Category: General Blog

No Need to Know

The report did not describe any testing to indicate whether the shooter’s blood contained testosterone or other drugs used in gender-affirming care, a theory posited by some to account for the shooter’s behavior. [More]

Why not?

And Epoch Times is reporting “no testing [was] ordered for potential prescription medications” even though the “police chief said [she] was being treated for an emotional disorder.”

Between that and the top-secret manifesto, this thing is being covered up by powerful people who are desperate to not let certain information get out. Unfortunately, getting other powerful people involved in unraveling it requires an effort few seem willing to make.

[Via 1Gat]

Messin’ with Texas

Following the “pledge card” practice means that a relatively small number of often nominal Republicans can elect a speaker by allying with the Democrat minority, which understandably would prefer to have a Speaker who is not a GOP stalwart . . . especially if that Speaker also gives Democrat members control of certain committees as a sweetener. [More]

So basically, between the speaker and the lieutenant governor, we’re talking a drunk and a poltroon…

[Via Michael G]

Texas-Related UPDATE

Governor Abbott Signs Key Pro-Second Amendment Bills into Law… House Bill 2837 … prohibits financial institutions and credit card companies from requiring licensed dealers to use a firearms-specific merchant category code (MCC) to categorize retail gun purchases [and] House Bill 3137 … expands the state firearms preemption law… [More]

Two from Gunpowder Magazine

Colleague José Niño examines the varied and in-your-face ways states are getting away with undermining the right to keep and bear arms and gets some quotes from one of my favorite people along the way…

Meanwhile, Across the Pond

Man arrested after three people killed in Nottingham – Police say 31-year-old held on suspicion of murder after deaths in city centre on Tuesday morning [More]

So they obviously know “who” but they don’t want to say? Except to reveal that “Counter-terrorism police are assisting the investigation”…?

And they’re “keeping an open mind“…?

[Via bondmen]

Nothing a Community Leaders Forum Blaming Systemic Inequities Can’t Solve…

Even the police were surprised to find a 12-year-old girl among the suspects involved in an overnight crime spree. Investigators said the suspects were looking for guns in cars. [More]

Alone at night with two 20-something thugs. Yeah, the problem is your and my guns.

[Via bondmen]

Low-Hanging Fruit Hunt

As former President Donald Trump prepares for his upcoming court appearance in Florida on Tuesday, FBI agents across the country are actively looking for possible ‘domestic terror threats,’ according to a CNN report citing law enforcement sources. This follows reports that pro-Trump groups are making plans to travel to Miami to show their support for the former President as he faces bogus federal charges in the classified documents case. [More]

And guess who they’re coordinating with.

[Via bondmen and WiscoDave]

Doing What Republicans Do Best

Well the bad news is we were right. Tim Knopp is making deals to throw gun owners under the bus. The “deal” will be to let the Democrats ban personally made firearms, a scheme courts have already determined to be unconstitutional. [More]

What? They won’t stop with that?

Leave it to gutless idiot f*****g Republicans. Fold on anything and that’s one less obstacle they need to overcome on their way to everything.

Anyone who doesn’t realize we’re dealing with lying devils who want it all is willfully deluded. Anyone who does realize it and “compromises” anyway is ultimately on their side.

We’re the Only Ones Following Orders Enough

Why do they do it? Human weakness. Most have invested in their shabby careers. Most are eying pensions. They go along. They follow orders. And if you think that, given the order and the chance, they will not pull a trigger for the ruling class, well, I have a burnt patch of Texas dirt to sell you. Cheap. [More]

Now let’s all us good “conservatives” bemoan the weight of the badge…

[Via Andy M]

As Expected

White House threatens to veto GOP resolution against its pistol brace ban [More]

Was there ever any doubt that it was anything but symbolic, with no chance of going anywhere?

Let’s see what the Republicans do if they keep the House and regain the Senate and the White House, that is, if they don’t blow it.

[Via Jess]

Consistent with Inconsistency

Illinois’s legal brief seeks to defend their recently-enacted “assault weapons” ban by arguing that the lethality of these semi-automatic firearms means that they may be banned consistent with the 2nd Amendment. Mark Smith discusses this lethality argument here. [Watch]

Because the last thing you want to do when fighting armed attackers is kill them!

Be sure to also open up Illinois’ brief and Smith’s review on Beccaria, linked under the video.

[Via Jess]