CT schools lies about the second amendment:
The courts have consistently determined that the Second Amendment does not ensure each individual the right to bear arms,” the worksheet states. “The courts have never found a law regulating the private ownership of weapons unconstitutional”
Probably should update those textbooks. Or you’re lying about Heller and McDonald.
You’ll recall he got his toter’s permit pulled because he got on the internet and said some dumb shit. I mean, I say dumb shit on the internet like all the time. But very little of it is threatening. Well, any way:
A general sessions judge in Benton County ruled last week that the state didn’t have enough evidence to suspend James Yeager’s carry permit.
He didn’t make any specific threats, so I think that, legally, that’s the right call. Don’t get me wrong, what he did was stupid but it was not illegal.
4-year-old grabs loaded gun at family BBQ and accidentally kills wife of Tennessee sheriff’s deputy.
The weapon discharged all by its own self. And only the police are qualified. Or something.
All smart assery aside, this is tragic and was absolutely avoidable.
Banning video games and guns are both stupid: I’m a Game Designer. I’m a Gun Owner. It’s Time To End All This ‘Us vs. Them’
This Graphic Of Adam Lanza’s Home Arsenal Is Devastating
No, it’s not. It looks like my junk drawer.
The Blount County Board of Education has approved a scholastic pistol program.
During Thursday’s meeting, school board members created the program for students. The program, which is sponsored by the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation, is available to students between the ages of 12 years old and 18 years old.
Also, Glock, Smith & Wesson and Tactical Solutions, are offering “deep discounts”.
Cool.
Robbers get their gun taken in robbery. Come back later asking for it back. Surprisingly, they weren’t shot.
Why is it that all of ATF’s Operation whatevers result in putting more guns in the hands of criminals?
Or, you know, try to rob people: Robber Drops Gun During Getaway, Shoots Himself In Leg
Young people like their guns and gay marriage. And no generation gap on guns. Well, gun control is an old white man’s game. Or something.
Publicola on why the gun controllers are focusing in transfers:
That is why laws prohibiting transfers are a staple of most of the gun owner control packages we’ve seen this year; they want us to stop spreading our values and way of life. A culture is much harder to eradicate if it’s continually growing ya know.
For some reason, links within the blog (like to posts) are 404ing. Dunno why buy my people are working on it. I dunno if it has anything to do with all the attempts at hacking it I’ve seen lately.
Update: All better.
ACLU opposes the Reid gun bill due to privacy concerns and the potential for a database. Also, the mental illness checks I’m hearing bandied about probably run afoul of privacy oriented health care laws.
Someone negligently discharged a firearm. No details on whether it’s the booger hook on the bang switch, trying to catch a dropped gun, or failing to clear a chamber variety (the most common types, based on my experience reading the news). But it’s definitely got the “I was just cleaning it and it went off in my hand” angle. But this, I found interesting:
Investigators said the gun owner won’t face charges because he has a carry permit.
There is no law I’m aware of that would exempt someone from liability or criminal charges for a negligent discharge by virtue of having a carry permit. Bad reporting by the press or the police, I dunno. But that is not the reason there were no charges.
I got this story from a liberal blog here in Tennessee and gun owners don’t make her “feel” safe, as though her feelings mean fuck all. But she has this interesting post, which is a different take on something I’ve mentioned a lot. The lefty take on it is: Ah, the liberal media. Have you noticed, as I have, that whenever there’s an accidental shooting, the media immediately switches to the passive voice?
It’s true. The press says things like “the gun fired”, “the gun went off”, or “the gun discharged” as if all by its own self. Kind of like SUVs and how they always hit things as though there’s no driver or anything and they’re just running around willy-nilly by their own selves hitting things all the time.
Whenever we gun nuts cover it, we comment about how it fired all by itself and try to figure out what the shooter did to cause that to happen. But the press thinks guns are magic and treats them as such. Why? I have a couple of theories. The first is that they probably get the police reports and police reports are riddled with the passive voice. Seriously, read some. So, they take what the police said and parrot it. And quite a lot of press coverage about negligent discharges consists of police negligently discharging their firearms. Here’s one that someone emailed me just today:
According to police reports and witnesses, an off-duty Gonzales Police Officer was at a strip club in Gonzales, LA on March 13, 2013. The police report states the officer, Chase Delatte, walked into the men’s restroom around 1:38 a.m. to check if his personal firearm in an ankle holster was loaded.
The Glock handgun accidentally fired, according to the report.
See? The police report goes into CYA mode for another cop, using the passive voice. The language is then adopted for other shootings and, voila, guns are magical in the press! Even witnesses buy this nonsense:
It could have went off anywhere he was just sitting down at the table it could have accidentally been going off. He could have accidentally shot anybody
No, stripper, they don’t just go off. And read the quotes from the police report, all passive voice. Anyway, I can’t tell from the article but it looks like a case of “stop touching it”. No need to handle a firearm in public, especially after a drinking.
The other theory I have about press coverage is that the amount of gun knowledge your average reporter has could maybe halfway fill a thimble. And they really think that these things just go off all the time by themselves.
Well, this certainly wouldn’t fit the narrative: Why Hasn’t The Media Been Reporting On Or Booking Pro-Gun Newtown Parent Mark Mattioli?
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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