Inconvenient Data: There’s No Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Murder Rates [More]
Just like there’s no relationship between murder rates and motives for citizen disarmament.
[Via Michael G]
Notes from the Resistance

Washington state gubernatorial hopeful, Senator Mark Mullet (D), on May 28, filed official ethics complaints with the Washington State Executive Ethics Board alleging that Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson used his public office for his political campaign… [More]
Who better to demand your guns than a criminal tyrant?
Louisiana law creates 25-foot buffer zone around working law enforcement officers [More]
Guess who would have been guilty had this law been enacted at the time:
Republicans can’t find more pressing issues with Louisiana “Only Ones”?
[Via Steve T]

Joe Biden Visits Hunter’s Ex Before She Likely Testifies in Gun Trial [More]
Can you say “witness tampering”?
I knew you could…
Oh, and look who else he’s using:
Joe and Hunter Biden used a visit to Sandy Hook memorial service to set up secret meet with Chinese over $10m-a-year deal, new emails reveal
There’s big money in blood dancing.
[Via bondmen]
Hunter Biden loses last-minute appeal to dismiss gun charges [More]
Any doubts if this were you or me we’d already have our place in genpop?
Meanwhile, DOJ tells me they’ve found some documents, although why they just can’t cite where they presume to get their authority from is beyond me, so I smell more go-through-the-motions stalling.
And I just had an idea. I want to run it by my advisors first.
[Via Jess]
“Mentally torturing a false confession out of Tom Perez, concealing from him that his father was alive and well, and confining him in the psych ward because they made him suicidal, in my 40 years of suing the police I have never seen that level of deliberate cruelty by the police,” said Jerry Steering, Perez’s attorney in Newport Beach. [More]
These are who Trump wants to beef up qualified immunity for?
Back the Blue! Murica!
[Via Michael G]
A Portsmouth police officer charged with driving under the influence in Hampton reached 100 miles per hour on the interstate and later kicked an officer during her arrest, according to court documents. Carmen Johnson also allegedly made remarks about the arresting officer’s race and commented about a “dislike of white people,” police allege in the court documents. [More]
She’s a victim of coicumstance…
What a thing to arm and set upon the normals…
[Via Steve T]
Baltimore’s former top prosecutor avoided prison during her sentencing on Thursday after being convicted of perjury and mortgage fraud, The Associated Press reported. [More]
Funny, who ends up being a “prohibited person”…
[Via bondmen]

They rely on violent crime so that they have blood to dance in, to whip up mob furor among constituents ignorant and stupid enough to vote for them. [More]
Why punish their constituents when they can punish you?
Northwestern appears to have violated a U.S. law called the Clery Act by not taking and publishing police reports from students who say they were assaulted, battered, stolen from, or witnessed crimes committed by anti-Israel protesters on campus. Failure to do so would allow the university to report lower crime numbers and portray a false picture of campus safety. [More]
Isn’t recruiting under false pretenses fraud?
I guess a “private school” with snouts in the government trough figures it can get away with just about anything.
[Via Michael G]
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says it has launched an internal investigation after an officer was caught on video lighting a cigar during an arrest. The video, initially shared by the Voice Of The People STL organization, shows an officer lighting a cigarette while a suspect is kept down on the ground. [More]
Someone want to explain the difference to “real reporter” Joey Schneider?
The casualness with which these bastards assault citizens reminds me of that ATF JBT who pulled a George Floyd knee-to-neck maneuver on a LARPer while his buddy made a phone call with his hand in his pocket.
What, you don’t remember that one?
[Via bondmen]
The Justice Department on Thursday informed House Republicans that President Joe Biden has formally asserted executive privilege over the audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, a move that DOJ says effectively shields Attorney General Merrick Garland from any criminal exposure as the Republican lawmakers move toward trying to hold him in contempt of Congress. [More]
Gee, DOJ stonewalling Congress on contempt: Where have we seen THAT before?
I’m envisioning what an “Only One” would ask if a citizen did not waive their rights and give permission to look in their trunk.
Boy, ol’ Carlos Uriarte can weasel-word with the best of them, can’t he?
5 La Vergne officers fired, 3 suspended for sexual acts on duty, ‘girls gone wild’ hot tub party, three-way relations, city says [More]
Looks like “negative comments” have been removed and all that’s left are breathless congratulations for completing “Principled & Mission Based Policing” training.
[Via bondmen]