A 73-year-old Bladensburg woman is jailed without bond after she allegedly used a brick to murder her 82-year-old neighbor early Sunday morning. [More]And it was an assault brick, with no legitimate mortaring purposes.
[Via Wynn A]
Monday, September 09, 2019
When Brick's are Outlawed
[Via Wynn A]
Talk about No Legitimate Sporting Purpose
The Citadel of Hate
Smearing an entire town of 13,000 people on the basis of their proximity to this one guy is irresponsible, and by engaging in such smear tactics, the SPLC is arguably creating hate where it would not otherwise exist. [More]Who would argue except a subversive liar trying to do exactly that?
[Via Michael G]
Once More Unto the Breach Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise
Sergeant Jack Pritchard from Bedworth Police Station said: “I have no doubt that removing these items from the circulation has made our streets safer. [More]A little doubt is a good thing, Jack. It helps keep people from being certain you're completely balmy.
That said, "Sam J"/Twitchy and most comment posters seem unaware of a very real "Life will find a way" phenomenon.
[Via Michael G]
It's Academic
Stanford law professor John Donohue claims to have discovered evidence that the 1994 federal ban on so-called assault weapons "really did work," because mass shootings and the deaths caused by them declined while the law was in effect, then rose afterward. But the methodology Donohue used is suspiciously selective, and his results do not show what he thinks they do. [More]Did he factor in the "costs" of confiscation?
[Via Mack H]
A Nation of Snitches
From the Same Mob That Wants You Declared Unfit to Own a Gun
Trump's mental decline is perfectly clear for those with eyes to see and ears to hear [More]Who would have a more qualified diagnosis for The Hill to offer its megaphone to than a Democrat apparatchik with a BA in Public Policy?
You'd think with all the 25th Amendment chatter directed his way that the president would know better than to stump for due process-free disabilities.
[Via Mack H]
A Sure as Shooting Political Ploy
GOP Official Wants To Stop ‘Gun-Grabber’ Mark Kelly ‘Dead In His Tracks’ [More]Quick everybody! Let's feign outrage over a common idiom!
[Via Mack H]
Et Tu Rand?
Betrayal Has Consequences?
Campaign says new gun control measures may pose political problem for Trump [More]You don't say.
[Via Michael G]
Today's Five-Minute Activism
It's Good to Be the King
RURAL KING SAYS IT WILL 'STAND IN SUPPORT OF AMERICANS AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT' AS OTHER RETAILERS CHANGE GUN POLICIES [More]Got one near you...?
[Via Michael G]
Those Kooky Conspiracy Theorists and Their... Evidence
“The models… show that the only way to replicate the observed collapse is to simulate the failure of every column at nearly the same time”... [More]Well, you know what that means.
It's time for some good old-fashioned Akinsky Rule 5 Ridicule.
I mean, what kind of tinfoil hat nutjob wouldn't trust the government?
[Via Jess]
I Thought the Acceptable Term was 'Undocumented'...
Developing: Alleged West Texas Shooter Illegally Purchased Illegally Manufactured Firearm [More]That last bit threw me off because I didn't see it fleshed out, but what it means is it looks like an unlicensed supplier was making guns with the intent to sell.
Kind of like the way things were before "mass shootings"...
[Via Jess]
Help Wanted, Inquire Within
This week on Labor Day, www.USGunJobs.com was launched to meet the unserved market for firearms industry employers to publicize their openings in a like-minded community of industry candidates. [More]Here's the site.
As a caveat, I can't offer a knowledge-based testimonial -- they emailed me their press release, which I'm passing on to you. With that understanding, it looks like a useful service and I prefer giving the benefit of the doubt when potential new friends introduce themselves.
So Pen the Bull Instead of Cutting His Horns Off and Turning Him Loose?
It makes no sense to let people who are known to be seriously mentally ill and believed to be dangerous go without treatment, even if they have had their weapons taken away. It’s not compassionate. And it can be dangerous. [More]A-yup.
That could raise probable cause and civil liberties requirements to a whole 'nother level. But what's the mechanism for the vast majority of the perpetually violent who don't submit their transfers to NICS?
[Via Michael G]
The Root of the Problem
You People are CRAZY!
... a strong voice for gun violence prevention. [More]You know, an arbiter of your fitness to own a gun...
Well, they got the "strong voice" part right.
[Via Jeffersonian]
The Rest of Us will be Focusing on Freedom
Want an assault weapons ban that works? Focus on ballistics. [More]And if you don't want one and Jüdischer Ordungsdienstkapo Julius's masters force it anyway?
[Via Jess]
He Did It! He Missed the Barn!
The fact that we live in a post-genocidal society oftentimes that was orchestrated by the United States government in that if we want to talk about mass shootings, we need to recognize the massive number of indigenous mass shootings that was conducted by the United States government. [More]And the only effective counter for targeted victims of that would be...?
Good thing it's "post" and could never, ever happen again, especially with all the tolerance for Heritage Americans being promoted these days.
[Via bondmen]
We're the Only Ones Covering Up Enough
We're the Only Ones Pumped Up Enough
We're the Only Ones Playful Enough
Officer Alix died in January after being shot. Hendren claimed they were playing with a gun and that he accidentally shot Alix in the chest. Another on-duty officer was also in the apartment on Dover in south St. Louis. [More]That must be the "professional" difference because I've never considered myself highly trained and skilled enough to try something like that.
[Via bondmen]
Deliberate Indifference
This adapted excerpt, based on never-before-released educational records of the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, shows the Broward County school district knew full well about his obsession with guns and murder — and then let him practice shooting at school. [More]Tell me David Hogg hadn't shown repeated signs of obsessions of his own.
[Via Michael G]
The Bear Whisperer
‘You don’t have to do this:’ Prince George man tells black bear as it tries to drown him [More]I once said something very similar to a bear, with one significant difference.
We're the Only Ones Career-Enhancing Enough
A New Jersey police chief has been accused of offering a promotion to an officer in exchange for sex with the officer’s wife and daughter... [More]While it's important to keep the word "alleged" in mind, what's a certainty is that between accuser and accused, one of them is a ruthless liar with a badge and a gun in a state where "civilian" carry is discouraged by "law."
So Much for Staying in Their Lane
Reporters picked up on the difference and called the 'doctoring' of the map 'Sharpiegate'. [More]That's not the job of "reporters." That the job of snarky, overtly partisan opinion writers.
That's the Old Pepper!
After the recent mass shooting tragedies, there couldn’t be a better time to unite and embrace the bipartisan legacy left by leaders like Pepper, O’Neill, Dole and Grassley. [More]Recommended by someone who had no cognitive dissonance serving as "a White House spokesperson during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations," and that ought to tell us all we need to know -- about him and them.
A Leopard Doesn't Change Its Spots
A well-known Trump supporter turned Elizabeth Warren backer on Friday admitted that he was "really an idiot" to think that Donald Trump would be a good president. [More]He's still an idiot. And most likely made phony Trump support "well-known" (I never heard of him, have you?) just to ultimately set up a media stunt like this. That would also make him a liar, then and now, right alongside the FakeNewsweek propagandists.
A Working Class Hero is Something to Be
Actress Jane Fonda, 81, canvassed door-to-door in Scranton, Pennsylvania on August 4 to speak to local voters in the swing state. She went door-knocking with Working America, a political non-union workers' group that canvasses to persuade voters to support labor-backed candidates. [More]Life imitates art:
The Howl of the Wolf Movie: "Presenting honest stories of working people as told by rich Hollywood stars".Sing it, John.
Where Sanctuary isn't Just Offered to People
Is a Dark Ages disease the new American plague threat? [More]Thanks, vote-breeding Democrats! Thanks, cheap labor Republicans!
Friday, September 06, 2019
Someone's Gotta Do It!
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he will defy NRA, take lead on gun background checks - ‘Someone in the Republican Party has to take the lead on this,’ Patrick said, of requiring checks when strangers sell to strangers. [More]That's some "lengthy and proven record" he's bragging about.
Waking Up Too Late
“There’s a lot of apathy and smugness and laziness here on the Republican side that’s got to be reversed or there will be a shock to the system at some point..." [More]Probably not until they're in the tumbrils.
And the demographic changes aren't just from nest-foulers fleeing "liberal states."
I could swear I just heard Sam Houston, Jim Bowie and David Crockett say "F*** it."
[Via Mack H]
A Reminder for Walmart
Just When I was Starting to Feel Besieged on All Sides...
...this came over the email transom:
...and let me know that our leaders have it all under control, and we can all get back to the more self-indulgent pursuits that make lives of ease so fulfilling and worthwhile. Who says they're not relevant anymore?
Yeah, baby!
I need a drink.
The Poster Boy for Bad Precedent
Federal agents interviewed Mr. Dhingra’s mother on Aug. 16. She said that he had schizophrenia and that he had been committed to a mental health facility 14 years ago. [More]Just great. So this low-hanging fruit basically handed our heroes guaranteed court confirmation, even though this looks to be really more an issue of custodianship than anything else.
There is one significant concession in the way The Times weasel-worded this:
Interest in bump stocks surged after the mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas in October 2017. The gunman had a dozen rifles outfitted with bump stocks and killed 58 people and wounded hundreds of others.They never outright said those bump stocks were used in the killings.
Because they can't.
How Do You Say 'Bellwether' in Spanish?
Virginia is a ‘bellwether’ on gun control. Here’s how things have changed [More]Not one word about the obvious.
Who do these guys think they are? Saviors?
[Via Mack H]
Because It's the Natural Thing to Do
Why Ted Cruz was making a biblical case for gun rights after the Odessa shooting [More]That used to be preached from pulpits:
"He that suffers his life to be taken from him by one who has no authority for that purpose, when he might preserve it by defense, incurs the Guilt of self murder since God has enjoined him to seek the continuance of his life, and Nature itself teaches every creature to defend itself."[Via Mack H]
Personally, I Prefer 'Domestic Enemies'
Our elected leaders need to call out antifa for what they are: a hate group. [More]Yeah, who do those "anarchists" think they are, accusing everybody they hate of being fascists? The San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
What a diseased upbringing Jon Crowley must have had. I do wonder what he'd actually dare say to a man one-on-one, with no mask and no witnesses.
[Via Michael G]
Hiding what Happened
Rather than man up and take the lead on admitting they were wrong, the Bloombergian cowards are like morally-undeveloped children hoping no one will notice, or if they do, they can shift the blame. [More]
I recognize it because I recall doing something similar in principle -- when I was six.
[Via Michael G]
The Red/Green New Deal
Bernie Sanders Says Abortion Will Help Fight Climate Change [More]What about moving Third World populations with higher birth rates to areas where more energy consumption opportunities are available?
[Via Mack H]
Their Gal in the Gun Rights Camp
Sadly, not only does the Heritage Foundation appear not to have analyzed those bills, this recent paper appears to be nothing but a recitation of Bloomberg/Gifford’s talking points. [More]But...but...but lipstick...
Go away, Amy Swearer.
[Via Mack H]
You Will Be Assimilated
Or not. [More]
Sure can't tell from the way they vote.
Fortunately, our Saviors tell us this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
Assuming It's Really About 'Background Checks'
“The president expressed interest in getting a result, so conversations will continue to see if there’s a way to create a reasonable background check proposal, along with other ideas,” a White House official said. [More]Well, if all they want is to make sure no one on the list can "legally" buy a gun, anyone advocating that who would reject BIDS immediately outs himself as a liar with a hidden agenda.
[Via Felix B]
Trouble in Paradise
They Did It! They Missed the Barn!
Outcomes Guaranteed
The reason for that bias is that political leanings of academic criminologists are liberal. Liberal criminologists outnumber their conservative counterparts by a ratio of 30-to-1. [More]If the object is to create a crisis that government can present itself as the solution for, who better to seek policy guidance from?
[Via bondmen]
We're the Only Ones Psychotic Enough
The letter accuses leadership at the FAMS and the TSA of “gross mismanagement” and describes “an unprecedented number of psychotic episodes suffered by air marshals, to include a recent murder suicide.” [More]Say, gang, I've got a swell idea! Give them all guns and put them on airplanes!
[Via bondmen]
We're the Only Ones Botching Enough
The Harris County District Attorney's Office has dismissed 27 criminal cases and is in the process of reviewing 14,000 other convictions related to the officers charged in the botched Harding Street raid. [More]Inigo raises a point of order...
[Via bondmen]
'It's Almost as if They're Trying to Condition People to Hate Guns'
"Almost"?
I see a clip from Magnum PC.
Who's the moron stage prop parroting what he has to know is BS at 3:39 (which makes him a person of zero integrity)?
5 Fast Facts
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani has been identified as the American Airlines mechanic who admitted to tampering with a plane’s navigation system before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport. [More]There's one other fact I'd like to ask about, assuming entertaining the thought doesn't paint me as a hater...
[Via Florida Guy]
There's an App for That
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Virtue Bellowing
I'm sure if you ID'd "Billy from Austin," what you'd find out about him would surprise no one. [More]
A Machiavelli quote seems appropriate here.
[H/T Wirecutter]
'Take the Guns First'
“Rather than find clear and convincing evidence, [courts are] basically saying, ‘Better safe than sorry,’” Parris said. [More]None of which addresses a hard truth that is ignored at everyone's mortal peril.
Unintended Consequences?
So Can We Assume Plenty of Penis Comparison Experience?
Now there's an original thought.Geraldo Rivera says that AR-15 owners have ‘small penises’ [More]
That must not be what he surreptitiously carried on foreign assignment, but what about his "two guards with five guns between them"...?
Still, in fairness, if we can't trust a man whose own five wives couldn't trust him, not to mention the interns, who can we trust?
And it's nice to see ol' horse-fa ... I mean ... Sarah Silverman taking time between red flag-worthy therapy and wetting the bed to agree with him.
All I can figure is, if overprivileged narcissistic degenerates and lunatics are against us we must be doing something right.
Thursday, September 05, 2019
BOHICA
The Department of Justice has sent a package of legislative proposals on gun violence to the White House, a person familiar with the matter told Fox News, as the debate rages over how lawmakers and the president should respond to a recent spate of deadly mass shootings. *Nope, no favor at all...
*Fox Newsdoesnot allow links from Blogger. To read, go to: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-sends-gun-legislation-package-to-white-house-as-debate-rages-over-mass-shootings
Applying for Club Acceptance
Fouts v Becerra Baton Second Amendment Complaint Filed [More]The expansion of "legally"-recognized "arms" categories continues from the same fine folks advancing the rights of stun gun and butterfly knife owners.
Follow Whose Money?
“Follow the damn money,” Democratic Party of Virginia spokesman Jake Rubenstein said in a written statement. “The NRA is paying Virginia Republicans to block common sense safety measures.” [More]Funny. As incensed as he is about NRA's thousands, Jake is fine with Bloomberg's millions...
I wonder if Jorge will get any, and from whom...
[Via Mack H]
We're the Only Ones Dodgy Enough
FBI agent dodges fine for AR-15 assault rifle stolen from unattended vehicle in Oakland. [More]You're not allowed to own one because you're not trustworthy and professional enough.
It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Term 'Spontaneous and Grassroots' Is
Launched in late June 2019, Never Again Action claims to be a large grassroots network that spontaneously arose in response to perceived parallels between the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border and the Nazi Holocaust against the Jewish people. Indeed, the phrase “Never Again” has its origin and most common usage in preventing another Holocaust. [More]I thought the fences then were to keep people in...
Or could it be these traitors to their country and their people are quite aware of that?
And of this...?
[Via Michael G]
A Taxing Proposition
This was a coup for the Second Amendment and liberty movements. [More]So it is about deer hunting...?
Which authority-delegating article and section are we talking about again?
On This We Can Agree
California Passes Law Allowing Citizens to Refuse to Help Police Officers [More]Good.
I see many law-and-order types having apoplexy over this, and at the risk of being condemned as a contrarian (or worse), they are not thinking this through.
Haven't we seen enough evidence to stop buying into the special "Only Ones" privileges and immunities lie?
I will decide who I will help, and when and under what circumstances. Perhaps I saw the lead-up to confrontation and believe it was started with inappropriate aggressiveness. Perhaps I will exercise my right to not be complicit in enforcing an edict I disagree with (like arresting an "I will not comply" patriot.) Think of it as pre-jury nullification. Perhaps in order to help, I will have to reveal my own noncompliance with a diktat (like maybe having a defense weapon on my person in "May Not Issue" CA.)
Perhaps if you want my help, you ought to act like you deserve it.
Perhaps I don't choose to offer anyone an explanation beyond BFYTW.
[Via several of you]
ADDENDUM: Now if they want to activate the citizen militia and afford all proper considerations for uninfringed RKBA, we can start talking terms.
Opening Her Mouth and Removing All Doubt
29-Year-Old Communist Bartender AOC Lectures Navy SEAL on How to Handle Firearms [More]Looks like Crenshaw's back "on" again. So how long can he sustain the paradox?
[Via bondmen]
Gee, I Wonder What They'll Talk About...?
We're the Only Ones Disinterested Enough
UPDATE: Odessa Shooter Had been “Calling FBI and Police FOR YEARS” Leaving Incoherent Messages Before Mass Shooting [More]I'm more interested in what they know about him now that we haven't been told, particularly his sympathies. That allows discreditable specific rumors to spread, which in turn discourages generally exploring further in that direction.
[Via bondmen]
We're the Only Ones Correctional Enough
An Emotional Issue
Watch: Democratic Presidential Candidates Squirm When Asked To Define "Assault Weapon" [More]I rest my case.
[Via bondmen]
Supermarket Sweep
Aid and Comfort
Thanks to Lois Beckett, Alex Yablon, and especially Massad Ayoob for their help researching and fact-checking this piece. [More]Beckett and Yablon, especially, I can understand.
I'm still trying to figure out why someone from "our side" would want to help Vox when he's got to know they will use it to attack RKBA. It is an interesting admission on where they have to go and who they have to ask to keep from making fools of themselves, but I still gotta ask what happened to "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"?
I never understood "fact-checking" proposed infringements, either. I'd want them vulnerable to challenge, rather than helping the oppressor make them bulletproof. Case in point, thank goodness no one helpfully pointed out the fatal flaw in Nevada's Question 1.
Excuse me, but you won't shoot me that way, with the safety on.
"Oh, you're right. Thanks."
<BANG!>
[Via DDS]
Now There's an Original Thought
Dem Congressman Claims It's Easier to Buy an AR-15 Than Sudafed, Hilarity Ensues [More]Parrot much?
[Via Jess]
On a Need to Know Basis
At Least He Didn't Shoot Them
A 40-year-old madman named Yu stabbed to death eight children, ages six through 13 years. At least two other children were injured. He had been released from prison in June after serving a sentence for attempted murder. [More]The tool doesn't matter and truth knows no borders.
[Via Felix B]
It's Worse than I Thought
Walmart now proudly proclaims on its own website that it is a “charter member” of the “Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership” which was co-formed by WalMart, “Everytown for Gun Safety” and Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”... [More]I wonder when the last time was that he shopped at one.
[Via Ron W]
Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
Many of Us Won't Be, Living
Meghan McCain: 'I'm not living without guns' [More]I have to admit I'm pleasantly surprised, but I still don't trust her.
[Via Mack H]
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise...
'Taking Advantage'?
“Thousands and thousands” of large-capacity magazines are stored currently at GunSitters in Whippany, where gun owners have handed over their large-capacity magazines, taking advantage of the storage option as litigation plays out, Rebels said. Some have turned over more than 100 magazines, which are held in a 3,000-square-foot steel vault. [More]Hey, we can't be trusting free men with Pez dispensers.
[Via Roger J]
A Catastrophic Liar
The first untruth I’ll call the “Slippery Slope” lie. [More]Jerry: Is that a nice thing to say about Nancy Pelosi?
[Via Rough and Ready]
He Who May Not Be Criticized
Media Ignore Soros’ Lobbying for Gun Control in 2019 [More]Well, heck, who wants to present, you know, evidence, and be branded an anti-Semite?
[Via Michael G]
We Know You are But What are We?
A Matter of Priorities
The University of South Carolina doesn't offer a course centered on founding U.S. documents, such as the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers because it says that would be too financially stringent. Meanwhile, the university invites students to take a class on the art of tailgating. [More]I thought it was because they encouraged rear-ending until I saw it's a cooking course.
[Via Michael G]
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