Cause and Effect

Poverty causes gun crime [More]

Shoot. I wish my parents and immigrant grandparents had known about that moral "out" back in the Depression.  Heck, I even qualified back in college, when I was renting a closet in a house where my bed touched three walls, working a minimum wage part-time job and going to school full time. 

What the Commie-in-Chief is saying is more than the moral equivalent of blaming rape victims for being attractive targets.  He's justifying savagery and evil.  He's approving it.

In the Docket

Leonard Embody's case... [More] 

Here's the cert petition.

Will SCOTUS elect to hear it? I know many on "our side" put the guy down for being provocative, and others are worried that it's not the right case at the right time and will set bad precedent, but really, since when are self-designated Second Amendment activists supposed to side with "Only Ones" taking any of the people hostage at gunpoint for simply bearing arms?

There's something to be said for knowing what limits the courts think can be imposed. You can't push them if you don't know exactly where they are.

It's a Howl

Howling for Wolves plans to protest outside DNR headquarters in St. Paul Friday and at Lake Superior Plaza West in Duluth Saturday. [More]

"Howling for Wolves."

That's almost as funny as "Adopt a Coyote."

Aloha Oe

This is the first time a sitting NRA president has ever visited Hawaii in an official capacity. The Forum is inviting everyone to this unique free opportunity to the talk on 2nd Amendment issues of importance to all citizens. [More]

Hey, somebody asked him why they cheesed out on putting the squeeze on Romney, and what that means about their commitment...

Shooting Destination Night

Precision long-range shooting tonight on American Trigger Sports Network...[Details]

No It Does Not Either

It goes against the Constitution, which gives me the right to keep and bear arms and that right shall not be infringed." [More]

I hate when people say that and others spread it.  A big and unnecessary part of the problem is that "The 2nd Amendment is my concealed carry permit" line popularized by Ted Nugent.

I know what they're trying to say, but that ain't the way to say it.

The Eye of the Storm

Perhaps scariest of all is how many were totally unprepared, totally clueless as to how to provide even the most basic of necessities for themselves, and how the “solution” articulated by their leadership is to be dependent on others. [More]

My latest "Rights Watch" column for GUNS Magazine is now online.

Yesterday was my deadline, but I the way things are going, I hope I don't need to rewrite this completely before it goes to the printer.

The Great Outdoors

Another Fudd for Obama says anybody worried about Barry and gun control is a paranoid. [More]

There's something about "sportswriters." That's how Keith Olbermann got his start. And we've revisited Mike Lupica's subversion ad nauseum... And don't get me started on David Petzal...

Vigilante Justice

How dare she take the law into her own hands?  [More]

Doesn't she know if she had let them shoot her, the Bradys could have used this to decry another casualty of "gun violence," and their professional male spokesvictim wouldn't have had to deal with yet another woman showing him how an adult is supposed to behave?

This Day in History: November 2

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Jedi Mind Tricks

You know, convincing us he's this big supporter of the Emperor all the while profiteering off the Rebellion...

Seriously, how hypocritical and just plain cheesy is a socialist billionaire dodging  taxes?

5 Questions...

...with Ted Nugent [More]

Here's a sixth (actually, I asked mine first): What possible excuse can you have for not doing this?

Happy Halloween!

Yeah, I know it's a day late, but I just got sent the link to this video. [Watch]

[Via Len Savage]  

UPDATE: Sean Sorrentino points us to a follow-up.

The Way Things Oughtta Be

Excellent! [Read]

If I lived there, this guy would be my banker.

[Via Mama Liberty]

"A Staunch Gun Advocate"

I actually condone this action...Gun owners - be reasonable. [More]

Tell you what, why don't you do what you want and stay the hell out of my private affairs?

You call for more "gun laws," make a point of telling everyone how law-abiding you are, and then turn around and tell us "Even if a business is posted, I carry anyway."

If the antis were really for "reasonable" background checks they'd be pushing for BIDS, which would allow for those without creating a purchase record. But what they're really interested in is that purchase record.

In the meantime, we don't need useful kapos ceding  ground in the guise of "staunch gun advocates."

[Via bondmen]

Unpreppers

"I don't have any lights and need this gasoline for my generator," Abdul Rahim Anwar told Reuters as he waited at a Getty service station in Gowanus, Brooklyn. [More]

What? Abdul, old sport, you didn't know a Big-Ass Hurricane was coming your way?

And now it's "to each according to his need"?

Won't things get interesting when something even bigger, more widespread and longer-lasting comes along? They still might.

Yet "preppers" are figures to be ridiculed and even demonized.

Hey, maybe we can charge them with hoarding and "take back" what should rightfully be mi...uh...ours.

Students Teaching...

Well, that's your problem right there. They're supposed to be learning. [More]

I guess if someone really wants to be offended, they'll find a way. If this is all they have to worry about, life must be pretty good. 

S.T.A.R. reminds me of that group created by Al Capp...

Still Plagiarizing After All These Years

"As they say in my business, I'm going to give you the whole load today," said Biden. [More]

I guess a leopard never changes its spots.

But really, word-for-word?

Giving the Devil His Due

“It's about time we start taking this sh—back," the youth, who identified himself as Jesse James, told the Daily News. [More]

Right, because you've no doubt spent a lifetime putting so much in and giving so much, so it's your entitlement.

This Day in History: November 1

That such of the sixteen additional regiments as have not been annexed to the line of some particular state and all the seperate light corps of the army, both of horse and foot, [(Colonel Hazen's regiment, Colonel Armands and Major Lee's corps excepted)] and also the German battalion, be reduced on the 1st day of January next: that the non-commissioned officers and privates in those several corps, be incorporated with the troops of their respective states, and that such of them as do not belong to any particular state, be annexed to such corps as the commander in chief shall direct. [More]