After a shooting at a local school, they’re naming a safety committee. ’cause that will help.

Video.

290 bills stalled in the senate.

I like the spicy food. And can eat all kinds of hot stuff. But if the owner of a Chinese restaurant warns me twice about something, I will take note. Larry can now attest.

All that trouble for nothing: New London May Build Townhouses on Site of Kelo Takings

InSights:

West Coast Armory is having a tough time getting it’s final occupancy from the city of Bellevue. A group of anti-gunners is constantly calling the city and placing flyers on vehicles in the Factoria area.

GOProud, a gay conservative group, was at CPAC this year. Could be the tipping point for gays and their odd relationship with, well, either political party. Anyway, this made my day:

Just when it looks like this country can’t get any more divided, there comes a tiny glimmer of hope. Just mi,nutes (sic) ago here at CPAC, California Young Americans for Freedom’s Ryan Sorba launched into a denunciation of the conference for inviting GOProud, and as he railed against gays, he was roundly booed off the stage.

Good. Of course, that doesn’t fit the narrative the left is running. On Sorba, LabRat brings it:

Actually, what Sorba said specifically was that homosexual sex is not reproductive, which is not natural, therefore gays don’t have natural rights because they’re based on what “natural human behavior” is, and civil rights that conflict with this conception of natural rights shouldn’t exist. In that case I damn well hope he was booed down, because that’s such a tortured construction of natural rights that it should offend any principled conservative.

Word.

Clinton notices:

Clinton added that the National Rifle Association also played a bigger role than it’s credited in turning over Congress during the 1994 Republican revolution.

“They were mad about this whole weapons ban and the Brady Bill, and they probably took 15 of our House members out. That was their number, they said between 15 and 20, and I’d say, at least on the low side, they were right,” he said.

That probably explains why Obama hasn’t pushed gun control. Of course, based on his record prior to his presidency, people still don’t trust him on guns.

Signed into law.

Strike AS-1

The Wall Street Journal: The Outfitters’ Lament: Too Few Kids With Guns

In CO:

The Colorado State University Board of Governors voted unanimously Tuesday to place students at both of its campuses in harm’s way with a sweeping weapons ban law-abiding citizens will obey and criminals will ignore.

Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden, outraged by the ban, told The Gazette’s opinion department he will undermine it in the interest of student safety.

[…]

“I have told the CSU police chief I will not support this in any way,” Sheriff Alderden told The Gazette. “If anyone with one of my permits gets arrested for concealed carry at CSU, I will refuse to book that person into my jail. Furthermore, I will show up at court and testify on that person’s behalf, and I will do whatever I can to discourage a conviction. I will not be a party to this very poor decision.”

Tragic story that shows why you should have a holster for your gun and not just stick it in a pocket:

The .38 caliber pistol that Lorrie customarily brought with her on walks as protection was in the pocket of a jacket she hung on a tree, according to Reid. When she went to retrieve the jacket, the gun went off, Reid said.

Update: their website seems broken. not sure why.

Update: This link seems to work.

A stun gun you can wear.

Looks Gonzo is merging with some group I’ve never heard of:

Two gun violence prevention organizations, Freedom States Alliance and States United to Prevent Gun Violence are joining forces to strengthen state-level advocacy efforts to save lives.

Freedom States Alliance (FSA) will merge with States United to Prevent Gun Violence (SUPGV) and assume the States United to Prevent Gun Violence name effective immediately.

The mission of the organization, SUPGV, is to support existin (sic) state-based gun violence prevention organizations and to expand the network of groups working to reduce gun violence throughout the United States.

Update: Joe:

In tough economic times you frequently see mergers of the less healthy organizations with the more healthy. There are other reasons for mergers but when times are tough it’s a pretty good bet that one or both of the organizations is about to collapse.

Doubleplus fun: Scott Vogel’s interview. Heh.

Could be.

Related: Global warming killed dinosaurs. Obviously, man-made global warming is real.

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A vote for removing the prohibition on short barreled rifles and shotguns is coming up this week:

Rep. Jeremy Oden’s HB 2 on short-barreled rifles and shotguns has passed the House and a Senate committee and now lacks a final vote by the full Senate.

The bill stirred controversy among people, including some police officers, who fear an influx of sawed-off shotguns if the bill passes. Oden said if anything, the bill would make sawed-off shotguns even more illegal.

The guns the bill would legalize in Alabama are manufactured with short barrels, and legal only if the owners cleared federal application to own them and paid $200 for a federal gun permit. Law enforcement officers would be exempt from the requirements.

In Memphis, a man walked right through an order of protection and shot his ex. Odd. Since being the subject of such an order bars one from gun ownership.

This morning on the drive in, I was listening to the local Vast Right Wing Conspiracy radio affiliate and they were discussing the increase in handgun carry permits in Knoxville. As mentioned yesterday, permits in the state are up 23% and in Knoxville they had the highest concentration. Now, from talking to folks who work at gun shops, I’ll tell you why Knoxville permits increased: Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.

Tam told me once that shortly after that case came to light, that the permit classes at the shop she was working at were full for months.

Related, Rich tells us why he has one.

Me? I’ve had one since they first came out. I wish some legislator would introduce a bill to issue a lifetime permit for a single fee. I just renewed mine and it was a pain.

Open Secrets on gun money:

… pro-gun forces spent more on federal lobbying efforts in 2009 than in any year since 2002 — all told, nearly $5 million. They targeted at least some of that money at both the House and Senate versions of the “Preservation of the Second Amendment in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges Act,” a Center for Responsive Politics analysis indicates. Gun control advocates, meanwhile, spent a relative pittance in 2009 on federal lobbying efforts — $180,000. Most of that came from a single organization: Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The decline in gun control advocates’ lobbying power is striking: In 2001, the special interest area spent more than $2.1 million on federal lobbying efforts.

The Other Biased Washington Paper discusses Virginia getting rid of its one gun a month law.

Sebastian:

One of the thing that’s unique about the Firearms Industry is that it’s one of the few heavily regulated industries that’s made up almost exclusively of small businesses. It is, in effect, a cottage industry. This is a sharp contrast to many other regulated fields, where you only have fairly significant and large players dealing with their regulatory body.

True.

A man got 8 years for vehicular manslaughter. He was driving a Toyota and testified that the car accelerated on its own and the brakes weren’t working, consistent with recent recall issues. The victims’ families have joined the effort to help this guy.

for gun owners in South Africa.

From Opposing Views:

Since its inception as the National Council to Control Handguns over 30 years ago, the Brady Campaign has premised its entire agenda on the notion that having more gun control laws and, therefore, fewer guns, means that crime must necessarily decrease.

History has not been kind to the group’s delusion, however. In recent decades, the severity of gun control laws has been diminished at the federal, state and local levels, the number of guns has increased by over four million a year on average, and today, the nation’s murder and total violent crime rates are at 45-year and 35-year lows, respectively.

Guns: Not Just for the Home Anymore.

Also, kinda funny. Opponents to the suit are dragging up longstanding constitutional principles like the densely populated area and the people more important than you live here exemptions to the second amendment:

Peter Nickles, the District’s attorney general, [thinks] allowing handguns to be kept in homes in one of the most dangerous cities in the country was bad enough. Permitting people to pack heat while they walk around — amid presidential motorcades, foreign dignitaries, public protests — is downright crazy, he says. And it makes already difficult police work even harder.

A woman is upset because a man used a coupon on their date.

A move to ban carrying on campus in Colorado.

In Germany:

German authorities have stopped a month-long investigation into who built a snowman with an uncanny resemblance to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

The probe was launched after a group of anti-fascists filed a complaint about the snowman, which was found outside a Schorndorf pub, near the southern city of Stuttgart.

That’s rich, right there.