WHAT CIVILIZATIONAL DECLINE LOOKS LIKE: High school teen who defended a blind classmate who was being beaten by a bully is SUSPENDED and kicked off football team.

Stop touching it.

If the powers that be don’t play by the rules, you shouldn’t either.

Pretty cool.

Much more impressive than the old fill a balloon with coffee creamer thing.

Only the stupid party would view their success as a disaster that needs addressing. Or they’re very unserious people.

But they have all that gun control.

The Libertarian Party’s Arguments for Suing to Get Into Presidential Debates.

This would be better addressed by going after, through the market, the people that air the debates. Parents know that if you ask a kid what he wants for dinner, he’ll say he wants ice cream or candy. If you ask the kid if he wants chicken nuggets or mac and cheese, he’s given the illusion of choice. That’s why there are two parties.

You come home from a bender and realize you’ve been shot. Twice.

From pallets:

I need ideas for steel plates. Go.

Cute. The kid ain’t too bad either.

SKS v. AR-15

Walther GSP Expert

So, Trump is under fire for using “code words” to be a sexist. One of those code words is “shrill”. Gosh, I dunno why anyone would say Hillary sounded shrill:

And the code word accusation came from Fox, IIRC (can’t find it now, too lazy to google). Isn’t the code word or dog whistle accusation usually a democrat thing?

John:

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals provided a win for knife rights and the Second Amendment yesterday. The case involved the suit that Knife Rights had filed in New York against DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. The judge in the District Court had dismissed that case in favor of the defendants saying that the plaintiffs did not have standing because they hadn’t identified specific knives. The Second Circuit disagreed in part and remanded the case back to the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

NPR has a piece of nonsense where a guy with suicidal thoughts is worried that visiting someone with a gun may make him finally do it:

“Having tools for suicide completion … makes it way more tempting to attempt or complete suicide,”

tools for suicide completion? You have plenty of those in reach right now. And you haven’t done it yet. So, clearly, we need doctors to ask about guns in the home. Or rope. Or cars and a hose. Or a razor. Or any number of other things.

One killed, three missing

They are other and must be killed.

Iranian Fateh Rifle. Looks like an AR to me. Not at all like the first version.

In this post (with a throw away line base on an old internet trope), Other Steve makes a damn fine and valid point:

You know. Some day If you actually take some low light training, you might stop being so damn obtuse about things.

If you ever happen to get to take low light force on force, and see how many times your flash light hand is hit, because people shoot at lights, you might get that you are entirely wrong about what you think is clever mocking.

I agree with that 100%. But that’s likely not to ever be something I’ll have to worry about. Some people do have to train and prepare for that stuff. Some military units, SWAT teams, security details, and countless others. And they all have many things in common. One of those things is that they are not me.

We put lights on all manner of things to make them more convenient or to give them better utility. Here’s my Bosch drill giving away my position to my daughter:

The light is there to make it easier to screw things when the lighting is poor. The light on my gun is there for pretty much the same thing.

Unlike the guys mentioned above who train for that sort of thing, it’s very unlikely that I’ll ever be in a gun fight. And, if I’m in 100 gun fights, it’s unlikely that in any one of them I’d be worried about giving away my position. The aforementioned military units, SWAT teams, security details, and countless others, however, are more likely to have a need to prevent their position from being known. Me, not so much. I’m just a regular Joe. So I’m quite content putting lights and lasers on my carry gun. They’re not going to give away my position. The place where the shooting sounds are coming from will. Also, the place where the cussing, screaming, and maybe the smell of poop because I just shit my pants, having realized I’m in a gun fight will give away my position too.

Are the wookiee-suiters getting prepared in meat space since arguing on the internet hasn’t worked out?

I’ve done that by cutting back on the internet considerably and focusing on the world. However, I didn’t do it consciously.

So, the TN AG says that school events at churches are like school events at schools and you can’t go carrying your gun there.

For your stash of zombie apocalypse gear.

More people died from selfies than sharks. Which means both are incredibly rare. That and the comparison is about as useful as a cock-flavored lollipop.

Michael Bane is now bionic

Type 89 Knee Mortar

Law prof challenges gun ban. Go SEC!

Well, I wish.

This looks pretty neat. Too bad ATF has said it’s a no go because of arcane and convoluted firearms laws.

Customer shoots bank robber.

LED head lamp. Boom head shot.

Yeah, pretty much. It’s also very slow to start.

Most Unusual Over/Under Shotgun Ive Seen