Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Deaths up during anti-knife drive [More]

Bloody twits.

[Via Mama Liberty]

PolyKahr on Thune

[L] et your conscience be your guide [More]

A-yup.

Your Kind Isn't Welcome Around Here

At the end of July, “Free Market Warrior” will not be allowed at Concord Mills Mall. [More]

I see. Doubting The Lightworker is not only blasphemous, it's racist.

I note the mall has a Books-A-Million. I wonder if they're going to make them clear the shelves of these...?

You can tell Simon Property Group how this makes you feel if you're so inclined.

[Via retrotruckman]

We're the Only Ones Experienced Enough

Waldron, 37, is a 10-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department, starting as a patrol officer in 1999 and becoming an investigator in 2004, Skoogman said. He received minor injuries during the altercation and has been placed on paid administrative leave, which is common after shooting incidents. [More]

Via Blackwing1, who tells me:

A local Barney Fife follows this group in an unmarked car, in plain clothes, and tries to make an arrest (during which all of the eyewitnesses say that he NEVER identified himself as an officer). In the scuffle that follows, his badge is finally revealed…the accused “erratic driver” backs away, dressed only in a swimsuit, with both hands in the air. The Barney shoots four (4) times at close range (managing to miss at LEAST twice, since those bullets went through the nearby apartment occupied by a 2-year-old and 4-year-old), and kills him.

Many of these details were only in the local TeeWee coverage, when they interviewed the witnesses. It doesn’t show up in the paper version. Notice that part of his erratic driving was reported as “going down a local sledding hill”, but what they don’t mention is that this hill was part of his parents property, on which he grew up.

And the only thing the local coverage can come up with are the headlines, “Court records show Heilman had a past“, and “Deputy in shooting had 10 years experience“. Well, then, if you have a “past”, I guess the cops are justified in shooting you when you’re unarmed, on the ground on your butt, and surrendering with both hands in the air.

The witnesses also described how the Fife then started swinging his firearm wildly around, telling everybody to, “Freeze”.

Must be a result of the superb training.

I’m sure that if I had done this that I’d be given routine administrative leave, of course.

Well, no, you wouldn't be, actually. You're not an "Only One."

Is FBI Agent Charged with Illegal Gun Dealing Just a Collector?

Perhaps this will present an opportunity to increase visibility for Oath Keepers, and to develop allies. But at the very least, the record will show that while the government and media have been universally painting a federal LEO as guilty, it was the "anti-government right wing gun extremists" doing the reminding that we need to consider his innocence until the burden of proof requirement has been satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt.

If we want that for ourselves, we must demand it for John Shipley. [More]

I'm as surprised as anyone to find myself concerned about a federal LEO/FBI sniper, but this case just doesn't smell right. When I hear from a source that the US Attorney leaked the affidavit to the press, my antennae go up.

Here is today's Gun Rights Examiner column, which includes a link to the affidavit as well as information on this case the "Authorized Journalists" won't tell you about.

Also see the latest cuckolding of gun owners by Kirsten Gillibrand and hear her competitor in Constitutional sabotage use a word generally associated with racists.

Tell a friend?

Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners:

• Atlanta: You bet it's personal!
• Austin: Why do children need guns?
• Boston: Sotomayor: Unfit to serve
• Charlotte: Sotomayor: Where for art thou, NRA?
• Chicago: National right-to-carry reciprocity can't touch Chicago, but can it pass?
• Cleveland: National ccw reciprocity bill vote likely
• DC: Sotomayor: the abstract justice?
• Denver: Lessons from "bring your guns to church day"
• Los Angeles: On Sotomayor: The Judiciary Committee needs to get it, too.
• Minneapolis: Lies, damn lies, and VPC statistics
• Seattle: Outrage over national concealed carry misplaced while Seattle looks for a killer
• St. Louis: The Brady Campaign to create 'gun crime'
• Wisconsin: Party like it was 1773
  

This Day in History: July 22

July 22, 1777 at Oconee River, Georgia - On July 22, a party of Creek Indians stole some horses from a Patriot camp at Long Creek. The camp was composed of a company of the 1st Georgia Regiment Continentals, commanded by Capt. Thomas Dooly, and a Virginia militia unit. Dooly took himself and 9 Georgians to pursue the Indians. The Indians set up an ambush near the Oconee River. When Dooly entered the ambush site, the Indians attacked. Of the 10 men, only 3 wounded men managed to escape back to their camp. Dooly was one of the 7 men who were killed. Conclusion: British Victory [More]

We're the Only Ones Grilling Up Some Dogs Enough

A New Orleans police dog left unattended in a police vehicle in late May died from shock likely associated with heat stroke, after ripping up the car's seats in a desperate attempt to get out... [More]

And they have two other "recent dog deaths" already in the queue? So will they so treat the "Only One" handlers the same way they would you and me?

Does anyone realize how hard you'd have to work at it to "accidentally" kill three of these beasts?

[Via retrotruckman]

Crashing the BATFU Bash

Vanderboegh give us a crasher's eye view of the shindig. [More]

We're the Only Ones Who'll Have You in Stitches Enough

[More]

Hey, how else is a grown man supposed to deal with an unruly 14-year-old girl?

What have you learned about expecting the "Only Ones" to assume your parental responsibilities, Stacy Akin?

[Via retrotruckman]

I See Nothing Here...

..that a high-power air rifle wouldn't handle discreetly and efficiently. That way, enuretic neighbors inclined to report louder noises never need know. [More]

People who recommend golf clubs really haven't seen what a rabid animal can do. You don't want to let them get that close.

[Via Ed M]

Citizens in Action

But more than 15 people were ready to testify in support of the bar...[More]

That's appropriate, and it's not the bar's fault for what happens around it. But still, I look at the picture and wonder why no citizens show up and demand a right to be able to defend themselves.

And I wonder about a people who give a priority to drinking...

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Thundering Enough

The neighbourhood beat manager, who has been an officer for the past seven years, is a heathen which means he worships Norse gods, including the hammer-wielding Thor, the one-eyed Odin and Freyr, the god of fertility. [More]

"Beat Manager"?

Yeah, y'oughtta see these "Only Ones" slam Mighty Mjǫllnir around...

The Company I Keep

A Democratic Undergrounder has judged me--by my link list:

...sites that I find it easy to judge by the links they themselves offer...

You know, like:

Appleseed
Armed and Christian
Armed and Safe
Armed Canadian
Armed Females
Confederate Sharpshooter
Conservative Beach Girl
Conservative Scalawag
Family Guardian

Just a few of my favourites.

Oh yes, and "Whose Paranoid".

I dunno. Not mine.

Gosh, and I so wanted his approval.

I know the rest of you probably did, too.

Does Thune Amendment Treat a Right Like a Privilege?

My only caution is to not make the mistake of thinking benefits do not also include costs. And to consider that sometimes, the price that will ultimately be required of us--or our posterity--is not always clearly understood up front. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column ought to irritate a few non-absolutists.

It was really a labor of, if not love, patience, as I've been trying to post on the damned Examiner site for the past five hours and their server has been on the blink. It also hurts because the site itself has been inaccessible for much of the day and I had a couple hot articles out there--but once people get an error message, they're not very likely to come back.

And, of course, it's meant I've produced nothing here on WOG today, and that's likely to just be the breaks--I'm pretty much out of time, although I may be able to fit one or two more posts in, depending on whether or not my GRE column will let me put in code I need to track and network.

Yikes. Anyway, if today's column doesn't infuriate you too much, please tell a friend. I will have earned every page view today several times over.

Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners:

• Atlanta: You bet it's personal!
• Austin: Why do children need guns?
• Boston: Sotomayor: Unfit to serve
• Charlotte: Sotomayor: Where for art thou, NRA?
• Chicago: National right-to-carry reciprocity can't touch Chicago, but can it pass?
• Cleveland: National ccw reciprocity to be considered in U.S. Senate
• DC: Sotomayor: latinas, guns, and werewolves
• Denver: Lessons from "bring your guns to church day"
• Los Angeles: On Sotomayor: The Judiciary Committee needs to get it, too.
• Minneapolis: Lies, damn lies, and VPC statistics
• Seattle: Outrage over national concealed carry misplaced while Seattle looks for a killer
• St. Louis: The Brady Campaign to create 'gun crime'
• Wisconsin: Party like it was 1773

This Day in History: July 21

Hobart's Regiment of Militia also known as the 12th New Hampshire Militia Regiment was called up on July 21, 1777 at Plymouth, New Hampshire for Gen. John Stark's Brigade gathering at Charlestown, New Hampshire during the Saratoga Campaign. [More]

We're the Only OnesToo Much to Discuss Enough

Again, I never intend for this category to dominate. Sometimes, the outrages just fall in my lap.

But I'm running out of time and won't be able to post these separately:

We're the Only Ones "To Catch a Predator" Enough

We're the Only Ones Blowing Our Career Enough

We're the Only Ones Going Off Enough

Perverted. Sadistic. Corrupt. Incompetent.

Defective human beings with the power of life and death.

"Only Ones."

And some would say, more competent and trustworthy than you and I are.

We're the Only Ones "It All Depends on the Meaning of the Word 'Irrational'" Enough

After the officers arrived, the man became increasingly irate, refused to let the officers into the house, threatened officers and then slammed the door, police said. [More]

And that's more irrational than, say, calling out the SWAT team because somebody is yelling while playing video games how, exactly...? Because it really doesn't sound all that unreasonable...

I had to bellow at elder feral son Uday last night because he was on some damn game where he could talk to his online opponent, and tell him to hold it down.

Had I but known I had an "Only Ones" option available...

I gotcher "First Person Shooter" right here, pally...

[Via Tom Z]

We're the Only Ones Untucked Enough

What they are trying to prevent...are cases wherein both erring policemen and civilian gun owners are using the privilege given to them to carry firearms to commit abuses on unarmed civilians. [More]

Perhaps the solution might be fewer unarmed civilians? That and doing away with the concept of "privilege" and "Only Ones"?

[Via Blacksnake]

Meanwhile, a Long Time Ago in a Sarah Brady Paradise Far, Far Away

Pupils as young as seven were left traumatised after a school staged a 'War of the Worlds' style production during which a teacher was abducted by aliens. [More]

And the "Only Ones" helped!

Sounds like it's time for another Zargonian hunt...

[Via Tom Z]

We're the Only Ones "Bully for You!" Enough

But in cases in which it's a defendant's word against a police officer's, the benefit of doubt often falls to the cop.

Except when there's video...

The clerk on duty the night that Lopez confronted Lawless told investigators that three times after the incident, police officers spoke with him about the security tape and that two asked if he would erase it. [More]

See, it's only a few bad apples. And of course:

A hearing to determine what discipline, if any, will be imposed on Lopez is still pending.

Nice. Assault a girl with a deadly weapon. What a despicable, cowardly sociopath. And these are the "Only Ones" the evil and the stupid think should be "permitted" to carry guns because they consider you and me--what were their words?--"untrained and dangerous individuals".

[Via Brian F]