Break with Extradition?

That Hapgood chose to return even once to Anguilla after his experience there — let alone multiple times for various legal proceedings — defies logic. [More]

Does he have a choice?

[Via Michael G]

Pearls Before Swine

Or technically, a sow. [More]

[Via Michael G]

A Token 'Republican'

MSNBC 'Republican': Play 'Dirty Pool' with NRA Board Members, 'Go After Their Businesses' ... the only way to get congressmen to come around on gun control will be when a "critical mass" has been personally affected by mass shootings. She noted that, so far, "we have seen [only] one congressman get there." [More]

This evil fool had better hope we never reach critical mass.

[Via Michael G]

Opinion: Guns are America’s Dumbest Problem

Observable: The Daily Iowan Opinions Editor Elijah Helton is a moron. [More]

[Via Michael G]

The Scourge of Kristol Meth

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Now everyone settle down and let's approach this in the spirit of compromise. If "endowed by our Creator" bothers you, there's a secular "inherent to the condition of being human" alternative you can use. And as for an AR-15, yeah, a fair reading would say that's a bit limited for intended purposes and a minimum of "in common use at the time" M4s should be encouraged, at least until upgrades in capability are available.

[Via Michael G]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

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At least Sadiq is focusing on priorities.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Approximate Enough

The vehicle he’d shot into was not a gray Colorado, but a white Silverado. [More]

Eh? An avocado...?

At least it wasn't delivering newspapers.

[Via Chris M]

The Things People Believe

"If performed properly, it would have prevented Dylann Roof from purchasing the gun he used to kill these very innocent people in a church.” [More]

What about a different gun?

Tell me this isn't all symptomatic of the clusterf***ocracy we're living under.

[Via Mack H]

Time and Space Ruled Irrelevant

Drejka Case Analysis: When the ‘Tueller Drill’ 21-Foot Defense is Defined Out of Existence [More]

A jury needs an "expert" to tell them a beating can be deadly?

[Via Michael G]

About Those 'Universal Background Checks'

E-Verify is intended to detect workers without legal status. How do immigrants get around it? [More]

Who thinks NICS is invulnerable?

Not that a workaround is really needed...

[Via DDS]

Poster Boy for Red Flags

West Texas gunman 'was on a long spiral of going down' [More]

Ah, see? If we'd only had ERPOs!

Except the "failed background check" kind of takes the wind out of those sails.

Still, the requisite "AR-style rifle" helps. And leave it to MSN to assure us the semi-auto "sprayed bullets."

Funny-- you'd think by now "we'd" know something about his politics. I can't help but feel someone "in authority" does.

[Via Jess]

There's an App for That

Trump Admin Is Considering Using Amazon Echo And Apple Watch To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun [More]

It's not just 3D chess. It's 3D virtual chess.

[Via Felix B]

We're the Only Ones Heroic Enough

 "I still think they're heroes," Acevedo said after Goines and Bryant were charged. While those two officers may be bad apples, Acevedo said, their colleagues "acted in good faith" and appropriately used deadly force to defend themselves. [More]

What...?

[Via Jess]

Speaking of Mindless

"The idea that we don’t have elimination of assault type weapons, magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them, it's absolutely mindless," he continued, saying such a ban would not violate the Second Amendment. [More]

And not one person said "You're an idiot"?

[Via DDS]

There Oughtta Be a Law

Vegan woman demands neighbour stop using meat on barbecue due to smell [More]

We ain't seen nothin' yet.

[Via Michael G]

How Do You Say 'Commonsense Gun Safety Laws' in Spanish?

Organized crime-related homicides soared 77% in August - It was the third consecutive month with more than 2,000 such murders [More]

Damned lax American gun laws...

[Via W3]

Media Exploiting Odessa Shooting Before Facts Known

The killers are NEVER believers in the Constitution because that ideology requires the commitment to champion the rights of the individual. Randomly executing strangers with no delegated authority and without due process is a rejection of all of that, and the work of a bloody-handed collectivist. [More]

The killers have one thing in common: They're all collectivists, regardless of what the say they espouse. FYI, I wrote and submitted this on Sunday morning, before anything more was known.

To Put It Briefly...

... you'll be seeing red ... [More]

Ask a Stupid Question

It’s funny that the party making so much noise about equality is adamantly opposed to equalizers. How is a woman to defend herself from a guy coming at her with a sledgehammer if not by exercising her Second Amendment rights? [More]

With her bodyguards, of course.

[Via Michael G]

It's a Big Club and You're In It

I'm proposing that we campaign to reduce gun violence, and to meet our constitutional duty, by requiring that every member of the militia — which, of course,  we'll redefine to eliminate the obvious sexism and make it all adults — must own at least one long gun, one handgun, and 1,000 rounds of ammunition for each, or pay an annual $1,000 tax for failing to do so. [More]

Well, the Founders did put in a militia duty exemption for those "conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms"...

I do have to wrestle with the coercive nature of that and wonder if things couldn't be worked out more along the lines of if you don't help, you don't get helped.

[Via Michael G]