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Democrats To Try Bold Strategy Of Doing Exactly What Got Us Into This Mess In The First PlaceAs long as it creates opportunities for graft and fills their pockets and those of their cronies, they don't care.
Sunday, July 31, 2022
It's Not As If They Don't Know What They're Doing
Galaxy Con 2022 - Raleigh NC - Saturday
I had my Soulsearcher pages signed by Peter David. Nice guy. Picked up some art here and there. Went intending to spend nothing, but well. Mostly walked around getting pics of cosplayers.
Saturday, July 30, 2022
House Passes HR 1808: Assault Weapons Ban
House Passes ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
The Dubious and Doomed 'Assault Weapon' Ban That the House Approved Today May Cost Democrats This Fall
It should be dead on arrival in th e Senate, but in the last few days and weeks some Republicans have seen fit to cooperate with Democrats on spending bills and gun control. To my shame, two are from North Carolina. REgardless of whether it will do any good to email or phone your Republicrats inthe Senate, do it anyway.
Friday, July 29, 2022
It Was Bound to Happen...
...after all, he is a Democrat. I've never trusted him and was damn sure this would happen eventually. It did.
In a major boost to Democrats, Manchin and Schumer announce deal for energy and health care bill
GRNC Alert: BREAKING: HR 1808 Vote [ Friday] Tomorrow morning
Call your Representative and make your position know. Who knows. Pigs may fly and the horse may sing. A list of your reps and contact info are at the link.
Galaxy Con 2022 - Raleigh NC - Thursday
I went because I got a free four day pass. I was looking for Peter David so he could sign some Soul Searchers and Co. pages I have. He didn't show before I left. The guy with me and the Usagi sketch is Nick Justus. He was super nice. I stopped to talk and ended up with a drawing. Galaxy Con is more of a pop culture con. Some comic creators but not many I was interested in. I'm not really interested in actors, wrestlers, and voice actors. I may go back Saturday. I suspect it will bring out the masochist in me. The crowd today was bad enough.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Democrats and Neo-Conservatives Pretending to be Centrists...
...so they can leach votes away from the GOP in 2024.
Exclusive-Former Republicans and Democrats form new third U.S. political partyI'm interested in who is paying for it , but that's about it. No thank you.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Monday, July 25, 2022
Friday, July 22, 2022
A Win for the Good Guys
Colorado U.S. District Court issues TRO against magazine and gun banJudge Moore wrote: "the Court is unaware of historical precedent that would permit a governmental entity to entirely ban a type of weapon that is commonly used by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, whether in an individual's home or in public."
Profound Ignorance
What a stupid #$&%@.One minute on Google and they can't even be bothered to do that, but it isn't about that. The hope is ignorant Democrats will believe the bullshit they spout.
Dems Argue Stabilizing Braces Turn Rifles Into Machine Guns In Congressional Hearing On Gun Control
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Giant Comics Edition #12 Diary Secrets - Matt Baker Cover and Art
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Fifty-Three Years Ago Today...
July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For MankindThat's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Good Cause or Good Moral Character: There's No Difference Between the Two
Wrong Ideas? No Guns for YouStates like California used "good cause" as a reason for denial of concealled carry permits until Bruen. Now the applicant has to show good moral character to qualify for that elusive permit in those states. There may be some differences in th e two but they share one commonality. Anti-Gun bureuacrats and politicians make the determination as to whether you have it. Its a matter of the state's opinion as to whether you derserve a permit. It would seem to me that both are equaly unconstitutional under Bruen but we'll have to go through years of court battles to have that clarified. And when we do, the bastards will find another excuse to deny their citizens a permit and the ability to defend themselves.
Monday, July 18, 2022
How to Stop a Mass Shooting
Report: Armed Citizen Foils Mass Shooting, Kills Indiana Mall AttackerThe New York Times reported it this way.
4 Killed in Indiana Mall Shooting, Officials SayThat would be three innocents killed by a evil git who was taken down by a good guy with a gun. He shouldn't even be mentioned in the same count as his victims. The headline makes you think more were killed by the shooter than were. Oh, and the evil git used a rifle so expect more pressure to ban evil weapons of war. Expect this one to fade out of the news since you can't report favorably on a good guy with a gun. To the hero who took the bad guy down, damn good work.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
HR - 1808: Assaault Weapon and Magazine Ban Coming to a Vote
Another drop down the slippery slope. It will pass in the House. That's just the make-up of the current House. The Senate is the question. Can we trust fifteen Senators to hold on this after they've already stabbed us in the back. Do they feel they owe us anything? Is this a bit too far even for them? Call your representatives and let them know how you feel, and I guess we'll find out.
Eric Flint R. I. P.
I noticed on Facebook that Eric Flint has passed. He was scheduled to be at this years FantiSci but had to drop out. He was the author of 1632. He was kind enought to let other authors play in his sandbox and thus mentored many a newbie into a professional writing career. I know I'll miss him and his books. I'm at that age where more and more of the people I like are falling by the wayside. Damn. Rest in peace, Sir.
A terrible blow. Eric Flint passed away this morning. He single-handedly created an army of padawans and coauthors who went on to have remarkable careers of their own. He came across as a curmudgeon, but was one of the kindest and most knowledgeable guys I knew. I am devastated. pic.twitter.com/njWixRNyfp
— Kevin J Anderson (@TheKJA) July 17, 2022
Choices Have Consequences - Bad Ones Are A Bitch
Video Shows Florida Homeowner Open Fire on 4 Home Invaders With a Semi-Auto RifleHe used an AK-47 rifle. Some would ask why he needed a weapon of war to defend himself. One asnswer is four on one is a pretty good damn reason. I'd also say he was damn lucky to have that rifle to fight that short war on his doorstep. Last, They've all been weapons of war one some point in history, and the anti- gunners know that. There argument has an endgame.
Choices Have Consequences
No one in their right mind would work as a police officer in an environment where you can't trust the administration to support the officers in spite of opposition by the local leftist garbage. That is the situation in Seattle at the moment. Those officers remaining in the department should retire or quit and go elsewhere to work. Those that pushed defund the police made their bed. They should lie in it. The unforetunate result of that is it sucks to live in Seattle or any of those cities that made the same choice.
Defunding the Police Has Backfired in Seattle as They Now Scramble to Hire More Cops
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Well...Yeah
A New Report Casts Doubt on the Assumption That Gun Law Violators Are a Public Menace
A new report on federal firearm offenses shows that the vast majority involve illegal possession, often without aggravating circumstances or a history of violence. The data undermine the assumption that people who violate gun laws are predatory criminals who pose a serious threat to public safety. They also highlight the racially disproportionate impact of such laws, which is especially troubling given their excessive breadth.
Friday, July 15, 2022
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Recent Additions
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Cooper Vetoes Gun Bill
North Carolina: Gov. Cooper Vetoes Another Pro-Gun BillHouse Bill 49 would have made it easier for permit holders who let their permits expire to renew them without the added expence of a new training course. That's all. Nothing done or said by Cooper was a surprise. In my opinion, Cooper wants to run for the Senate against Tillis in 2026. To that end, he's not going to do anything but kiss the ass of his Leftist donors. He doesn't give a crap about guns one way or another only power. Expect nothing while he is in office. We'll need either a supermajority in the House and Senate or a Republican Governor before we get any gun bills passed in North Carolina.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Recent Addition - Don Winslow of the Navy
Don Winslow of the Navy Daily #535-D 2-5-48, Art by Leon Beroth, Story by Frank V. Martinek.
My understanding is that the strip was originally concieved as a recuitment aid for the U. S. Navy. Whatever it's origins it grew in popularity and lasted from 1934 to 1955. I've never ead it but there is a collection of select stips available here.
Friday, July 8, 2022
Evil Will Find A Way
You Can't Uninvent The Wheel
Shinzo Abe's assassin used a home made gun. So what's next? Everything he used to build his muzzle loader can be bought in a hardware store. Do we ban Lowes and Home Depot?
As I wrote yesterday, a bad guy who wants to do harm will find a way regardless of whatever gun controls there are.
H/T Tam
Thursday, July 7, 2022
The Left Loves Them Some Japanese Style Gun Control...
Japan has almost completely eliminated gun deaths — here's howYet...
Ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot in chest and taken to hospital, attacker in custodyI'll admit I'm trolling a bit. Guns in Japan versus guns in the United States are apples and oranges.Japan had a long history of weapons control among civilians back to the 1600s before they instituted their current gun control laws in 1958. The populations acceptance of it is, I think, cultural. The exact opposite of here in the United States, where the opposite holds true. Here gun ownership is cultural, political, and an enumerated /natural right. In the end, the point is that a bad guy who wants to do harm will find a way regardless of whatever gun controls there are.
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
It's What They Do...
They keep lying for the cause.
"Contrary to received wisdom, it has not always been simple to buy a gun in the United States. Until the mid-20th century..."
— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) July 6, 2022
...you could purchase an antitank rifle via the US Mail. https://t.co/gaSBEXiTy9 pic.twitter.com/OUWniW4Rsc
Monday, July 4, 2022
In Congress, July 4, 1776...
In Congress, July 4, 1776 the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbouring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the united States of America, in general congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Sunday, July 3, 2022
I Had a Thought
I had a thought. Yeah, I know, but I do occasionally.
New York's new concealled carry requirements require the applicant to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officals can verify their "character and conduct". This amounts to a person's ability to get a permit being at the discretion of a bureaucrats opinion as to whether they are suitable. That's no different than "may issue". Am I wrong?
New York would require people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials could verify their “character and conduct” under a bill being considered Friday by the state Legislature. https://t.co/7rDdbV9zNU
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 1, 2022
Doing His Best...
... to undermine a GOP victory in the midterms.
Senator Cornyn, Republican Legislators Back Civics Bill That Could Push Critical Race Theory on Every Public School in America
Saturday, July 2, 2022
Plugged Nickels
Do they stamp the back of these medals with the name of the President that awarded them, so you will know if they are worth a damn?
Anthem-Kneeler Megan Rapinoe to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Business as Usual
New York Democrats Undermine Supreme Court 2nd Amendment Ruling In New Legislation
Business as usual in those "gun free" zones up North. Ya'll have no rights they are bound to respect.Also can’t carry on public transportation or in any business that does not post a sign saying it’s OK. So basically, you cannot actually carry. The entire scheme is a willful and knowing evasion of a constitutional right. #RuleOfLaw https://t.co/nvYYWxr1A7
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) July 2, 2022
Friday, July 1, 2022
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