Chicks and guns
The AP reports that Wal-Mart has reached an agreement with Mayor Bloomberg’s group. From what I read at first in the AP bit, it looks like Wal-Mart has just agreed to continue following federal law. No big deal. Then, another report said Wally World would set up its own trace system to do what FBI and ATF already do. And now, reports are that they will film gun sales.
NRA statement here correctly notes it’s a bunch feel good hooey that will accomplish nothing.
Barack Monosodium Glutamate Obama was neck and neck with Hillsy last week. Now, Hillsy is rumored to be up 20 points.
When asked why, Obama replied with I dunno, you dumb cousin-humping redneck.
R. Neal on the guns in bars bill:
Yes, that’s just what we need. More yahoos with more guns in more places.
Yes, because everyone with a permit to lawfully carry a firearm is a yahoo. Been writing Obama’s stuff?
Anyway, most of our neighbor states have such a provision and no increase in violence at restaurants has been reported.
When Barack Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt Obama isn’t reading from the script, he can really pull some boners:
So I said, well ya know, when you’re bitter, you turn to what you can count on. So people, ya know they vote about guns or they take comfort from their faith, and their family, and their community, and they get mad about illegal immigrants who are coming over to this country, or they get frustrated about how things are changing. That’s a natural response.
So, if I understand this correctly, his attempt to correct his first gaffe results in him repeating the gaffe again?
Gun control is the only kind of policy that we have where the proponents of it will point to its utter failure as evidence that we need even more of it.
They had one in Memphis. It resulted in some traffic and drug violations. I feel safer.
Shorter St. Petersburg Times editorial: Be reasonable, you crazy mother fuckers!
Seriously, they think calling people zealots is going to win friends and influence people?
As part of Hillsy’s anti-crime plan, buried at the bottom: Other provisions would target identity theft and online child exploitation. Clinton also renewed her call for reinstating the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.
The rest of her plan is full of other pipe dreams as well.
This time, from Doug: Gentlemen’s Top Cuts combines sexy women, sports, hot wax, trimmers, scissors, shampoo, massage, beer and general pampering in classy environment for men.
To Terry Frank who will be blogging at WBIR. Other bloggers will be joining WBIR as well.
Bloggers now working with the media? It’s official: bloggers are now part of the problem!
House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh’s recent actions on self-defense votes in the Tennessee General Assembly were hypocritical and ignored the will of tens of thousands of law-abiding Tennesseans.
Here’s why. Speaker Naifeh enjoys round-the-clock security detail courtesy of Tennessee taxpayers — even in restaurants and bars. But yet he believes that “regular people” neither deserve, nor need, the God-given right to self-defense in restaurants.
The truth is, Mr. Naifeh isn’t the first politician to claim to be pro-gun but then vote against gun rights. He joins the ranks of Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Al Gore who made bogus claims supporting the Second Amendment while voting against the rights of law-abiding men and women. Speaker Naifeh uses talking points distributed by Washington, D.C., gun-control groups to convince people that improving the self-defense rights of law-abiding Tennesseans would increase crime. If you’re having a flashback, it is because those were the same bogus predictions that were offered during the right-to-carry debate more than a decade ago.
But the facts paint a different story. According to FBI statistics, since right-to-carry legislation swept across America, crime rates have decreased. Furthermore, the 34 states that have restaurant carry laws, including six of Tennessee’s eight border states, report no problems in this area. In fact, not a single state has proposed a repeal of its restaurant carry law.
Defeating Naifeh, IMO, should be a priority for gun right folks in TN. Unfortunately, defeating Naifeh in his district is almost impossible. Beating him as speaker is likely the way to go.
Folks are making a big deal out of Hillary’s pretty empty attempts at catering to the gun vote (see here and here). Look at it this way guys, at least she’s pandering to us. Barack Barack Bo-Back Banana-fana fo-fack Fee-fi-fo-fack Barack Obama called us bitter.
Update: And today’s he who shall not be middle-named joke came courtesy of Unix Jedi.
I was out yesterday and didn’t get a lot of the goings on. However, it seems that Barack Clampett Obama said something stupid. Nothing new really but the difference this time being that it was just run of the mill stupid and not communist stupid.
Anyway, Hillsy pounces: Pennsylvanians don’t need a president who looks down on them. Ouchie. She’s not dumb enough to say that. She might think it though. I think Bill Clinton was right when he didn’t say Obama cannot win.
Tomorrow, there is a bass tournament held by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office to benefit D.A.R.E. Seems to me that under Tennessee’s gambling statutes, this would be illegal.
More on TN gambling laws here.
Glenn Reynolds: AN OBAMA grassroots myth?
Well, he was a board member at the Joyce Foundation and they are masters at creating fake grassroots.
Update: More background here.
Someone sent me an email about a new anti-gun group (I know that because it was in the title) and gmail dropped it in the spam folder. I hit the delete all button and as it was going away, I saw the email title. So, if that was you, re-send it.
From a presser:
Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc.
Legislative Action Committee
Tennessee’s Speaker of the House is a perversion of “The right of the people to keep and bear arms”
By David Borum
A couple of week ago Jimmy Naifeh demonstrated his belief is above all the elected officials in the Tennessee House of Representatives. He started his article by quoting a mathematician. Policies and quotes on anything related to the constitution should not be made by mathematicians. The quotes that should be followed are by the founding fathers and the people that helped write the constitution.
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Jefferson’s “Commonplace Book,”
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Oops:
Officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives barged into a South Florida home Wednesday only to discover they had the wrong address.
The ATF agents were supposed to conduct a raid at a home in the 2600 block of Northwest 49th Terrace in northwest Miami-Dade County, but they were off by one block. They entered a house on Northwest 49th Street instead.
Philomaine Silvain and her 3-year-old son were among the innocent people inside the home when the agents came in.
Silvain pointed out damage to her front door.
The ATF got all ninjaed up, kicked in the front and back doors, and tossed in some tear gas.
A whole block off? Usually when this happens (and it happens a lot), it’s across the street or next door or something. But a whole block? I guess a screw up that big requires the involvement of the feds.
More stellar performance from ATF!
Update: More from David on innocent mistakes: But let a gun dealer have a paperwork glitch, and it’s a “willful violation” worthy of closing him down.
A while back, the privacy rights of handgun carry permit holders could have been protected. But Naifeh killed the bill. Now, a bill is written to protect the privacy rights of government employees and it is passed unanimously:
A proposal to close public access to state and local employees’ home addresses and phone numbers has passed the House.
Because they’re better than me and you.
I’m kinda torn on the whole guns in cars bill in Florida. First, I should point out that the media keep referring to it as a guns at work bill, which is totally misleading. The bill says guns can be kept in the car while at work.
Aside from that, I’m torn on the bill. On one hand, a company’s premises are their private property and they can do what they want there, including allowing or disallowing otherwise lawful activities. On the other hand, a person’s automobile is a person’s private property and they can do what they want with it. I mean, just because I park my car in your parking lot, it doesn’t mean you can tell the authorities they can search my car. On the third hand, this kinda law caters to the latter point but, really, is a law necessary?
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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