Category: Second Amendment

Reigning on His Parade

“I lack a proper proofreader,” too. Does that make me an “amateur”? 😊 [More]

Worse than that, my spellcheck is woke.

Typos: We all make ’em (and sometimes intentionally, because in case anyone hasn’t noticed, I love to play with language and my toys, my rules). That said, people chronically not knowing the difference between “you’re” and “your” just seems lazy.

What really irritated me about Nicholas’ post was this:

I encourage whomever reads this, if you agree with anything I wrote, copy and paste it and send it on to any or all of the above, because if we’re to gain any traction here, we need more than a couple voices speaking up.

No one did. None of his X.com recipients responded, and I see a lot of them who get promoted here, yet somehow it never occurs to them to reciprocate.

Add to that most of the comment posters to my articles that he cited were either preoccupied with childish ad hominem attacks or changing the subject from a conversation nobody else was offering to hijacking the thread to talk about stories on all the DSM sites. Yeah, that’ll bring about substantive change.

And the thing is, lifting the needed finger would be as easy as swatting flies.

Really.

If I ever just say “Screw it, I’ve got mine” and go enjoy my dotage in a life of ease, it won’t be because of the antis.

Complaint Filed After DOJ Fails to Respond to Rights Restoration FOIA Request

Why were those 10 citizens chosen? What do they have that “we” don’t? Or more to the point, what do we also have that they do? [More]

Why, when there’s an easy way, does the “pro-gun” DOJ so often choose the hard way?

Welcome to the Party, Pal

Rep Tom Tiffany said, ‘I’ll preserve our Wisconsin values, just like my mom does with her pickles’ [More]

NRA says he’ll preserve more than that:

Let’s hope so. Because retiring Tony Evers was a disaster, as will be whomever the Democrats choose.

If fellow Republican contestant Josh Schoemann has any “proven reforms” on 2A, he doesn’t appear to feel they’re worth mentioning.

Another GOP contender, former Navy SEAL Bill Barrien says he’ll support permitless carry. I do wish though, that he and other gun owners would do away with the “Second Amendment is my permit” meme.

It’s not, never was, and the contention itself is dangerous.

Magazine Drive

EXCLUSIVE: AGs Knudsen and Labrador Lead 27-State Coalition Urging SCOTUS to Recognize 2A Protections for ‘Plus-Ten Magazines’ [More]

All I can say is SCOTUS had better settle this crap before the Republicans blow it again, because Thomas ain’t gonna be around forever.

[Via bondmen]

To Each According to His Needs?

COURTROOM AUDIO LIVE: AR & Mag Ban Arguments Reveal How Nefarious These Blue States Actually Are… [Watch]

You don’t need full auto because the government has it? We’re limited to “self-defense”? And only indoors? Anybody see the word “useful” in the Second Amendment…?

Are “average” <3-round limits next?

Everybody’s picking up that it’s “common usage” arguments they’re arguing to impose limits, right?

[Via Jess]

What Part of ‘Arms’ Don’t They Understand?

DOJ Tells Court NJ’s AR-15 and Magazine Bans Violates Second Amendment [More]

As much as I point out administration failings, and I do because we have to know how to steer them to do better, I also have to applaud when they do good, and acknowledge no other president and DOJ in my lifetime have even come close to defending 2A like this.

That said, I fear “common use” can turn into a trap so I’m glad to see they also didn’t ignore the Militia aspect in their brief.

The Man in the Arena

Congressman Massie Introduces Bill to Repeal Federal Gun-Free School Zones Act [More]

Sixth time since 2015’s a charm?

Unfortunately, out of all those “pro-gun” Republicans there are only 13 co-sponsors and the prognosis says there’s a “1% chance of being enacted.”

Funny, how our best-Second-Amendment-president-ever’s primary concern is getting rid of Massie...

Even funnier that the NRA tried to torpedo him.

We’re the Only Ones Retentive Enough

“We are hearing rumblings already that some allegedly pro-gun Republicans are already cooking up ideas to roll back the impact of the ruling,” he said. “We’re hearing things like what kind of retention-level holster the sheriffs will demand people use. If anything like that comes out, the Florida Sheriffs Association is behind it and we will fight it.” [More]

They probably want to make them easier for their DEI hires to remove.

Hey, backi the khaki, right?

[Via Edmund M]

UPDATE

Good question:

Never Say Never

1 In 9 Americans Still Believe Political Violence Is Sometimes Justified [More]

Really? What the hell kind of sanctimonious virtue signaling is this? Zero Hedge thinks a violence monopoly is preferable?

Maybe if we could beef those numbers up it would discourage more of it happening. As I wrote 25 years ago in my GUNS and AMMO piece “You Say You Want a Revolution”:

But that’s ok. As long as such uncertainty exists, the Second Amendment is doing its job. As long as government fears an armed populace, and based on all the idiot laws they’re trying to pass, they sure must, a powerful check on tyranny remains in place. After all, it is an evident truth that the strength of our nation can be measured by its freedom, and the Second Amendment is the key bellwether for this freedom. We can see in its erosion the breakdown of trust between government and the governed, and the attendant instability and conflict that is inevitable when this happens.

The seemingly paradoxical truth is, if you want to create a stable, peaceful and free society, where a Chechnya-style conflict becomes the unlikeliest of possibilities, you must guarantee that the whole people can arm themselves to the teeth. For only by making the cost of infringing our rights too high can we make those who would abridge them afraid to act. Just as, at the individual level, a criminal avoids a potential victim who may be armed, so too does this work on a societal scale.

[Via bondmen]

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