Seven Years and Counting

Huh. It passed me by. Too much else going on lately, I guess. November 25th was this blogs seventh anniversary.

Assumptions can kill you.

A couple in South Carolina arranged to buy a car off Craigslist and went to meet the seller at a gas station. turned out the seller was a armed robber. He pulled a gun on the couple. He kept his attention on the guy. They guy's girlfriend drew her weapon and shot him dead.

False assumptions will kill you. As Bob noted, "the fastest growing segments of gun ownership are young, urban and female."

H/T to Bob.

The silence speaks volumes.

The City Council for Los Angeles passed a ban on standard capacity magazines. No one is allowed to own or possess magazines holding over 10 rounds except, of course, the Council members themselves. They gave City residents sixty days to turn them in or face arrest.

The sixty days have expired and not one magazine has been turned in. Not one!

Heh.

Never let a crisis go to waste...

Obama Attempts To Exploit Colorado Shooting, Calls for “Assault Weapon” Ban

Fortunately for us it mostly falls on deaf ears or those of his fellow travelers. Still, be afraid. Be very afraid. He won't give up.

Do I hear an AMEN!

Which they'll never get as long the centrist RINOS are in charge.Ya know, Establishment.

Recently Read

Fate of the Union by Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens.

The second in a series but I haven't read the first yet. A political thriller of sorts and the protagonist and a female FBI Agent pursue a murder mystery that turns into much more. Collins is a consistent writer and I can't say I ever read anything by him I didn't like. I liked this. I'll be loading the first in the series onto my Kindle and reading it in the near future. Oh and fair warning, if leftish politics bug you, this may as well.

Not only does religion matter in determining who is a refugee. It's the law.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which governs these issues, defines “refugee” as someone who has fled from his or her home country and cannot return because he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of “religion” – as well as race, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. This certainly doesn’t let us use a religious test to filter otherwise-eligible immigrants out. But it does mean that when we’re deciding who to admit as refugees, religion matters.

So, when we think about religious refugees from the war-torn parts of the Middle East, who are we talking about? Right now Christians who are being singled out for religious persecution – beheadings, beatings, rape, forced conversions, enslavement. So also Yazidis, Mandaeans, and a few other smaller groups. Many Muslims are also displaced and suffering, but the Islamic State is not systematically targeting them for being Islamic. Our refugee policy should take that into consideration. This is not a “religious test.” It is a persecution test.

Not that Obama really cares what the law is if it is contrary to his wants. He doesn't.

Happy Thanksgiving

Not a whole lot else to say. Enjoy your family time. Oh, and here's this...

Climate what?

A new Fox News poll finds that in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, the issue of terrorism has become the top concern of American voters. Only 3 percent of respondents said that global warming was the most important issue facing the country today.

...and the only reason certain politicians are pushing it is that it supports their agenda to increase their power over the rest of us.

Colion Noir: The NRA and The FBI Terror Watch List Response

Rationalizing the stupid.

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said Monday that blocking Syrian refugees from entering the United States would impair the ability of police officers to connect with the Muslim community.

Clinton, who wants to import thousands of Syrian refugees, told reporters in Reno that it would look bad not to let in Syrian refugees, and that might inflame Muslims against law enforcement.

“If you’re in law enforcement, … you want the people in the communities that you are looking to get information from to feel like they want to help you,” Clinton said at a Nevada roundtable. “And if the message from people who are running for president, for example, is that we don’t want to take any Muslims whatsoever, that’s not good for law enforcement.”

“Let’s not be casting this broad, negative rejection of everybody who might be Muslim. That is not smart to protect ourselves. And I want people to understand — that is a law enforcement issue,” Clinton added.

In what universe does that make any sense? Maybe she is saying if we don't let the Syrians in we'll piss off Muslims and that will put the lives of Law Enforcement at risk? So they are at risk whatever we do. Pissing off radical Muslims is a daily occurrence, and we shouldn't bend over for fear of any specific group. The status quo is preferable to increasing the risk by inviting ISIS in hidden among the refugees.

'Cuz, why the **** not?

Now that's funny.

Also true and damn scary.

Whittle and Klavan on Obama

Cartoon of the Day plus three.

Bill Whittle: Failure of Intelligence

Be afraid...very afraid.

Jarrett: Obama Not ‘Lame Duck,’ ‘Really Big Things’ Coming.

Refugee Roulette

Seriously?

TSA throws out child's Buzz Lightyear souvenir

'Cuz stupid or unable or unwilling to exercise judgement in the course of their duties. They can rationalize it all they want, but like I said, 'cuz stupid.

Seriously?

Charlotte City Council committee kills plan for no-go areas for criminals

...and Police Chief Kerr Putney is against it because it would "stigmatize a community" rather than it is utterly unworkable and fucking stupid 'cuz criminal always obey yhe law.

Recently Read

The Desert and the Blade by S. M. Stirling is the latest novel in his Emberverse series and every bit as good as the previous novels. Want more. Now.

It's what they do.

Lie.

NRA, Republicans block proposed law to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns in U.S.

That's the headline. You can find the story online of you want to read it. I won't link to it. John Richardson provides a summary of the article here and Colion Noir comments below.

Ok, now this is just getting comical. Except it's not funny, it's stupid and slanderous. If there are 2000 suspects on a terror watch list and each of them "legally" bought firearms that means they underwent a FBI background check, which means the FBI knew about each attempted purchase and approved them. This is the dishonest manipulative garbage that anti-gunners engage in and it will only get worse as we get closer to elections. Now ask yourself, why.

What he said.

For the pacifistic anti-gun dumb asses on the internet who always crop up in the aftermath of any violent event, bitching about imaginary crossfires, or how fighting back would just make things worse. Just shut up already. You’re children, with a child’s grasp of the subject. When people are being mass butchered, barring tossing hand grenades at the bad guy, it is pretty damned hard to make it worse.

RTWT

Lions and tigers and bears...oh my!

Text from my son at 8:46 PM:

I JUST SAW A BEAR AT THE STOP SIGN ACROSS THE ROAD. THERE'S A BEAR!

Bear spotted in Durham County

The story is five days old. We're less than a mile away from the original siting so apparently the Bear family is still in the area. Sorry no pictures. Too dark.

Increasingly looks that way doesn't it?

How screwed up is that?

Our hearts are with the victims and survivors of the horrific mass shooting and violent attacks in Paris today. pic.twitter.com/vMs5jkH9vI

— Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) November 13, 2015

A terrorist attack is a mass shooting and terrorism is "gun violence"? So I guess that makes terrorists gun owners.

H/T to John.

What He Said...

Carry. Because if they can do it there, they can do it here.

Uh Huh

"...we have contained them."

...then...

Terrorists slaughter at least 118 in Paris music hall, 40 others in separate attacks

Contained? Yup.

Poor Babies

UN-EFFING-BELIEVABLE! Mizzou protesters are ANGRY Paris terror attacks stole their MEDIA SPOTLIGHT!!!

Seriously?

Superman

Another "we support the Second Amendment, but..." group.

American Coalition for Responsible Gun Ownership

Whatever.

It's what they do...

...lie.

Bitter Lefty Paper Attacks McSally For Supporting Rights Of Gun Owners

With a hard twist...

“Is it always the will of God that I survive a violent confrontation?”

The answer to that is determined by the outcome is it not?

Moms Demand Action: We Are Holier Than Thou.

God helps those that help themselves.

Quote of the Day

Someone told me to ‘give it the old college try,’ so I crumbled into an incoherent mess when I heard an opinion that differed from mine. - Daniel Lin

Recently Read

Hell's Foundations Quiver by David Weber

I liked it, but not a lot really happened for the length of the book. That's fine for fans but this is definitely a series that requires starting with book number one.

Ban guns...

...and you get this.

Murdered for their guns, Venezuela's police are now victims of crime

When only the police have guns, they become targets.

Grandbabies

Three years and three months.

Bill Whittle: The Game Changer

Denier

This, of course, assumes he doesn't know it for the sham it is.

That's not a "no"...

...and that's a good thing.

No Decision Yet as Supreme Court Relists Gun Ban Case

Pray.

" Please. Sir. Step away from the voting booth."

...or you could ask him to solve a basic math problem, like say, what's 1+1?

Money well spent

The Giffords poured $600,000 into the campaign of Democrat B. Jill McCabe to unseat republican Richard Black. They lost that money too after Black won with a comfortable five point lead.

Heh.

It's what they do.

They being leftists, progressives, anti-gunners, and climate changers. They'll say and do whatever it takes to further their agenda. They lie.

The "97% Consensus" on Global Warming is Bullshit

Bloomberg tries to buy Virginia State Senate seat...

...and fails miserably.

Sturtevant defeats Gecker in pivotal Virginia Senate Race

Bwahahahahahahahahah!

Of course, that won't stop him from trying it again somewhere else. If Bloomberg has anything, it's money to piss away.

It's what they do...

...lie, but amazingly they can't come up with anything original and keep passing on the same old bullshit in apparent hope that people won't know that it's the same old bullshit.

No, 10,000 Children Aren't Killed Or Injured By Guns Every Year

That's just a damn shame.

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson dies at 73

I liked him as an actor and a politician, and I'm sorry to see him go.