We're the Only Ones "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" Enough

Cleveland police suspend 63 officers who fired 137 shots killing unarmed man and woman in high-speed chase after pair panicked and sped off while being pulled over [More] 

Maybe that's what happened to that woman in DC...

Our community heroes.

[Via several of you]

Good Samaritan Redux

Tonight on ATSNtv's "Stop the Threat"... [Details]

We're the Only Ones Looking Up Enough

A federal air marshal is accused of using his cell phone to take pictures underneath women's dresses as they boarded a flight at Nashville International Airport. [More] 

Hey, what's security theater without a little gratuitous sex?

[Via Florida Guy] 

If We Must Die

Claude McKay's collectivist leanings notwithstanding (which he ended up disappointed with, converting to Catholicism toward the end of his life), there is still truth inspiring to freedom fighters in this work:

If We Must Die

If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Of course, all things considered, it may not be as romantic and poetic, but there is a preferred alternative...

This Day in History: October 18

My Lord: To avoid unnecessary Discussions and Delays, I shall at Once, in Answer to your Lordships Letter of Yesterday,declare the general Basis upon which a Definitive Treaty and Capitulation must take place. [More]

Divergent views emerging on ATF gun trust rulemaking

In a related development, Gun Rights Examiner has learned that the National Firearms Act Trade and Collectors Association recently posted their petition that started this process. Previously, they had only posted an overview of their request. [More]

This evening’s Gun Rights Examiner column notes that collected comments, as opposed to collector comments, can be two very different things.

It's Not the Gun

It's the person. [Watch]

A-yup.

And this is the most right-on bit of common sense I've heard in a long time:

...If I ran a large corporation, I would make personal protection training a part of coming into work...

Compare that to what these gasbags insist on.

I'd add that I'd encourage people be armed, have an on-premises range, host and subsidize after-hours training sessions and  come up with perks for personnel who obtained basic and advanced certifications.

We'd also have one hell of a company picnic.

Revolvers are Obsolete?

HPS says you might want to rethink that. [More]

One size does not fit all.

We're the Only Ones Whistleplugging Enough

In Furious Mike Paradise, naturally... [More]

[Via Florida Guy]

Brady LoonFest '13

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We're the Only Ones Not Passing the Smell Test Enough

Police smell meth, raid home, kill 80-year-old man, find no meth [More] 

This guy Steve Whitmore is a real piece of...work.

Damn Lax American Gun Laws....

...it adds to the toll of lives taken with weapons trafficked by suspects U.S. officials watched but did not stop. [More]

Ah yes, more fallout from Project Bombwalker...

Say, maybe if we required border gun stores to report multiple sales of grenades and IEDs...

DOD ‘authorized leakers’ directive bodes ill for whistleblowers

Pointing out parallels and equivalence between “authorized leakers” and “Authorized Journalists” hardly seems unfounded. Extrapolating the same principle, it’s easy to envision Dianne Feinstein demanding special protections for “real leakers,” and Joe Biden envisioning how “legitimate news leakers" can help the administration advance its goals. [More] 

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes the new protocol for getting government‘s OK to ta…uh…make a leak.

Minority Report

From the files of the Department of Pre-Crime... [Watch]

Hey, if you never intend to do anything "wrong" by breaking any laws, including those that haven't even been written yet, you've got nothing to worry about.

[Via Florida Guy]

Does Not Fit the Narrative

I don't get it. I mean, Violence Policy Center calls 'em "Concealed Carry Killers," and has done Google searches and everything to come up with a handful of anecdotes over the years... [More]

Freezing Your Assets off

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided on Wednesday on whether criminal defendants can challenge a court's decision to freeze their assets before trial. [More]

What kind of idiot thinks we're supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty?

Besides, no one cares about this, as the ongoing ordeal of the Reese family demonstrates. I prove that every time I publish an update about them and watch readership plummet after begging readers to share what no one else will report on, and maybe kick a couple bucks their way.  But I keep doing it anyway, because I'm stupid or something.

[Via Mama Liberty]

No Big Deal

Was it good for you? [More]

Hey what do you expect? It's Yale.

Lux et veritas!

EXACTLY!

Representative Aaron Schock of Illinois said the lesson of the episode was that Boehner should cut out the far-right flank and work with centrist Democrats. [More]

J**** C*****, where do they get these f****** idiots?

A Question for the "Enforce Existing Gun Laws" Crowd

So when this passes, that sentiment will apply here, too? [More]

A Message for Nigel

Some Brit from the UN presumes to condemn "Stand Your Ground" as a human rights violation, but is frustrated by those bloody rebellious tea-partying colonists. [More]

I say, Nigel, old bean, do try to enforce your demands, there's a good chap.  And Happy Up Yours at Yorktown Day!

[Via Florida Guy]