Unleashing the Beast

Warning Issued After Researchers Link Energy Drinks To Suicidal Thoughts In Children [More]

At least you can’t accuse them of false labeling

Besides, we have something else to blame that has a lot more support.

And far be it from me to suggest parents exercise authority over what their dependent children regularly consume.

[Via bondmen]

Infectious AND Antidemocratic!

Guns, in other words, are not just threats to public health; they are threats, as historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes, to the “strong civic culture and a public sphere conducive to social trust and altruism” that healthy democracies require. [More]

He starts with a faulty premise and goes downhill from there.

Aaron Zelman had a term for such as Metzl and Ben-Ghiat.

[Via Jess]

Kicking the Can

The Kali Key completely changes the classification from Semi to Non Regulated Bolt Action. [Watch]

Or as an old friend of mine once said:

I sometimes wonder whether the socialists will issue an edict requiring all firearms to have a pink ribbon tied to the barrel, just to get a belly laugh as the panicked descendants of once-proud American patriots scurry to comply.

[Via Jess]

The Campaign Trail

2024 BFA-PAC Grades and Endorsements for the Ohio Primary [More]

One thing I haven’t done is vet candidates for proof of commitment, so use this as a guide but do your own due diligence. I might be able to affect the U.S. Senate race, but I’ve pretty much been redistricted out of having a say in the rest of it.

And yeah, Dolan’s a douche.

We’re the Only Ones Undeterring Enough

San Francisco police station burglarized in Fillmore District [More]

Even when they’re only seconds away…

Them “declin[ing] to say what the suspect has been accused of stealing or how much it was worth” gives me hope it will fall below the $950 threshold.

Yeah, of course that’s one they’ll proscute, further adding to “Only Ones” exclusivity.

[Via Michael G]

It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t In It

The Texas Republican — infamously photographed by a gawker while en route to Cancún in 2021 — is proposing a bill amendment that would offer lawmakers a dedicated security escort at airports, along with expedited screening outside of public view. That could make it much less likely that the politicians’ comings and goings would become fodder for embarrassing news reports and late-night comedy mockery. [More]

Yeah, further separate them from the edicts they impose on the rest of us, that’s the ticket!

Read the room, Ted. Is this really what you think an angry electorate will embrace? The embarassment and handing political enemies an opening for comedic mockery is overwhelmingly self-created.

Full Contact Phone Tag

This clip shows a migrant on a moped dragging a woman along a New York City street to steal her phone. This is what Democrats and RINOS want for our country. Unfettered access to America to commit crimes against citizens. [More]

Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” And I have that on good authority.

[Via Michael G]

Six Degrees of Kevin Bellyachin’

Ohio needs a red flag law to prevent needless deaths [More]

In other words, grinning useful idiot Kevin interacted with the nut job, noticed and/or said nothing, and is now trying to alleviate his guilt by denying due process to everyone.

He’s one of these and one of these. Surprise, surprise, he’s one of these:

I am a progressive Democrat…

Read down further and you’ll also see him parroting the “assault-style rifle” narrative, meaning if you give him red flags he’ll be on to the next objective, and then the next

[Via JG]

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

All the prohibitionist laws and lawsuits have the same goal: To drag things out long enough for the Republicans to blow it so they can reshape SCOTUS and reverse Bruen.

Reframing Bruen

As described above, the Petitioner has demonstrated and the Court finds that New York’s Red Flag Law is not beyond the “outer limits” the framers and ratifiers of the Second and Fourteenth amendment understood them, based on the nation’s historical traditions. [More]

It’s no surprise support for Red Queen laws comes from judges still inserting an affinity for the “collective right” interpretation into their arguments…

Washington Gun Law gives analysis commentary.

[Via Jess]