Yep. Of course the Capitol shooter was a lefty.
I’m not going to say every homicidal nutcase is a lefty.
But it’s pretty close.
(Commenters who want to take exception? Provide solid specifics, or have your comments mutilated for my pleasure. I can be a graceful host the rest of the year).
Reverend Dawson joins my rogues gallery of Lefties who’ve committed violence on their fellow human in the name of “progressivism”.
…our mainstream, institutional media has a long, glorious tradition of upholding freedom, comforting the afflicted, and afflicting the comfortable.
OK, other than that, our media couldn’t possibly have sold out freedom and appeased tyrants for 13 pieces of…
… Dammit!
Richard Fernandez – one of the best foreign-policy writers going, these days – notes what’s really important about Brussels, and most likely Paris, and, let’s be honest, the next massacre, coming soon to a major soft target near (some of) you (emphasis added):
That [Salah Abdeslam, planner of the Paris attacks] was found just a short distance from where police had been looking for him for weeks should have clued Obama in to the possibility that he had a base of sympathizers. Abdeslam’s ability to go to ground right under the noses of the Belgian authorities should have suggested that European counterterrorism was mutating into something more deadly: counterinsurgency.
Counter-terrorism is the police vs a “handful of killers”. Counterinsurgency is the state vs a rival state. The attack on Brussels may mean Trofimov was right: Obama’s handful of killers now had a social base of potential sympathizers legally indistinguishable from the original European inhabitants and from which they could launch attacks at the “very heart of Europe”, as Christopher Dickey described Brussels in the Daily Beast.
The war in Europe today is different only in scale – for now – from the beginnings of the Vietnam War, where a motivated minority with support from a belligerent waged guerrilla war against the South without need of a formal declaration.
And yet President Obama and his Euro-progressive ideological cousins continue to treat the ongoing terror offensive in Europe as nothing more than an outburst of lawlessness.
Where is that ACLU SWAT team?
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A couple of years ago, it almost appeared as if the MinnPost – a creation of Minnesota liberals with deep pockets intended to serve as a DFL PR outlet – might do the unthinkable; engage in some responsible journalism on the issue of the Second Amendment and gun rights.
Oh, make no mistake; they did plenty of dross – the normally excellent Erik Black underwhelmed with some of his work, and let’s not talk about their “public health” angle. But they also engaged freelance journeyman journalist Mike Cronin, who did some excellent, inquisitive, even-handed work on the subject – so much so that the MinnPost apparently stopped publishing it.
They’re back to classic form, with this bit from Kristoffer Tigue, who apparently hasn’t gotten the memo – which someone needs to pass along to him. To wit:
Heather Martens has never, not once, said a single, original, substantive, true thing about the Second Amendment or the Gun issue.
Just to elaborate a little, and yet as much as any journalist should need? If you use Heather Martens as a source, your credibility is shot, as it were, right out of the gate.
Just try to count all the lies, non-sequiturs and piles of complete buncombe that this article slops in front of the public.
A Steaming Pile Of Premise: It’s hard to know where to start with this bit:
Eighteen-year-old Dae’veon has seen everything from assault rifles to handguns, and it wasn’t hard for him to find them. In fact, he’s owned several handguns, shotguns and even a submachine gun, he said. And all of it he bought without a background check, no questions asked.
Last year, Dae’veon, who agreed to talk if his last name was kept anonymous, was caught with a gun and charged with aggravated robbery.
That’s when he decided he needed to keep his head down, focus on school and try to turn his life around. But he knows if he wanted to, all he’d have to do is make a quick phone call to get another gun, he said. “It’s like going to the store to buy a pop,” he said. “You just call whoever you know that has a gun and tell them what you want to spend.”
So let’s stop and take stock, here; we’re being asked not only to believe that seventeen-year-old Dae’veon owned pistols and “assault rifles” (already illegal for juveniles) and a “submachine gun” (illegal for most everyone for about 80 years, now), but that he bought all of them (illegal for minors)..
…from “dealers” who didn’t give him a background check while carrying out acts that, as we’ve seen above, are state and federal felonies?
Why, perhaps if we passed a background check law, those dealers would have been able to gently chide young Dae’veon to wait until he was older?
Do people actually think young Dae’veon bought his little arsenal from a law-abiding citizen, much less Gander Mountain?
Earlier this month, two DFL lawmakers, Sen. Ron Latz and Rep. Dan Schoen, introduced a bill that would require background checks on all gun sales in the state, a measure supported by a number of advocacy groups and law enforcement associations, who say it could help prevent firearms from reaching the wrong hands — like those with criminal backgrounds or minors like Dae’veon. It too has received pushback from gun-rights groups.
And for good reason. The bill is complete baked wind. It asks us to accept two complete balderdash premises: that criminals will follow laws, and that government will follow the rules.
Our Diligently Law-Abiding Criminal Class: I’m going to be charitable, and assume the reporter, Mr. Tigue, just doesn’t know the issue all that well, and is reciting what he’s been told by one Bloomberg operative or another.
There are some tells, of course (emphasis added):
And yet, for all the disagreements over whether increased background checks will work, one fact is beyond dispute when it comes to guns in Minnesota. Like it or not, they are remarkably easy to acquire.
Well, no. They’re mildly annoying to acquire if you’re a law-abiding citizen. They may or may not be easy if you’re a criminal buying from other criminals.
Which is a distinction the gun grabbers really, really want to keep obscured.
In Minnesota, to legally buy a gun from a store requires that the purchaser be at least 18 and have a permit issued by the applicant’s county sheriff’s office — a process that also subjects the applicant to both a state and federal background check.
But here’s the wrinkle: For those who already have a permit and simply want to sell a gun to someone else, there’s no law requiring a background check.
Therein lies the problem, said Heather Martens, the executive director of Protect Minnesota, a group advocating for tightening gun laws. The lack of regulation around private gun sales makes it too easy for those who shouldn’t own guns to be able to get them, a complication that goes beyond the oft-cited issue of gun show sales.
“If you want to fill the trunk of your car with guns and drive to any street, park there and start selling guns, you can,” Martens said. “There’s no law against that.”
Remember – it’s Heather Martens. She has never said a single substantial, original, true thing about the gun issue. And she’s not starting today.
So while there’s no law against loading up a trunk with guns and trying to sell them, there are laws against selling them to criminals, and minors. If they sell a gun to someone who goes on to use it in a crime, and it gets traced back them them, there are nasty legal consequences.
You can even do it on line, if you want:
Technology has made things even easier. Many individuals also sell their guns online on websites like Armslist.com, where all people need to do is create a free account to gain access to people selling firearms all around the state.
Right.
Now let’s say you’re one of the people who sold a “submachine gun” (banned by the feds since the thirties) to a young Dae’veon (also a crime); in other words, someone who routinely commits gun-trafficking felonies. Ron Latz’s background check bill goes into effect.
Are you suddenly going to start running background checks from the back of your car?
If you’re the guy fencing stolen pistols in the men’s room of a bar in Farmington, are you going to step outside and run a NICS check?
If you said “why, sure”, then you might be a Ron Latz voter who thinks Heather Martens makes sense.
Another Good Guy with a Gun saves a life:
The suspect first tried to attack the customer and then went after a clerk behind the counter, wounding him in the stomach, the sheriff’s office said…The shooting will be investigated, and the case will be sent to a prosecutor to determine if charges should be filed against the shooter.
Tickets will be punched:
King County Sheriff Sgt. Cindi West told NBC News that “during the initial investigation we did not see any wrongdoing on the part of the citizen who shot.”
But the sheriff did make one important side note:
“In fact, he may have prevented the clerk from being killed or seriously injured,” she said.
A good guy on the scene with a gun; if you don’t happen to have a cop on the premises, it’s just about the best response to crime there is.
Earlier this week, we wrote about the story of a Hmong man on the East Side of Saint Paul who was beaten badly by a crowd of youths. The attack ended when the man’s wife came out of the house with her gun (and her carry permit).
Kudos to WCCO for being the sole news outlet that didn’t bury the lede.
It’s gonna be a big week.
MNGOLD: Don’t forget – Thursday is “Minnesota Gun Owners Lobbying Day” at the Capitol.
Come on down to the Capitol Mall. There’ll be a quick (it’s warm, but not that warm) rally outside. Then we’ll go in and talk with our legislators, and tell them – and show them – that we, the Real Americans of the Second Amendment human rights movement, are here, and we vote, and we’re not going away.
Debate!: Brad Carlson and I will be out at B52 Burgers and Brew in Inver Grove Heights for our final debate party of the season. The burgers are amazing, by the way. Come on out and hang out with a few dozen of your closest friends. We’ll be giving away tickets to the AM1280 Birthday Bash, too!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
President Obama is taking credit for full employment. The economy is roaring. The unemployment rate is under 5%. The recession is over.
Or is it? The BLS says we didn’t gain 195,000 jobs, we lost 665,000 jobs. So are those people unemployed? Turns out, it depends on what the meaning of “unemployed” is. We’re back in Clinton-land.
The red line is U3 – people who are unemployed and have looked for work within the past four weeks.
The grey line is U6 – people who are unemployed and have looked for work within the past year.
The blue line is an estimate of people who are unemployed and have not looked for work within the past year because there’s no point – there are no jobs for people with their education and experience. They’ve given up hope.
Meanwhile, this Federal Reserve study concludes at least some of the unemployment is caused by immigrants. President Obama’s most recent plan would exacerbate the problem.
What it tells me is: all the numbers are lies. The government agencies lie to us, they lie to each other, they lie to the media. It’s like the old Soviet Union claiming record harvests as they beg the UN for food because harvests were so bad.
I don’t think this is the Full Employment that we were looking for.
Joe Doakes
Honesty has fewer opportunities for graft.
Mark “Black Hawk Down” Bowden writes a retrospective some time he spent with Donald Trump almost 20 years ago:
He was like one of those characters in an 18th-century comedy meant to embody a particular flavor of human folly. Trump struck me as adolescent, hilariously ostentatious, arbitrary, unkind, profane, dishonest, loudly opinionated, and consistently wrong. He remains the most vain man I have ever met. And he was trying to make a good impression. Who could have predicted that those very traits, now on prominent daily display, would turn him into the leading G.O.P. candidate for president of the United States?
His latest outrageous edict on banning all Muslims from entering the country comes as no surprise to me based on the man I met nearly 20 years ago. He has no coherent political philosophy, so comparisons with Fascist leaders miss the mark. He just reacts. Trump lives in a fantasy of perfection, with himself as its animating force.
The whole thing is worth a read.
Mark “Black Hawk Down” Bowden’s piece on Donald Trump.
John Hinderaker on the Ventura/Trump comparison.
Brad Carlson and I are switching days, this weekend.
Brad will be hosting the Northern Alliance Radio Network today from 1 to 3 PM.
I will be in tomorrow from 2 to 3.
Tune in both days!
… I can’t imagine why people, finding mainstream Christianity spineless and spiritually vacant, are hitting the doors faster than if they were at a Nickelback/Creed surprise gig.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Everybody knows the US can never retire its debts – we owe like 20 trillion dollars. More, if you count the value of unfunded promises like Social Security and Obamacare. But everybody also knows you can’t cut spending – can’t even propose a smaller increase in spending – because the media would bury you.
And with Bernie riding the “free stuff” horse into the White House, it’ll only get worse.
So – three possibilities:
- America is unique in history: we never pay the debt and nobody ever cares, it’s all imaginary money anyway, in which case, why not spend even more, give away even more, and everyone can be rich forever?
- Somebody calls the debt and the US Government can’t pay it. It’s happened before, after the Revolutionary War. The resulting economic chaos was mitigated because 90% of the citizens lived on farms where they were used to primitive life and had a chance at being self-sustaining. This time around, 90% of the citizens live in cities that will run out of food and water in days.
- We figure out a way to write off the debt and start fresh, but without a calamitous economic crash.
We’re living as if Option 1 was guaranteed and Option 2 cannot happen. I’m not convinced that’s true. Option 3 is never discussed. Is that because it’s not technically possible? Because it’s not politically feasible? Or because Americans are reluctant to give up the dream of a free lobster in every pot and a free Cadillac in every garage?
Joe Doakes
I’m starting to think Trulbert was optimistic.
Here’s now you can help push back on the daycare jamdown.
Or here – where you can also donate money.
Here’s the Tracinski piece on “Peak Left”
And of course, here’s ♫ today’s music playlist.
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… unless it’s half the population that you’re trying to strong-arm.
(Madeline Albright may have been Hillary Clinton’s sole competitor for the title of “worst Secretary of State in history”)
A couple of wannabe thugs apparently tried to turn a craigslist transaction into a heist in Shakopee yesterday.
And while the article doesn’t say so explicitly, reading between the lines, it would appear the Fugs picked the wrong guy:
Police radio reports indicated that the apparent victim of the attempted robbery had a handgun and fired at the would-be robber. Shakopee police and other law officers were looking for a silver-gray Chevrolet Venture van with at least two people inside, with at least one armed with a revolver.
Radio reports indicated that the robber ran from the scene toward the White Castle restaurant near Walmart and then got into a vehicle, which reportedly got on Highway 169. The State Patrol was looking for the vehicle.
The apparent victim was waiting near the Walmart garden center entrance for police. He apparently was not injured.
Police were planning to look at store video.
The article doesn’t say so explicitly – but waiting for the cops at the store after an incident is the behavior you’d expect from someone who took carry permit training.
Kim Norton and Heather Martens, obviously, would have preferred that the victim submit meekly, and maybe die.
UPDATE: The Strib is being veeeeeeery slow to release the facts of this case, including who shot first and who shot who.
Joe Doakes from Como Park continues:
The most famous American Black Man’s Dream was, of course, brilliantly articulated by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who said:
“I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’. . . I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Look at the headlines: can any Black civil rights “leader” honestly claim to share Dr. King’s dream? Does any politician? Hollywood? The Media? Or isn’t it more likely “Black Lives Matter” would find his dream to be patronizing, judge his goals too modest? Wouldn’t Al Sharpton still insist on a Token Black in the Academy Awards? Wouldn’t Democrat staffers lump Dr. King with Dr. Carson as Oreos, Uncle Toms, House Negros, wanting to act White?
Modern White Americans proved they have embraced Dr. King’s dream by electing a Black man President not just once, but twice. But what dream do modern Black Americans embrace?
Joe Doakes
Historically speaking, it’s kind of an anomaly…
If you live in Senate District 35, it’s Primary day today.
And I urge you to get out and vote for Andy Aplikowski.
I almost never “endorse” candidates – but I’m going to urge those of you who live in 35 to vote for Andy. He’s a long-time friend of this blog, a former mayor of the MOB, and more importantly, a solid conservative who will do is bit to keep moving the Senate to the right.
It’s a very red district – so, in effect, the election is happening today. If the Democrats field someone, it’ll basically be a warm body on the ballot for appearance’s sake.
He’s running in the primary against former long-time State representative Jim Abeler. Abeler’s a good guy; he’s been right on a lot of issues (he was as solid Second Amendment guy as they come). But he was a reliable vote for spending more money; he was one of the “Override Six” back in 2007, which voted to override Governor Pawlenty’s veto of the DFL’s epochal gas tax hike.
Anyway – get out and vote for Andy!
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking out of the downtown Saint Paul Dunn Brothers coffee. He runs into Chuck DUUUUHHHH, third-shift Twitter operator for “Minnesotans for Rand Paul”.
DUUUUHHHH: Hey, Merg! Did you seen the NEWS of the hotel FIRE in DOOBBAI?
BERG: Well, yeah – but before we get to that, I gotta say I’m amazed that you actually talk like you type on Facebook and Twitter, with occasional interjections in all caps.
DUUUUHHHH: Ha HAH. So there was a building fire, but it wasn’t hot ENOUGH to melt STEEL. Why DIDN’T the hotel fall TO the ground?
BERG: Because the fire was apparently in the cladding, on the facade, and never had a chance to weaken the structural steel.
DUUUUHHHH: Because steel melts at 2000 DEGREES FARRENHEIGHT, and so it didn’t LIQUIFY the GIRDLES.
BERG: Girders.
DUUUUHHHH: THAT is your opinion!
BERG: Sure, whatever.
DUUUUHHHH: So by your logic, since it wasn’t not enough TO liquify steel, the HOTEL should HAVE fallen to the ground! Like Building SEVEN!
BERG: That’s kinda a non-sequitur.
DUUUUHHHH: That’s JUST your opinion! You’re not an engineer!
BERG: No, that’s true. But I have some command of basic logic. Look – you see to be of the opinion that if every skyscraper fire doesn’t end in a complete implosion, then 9/11 was an inside job.
DUUUUHHHH: Don’t be a sheeple! The GOVERNMENT lies to people all THE time! Why would a building fall when jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel?
BERG: Sure, government lies. No argument
But steel doesn’t have to melt to be a problem. Steel loses its strength and becomes basically pliable hundreds of degrees below its melting point:
DUUUUHHHH: He’s no engineer!~ And that doesn’t explain why all three BUILDINGS fell inside their FOOTPRINCE.
BERG: All three buildings transferred their weight via a web of girders to their central cores, which transferred the weight to the ground. Since the weight is all going down the middle of the building, where would you expect them to fall?
DUUUUHHHH: That’s just your opinion! You’re JUST closing your mind to all the engineers AND physicists who QUESTION the OFFFICIAL 9/11 story!
BERG: And you’re closing yours to the many engineers who point out that steel bends at a lower temp than jet fuel burns, and that buildings fall in the direction their weight transfers, absent some other force.
DUUUUHHHH: But you’re ignoring the fact THAT steel melts at 2000 degrees!
BERG: I answered that above.
DUUUUHHHH: And why did all three buildings FALL INSIDE their own footprint?
BERG: We just talked about that.
DUUUUHHHH: And why DID THE buildings collapse when the TEMPERATURE wasn’t enough TO LIQUIFY steel?
BERG: Um…?
DUUUUHHHH: And without getting STEEL UP to 2000 degrees, it had to be a controlled demolition, OTHERWISE how do you explain the building FALLING IN its footprint?
BERG slowly tiptoes away.
And SCENE.
To: Democrat Party
From: Mitch Berg, cantankerous peasant
Re: A Heartfelt Request
Do you Democrats,
Please, please, please, please please please nominate Bernie Sanders for president.
He is the only candidate genuinely acceptable to real progressives – and you are real progressive, aren’t you?
Just saying – given Senator Sanders keen grasp of the issues, it be insane not to nominate him.
Right?
That is all.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
If they are here as refugees, that means when the crisis is over, they go back. So go.
joe doakes
Or at least do like every other group of immigrants – Brits, Swedes, Germans, Poles, Italians, Vietnamese, H’mong, Eritreans, Ethiopans – before you has done, and socially and economically assimilate, already.
To: Governor Dayton
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: Tomorrow’s Faux Pas, Today.
Governor,
You should be getting used to the fact that your most “progressive” left of center advisers routinely lead you into policy statements that sound disconnected from reality. I say “should” be learning it; clearly you have not yet. Because your latest announcement on second amendment issues – “no-fly, no buy”, barring people who are on the federal “no fly” list from buying guns – is quite clearly an attempt to ramp up the left’s turnout in the upcoming election.
But – as we on the right, and among the second amendment Human Rights movement told you – it’s unconstitutional.
You should be getting used to this by now; they’re wrong, we are right. Every time. No exceptions.
Are we detecting a pattern, yet?
That is all.
(PS: But by all means, keep going. The right needs all the rallying points it can get).
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