Category: General Blog

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of ‘Shall Not Be’ Is

The petition for a writ of certiorari should be denied. [More]

The state that inflicted Joe Biden onto the political scene says banning semiautomatic rifles and magazines doesn’t infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

Mark W. Smith ties it in with related cases SCOTUS is considering. And I continue to be suspicious of relying on “common use.”

[Via Jess]

The Treason Coalition

While the lawsuit was only brought by New Jersey and Minnesota, the “larger coalition that will be working together includes 16 states in total,” the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said to Newsweek. These states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, as well as Washington, D.C. [More]

As long as the Supreme Court lets them get away with infringements, it will only get worse.

Until the Justice Department steps up and defends all civil rights from state denials, the only “legal” defense will be what the gun groups can scrape up from the same overburdened donors. I’m afraid Pam Bondi has established a record of being more the type that defends employer infringements. My guess is Trump is more interested in what she can do to squash bugs like Bragg.

[Via Jess]

Feel the Vibrancy

Police seized the weapons under Virginia’s red flag law, arguing that Mohammad Chanaa, the students’ brother and a George Mason alumnus, was “linked to destruction of property in connection with a large group of people with like-minded rhetoric” and posed a danger to others given his possession of “terroristic” materials. [More]

And someone thinks telling them they can’t have guns is the answer?

Has anyone coined the term “CAIRorrist” yet?

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Unretentive Enough

This afternoon on the elementary playground, a young student managed to access the Student Resource Officer’s secured firearm and discharge it within the SRO’s holster into the ground. [More]

Another reason why highly trained police officers should be the “Only Ones” armed in “gun-free zones,” right?

Did he have his bodycam on?

And whatever happened to this bill that would have required:

The personal body camera shall be continuous in its operation while the peace officer is in the performance of his or her duties and shall be worn in such a manner that all audio and video images of his or her contact with any person is digitally recorded. 

Anybody up on what the law currently says on that?

[Via Scott J]

Here It Comes Again

Madison police investigate shooting at Abundant Life Christian School [More]

Christian school shootings like at The Covenant and Feather River certainly seem to validate George Brougham’s assertion:

Evil does exist. Evil IS.

Who’s up for After School Satan Club?

I’ll come back to this post with significant updates as new developments become known. In the meantime, keep up to date by checking this link.

I notice the blood dancers are wasting no time letting a crisis go to waste.

UPDATES

Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

We’re the Only Ones Underreporting Enough

“This does not affect casework. This is purely a statistical issue, this is not an operational issue.” [More]

If they’re truly that incompetent, how can we belive that conclusion? How do we know it’s not a purely political issue with intent to make department performance and credit look better than it should be?

I mean, the boobs can’t tally a simple report but they can give four chiefs $500K buyouts and pass out double-digit pay increases to everyone with a snout in the trough…

The weight of the badge…

[Via Steve T]

Born to Be Caged

Christopher McDonnell, 32, pleaded guilty in October to more than 20 felonies including murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, weapon charges and being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm. [More]

Tell me I don’t want him anywhere near me without telling me I don’t want him anywhere near me.

So, how many times has he been cut loose to continue being a known threat?

Sounds like the whole family needs a custodian. And tell me Kayleigh doesn’t just scream “Good judgment in men”…

[Via Steve T]

We’re the Only Ones Taking It Off, Taking It All Off Enough

A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S. Department of Justice report. [More]

Can we presume their bodycams weren’t the only things turned on?

And the badged @$$holes who lied were only docked and aren’t in jail? Why do I wonder if one of them called “Riccola” during the cavity search?

“Back the blue” my…eye.

[Via Steve T]

I Can’t Hear You. I Have a Banana in My Ear.

$6.2 Million Paid for a Banana Duct-Taped to a Wall [More]

I was thinking of using this in my Elizabeth Warren piece as another example of how the left wants to see some of the One Percent murdered but either stays silent or embraces the “woke,” but couldn’t really find a place for it without wandering too far afield.

Still, the day may come when covetous and angry eyes turn on those with millions to profligately burn while government policies continue to destroy wealth and relegate more to the hateful desperation that Democrats encourage for political gains.

Send in the Clowns

Accordingly, “Miller stood for the proposition ‘that the Second Amendment does not protect those weapons not typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, such as 3 short-barreled shotguns’ [More]

That’s not what Miller said at all.

He’s not through with the clown act:

While a silencer may be a firearm accessory, it is not a “bearable arm” that is capable of casting a bullet.

Neither was my “machinegun,” or “high capacity” magazines, or braces, or 80% receivers, or…

And again, “common use” is proving to be a trap.

It’s way past time to pasture this senile old “Reagan Republican.“

Mark W. Smith analyzes.

[Via Jess]

Ghosts of Michigan

Legislation approved in the Michigan Senate would ban the manufacturing, assembling, selling, purchasing, importing and possessing of firearms or firearm parts that don’t have a valid serial number. [More]

So you not only can’t make them, you can’t keep what you already have.

That goes for you, too, illegals…

Maybe this’ll get Detroit’s number up to “2”…

Related UPDATE

Reminding the servants of their place would be so much more satisfying if we could order them to clear out.

[Via WiscoDave]

‘Commonsense Gun Safety’: Mobile, Armed, and Illegal

A package of bills that would permit people who are in the United States illegally to obtain state driver’s licenses in Michigan would also allow them to get concealed pistol licenses, critics said, if they lied about their immigration status during the application process. [More]

But you can’t have a colored gun. Funny, how Michigan Democrats are simultaneously passing citizen disarmament edicts.

It’ll be interesting to see all the gungrab groups say nothing with this going on.

And, of course, it’s still a red herring.

[Via WiscoDave]

In the Kapu Tradition

The AG report lists now medical cannabis patients under the category of “mental incompetence /impairment.” And unlike others in this subcategory, medical cannabis patients remain automatically ineligible for a long time since they cannot reapply until their medical cannabis (a.k.a. “329”) cards have been expired for a year or longer. [More]

Talk about projection by the constitutionally incompetent and impaired…

Coming from people with Marijuana Psychosis Symptoms…

I wonder if ATF is monitoring credit card transactions…

[Via George Pace]

We’re the Only Ones Threatened Enough

Our city has faced several very difficult weeks since the fatal shooting on November 28. Since that time, I have been made aware of threats against specific officers and the entire police department. This is unacceptable behavior. No one deserves to have threats made against them. [More]

Maybe if they cleared this up I’d agree:

Akron Mayor Shammas Malik released a statement saying he was “left with many serious questions” after watching the bodycam video, including why the officer did not “activate their body cameras upon exiting their vehicle” and why the officers “used rifles instead of handguns.”

Still, 15-year-old out at at 11 pm with a gun… is it unfair to wonder about the family?