The National Shooting Sports Foundation: Hunting, Shooting Gear Tops Golf in Sales Fore! Sportsmen and women are playing through. Hunting- and shooting-related equipment has out-driven golf in sales, according to data released by the National Sporting Goods Association. New statistics show that hunting gear and firearm sales topped $3.7 billion in 2006, up 4.1 percent […]

Via AC, comes this hysterical Nashville Scene piece by Jeff Woods on Tennessee’s reaction to Virginia Tech: The annual low comedy that is the Tennessee legislature is well under way, and the shenanigans again this year include bills letting supposedly law-abiding citizens carry pistols into saloons, state parks and all sorts of other new places. […]

Via KDT and Bruce: Two Palestinian terrorists were killed after infiltrating a school in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. The terrorists disabled an alert system built into the perimeter fence of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion on Thursday and then sneaked into the Mekor Hayim high school yeshiva building, according to media reports. They then entered a […]

So, there was that protest in Virginia I mentioned yesterday. The pro-gun side outnumbered the anti-gun side substantially. And at least one person on the anti-gun side became violent. How does the press report it? Like this: Va. Tech families urge gun control Instead of gun rights activists oppose gun bill. People on both sides […]

My post over on KTB tells the Laura Cole story. It is yet another story of a hapless homeowner facing destruction of their property by the developer government complex of Knox County. It is a story about greed, corruption, ineptness, incompetence, and the complete contempt of personal property rights. It is a story about wink, […]

As a formal exercise in film-making, this movie is interesting, but it takes tremendous liberties with the event it references (the Columbine school shootings) and adds many new elements of the director’s devising. It’s dishonest and disingenuous.

It’s hard for a movie to begin with bleakness and unlikely protagonists, then slowly work through comedy and drama to a place of hope that isn’t false or melodramatic. Three Godfathers succeeds in that task.

The Eye is a stylish and very creepy, atmospheric horror film from Thailand that you cannot possibly predict the ending of from its start, though all the clues are given to you.

Heh

There’s a conspiracy theory about the NRA meeting with the Russians. Of course, NRA has a record of working with folks in other countries on the right to arms. And here I thought the whole “the Russians did it” narrative was dying.

American Institutional Collapse: Our elites cant manage any of their jobs. Hollywood cant even put on a simple awards show, much less make a movie worth watching. PewDiePie does a better job of entertaining teenagers than Hollywood can manage. Our political pundits missed both the major stories of the year Brexit and the frigging presidential […]

*Reports come in that Ohio State University is reporting an active shooter on campus* “Quick, gin up our prepared in advance gun violence, mass shooting, AR-15s are the devil narrative. Yeah, and call in those fake experts we get to come in and scare everyone about gun violence, mass shootings and AR-15s and tell them […]

George Zimmerman Road-Rage Incident Ends in 20-Year Sentence. Sounds provocative and no doubt some mouth-breathers got a little excited at seeing Zimmerman convicted. But he wasn’t. Turns out, someone tried to kill him. And New York police officer fatally shoots 66-year-old woman. Because Police shoot person swinging a ball bat isn’t narrative enough.

NBC News: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump proposed from a podium at his Doral Resort. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” But the headline from the story: Trump Urges Russia to Expose Clinton’s Personal Email. All the press […]

So, we all know it happened. A black guy, seen in photos doing the whole black power thing, went and started shooting at police. He wanted to kill white people. Pretty much creating a new narrative for the press, I suppose. Update: Title fixed. Stupid autocorrect.

One exists and the other is made up construct created by gun grabbers to make common guns sound scary. While I appreciate the effort at attempting to explain this to the media, my guess is they won’t listen. And if they do, they won’t care. Because narrative.

Having just passed all that gun control, there was still a school shooting. He was targeting Christians. Reports came in saying he was a conservative, a Nazi, racist, and had ties to some sort of Muslim group. I’ve yet to see any of those confirmed. Obama says mass shootings are something we should politicize. While […]

After record gun sales during the Obama administration, it stands to reason that the rush to buy would subside. Now, they have and now the false cries from the left that the gun biz is in serious financial trouble. It’s not. The Chicago Tribune didn’t get the memo describing that narrative: The most wanted gun […]

I often wonder if I’ve lost my sense of reality because of what is “news”. Hands up don’t shoot did not happen. The UVA rape incident did not happen. Trayvon Martin was not shot in cold blood by a racist white guy. Indiana’s RFRA doesn’t allow discrimination. It’s a silly law but it doesn’t do […]

Not that made up narrative sort. Beaten for being white.

That claim is bullshit. But, hey, narrative!

I thought they were those guns that loon in Cali said were made by computers. But it turns out they’re also guns without serial numbers. Narrative!

Contrary to media narrative, gun sales are steadily increasing

Not only a criminal narrative, but it’d make a cool band name. ETA: Sumdood, in case you didn’t know.

Crowd surrounds man’s car. Man bumps an idiot. Crowd gets irate. Man brandishes gun. Driver was released. But a look at how the press reported it.

Because, boy, if it was, that’s some extra special narrative fail.

Black man shoots two men. It’s not a story though because narrative.

Is the NRA too doctrinaire? And more from Tam. I think they may have gotten the memo with their new urban, hipster internet TV called, and I am not making it up, NRA Freestyle. I mean, I get what they’re doing but they might be trying a little too hard.

Islamic terrorists gun down 59 kids. No narrative advancement, no media outcry. Iranian with Molotov cocktails definitely not a terrorist. 29 dead in mass stabbing in China. Calls for knife bans noticeably absent.

And comes right back down. More from Miguel.