Celebrate Good Times, Come On

Five shot, 2 dead after celebration of life event in Minnesota [More]

Check.

And just to add context:

This marks the second shooting in St. Paul in the past two days. On Friday evening, three teen boys were wounded in a drive-by shooting during a funeral reception for a 15-year-old boy who had been fatally stabbed at a St. Paul high school earlier this month.

If only they would disarm you and me…

Oh, Peace Train Sounding Louder

Evacuation orders were lifted on February 8, but many locals say they got unexplained rashes and sore throats when they returned home. The creeks that dot the town still ripple with the telltale rainbow color of contamination if you throw a rock in them. An independent analysis by Texas A & M University of Environmental Protection Agency data, released Friday, found nine air pollutants at levels that could raise long-term health concerns in and around East Palestine, apparently contradicting statements by state and federal regulators that the air there is safe. [More]

The best way to deflect from that is to show everyone how racist the Nazi townsfolk are.

I just found out the train went through downtown Hudson and the tracks are less than a mile from my house.

Fortunately, we’re more “progressive.”

The Judas Goat Bleats

I joined 97Percent because they are a gun safety organization taking a different approach to this seemingly intractable issue. [More]

The kinder, gentler citizen disarmers.

Divide and conquer is hardly a different approach. Like all “progressive” ideas, it’s a dusting off of an old ruse relying on apparatchiks and useful idiots to draw the suckers in.

Not to mention make a buck.

There’s never been a shortage of gunkapos presenting themselves as Gun Culture 2.0.

WarOnGuns Correspondent Andy M. sent me a couple more examples that are a few months old but timely in regard to this:

  • This dope.
  • And these. I’m just surprised they don’t wear their “Moms Demand” shirts to the range.

One Bite at a Time

Why one popular gun control measure wasn’t part of Colorado Democrats’ reform package [More]

That’s OK– by swindling the public into viewing tyrannical infringements as “reforms,” it’s just a matter of time before the prohibitionists use the incremental position they’ll gain as the launching point for their next incursion.

[Via cydl]

What’s in a Name?

L.A. DA Gascón Suspends Prosecutor for ‘Deadnaming’ Transgender Child Molester Accused of Murder [More]

I had to look the word up to see if it meant what I thought it did.

I find it curious and more than a little telling that it didn’t even appear in Merriam-Webster until late December 2019, and now it’s considered by the societal shapeshifters a heinous offense worth destroying someone over.

[Via Michael G]

We’ll Always Find Reasons Not To

…if you cancel a card, your credit score takes a hit. So….don’t like the card’s policies? Don’t use that card, just retire it to the back of your wallet, or even shred it, but don’t cancel it. [More]

For what it’s worth, I had a card I never used and after a few years the credit card company canceled it.

The thought strikes that if this concern is enough to not even take a small action, what chance is there for larger actions when there’s a larger price to pay?

It’s Not Like the Bill of Rights was Meant for the People…

The ruling is major for many reasons, including that the government tried to claim that charter boat fishing is a “closely-regulated industry” to which the Fourth Amendment does not apply. [More]

Ah, the Scarborough Doctrine of authorized free speech exercisers

And don’t forget Hogg’s Resurrected Postulate

[Via Michael G]

A Crash Course in Politics

North Carolina House of Representatives Speaker Tim Moore, another state congressman, and Moore’s security were driving back to the state capital from an event when a vehicle repeatedly rammed into the back of them, the speaker’s spokeswoman said Thursday. [More]

Coincidentally, with quotation marks, if you like, this was the day after the House voted to repeal handgun purchase permits. In any case, it’s fair to question if this was garden variety ‘roid rage or if he was targeted

Check out the cheesy excuse Rep. Michael Wray gave for voting against the bill he originally sponsored– no doubt his earlier feigned support was to sucker the Fudds at election time. What a weasel.

Ultimately, there is no such thing as a “pro-gun Democrat.” Besides, it’s never been about guns anyway.

Playing to the Crowd

Alabama congressman’s bill would make AR-15 ‘the National Gun of America’ [More]

He knows it doesn’t have a chance in hell with a Democrat Senate and Biden, so forgive me if this feels like a self-serving and disingenuously patronizing headline ploy, which is unfortunate because it detracts from an otherwise pretty good record on RKBA and on the greatest political threat against it.

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