Jimmy Naifeh, D-Covington, and speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives has killed gun bills in Tennessee for years. You can see some of that stuff here. In fact, one time he wanted to kill it so bad that he had to break the rules of the House to stop the bill.

Well, I guess he’s feeling all bad about it because now he’s gone and written a bit in the Tennessean to tell us all that he’s willing to sacrifice because he knows what’s best for us despite most of us and our elected representatives telling him otherwise. He starts off with the I’m a gun owner but . . . bullshit:

This year, the House of Representatives has been faced with a number of bills dealing with the topic of guns. As a gun owner myself and someone who supports the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the issue of gun ownership is a personal one. While I have and will continue to defend Tennesseans’ right to bear arms, I also recognize that with that right comes the need for responsibility. That need for responsibility led me to cast my vote against these bills.

And he’s not anti-gun:

There are some who have said these votes were “anti-gun” votes, trying to paint me and those who support my efforts as anti-Second Amendment. That could not be further from the truth. In addition to owning 16 different firearms, a few weeks ago I became one of more than 190,000 to earn a concealed-weapons permit.

Yes, that mean ol’ gun lobby is painting you as anti-gun for, you know, being anti-gun. Good. And Bill Hobbs will probably post your private info on the Internet because you killed the bill making that illegal.

Naifeh then goes on to list what are basically anti-gun talking points about how these bills don’t make us safe. All that’s missing is a gratuitous for the children and it may as well have been written by Josh Sugarmann.

He ends with:

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again and will continue to say it: As long as I am speaker, we will never have to worry about our Second Amendment right being infringed upon.

And by infringed upon he means protected.

You can leave comments there if you wish.

Petey and Helmke are having a bad week. First, Virginia Tech tells them that they won’t be allowed to dance in the blood of dead college students. But no worries, they’re just going to crash the party instead. Stay classy, guys!

And, an emerging pattern from these guys, is to claim victory even while losing.

And with Barack Ratatouille Obama’s gun views coming under fire, the Brady Camp seeks to assert that it is relevant in American politics. So, Petey and Paul, which presidential candidate is actively seeking your endorsement?

And, finally, there is a push by the Brady Bunch for a ban on regular capacity magazines in Illinois. Trouble is the synopsis of the bill says:

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the sexual exploitation of children.

That’s low, even for gun controllers who routinely lie to win.

Those are roughly the odds laid by prediction markets and online betting establishments that Barack Squarepants Obama will win the Democratic nomination. Story here. What that means, for you non-gambling types, is that for my beer bet that Barack Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Obama will not win the nomination to be even money, you’d have to lay 6 six beers to my one. So, you folks who took my beer bet at one to one have made a bet that has what we gamblers call a positive expectation.

Bitter notes the NRA is trying its hand at online polling to figure out what you think.

Heh.

Yeah, I’ve been there.

Via MKS.

Having a false compartment in your vehicle is illegal in Cali.

Speakers have been confirmed.

ZOMG! Kids are learning to shoot. Note how they use odd terms like use a rifle, as though it’s a drug.

MP-7.

Turns out, Barack Palpatine Obama has ties to Michael Pfleger. You’ll recall Pfleger as the reverend that stated that a gun shop owner should be snuffed out. Man of God, indeed.

Joe says he’s defying me. I didn’t really demand, I just asked. I’m all for the shaming ATF and pointing out how stupid, arbitrary and petty they can be. In fact, I have a whole blog category for that. That’s not what I’m talking about here.

I’ve been saying it for years.

I thought the Republican party was the the party of wealthy, white men?

The many faces of the AR-15 in one convenient image.

Heh.

I don’t think any disrespect was intended. I couldn’t help but laugh.

To Michael!

There’s been a couple of things I wanted to mention to my fellow gun bloggers (no, not you, I mean the other guy). And here’s the first one. Seems every time a gun blogger gets a hit from some alphabet agency with the .gov, they run out and take a screen capture of it, post it on Al Gore’s Internets, and lament as to what the big bad federal government is doing reading their website. Then they conclude, generally, one of two things that 1) ZOMFG! They’re investigating me; or 2) ZOMFG! I pay their salaries and how dare they be surfing Al Gore’s Internets on my dime.

I’m here to ask you all to knock that shit off.

A few caveats: 1) I’m probably the only gun blogger who has actually had the ATF come to his house because of shit he said on the internet. And 2) I’m guilty of it too. I’ve done it before.

But then a funny thing happened. Readers emailed me. Turns out, there’s quite a few friendlies out there who work for the .gov and, guess what, they like guns too. So, when they’re kicking it back on their lunch hour/coffee break and reading about gun rights or have googled up some really cool new gun gizmo/gun case that you posted about on your site, don’t lose your shit! Instead, drink a nice cool glass of Control Your Shit juice. And think. These people are probably on our side and just happen to work for the DOJ, US Court System, Air Force Academy, Treasury Dept., and other domains that end in .gov (and all you other regular readers out their whose alphabet agency I didn’t name – you know who you are). I have tons of those hit my site every day. A good portion are from bookmarks. And some of them are even regular commenters here at the blog. And, no, I won’t say who. So, don’t scare them off or make them feel unwelcome. You’re not going to keep them on our side that way.

And one other thing: if they’re investigating you, they’re not doing it from a computer that advertises that it’s coming from The US Department of Justice. I know that for a fact. Take it for what it’s worth.

VA Tech denies protest permit to Brady Campaign so they can dance in the blood of the dead. In other news, Brady Bunch realized that a requirement to register and get a permit to exercise a civil right kinda sucks.

Update and bump: Ouch!

Wheelchair fight begins in San Francisco

Needless to say, the image that initially popped into my head isn’t what the story actually talks about. Still, I bet a lot of people would pay money to see a wheelchair fight…

Or Abstinence Only sex ed makes kids stupid.

Rich has planned one for Knoxville!

The 13 Most Irresponsible Self Defense Gadgets Money Can Buy

My fave: the flashlight shotgun, which the author notes: Hey, it works as a flashlight, too! And the gun part of it points out the back! So every time you use your flashlight, you’ve got a goddamned shotgun pointing at your heart!

There was a rally. Sebastian has several posts on what went on.

I often refer to Aunt B. as my token feminist. Part of the reason is that, unlike other feminists, she’s not a fucking retard. Via Tam, comes this bit wherein some fucking retard gets a case of the vapors over the photography of Oleg Volk. Of course, this retard seems to think that Oleg Volk is the NRA. There’s plenty of stupid there for you to read and it mostly consists of why they, like Bob Ricker, think that women shouldn’t own guns. But I want to focus your attention on these two bits:

The biggest trick to not being raped is actually just confidence.

and

Frankly the best tool against a rapist is laughter.

No wonder radical feminists are mostly retarded. This is what they take as truth. That laughing at a rapist’s pecker and being confident are both rape deterrents. Seriously, they assert that two warm fuzzies coupled with righteous indignation can stop a violent attack. Sorry, for my money, I’m going with the 357. Someone needs to talk some sense into these folks before they get someone killed.

More from Rusty.

Similar thoughts from LabRat.

Update: Seen at Joe’s:

Nothing says, “Please don’t rape me.” like multiple jacketed hollowpoints.

John Fogh
Insights Self Defense Instructor
February 23, 1999
Microsoft Gun Club Email Folder

Gun Talk is giving away an XD.

They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

Here’s a schedule of events!

I’ve been having a bit of fun with congress’ little dog and pony show about how those evil oil companies make all that evil money while the little guy has to shell out $3 for gas. Oops:

Oil company profits — 643 billion

Tax revenue collected by the Government on gasoline — 1.34 trillion.

The oil companies making that much is supposedly bad, says congress. But the .gov making more than twice that is fine and dandy. But the oil companies are evil! say the hippies.

Let’s do some more math! And we’ll use simple numbers and some estimates. The federal tax on gas is 18.4 cents. And that’s pure profit. Based on that, I figure a good SWAG puts big oil’s margin at about 8.8 cents per gallon of gas or (assuming $3 per gallon) a profit margin at about 2.6%. Those evil bastards making pennies per gallon! (and you might want to check my math. I’ve only had one cup of coffee and was pretty loose with my assumptions).

Bear in mind that big oil probably makes more money selling you chips, beer, smokes, and ice cold Coca Cola than it does on gas.

Sailor Curt wonders who an accident suddenly becomes gun violence. Well, the same way that this guy will count as a child killed by gun violence.

K2 Porcupine light with video. PSH ensues over flashlight.

More pics here.