I'm pretty sure there was a finger involved here...

...other than the one that was shot off.

Infamous MLB slugger Jose Canseco rushed to hospital after accidentally shooting off his own finger 'while cleaning gun'

The 50-year-old's fiancée Leila Knight told TMZ that he was at their home, cleaning his gun when it unexpectedly fired and blew off his left-hand middle finger. She says Canseco was not aware it was loaded.

H/T to the Duck.

It's what they do.

Lie.

Demand Supporter Lies About Tucson Shooting of Gabby Giffords

Bill Whittle: Your Second Amendment

...and if you are interested in reading the actual article to which Mr. Whittle refers, here it is.

The Unabridged Second Amendment

In the People's Republic of Massechusetts...

'Blown out of proportion': Dad defends teens suspended for posing with Airsoft guns

Two teens posed for a picture with airsoft guns and posted it on Facebook. Now they've been suspended.

Dom Raso “Pride and Ownership in the USA”

I'd call it attempted murder.

Virginia Open Carrier Is SWATted By Known Gun Control Loon

But for the professionalism of the police officers involved we might be looking at another John Crawford III.

Lord, I hope not.

Jeb Bush’s son: More than likely, he’ll run for president

It's not that I'm worried he'll win. I think he'll focus the opposition and guarantee a Democrat win. Jeb, sit it out. We've got other candidates with not a tenth of the baggage.

"The Hickenlooper Blues"

I voted yesterday afternnon...

...just don't get me started.

John Wick

I will probably go see it again. That's how much I liked it. Highly recommended.

Now there's a campaign slogan.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs - Hillary Clinton

GRNC-PVF Judicial Candidate Recommendations

Early voting has begun here in North Carolina. I usually have a pretty clear idea who to vote for in the standard races. The judicial races not so much. The GRNC endorsements help with that.

Supreme Court (Chief Justice): Mark Martin
Supreme Court (Martin seat): Bob Hunter
Supreme Court (Hudson seat): Eric Levinson
Supreme Court (Beasley seat): Mike Robinson
Court of Appeals (Martin seat): Marion Warren
Court of Appeals (Hunter seat): Bill Southern
Court of Appeals (Stroud seat): Donna Stroud
Court of Appeals (Davis seat): Paul Holcombe

The GOP's nominations vary in the Court of Appeals (Martin seat)race but I'd go with GRNC before the GOP. I trust one.the other not so much lately.

Now, go vote.

H/T to John.

Bill Whittle: Make Him Own It: Why You Must Vote in the Midterms

Recently Read

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo

It took a novel by John Ringo to break me away from the Gabaldon novels. I had thought he was done with his zombie books with the last one. Glad he gave us one more. Nice wrap up with a much more satisfying ending than the somewhat abrupt end to the last. Highly recommended.

Home owner wounded protecting family during home invasion.

In Lumberton NC, three evil gits were shot during the course of a home invasion and attempted rape. The 67 year old home owner exchanged fire killing one and wounding two of the invaders but was himself struck several times during the exchange. His wife and granddaughter were not wounded. The home owner and surviving trash are being treated in separate local hospitals.

Heh!

The stupid continues...

...but it's the Demanding Moms so logic goes out the window and self-serving bullshit rules.

Masked Man Robs Bank in Kroger, Moms Demand Action Says an Open Carry Ban Would Have Prevented Robbery

"And I Would Have Gotten Away with It Too, If It Hadn't Been for You Meddling Kids and Your Dog,"

Holder: Gun control among biggest failures

His failure is our triumph.

Billy Johnson: Demystifying Guns

What a waste...

She believes he slipped on a set of stairs in his garage, where she had stumbled before, lost his balance and the .38-caliber weapon fired.

...but I suspect his finger was involved somehow.

Who said your job was supposed to be easy?

FBI director to citizens: Let us spy on you

Ahhh...no.

Looks like they only want to have that coversation on guns...

...with themselves.

Not only was the whereabouts of the meeting not announced until this morning but when the location was discovered and women who are for 2nd Amendment rights wanted to simply listen in on the conversation, they were kicked out of the meeting.

H/T to Thirdpower.

It's all under control...

...and going according to plan.

Bill Whittle: Fear of Ebola

It's what they do.

Another Brazen Lie from Moms Demand Action

Maybe they figured a couple of politicians were easy pickins'

In Pennsylvania, during an attempted armed robbery of two State representatives, one exchanged gunfire with the two robbers. Both groups fled. No one was injured. The two robbers were later collected by the police.

Representative Flynn is licensed to carry and his voting record seems to be a mixed bag. A politician having a permit to carry has never been a bar to them voting to keeps guns out of the hands of the little people. I'd be curious to know his position on gun control in general.

More on that FBI study on mass shootings

While the FBI study discusses “mass shootings or killings,” its graphs were filled with cases that had nothing to do with mass killings. Of the 160 cases it counted, 32 involved a gun being fired without anyone being killed. Another 35 cases involved a single murder.

It’s hard to see how the FBI can count these incidents, which make up 42 percent of its 160 cases, as “mass killings.” They plainly don’t fit the FBI’s old definition, which required four or more murders, nor even its new one of at least three murders.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Now that's interesting...

The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves

Footnotes would be nice. I'd like to see the original source material.

Turkey thinks they have a Kurdish problem...

...and thier solution is ISIS.

You have GOT to be kidding?

In Alabama, a five year old girl was forced by her school officials to sign a no violence/no suicide contract for drawing a picture of a gun then pointing a crayon at another student and making gun sounds. The school officials don't need to be worried bout homicidal five year olds. Homicidal parents are another matter.

Bill Whittle: You're not a Liberal

...and I thought they were the Main Stream Media.

In the real world that's called...

...assault.

Harry Reid aide manhandles Jason Mattera for asking about Reid’s personal wealth

Bill Whittle: Play the Hand

Pay Attention!

But ya know? Obama's last two anti-gun nominations were made when the Republicans had more than enough votes to filibuster those nominations into oblivion, and they didn't. There were Republicans who voted for those nominees. What makes you think it will be any different when or if GOP have a majority? I'm not convinced it will be. The past is evidence that it won't.

Yep

Seriously?

The NRA is responsible for Ebola in the US.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Zero tolerance in the judicial system...

...and it's just as fucked up there as in the educational system.

Mandatory minimum sentencing: Injustice served?

Now that's what a slippery slope...

...gets you.

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Bill Whittle: A Beheading in Oklahoma

Well that came out of nowhere.

The last Failure to Fire strip.

Four men walk into a bar...

...armed and order everybody to get on the floor. A customer draws his weapon and exchanges fire with the bad guys killing two. The other two flee.

[Yawn]

Piers Morgan Planning Anti-Gun Documentary

Considering his success on CNN, I'm not sure I'm all that worried about this.

It's what they do.

But The New York Times' headline on September 24 read: "FBI Confirms Sharp Rise in Mass Shootings Since 2000."

If the number rises from one to two that a "sharp rise".

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Report: Praying pastor confronts would-be car thief with gun

When the pastor confronted him, the would be thief ran like hell.

Another year older...

...and not a whole lot else to say.

Home invasion goes bad......for the home invaders.

In Texas, a son is awakened by his mother pleading with three home invaders for the lives of her and her daughters. He grabs a gun and shoots one. One evil git is dead. The other two flee for their lives. No family members were injured. That a damn good ending.

Now that's neat...

...and for an added bonus it'll drive Bloomberg, the EveryMoms, and the anti-gun alphabets bug fuck.

Making a homemade metal semi-automatic rifle just got crazy easy

Want one?

Somehow Misfired?

Sources say he was in a classroom for a demonstration of how to break down and clean his service weapon. They say an experienced state police firearms instructor was handling a gun that somehow misfired.

There is so much fail hidden in those two sentences, but I sorta suspect it boils down to a rule two violation and testing a recently reassembled weapon with a chambered round.

When you're teaching your students to break 'em down and put them back together maybe the best place for live ammo for both students and instructors is someplace other than the classroom. Just saying...

Oh joy. What could possibly go wrong?

Jerry Brown signs gun restraining-order bill

Police and family members will be able to get a restraining order and take away your guns because...well, because.

H/T to Uncle.

...and speaking of Heinlein.

There is a new adaptation of one of his short stories coming to the big screen or maybe the small screen. I can't fine a US release date. The film Predestination is an adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's short story "All You Zombies". I'll be interested to see how it turns out.

Seriously?

Woman Arrested for Possession of SpaghgettiOs

...and spent thirty days in jail until the police got the lab results back.

These are Heinlein’s Crazy Years — we just live in them. - Kate Scanlon