'The reaction is, well, to hell with you.'

A-yup. [Watch]

How Can You Tell if the York Dispatch is Lying?

You can hear their keyboards tapping:

We're going to talk about gun control -- or rather, why we're not talking about gun control.

Good grief, that's just about all you Fourth Estate Fifth Columnist "Authorized Journalists" have been talking about!

Concealed Carry Killers!

Resident shoots, kills home intruder in Sarasota [More] 

Another of Josh's murderous gun fanatics, no doubt, adding to their bloody "gun death" toll.

Still, if the guy was in his home, why did he need to show police a concealed carry permit?

Through the Eyes of the Chairman

“We have a proliferation of guns, automatic weapons that I just can justify the need for in the hands of the average citizen,” says Chairman John Rhea of the NYC Housing Authority,  “ the guns are killing people.. this gun buyback is important in a number of ways first to tell those who have handguns that we want them off the street… and to the broader community that this is a plague.” [More]

Just wow. On so many levels.

Meanwhile, Over in Furious Mike Paradise

NYC Mayor Blows Up...[More]

Dang. Not really.  I should have stopped before "up."

I love the outraged, crusading "Authorized Journalist," dragging South African apartheid into the story, plus the way Furious Mike and his youthful ward Ray bob and weave and deny official hypocrisy.

If I were Georgia Arms, I set some of those casings aside and maybe mount them on a small plaque or something, with a picture of an angry Bloomie, to sell as commemorative collector's items. One of those would look great on my mantle, right between my personalized ATF Emporium diorama and my Center for Biological Diversity gorilla hand ashtray.

Democrats line up to support tougher California assault weapons law

In other news, the sun rose in the east this morning...[Read]

A Random Act?

Mike explains a goal and a strategy that ought to scare the hell out of everyone if it becomes more widely emulated.  What role embedded assets would play in suggesting/encouraging that remains to be fathomed. [Read]

This Day in History: August 8

This battle took place August 8, 1780 during the Revolutionary War period. The British from Fort Detroit were supplying the natives to attack the colonists in Kentucky and elsewhere. The British built a stockade fort for the Shawnee at their village, which you can see in the upper right corner of image. [More]

A Matter of Emphasis

Woman Robbed With Semi-Automatic Weapon...a robber with a semi-automatic weapon...the robber was armed with a black semi-automatic pistol... a man suspected of robbing a woman with a semi-automatic weapon... [More] 

Everybody got what kind of gun it was, right? Good ol' "Authorized Journalists"!

Forget it Jake, it's CBS2 Chi-Town.

We're the Only Ones Fearing-Impaired Enough

Police use Taser on deaf crime victim [More]

Hey, Koskovich wanted to get home at the end of his shift.

[Via William T]

Now THAT'S Funny

Len Savage, on hooking up with me and Mike at this weekend's Georgia Carry Convention:

If nothing else, if the three of us get together, satellites may crash into one another...

The Most Important Press Conference in U.S. History

Part I.

Part II.

So naturally it will go unnoticed by most and unpublicized by the "Authorized Journalists."  And naturally, the ones bringing this to us in spite of that are struggling to keep the doors open.

A generality I've noticed: "We" have the grassroots. "They" don't.  "They" have the financial backers. "We" don't.

There is a way around that--but it means "we" need to actually be personally willing to commit effort and treasure.  Unfortunately, another generality I've noticed is that much of the professed support limits itself to making an occasional comment on a blog post--when it comes time to actually do something, be it to send a small donation or volunteer some time or send a letter or email, or even share a frickin' link, far too many figure somebody else is going to do it and the absence of their shoulder from the wheel won't be missed.

I wish I knew how to change that, but I don't.  And I fear much suffering that could have been prevented will visit us all because of it.

This Day in History: August 7

The Burning of Mouzon's Home by his "Friend" [More]

About Last Night...

...on Armed American Radio:

• 8-5-2012 Hour 1:  Mark Walters, producer Sean C. Young and guest host "Newschick" Val DeOre.
• 8-5-2012 Hour 2: Mark, Sean and Val are joined by Hank Whaley of PennyGunAuction.com and Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation.
• 8-5-2012 Hour 3:  George "Mad Ogre" Hill and I chime in and talk everything from Gunwalker to the Reese trial to grilling while armed.

Worth Finding the Answer To

He was kicked out of the U.S. Army in 1998 for reasons unknown. [More]

 So was he a "prohibited person"?

I'm Not a Gun Owner, BUT...

Bruce Bialosky, you get it.  Good man!  [Read]

Previously unknown program of strict gun control made public by news agency

Importantly, and lending teeth to the measure, “[t]hose who violate the rules, resulting in ‘stern consequences,’ are subject to administrative and criminal liabilities.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report evaluates some "common sense gun safety regulations."

A Sign of the Times

I'll bet these work a whole lot better than the other kind. [View]

Streamlining Tyranny

Maybe if they got rid of unconstitutional offices, they wouldn't need to make the approval process more efficient. [Read]

[Via DMJ]

A Punishment Befitting the Crime

A weapon tied to "Operation Fast and Furious" was seized in Tijuana in connection with a drug cartel's conspiracy to kill the police chief of Tijuana, Baja California, who later became the Juárez police chief, according to a U.S. government report. [More]

Project Gunwhacker?

Hmmm.  This sounds like a personnel policy matter.  Maybe we need to reassign some people!