Does It Get More Inhumane?

Deported 4 times, KC-area Mexican man with violent past faces 6 years in prison [More]

What...?

They're going to separate him from his family...???

[Via bondmen]

Half the Equation

Although England’s 1689 Bill of Rights recognized the right to possess defensive arms, that right is now a dead letter, as are many of the others enumerated in that document. So today, Great Britain has trapped itself in a vicious cycle of rising crime and intensifying repression. [More]

Good but incomplete analysis... With neocon interests like NRO and Cato, there's no mention of "migration" factors that make the rise in violence inevitable.

They do that here, too, and actually go the next step to dismissing concerns ands promoting more. You'd think one of them could take the challenge and pass.

[Via Roger J]

Well That Might Explain Some Things

Feds Scramble after Las Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Lists FBI as Place of Employment on Loan Application; ‘She Might have Been an Asset’ [More]

I need to see more documentation before taking this at face value, but if it bears out, it explains some of the recalcitrance. If so, we'll see if this lawsuit can bear any fruit, provided the judge is curious, too.

A New Maxim

Anyone who can't be trusted with fingers can't be trusted with air. [More]

A One-Word Answer

Yes. [More]

‘I was Treated Like a Piece of Meat’

And your point is...? [More]

You were "pressured"?  Guess what you were free to do but chose not to?

Haggling over price, are we?

One Question

Who is this talentless asshole? [Watch]

Make it two questions: Why is he appropriating an accent?

"Comments are disabled," naturally.

In the Aggregate

Join The Gun Feed’s Patreon page…[More]

As I've said before:

It's a really good aggregator. And with routine suppression from news feeds, the dominance of "mainstream media" agenda spin and social media bias, we need all the channels of truth dissemination we can get.

We're the Only Ones Making Sure Enough

The release says police told the man to lower his weapon, but the man refused before shooting and killing himself. According to police, an officer then accidentally pulled the trigger of his gun three times. They say one of those bullets hit the man who had just taken his life. [More]

Damn dead people never listen.

‘FG42’ Profiles Revolutionary, Near-Forgotten Classic in Words and Pictures

What happened up to and including postwar designer shortsightedness and the renewed interest with SMG Guns reproductions is recounted in a painstakingly researched and attributed narrative supported by unique historical and original contemporary photographs. “FG42” fulfills John’s goal, in his own words, for “writing a story about a firearm longer than the 2,000 or 2,500 words allowed most firearm articles in magazines.” [More]

I don't talk all that much about guns per se because I'm not a hardware guy. Jeff John is, and he's a superb writer, photographer and artist to boot.

The Littlest Extortionist

About that suicide demand...

Bear thinks it's a crime.

As Florida Goes

Democrats, meanwhile, rejected the moderate Graham in favor of Gillum, a Bernie Sanders-backed progressive who championed "Medicare-for-all" single-payer health insurance. His win highlights a Democratic Party embracing youth, energy and progressive policy stances. [More]

This will be a great chance to demoralize immature collectivists who believe all they have to do is be indignant and obnoxious about everything and they'll get adoration from the media and everything they demand. That is, provided gun owners do their part.

Republican DeSantis got an "A" from Fairfax, which backed his primary opponent with an "A+." What he got from GOA is unclear, as they have apparently taken down their simple to grok candidate grades and replaced them with a hard-to-follow "gun votes" matrix lumping all states and reps together, so that by the time you scroll down and find DeSantis, you have no idea what the header categories are (or what they really mean). Maybe I missed the grades page, and if I did all I can say is I used to be able to find it with ease under the home page "Resources" tab.

KISS, guys. With the importance of the midterms, this just baffles me. I shouldn't have to use the Wayback Machine to find out that in 2016 you gave the guy an "A." Most gun owners don't even know that resource exists.

There's one other resource for an inextricably entwined issue of vital importance to gun owners -- not that anyone besides me and a few others ever even mention it. DeSantis gets an "A+" from NumbersUSA.  Predictably, the Beltway access über alles boys favored the guy with the mediocre "C+".

UPDATE: Oh no he didn't! Jeez guy, really? Congratulations on cluelessly creating an exploitable meme that's going to follow you around the rest of this campaign and beyond -- and be used to smear your supporters.

McSally Forth

McSally had 51.4 percent, or 196,452 votes, to Ward's 28.6 percent, or 109,105 votes, and Arpaio's 20 percent, or 76,517 votes, with 58 percent of precincts reporting. [More]

Now we get to see if all that "hardline" campaign immigration talk was just that.

I don't know what the hell Arpaio or his voters were thinking to sink Ward's chances like that when he predictably had none.

The Most Busted Name in News Redux

CNN, Credibly Accused of Lying to its Audience About a Key Claim in its Blockbuster Cohen Story, Refuses to Comment [More]

Say, aren't they the ones complaining about all that "fake news" and then lying about it?

This is getting to be a regular thing around here.

I Don't Suppose We Can Narrow Down Population Specifics?

Experts say many factors have contributed to the rapid rise, though the biggest one may be less frequent condom use. [More]

Yeah, that and Tinder must be it. And telling everyone we're all in this together.

Prevailing "Progressive" Sentiment

Here's a representative sampling of comments by Her Majesty's subjects on the plight of South African farmers:

Double negative = a positive. Land stolen from from the natives and then stolen back ... I hope this goes continent wide, including the De beers factory ... I don't feel sorry for this man at all. He profits off hunting large animals. Karma is truly at work here! ... Hmmm, so, like the Dutch grabbed the land from the native south Africans ... No it's not theft. And you can defend all you like it won't help ...  Go home mate ... At first I had sympathy... but then I read "hunting" farm..... A HUNTING farm??? Sorry farmer, NO sympathy here! Murdering animals for "sport" is VILE! ... If you kill animals they will get you back somehow...

Oh, look-- one from an unenlightened Yank made it through:

Jomo Kenyatta did this in Kenya (Mau Maus) which turned a food exporting country into an economic mess. Same with Zimbagwe. That is Communism for you. Always under the guise of "helping the poor: the party bosses get rich. Same with Cuba and Venezuela.

How much sympathy will you be able to muster for the top group of comment posters when their willful ignorance brings about their turn in the barrel?

Strategic Confusion

Most of the school leaders NPR reached had little idea of how shootings got recorded for their schools. [More]

Hey, if we can cherry-pick our numbers and change definitions as desired, we can claim anything we like.

And then you run into inexcusable crap like this:

For example, the CRDC reports 26 shootings within the Ventura Unified School District in Southern California. "I think someone pushed the wrong button," said Jeff Davis, an assistant superintendent there. The outgoing superintendent, Joe Richards, "has been here for almost 30 years and he doesn't remember any shooting," Davis added. "We are in this weird vortex of what's on this screen and what reality is."

So find out. How did those numbers get there, bureaucrat? Sorry about your dinner plans, you're going to stay until you figure it out.

At least that's what I'd have been told on every position I've ever held. Sorry-- I keep forgetting not everyone's job depends on performance.

[Via Roger J]

Up is Down, Black is White, Ignorance is Strength

“But in an age where facts are alternative and truth isn’t truth, it’s no surprise that an outlet like the Daily Caller would try to distract us from very real and very immediate threats to our democracy brought by the man occupying the White House,” he continued. [More]

Well if "Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill" says that, it's good enough for me!

Does Anyone Watch ESPN?

Why? [More]

SOP

FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press, and then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify FISA's [More]

Hey, if we don't accuse you of doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.