Notes from the Resistance
The gun is the most misunderstood object in Western civilization. Not a weapon. A technology. The technology that made the idea of equality physically real. [More]
Read the whole thing. And pass it along.
As I’ve been noting for years, the right to keep and bear arms is the most egalitarian power-sharing arrangement ever devised.
Ann Widdecombe ‘was bludgeoned 21 times over head with hammer in attack caught on camera after killer walked through open front door as she ate lunch in kitchen’ [More]
At least she lived (and died) by her principles…
[Via bondmen]
‘Act of horrific violence’: Shooting at Bite of Seattle leaves 3 dead, 4 wounded [More]
What’s that about the Seattle Center’s Campus Rules…?
It is Prohibited to… Possess or display a firearm on the campus, unless permitted by applicable law.
Jeez, you’d think by now we’d know more about the suspects than just a “young person” with perhaps an unknown accomplice… I wonder if online tracks are being “managed” before we’re allowed to know anything.
Especially since Democrat Whip Katherine Clark evidently knows enough to declare more citizen disarmament to be the answer…
UPDATE
Things that make you go “Hmm…”
[Via CP]
Related UPDATE
I’d been wanting to get the gay married fur dad take on this.
[Via WiscoDave]
Hingham man arrested after allegedly firing gun during road rage incident that started over napkin, police say [More]
But…but…but the prior restraint form…
License did live up to his name, didn’t he?
[Via Edmund M]
They Wanted Gun Control Until The List Had Their Name On It [Watch]
It’s not that Rolling Stone is anti-gun.
It’s just anti-you and me having guns.
So, be careful what we celebrate.
[Via Jess]
Trump and his family have donated thousands to the man who’s now the most powerful Democrat in Washington
CMP Announces Sale of Surplus M14 Rifles – Historic U.S. service rifles will be converted to semi-automatic configuration and offered to qualified citizens beginning in late 2026 or early 2027. [More]
Yeah, it ain’t everything but it’s a good first step– one that “is going to help us hugely win the US Supreme Court cases involving the AR-15 bans.”
At least until the Democrats win.
[Via Jess]
[T]he United States Supreme Court has just granted cert in a case involving the Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual and excessive fines clause and yes, this will matter to the Second Amendment. [Watch]
It’s too late for Wayne Fincher…
“Secur[ing] the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” my… eye.
[Via Jess]
Republicans see ‘scary’ lack of enthusiasm among core voters ahead of midterms [More]
OK, yeah, it’s WaPo, so there’s definitely some PSYOPS going on, but still: If we get our @$$es handed to us in November and also lose in ’28, look for all the advances in 2A to be reversed/overturned– and if Dems can then pack SCOTUS, that includes Heller, McDonald, Bruen, meaning instead of voting, which could not be easier, those still determined are gonna have to do it the hard way.
The Trump administration wants to let you easily buy and ship firearms straight to your front porch. [More]
You mean like back in the days before gun free zones and mass shootings?
Concerns over Ilhan Omar’s links to massive fraud explode on new evidence [More]
Imams Demand Action:
German authorities on Saturday canceled a popular Pride festival after one person was killed, and numerous others were injured, when a van rammed into a crowd in Berlin… The incident occurred during the European city’s annual Christopher Street Day festival, an LGBTQ+ Pride event. [More]
And unsurprisingly:
“The suspect is known to police. He is known to us as a member of Islamic circles here in Berlin…”
Things that make you go “Hmm…”
Damned hate-filled “white men”…
[Via Jess]
At least one person was shot and another was detained Saturday after authorities responded to reports of an active shooter at Deerbrook Mall in Humble, Texas. [More]
Don’t people read Codes of Conduct anymore…?
Examples of specific activities that are prohibited include but are not limited to…No firearms or illegal weapons…
Think mall management would sign one of these?
Democratic Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke was indicted by a grand jury on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery and falsifying candidate committee reports stemming from a bribe she allegedly took as a state lawmaker in 2022. [More]
Moms Demand Bribes:
