We're the Only Ones Unsupportive Enough

Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo stressed Tuesday that police departments across the nation do not support a Texas gun bill that would allow adults to carry a handgun without having a background check, license and training. “From chiefs to sheriffs to police labor, we do not support permit-less, open carry” measures, said Acevedo, the former Houston Police chief. [More]

This surprises who...?

Speaking of the bill, an email sent out yesterday by Texas Gun Rights said:

What's the damn holdup? What's more important than unalienable rights?

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UPDATE: And what is "laughable, insane [and] dangerous" are statists disguised as "moderates" who begin their anti-gun diatribes with "I'm a gun owner..."

I'll need to look into this "Party Over Country" nonsense when I get some time. I'm getting a definite "Lincoln Club" vibe that they attract useful idiots who have no idea what the communists want to do to them once they are designated as useless eaters.

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The Right to Alter and Abolish

 An AR-15 is not just a tool of last resort: It is a declaration that the last resort exists, a reminder that there are outer limits to the abuse of power. [More]

Outstanding essay.

I'm told the author is the son of one of the Unabomber's victims. Coincidentally I just ran across an article concerning an alleged fangirl earlier today...

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Just Another Way to Attack PLCAA

 “There is an illegal trafficking pipeline that has gone unabated in which the gun industry has done nothing to help stem,” Myrie added. [More]

With an average time-to-crime of 11.75 years, the pipe doesn't exactly seem free-flowing.

As for Myrie's "doing nothing to help stem" lie, I wonder if gun industry association NSSF will ever get a clue that they can offer up all kinds of appeasements like "Fix NICS" and  "safe storage," and their enemies will still paint them as obstructing extremists.

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New York, New York, It's a Wonderful Town

Manhattan subway slashing spree was gang initiation — and one victim lost an eye, prosecutors say [More]

This is the dawning of the Age of Taquarious...

At least they didn't add to the spike.

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We're the Only Ones Inflaming Enough

 "I think they were afraid he was going to hurt himself, and that’s what started it," Darling said. [More]

Comedy gold...

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A Twisted Act

 Scott Leason is a wakeboarder. He’s also blind, after a cruel Independence Day twist of fate in 1993. [More]

I'm not sure I'd call a volitional act of predatory evil by submoronic sociopaths a twist of fate, a term that suggests happenstance. Especially after he followed "expert advice" and gave them what he assumed they wanted.

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Dear Kindly Social Worker*

 DCFS worker stabbed to death during home visit [More]

See, they were right! It prevented "gun" violence!

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We're the Only Ones and the Hits Just Keep on Comin' Enough

 "I reached this decision after carefully considering the results of an independent investigation into multiple allegations of domestic violence against Dennis White along with testimony and information he provided," Janey said. [More]

Wasn't he the guy with the power to issue or revoke firearms licenses in Beantown? Over allegations...?

So, who will revoke the revoker?

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We're the Only Ones Misdirecting Enough

 Castor said when she was the chief of police in 2015, the average number of homicides each year was in the low 20s, and during her time at the police department they confiscated anywhere from 800 to 900 guns annually. This year, there have already been 26 homicides so far, and the Tampa Police Department has confiscated more than 1,000 guns to date, she said. [More]

As long as they're deliberately focused on the guns and not on the elephant in the room of who is doing the killings, they'll never make a dent in things. But then, anyone who did would be condemned and destroyed.

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Building the Narrative

... the Oath Keepers – one of several far-right and white supremacist militias that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6  ... The hate group ... The Three Percenters, another militia ... [More]

They never seem to account for this and this. That's intentional.

What do you expect from someone who intentionally conflates Democrats with the "right wing"?

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We're the Only Ones Crippling Enough

 Police in Ohio forcibly pulled a paraplegic man out of his vehicle and threw him to the ground, despite his repeated appeals and him saying he has no use of his legs, according to body-camera video released Friday. [More]

So that's "follow[ing] the law, their training, and department policies and procedures"?

I am curious as to what they had probable cause to believe. The Dayton FOP has locked down its Facebook account, so it looks like we'll only be hearing from mouthpieces going forward.

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We're the Only Ones Having It Our Way Enough

 All 19 workers at a fast food restaurant in Pakistan were detained after refusing to give a group of police officers free burgers last week. [More]

I'm lovin' it.

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What You Have

 “What you have is a certain group of people, litigants and whatever, on whatever side, who their attitude is, ‘well the people who likely seem negligent have no money and the people who have money are not negligent. ” [Watch]

And the moderator just nodded, and no one yelled anything?

Anybody ticking off on the checklist...?

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Not That Facts Work

FIREARMS ACCIDENT FACTS [More]

If you care to engage with antis who rely on such arguments...

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Personal Fouls

 Former NFL player Phillip Adams, who shot to death six people and killed himself, suffered from CTE [More]

Add into the mix amphetamines and Kratum, for which there is no FDA-approved use, and the answer is clear: We must ban guns!

Either that or ban football and any contact sport with potentials for head injuries...

I wonder if there's a solution for handling people who can't be trusted with a gun that doesn't involve mandating bans on the rest of us...?

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We're the Only Ones Undetecting Enough

 As more homicide cases go unsolved, the backlog of unsolved murders grows and serial killers are free to kill again. Too few police departments are effectively deploying their resources to stop them. [More]

Priorities, you know...

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A Preemptive Strike

 DeSantis signed the bill (SB 1884) on Friday after the Republican-controlled Legislature passed it in party-line votes late last month. The bill, which will take effect July 1, will broaden a 2011 law that can make local governments pay as much as $100,000 in damages if they are sued for imposing gun regulations. [More]

Just a thought about unintended consequences, so someone with legal knowledge please give me a read here: Could that be used against "Second Amendment Sanctuary" cities and counties?

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The Wrong Questions

 Tampa terrorism case raises questions of surveillance, searches, mental illness [More]

Too true...

As is this.

The main questions this raises for me are how much less expensive and risky everything would be if the government really was rigorous where it counts the most, and why the bosses directing resource expenditures have been shifting them away from this to those they now smear as "greatest threats".

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Then They Came for the Gamers

 California and Five Other States Ban... Gaming Computers? [More]

And people who statistically are mostly fine with gun bans are coming unglued.

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Disaster Averted

 That day, my body inhaled molecules of white supremacy as they seeped out of my computer from that proctored Zoom room. They entered my bloodstream and catalyzed a metabolism that would allow for the invasion of my body by a violently infectious life form. [More]

I'd say it's a good thing for everyone concerned that she's decided not to be a doctor.

Although it won't surprise me to see mandatory vaccines for this in a couple years. Just not for everyone.

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