One thing that people will warn you about when considering a bully type dog is that they tend to be a bit flatulent. Supposedly, they toot a lot. When our non-bully dog (Politically Correct Dog) strips a gear, it usually goes like this: The family is watching a movie when suddenly Politically Correct Dog’s ears […]

Via Phelps, we learn that James Wolcott is a dumb ass. Note: I don’t really thing Mr. Wolcott is a dumbass but since he spent a good portion of the piece insulting Glenn Reynolds in particularly childish ways, I figured I’d show him a faster way to insult people without boring readers. I guess it […]

I was a bit surprised by some of this: Gun Control: With regard to private citizens owning firearms for sport or self-defense, 93.6 percent of the respondents supported civilian gun-ownership rights. Ninety-six percent of the police chiefs and sheriffs believe criminals obtain firearms from illegal sources and 92.2 percent revealed they hadn’t arrested anyone for […]

The Christian Science Monitor, which is usually full of crap, has a fairly well-balanced piece on Denver’s pit bull ban: Even supporters of the ban, such as Councilwoman Boigon, say that the problem does not include all pit bulls. But they note that generations of breeding the animals to be fighters have imbued the dogs […]

I commented that the senate measure to apologize for the Democrats filibustering laws to make lynching a federal crime 100 or so years ago was nothing but a Dog and Pony show (none of the current congress monkeys were around then and this measure will bring no one back). And I stand by that. It’s […]

No, really: Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab television network famous for airing images of beheadings and mutilated bodies, rejected a 30-second commercial from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals showing abuse of Australian sheep.

A short teaser and a link to a review of the Japanese film Battle Royale, a controversial underground hit here in America. The movie is shocking and unsettling, but not in the way you think.

Baltimore is running a gun buyback program: Nine hours later, the police had spent $45,050 to buy 427 guns, many which are the types used in violent acts throughout Baltimore, police said. … [Deputy Police Commissioner Marcus] Brown said the weapons purchased yesterday included a Mac-10 assault rifle, an Uzi and a semi-automatic Ruger handgun. […]

Part Two, wherein I list my beliefs and the arguments that underlie and support them.

You have to read this (dated May 17) to believe it: Just under four months from today, Americans will be able to walk out of a gun store with an AK-47 rifle, an Uzi or other weapon of mass murder under their arm. Unless Congress acts — and Republican leaders show no inclination to do […]

Since the violent, first-person shooter Doom made its debut, violent crime has dropped.

Crime and Federalism, noting a potential second amendment case for the Supreme Court, writes: This is almost a model test case on the incorporation question. Some have speculated that the reason four Jusices (sic) haven’t voted to grant cert. in other Second Amendment cases resulted from the lack of a good “test plaintiff.” Well, Bach […]

It’s been widely reported (and rightly so) that homicides in Philidelphia have been out of control. However, overall gun crime is down: Under a federal program initiated last year, crimes committed with firearms have dropped significantly in one of the most violent sections of the city, authorities announced yesterday. As a result, the program will […]

Laura Washington wrote a piece a while back that just reeked of hysteria an misinformation. Some snippets: Political leaders nourish culture of deadly gun violence No, they don’t. We have become inured to “a culture of death.” That’s what the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence calls it. Using the Brady Bunch as a reference? […]

Seriously: When Blount County schools (sic) officials asked for help Wednesday, the Sheriff’s Office provided a show of force at William Blount High School with more than 50 uniformed and plain clothes officers on the scene after threats of “bodily harm” were made against some students. Sheriff James Berrong said he and Blount County Schools […]

Anthony Harwood on guns in New York: Crazy gun laws mean there is every chance that the other person is armed. In America, there are believed to be around 70million owners and 222million guns. An adult can walk out of a shop in many states with a semi-automatic machine gun and a pistol for £100. […]

Ari Berman, in an op-ed, is shocked that common-sense legislation is being shot down by the NRA. What common sense legislation? The right of people to engage in lawful commerce or the private party transfer provision of the Brady Bill or, as you probably hear it in the media, the gun show loophole. And he […]

This is just priceless: Tighter gun ownership laws are pushing South Africans to buy crossbows, spears, swords, knives and pepper sprays to protect themselves from violent crime. “We’ve had to build an entirely new shop because the demand from people is so great,” Justin Willmers, owner of Durban Guns and Ammo, told Reuters. “It can […]

Amnesty Internation: Women should arm themselves. Well, paraphrased, of course: The activists noted there were an estimated 650 million guns in circulation around the world — almost all in the hands of men. “Given that they are almost never the buyers, owners or users of small arms, (women) suffer disproportionately from armed violence,” said Denise […]

Ronald Ziol: I read John Tsolakos’ opinion on why the ban on assault weapons should remain in effect. Since then, I have been rereading the federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, thinking I must have missed something. I now am certain I haven’t. The bill defines “assault weapon” as a semi-automatic […]

there was “insufficient evidence” to determine whether any of the federal, state and local gun laws reviewed had an effect on gun-related deaths, violent crimes, suicides and other outcomes. The study, conducted by American Journal of Preventive Medicine, notes first that: Despite a proliferation of gun registration requirements, bans on specific firearms and “zero tolerance” […]

Currently, this site is under a trackback spam attack. None of the spam has made it to the site and I can delete it all in two clicks. However, I have that little feature enabled to email me when I get comments. So far, 1047 spam trackbacks in a few hours. WordPress is awesome in […]

When I was a kid, I liked to draw. I liked drawing spaceships, actually. I often would draw images of a massive armada of spaceships invading some planet. If a kid did that today, he’d no doubt be charged with war crimes: Two boys were arrested for making pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings depicting a 10-year-old […]

The NRA (not exactly an unbiased source) notes Guns, Gun Ownership, & RTC at All-Time Highs, Less “Gun Control,” and Violent Crime at 27-Year Low.

You just can’t make this stuff up: But police have found another [use for WD40] — keeping the public from snorting cocaine off toilet lids in bars. Police in Bristol said on Wednesday they have been advising pub and nightclub owners to spray the colourless lubricant on toilet seats and other flat surfaces in the […]

Oregon is still pushing for a ban. More myths debunked about supposed assault weapons: The Justice Department’s interviews also gave lie to the notion that so-called assault weapons in private hands decrease the safety of police officers and citizens. Only about 8 percent of the inmates used one of the models covered in the now-expired […]

This article, which quotes verbatim some thing I got in email about a half dozen times, links to Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws. The Docs published Ten Myths About Gun Control: The proliferation of guns in this country is responsible for an increase in the violent crime rate The proliferation of gun ownership in this […]

Via Michael Silence comes two stories that again state there is no correlation between gun laws and gun crimes. The first: No one has done the right studies to prove whether gun ownership laws increase or decrease crime, or whether the tens of thousands of gun deaths in the United States each year could be […]

England, which has more violent crime than the US despite conventional wisdom, is currently pushing for right to unlimited self defense. Dave Kopel has a good article on it: One reason that British burglars are so much bolder than their American cousins is that only about 4% of British homes legally possess a gun, whereas […]

I have contended before that issuing police Tasers and other probably-not-lethal devices would result in using these devices when they weren’t absolutely necessary. In Nashville, that seems to be what is happening: A Tennessean review of police reports for the first seven people shocked with Tasers since 45 stun guns were distributed to officers on […]