Category: Favorites – RKBA
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Critical Marksmanship Theory
SCENE: The year is 2028. Mitch BERG has just been sworn in as governor of Minnesota, via a series of happenstances too bizarre to go into. He is speaking to a press conference. BERG: As the first phase of my plan, as promised, I’m directing the state Department of Education to begin mandatory instruction in…
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Amateur Hour At Parkland
School shootings have been front-page bait for nearly 30 years. It’s been nearly two decades since Columbine. Nearly ten since Virginia Tech. And yet official America has learned nearly nothing, and contents itself with waving childrens’ bloody shirts to try to disarm people who didn’t, and never do, do the shooting in the first place.…
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Why I’m A Second Amendment Voter
I detest litmus tests. I always have. They’ve always struck me as a way to avoid needing to think too hard about things, especially politics; as a way to avoid having to deal with the nuances that are inevitable with a realistic appreciation of the world around you. But over the last year years, Second…
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Survey
SCENE: Mitch BERG is at work in his home office. His phone rings. BERG: Hello? POLLSTER: Hello. I’m Kandi, a pollster working on a combined study commissioned by Harvard University, Northeastern University, the Trace and the Guardian, four organizations dedicated to disarming Americans by any means, fair or foul. If you have a few…
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The Terrible Hours
You’re in a room. Between you and the exit – any exit – is someone who is busily killing people. So you’re not going anywhere. Probably not, anyway. You’re in the midst of a spree killing – sometimes called a rampage killing. You’re surrounded by crowds of people, as someone – one person, most likely…
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Watch Mitch Berg DESTROY This Liberal Hamster’s Argument With This One Weird Trick
Check Out Paragraph Nine. Mind Blown. The website “Raw Story” is, in general , almost as useless as Buzzfeed; at least Buzzfeed has some really cool recipes, which Raw Story utterly lacks. Raw Story (henceforth RS) is as useless as “The Awl”. There. Got it. Anyway, they ran a piece last week about the Oregon shooting…
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The Odds: Why “Universal Background Checks” Don’t Work
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes about this piece (which started as a monologue on the NARN a few days before the blog post was published). ———- Your end-of-show reading of Rep. Paymar’s column got me to thinking: we know background checks won’t work, but saying so doesn’t make it so. Can we better explain…
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Doug Grow, Narrative-Fluffer
I was down at the State Capitol yesterday for a press conference, as Representative Deb Hilstrom (DFL Brooklyn Park) introduced the gun bill/s we talked about yesterday. The bills, as we noted yesterday, would exert the state to solve actual problems – close gaps in the background check system, add mandatory penalties for using guns…
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The Case For Ugly Guns And Big Magazines
WELCOME, Instapundit readers! ———- My neighbor AVERY LIBRELLE is concerned about gun violence. We met at a local coffee shop, where we spoke over the sound of a group of locals that was keeping alive the tradition of out-of-tune folk music played by large, enthusiastic groups of the tone-deaf. LIBRELLE: We need to ban high-clip…
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End Results
Joe Doakes from Como Park has a question that’s occurred to me as well: I don’t have time today to look this up, maybe some of your readers do? I’m getting the feeling the media is under-reporting a crucial element in the shooting stories: what stopped the killer? Is it correct the most recent school…
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Tragedy On A Dimmer Switch
The nation wracks itself in grief – justifably – over the deaths of 20-odd children in Connecticut. I’d shudder to meet the monsters that don’t recoil in horror and outrage. I’m struck, though, by the lack of outrage over the carnage in President Obama’s home town, the town run by the machine that put him…
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Chanting Points Memo: With “Experts” Like This, Who Needs Enemas?
Long before the Trayvon Martin shooting started dominating the headlines, gun law reform was in the news in Minnesota, and had already spawned a smaller, more “Barney-Fife”-y version of the disinformation mill that has been sweeping the nation these past few weeks. I and the rest of the Minnesota Second Amendment community have been playing…
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Chanting Points Memo: “I Shot Him Because I Didn’t Like The Way He Snored”
Rep. Tony Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill – which must be either signed or vetoed by midnight tonight (as this is written, neither has happened, although that may change; I write these posts between 5:30 and 7AM, because, well, I work during the day and can’t always follow the news in real time like some…
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Matt McKinney’s Whitewash Job
Earlier this week, when three media outlets (WCCO-TV, KSTP-TV and Rick Kupchella’s Bring Me The News) released near-simultaneous hagiographies of Darren Evanovich – the Minneapolis man who was shot by a “good samaritan” with a carry permit after Evanovich allegedly robbed and pistol-whipped a woman in a grocery store parking lot – I said (in…
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Distrust But Verify. Then Distrust Some More.
The Violence Policy Center has a long record of cooking data to try to build a national case against civilian ownership of firearms. They’ve failed, of course; more Americans own guns today than ever, while the idea of a link between crime and the demonstrably law-abiding armed citizen is almost too specious for modern physics…
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The Right Of The People
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court of the United States today ruled in the Heller case that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution is exactly what the founding fathers intended; that a right “of the people” means “people”, not “the National Guard”. The court dealt forty years of erosion of civil liberties…
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…To Just Plain Inexcusable
The Minnesota Monitor – the region’s Soros-funded propaganda outlet – has been doing its best, it seems, to burnish its rep as a “news” outlet; hiring Steve “Mister Furious” Perry, getting its staff to write more like reporters and less like snot-nosed polemicists, the whole thing. Is it too little, too late? We’ll see… But…
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Life and Liberty
Doug Tice – who’s taken and run with “The Big Question” after Eric Black’s departure – noted something from Saturday’s NARN broadcast: Yesterday, on one of the Saturday afternoon “Northern Alliance Radio Network” talk shows on AM 1280 The Patriot, I heard two of the the allies — I believe, Mitch Berg (from shotinthedark.info) and…