NRA threatens legal action over Virgin Islands firearm confiscation order

The Governor of the Virgin Islands had ordered the confiscation of weapons and such due to the weather emergency. From the news story:

The order authorizes and instructs the islands' adjutant general to seize "arms, ammunition, explosives, incendiary material, and any other property that may be required by the military forces for the performance of this emergency mission," as approved by the territory's Department of Justice.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin signed a similar order in 2005 amid the destruction from Hurricane Katrina allowing the seizure of private weapons, which the NRA opposed in a federal court. Congress later passed a bill, supported by the NRA and signed by President George W. Bush, banning future seizures of weapons during emergencies.

So if it's already a violation of law, what makes him think he can get away with this? What made Obama think he could get away with DACA? The rules only apply to those in power when those in power want them to.

In [formerly] Great Britain

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In Other Words... More Free Shit

As I see it, the ante to be in the game as a serious contender for the Democratic nomination will include uniform positions on at least five issues. Specifically, any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously must support a single-payer health-care system, a $15 minimum wage, free college tuition, affirmative support for sanctuary cities along with minimal immigration controls and, finally, a contender must completely embrace Black Lives Matter and engage in a probing courtship with the radical pseudo-group the “antifa.”

The race to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020 will be a race to the left. The Bernie Sanders agenda has taken root. By the time the Democrats’ nominating process was complete in 2016, Hillary Clinton had become Bernie Sanders-lite. I see the next Democratic nominee as likely to be Sanders on steroids.

Yes, they should go with that. Please. I figure even as fucked up as the GOP is at this moment, they'll win.

That's got to be the headline of the year.

First Amendment Protects Cinema's Right to Show Unicorn Masturbation Scene While Serving Alcohol, Says Judge

I'd also note that, apparently, cops in Utah have way too much time on their hands.

Recent Addition

The art is by a British artist named Boo Cook. He isn't the reason I picked up this piece, but it is a nice sample of his art. I just wanted a piece of Doctor Who art, and this fit the bill and my price. On the downside, shipping from [formerly] Great Britain doubled the cost. Oh, well...

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The Count by Kenneth Tam

In the late Nineteenth Century a tunnel to a parallel universe if discovered in western north America. The United States and Great Britain exploit it cooperatively and a new frontier is born. This novella provides an introduction to this new world. The story pulls you in. The characters are interesting. Easy to read prose. I liked it enough to want to read the first novel in the series. At this time you can get the Kindle version on Amazon for free.

This is Antifa

And let’s be clear: Totalitarian is precisely what they are. Mark Bray, a Dartmouth lecturer who has defended antifa’s violent tactics, recently explained in The Post, “Its adherents are predominantly communists, socialists and anarchists” who believe that physical violence “is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective.” In other words, they are no different from neo-Nazis. Neo-Nazis are the violent advocates of a murderous ideology that killed 25 million people last century. Antifa members are the violent advocates of a murderous ideology that, according to “The Black Book of Communism,” killed between 85 million and 100 million people last century. Both practice violence and preach hate. They are morally indistinguishable. There is no difference between those who beat innocent people in the name of the ideology that gave us Hitler and Himmler and those who beat innocent people in the name of the ideology that gave us Stalin and Dzerzhinsky. - Marc A. Thiessen

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As A Gun Violence Survivor, I Feel Betrayed By Everytown

She actually thought Bloomberg and Watts gave a crap what she thought. Amazing.

Poor Target Selection

Baltimore gunmen targeted pub hosting police party, officials say

Dumb.

...and this as well.

Public School Teachers Behind Violent Antifa Group

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Nothing Here Most of Us Didn't Know Already

Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,” according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO.

Since well before the Aug. 12 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly, DHS has been issuing warnings about the growing likelihood of lethal violence between the left-wing anarchists and right-wing white supremacist and nationalist groups.

Previously unreported documents disclose that by April 2016, authorities believed that “anarchist extremists” were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies against a range of targets. They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government and political institutions, along with symbols of “the capitalist system,” racism, social injustice and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by DHS and the FBI. - Politico

H/T to Clayton Cramer

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The Trace: Civilians Own 70 Times More Guns Than U.S. Police and Military Combined

The disparity should be higher. I encourage you all to go out and purchase more guns. I'm going to.