Awww bullshit.

Mrs. Skomorowsky, just because your daughter isn't responsible with her cell phone or alcohol doesn't mean others aren't. Anyone who is willing to go through all the crap you have to go through to obtain a concealed carry permit so they can carry legally has demonstrated responsibility or at least the benefit of a doubt, BUT that isn't your point anyway because you, as a gun prohibitionist EverymMom, don't believe anyone one other that agents of the government or the bodyguards of the billionaire financing your organization are responsible enough to even own firearms much less carry one, which makes the tweet just more lying PR bullshit from the EveyMoms and Bloomberg.

Man-Made

Global-warming skeptics couldn’t be any more vindicated if the entire climate change establishment cried “Never mind!” in unison, then scurried back to their labs to conjure up a new apocalyptic man-made threat they could blame on capitalist success.

H/T to Theo.

Another hatchet job

There's a gun poll over at Parade Magazine. Go vote and vote often. We're winning at about 93% at the time of this post. It not a scientific poll so it don't mean shit but it's fun to blow the bastards out of the water. The article that goes with the poll is about as balanced as a drunk walking home after a bender.

Gun-control advocates argue that weakening laws is disastrous. While it wouldn't necessarily lead to more mass shootings, they say, it would almost certainly increase the number of gun-related murders in the U.S. There are currently more than 11,500 each year, and America has one of the world's highest firearm homicide rates. Per capita, our rate is 39 times greater than that of England, 13 times Australia's, and
6 times Canada's.

It was the statistics that caught my eye. They seemed excessive. So I went looking for facts. I found an article at Wikipedia on international homicide rates. Yeah I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source but I checked its statistic for homicides per 100,000 in the US against the real deal at the Bureau of Justice Statistics and it matches. I'll give Wiki the benefit of a doubt in this instance. The Wiki article provides the most recent statistic for each country. Some of the data is several years old so how it matches up to what happening currently is unknown. The article claims our rate per capita is 39 times higher that England, 13 times higher than Australia, and 6 times higher than Canada. I found a per capita rate of 5.8 [2008] for the US, 2.07 for the UK, 1.37 for England and Wales, 1.45 for Australia, and 1.85 for Canada. That would make our intentional homicide rates in the US 2.8 times that of the UK, 4 times that of Australia, 4.2 times that of England/Wales, and 3.1 times that of Canada. Bit of a difference from 39, 13, and 6 isn't it. This might seem a small thing. I'm focusing on the statistics offered and pretty much ignoring the rest of the article. aside from the fact that the article clearly supports a anti-gun agenda, why should I pay one bit of attention to this "article" when the author, Rebecca Webber, can be bothered to check her stats for accuracy? Just another hatchet job courtesy of the Brady Bunch, VPC, or in this case I suspect the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.

Hey don't forget to vote in the poll.

Insurance my ass!

A tax protest ain't a St. Patrick's Day parade. The people have the right to assemble peacefully and present grievances and we don't have to pay for the fucking privilege. If you're not willing to push the issue you've already lost.

Enough already.

So the Obama Administration, under the guise of national security, is pushing legislation that will allow the Fed to search your computers or players for copyright violations without a search warrant. It's already obvious that no Republican or Democrat considers the Constitution a bar to any activity in their campaign contributor's best interests. Best interests would be defined as anything that helps their contributors get the changes in the law they want. In regard to copyright, Hollywood, the music industry, and software companies, ie, Microsoft and Apple, get whatever changes in copyright law they want and damn the Constitution and our rights. Money talks and always has. I understand this. I don't agree with the theft of movies, music, and software but with the legislative shenanigans they continue to pull I find myself caring less and less. In their search for copyright violations their property rights shouldn't trump basic concepts like probable cause or the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments to the Constitution, and if you think they'll stop at copyright violations you are living in a dream world. Enough already.