Fisk of Fury

Take that, Katherine Eban! [Read]

Zara Kessler's Indirect Donation to NAMBLA

Using the same "logic" and dot-connecting this regressive twit does, we can demonstrate that if stupidly obnoxious Zara and her Fourth Estate Fifth Columnist Bloomberg employers pay taxes, they help finance roads that sexual predators use to drive to locations where they can either molest children or escape afterward. And if they're driving a General Motors or Chrysler car, Obama's subsidizing them!  [Read]

Seriously, if we play by her rules and go full Simple Jack, we can stretch it that much now.

Sure, I realize that applies to anyone who pays taxes.  The point is, how much more of an indication do we need that the antis are desperate and grasping for any straw they can get their clutches on beyond pathetic "arguments" like this advanced by a major "news" outlet?

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

UK police arrest man over Twitter insult [More] 

Why did Americans die defending these people again?

Undocumented Berserkers

Report: Illegals released by feds committed 19 murders, 142 sex crimes [More]

And it doesn't look like the screening system for the ones they do document is all that hot, either.

Reese Family Update

From the family spokesperson, via email:

Yesterday was another day of hard hitting tactics from the government ! Rick finished up on the stand. They (gov.) tried hard to show Rick wasn't being honest with them , and you could see he was answering all the questions set forth to him ! Time and again they could not prove that Rick did anything wrong !! Also that all the assets and moneys were all accounted for !! Terri took the stand later, in the day; she will continue to tell the truth again ! All the prayers are working.

Also see yesterday's GRE. A man who was rejected for jury service on the case by the prosecution left an informative and enlightening comment.

We're the Only Ones All Choked Up Enough

A Port Orange police officer asked a woman to show him how her husband tried to strangle her and when the woman put two fingers on the policeman's neck, she got arrested, records show. [More]

Why would you do that, Officer Michael Garay?

Why?

[Via Kevin Starrett]

Resistance is Futile

When They Come For Your Guns . . . You Will Turn Them Over [More]

Jim Karger said it, I believe it, that settles it.

That's because he's already given his up, what with emigrating to Mexico where he eat gluten-free pancakes all day under the protection of...how do you say "monoply of violence" in Spanish?

And if you don't think you're up to resisting domestic enemies, why, Heaven forbid that you would stand up to foreign ones.

Shame on Lou Rockwell.com for publishing this defeatist, cowardly screed for cattle car riders and slaves. Just because Karger doesn't have the imagination or the guts to realize a workaround to dying on his own doorstep doesn't mean better, that is, more experienced/informed minds, aren't prepared to be a significant deterrent to tyranny, and that those who would gather up the guns don't know that they can be reached before and after a raid.

[Via Ron W]

The Main Advantage

The main advantage of forcing into the black market men who wish to build arsenals is that police get a chance of coming into contact with them. [More]

Like Los Zetas in Mexico?  Yeah, let's emulate that model!

Ol' Myron B. Pitts here writing for FayObserver.com isn't very observant.

Down But Not Out

If promoters have their way, the Arms Trade Treaty will be back for a rematch. [Read]

Congressional Fast and Furious report released in advance to chosen few

Those reports are out there already influencing public perception, while “unauthorized journalists” not so favored are playing catch-up just to reach limited niche readerships. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes that it wasn't elite exclusivity that uncovered the mess and got it noticed, and turning things over to those who first ignored it and then spun it is no way to manage information.

This Day in History: July 31

On July 31st, the opening of communications with Rochembeau begins, at the same time as the duties of the Westchester front. The communications needed to be secure, secret and quick. Sheldon was to establish his part from Gen. Washington’s headquarters, wherever he was, to New London. [More]

Gun dealer Reese takes defense stand in firearms smuggling case

“I would have thrown [government informant Jose Roman] out of the store," the Las Cruces-Sun News reported Reese maintaining under oath. "I would not put my wife and sons in harm's way, ever." [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there are those who are trying their utmost to do just that, and asks why the State Department can make an appearance here but not in the case where the government did what they're accusing the Reeses of.

About Last Night

I think we had a pretty darn good show last night on Armed American Radio.   Aside from me, and I managed to be wheedle an invite into all three hours, Mark Walters' guests included "Bill O'Reilly,"  Alan Korwin, Larry Pratt and "Roundtable" regular George "Mad Ogre" Hill.

Listen at your leisure (and tell a friend):

• 7-29-2012 Hour 1 ("Bill O'Reilly," Alan Korwin)
• 7-29-2012 Hour 2 (Alan Korwin, Larry Pratt)
• 7-29-2012 Hour 3 (Roundtable)

All By Their Own Self

Look, guys, you did good, and no doubt you did quite a bit of the heavy lifting, and thanks and all, but good grief, what is it with you always taking all the credit?

Taken for Granted

Would somebody please explain things to David Bolduc?  [Read]

In the Hands of Soldiers

What kind of criminal would want it otherwise? [View]

If You Foreigners Don't Like It...

...ain't nothing keeping you here. [Read]

 [Via Seamus F]

Meanwhile, Over in Third-Ranked Brady Paradise...

Mass. dad shoots his 2 kids, 1 fatally, kills self [More]

I don't understand.

Dr. Suzanne just got done telling us "In my own practice, most patients I ask about guns tell me that they don’t own any. This isn’t surprising because Massachusetts has one of the lowest gun ownership rates of any state (and, as it happens, the lowest rate of gun-related deaths)."

So that means we need "laws" even more draconian than they have in Kennedyland?  What kind of "slippery slope paranoid" would think that's the agenda?

Ask Dr. Suzanne!

Dear Dr. Suzanne,

I hear this ticking noise coming from under the hood of my restored '65 Buick Special.  It's got the old Wildcat 310 V8 and standard "three-on-the-tree" manual transmission.  It does pretty good on oil and I checked all the belts and nothing seems to be leaking anywhere. 

What would you recommended I look at next?

What?  You have no fricking idea?

Well what makes you think you're qualified to give advice on gun safety and storage as if you're an authority and know what the hell you're talking about on issues outside of the practice of medicine? Just because you're a doctor?

What kind of gun safety training and certification have you obtained, and what are the qualifications of the accrediting body? Will you list your credentials for us?

Will your malpractice insurance cover you if someone gets hurt or killed listening to you because they were unable to retrieve and enable a locked and unloaded gun in time to respond to an emergency need? Will you assume personal liability if it does not?

See, after the car part, doc, you ought to be able to answer all of those questions if you're going to be responsible for your professional counsel.

If I were one of your patients, I'd insist on it.

For All You 'Slippery Slope Paranoids'

It could have happened here in New Jersey...Our laws have been ranked the nation’s second-best by the Brady Campaign...[More]

So it could have happened in spite of that?  Which means you want:

Hit it, Oliver Twist.