Good

Man gets 20 years for deadly “swatting” hoax

Another Win for the Good Guys

Breaking! Federal Court Finds California Magazine Ban Violates the Second Amendment

A Win for the Good Guys

Federal Judge Rules New York’s Dumb ‘Gravity Knife’ Law Is Unconstitutionally Vague

Now That's Funny

The Science is Settled

Thirty-seven

After Multiple Reports About New Zealanders Turning In Guns, Guess How Many Actually Did It?

A Win for the Good Guys...

FOID (Firearm Owners Identification Card) Ruled Unconstitutional In Illinois

...but short lived, I think. It's a District Court and Illinois.

They want all our guns...

...and they won't be satisfied until they get what they want.

Salon: Now No One Needs Bolt Action Rifles Either

It's What They Do...

Lie their ass off on the government dime.

The CDC is Lying to You

Current Events

A Win for the Good Guys

Judge throws out Deerfield's assault weapons ban

Judge Luis Berrones issued a permanent injunction blocking the village from enforcing its ordinance. In the ruling, Berrones wrote that the plaintiff gun owners have “a clearly ascertainable right to not be subjected to a preempted and unenforceable ordinance” that prohibits possession of assault weapons, imposes financial penalties for keeping them and allows their property to be confiscated.

We'll see if it makes it past the appeals process.

One Cartoon is Worth...

That There is Funny

That Had To Hurt

The Science is Settled: Research Shows Gun Control Laws Do Not Reduce Violent Crime or Suicides

..and the mainstream press will begin touting it any time now. Crickets.

It's what they do...

Lie.

The Gun Control Campaign Against The AR-15 Is Full Of Lies

We Can't Remind People of this Enough

An Armed Citizenry Is A Free Citizenry, Which Is Why Liberals Want You Disarmed

Recently Read

It's been awhile since I last posted what I've read. This is what I'll admit since the last post.

Rewrite by Gregory Benford
A man dies and awakens in his sixteen year old body with a chance to live his life over again and again and again. Turns out he is not alone and some try to alter history to suit themselves. Well they all do but the bad guys push toward a nihilistic endgame. The hero resists them. We also get Robert Virginia Heinlein as side characters. I was initially reminded of Ken Grimwood's Replay, but the tone is different and really very different. It's been a long time since I picked up a Benford book. I may have to backtrack and read more. Highly Recommended.

Slayer by Kiersten White
I read somewhere that Fox was planning on rebooting Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I hope not. Modern Hollywood can't avoid f**king these things up. This book takes place in the Buffyverse of old kinda. It takes up after the 8th and 9th Season from the Dark Horse Comics. Buffy is there but very much a side character. It tells the story of the remaining Watchers and the last girl to gain the powers of Slayer before the end of magic. In a lot of ways it's routine but it was a fine light read. It you are a Buffy fan you will like it. Recommended.

The Sky Blue Wolves by S. M. Stirling
The last, maybe sorta, of the Amberverse Series. It wraps of the story adequately. It is standard Stirling which means excellent. Very well done but kinda abrupt ending. I think it was time to move on and Stirling realized it. It is a must read for fans of the series. If you haven't read any of the series start with the first. Fortunately for us, Stirling has moved on to new things.

Black Hats by Max Allan Collins
Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson versus Al Capone in New York City. A very nice what if novel of the 1920's. As I read I pictured Sam Elliot as Wyatt Earp. Highly Recommended.

The Storm by David Drake
The sequel to Drakes take on Arthurian Legend in The Spark. The older Drake gets, the smoother he gets. Highly Recommended.

Voices of the Fall, edited by John Ringo and Gary Poole. this is the latest in Ringo's Zombie series. Ten short stories by authors such as John Birmingham, Dave Freer, Michael Z. Williamson, Sarah Hoyt. There is one by Ringo but it isn't the best of the bunch. I really like to see where Birmingham take his character in a novel. all of the stories are good. A few are excellent. Highly recommended.

Bill Whittle: Why Johnny Can't Think

Thoughts and Prayers

When tragedy or atrocity strikes — as it just did with the mosque shootings in New Zealand — thoughts and prayers are not just an expression of compassion. They are, more importantly and more wisely, an expression of humility and helplessness. They are a way of saying: “There is nothing we can do in the face of this wickedness but we stand in solidarity with the victims and ask God to comfort their families in their sorrow.”

Almost every other reaction is absurd. To suggest you have the solution to the eternal problem of evil in the form of addressing your pet peeve or of blaming and attacking your political opponents is disgraceful. It is to use the bodies of the slain for a soap box. It degrades you and insults the victims. - Andrew Klavan

Right Wing Terrorist?

The Left is all for blaming the Shooter in New Zealand on Trump and the Right, but When you look at his manifesto it seems he leans left far more than right plus there's that pro-gun control anti-Second Amendment thing he had going.

The Demented Politics of the New Zealand Terrorist

Why don't we just stop trying to blame his derangement on each other and put the blame where it belongs...on the evil git that pulled the trigger.

[UPDATE] Radicalization & Degeneration

Quote of the Day

I've seen this quote in a couple or three places in the last few weeks.

You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.

Most recently here. This is one of the many reasons we have a Second Amendment and a key reason the Left won't rest until there no longer is one.

Current Events

Constitutional Carry in...

...Kentucky.

There Oughta be a Law...

Florida Bill Would Make It a Crime for Minors to Post Pictures of Guns on Social Media

...making passage of a clearly unconstitutional law a criminal violation with every congress critter voting yea for it doing time. Is that extreme? No less so than this attack on free speech and the gun culture. Kids have free speech rights too with the only allowable restriction on it those placed on them by their parents. Statetist pricks on both sides of the aisle need to butt out.

H/T to Instapundit

In [formerly] Great Britain

Amid Surge in Knife Violence, British Supermarket Chain Pulls Kitchen Knives off Shelves

Britain serves as a case study in what happens when you pass laws that disarm the good people. The bad people ignore them and keep doing bad things. Britain is what lies at the bottom of the slippery slope.

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H/T to GFZ.

More Please

CNN to be sued for more than $250M over 'vicious' and 'direct attacks' on Covington High student: lawyer

Current Events

Go Ahead and Pull the Trigger, Mitch

Politico: Senate Dems “outraged” over McConnell use of mysterious precedent to change judicial confirmation rules

The People's Business

This Doesn't Mean They Want Our Guns...

...and if you believe that you believe Feinstein, Schumer, and Pelosi are pro-gun and you're also an idiot.

HOUSE RESOLUTION urging the United states congress to propose and pass a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution to clarify the constitutional right to bear arms.

H/T to Sebastian.

I Wish His Money Would

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg bows out of 2020 Democratic presidential contest

I'm Interested to See How This Works Out

A rapidly growing number of counties in at least four states are declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, refusing to enforce gun-control laws that they consider to be infringements on the U.S. constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

Organizers of the pro-gun sanctuaries admit they took the idea from liberals who have created immigration sanctuaries across the United States where local officials defy the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce tougher immigration laws.

Now local conservatives are rebelling against majority Democratic rule in the states. Elected sheriffs and county commissioners say they might allow some people deemed to be threats under "red flag" laws to keep their firearms. In states where the legal age for gun ownership is raised to 21, authorities in some jurisdictions could refuse to confiscate guns from 18- to 20-year-olds.

Please

Amen

“Sensitivity Readers” Are Bullshit, and You Are A Sucker If You Believe Them

To The Book Community: Go Fuck Yourself. An Anti-Apology.

And you will NEVER get to live this down...

...that incredibly stupid comment.

What? “Not just any gun” but the kind that “fires when the trigger is pulled.” https://t.co/KNBUWijcxv

— Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) March 1, 2019

NEVER.