Police killed at least 1,201 people in 2022. Black people were 26% of those killed by police in 2022 despite being only 13% of the population. [More]
So what is that really an indictment of?
[Via bondmen]
Notes from the Resistance
Violence With Guns Ain’t a MAGA Republican Problem – Here are the facts. [More]
And here are some more.
Damn peaceable violent racist white nationalist extremists…
[Via bondmen]
ATF agents wearing tactical gear and bearing AR-15s raided the Oklahoma home of Russell Fincher, a 52-year-old high school history teacher, “kitchen table” gun dealer, and Baptist minister. [More]
I understand Establishment Republicans have had problems with the term “jackbooted thugs”…?
Prominent gun-control activist Shannon Watts is trying to get country music star Jason Aldean canceled over a song she claims is “racist and violent.” [More]
Wait a second… I thought they were on the same side…
I thought all of CMT was…
[Via Michael G]
San Antonio Publication Apologizes for ‘Offensive’ Email ‘Invoking Patriotism’ and Founding Fathers [More]
It’s almost like Gen. Sherman knew these guys…
[Via Michael G]
Why Do You Not Know How Many Firearms Have Been Confiscated? [Watch]
Does the way he answers remind you of anybody?
[Via Jess]
Sen. Murphy’s proposal would require training before anyone in the Department of Defense purchases a firearm for private ownership. [More]
Maybe Democrats know something about fitness exemption recipients we don’t…?
Not that that trumps this…
[Via Jess]
Why details are limited on the man who opened fire on Fargo Police officers – While we’re starting to get a picture of what he may have been planning, we still don’t have a photograph of Mohamad Barakat. [More]
Who thinks there’d be any holding back Democrats and the DSM if he were a white Christian Nationalist?
Would it be particularly hateful of me if I presumed to ask if the word “rigorous” applies?
[Via Jess]

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Anyone who can’t be trusted with a keyboard…

Stop AG Stein from Gutting Concealed Carry Training [More]
Burden instructors and create a registration list of trainees– what’s not for a politically ambitious Democrat to love?
Lisa Murkowski should have been out of the U.S. Senate in the 2010 elections, when she was beaten in the Republican primary by Joe Miller. Instead, she conducted a write-in campaign in the general election and managed to survive when Democrats fled from their candidate and wrote her name in to deny Miller, a tea party conservative, an opportunity to serve. And then Murkowski had her allies pass the chaotic, corrupt, and infamous ranked choice voting system, together with a jungle primary, in advance of last year’s election. Had there been a Republican primary, she would have been crushed by Kelly Tshibaka, whom the state GOP endorsed. [More]
Yeah, well, some of us have tried to warn, but our reach is limited.
That must be why I still hear “conservatives” raving about Tim Scott.
Illegal immigrant kids with tuberculosis infections released into 44 states [More]
Funny– when the people doing this talk about a public health epidemic, they usually mean Americans owning guns…
[Via Michael G]
The mother and acquaintance stopped at a traffic light, where McDaniel allegedly hopped out of his car while wielding “a large knife” and confronted the pair. The acquaintance was legally armed and demanded McDaniel walk away, according to police. The suspect refused the warning to leave and, instead, allegedly swung the knife, prompting the woman’s acquaintance to fire his gun. [More]
“Acquaintance”?
Does anybody else find the headline description misleading?
In any case, I never understood stalkers– if she makes it clear she doesn’t want you, and especially if she goes to someone else, what is there to salvage? (There’s a cheating politician analogy in there somewhere.) And if the object is to attack, no wonder she left.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
It’s unknown what brought the officer there, but a probable cause statement said Davis “…deactivated his body-worn camera, did not inform the dispatcher he had a suspect in custody, and instead drove the victim to a remote location… There, the officer pepper sprayed the victim, struck him repeatedly with a baton, and ordered him not to return to the City of Northwoods.” [More]
“Practically never” isn’t good enough.
[Via bondmen]