Bill Russell arrest shows even doctrinaire Obama supporters value guns

That Russell actively supports an administration hostile to private gun ownership may seem self-defeating, particularly since Illinois Senate candidate Barack Obama answered “Yes” on a questionnaire asking “Do you support state legislation to … ban the manufacture and possession of handguns?” [More] 

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes flagrant technical fouls, personal fouls, penalties and no small amount of double dribbling.

Patron Saint of Stooge Media

Omidyar, by contrast, has opened his checkbook mostly to the Democratic Party. [More]

Because "legitimate media" just isn't "progressive" enough...

Who better to exert such powerful influence than  a guy whose flagship company mandates this policy?

Another "Shutdown" Benefit

Kurt elaborates on our old chum Nigel and his merry co-conspirators. [More]

Booting the UN ought to be a political litmus test.

Teach Your Children Well

That's quite some "enrichment exercise." So much for "zero tolerance" and "no bullying" policies. [More]

Can you imagine being Ken Derksen, and knowing your function in life is to be an excuse-making flack? Must be nice to be on that public school gravy train, where they can afford "public information officers."

The moron who planned this, the moron who approved it, the moron who did it and every moron who participated in it deserve to have the same thing happened to them and their families.

I was hoping it would also be a prosecutable crime, but NC statutes would appear to give them a pass on at least one count:

(g) This section shall not apply to any of the following:

(1)        A weapon used solely for educational or school-sanctioned ceremonial purposes, or used in a school-approved program conducted under the supervision of an adult whose supervision has been approved by the school authority.

I suppose it could also be argued a toy gun is not really a "weapon" for the purposes of the statute, but I still question whether or not assault and some sort of terrorism charges could be applied... and then there's that business about adult supervision...

And they wonder why the weakest ones snap.

[Via Jeffersonian]

The Biggest Lie

Currency. [Watch]

Why would auditing the Fed even be controversial for anyone with honest motives?

[Via Joe G]

About That Mental Health Blanket Dragnet

By virtue of the fact that it's a net means it's mostly made of holes. [More]

Not that Wayne and NSSF and all the other proponents of throwing one group down to gain traction for the bus wheels will stop undermining the fact that "gun control" does not work.  Not the "enforce existing intolerable acts" kind, nor the "touch a gun get five years in jail" kind, or any of the other nonsense they endorse.

Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian.  Some may not like that simple truth, but they can't invalidate it.

Until that truth is first acknowledged and then acted upon, any public policy response denying it will be certifiably nuts -- or calculatedly evil.

[Via William T]

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

[More]

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]