Friday, August 24, 2018

Just Don't Forget that With Money Comes Strings

Education Department Seriously Considering Funding for Armed Teachers in Schools [More]
It seems partially consistent with ARTICLE I, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 16, but why just teachers?

Hell, just getting out of the way of those choosing to exercise their rights would be an improvement.

[Via Michael G]

Stare Indecisis

District and Circuit court judges are supposed to follow Supreme Court precedent... [More]
Where does it say that? What if previous decisions flew in the face of "shall not be infringed"?

So "precedent" can never be altered? Or does that depend on whose agenda takes ... uh ... precedence?

And what's wrong with asking relevant questions in a job interview?

[Via Michael G]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

'That's what happens when you bring ACID!': Shocking moment 'vigilantes' beat man with a bat then pour milk on him while he cowers on London street after 'spotting he had corrosive liquid [More]
So there's a use for droogs after all? Aside from educating "progressives"?

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Uninterested Enough

His parents tried to report him missing. KC police said no. He was soon found killed [More]
But if it's any consolation, they say they "feel awful for the family’s loss.”

[Via bondmen]

We're the Proto-Only Ones Stiffed Enough

“He wanted to be a cop and I guess that’s the closest thing he could get at the moment," Wright's sister said. [More]
The jokes just write themselves.

[Via bondmen]

Taking the Hard Way

18-year-old’s arrest could be key to solving recent gun store burglary [More]
Wouldn't it be easier to just seize inventory and shut stores down?

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Alleged Enough

“They assigned a Deputy to investigate the allegation and within an hour, that Deputy was also implicated in the allegation,” the sheriff’s office said. [More]
So what the hell is the allegation?

[Via bondmen]

Half of the Equation

How E-Verify and immigration enforcement can prevent more murders [More]
Not that this has anything to do with that "single issue."

Create the problem, ban the solution. Ingenious.

[Via Mack H]

Wrong Thinking Will Be Punished

David Horowitz: Visa, Mastercard Cut Off Payments to My Think Tank Based on SPLC ‘Hate Group’ Label [More]
See, this is the way Opposite Day "progressives" counter manipulation.

[Via Mack H]

The Choice is Yours

If you’re cool with Americans being butchered by illegal aliens, this November you should vote Democrat. [More]
Or for a Groverian swamp elephant...

[Via Mack H]

It's Academic

Northeastern Prof Warns: Male Military Veterans ‘Reinforce Hegemonic Masculinity,’ Sexism [More]
At least she's not f***ing trees.

Y'know, if I'd gotten scammed into taking out a student loan to engorge these fraudulent parasites that wouldn't get paid off until I was 40, I'd probably be ready to tear the system down myself.

[Via Michael G]

Yep, It's Those Short Skirts, Alright

Swedish State TV: 58 Percent of Those Convicted of Rape Foreign Born [More]
Now what percentage of the population are they?

And why the xenophobic hostility to religion?

[Via Michael G]

Blame the Victim

Fowler stressed that the agency was not trying to force the shop owner out of business, but warns the path to reopening could be a lengthy one. [More]
If they can't afford an indefinite shuttering, maybe they ought to find another line of work. Besides, if they didn' want to be raped, they shouldn't have worn such  short damned skirts.

[Via Jess]

Like a Doll's Eyes

...Yovino smirked just a few feet away. [The reporter also observed her “rolling her eyes” as he delivered his victim-impact statement.] [More]
"...those black eyes roll over white, and then..."

I say ram an air tank in her mouth and break out the M1-Garand.*

[Via Michael G]

*

You Are What You Eat

The latest probiotic drink: a baby poo smoothie [More]
Now that's "progressive science"!

Would you like flies with that?

Lost in Translation

Confessing to a knife attack on a 24-year-old German woman, a Muslim immigrant insisted his violent act was justified by Islam. [More]
Let's ask the "Vote Freedom First President" what he thinks:


A Gathering of Keepers*

Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy - Reps from up to a dozen of the US's biggest tech companies plan to meet in San Francisco to discuss efforts to counter manipulation of their platforms. [More]
*

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Back to Basics


Basics of Resistance, that is. [More]

T.L. Davis shares some thoughts.

The Front Hole Monologues

New safe sex guide says medical term ‘vagina’ could trigger trans people, replaces with ‘front hole’ [More]
Yes, "frunts" seems more than appropriate.

I'm still waiting for a special government contracts consideration claim to be made.

Giffords’ Veterans Tour a Chance to Challenge Participants on Their Oaths


Just because someone served, or in their cases, enjoyed rewarding careers where they have made even more lucrative connections, doesn’t mean they either understood their oath or meant it when they swore to it. The Veterans Coalition elites clearly would issue orders to disarm the American people, and it looks like the Veterans Tour opportunists would gladly carry those orders out. [More]
Standing army elites wants the militia to disarm. Whatever shall we do?

An Incomplete Purge

Meanwhile — as of this writing — Amazon is still selling... [More]
Here's something more in line with Team Bezos values, as they would still be selling it but for an uproar they decided it would be best not to ignore.

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

Two Aurora police officers have been suspended for their role in prematurely leaking body camera footage of Denver Mayor Michael's Hancock's son using a gay slur and threatening an officer. [More]
So they get punished and all sonny-boy has to do is mumble something insincere about being sorry and then go back to being an over-privileged elitist thug?

According to Plan

Internet platforms and anti-gun bias ... It is as if these companies now have a playbook. [More]
In anti-trust law, they call that "collusion" and "restraint of trade."

And funny, how when it's to their advantage "progressives" pull out the "digital town hall" argument. Like what they're doing isn't intended to influence public perceptions, voting patterns and the law.

Note the cited article comes from Gun Rodeo. It looks like they're not only a place where you can hook up to buy or sell, but they also offer a variety of other services including for websites, a gun shop locator, information, giveaways, and all kinds of stuff. It looks like a good resource.

That said, I just found out about these people and haven't had a chance to give their site more than a cursory once-over -- so if you want to know more about them go on over and see for yourself. If you do, let us know what you think in comments, below.

No Explanation Needed

Neither study was a controlled experiment designed to prove what specific factors might be influencing declines in health or life expectancy in the U.S. and other countries. [More]
Otherwise, people might be inclined to look deeper than some lost soul OD'd and Grannie got the flu.

We Demand You Kill Yourself!

Youth activists in Massachusetts are telling the gun manufacturer to stop making military-style rifles and to fund gun violence research. [More]
Or what? They're not gonna be customers?

[Via Roger J]

Risky Business

Douglas Haig indicted for illegally manufacturing ammunition without license [More]
If you're going to do things out in the open you need to follow the rules. We've seen time and again people we might not think are doing anything wrong getting into a world of hurt, especially with agencies looking for scapegoats to redirect scrutiny.

[Via Jess]

That Girl

MSNBC Guest Dismisses Mollie Tibbetts as Some ‘Girl in Iowa’ ‘Fox News Is Talking About’ [More]
I take it by his silence Kristol Meth agreed.

I wonder what Greer would say if a Fox News guest dismissed Michael Brown as some "boy in Missouri" MSNBC is talking about?

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE - Besides, Elizabeth Warren cautions we must not let this make us lose sight about the plight of the invaders.

[Via Michael G]

Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse


Especially if you're a "professional." [More

Still, why should we expect any better from the lower levels than we do from the top tiers of all three branches?

[Via Michael G]

Use of Force

A teaching assistant at the University of Utah tried to create a “Second Amendment zone” in a classroom, forcing students who legally carry to stand in a tiny, taped-off area with no desk during class. [More]
"Forcing"?

First of all, how did he know? And no one refused and took the seat of his choice? No one made a deal of it then and there, dared him to enforce it and put in an immediate call to the administration ... in front of the class and on speakerphone?

And what's the douchebag's name?

[Via Mack H]

Close Enough for Government Work

Rivera provided a state-issued government ID and social security number when applying for employment. The information is required to file a Form I-9, which verifies the identity and employment eligibility of a person in the U.S. [More]
Rigorous...

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE -- Good commentary here:
Mollie Tibbetts was killed so that somebody in Iowa could have cheap labor, and she was killed so that the Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the rest of the Washington – Wall Street – Silicon Valley Axis could hit this quarter’s earnings target, and most shamefully, she was killed so that virtue signaling liberal politicians could get reelected and because their bootlickers in the media and their urban elite supporters in the gated communities and the security-doored co-ops and condos feel superior to her, and the other victims like her, and don’t think their lives are worth protecting.

A Continuation of the Original Rebellion

Socialism as a hate crime [More]
I'd say "hate" isn't a strong enough word.

[Via Michael G]

The Enemy Within

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., is putting his weight behind an amendment being pushed by the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee that seeks to prevent President Trump from revoking security clearances in political retribution. [More]
Funny -- he wasn't calling for that back when Obama was doing it.

[Via Felix B]

Hedging His Bets

Lindsey Graham: ‘Too early to tell’ whether Trump could be impeached [More]

But Swamp Fox here is doing what he can to bring that about without blowback to himself.  I'll bet he's already got an inner circle-tested statement drafted.

[Via Felix B]

Java Jive

"I swung by today to say hi one last time and kid around with friends like old times”... [More]
So, what are you guys gonna do now that you have plenty of time on your hands?

That's quite some Opposite Day "progressive" living wage! I see Marxist influence on the economy is having its predictable effect.

The pathetic thing is, most of them probably don't get it and greeted her supportively. I'd bet not one dressed her down.

She's been taking a lot of hits in the media, including by Old Guard Dems not ready to hand over the reins (they'll be clutching them in their cold, dead hands).

Look at where she's running. Who thinks this guy stands a snowball's chance? Unless she does something that makes a continued public presence impossible, she's gonna win big time, and that'll be all the signal the impatient "youthful" upstarts need to step up the internecine attacks.

[Via Jess]

We're the Only Ones Jaw-Dropping Enough Redux

Officer Adam Feaman is accused of beating a man with a flashlight, and breaking the man’s jaw when that man confronted the officer about towing his car. [More]
One more and we'll have ourselves a spate.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Fauxnly Ones Lovestruck / We're the Only Ones Gullible Enough

Woman posed as out-of-state deputy to help boyfriend escape jail, officials say [More]
And the dopes fell for it.

Meaning if "trained professionals" can't tell the difference, how can you be expected to? Be aware of The Fauxnly Ones Files on the off chance you might need to ask that question to legally defend yourself some day.

[Via bondmen]

The Best Argument for a Blue Wave

Why Gabby Giffords Just Endorsed 2 Republicans in New Jersey [More]
Why would any gun owner that believes in the right to keep and bear arms vote for either?  It doesn't matter if the Democrat opponents will be really REALLY bad. If you reward betrayal with support, the message the Republican Party will take away from it is they can get away with it at will.

And talk about a weasel-wording, narrative-parroting poltroon:
“I’m a strong believer in the Second Amendment,” said Mr. Lance. “And those who believe in the Second Amendment, by and large, overwhelmingly favor common sense laws in this regard, and I do not believe the two are mutually exclusive.”
Don't be a guncuck. The enemy within can be the more dangerous. If you're in either of their districts, sit these two out. Reject Leonard Lance and Chris Smith. And tell both your friends and the GOP why.

That is, unless you were planning on obeying terms of surrender...

All in the Family

Son of Osama bin Laden marries daughter of 9/11 hijacker [More]
There's a joke in here somewhere.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

South of the Border, Down Mexico Way

Mexican authorities seized 50 AK-47 rifles, 6,500 ammunition rounds, a jeweled handgun, tactical gear, and cash hidden inside a tractor-trailer headed for southern Mexico. [More]
If they're semi-autos, it would be interesting to see if there's a Fast and Furious tie-in. If they're real AKs they're automatics, meaning they're being obtained from sources other than within the U.S. That would further demonstrate the fraud that our "lax gun laws" are what cartels take advantage of in order to arm up, and that the entire premise behind walking guns was a damnable and premeditated  lie.

Most of the guns are coming up the same way all those "refugees" the Mexican government is trying to flood us with (in violation of their own immigration laws) do.

Remember this?

How about this?

Some of us do, but not enough.

Some of us are still demanding answers.

But not enough.

[Via Wynn A

A Right Denied

En Banc Rehearing Petition Refused by Second Circuit in NYC Gravity Knife Lawsuit [More]
The institutions of tyranny will never cede power unless there's a credible "or else" attached to a demand.

[Via radiomaan]

And If You Act Now...



Limited time discount's ending soon, Arizona gun owners... [More]

The Bottom Line

...it’s time to shine at least as bright a spotlight on corporate gun control as the one that illuminates governmental gun restrictions... [More]
It's past time to do that and more. And some of us, the ones that are for the most part ignored and obscure, have been calling the corporations out for years.

[Via Mack H]

Democrats Lose Potential Voter

Illegal Alien Charged with First Degree Murder of Mollie Tibbetts [More]
Ah well, plenty more where he came from.

[Via Wynn A

We're the Only Ones Jaw-Dropping Enough

Lawsuit: State trooper slammed Hampton man to ground, shattering his jaw [More]
Awful tough to keep your chin up under those circumstances...

[Via Mack H]

Windows to the Soul



The eyes have it.

Just sayin'...

[Via Jess]

He's Suffered Enough

House Dems’ ‘IT aide’ Imran Awan gets off with no jail time in federal bank fraud case [More]
So there's no pressure to turn on his higher ups? Meanwhile, Mueller going all scorched earth squeezes Manafort and Cohen to serve up Trump?

Foreign-born Obama appointee Judge Tanya Chutkan is the same one who "granted class-action status to all pregnant illegal immigrant teens who came to the U.S. as unaccompanied alien children (UAC) and imposed a nationwide policy that the government make them aware they can have abortions, and requiring facilitation by government officials," which I guess had an unintended "birthright citrizenship" consequence.

She also sides with terrorists, although I've got to place much of the blame for that on the subversive practice of allowing "dual citizenship" and the self-destructive practice of making war without declaration.

[Via Michael G]

In the Beginning

The most corrupt G-man in American history getting his start in the most corrupt outpost of the squalid agency — it makes perfect sense. [More]
Forgive me for wondering if "ignorant Walmart hillbillies" smell better than Peter and Lisa.

[Via Dave Licht]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

National Crime Agency investigators have discovered what they believe to be a sophisticated gun factory on an industrial estate in Hailsham, East Sussex. [More]
You can't stop the signal.And what's that line from Jurassic Park?

And we ain't seen nothin' yet.

[Via Wynn A

Speaking of System Failures

Love admitted to killing Peppers, his ex-girlfriend, inside his home last August. Authorities later ruled that the shooting was self-defense. A protection order banned Love from possessing weapons. However, system failures kept Love from being charged with violating a protective order. [More]
Let me get this straight: She broke into his home and was found with a hammer in her hand...?

[Via bondmen]

It's Academic

Professors Lawsuit Against Campus Carry Rejected by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals [More]
We should encourage them to stick with their principles and quit in outrage.  That'll show us.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Scientific Enough

He also shared that 'it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why shootings continue to be a problem in Chicago... it's ridiculous'  [More]
Speakingof ridiculous, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out blocking the freeway and marching arm-in-arm with Snuffy guarantees the problem in Chicago will continue.

[Via bondmen]

The Three Gs

If Chicago’s Democrats were serious about solving their gun violence problem the three Gs they’d address are: guys, God, and guns. [More]
But they're not.

What they're serious about is power, and keeping things messed up works to their advantage.

Besides, when Rahm suggested "the power of what faith and family can do [helps] to develop and nurture character, self-respect, a value system and a moral compass," he was accused of being a victim-blaming racist.

[Via bondmen]

A Race to Watch

In July, Clinton held a fundraiser in New York for Lucy McBath, who became a “mothers of the movement” gun control activist... [More]
This race will be a good issue traction indicator.

Last year's special runoff  was close enough so that a high profile and moneyed effort could flip things.

Handel's past NRA endorsement will be juxtaposed against the concealed carry permit holder who killed McBath's son. Add the sympathy and outrage factor and this one is dicey.

Without a Trace


Dean Weingarten shows us a whole lotta hysteria going on about the way things are and have been. [More]

We're the Only Ones Reduced Enough

Drunk NJ cop who killed friend to get prison time reduced [More]
With friends like these... and hasn't he suffered enough?

New Jersey-- where they don't trust you to carry a gun because you're just not trained and reliable enough.

[Via Sons of Reagan]

I Don't Want My MTV


Oh look: The One Percent with armed security
want the masses disarmed. How very egalitarian
in an Opposite Day "progressive" kind'a way.
Help make their voting turnout as lame as their ratings.
For the second straight year, the MTV Video Music Awards drew its smallest audience ever. [More]
Yeah, well, like you subversive lottery winners say, "Suck it." And F*ck you all.

Between "stars" dressing like demonic whores and Madonna's self-absorbed Winnie Mandela appropriation, it's hardly any wonder that ratings were even lower than last year, when the show barely edged out Rick and Morty.

And that's  encouraging, because MTV has always been a shill for a decadent totalitarian monopoly of violence, and this year was no different. Figuring the aging "Rock the Vote" needs a supplemental effort to appeal to millennials, they're trying to get "young people to guilt their friends into voting." And they're specifically citing "political activism among young people, catalyzed by the shooting in Parkland, Florida earlier this year, which drove students into the streets in record numbers during the March For Our Lives."

Look at how they intend to do that with +1 the Vote. Look at the information they are tricking the safe-spacers into providing them on "friends," basically getting their privacy-eradicating data collection done for them for free. Would you still have anything to do with someone who volunteered your name, edress, phone number and meat space address to the One Percent billionaires at Viacom? Especially when they flat out admit:
"Don’t worry - we won’t tell them you searched them..."?
Creep, snitch AND be sneaky about it? With friends? And the need for that assurance means you know you're doing them wrong?

If you have any voting age young people within your sphere of influence, give them a friendly warning about what's going on.

And suck it, Sumner Redstone, Thomas J. May and Robert Bakish. F*ck you all.

Take Me Out to the Baal Game

Muslims Hold Massive Rally at Vikings USBank Stadium — Chanting “Allahu Akbar” [More]
What, no protestors taking a knee...?

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Gun-Grabber Charged with Murder Reminiscent of Others


Yes, these are anecdotal, but there’s something to be said for the supposition that these misfits are projecting. They know they can’t be trusted with a gun so they presume you can’t be either. Otherwise, that would mean the problem was not with your rights but within them. [More]
Just the Democrat politician to help enact citizen disarmament edicts…

A Nation of Immigrants

The media narrative today is that America has become “xenophobic” and is turning its back on new immigrants. But that narrative is sharply contradicted by the fact that the United States maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. In this week’s new video, CRTV host and best-selling author Michelle Malkin explains how ill-conceived immigration policies threaten to destroy the American Dream for everyone. [View]
Not for the Democrats -- at least until the Old Guard has outlived its usefulness...

[Via Darkfyre]\

Just Like in China

FACEBOOK is rating users based on how "trustworthy" it thinks they are. Users receive a score on a scale from zero to one that determines if they have a good or bad reputation – but it's completely hidden. [More]
How is that not potentially actionable defamation and restraint of trade that someone will have no way of even knowing about let alone appealing/fighting?

Those Who Can't

Members of the @BrowardTeachers union were making fun of my son @PollackHunter’s head on Facebook... [More]
I remember the names of fewer than a dozen "teachers" and most of those memories are negative. Most were incompetent bullies and jerks.

The ones I remember fondly were the rare exception. One was Mr. Yowell, a Kentuckian teaching at the Community School in Tehran, who on my 10th birthday gave me two paperbacks, one by Twain and the other by Steinbeck.

[Via Michael G]

Anybody Know All the Words to 'Kill the Boer'?

South Africa Calls for 300,000 Gun Owners to Turn Over Their Weapons [More]
This came out a few months ago -- here's another writeup that helps explain the "legal" situation. For now, enforcement in mass has not started.

Give it time.

And if you have time, here's a bit more history.

[Via Keith B]

The New 'Deplorables'

Ralph Peters: Trump Supporters Are ‘Couch Potato Anarchists’ [More]
I guess he skipped basic Sun Tzu.

And good one, reminding everyone about his oath to the Constitution. For "progressives," every day is Opposite Day.

[Via Geordan]

Wrong for Power

Steve Sisolak, Wrong for Nevada Governor [More]
Because of Clark County and the service unions, it'll be close. If you're a Nevada gun owner, you need to understand that the last gun-grab measure "won" by less than 1% because of Vegas interests, so anyone claiming their participation can't make a difference is just making excuses.

UPDATE-- Speaking of which:
A Nevada District Court decided Monday to toss out a lawsuit brought by the proponents of Nevada’s Background Check Act, also known as Question 1. 
First they don't know how to write a law and now they don't know how to mount a legal challenge. Keep spending Bloomberg's money.

[Via Don Turner]

We're the Only Ones Entangling Enough

Check Out This New Police Tech That Allows Cops To Lasso Crooks Spiderman-Style [More]
Can I buy one?

Evidently not:

[Via Florida Guy]   

Yesterday's Paradigm

Please contact your legislator and urge a NO vote – and do it now!  Click here to find who represents you in the Senate or the Assembly and make sure your voice is heard! [More]
If your rep is a safe district gun-grabber, why?

And has anyone asking you to do this ever even so much as hinted at a major reason why California politicians are increasingly immune to gun owner concerns?

[Via Felix B]

The Company They Keep


[Read]
Enquiring minds want to know.

[Via Jess]

Curses, Foiled Again!

"I was fighting for my life, and that’s what the whole point of having a concealed weapons permit and having a firearm is — to solely defend your life, because I thought he was going to take mine,” she said. [More]
and
A Portland woman fended off an attacker last month by pulling a concealed handgun from her purse, prompting him to flee, records show. [More]
Shannon Watts reacts to the news:


[Via William T]

Faulty 'Reasoning'

I will confess that I have historically not been a fan of the armed teacher idea the NRA pushes after ever shooting. My reasoning is straightforward: these shootings are a such a statistical rarity that schools shouldn’t be going to great lengths to prep for them. And if that prep involves arming up school staff across the country, then the number of negligent discharges (or firearms left unattended) will go up, and the negative press will blow back on gun rights. [More]
First of all, NRA has never come out in full recognition of the uninfringed right of the people -- including teachers -- to keep and bear arms. Matter of fact, historically, they've discouraged it.

Second, thanks for advancing an Everytown hand-wringing scareative that just ain't the case.

Good grief. School fires are a statistical rarity too. Care to extend the analogy?

It's useful to know Pinellas County's top "OnlyOne" is less neurotic about such things than the Fudds are. So is knowing that stunted capacity magazines were used.

[Via Jeet]

Cases in Points


[Via Steve T

Connect the Dots



I will not have time to thoroughly vet this, but the claims all seem researchable so I pass it on for your information and independent verification efforts. [More]

[Via Tristan M]

Point/Counterpoint

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the federal lawsuit filed Friday alleges that Mansur Ball-Bey was unarmed in August 2015 when he was shot in the back as he ran... The officers told investigators that Mansur Ball-Bey brandished a gun as he fled after police served a warrant at a home. [More]
Beats me who to believe, and that in itself says much about the state of things.

[Via bondmen]

Blame Canada

The arms landscape in Canada has been shifting in recent years. Government figures showed 223 homicides by firearm in 2016, which was the highest number since 2005, the original “summer of the gun” when gang violence flared as it has this summer...There are also simply more guns today. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the number of lawfully registered restricted weapons, predominantly handguns, rose from 660,000 to 840,000 between 2013 and 2016. [More]
Who besides the Cukier among them thinks guns in the hands of the peaceable are the problem? That makes much less sense than blaming Canada.

[Via bondmen]

Amazing Grace

Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a law that allows Firearm Owners Identification cards to stay active even if Illinois State Police renewal isn’t completed by their expiration date. [More]
Thank you, Master!

[Via bondmen]

A Mugged Liberal

You know that line about knocking sense into a person? You cannot with Welch. He still sides with the fascists who bloodied him.[More]
That's why they call them "useful idiots."

[Via Michael G]

Condition White

Woman stalks elderly victim before stealing her wallet [More]
I see thoughtless women doing this all the time. It's no coincidence that their demographic is for the most part clueless about other defensive options and thus receptive to the message from those that would ban them.

With Friends Like These

It’s a beautiful day, and Pearl Jam’s social media comment sections are up in arms because the band’s latest concert poster features an illustration of the White House engulfed in flames as a bald eagle strips flesh from the flaxen-haired carcass of Donald Trump. The alt-rock vets shared the poster from last Monday night’s (August 13) show in Missoula, Montana, which doubled as a get-out-the-vote event supporting the reelection of Montana’s Democratic Senator Jon Tester.  [More]
What, you mean the "Legislator of the Year"...?

My Name is Legion, for We Are Many

"We all have our demons," Danielle said. She smiles at the memory of him. [More]
I believe you, lady.

Anybody got a herd of swine handy?

We're the Only Ones with a Bad Rap Enough

According to a probable cause affidavit, Clay Moses was arrested by of Boynton Beach police late Saturday after cops say he flaunted the stolen weapons on Instagram Live. Officials said he waved the customized gun in the air as he danced and rapped to music. [More]
I guess what I'm most curious about from what this story doesn't say are the deputy's working hours.

[Via Roger J]

Security Theater of the Absurd

A man made it through Austin Bergstrom International Airport with a loaded gun after it was missed by a Transportation Security Administration security officer. [More]
On the bright side, at least Mom isn't going to hurt anybody.

There's a Dogcatcher Joke in Here Somewhere

Chelsea Clinton says she has not ruled out running for office [More]
Don't you just love strong women of achievement?

Better Late than Never

Israel eases gun controls following lone-wolf attacks [More]
Maybe they learned something by observing good goys with guns.

A Weapon of War

Why the 114-year-old Lee-Enfield rifle is only now being retired by the Canadian Armed Forces - Once shouldered by nearly 50 armies, Canada becomes the last military in the world to remove it from front-line service [More]
Wait... Rifles developed for the military with the sole purpose of killing as many people as possible are "on our streets"???

[Via Steve T