Saturday, August 18, 2012

Documents show prejudicial tactics helped result in Shipley conviction

"AUSA Fielden knowingly lied in front of the jury,” the source repeated. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at how prosecutorial misconduct on the back end forms a perfect pincer strategy with the front-end "enforcement" practice of turning a blind eye to guns being trafficked to Mexico.

Friday, August 17, 2012

Reports point to ATF oversight and authorization of illegal rifle sale

Today’s installment runs through two more documents provided to Gun Rights Examiner by a source close to the Shipley case, ATF ROIs that detail how the sale of the Barrett went down, introduce us to a mysterious stranger, and demonstrate that the transaction must have been authorized by ATF agents who had been closely monitoring things with FFL cooperation. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report asks why ATF hasn't done anything about an "illegal" sale that took place under their noses--and the only answer that makes sense is, that's the way they want it.

Attention Democrat Politicians:

Especially those of you who don't come from "safe" districts:  Listen to Media Matters.  Believe them.

Please.

Funny they don't tell their readers Yoho has an A rating, too...but pay no attention to that.

Go out there and run on  an anti-gun platform!

What are you afraid of, a myth?

We're the Only Ones Calling Enough

We are calling on our elected leaders and candidates to support background checks for all firearm purchasers and to restore the 1994 law that limited ammunition magazines to ten rounds. [More]
Hubert, Hubert, Hubert...

Speaking of calling...

Speaking of "Half-Assed"

But the incident demonstrated, graphically, how half-assed the rationale for an armed society really is. [More]
I see. One incident outweighs this.

Tell the truth, Dan Turner, you'd rather see all those people dead than armed.


We've put your anti-gun theory to the test, you enabling purveyor of cowardly snark.  Or more accurately, every vicious sociopath counting on his victims being disarmed has.

Ask the Expert

".44 Caliber Killer" Son of Sam has stopped listening to his dog long enough to warn "youts" against "glorifying" guns. [Read]

Somebody made an editorial decision that they wanted to get this diseased maniac's thoughts out there to exploit the weak-minded with. Talk about making the case for why New Yorkers should say the hell with the Sullivan (talk about another diseased maniac!) laws and do whatever it takes to protect themselves--but they won't, and they'll keep voting in fascists to tell them what they're allowed to do, and importantly, what  won't be permitted.

Here's what's most revealing about all this: Click on that link and look at how many "Authorized Journalists" decided this was a story important to propagate.  Compare that to their near-total abdication on Gunwalker--that is, unless they have something to say that will help derail finding out the truth.

Most of the "profession" truly is a forum for Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists.

Apartheid By Any Other Name

The University is using housing contracts to segregate those with concealed carry permits from those without permits. [More]
I thought housing discrimination was illegal...?

People Die

I hadn't seen this before. [Watch]

This is the arrogant incompetent who disparages bloggers because we're not real "Authorized Journalists" like him.  And we see what contributions to this story he has made.

We're the Only Ones Conducting Ourselves Enough

The nation’s police chiefs have adopted a code of conduct for their use of drones...[More]
They already have a code of conduct they routinely ignore.  Why should we think they'll honor this one?

A Good First Step

New Hampshire Adopts Jury Nullification Law [More]
We'll see how far judges let the boundaries get tested...

[Via Jeet]

Shooting Destination Night

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Projection

I have a lot of my own people I want to kill, far more than two, and here I am, a total stranger, using one of my two precious kills on him and asking nothing in return. A more selfish person would not kill that m...f...r—would want to hold on to his two kills for themself, to kill a bully at his son’s school, or the boy who breaks his daughter’s heart. But I’m not like that. I’m giving. I care, OK? And so I would take one of my kills and use it, without even being asked, to kill that m...f...r. That’s just the way I am. [More]
Just the way he is: a twisted windbag. He had a chance to stop an adult beating a child simply by stepping in and stopping it, and he didn't. Instead he fixates afterward in sick fantasy.

I'd say that explains this cowardly head case.

Pathetic. Contemptible. No wonder.

On the plus side, the quality of the opposition is encouraging.

[Via flylow]

This Day in History: August 17

We are now arrived at the middle of August – if we are able to undertake any thing in this quarter, this campaign, our operations must commence in less than a month from this, or it will be absolutely too late. [More]

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Documents confirm ATF surveillance in U.S. before gun found in Mexico

Today’s report, consisting of documents identified as #3, #4 and #5, will lay out the evidence that the dealer was cooperating with ATF in identifying and reporting on suspects being watched, establishing that it was well within the capability and power of agents to arrest the traffickers and intercept the gun Shipley sold before it was smuggled into Mexico, something that was later exploited with great effect by the prosecution to condemn the defendant in the eyes of the jury. For reference, those documents have been posted in this columnist’s Scribd account. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner exclusive follow-up report asks how a trafficking suspect under surveillance who lived in Juarez was able to buy a weapon under the noses of ATF watchers and then get it to Mexico.

Intelligence Dispatch to Obama #2

Really?  You're thinking about letting the string-pullers maneuver Hillary to within a heartbeat of the presidency?


Shalom in Our Time

The cowards at The Observer aren't taking comments. [Read]  

And the coward who grunted this out doesn't even accept them on his own.

On the plus side, it shows you the level of pathetic "argument" establishment-approved literati must resort to. But he's edgy, see, and really thinks he's clever, I suspect between bouts of self-realization that he's basically just an obnoxious fraud.

My friend Aaron would have called this despicable and worthless wretch a "bagel brain."

But I can't think of a more eloquent and deserved response than Arnhole's.

Intelligence Dispatch to Obama

STFU, you insufferable narcissist.  [Watch]

[Via Transsylvania Phoenix]

Malaysia's Deadly Love Affair with Tyranny

America’s deadly love affair with guns [More]
A Malaysian editorial criticizes our freedom.

Malaysia...isn't that where they arrest cartoonists?

And torture Christians?


And are ruled by a king they call "He who is made Lord", and "Supreme Ruler", and "Paramount Ruler", and "Supreme Head of State"?

Gee, bub, we have guns to help keep that kind of primitive insanity at bay. 

Religious groups divided on gun control, but united against guns in churches

Then they're not "divided on gun control." [Read]

What are they prepared to do about it if someone brings one in anyway?

The Immunity Syndrome

Gee, Officer Krupke,
We're down on our knees,
'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease.  
[From "West Side Story"]

Mike comments on the USA Today piece about the new push for the old deception to treat guns as a public health issue (I discussed this briefly on Sunday with Mark Walters on Armed American Radio). [Read]

I've got to get back into the next installment of the unfolding Shipley story, but wanted to make a few quick points.

First, note  one of the collectivist pseudo-scientists at the center of this is none other than the Hero of Medicine and star of "Where's Wintemute?"

Next, one of the assertions they make that  leaves a door wide open: If "gun violence" is a "disease," let's see if it behaves like others.  One of the things about a contagion is it spreads throughout a population, leveling those who come in contact with it, bringing down the high and the low without regard for trivial superficial social trappings, none of which result in immunity to basic biology where plague is concerned.

Now we need to ask if some segments of the populace are more susceptible to  the "disease" and if some show an inexplicable immunity.  I would submit that the 4+ million members of the NRA provide a good representative and statistically-valid sample of the latter. After all, they're one of the most heavily-armed populations on the planet, yet when was the last time you read about one of them doing a turf war drive-by or a liquor store robbery?  Why are there no recurring headlines documenting their being driven to kill because of "easy access" to guns?

Wouldn't a responsible methodology now consider the factors that exacerbate susceptibility for "gun violence" in one group and confer immunity in the other?

Otherwise, will the federal grant recipients at the Firearm Injury Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin suggest that the contagious be quarantined?

I don't suppose it occurs to those who would impose  a freedom quarantine on all of us that most "social diseases" are pretty much preventable with self-control and responsible behavior, like being mindful of who you choose to associate with and what you choose to do with them, and that the explanation for immunity lies therein?