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Black Law Enforcement Lives Don't Matter Posted by Daniel Greenfield

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EpiPen Uproar Highlights Company’s Family Ties to Congress

I may have to go see this.

Promise?

Barbra Streisand Says She Will Move to Australia If Trump Becomes President

She won't. They never do.

44% of US homes have a gun...

...according to Pew, and that's just the gun owners willing to answer the question to begin with. I'd guess the actual number is somewhat higher.

Surprise: Gun ownership rises to 44% of all homes

No!

Mexico Repeats Call for U.S. Gun Ban while Ignoring the Obvious

Once you get your own house in order without screwing with my enumerated rights, you can come calling again. the answer will still be no.

UPDATE: Now that's interesting. Blogger apparently didn't like my title on this post. The word "No". It won't show up. "I Don't Think So" shows up fine. I switched them up a few times with the same result. Seriously strange. No with punctuation works fine, so "No!" it is. Huh?

If you win medals in six consecutive Olympic Games...

...and your sport involves guns, you get...

Muzzled!

Very good article and a damned impressive athlete.

Current Events

How is this guy libertarian...

...and what the frack is wrong with a so called Libertarian Party that keeps nominating him.

Gary Johnson Backs CO2 ‘Fee’ To Fight Global Warming

Recently Read

The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

Die Trying by Lee Child

The Last Centurion by John Ringo

I got the Kipling off of Project Gutenberg. I've read Kipling's poetry but never his prose. No Excuse, but I'll tell you Kim is on the list and I'll be going back to Gutenberg again soon. Damn good read.

This is the second of Child’s Jack Reacher novels I've read. The first was good but slow. This one had a faster pace and I liked it a bit more. I'll read more by him at some point.

Then there is Ringo. I read The Last Centurion when it came out in 2008 and really liked it then. His points on the Left were on point then and with Hillary running again it is now timely once more. If you haven't read it do. The link above goes to the Baen page for the novel with the first nine chapters free. Can't beat that.

Yeah, sorta, if you're Hillary Clinton.

Regina Spektor - “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” - Official Video (From Kubo And The Two Strings)

The movie is excellent. I'd have to say it is my favorite movie of the year so far. I cried at the end.

I like Regina Spector's cover of ""While My Guitar Gently Weeps". I like Regina Spektor. I'll admit the original Beatles' version has an attraction as well.

In Germany...

In the wake of a 2002 massacre in eastern Germany's city of Erfurt, where a 19-year-old shot dead 16 people, Germany tightened its firearms ownership law several times. It established a federal weapons registry in 2013.

The law now requires tight regional council supervision of licensed hunters and sporting shooters, psychological suitability tests, proof of the need to own a weapon as well as weapons and munitions expertise.

The minimum age is 18. The latest figures show that there are some 1.9 million gun licenses issued to sporting shooters, hunters and collectors in Germany, and some six million legally registered weapons. The number of illegal weapons is speculative.

These are the policies our own progressives would love to implement, yet these laws do no good. Weapons still find there way into the "wrong hands". For gun owners, that would be terrorists and criminals. For Progressives the wrong hands are anybody but theirs.

Quote of the Day - Scott Adams' Edition

I watched Clinton surrogates on CNN criticize Trump’s speech, and their criticisms were mostly these two:

1. All of Trump’s foreign policy ideas are crazy and uninformed.

2. Obama is already wisely doing all of those same things.

That would seem absurd in any other context. But keep in mind that we voters believe we can assess foreign policy ideas by listening to biased liars talk on television. So the entire situation is ridiculous, but we play along.

While he plays golf...

Obama Sends Memo to La. Officials Warning Them Not to Discriminate With Disaster Assistance

Louisiana Flooding

Gotta have your priorities...right?

That's Funny!

If you don't like it...

...don't buy it.

SJWs Demand 'Deus Ex' Video Game Not Let Gamers Make 'Immoral' Decisions

That's what normal people do. Instead, these SJW grumps insist the rest of us conform to their world view. I say no, and if the producers of that game don't say the same I suspect they'll have a flop on their hands. Their choice.

Fact Checkers my...

...ass.

Fact Check Sites Covering for Hillary on Guns

Too busy making a case for their chosen candidate to actually pay attention to what Hillary is saying.

“The Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get.”

H/T to Sebastian. Lying liars lie.

Recently Read

The King of Las Vegas by John Van Stry

I picked it up on impulse and damn was it a good read. Reminds me a bit of Dead Easy by William Mark Simmons. I'll definitely be reading his other novels. Highly recommended.

...and had his finger not been on the trigger...

Detective accidentally shoots self as police pursuit ends in crash

Also the police knew who he was and could have picked him up later yet chose to pursue him through town. The crook wasn't the only one who put lives at risk.

He's not a Libertarian...

...just an idiot.

Bill Weld Just Compared AR-15s to “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” & Said Pistols Were Even Worse!

Heh

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Doesn't seem to be about winning does it.

Orders for U.S. Forces in Syria: 'Don't Get Shot'

I don't blame the Generals as much as I do the White House.

H/T to Borepatch.

Recent Additions

This drawing is by Johnny Craig of EC fame. Post EC he worked mostly in advertising and this is probably a preliminary sketch from that work. I'd love one of his comic pages but would rather not mortgage the house. This will do.

This is by Joe Pimetel out of Brazil. To my knowledge he hasn't done any professional work here in the States. He doesn't seem to have any presence online. No idea about Brazil, but I do like his style.

The Law?

We ARE the Law

It's like where I work. We're told the General Orders are for the employees not the Administration. Ya know, rules are for the little people.

Not Just Gore.

Democrat Operatives with Bylines

I got a call this morning.

I don't remember my source for the new DDTC "guidance" intended to put gunsmith's out of business. I didn't even blog on it. I just sent off emails to my Senators and Congressman. I got a phone call from one Senator Tillis' staffers this morning asking me about it. She said she wanted to make sure my take on it matched hers before talking to Tillis about it. I have never gotten that kind of response from an email to any politician...ever. That's kinda neat, but my take away from the short conversation is that this thing had gone under the radar of our representatives in DC. That may not be the case now, but those of you who haven't called or written your representatives on this matter probably oughta. Just a thought.

Recently Read

The Last Roman by Edward Crichton

A Special Forces team gets thrown back in time to Caligula's Rome. It is well written and very readable, but the plot is kinda predictable. I liked it, but I haven't decided if I'm picking up the next in the series yet. We'll see.

The stupid just keep getting stupider.

SJW Internet Freaks Out about How ‘Wearing Camo Can Be Anti-Feminist’

This is on par with the Gadsden flag, t-shirt, cap, whatever, being racist. Me? I don't wear camo and have intention of starting because some SJW twit is trying to make a statement. I did see a plate with the Gadsden Flag logo on it at the local DMV office that would look lovely on the front of my SUV. I think I'll go buy it.

Another reason NOT to vote for Hillary.

K-Nein

H/T to Claire.

It's what they do.

Lie.

Media Photoshops Crowd Image For Hillary Clinton St. Petersburg, Florida Speech…

Crop it so it looks like there's somebody actually there. Liars.

Libertarian my a$$.

Libertarian VP Candidate Video; Gun Ban for Terror Watch List, Rifles are "Weapons of Mass Destruction"

It would have been nice for the Libertarian Party to nominate an actual libertarian candidate. Instead we get Gary Johnson and William Weld. I won't be voting for either since I can't trust either on the Second Amendment.

Suicide Squad

I liked it, but it wasn't the film it could have been. There were too many characters and too much going on in too tight a time frame to develop any rapport with the audience. I'm not sure if a longer film would have made it better, BUT I did like it. The makers gave me high expectations and failed to meet them, BUT I liked it. Oh, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn? Hot, and the best thing in the movie. Did I say i liked it?

Suicide Squad comes in about mid-list for the year.

Recently Read

The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz by Kerryn Oxford and Rick Boatright

The life and times of an alchemist prior to and after the Ring of Fire. Interesting and recommended.

Current Events

Well at least we know where this is headed.

Hillary Promises ‘We Are Going To Raise Taxes On The Middle Class’ [VIDEO]

Freudian slip indeed.

Say It Ain't So

While Protesting Guns, Anti-Gun Activist Accidentally Negligently Breaks Gun Laws He Supports

Fixed for them.

It's a stupid law. Now the question is whether they will charge for violating a stupid law or let him go since he is one of their own and didn't intend to violated the law. Hell, it worked for Hillary.

Recently Read

The Dragon Hammer by Tony Daniel

Daniel isn't a new writer, but this is the first novel by him, I've read. I tried his collaboration with David Drake a few years back, but it didn't grab me. When I saw this on the Baen website, my initial inclination was to give it a pass. Then I read the sample and had to finish the book. It is set in an alternate North American were magic exists and the Vikings vie with the Romans for control. Good story and characters with a tight style that stays on task. I liked it, and will buy the next book in the series.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Screwed, we are. Actually, it's a matter of screwed or really screwed.

The Eternal Debate

I don't care. If I put my rounds center mass, 9mm or .45, they will do the job. Seriously.

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Quote of the Day

In short, there is too much at stake to spend August fanning yourself and the fall fuming about foiled plans for a better nominee. It is Trump or Clinton. The choice is easy. If you have any doubts at all, take a course in Con Law. If Hillary wins, the casebook you use to do so will simply be a history book, not a guide to how the Supreme Court should decide things based on precedent.

If Trump is elected, we may be screwed. If Hillary wins, we are. It's not a hard choice.

It's what they do.

Lie.

“There is a very specific type of gun that we want banned – none of them,” said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign. “All we are trying to do is keep guns out of the hands of people we all agree that shouldn’t have them. Whether you love or hate guns, you agree that a convicted violent criminal, domestic abuser, someone who is dangerously mentally ill, or a would-be terrorist should not be able to get their hands on guns.”

A lot.

H/T to Sebastian.