in the Act

Tonight on ATSNtv's "Stop the Threat"... [Details]

Damned If You're Wearing the Tinfoil Hat...

...damned if you're not. [More]

License to Kill

Oh, it's the Toledo Blade again... [More]

Y'know, until gun owners in that area get active and organize to take concrete steps to hit 'em where they hurt, I can't get too worked up about whatever subversive lies they publish.

As an aside, look at the comment by some idiot from the University of Toledo, who claims "the law is turned on its head places the burden of proof on the state and the party claiming does not even have to bring it up in a court of law."

Why am I reminded of Brian's question to Peter?

[Via Neil W]

Close the Fudd Loophole!

For all who have been inclined to throw the EBR guys under the bus... [More]

Let's see, the "Only One's" partner was killed by a criminal who bought his long gun illegally--yeah, this'll certainly stop that.

And as for those "four Republicans," does anyone know who they are, so we can make sure this follows them around for the rest of their political careers, which, if most gun owners would simply get off their apathetic rear ends, could be over the very next time they throw their hats in the ring?

Jesse? Al? Eric?

Oh, sorry.  Wrong dynamic in play here.  Never mind. [More]


Thank goodness we know it couldn't have been a "hate crime."

[Via Florida Guy]

If You Think Mike Was Furious BEFORE...

I love it.  Put him on the defensive for a change. [More]

Any Chair in a Bar Fight, Guys

You're making a mistake. [More]

You may find you need 'em some day.

Especially since they're doing more than your own guy did, albeit he apparently had problems of his own...

Ain't it something though: The same ATF that denied "outside employment" for Dodson approved it for this guy.

There is Nothing Wrong with Your Television Set. Do Not Attempt to Adjust the Picture.

We are controlling transmission. [More]

It's an old technique, really...

Although sometimes, there's blowback.

We're the Only Ones Life-Saving Enough

Protocol, you know. [More]

There was just no other way.

This Day in History: October 11

General Washington ordered work to begin on a second parallel which brought the Americans within several hundred yards of the British lines. [More]

An Unwarranted Response?

No, sir, it was not. [More]

I merely emulated what you did, and did it in an extreme cartoon way to emphasize how unfair that is to those having their reputations called into question without evidence-based probable cause. There were no serious accusations in my post, thus no actual flames being thrown at the spelling bee, and an honest reading will bear that out.

That's the reason I made a special point of asking the question "See how easy that was?"

Elitist rocker Vedder can afford to disparage gun rights

“Nevertheless, it's an interesting profile of Vedder, whose house, according to Rolling Stone, is patrolled by two bodyguards ‘who check out even the Domino's Pizza boy who delivers Vedder's weekly small pepperoni and sausage pie,’” an actual news account reported. [More]

This afternoon’s Gun Rights Examiner build-up to a bumper sticker slogan notes Pearl Jam concerts have something in common with Ted Kennedy’s car.

Burlington agrees to fulfill document request from gun rights group

Rusten’s agreement to comply with the document request marks an incremental victory for the gun rights group, which enjoyed another concession when the Burlington Council agreed to remove a ban on what it calls “assault weapons and high capacity magazines” from its proposed citizen disarmament measure. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes the common reaction of predators hesitating and slinking off when they suddenly realize they’ve taken on something capable of trampling them.

Don't Make Them Angry

You won't like them when they're angry. [More]

A Staunch Conservative

“I’m a staunch conservative,” he told CNN. [More]

Sure you are, meathead.

We're the Only Ones Permanently Retired Enough

Investigators said they are trying to determine why a retired police officer fired up to two dozen shots at a federal courthouse in West Virginia on Wednesday before officers returned fire and killed him. [More]

Maybe he got caught stealing... I mean, making a mistake...?

Hey, at least it's nice to see validation for retired Only Ones nationwide gun perks!  Notice how many of those guys have demanded the same thing for the rest of us, now that they've got theirs?

[Via several of you]

We're the Only Ones Mistaken Enough

"Again, it was a mistake, and it won't happen again," Provost said. [More]

Which example would you not classify as a mistake?

• I was adding this column of numbers and forgot to carry over to the next column. 
• I  read the label wrong and set the oven at 350 instead of 375.
• I deliberately and with premeditation stole. Again and again.

What a shining example of the "Only Ones" entitled mentality, right down to cheesy excuse-making for a total, self-serving lack of ethics. He's just sorry he got caught.

Is anyone in authoritah curious why someone with 30 years under his belt would think that was something he could get away with, and with enough confidence to do it again and again?

Make no mistake: As long as the penalty is a comparative slap on the wrist and he still gets to stuff his snout in the retirement trough every month, others will be taking note.

Yeah, just move on.

[Via Florida Guy]

Perpetual Condition White

Like cattle in a chute... [More]

[Via Florida Guy]

OTISburg...?

It's amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving. [More]

For some reason, this woman reminds me of that Lex Luthor quote from the first Superman movie.

[Via Florida Guy]

Goodbye Columbus

The case against the smuggling ring raised new issues stemming from a recent trial against a retired educator and left other questions lingering, including the extent of the connections between the Columbus defendants the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Operation Fast and Furious. [More]

Isn't it funny -- peculiar funny, not "Ha ha" funny -- how no one seems interested in the lingering question of:

“What triggered the decision for the Columbus smuggling crew to send at least some of their straw purchasers all the way to the small Chaparral store instead of one of the largest gun stores in the state right up the road?”

But I guess you can't let anything helpful to the Reese family become a matter of official record...

Do You Suffer from Crippling Hoplophobia?

I don’t like guns. I don’t want to be around them. I perceive their presence as an imminent threat to my well-being. I understand that some gun-nuts see them as a basic right of self-defense, or as just a basic right. I see them as assertion of a non-existent right to use deadly force — to kill me or anyone else — at any and all times. I now find myself considering whether I must avoid any and all establishments where they are not specifically banned. [More]

Uh...Tingwald...? Is that yours?  Care to pick it up, clean the floor and secure the damn thing next time?

[Via Michael G]

Personally, I'd Rather Have a Burglar in My House

Thanks guys. You've been  a great help. [More]

Constitution 101: Part 3

Clause 1 is basically a preamble to the Enumerated Powers that immediately follow and in itself does not grant Congress any additional powers. [More]

The ones Chris is talking about are essentially promulgating the same misreading I've heard from useful idiots arguing for citizen disarmament based on the "general welfare" clause. In the case of a politician, though, my default belief is he knows exactly what he's doing, and he doesn't need schooling so much as he does a bucket of hot tar, feathers and a rail.

On the Water, In the Air

That's the name of a radio program on South Dakota's KSDR 1480 hosted by Jeff Anderson and Lynn D. Jurrens.  I'll be joining them momentarily to talk about the UN Arms Trade Treaty.

This Day in History: October 10

I doubt not that England might be Supplied with Masts from America, if america is not upon her Guard to prevent it. Masts may be cleared out, from America, to France, Spain Holland or elsewhere, and go to the W. I. Islands, Hallifax, Bermudas. But the most probable Artifice would be to fall in with B. Cruisers by Agreement in certain Latitudes, and be taken. All this can be concerted easily( between a British Minister and an american Traiter. A fine Cargo of Masts from america was lately carried into Bermudas, and enabled those Islanders, immediately to fit for Sea a Number of Privateers. British Navigation publick and private in every Part of the World, is at this moment in great distress for Masts. If the Exportation from America is not wholly stopped, they will obtain Some supply from thence. [More]