Work It Out Privately

Child Custody Conditions Restricting Parents' Speech and Gun Storage [More]

Bring the state into it and dead poodles are the least of your worries. 

You'd think survivalists would know that.

On a related note, there's a reason why I only refer to my guys as feral sons Uday and Qusay and have learned not to post current pictures from which they can be identified. If they want to enter the pit it will be their decision, not mine.

[Via Michael G]

Talking a Good Game

2A Gaming: Spreading Gun Rights Message via Video Games [More]

I have to admit upfront the gaming phenomenon is something I have never grokked.  When I was in college a bar had Pong and I remember playing PacMan and Asteroids, and Snakes on an old Windows machine. The wife enjoys Solitaire in her spare time, and back when I had some, I enjoyed a miniature golf game. Oh, I also remember playing Duck Hunt for a few minutes at a relative's house.

By the time the X-Box/Play Station stuff with multi-function controllers came out, I was too wrapped up in demanding jobs to give them a moment's thought, and my limited free time was eaten up doing Dad things with the family and around the house and yard. Anything in excess of that and it was a cigar and a couple fingers of the good stuff on the porch for me to decompress.

Feral sons Uday and Qusay, on the other hand, grew up with it all and are quite adept, but I would watch them for a few minutes and decide it was all above, if not my pay grade, any incentive to spend the time to learn.

So with my near-total ignorance stipulated, let me venture an opinion:  My impression of gamers is they had better be given top-quality graphics, compelling character and scenarios, and top-notch competition, and anything less will be rejected and ruthlessly ridiculed. So if they're going to do it, do it right and spend the needed money to employ "top men."

Do it on the cheap or make the primary purpose to ham-handedly preach and you may as well not do it at all.

It's not a bad idea, but its success will all be in the execution. I hope you guys do it right. Good luck.

We're the Only Ones 'Boy Howdy!' Enough

An off-duty police officer accidentally shot his own son after mistaking him for an intruder. [More]

Son of a gun.

All these years with feral sons Uday and Qusay coming in at all hours and I've never even come close. And professionals make it look so easy.

Especially the "No arrests have been made, and the names of the officer and his son have not been released" part...

Happy Trails to You, Until We Meet Again

I'm leaving for vacation in an hour and will be back Aug. 6.

I have no worries about making that knowledge public. Now that I've replaced the batteries in their shock collars so they can't escape the property and maul anyone (again), I've unchained and released feral sons Uday and Qusay from the basement, leaving them free to prowl the grounds.

Please hold off on all news tips, emails, tweets, FB messages and blog comments (which I have turned off until I get back). Anything you send will be a wasted effort, as I'll have a full plate and just won't be able to get to it when I return.

The White House petition expires in two days and will be ridiculously undersigned. I'll talk about that when I get back including that I'm not giving up and will figure something else out.  At least I can take comfort that the effort to free A$AP Rocky got the president's attention (not to mention almost 630,000 signatures at this writing).

I have two articles that should be coming out soon:

• On Ammoland, look for "Take Shannon Watts’ Advice and ‘Fight Like a Mother’ -- against Her."
• On Firearms News, look for"Riding the Tiger," my take on what to do about Wayne and why.

That's it. See you on the other side. Until then:

A Journey of a Thousand Miles...

...starts this morning with a single step.  Meaning I won't be posting for a week, or moderating comments, which I've shut off, or responding to emails/tips, messages and tweets, Please hold off on those, as any received in my absence will probably go unanswered.

As usual, things have been coming across the transom I'm itching to field, including two offers for "exclusives." I just won't have time to even look at those until I return, so when I do they may be old news.

I also have four articles out awaiting publication and can't say what days they'll be posted. They'll be under the following links when they are:

• AmmoLand: New Jersey's "name and shame" efforts and "unique" gun-grabber suicide tools
• Firearms News: The Swiss EU disarmament referendum and ATF's swamp director nominee

Since I won't be here to promote them I'd appreciate help spreading the word. Also, you may find earlier articles you haven't seen, so feel free to give any you find worthwhile a boost.

That's it and now I've still got some tasks to complete before I head out, first and foremost turning feral sons Uday and Qusay's shock collars up to "Max" to keep them from escaping in my absence.

See ya on the other side.

Words as Weapons

Changing Reality with Words - Beware of euphemisms. [More]

I'm reminded of "Framing the Terms" from our old GunTruths site, observations still relevant to the discussion...

As an aside, feral sons Uday and Qusay have been known to crack up at an old movie when a character says he or she are feeling gay.

[Via Mack H]

Toning Down the Old Toxic Masculinity

‘Cut the Wire,’ a Toy Bomb Game, Is Discontinued After Criticism [More]

They should have told the Marxist bluenoses where to shove the bomb. I don't know any boy that wouldn't think this is cool -- at least until the brainwashers got hold of him or doped him out on Ritalin if he didn't get with the program.

And I believe I owe this man an apology. It's his former colleagues that ought to be ashamed of themselves.

When feral sons Uday and Qusay were cubs, we'd occasionally go to those restaurants that give you those coaster thingies that buzz and light up when your table is ready. We'd pass the time playing it was a bomb and passing it around after holding it a minute to see who it "exploded" on.

We still play it on rare occasions when we find ourselves in one of those joints.

[Via Mack H]

How the Place has Changed

3 shot dead, 4 injured at Torrance bowling alley [More]

So much for California being on the Brady and Gabby "Best" lists.

As an aside, that's where we first took feral sons Uday and Qusay bowling.  When I worked in defense electronics, that's where our company team played.

People who act like "it can never happen here" are fooling themselves.

[Via Dave Licht]

Hiatus

I'm outta here until mid-next week. I'll be unchaining feral sons Uday and Qusay from the basement and giving them free run of the house, so they'd better not chew up the sofa again.

Since I won't be here to moderate, I'm turning comments off until my return. Please hold all tips, emails and social media messages, because I not only won't get to them now, there's no way I'll be able to on my return.

Thanks for understanding.  See ya on the other side.

For the Children

Really? My kids? Just wow. [More]

Let's review the bidding: Anne Coulter makes a demonstrable assertion about the effects of current immigration policies on the American electorate. I make an equally demonstrable extrapolation (if you deny that, you answer the challenge) about the legal and judicial effect that will have on the way the right to keep and bear arms is recognized by government.

Then out of nowhere this crazy lady appears and wishes my kids (by the way, I considered mine cubs) dead? Gun-grabbers sure are violent.

So them being killed
would teach me?

As disappointed as she'll be, feral sons Uday and Qusay both managed to make it to adulthood with  the chances of that happening minimized. That's because their mother and I knew that part of our job as parents committed to their protection was making sure they both received continued development-appropriate firearms exposure and training. That's as opposed to, you know, the avoidance and ignorance demanded by "common sense gun safety" advocates.

So who is this monster carrying around such bloody-minded, seething resentment for the millions of more-traditional Americans with whom she disagrees?

Her Twitter account says she's a "Musician, lover of design and art " out of Clearwater, FL. That matches up to a Facebook account that further tells us she
is "Now performing with At Large Band."

Oh, look. Nice to put a face and a CV with the person who wishes such nice things for me. And nice to see their calendar of upcoming performances.

How curious, though: Some of their regular gigs appear to be for American Legion Post 79 and a couple VFW posts, Dunedin and Indian Rocks.  I say "curious" because like me, they also advocate for caring adults providing youth firearms instruction, meaning they understand that responsible firearms ownership is an American tradition to be honored and carried on:

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I wonder if Lotte would express the same hateful sentiment to her patrons about their children as she did to me.

I think I'll ask.

See You on the Other Side

I've got a long drive ahead of me and need to get on the road. I'm unchaining feral sons Uday and Qusay and letting them out of the basement, so I won't be there to save anyone who somehow gets in during my absence.

Sorry, but I won't be able to respond to tips/emails or moderate comments until I get back.

So Finger-Wagging Isn't Enough...?

Buford Tune, owner of the Academy of Personal Protection and Security, believes parents should give hands-on training to their children. [More]

Bingo!

Feral sons Uday and Qusay got range training early, starting with seeing what could happen before they were ready for hands-on. More on that, along with the requisite pointing and laughing at cud-chewers, here....

There's an App for That

Amazon Key takes deliveries to new level: Inside your home [More]

Hey, it's OK though. It's on a cloud!

For some reason that reminds me of a line I remember from back when feral sons Uday and Qusay were little and liked to watch "Dexter's Laboratory." I'm just amazed somebody else remembered and memorialized it, too:

[Via Florida Guy]   

Opposite Day 'Progressive' Professional Conduct

Watch MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s Unhinged Outtakes [More]

Oh, him.

The great egalitarian. Funny how the vaunted principles always seem to take a back seat to personal privilege.

If I'd gone on a foul-mouthed tirade in front of employees on any job I've ever held, I'd have been justifiably canned. I never put up with abusive language, either.

As I told feral sons Uday and Qusay when they embarked on their careers, no job is worth your dignity.  Speak your mind when appropriate. Don't brown-nose. Tolerate no bullying.

The worst they can do to you is fire you. On a scale of 1 to 10 compared to a real life challenge, that barely registers.

Hiatus

Not really, but I know that
upsets the animaladjusted.

I expect to be back around Aug. 7 or thereabouts.  In the interim, comments have been turned off and I ask you to hold off on emails and "social media" contacts.

Two things to watch for in my absence:

• T.L. Davis will be announcing the release of "Lies of Omission."  Please keep an eye out for it and then help spread the word.
• GUNS Magazine will be posting my latest "Rights Watch" column. It's called "The Long March," about the recent goose-waddle from Fairfax to DC.

I've unchained feral sons Uday and Qusay and opened the basement door to give them free rein of the redoubt in my absence. I'd better not find a gnawed shin bone like last time.

I Just Dropped in to See what Condition His Condition Was In

T.L. Davis relects while going through the needed steps to heal, and reveals he's one of the few strangers who can stare down feral sons Uday and Qusay when they're not on the leash (albeit they had just been fed). [More]

The Question on Everyone's Mind

Will Jude Law's Dumbledore be openly gay? [More]

A personal anecdote about the whole "Harry Potter" phenomenon: We did not expressly forbid it to them as some parents have for religious reasons, but feral sons Uday and Qusay just were never interested. All the hoopla has been driven by pretty much the same "progressive" demographic that never gave up comic books and thus changed who they're written for.

Right, Archie?

We're the Only Ones Caretaking Enough

When he was shot, Kinsey was attempting to calm Arnaldo Soto, a man with autism who was playing with a toy truck that police believed could be a firearm. [More]

I can't tell you how many times feral sons Uday and Qusay almost took a bullet from me for that very reason.

Teach Your Children Well

Father Kills Son in Shootout Over Who Would Walk Dog: Police [More]

I can't tell you how many times something similar has almost sent me and feral sons Uday and Qusay on a course of no return.

If this doesn't validate Snuffy's contention it's the guns, nothing will.

Still, I'm in a bit of a quandary: How do I update my law to accomodate people who can't be trusted with dogs?

Yul is absolutely no help.

And forget it Jake...

[Via Neil W]

Signs and Symptoms of Psychotic Episodes

Rand Paul: McCain ‘past his prime,’ may be ‘unhinged’ [More]

Dang. And I so wanted feral sons Uday and Qusay to die fighting against Russia for Montenegro.

[Via Michael G]