Not Really Much on DIY, Are They?

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time. [More]

Ah, the old "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" conundrum...

I'll bet every one of them would curl their lip if you mentioned the word "militia" to them.

Take heart, fellas. Your trophy wives will be allowed to live.

[Via Florida Guy]

Principles of Convenience

SOCIALIST DARLING ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ CALLED FOR TAX CUTS WHEN SHE WAS RUNNING A BUSINESS, NOW WANTS TO RAISE TAXES TO FUND HER RADICAL AGENDA [More]

You didn't think Chequita was about anything but herself, did you? (And what's with all the spooky eye pics?)

Besides, once in power, they all seem to live in palaces.

[Via Jess]

No Irony Here

Abertay University professor and artist Joseph DeLappe is using Grand Theft Auto V in his latest digital art piece about gun violence in America.  [More]

Grand Theft Auto. Well alrighty then.

Hey, wasn't the fraud behind this a voice behind that?

Minimizing representation of certain areas and demographics and overrepresenting others produces a visual -- what's the word for it? -- lie.

Hey, how about one for Monopoly of Power violence around the world?

Doesn't Scotsman DeLappe have a British royal family to subject himself to or something?

[Via Roger J]

War Games

Life rarely follows scripts. [More]

The directors don't intend it to.

[Via Florida Guy]

We're the Only Ones Stripped Enough

Miami-Dade police is on the hook for legal bills after cops illegally seized a cache of guns — and nearly $20,000 in stripper cash. [More]

It's all about naked power.

[Via William T]

Running the Asylum

It allows a defendant suffering from a mental disorder to be granted pre-trial diversion and the charges later dismissed for any crime if a judge finds the disorder played a significant role in the crime and if a defendant has “substantially complied” with mental health treatment during the diversion period. In short, this new law allows diversion and the dismissal of charges for any crime, including those where a victim was killed or seriously injured. [More]

And naturally, if you run into one of our experiments, it's best you not be armed.

[Via Michael G]

Concrete Jungle

A proud graduate of the Damien "Football" Williams School of Entitled Mayhem shows the future generation how it's done... [More]

Maxine Waters was unavailable for comment.

[Via Florida Guy]

A Face Worth Losing

E! News editor embarrasses herself BADLY trying to ‘best’ Kyle Kashuv on gun violence [More]

She doesn't seem smart enough to be embarrassed.

A Stirring in the Robes

Portland protest leader Micah Rhodes avoids prison for sex abuse...Multnomah County Circuit Judge Jerry Hodson on Monday said he wouldnt send Rhodes to prison for two to 2 12 years because he believes Rhodes earnestly is trying to change despite the prosecution's arguments to the contrary. [More]

Give it a couple years.The same judge'll be sentencing Christian bakers for refusing to bake celebratory deflowering cakes.

[Via Michael G]

A Crime in New Jersey

NY Air Guardsman robbed in New Jersey, exchanges shots with suspect [More]

What's he still doing free?

The victim, I mean.

[Via Jess]

Captain's Log

• The bear necessities
• Down to business
• Gunrunning
• State secrets
• A right denied
• False righteousness

Alinsky Cuts Both Ways

[More]

[Via WRSA]

Working the Crowd

Organizers of pro-gun rallies across country lament low turnout [More]

For myriad reasons, that's not what the majority of the gun owner demographic does.

Years ago, before the Great Western Gun Show was forced out of California, I recall being disappointed over how it could attract over 40,000 gun owners--yet a counter-protest against the Million Moms only drew a few hundred RKBA activists.

It is what it is.

The antis bus people in. They have billionaire backers and a supportive media guaranteeing free advertising. They are collectivists and the mob is their tribe.

Organizing such events requires experienced professional oversight,

That just ain't us.

Focus on strengths.

And don't forget: We get thousands upon thousands at gun shows throughout the year, and 80,000+ at NRA conventions.

[Via several of you]

We're the Only Ones Rogue Enough

Expert says 'rogue' transmission on Chicago police radio channels was likely portion of Hitler speech [More]

Another reason to step up the scanner blocking...

[Via bondmen]

St-t-t-tarbucks...

D'you have a ni... a ni... a ni... uh  five cents? [More]

There's something about "progressive" corporations getting very publicly entangled in "social justice" infractions...

Minnie 'n Mel had the right idea.

We're the Only Ones on Track Enough

Deputy was rushing to 911 call when his car got stuck on tracks. Then came a train [More]

We had that happen to a couple teenagers a few years back in a nearby town.  The bureaucratic solution: Spending millions of dollars to build a bridge.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones for the Children Enough

Texas police officer investigated for pointing gun at young children on video [More]

Hey, if they didn't want their lives threatened, they should have minded their manners and watched their mouths.

Anybody else reminded of this?

A key piece of information seems missing. But what?

The officer...the officer...the officer...the officer...

And it's fair to wonder what Assistant City Manager Dionne Mack could muster up the judgment to "draw conclusions" over.

[Via Roger J]

A Public/Private Partnership

Manafort’s legal team paints the evidence as confirmation that journalists were given inside information about the investigation in violation of Justice Department policies and, perhaps, legal prohibitions on disclosure of grand jury secrets. [More]

Here are your talking points. Now go and spread the narrative.

State Response to FOIA Lawsuit Questions ATF Arms Export Criminality

Put another way, what did Hillary Clinton know and when did she know it? If the answer is she knew, then where are the authorizing documents and why was the ATF attaché to Mexico kept in the dark and told to “stand down” (see pg. 36 of Joint Staff Report) when he found out? If the answer is Clinton did not know and no such authorizing documents exist, why have charges not been filed against ATF officials as “principals” who “induced” or “willfully caused” offenses? [More]

More to the point: Why is no one in jail?

And yeah, I caught the "email" redundancy in the first sentence -- the mod will take it out shortly.

We're the Only Ones Frozen Enough

An armed, veteran police officer stood idle for several minutes last October as the Las Vegas gunman slaughtered dozens of concertgoers from a perch one floor up, and now that cop’s actions — and inaction — are being reviewed by the Metropolitan Police Department... [More]

Hey, all you second-guessers, did he make it home safely at the end of the shift or not?

The Democrat Economic Agenda

We want you to be poor, dependent and resentful. And to turn to us. [More]

That's not to say we can turn our back for one second on the Republican agenda.

Great Point!

That reality happens to be that the rate of spouse-abuse / domestic abuse is frighteningly high in the law-enforcement community. The same is true of anger issues and depression, including tendencies toward suicide…. you know…. those “red flag” behaviors…. [More]

Unintended consequences meet the best laid schemes. But don't tell Wyatt ERPO.

If I Could Only Ask One Question Here about This Story...

...and I have many -- including how it "secure[s] the Blessings of Liberty" to feed Lauren Branchini with tax plunder -- it would be: Why the hell is the accused named but his accuser is not? [More]

[Via Michael G]

Fools for Radicals

You're a privileged upper middle class millennial enamored of romanticized socialism after being brainwashed in a fabulously expensive college.  You're the least "radical" person there is. [More]

Riding that "Jenny from the Block" vibe, eh, Chequita...?

New York's newest Stalinista gets her incompetent ass handed to her on social media -- not that it will make a bit of difference with her useful idiot racist, cultist enablers.

[Via Jess]

And You Think YOUR Job is Bad...

Lions eat 'rhino poachers' on South African game reserve [More]

That's a real dilemma for "progressives." On the one hand, they want to celebrate maniacally.  On the other, whose lives matter...?

[Via Michael G]

Off Beam

China’s New Hand-Held Laser Rifle: Less Lethal or Less Believable? [More]

So this was "fake news"?

Some day.

In a time not that long ago, it would have required a room's worth of equipment to be capable of a fraction of the computing power contained in those phones we casually slip in our pockets. Yeah, I know, that's an apples-and-oranges analogy, but it's less flawed than some blowhard posing like he knows what the limits are on future possibilities.

The real concern is if such a development will warn:

LAW ENFORCEMENT/GOVERNMENT USE ONLY

[Via Florida Guy]  

The Do-Over

A state lawmaker is planning a do-over after a ribbon-cutting photo from the revitalized Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis included only white people. [More]

Who better to rule over us than such as these?

[Via bondmen]

A Liberal Firebrand

Former MSNBC host Ed Schultz dies at 64 [More]

I'll always remember him for this.

[Via bondmen]

It's Time to Play...

..."Who's the Bigger Lying, Flip-Flopping Piece of Crap?" [More]

[Via bondmen]

It's a Big Club and You Ain't In It

Days before trial, prosecutor seeks dismissal of charges against St. Clair County judge [More]

Haven't citizens been ruled felons for lying to authorities?

And speaking of a perversion of justice...

[Via bondmen]

♫ Reach Out, Reach Out and Touch Someone... ♫

 What The Pros Use – King of 2 Miles Edition [More]

What that competition needs are some outraged, screaming Hogglets and MILMs demanding to know why anyone needs such long-range murder machines, and accusing contestants of being racist yokels compensating for their inadequate endowment.

And maybe a "die-in"...

[Via Wynn A] 

Well Regulated

Received via "Comments":

Does the word "regulated" in the 2A mean as used today, to control or direct, or does it mean well equipped? I have been told that at the time of the writing of the Bill of Rights regulated meant well equipped.

Both. Others say precision-adjusted like a clock.

The Militia Act of 1792 specified required gear including:

...a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch, with a box therein, to contain not less than twenty four cartridges, suited to the bore of his musket or firelock, each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of power and ball; or with a good rifle, knapsack, shot-pouch, and power-horn, twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a power of powder... 

The Militia clauses in the Constitution calls "for organizing, arming, and disciplining ... and for governing."   Hamilton explains his understanding in Federalist 29.

My key takeaway:

“To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss...Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped…”

In other words, we are entitled to what even modern courts have recognized as "ordinary military equipment" that is "in common use at the time" and "that its use could contribute to the common defense."

Once they show up for militia duty, citizens are subject to discipline. But the equipment they keep and bear in everyday life is not what is "regulated" and, significantly, there is no delegated power to allow for an override of "shall not be infringed."

(I didn't post this as a reply in "Comments" because I require those to stay on the topic being offered for discussion. That and if it were buried beneath a post, it wouldn't get enough eyeballs to be worth the work. I'm happy to try to answer questions, so please use the contact form in the left sidebar.)

‘Totally Reasonable’ Gun-Grabber Police Chief Has Huge ‘But’

So what do the politically-appointed urban enforcers call “reasonable”? [More]

Another "I believe in the Second Amendment BUT..." oath-breaker.

We're the Only Ones Accomodating Enough

“Special Crimes detectives are releasing items when we can,” Swanton said. “We are even shipping things back to people, so we feel we are doing everything we can and we feel like we are bending over backward to accommodate people. [More]

Looks like they'll at least get something for their trouble. No, not that.

[Via Jake S]

Etched in Stone

The Confederate carving has become an issue in the governor's race. [More]

Cultural Stalinists are making it an issue using an old, familiar  tactic.

[Via Florida Guy]   

Set Phasers to 'Kill'

China brings Star Wars to life with ‘laser AK-47’ that can set fire to targets a kilometre away [More]

How soon until it's "ordinary military equipment" considered "in common use at the time"?

[Via Henry Bowman]

A Qualified Opinion

"But, most concerning is that he has thoughts of killing people, though I do not think he is dangerous. He said he did not want to tell me everything he was experiencing as I might have to report." [More]

Ol' Margaret ain't exactly the most insightful analyst, is she?

And it's "professionals" like her who can determine if you're too dangerous to have a gun.

No?

[Via cydl]

History...

...repeats itself... [More]

[Via Wynn A] 

The Shape of Things to Come

Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez said in an interview on the "Bill Press Show" that Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is "the future of the party." [More]

A lot of Old Guard "progressives" are going to find their usefulness is over, and they belong to the wrong demographic.

Also, more and more the masks will come off to reveal the seething Marxists concealed beneath them. And the danger will get even bigger.

[Via Jess]

We're the Only Ones for the Children Enough

Sicko Cop Gets NO JAIL After Admitting to Possession, Distribution of Horrific Images of Child Abuse [More]

This week's "Case from the Pedo-Files"...

[Via Henry Bowman]

The Next Line of Attack

Researcher investigates why insurance companies don't ask about gun ownership [More]

And you see where she's going with that.

[Via Roger J]

Same as the Old Boss?

Among some, however, there was an implication he could fit the mold of justices like Kennedy himself, who have, once confirmed to the Supreme Court, ruled further to the left than it was thought they would as they took their lifetime appointments. [More]

That would be unforgiveable.

[Via Felix B]

Will the Cage Match Be on Pay-per-View?

Leftist Stalks Kent State Gun Girl; Takes Photos & Threatens to Assault Her in Restaurant [More]

That "Darling" certainly seems to be a young lady with some hostility issues. My bet is the promised punch would not end well for her.

[Via Felix B]

So Much for a Strong Offense Being the Best Defense

When you go to the fight instead of the fight coming to you, it very rarely looks like self-defense to anybody. [More]

That's because we're not one of the "Only Ones" authorized to stop fleeing attackers and then claim standard department protocol.

[Via Michael G]

The Decision Stands

A federal judge in Nevada on Tuesday rejected prosecutors' request to reconsider her dismissal of the conspiracy case against Cliven Bundy, his two sons and Ryan Payne stemming from their 2014 armed standoff with federal agents over cattle grazing near Bunkerville. [More]

What truism did Mad Maxine just remind us of? My guess is the obsession with destroying these people will become consuming with some, if not through this then with something else.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Ill-Fated Enough

EXCLUSIVE: Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel To Be Removed Next Week [More]

Don't worry. LEOSA should keep him from being as defenseless as those he would disarm.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Domesticated Enough

Deputies in the southeast Kansas county arrested the Humboldt police chief last week after a domestic dispute. The LaHarpe police police chief was arrested three months earlier after she allegedly refused to allow deputies to arrest her husband, who had been a police chief in Texas before he was fired.

The Allen County Sheriff's Office included Brian C. Dillow's mug shot in a Sunday Facebook post of last week's arrests. It states that Dillow, 42, of Humboldt, was booked into the Allen County Jail on June 26 on suspicion of domestic battery and criminal damage to property. Dillow is listed as the chief of police on Humboldt's website. [More]

I'm wondering how they'd treat someone they don't purport to love...

[Via bondmen]

Surprise, Surprise

I won't be surprised to see the store cave even though I would be surprised if any of the 10,000 signatories had ever bought a gun at KTP. [More]

Left from Right

Brother of Slain Border Patrol Agent: Dems 'Don't Know Left From Right' With Calls to Abolish ICE [Watch]

Useful idiot supporters don't, that's for sure.

I sure wish Fox News commentators would drop the"botched gun sting" presumption.

[Via Greg K]

What Your Country Can Do for You

“When my mom, a farm worker, became a citizen, she wanted all nine of her kids to have the opportunity to go to college,” he said. “That was her vision for citizenship.” [More]

What do you think, Mr. Kennedy?

Anybody get a feel for how many gun owner votes were canceled out on Independence Day...?

Community Standards

I've been wondering how long it would be until someone started treating the Declaration of Independence as "hate speech." [More]

The "Facebook community standards" excuse reminds me of nothing so much as "ABC family values."

Mueller’s Reported NRA Tax Probe Should Widen Rift with Informed Gun Owners

What’s clear is that the self-proclaimed “Republican” is a creature of what is now being called the “Deep State.” His regard for the Constitution, and particularly for the Second Amendment, seems to be that they are inconveniences to be disregarded or obstacles to be gotten around. [More]

Everyone who thinks his loyalties are to the Constitution, have some more Kool-Aid...

Loose Canons

Most of the “news” media establishment deserves the same indictment for playing fast and loose with “canons of journalism” requiring “truthfulness, accuracy [and] impartiality.” [More]

"Authorized Journalists." Is it any wonder that we love them so?

UN Continues Push for Global Monopoly of Violence

Guterres’ absurd arrogance is hardly new. He’s merely the latest flunky for the evil, squirming globalist Philosopher Kings that would control all as if they were gods. [More]

Globalist despots and their bureaucratic lackeys don't want us armed. Whatever shall we do?

Firearms Friday Redux

ICYMI [Listen]

Once is Happenstance

Twice is coincidence. [More]

The third time it's enemy action.

Although I'm still trying to figure out how:

We're the Only Ones Misidentifying Enough

It’s not just anti-gun liberals who suffer from firearms ignorance, it’s also the police in Ramsay County, MN. A man was arrested and charged with 2 felonies for being in possession of short-barreled shotgun and a machine gun. The only problem for the prosecutor in this case is that the machine gun is just an ordinary semi-automatic rifle and the shotgun is actually a pistol. Even crazier, it took authorities almost 3 months to figure this out. [More]

Who do these "Only Ones" think they are, "Authorized Journalists"?

[Via Neil W]

We're the Only Ones Uninvolved Enough

According to court documents, when the victim confronted Bell with an audio recording of them talking about the sexual assault, Bell could be heard apologizing and asking her not to involve the police. [More]

I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've said exactly the same thing.

[Via Fed Up]

Third Time's a Charm

On Friday, she became the third accuser to testify before a ​Manhattan ​grand jury... [More]

So Harvey's got a spate...?

Once is happenstance...

[Via Roger J]

If You're in the Area

[Click to enlarge]

Some of you will recall who spoke there a few years back.

#WalkAway

Run. [More]

[Via Jeet]

We're the Only Ones Breaking Up Enough

University Cops SHOOT & KILL Licensed Navy Vet Breaking Up Fight [More]

Not having a uniform can be murder on you...

[Via Jeet]

Speaking of Giving a F---

Capital Gazette reporter to Trump: 'Thanks for your prayers, but I couldn't give a f--- about them if there's nothing else' [More]

What else?

Maryland citizen disarmament isn't enough?  It's gotta be national?  Will shotguns be next?

Come on, define "else."

What I couldn't give a f--- about is some useful idiot who demands I be reduced to their contemptible and disgraceful state of utter helplessness.

[Via bondmen]

Not Very Helpful

Now if he'd used an "assault weapon" and promoted RKBA on social media, like the gun-grabbers are desperately hoping for and ending up bitterly disappointed when it doesn't work out... [More]

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Skipping Out Enough

41-year-old Shawn Bouley, of Reeds Spring, was sentenced Friday after he admitted to fatally hitting 45-year-old Bradley Bizzle with his car on Jan. 22, 2017, and then fleeing the scene. [More]

Gotta hand it to the pros. Try as I might, I don't think I'll ever complete sufficient training to achieve that level of performance.

[Via bondmen]

A Worthy Goal

...gun control banned in 50 states...[More]

Jeffrey Toobin got so worked up there he popped his Rapex...

[Via Mack H]

Something in Common

What do so many mass shooters have in common? A hatred of women [More]

Kind of like those MILMs who demand women be defenseless?

[Via Mack H]

Speaking of Unprincipled...

Lines have to be drawn. [More]

What, like on maps, to denote borders...?

[Via Michael G]

Splitting the Vote

Hundreds Of Mexicans Living In California Cross The Border To Vote For Lopez Obrador [More]

How many of those have voted here? And why is it in the interests of "secur[ing] the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" to let communist foreign invaders back in?

[Via Michael G]

A Made-Up 'Controversy'

Some are now questioning the NRA’s motives behind attending the annual 4th of July parade. [More]

No one who's not a useful idiot or one of their string-pullers. They're not just against an armed citizenry, they're against gun owners' right to express their beliefs.

I see the Webster Groves "Only Ones" want to make sure they are. If so, what are they prepared to do to protect parade participants?

[Via bondmen]

Lowest Common Denominator for Highest Court in Land

It is understandable for the two parties to oppose each other's smartest nominees, but this comes at a cost.  [More]

I guess it depends upon the meaning of the word "smart" and what benefit is gained. Citing Bork as an example of what could have been, I wouldn't have had it any other way.

[Via Michael G]

The Royal Road

Oh Pissboy:

In Jordan, civilian possession of guns is regulated by law ... In Jordan, the right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by law... 

It's good to be the king!

[Via Steve S]

We're the Only Ones Persuasive Enough

Cops Arrested After Horrifying Video Showed Them Torture Teen in a Restraint Chair with a Taser [More]

That sounds as good a reason to release them without bail as any.

We're the Only Ones Unresponsive Enough

Leaked data reveals many police departments are unable to respond in an active shooter situation. [More]

So what could make more Opposite Day "progressive" sense than forbidding adults to be responsible for their own defense?

[Via William T]

Like a Backwards Funnel

There's a broadcast news analogy in there somewhere. [More]

[Via Michael G]

Advance Peace

Mayor Tubbs wants to solve the gun and gang problems the same way Democratic-Socialists always do—with a government check. The city of Stockton is considering issuing a check of up to $1,000/month to residents identified as “most likely to shoot somebody” under a program called “Advance Peace.” [More]

Wholly inadequate...

[Via Felix B]

'An Authentic Democracy'

Pledging to eradicate corruption and subdue drug cartels with a less confrontational approach... [More]

When has that not worked with people who behead their victims or hang them with chains from bridges?

Another wave of "refugees" in 3...2...1...

[Via Wynn A] 

Just Getting Warmed Up

Good.  Be as outrageous as you can. Replace and abandon the Old Guard and repel normal people. [More]

[Via Jess]

That Racist Boogie Man

The scariest kind are the ones that pretend to be benevolent. [More]

[Via Jeet]

Packing It In

Pack the Supreme Court! The latest rallying cry of #TheResistance [More]

Those who mean to rule are fine with whatever level of death it takes to do so as long as it's not theirs.

[Via Michael G]

The Faulty Premise of' 'Gun Control'

They have armed themselves by AK-103 assault rifles captured from security forces. [More]

It's so much more peaceful when everybody knows everybody is armed and behaves themselves accordingly.

[Via Michael G]

One-Punch Man

Nicely done. [Watch]

So much for "real men."

[Via Florida Guy]   

Settled Law

Texas Governor: ‘Gun Control Debate was Settled in 1791’ [More]

So what the hell is this?

Governor?

Making the Other 1% Look Bad

In his resignation letter, Berry conceded that his tweet taints the good work of fair-minded journalists everywhere. [More]

Ha! Good one.

14 Words

If true, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" is Nazi code. [More]

A Revealing Admission

Steyer: Maybe We Can Have a ‘Nuclear War’ to Provide a ‘Real Course Correction’ to Trump [More]

Make no mistake, he believes that preferable.

At the core of every "progressive" is a genocidal maniac who will not be disobeyed.

Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer

"This incident is not a representation of our community..." [More]

I'll say. And which community would that be?

Anyone who can't be trusted with a knife...

[Via Jess]

UPDATE:  Oh look. The domestic enemies blame Trump.

[Via Michael G]

All in How You Phrase It

Portland Police declared a riot Saturday after tensions between the right-wing Patriot Prayer group and local anti-fascist activists came to a head and broke out in violence. [More]

"Tensions broke out" is a curious way to describe criminal thugs attacking Americans whose views they want shut down by force. And just because they call themselves "anti-facist activists" makes it no more true than if pederasts described themselves as "child education specialists."

It's almost like The Oregonian has favorites.

We're the Only Ones Conveniently Malfunctioning Enough

Five police officers were at the scene of a fatal shooting. All five were wearing body cameras. And miraculously, none of the five captured usable footage from the shooting on their body cameras. [More]

Hey, if you weren't doing anything wrong there wouldn't be anything to record.

[Via Henry Bowman]

There's Nothing Like a Wounded Animal

Hey, she said it. [More]

Roseanne would have gotten fired again.

Still, someone ought to call her on plagiarism.