A Moot Point?

New York City Thwarts the Second Amendment Revolution [More]

"Thwarts."

What can I say but "Slate"?

They are right about one thing: John Roberts is no one to count on.

This Stern character reminds me of someone...

[Via Jess]

Rule of Whose 'Law'?

This entire weaponization of DOJ investigations, prosecutions, and sentences to punish perceived enemies and to reward loyal factotums is a threat to the rule of law in America. [More]

That's what some of us were saying back when Janet Reno and Eric Holder ruled the roost. Ain't it something that Slate evidently had no concerns about Waco and Fast and Furious?

[Via Mack H]

An Inconvenient Truth

Trump Just Said His Friends in the Military, Police, and a Biker Group Might Get “Tough” on Democrats [More]

They might. And more.

Keep pushing and find out.

Did you think it could be otherwise?

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE: And naturally, context matters.

I should have expected default dishonesty from Slate.

Take My Breath Away

Slate: Kavanaugh’s “Breathtakingly Expansive View of the Second Amendment” Signals a “Constitutional Revolution” [More]

One can hope. But I'm not holding my breath.

A Moment of Truth

Progressives and feminists like me are enraged... [More]

I'd have never guessed, being so fragile 'n all.  And it's not enough I haven't committed a crime, I must nonetheless grovel, punish and abase myself for "collective guilt"?

Slate.

When it comes to the indignation of Marxist bitches, I'm with Tommy Lee:

When they bring about the hell on earth they're agitating for, those in non-defended zones will find out first-hand what the males they demand we be replaced by are capable of.

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Mistaking' Is

But the perpetrators (cops) don’t believe the myths.  They just don’t want to give up their “only one” rights.  The real believers are folks like the author at Slate, who must be mistaking the law abiding – who rarely will use firearms due to the knowledge that most prosecutors put another notch in the belt for every law abiding gun owner they can prosecute – for the real danger, i.e, cops. [More]

If really a "believer," the "author" is delusional. If really a "mistake," I'd consider it one of journalistic malpractice and criminal negligence.

Threat Assessment

Homemade Guns Are a Much Bigger Threat Than 3D-Printed Firearms [More]

To whom? 

And define "much bigger." How many of these have been committed with DIY firepower?

Fact is, Slate doesn't much like the store-bought kind, either.

[Via Roger J]

Don't Tell Sadiq Khan

Video shows monk seal pup playing with knife [More]

There's no excuse for that!

And I just thought of something: If there really is NO excuse, if there's NEVER a reason, and if anyone who does will be caught and feel the full force of the law, is he prepared to take religion-commanded kirpans from and punish London's "large Sikh population"?

And that calls to mind our own "knife control" laws, and the attendant religious preference discrimination against the rest of us in spite of a crystal clear "make no law respecting an establishment of religion" commandment to government" proscription.

It figures the snarky hive insects at Slate are all for taking knives away from subjects, too.

[Via Matthew L]

Yes, This is a Facile Point to Make

If by that you mean your treatise is "shallow" and "simplistic," finally, some common ground on which we can agree... [More]

After all, can there be a deeper and more comprehensive authority than Slate and their resident Boy Genius?

Did I miss where they're inviting comments, or don't they?

[Via Jess]

What Explanation Could There Possibly Be?

When reflexively anti-American, anti-military outlets like Mother Jones, Slate and the Washington Post offer fawning praise for a Republican military commander, the reasons underlying those plaudits deserve further investigation. When anti-American, anti-military, George Soros-funded, extreme leftist smear operations like Media Matters go to war to defend a Trump political appointee, it casts a shadow on everything about the man. When the anti-American, terrorism-supporting, Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated CAIR defends an American general, the alarm bells drown out all other sound. And officers who have witnessed his “leadership” in the unforgiving crucible of combat are now sounding the alarm. [More]

A routine quote around here comes to mind.

Oh, They Get By with a Little Help from Their Friends

Slate Offers Defense Of Antifa [More]

This is my shocked face.

[Via Mack H]

So What We Need are 'Reasonable Restrictions' and 'Compromise'?

Rallies with guns cannot be treated, for First Amendment purposes, in the same fashion as rallies with no guns. [More]

Why? Because Slate says so?

Slate?

Now the First and Second Amendments are incompatible, so one of them must go? Why not both?

They're getting to that. All the Marxists know how to do is demand obedience enforced through a monopoly of violence.

I've been to plenty of rallies with guns. I've never seen those on the side of the Constitution initiate violence with them.

Charlottesville reflected a deliberate stand-down ordered for political exploitation purposes. Some friends of mine are working up an analysis of that along with a comparison of results where peacekeeping was proactive. I'll be sure to link to that when it's posted.

[Via TheFakePundit]

On This We Can All Agree?

Liberals and conservatives alike should cheer the court’s decision. Empowering law enforcement to curtail the Fourth Amendment makes no one safer, even when it’s done in the name of controlling gun violence. And allowing officers to target gun owners without suspicion of wrongdoing puts us all at greater risk of harassment, discrimination, and brutality. [More]

That's pretty surprising coming from Slate.

Unsurprisingly, some of indignant "progressive" comment posters don't see it that way, and appear to be trapped in a cognitive dissonance / non sequitur corner of their own making.

[Via Michael G]

A Blank Slate?

[N]either of them tells us anything about Garland's views of the Second Amendment. [More]

He needs hearings to do that?

Is there some law keeping him from being interviewed...? Forget future cases, he can't talk principles? Or is that "just not done"...?

Right, the guy is a Chi-Town Obama nominee and we're not supposed to make any assumptions based on a totality of circumstances.

Yes, Fletcher? You had something of relevance you wanted to express to Prof. Winkler?

[Via Michael G]

The Smugness; the Sanctimony; the Inchoate Contempt

All you’ll ever need to know about liberalism, captured in one perfect, pathetic image: [More]

Yep, that's Slate, alright...

[Via Jeet]

Shoes of the Phishermen

Bishops must urge Catholics to support candidates who stand up to the NRA and advance gun control. [More]

Yeah, go for it. Convince your "flock" to vote in a 100% pro-abortion slate, you cloistered morons.

No worries: UnAmericans United only snitches on you to the IRS for "conservative" political advocacy 501 (c) tax code violations.

Spreading Myths

There have been a series of articles from Politico, the Huffington Post, Slate, and the New York Daily News with similar titles meant to cast doubt on defensive gun use, such as “the myth of the good guy with the gun.” [More]

Boy, does he have that right.  And you can prove that a meme has been started and is being parroted and propagated for yourself.

Why do you suppose that is?

[Via Michael G]

A Few Bad Apples

Prosecutorial and police misconduct are often dismissed as just a few bad apples doing a few bad apple-ish things. But what happens when it’s entrenched and systemic and goes unchecked for years? That looks to be the case in Orange County, California, where the situation got so completely out of hand this spring that Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals issued an order disqualifying the entire Orange County District Attorney’s Office (that’s all 250 prosecutors) from continuing to prosecute a major death penalty case. [More]

Who thinks this is the only barrel full, and that the same findings could not be reproduced throughout the (former) Republic?

Funny, how "progressive" Slate knows how corrupt everything is, yet still does everything in its power to ensure a monopoly of violence entrusted to the abusers, and to condemn the egalitarian power-sharing afforded by the uninfringed right to keep and bear arms. It's part of that differing "solutions" to the same perceived problem I referred to in the previous post.

[Via Michael G]

Saturation Point

In 2012, Slate.com crunched numbers from a variety of manufacturers, as well as federal statistics on background checks, and extrapolated that nearly 3.3 million AR-15s were in the country. But that was before Newtown and calls for bans, which drove sales through the roof. In congressional testimony last year, the National Shooting Sports Foundation estimated assault-style weapons domestically in the range of five million-8.2 million. [More]

"In common use at the time," baby.

"The best laid schemes o' mice and men..."

For the Children

Guns murder them!  Get rid of guns from the home! [More]

What?  SLATE is not telling us the whole story?

Can I believe in no one anymore?


I'm sorry, but Evan and Devin sound like they just need a Kevin to be some cartoon duck's nephews.

[Via Michael G]