Free Speech is Allowed Speech (with Apologies to Orwell)

The arrest of the 39-year-old technology billionaire prompted on Sunday a warning from Moscow to Paris that he should be accorded his rights and criticism from X owner Elon Musk who said that free speech in Europe was under attack. [More]

Time for the absolutist weirdos to come crawling out…

Why is it in my interest to risk WW3 defending fascist Europe again…?

Tangentially Related UPDATE

A teenager who marched outside an North Yorkshire Islamic centre with firelighters in his pocket while waving an England flag is going to “lose everything because of one night of stupid behaviour,” a court heard. [More]

Yeah, waving an English flag is pretty stupid.

[Via Michael G]

Do the Right Thing

27 states urge Supreme Court to reject Biden administration’s rule defining gun parts [More]

The court’s ability and inclination to produce favorable future rulings depends on what happens in November, for those of you who believe sitting on your hands because it doesn’t make any difference is defensible.

[Via Jess]

Victim Lucky to Escape with His Life

‘Should I shoot him?’: Video shows driver pull gun during tense Florida road rage incident [More]

Damn right you should have. The unpredictable raging moron had already proven his willingness to be a lethal threat and could have fired at any second.

If you leave all the choices to the attacker, he’s the one who gets to make them.

[Via Jess]

Speaking of Compensating

This is not to excuse pornography, but rather refocus inquiry and reflection (as I do here) on the ways in which guns amplify phallocentrism. [More]

Academia sent me a link to this 2007 “study.”

Sounds like author C. Richard King has too much time on his hands and/or too much of something else in his hands…

He even cites SPLC’s Mark Pitcavage, who looks like his hands wouldn’t reach, at least his own…

An Indirect Admission

I normally don’t answer the interminable political phone surveys happening before the election, but I was sitting in the drive-through line when the phone rang and had nothing else going on, so I played around after the promise of just two brief questions.

First question: “Is anyone in your household employed by the media…?”

Yes.

“Thank you for your time…”

Gun Prohibitionist’s Ultimatum Warrants Appropriate Gun Owner Response

We’re not interested in negotiating our rights that you and your fellow travelers have no claim to. Come and take them. [More]

An impotent peacenik dolt lays down the terms of surrender.

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