Have a Blessed Christmas

My Christmas wish for you is that you have as much love in your life as I have been fortunate to find in mine. It surely beats all the riches in the world. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner piece repeats my traditional message of gratitude to, and hopes for, you who share with me in promoting and spreading Peace on Earth through individual Liberty and Security.

Merry Christmas.

Nadler parrots falsehoods stumping for gun bans, extols ‘monopoly of violence’

“[T]he state ought to have a monopoly on legitimate violence,” Nadler continued, parroting a prime National Coalition to Ban Handguns talking point, which in itself relies on German sociologist Max Weber, whose support for amending the Weimar constitution abetted the establishment of emergency powers to bypass Reichstag consent, allowing Adolf Hitler's rise to unchallenged power.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes what liars those who demand we bend our knee and bare our throats to them are.

An Act of Hatred

We need to make it a project after Christmas to find and publicize the home addresses of everyone responsible for this. If people's family members were hurt or killed as a result of this, would it be that mystifying to think some might forgo the lawsuits and seek personal retribution? [Read]

God, this is outrageous!

[Via  Robert F]

There's Something About Bruce

Bruce Abernathy walked away with an assault rifle after sitting through a 30-minute background check at the Texas show.

"There should be more strict background checks," said Abernathy, a Dallas resident. He said there should be a 30-day waiting period to buy weapons and a thorough background check that includes five references. [More]

Fudds aside, how is it possible ignoramuses like this exist among semi-auto owners?

Locke's Left Hand

Please welcome a new addition to the WoGroll. And a "liberal" one at that. [Read]

A Romanian Christmas of Days Gone By

Someone who actually knows what he's talking about tells us what it was like, and then he makes a solemn pledge.

Understand what those shrieking for a monopoly of violence are siding with, whether they know it or are just useful idiots.

No Place is Immune

Still, seeing this kind of foolishness coming out of Alaska is disappointing -- for some reason, I've been operating under the comforting illusion that somehow, things were different there.  [Read]

I'm sure those who live there and have experience with these character at the ADN aren't surprised though... Maybe this is just a case of the cold keeping things from spoiling as quickly.

Protecting Our Most Precious Assets

Thank God they're safe! [Read]

A Funny Thing Happened at the Exclusive Hollywood Benefit Screening

We just saw some Hollywood celebrities demanding disarmament.

They really ought to sit down and talk with this guy before being so cavalier about it.  Funny, how the mob didn't see sympathetic "progressives."  It only saw potential victims.

We've visited Mr. Avrech's work before here, some years back. He sure knows how to tell a story. This reminds me I'll need to make the time to visit it more often.

Celebrity Demands

While the NRA takes aim at Hollywood for promoting violence, more than two-dozen A-list celebs fired back today with a new YouTube video demanding a plan to reign in gun crime. [Watch] 

There's only one appropriate response to these vacuous, over-privileged dilettantes, and Skip Coolzip's got it.

Book 'em, Danno

Be interesting to see if anything happens with this. [Read]

I- I-Me-Me-Mine

I suggest having this playing in the background before reading this.

Not that Inouye was any great pal, but it does give further insight into the Narcissist-in-Chief.

This Day in History: December 24

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NRA and LaPierre unite disarmament advocates as gun owners remain divided

True, LaPierre's more moderate approach does seem to some as the more pragmatic path, but that presupposes moderation works against a lynch mob, which is what he, and we, are facing. [More]

This evening's Gun Rights Examiner commentary does a postmortem on yesterday's NRA presser, and anticipates that traps are being set for tomorrow morning's scheduled ambush on "Meet the Press."

You Know That "National Conversation on Guns" All the Antis Wanted to Have?

It was never really a conversation. It wasn't even a monologue. It was a dictation of the terms of surrender: Obey or die. [Read] 

Good job, Kurt, as always.

I'm exhausted, it's snowing, I've had a hell of a day, it's Friday night and I'm shutting down. Don't expect emails answered or comments moderated for the rest of the day. 

Today's NRA Press Conference Live Streaming

Watch below at the appointed hour:

I just noticed I can see this in IE but not in Firefox. If you have problems viewing this here, go to the NRA site.

The Nazgul Speaks

I say all of this as a gun owner. I say it as a conservative who was appointed to the federal bench by a Republican president. [More] 

Sounds more to me like you say this as a traitor. Really, judge? Confiscation?And if you could ignore the rest of the Bill of Rights you talk about making it "a capital offense to so much as look at a gun"?

What a bloody-minded fascist.  I guess at some point, if things don't simmer down, he and his are going to try to kill me and mine.

And, depending on where you stand, you and yours.

Get Smart

"I was literally pulling my hair out," McNamara said. "I thought, we have a technology that could have helped prevent that massacre."

That technology places a radio chip in a gun handle and a corresponding chip on a ring or bracelet or even implanted in an authorized shooter's hand, McNamara said. If the two chips are not within an inch or two (2.5 to 5 cm) of each other, the trigger will not unlock. [More]

Keep pulling, Mac. Your stupid gizmo would have had no effect on Sandy Hook.  All Adam would have had to do is kill his mother by other means and he could have helped himself to the bracelet or ring, or pried the chip out of her cold, dead hands with a screwdriver.

What a dumb idea.

It always has been.

Our Opinion

A reasonable question is: Who needs what kind of weapon? [More]

Some of us don't find that presumption a given.

Grassley Wants Knife Control, Too

What an idiot. No wonder Obama and Holder outsmart these guys at every turn. [Read]