Convenience Store Clerk’s Execution Shows Danger of ‘Giving Robbers What They Want’

They’re forbidden to have the means of defense. Instead, those who demand they stay this way offer useless advice guaranteed to leave them at the mercy of those who have none: “Give them what they want.” [More]

The question must be asked: “What if what they want is your life?”

As Good a Reason to Disarm You and Me as Any

Little told police that Straughter had put a gun on a television stand the night before and that the gun would have been within the boy’s reach, charges said. She also said she knew the gun was there and that neither she nor Straughter moved it. [More]

I can’t tell you how many times feral sons Uday and Qusay were exposed to that exact same situation growing up.

[Via bondmen]

The First Amendment Loophole

Biden Asks Congress To End Social Media Immunity At WH Summit Due To “Hate-Fueled Violence” [More]

It will be selectively enforced in such a way to only apply to the destruction of Gab, Truth Social, Parler, and the like, and give the giant administration-friendly Twitter and Facebook platforms all the legal excuses they need to up the censorship on behalf of the government…

[Via bondmen]

A Historical Understanding

“…to these should be added the personal rights guarantied and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as the freedom of speech and the press; the right of the people to peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, a right appertaining to each and all the people; the right to keep and bear arms;…”[More]

But wait a minute — that would mean Michael Waldman, The Brennan Center, and everybody else who parrots similar bulls*** are f***ing liars…

Meanwhile, Over at the Cult of Death…

Texas A&M Promotes ‘Self-Managed Abortion’ Event to Students [More]

As regulars here know, there have been a few times in the past month where various personal priorities have kept me from posting here for a day or so. One of those priorities was the birth of my first grandchild, a beautiful and healthy little girl, four weeks ago today.

Her birth was premature, by six weeks, and she was in the NICU until recently.  She’s actually still not even “scheduled” to be born until nine days from now, which I guess makes her fair game for childless Stacey Abrams and communion-taking Catholics Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.

There is no question she is a human being, and that the taking of her life, if she had not come early, would have been an act of premeditated murder. There is also no question that the development of her nervous system would make the “procedure” an act of agonizing medieval torture rivaling the disembowelment and drawing and quartering of William Wallace.

Oh, and there is also no question that she is a female.

I guess the only question I have left is since the people doing this are overwhelmingly the ones enabling those who would disarm and rule or kill me and mine if they could, why should I care if they wish to cull their next generations of voters?

[Original story I riffed off of submitted by Michael G]

Speaking of ‘Every Terrible Implement of the Soldier’…

No longer science & technology projects, high-energy laser weapons are now operational [More]

So when power packs shrink and individual infantry weapons become a reality…?

This is why, understanding core purpose, “in common use at the time” has to be applied not to what is “popular” with sportsmen, but to what is available on conventional battlefields and to enforcement authorities.

Remember when it took a roomful of computers to attain a fraction of the calculating power of your cell phone?  I remember when a prominent mathematician precited a limit to computational capacity based on a point where tubes burn out and need to be replaced.

What I’m using now would have been considered the stuff of mad scientist fiction.

[Via Jess]