Notes from the Resistance
The right-wing movement surrounding Daniel Penny is barbaric – Republicans and right-wing pundits see vigilante brutality as something to champion. [More]
Parroting talking points — how “progressive” and original.
Per the DSM, defending people against attacks by violent lunatics at great personal risk is vigilantism, and Republicans are just not as civilized as the native Pakistan that first-generation anchor commie Zeeshan Aleem’s parents fled.
[Via bondmen]
How This Corrupt Cop Secretly Ran A Whole City [More]
Yo, Rep. Crenshaw: Got some more exemptions for ya…
[Via Jess]
As I said on Monday, the gloves have come off and the powers that be at the NRA have created an implacable enemy in former 1st VP Willes Lee. Now that he is free from the constraints of being both an officer and a member of the Special Litigation Committee, Lee is feeling no remorse about starting to air dirty laundry. [More]
When I met him in Pittsburgh last October at the 2022 NRA-ILA Firearms Law & the Second Amendment Symposium, I thought from the impression I had of him being a Fairfax loyalist that he’d have a real problem with me. Instead, he was gracious, told me voices like mine needed to be heard, and asked me to introduce him to Stephen Stamboulieh. The possibility was there in the back of my mind but I didn’t get the sense I was being played.
Seeing how his years of being the good soldier have been repaid you gotta wonder why– and why Wayne et al. thought that was a good idea. Maybe now that he’s freeing himself up to be candid about its inner workings, perhaps we’ll find out why, as it’s increasingly obvious that his loyalty is to NRA as an institution and its staff.
NRA in Danger blog has more background.
Since assault weapons bans aren’t coming back and AR-15-style rifles are here to stay, the most important thing we can do is modernize the background check system, around which there’s a modicum of bipartisan consensus. [More]
What, you mean the system that the National Institute of Justice says requires registration to be effective, and that criminals won’t subject themselves to anyway…?
Still, nice of him to admit they don’t have the juice to get rid of them. In The New York Times, no less…
[Via Jess]
Shannon Brandt pled guilty to manslaughter after Cayler Ellingson was killed when he was hit by Brandt’s vehicle in September 2022. The guilty plea comes just weeks after the charges were reduced from murder to manslaughter. [More]
Now imagine the sentence is Brandt were the “Republican extremist” and his victim had been [insert preferred woke category here].
[Via Michael G]
Aman who had his federal life sentence commuted by President Obama in 2015 shot a woman on a Chicago expressway leaving her brain dead earlier this week, according to prosecutors. [More]
Who could have predicted someone with three felony strikes against him already would get in trouble again?
[Via Remarks]
Alec Baldwin to star in film about Kent State shootings in 1970 [More]
OK, in this shot, Alec, I want you to point the gun right at the protesting students…
This is a belief in authoritarian supremacy and the magic of the badge of the “Only Ones,” like the Pontifical Swiss Guard and Gendarmerie Corps. [More]
Armed guards with state-of-the-art weaponry for them and martyrdom for the rest of us…
David Codrea discusses the War on Guns for the hour with Mark [Listen]
As usual, we ended up talking about a lot more than that.
A bill Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw introduced Friday could streamline Border Patrol’s hiring process by eliminating the polygraph requirement for some candidates with law enforcement or military credentials. [More]
Because nothing says “more trustworthy than you” like being an “Only One.”
This Crenshaw character certainly has proved to be a continual disappointment.
Women are buying more guns, though studies suggest self-defense use is rare… A Harvard University analysis found people defended themselves with a gun in less than 1% of crimes from 2007 to 2011. More recently, a Stanford University study of 17.6 million Californians found that people who lived with handgun owners but did not own a gun themselves died by homicide more than twice as often as their gun-free neighbors. [More]
If what they say is true, NRA families must be self-destructing at an astonishing rate.
Somebody at Faux News decided it was important to offset reality by citing “statistics” and talking points from people who want to ban guns. Nothing like assigning such stories to a self-described “cat lady.”
Officials investigate mysterious disappearance of 30-Ton shipment of explosive chemicals in California [More]
So Chuck Schumer’s proposed taggant mandate would have worked about as well as tracing guns back to their original purchasers?
The question now becomes “Who has them?”
Enemy foreign open border opportunists or an FBI/ “white nationalist” low-hanging fruit joint venture…?
‘Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals,’ states the advisory issued on Saturday night by the civil rights group. [More]
Well, yeah, they up and elected a “white supremacist.”
Since when do we call hate mongers “civil rights groups”? And who decided the rest of us have to go through the absurd motion of saying “people of color”?
By driving them to the Democrats, “middle man” Derrick Johnson is filling a time-“honored” role…
Three people were shot and killed at the Klymax Lounge in Kansas City, Missouri, early Sunday, police said. [More]
I guess the perp needed help with his rent…?
Funny, though, what he did have money for…
Nebraska senator flips out amid debate on bill to ban sex change surgeries for minors: ‘We love trans people’ [Watch]
Armed trans people not so much…
I haven’t been this moved since the San Francisco Screamer.
3-year-old shoots 2 people in Lafayette, who was wanted for murder [More]
I can’t tell you how many times that happened at my house when feral sons Uday and Qusay were growing up.
Thank goodness “safe storage laws,” or in Indiana’s case, a Class C felony for “dangerous control of a child/firearm” charge, will keep these things from happening in high-risk (criminal) homes!
How Peaceful Sweden Became Europe’s Gun-Murder Capital [More]
