Taking a Powder

Actually, taking a break -- a quick one, from writing my latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column (deadline today, so I'm hustling) -- to make one quick observation:

The lunatic who sent white powder to Donald Trump. Jr...?

Check out his Facebook page while it's still up -- he's a big fan of the Young Anti-Gun Communist League. Not really much of a surprise.

I guess when you know you can't be trusted with corn starch, realizing others may actually be able to exercise responsibility as adult human beings and not need to be controlled is probably pretty enraging.

On the plus side, his to-date empty dance card ought to be filling right up.

OK, back to work...

And still won't be ready for tips, probably 'til Monday.

DSM Shares Preference for Chinese Communist Propaganda over Bill of Rights

We could do this all day, but let’s stipulate that even knowing how the government and the “news” puppets it controls censor out information embarrassing to the regime, your chances of getting shot on the South Side of Chicago are greater than meeting a similar fate in Beijing. That said, if you’re more interested in your chances of getting crushed to death by government tanks or mowed down by machineguns, or bayoneted as you beg for your life with your body then burned and your blood hosed down the drain, then have Yu Ning’s masters got some human rights examples for you! [More]

Who better to template “progressive” U.S. efforts on than proven experts in both centralized “human rights” and the benefits of an unarmed citizenry?

There's a Word for That

Trump: 'Take the guns first, go through due process second' [More]

That's called "tyranny." No prominent Democrat would be allowed to get away with saying that without enraging every gun owner rights advocate out there.

You don't have enough enemies who want to see you impeached and even imprisoned?

I strongly suggest you rethink what you just blurted out and then explain yourself in detail and apologize for misspeaking, because if that wasn't just running your mouth before thinking it through, you've just put yourself on equal footing with the worst of them.

Due process as an afterthought, Mr. President? How about if we have Mueller do that with you?

Dicking with Dick's

I just had a thought on my Dick's Sporting Goods piece. I'm not a lawyer, so bear with me on this.

If they refuse to sell rifles to citizens under 21 where it is lawful to do so, how is that not challengeable in court? Protected classes included things like race, sex, religion, "orientation" and age, right? They couldn't refuse to sell you a rifle because you're a minority or a woman or Muslim or a gay, could they?

Any lawyers out there care to share your expertise, or maybe just cut to the chase and find plaintiffs to initiate a class action lawsuit?

UPDATE: Prof. Volokh says "Depends..."

Dick’s Leads the Way on Divide-and-Conquer Defeatism

Besides, Dick’s has gone beyond just controlling its own business. They’ve joined forces with the gun-grabbers to try and control ours. [More]

Why give aid and comfort to a sniveling pseudo-capitalist rope-seller that has gone out of its way to attack our rights when there are plenty of patriotic American businesses deserving of our patronage?

From the Fine Folks Who Prefer Murdered Children Over Lawfully-Armed Citizens

In Oath Keepers Webinar, Student Gun Control Activists Are ‘The Enemy’ [More]

I'm glad I didn't talk to her when she solicited comments from me. She's clearly an apparatchik with no regard for understanding readily findable reality and truth ("militia group ... anti-government" ) or context.

And goddamn right. Anyone who wants to disarm the American people is an enemy. Be interesting to see what all those smug superior beings would be prepared to do if a need to defend themselves ever arose.

And keep those comments classy, progtards.  I especially like the one making fun of me for having pneumonia.

One School Shooting Killed Hundreds Despite Gun-Grabber Wish List of Edicts in Place

Now think what the emotion-driven antis, vampire politicians and the DSM would do if a school massacre on that scale were to take place in the United States, especially on the heels of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. [More]

The same people who want to disarm us are the very ones setting up all the necessary conditions for an American Beslan.

Readiness Review

Still recovering. For the balance of the week I'm going to work on article announcements and commitments, plus do a few blog posts. But I'm still not ready to give tips the attention they deserve and comment mod will be even slower than usual.

And the Fix Is In

Couldn't get four to agree to hear the obvious, huh? [More]

Good thing this has absolutely nothing to do with that "single issue."

Isn't that right, everyone with a voice who represents himself as "pro-gun" and has deliberately stayed silent on this?

State of Disunion – Besieged on All Sides: Outline for My Portion of Tonight’s Webinar

Oath Keepers will be hosting a webinar tonight on “The Florida School Shooting and How to Counter Renewed Efforts to Disarm Us.” I’ll be joining author Matt Bracken and Stewart Rhodes tonight at 9 Eastern. These are the topics I intend to cover, presented here to give those undecided on participating an idea of information to be shared, and to keep things organized so that webinar attendees can follow along. [More]

I hope you can join us.

Slow Going Ahead

After a week of a steadily worsening cough to the point that I'd have to fight blacking out (along with plenty of other symptoms), I bit the bullet and went to urgent care yesterday in the hopes of scoring some antibiotics and prescription cough syrup. They checked me into their emergency wing, hooked me up to an IV and ran a battery of tests, including EKG and x-rays.

Pneumonia.  They wanted to transfer me to the hospital. I persuaded them to release me and let me self-monitor at home with the promise that if conditions worsen I won't be stupid, so here I am with those antibiotics and that prescription cough syrup I went in for in the first place. There's a whole story about U.S. health care costs, including malpractice-driven overcautiousness in here.

Bottom line -- Drained and struggling to focus though I may be, I've got over a hundred emails waiting for me, most with tip links. I'm not going to get to most of them. And just because I don't do much blogging on weekends doesn't mean there isn't plenty going on behind the scenes. This weekend there wasn't, and I'm in a hole.

My goal today is to prep for tonight's Oath Keepers webinar (register here) and to get another AmmoLand article done, and to do another article for each by month's end, at which point my GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column deadline hits. All without overtaxing myself and getting plenty of rest and fluids.

So if you're one of those who took the time to find a story of interest and send me the link, thank you. Just please understand if I can't get to it and if my priorities over the next few days preclude many tip responses.

Raising Rifle-Buying Age to 21 Leads to Inconvenient Truth

But what these examples of past freedoms enjoyed by young people throughout our history prove beyond any doubt is that we, who they furiously demand to disarm, could be trusted with guns when we were young, as could those who raised us. [More]

Republicans either need to stop being useful idiots or else admit the false “conservative” wing is — and has been all along — a controlled opposition con job.

They Don't Even Pretend to Be Objective

Here's definitive proof that a good guy with a gun doesn't always stop a bad guy with a gun [More]

No one said they "always" would. Especially if they're cowardly the "Only Ones" CNN is stumping for.

Florida Action

The candidates who came to us as Florida Gun Owners during the primaries have now become lawmakers. Those lawmakers are now being pressured in to selling us out. [More]

If you're an active Florida gun owner rights advocate, you know who is best to approach. If you're not and you don't, whose responsibility is it to fix that without delay?

People Who Live in Glass Houses

So you're saying misery loves company? [More]

Not that I believe any claim they make. Note they don't say "who"?

[Via Roger J]

Think of the Good We Could Do if We Put that on Pay-per-View

“As a non-black person of color, my place here is not to speak for my black family members…My place here is as an accomplice, to throw my body into the twin, heartless gears of white supremacy and anti-black racism that run this city and university — to force them to grind to a halt.” [More]

Damn. Get rid of the belly-bar safety shutoff and I used to have just the mill for that in the old pharm rubber department I used to be foreman of back in the late Seventies. Alas -- a Democrat-dominated union strike where  we supes got office workers up to 98% efficiency within a week convinced management to move operations to a clima más amigable...

At least the town now has a Fin Feather Fur.

[Via Michael G]

Sticking with What Works

GUN CONTROL IDIOT, JERRY BROWN, SIGNS BILL MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO STOP A SCHOOL SHOOTING WITH A GUN [More]

Idiot? I dunno-- I think he knows exactly what he's doing by further ensuring utter reactionary helplessness. A couple more, especially if they're high-profile events, and watch all politicians suddenly "see the light." 

Mission accomplished! At least in the headlines.

On the positive side. I'd expect Wayne and Chris probably have pretty good retirement packages.

[Via Michael G]

Be Careful Who You Get in Bed With

Gov. Greitens indicted for felony invasion of privacy stemming from affair [More]

Thanks goodness the Lairds of Fairfax left themselves an out...

[Via Steve T] 

Enforce Existing Intolerable Acts?

I have an idea: Trump should propose legislation that exactly replicates existing gun laws. [More]

I have a better idea: REPEAL existing gun laws.

It'll never happen? Politically, probably no.

[Via Michael G]

Bravo

I for one am SICK TO DEATH of fake news outlets pretending this is about a rifle- its not. [More]

Read the entire thread.

Now share it.


[Via Florida Guy]