More women buying and carrying guns:
An unprecedented number of women are taking their protection into their own hands by getting a gun. Gun stores are seeing more women customers than anyone can remember. Many women are also getting permits to carry a concealed weapon.
Local 12 Reporter Liz Bonis shows us why many women are in a hurry to arm themselves.
Reports of NYPD inspections of firearms in private homes?
Clenched fist salute: Billy, who has more.
When repairing something around the house, I wonder what the average number of trips the American male makes to the local big box home improvement store is? I’m guessing between 3 and 7. I’m up to four repairing a sink drain. And I’ll probably wind up calling a plumber. Feh.
A man pulls a knife on another man. The other man simply let it be known he had a gun and the situation was defused. He gets convicted for having a gun on school grounds. The judge said that had the guy pointed the gun at the other man or, I guess, shot him, it would have been valid self defense. Pretty dumb. H/T Robb.
Colby Sledge look at the recent pro-gun bills passed in the state. In a first for the Tennessean, it’s nearly devoid of hysteria.
Obama will sign a pro gun bill into law today. Sadly, it’s attached to the stupid credit card reform bill. But it’s a bit odd to see Obama doing something pro-gun. Even if it’s for the wrong reasons.
It is sad that the old media is so used to ‘astroturf’ that they can’t even recognize true grass-roots activism in action.
The feds want to regulate blogs. Because some folks give bloggers free stuff and then bloggers may say nice things about their products. Sounds kinda silly. I guess some folks could say that they’ll give you free stuff on the condition that you say nice things. But I’ve never experienced that. I’ve written reviews on various products and books and things. And never felt swayed to lie or anything like that.
Disclosure: Obviously, I’ve gotten stuff for free due to this blog (training with Todd Jarrett, some Blackhawk stuff, books, etc.). But not a single company who’s given me stuff has said that it’s free as long as I write nice things about it. It’s always been understood that I would probably write about it but never once demanded. And I’ve always written about the stuff truthfully. It’s not hard to understand that if a gun nut gets gun things he’s probably going to like the gun things.
Remember that? Paul Helmke said it about passing more gun laws after the November elections. He could taste the coming gun laws. But, you know, a funny thing happened. Not a whole lot.
So says the Violence Policy Center. Well, they didn’t mean to say it. But, you know, when they’re not passing off Google searches as research, they find some interesting stuff.
President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.
Obama seems to be a continuation of Bush. Hell, even Glenn Greenwald is noticing that too.
In Chicago, four people were shot. At a memorial for someone else who had been shot.
If this guy’s story is true, it looks as though he was fired for having a concealed carry permit. Not for carrying on company property. Just for mentioning he had a permit:
The subject of Kuhn having a concealed weapons permit came up during a conversation he had on or about March 18 with Sean Cantner, a new security guard at the warehouse, according to the suit. The plaintiff and Cantner discussed what type of firearm Kuhn owned.
The guard says he had a weapon on the property. He refutes that claim.
SB1164, a bill relating to the carrying of concealed handguns on the campuses of institutions of higher education, has passed the Texas Senate. The final vote was 19-12 for this bill.
Update: PSH:
Today the Texas state senate passed dangerous legislation that would force the carrying of hidden and concealed guns at public universities and colleges.
I’m pretty sure the bill doesn’t force anyone to carry a gun. But if it did, Peter “petey” Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership would tell you to drop out of school.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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