The debate last night was surprisingly calm. Even Trump was calm. Carson, shocking everyone on earth, came out and endorsed Donald Trump.
Rubio, in a move designed only at the GOP beating Trump, came out and said folks in Ohio should vote for Kasich. I guess he was hoping Kasich would reciprocate. Instead, he got told to go get his shine box.
This clusterfuck of a primary continues. But it will probably be over Tuesday.
This right here is cracking me right up:
Disruptive Start-Up Transforms Tweets From Donald Trump and the NRA Into Money for Progressive Causes
MoveOn.org and Mom’s Demand Action For Gun Sense In America team up with iKeedo, using the divisive social media posts of Trump and the NRA as trigger events for micro-donations
That there is a not insignificant portion of the population that uses language like that flummery amuses me to no end. That they’re serious about it is pathetic. But continuing:
Fundraising just got a whole lot more interesting. iKeedo is a new platform that turns data from “the enemy” into donations for good causes. The fact that Moms Demand Action can transform tweets by the NRA into money to support sensible gun regulation is a game changer. Ditto for MoveOn.org who will use Donald Trump’s twitter feed as the mechanism to automate donations for progressive causes. According to Ilya Sheyman, Executive Director of MoveOn.org, whose 8 million members fight for progressive values, “Thanks to this partnership with iKeedo, every time Donald Trump takes to Twitter to spew his hateful message, he’ll be raising money for grassroots progressives to stop him or any Republican at the polls in November.”
The trouble with your business model, sparky, is that there is no grassroots on the anti-gun side. If Moms Demand makes more than a few dollars, I’d be surprised. And Moms Demand can’t change much of anything as it is.
Researchers claim 3 gun controls would stop 90% of gun deaths:
The three measures linked to substantial drops in firearms-related deaths were: universal background checks for firearms sales, background checks on those buying ammunition, and a requirement that gun owners get their firearms microchipped or fingerprinted for identification purposes.
Uh huh. Sure thing, sparky.
A flashlight with bluetooth that can connect to your phone. Because reasons.
A cell phone shaped .380 handgun. Silliness aside, wouldn’t that be an AOW?
Korean special forces 1911. With rail and red dot.
A senate committee defeated the proposal. The governor lauded them for it.
Ugh:
A Florida woman who runs a pro-gun Facebook page told deputies her 4-year-old son shot her in the back while he was sitting in the back seat of her pickup truck.
A Putnam County Sheriffs Office news release says a deputy saw 31-year-old Jamie Gilt of Jacksonville behaving frantically inside the truck Tuesday afternoon and quickly realized shed been shot.
Corrections officer was trying out a tactical concealed carry shirt to see if his gun fit. And his gun went off. No, that’s how the press would usually report it. This time, they told the truth:
Police said Johnson had a concealed pistol and wanted to see how it fit the shirt. They allege that he pulled the trigger, sending a bullet through his sweat shirt on a fitting room bench, and then abandoned both items of clothing in another fitting room.
So, Donald Trump displayed a bunch of steaks, vodka, wine and other such items from failed businesses that bore his name. The press marveled out how he was marketing his wares. Except most of those items are no longer for sale because the companies went out of business. Go ahead and try to buy some of the steaks.
Interesting analysis by Sebastian. I’m not certain why the evangelical vote is going for Trump, since Cruz, as Sebastian points out, is tailor made for them. But that does mean that they don’t just vote their religion, which people presumed was Romney’s undoing. This will election will be interesting. A clusterfuck. But an interesting clusterfuck.
But you’re not this badass: Stabbing victim pulls knife out of own neck, kills terrorist
Not just for hitman. Despite the silly headline, it’s a decent look at the increase in popularity in suppressors and a, mostly, factual presentation of what they actually do:
The U.S. gun industry is trying to shake off the Hollywood hitman image of the gun silencer and rebrand it as a hearing-protection device in a campaign to roll back regulations that date to the 1930s.
Industry lobbying has led to more than a dozen states legalizing silencers for hunting since 2011. Now gun advocates are pressing Congress to repeal a Depression-era law that requires a months-long screening process for silencer buyers – far more scrutiny than gun buyers face.
A judge denied a preliminary injunction against DC carry laws:
U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has ruled that the plaintiffs in a suit seeking to bar the District from enforcing its concealed-carry regulations “have not met their burden of showing a likelihood of success on the merits” in a motion for a preliminary injunction. The ruling in effect upholdsfor nowD.C.’s “good reasoning” licensing scheme.
The plaintiffs have also not shown that an injunction would be “in the public interest,” Kollar-Kotelly writes in a 31-page order released on Monday. While they have successfully proven that “reasonable” qualification rules for firearm permits could pose an “irreparable harm” to their Second Amendment rights, the plaintiffs have not convincingly argued that it outweighs D.C.’s interest in keeping residents and visitors safe.
Sounds fancy but don’t get too excited. It’s basically a gun that shoots a net:
We already have a version of this but a bill to make the “no gun” signs consistent.
The senate passed a bill to prohibit colleges from punishing students for having guns in their vehicles.
And a bill to give National Guard members with carry permits civil immunity and a legal defense if they use their guns in self defense. This is a response to the terrorist attacks in Chattanooga.
Sanders calls out Clinton for bullshit position on the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. The NRA even agreed with Sanders.
I mean, cutting down on the voter fraud and all: Fewer Democrats Are Voting This Year In (Surprise!) States With Strict New Voter Laws
Some special snowflake gets triggered at the sight of a small knife. Remember when it was not a big deal to carry a knife? I carried one in high school and even, on occasion, loaned it to my teachers.
The “assault weapons” case is going before the full court:
A three-judge panel last month sided with gun-rights advocates when, for the first time, it determined that owning semiautomatic firearms such as AR-15s and AK-47s amounts to a “fundamental right” deserving the highest level of protection under the Constitution.
“In our view, Maryland law implicates the core protection of the Second Amendment — the right of law-abiding responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home,” wrote Chief Judge William Traxler in the divided ruling.
But in a brief order Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit effectively wiped out that earlier decision and agreed to rehear the case “en banc,” which means all the judges in active service on the court — 15 in total — will hold a hearing jointly and decide the case anew.
The court set oral arguments in the case, known as Kolbe v. Hogan, for May 11.
I’m guessing, since it is MD, this is not a good development.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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