Category: General Blog

On a Sauer Note

[T]he Supreme Court has just denied cert in a case where the solicitor general of the United States under Donald Trump actually wanted the court to take it. This is huge great news folks because it is signaling that the Supreme Court is done with criminals defending the right to keep and bear arms and much more likely to let law-abiding ordinary citizens vindicate their rights. This is a big deal, folks, because as you know, those 18 USC 922G cases are problematic because their bad facts make bad law. [Watch]

I’m more concerned with the fact that the SG knows that and proceeded anyway. After all, didn’t NSSF tell us, “USA Today and gun control groups [were] in a tizzy [because] U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer wrote, ‘The United States has a substantial interest in the preservation of the right to keep and bear arms and in the proper interpretation of the Second Amendment…'”?

And Smith himself declares “Prosecutorial discretion has always been a part of our legal system.”

So why does this seem to be a tradition with “pro-gun”Republican administrations?

Never forget:

We condemn any program that involves enforcing unconstitutional “laws”, even if such “laws” are enforced only against violent criminals. Unconstitutional “laws” are illegal, harmful to public safety, tyrannical, and are inevitably enforced against ordinary, non-criminal citizens.

[Via Jess]

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Virginia’s central argument is that Article I, Section 13 of the Virginia Constitution is not an individual Second Amendment-style right at all. According to the Commonwealth, Section 13 is a “collective, militia-tethered right,” meaning the right to keep and bear arms is tied to militia service rather than individual self-defense. [More]

There is no new thing under the sun.

And Opposite Day “progressives” keep coming back with the same tired, old, debunked revisionist lies.

Adventures in Baselessness

Hmmm…

Because Voter ID is racist.

SCOTUS Refusal to Address School Ban on Gun Imagery Puts Freedom 250 Art Contestants at Risk

School 2A Rights SCOTS AI CHAT GPT

Teachers have been known to report students over perceived off-campus gun concerns before, even when no cause for them existed. [More]

Submitting a historically accurate entry could run afoul of “zero tolerance” intolerance.

The Type of People

Investigators said two unidentified men exchanged gunfire in a parking lot near the intersection, despite the presence of numerous police officers in the area.“It just goes to show you how reckless some individuals can be,” Akron police Lt. Michael Murphy said. “To be able to shoot multiple rounds in front of a large number of police officers just puts you in the mindset or the type of people that we’re dealing with that could do something like this.” [More]

Unidentified, eh?

I don’t suppose they want the public’s help…?

The Enemy of My Enemy

Mossad armed Kurdish militias with weapons against Iranian regime – As part of a plan to topple the regime in Iran, the Mossad armed Kurdish militias with weapons captured from Hamas and Hezbollah – until President Trump canceled the operation. [More]

Not because it was wrong, but because Erdoğan objected.

What a mess it is over there.

Aren’t you glad we’re up to our necks in it, if for no other reason than to create an opportunity to bring in more refugees?

[Via bondmen]

Revenge of the Weasel Whisperer

Weaselwhisperertillis

Thursday on CNN International’s “Connect the World,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who claims the ability to end Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General with a “no” vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Blanche must condemn those involved in the January 6 to get his vote. [More]

It’s always the enemy inside the gates who can do the most damage, and it’s been clear for a long time that he intends to maximize that until his term expires.

That Republicans aren’t even floating the idea of removing him from the committee shows the Swamp is far from drained.

[Via bondmen]

Meanwhile, Over in the Birthplace of the Second Amendment…

Massachusetts Public School District Permits Sikh Students to Carry Knives While Banning Weapons for All Other Students [More]

Well, Vivek did tell us “The idea of a heritage American is … loony.”

Heritage Sikhs, not so much.

[Via bondmen]