On the Notice of Baggage Inspection tags (which I get every time I travel):

But the best thing is that it is printed in English and Spanish. Wouldn’t it make more sense to print it in English and Arabic?

Well, that’d be profiling.

Clayton Cramer’s civilian gun self-defense blog gets some press coverage:

Cramer said he started the log after debating gun control advocates who claimed there “really aren’t that many defensive uses of guns in the U.S.”

Generally, if no shots are fired, these incidents get zero coverage.

In Florida, hundreds of people got concealed carry licenses who were prohibited by law from doing so.

Update: David says:

None of the people the media is shrieking about are convicted felons.

Seems the convictions were withheld.

What would John Wayne do? I give points for the name alone. A piece on home defense rifles and one on survival carbines are good reads.

Guess I’m getting old since I don’t even know what the spammers are flooding my site with these days. Used to be Viagra. Now, it’s hentai. I didn’t know what that was. So, I googled it. Here’s the wikipedia entry. I’ve said before that you can judge a culture based on its porn. By that measure, clearly the Germans and Japanese have issues.

The lovely Mrs. Completely’s birthday is today. So, happy birthday.

You can tell the American Hunters and Shooters Association is full of it when they refer to the National Rifle Association as extremists. Of course, the American Hunters and Shooters Association is headed up by a bunch of anti-gun hacks and is no friend to gun owners. The press, of course, seems to love these guys. The NRA is extremist, you see, for actually being a pro-gun group that, you know, doesn’t advocate more gun control.

Xrlq defends libertarians. Well, kind sorta. He has a good fisk of a pro-drug war article. My favorite quote:

Yes, some looneytarians also attack the war on terror, but that’s another issue altogether. If you think you can defend yourself against terrorists as easily as you can against drugs, try “just saying no” to a terrorist sometime.

PGP puts that quote in perspective:

DC Mayor and avowed gun grabber saying outloud the most taboo of gun controller deep-dark-secrets: that gun control doesn’t make any sense and will not work at the local jurisdiction level.

Pull.

Apparently, not so good.

I’ve been tagged to answer three questions. And it’s all about me. So, here’s the questions:

1. My: You’ve heard the saying “I’d give my right arm for…”. So, what would you give your right arm for?

2. Me: What’s one word that describes how you want people to see you?

3. Meme: If you could be any blogger, which blogger would you be… and why?

And here are my answers:

1. World peace. Yeah, it’s corny. But, honestly, that or a cure for all disease, poverty, etc. would be about the only thing I’d give my right arm for. I mean, I use it all the time, so it better be worth it. And my sacrifice may as well benefit everyone.

2. I had a conversation with Joe Huffman and Kevin at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous in Reno about personality types of bloggers. It seems that there’s a certain type of personality per some test that occurs in less than one percent of the population. However, about 30% of bloggers fit that personality type according to data at Tim Lambert’s. I don’t recall taking a test but my personality type, per Kevin, fits it. And I don’t know what it’s called and I’m too busy to look it up (more on that later) and would rather spend this bit of free time blogging than googling. I don’t know that I fit that type but, from my psychology and counseling days, I do know a few things about me. And these things fit the type that Kevin described to me. Two characteristics that I have are that a) my self-esteem is unusually high and b) I have a very low need for the approval of others. In short, I don’t generally care what most people think about me. I’m not sure but I think that personality type is known as prick.

3. Billy Watson. Oh, and that link is not safe for work. No, I kid. I’m quite content being myself, thanks.

And, if you blog, consider yourself tagged. I’ve also been tagged by another meme but I haven’t gotten to it because that one is, like, work. And I’ve been busy. How busy? Well, and no offense to beavers, but either:

1) busier than a three-legged dog trying to take a piss on a frozen lake

or

2) busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest

Both analogies involve legs. And one was stolen from Tom.

Update: Thanks to Phelps, I found it:

Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging

To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of “definiteness”, of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise — and INTJs can have several — they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don’t know.

See, prick.

Chuck:

I’m sure it’s just me, but there just seems like there’s something wrong with law enforcement financially benefiting from enforcing the law.

It’s not just you. Letting the officers keep their loot is a bad, bad idea. Almost as bad as revenue sharing with the companies that make traffic cameras. Now, there’s motivation to be less than, err, forthright.

I tell you, global warming and smoking seem to cause everything.

They’re both also the leading cause of ass-hattery.

Publicola’s blog turns four.

Tam turns that times 10.

In California, power is about to get even more unaffordable.

Mr. Campfield, it seems there’s another way to get rid of the tax on food instead of ill-conceived platitudes designed to garner publicity. Seems the state of Tennessee makes too much bling:

So, for the 12 months of Fiscal year 05-06 and the first 5 months of 06-07, $461 million more in Revenue has been collected than was originally appropriated.

…and not one dime has been returned to taxpayers in the form of a lower food tax.

On the British isles, some folks really hate traffic cameras. So, they set them on fire. Never fear, big government has a solution: put in cameras to watch the cameras. Then they’ll put in cameras to watch the cameras that are watching the cameras.

But do you have something a bit smaller?

A target that tells you what corrections to make based on where your bullet lands.

For airport use.

Looks like there’s a gun control bill in the works:

This bad Bill expands upon the unconstitutional Lautenberg misdemeanor gun ban [922 (g)(9)]. This gun ban, passed as an amendment to a 1996 omnibus spending bill and signed into law by none other than President Clinton, was first introduced by leading anti-gun Senators Frank Lautenberg, Dianne Feinstein, and your favorite and mine, Ted Kennedy.

DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D):

“We have one of the highest homicide rates in the country but at the same time have the strictest [gun] law,” Fenty said, joining other urban chief executives at the bipartisan summit on the issue yesterday on Capitol Hill. “Local jurisdictions just can’t solve the problem. You need to have the federal government have one standard for dealing with illegal guns.”. . . .

This pearl of wisdom came from the mayors against gun summit. They admit their plan doesn’t work. And advocate doing it harder.

Sweet Mac-10.

Sailorcourt has a report from the Bloomberg protest rally:

I’m home from the “Prosecute Bloomberg” rally. It was an interesting experience. In some ways the rally was very successful, in other ways not so much.

He has photos.

Via bitter, the Brady Bunch doesn’t seem to like Glenn Reynolds:

These sobering statistics came back to me when I read Glenn Reynolds’ disturbing op-ed encouraging government mandates that people have guns in their homes. I was angry and alarmed that some might take these proposals, and the flawed statistics on which they rely, seriously.

Flawed statistics? Have you read your own material?

By the way, The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership Blog is now allowing comments. So far, all the comments come from pro-gunners.

Heh.

In Tijuana, the police were issued slingshots after having their guns taken in a corruption probe. No, really.

An interesting picture from New Orleans.

Well sign me up:

Southern firearms dealers are raffling off free guns to raise money to fight a lawsuit by New York City.

The unusual fundraiser — officially called the “Bloomberg Gun Giveaway” — is organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun owner rights group, and firearms shops.

Well, I’ll take some tickets. This bit is funny:

“These are sick people,” Mayor Bloomberg said. “And if they think that this is funny, I don’t think that the parents or the spouses or the children of those that get killed with illegal guns would find that very entertaining.”

But, Mr. Bloomberg, this is a legal gun. I know for you there is no difference. The gun is a Para Ordnance .45 caliber automatic handgun worth about $1,000. More:

“Instead of dealing with his problem of criminals in New York [Bloomberg] wants to blame everyone else outside of New York,” Hill said.

The shop is:

Bob Moates Sport Shop Inc.
10418 Hull St., Midlothian VA 23112, United States
(804)276-2293, USA (804)276-2332 fax,

Send them a check, if you’re so inclined.

Up next, the mayors want to make more guns illegal:

None of the mayors at the news conference mentioned federal legislation other than the Tiahrt Amendment. Most notably, not one word was spoken about the federal assault weapons ban, which the Democratic Congress passed in 1993 and the Republican Congress allowed to expire a decade later.

Mayors are interested in renewing the ban, but the Tiahrt Amendment is a higher priority, Brown said.

Since they are attacking illegal guns, it makes perfect sense to have more guns made illegal. The ban on weapons that look like assault weapons is basically pointless. See here and here.