Fools and Your Money
The Cambridge City Council voted 6-3 in a meeting Monday to temporarily restore and reactivate ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology. The discussion came nearly a month after a city employee was shot and killed near a Cambridge park. [More]
It was useless at stopping it and they caught a suspect, so what’s the contention? That is police had responded soon enough the victim might have been saved?
Without knowing the extent of his wound and how soon he expired, it’s all meaningless and the response is purely one of image and emotion, and besides, that’s hardly the selling point that’s been used for cities to implement this proven boondoggle.
[Via Edmund M]
Nothing New Under the Sun
Apocalypse Now
Northern California inventor of centaur-style robot ‘Three-Halves’ is surprised by online frenzy [More]
Yeah, who’da thunk in a time when people are already on edge about a pending/present AI “singularity” and battle droids, that deploying 7-foot mechaminotaurs “to help” would seem like a nightmare from Revelation come to “life”…?
Those who don’t have to look up the name Karellen will understand.
Improbable Cause
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a reply brief in a case challenging the unconstitutional search of an 18-year-old high school senior’s vehicle that was based solely on the knowledge that he is a legal gun owner. [More]
Those in charge of enforcing anti-bullying rules are always the biggest bullies.
Fosters’ Freeze
A federal judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Springfield Division, ruled without trial that foster homes and in-home daycare centers are sensitive areas and that guns can be regulated in these private residences. [More]
With “Only Ones” exempted , of course, because they’re demonstrably more trustworthy than you and me, no?
One of the arguments pre-born drawing and quartering trolls routinely pull on pro-life advocates is to chastise them for not stepping up and adopting, as if it’s their responsibility to make a lifetime commitment over the irresponsible choices of others, and as if that’s a better solution than holding people accountable for their own poor decisions. But in cases where some might be willing to step up, this just slams another barrier in their faces to discourage it, and also perpetuates the lie that is citizen disarmament, making both responsible adopters and dependent adoptees demonstrably less safe.
Figure, robed cud-chewer Sue Myerscough was unanimously confirmed.
South of the Border, Down Mexico Way
Mexican Influencer Gunned Down During Live Stream in Cartel-Controlled State [More]
Now imagine Mexico-style “gun control” here.
[Via WiscoDave]
Duck Season/Rabbi Season
This ban could not come at a worse time for Montgomery County’s Jewish community. Just a short time after the firebombing in Boulder, the arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s residence, and—close to home— the shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum, Montgomery County seeks to deprive Jews of their ability to defend themselves at their most Jewish moment: praying in synagogues. Jewish law requires Jews to defend themselves when necessary. Montgomery County would rather declare open season. [More]
It’s not unfair to wonder how many vote for Democrats, effectively declaring open season on themselves.
As an aside, this seems just what JPFO should be leading the charge on, instead of headlining reposted general 2A essays that have little to no tie in to the unique reason Aaron Zelman put his life into the effort.
[Via Antigone]
A Real Head-Scratcher
Judge Blasts Trump DOJ Before Dismissing ‘Head-Scratching’ J6 Case [More]
That’s not how they do things in India, but they generally don’t have to scratch their own…
Maybe he just needs another generation or two…
[Via Michael G]
Self-Eliminating
Then it becomes de facto disqualifying for any of them to take the oath of office required by Article. VI.:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution;
Making the Grade
Ohio House Republicans Kill the Freedom to Carry Act – Remember Their Names! [More]
All Clear!
Three people killed in North Carolina shooting… no suspect has been identified … There is NO THREAT to the general public, and the event is contained to the above address… [More]
So… they know a lot more than they’re telling us…?
Waiting to notify all family members I can understand.
Credit Where Due
Federal Court Strikes Down NFA Registration Requirements for Suppressors, Short-Barreled Rifles, and Short-Barreled Shotguns in NRA Case [More]
A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled that the remaining registration scheme for short-barreled rifles and suppressors in the National Firearms Act (NFA) is unconstitutional in Jensen v. ATF, a case supported by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). [More]
Gun Owners of America (GOA) and fellow plaintiffs scored a major win today. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that key National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) restrictions are unconstitutional for untaxed firearms and permanently blocked the ATF from enforcing them against the plaintiffs, their members, and their customers. [More]
So… it was a team effort…?
We’re the Only Ones Familial Enough
Criminal Breaks Law!
Deputies in Hillsborough County say they arrested a 29-year-old man after he allegedly threatened another driver with a gun during a road rage incident on I-75. Tuesday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Jordan Patascher was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and driving while having his license revoked. [More]
If this doesn’t make you want to take it out on peaceable gun owners, I don’t know what will.
[Via Edmund M]
We’re the Only Ones Oath Keeping Enough
Montezuma County Sheriff Declines to Enforce Colorado Gun Law Citing Constitution and Costs [More]
Anybody know if precedent on unfunded mandates applies from states to counties to save him from the wrath of Weiser?
[Via Michael G]
Stutterfingers
An Arizona man showing off a gun he was trying to sell at a yard sale wound up shooting a person in their colon and another in the hand, groin and leg, according to police. [More]
What a moron.
That he “fled the scene” tells me there’s a lot more to this guy’s story than we’re learning here.
[Via bondmen]
Quantity Has a Quality All Its Own
Whitman Sampler
60 years later, the UT Tower shooting stands as one of Texas’ darkest days [More]
Nothing about the “students with deer rifles … firing like crazy back at the Tower” that helped keep Whitman pinned down?
[Via bondmen]
The Enemies Within
DHS General Counsel James Percival tore into the long list of activist left-wing judges who are acting in “open defiance” and trying to “run out the clock” as President Donald Trump executes his election mandate of mass deportation. [More]
If Republicans end up blowing it, guess what we’ll get more of.
On the plus side, louder voices than mine assure us just a few more generations will do the trick.
[Via bondmen]