I’ll be joining in at The Michael Dukes Show in a few minutes.
It’s Firearms Friday
Suffer the Children
“The shooter was obsessed with the idea of killing children,” Thompson said. “The shooter saw the attack as a way to target our most vulnerable among us. While they were at their most vulnerable at school and at church. I won’t dignify the shooter’s words by repeating them. They are horrific and vile. But, in short, the shooter wanted to watch children suffer.” [More]
The most vulnerable and precious among us, the future, and Democrats don’t want to let us protect them from monsters of their creation…
Trump’s DC Takeover Won’t Be a Success if Constitution is Ignored
Crime is down and the enemy is furious. What’s not to like? At the risk of infuriating MAGA loyalists, in a word, infringements. [More]
Which plan will you go with? Help the administration see where it’s going off the rails and needs a course correction, or kill the messenger?
The Last Laugh
It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word ‘Staunch’ Is
Ignoring All the Rules
Ulterior Motives
AI Overview: Reports and analysis from legal observers and gun rights advocates indicate that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2025 shift on firearm suppressors was a strategic legal maneuver. By conceding that suppressors are a form of “arm” under the Second Amendment, the DOJ laid the groundwork to defend the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act (NFA) tax and registration scheme against legal challenges.
Guns and Gadgets elaborates. [Watch]
The “gun groups” obviously don’t care about this, so I don’t know why I should.
[Via Jess]
Like Kapos, But Not Confined
Twelve Good Men and True
Christmas Has Come Early
Sen. Chuck Schumer Pushes Gun Control Before Facts in Minneapolis Church Shooting Known [More]
All the Democrats are. They’re ecstatic.
Hey, Stupid was right: Memes are cool!
[Via bondmen]
Can We All Get Along?
Who Couldn’t See That Coming?
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said groups challenging a 2013 law banning assault weapons and a second gun control law enacted a decade later could not show that the guns they are still able to possess, including several semi-automatic handguns, are not sufficient for self-defense purposes. [More]
And no, I don’t think they’re embarrassed at all. I think they’re in-our-face about it.
[Via Jess]
Put to the Test
When the staff went through Cassandra’s bag, they found a boxcutter. The weapon was confiscated and the staff told her that she wasn’t allowed to have it on campus. Lydia then told the security team she was recording the interaction and was testing the weapons detection systems. [More]
The weapon ostensibly used in the greatest mass murder in U.S. history…?
“Testing…” Sounds more like “lying.”
Convenient excuse though. What would happen to citizens who aren’t connected entitled Democrats is we used it?
[Via Matthew L]
Who Will Help Them Bake the Bread?
The effect isn’t abstract. Traffic drives revenue, and revenue keeps independent media alive, paying your favorite writers, editors, and keeping the “lights on”. Without it, the field is left to large, anti-gun news organizations funded by their mega-millionaire owners [can you say Bloomberg] that already dominate the conversation. [More]
I’ve told you about this before.
Who gets value from it?
Cutting to the Chase
It’s Gowdy Doody Time
Fox host Trey Gowdy: “We’re going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. How many school shootings does it take before we’re going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out of — it’s always a young white male, almost always.” [More]
Yeah, except see the comments that follow.
Just in case anybody thought this fraud was a “conservative”…
Oh, look: Here he is “proving” he’s “one of us.”
And here he is weasel-wording for infringements.
So, naturally, Donald Trump has nothing but effusive praise for the guy. (But let Gowdy publicly criticize him and look how quickly he’ll be called a “loser.”)
[Via several of you]
WWDTD?
We all know how the Dems will react. But, what will Trump do? [More]
This. He’s not stupid. He won’t do more.
Which means he won’t promote this.
The Stupidest Thing You’ll Read on the Internet All Day
you use meme magic or whatever to get people to throw them out. we both know the proliferation of AI, FYPs, etc are extremely powerful. people were memed into buying the guns, they can be memed out of it. [More]
Thing is, it’ll work as well as all the other plans.
And Here We Go
Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. The gunman, who fired from outside through the church windows as children worshiped, killed himself in the rear of the church. [More]
Dressed in black and had a rifle we’re being told, although no ID has been released yet.
Here’s the news feed for updates.
The Moms are already lacing up their blood dancing shoes…
[Via Michael G]
UPDATES
The ghouls at Everytown can’t even wait till the scene is clear. [More]
Weaponized “virtue.” It’s what they do.
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From the main link:
Police said the suspect was in his 20s and did not have an extensive criminal history
So they know who he is but aren’t ready to tell us.
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- Robin Westman…
- Not exactly a “rightwing extremist”…
- Careful with unverified internet claims.
- “They” don’t want us to see his “manifesto”…?
- “Why so queerious?”
Tangentially Related?
Mass shooting near Minneapolis school leaves 1 dead, 6 others wounded [More]
Whoever it was got away– I wonder if it could be the same guy doing a practice run or just some gang mutt…
[Via Steve T]
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Wind-Up Toy Attack [Via WiscoDave]
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“…Robin, formerly Robert, Westman.“
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If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review in Viramontes v. Cook County, SAF’s challenge to the Cook County, Ill., ban on so-called “assault weapons.” [More]
I was happy to see that it did not neglect to include:
The text of the Second Amendment itself proclaims that one of its purposes was to preserve the “militia” and, to state the obvious, the militia did not exist solely to promote individual self-defense but rather was “useful in repelling invasions and suppressing insurrections,” “render[ed] large standing armies unnecessary,” and enabled the people to be “better able to resist tyranny”. Indeed, to the extent there is a historical tradition with respect to “military” arms, it is to afford them especially strong protection.
Tangentially Related Development
The U.S. Supreme Court has distributed a Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) case, Madison Lara v. Commissioner Pennsylvania State Police, for conference to be held on Monday, Sept. 29. [More]
