Shot in the Dark

Category: Gun-“Free” Zones

  • Fake News

    It is alleged that there was a shooting incident Saturday night at the Minnesota State fair. On the one hand, there is footage of… something. On the other hand? This cannot possibly have happened. The state fairboard banned guns, and a state court upheld that decision. So clearly, there were no guns at the fair.…

  • Data Point

    The school district in rural Spirit Lake, Minnesota is going to have armed staff on premises “It’s really our obligation and duty to do whatever we can to protect them. And we talk about school shootings, and you have an active shooter, a killer, in your building, the number one way to save lives is…

  • 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.…

  • For The Children

    SCENE:  Mitch BERG is out behind his house, turning his city trash barrel right side up, when Avery LIBRELLE turns down the alley, riding a Lime Bike. BERG can’t escape.   LIBRELLE:  Merg!   It’s time for comprehensive gun control! BERG:   Of course it is.  Even though none of it can have any effect on gun violence –…

  • Prudence

    Some Jews are learning the right, prudent lesson from the PIttsburgh Pogrom. Indianapolis talk radio host Tony Katz describes his epiphany: What happened in Pittsburgh is my nightmare scenario. For a few years now, on my radio shows in Indianapolis, I have said as loud and as clear as I can that any Jew who…

  • Ganders

    SCENE:  Mitch BERG is waiting for a table at his local Korean restaurant when Avery LIBRELLE walks in behind him.    LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG:   Ugh,  I mean, hey , Avery. LIBRELLE: The kids from Parkland High School returned to class, and they feel like they’re “in prison“. BERG: Do tell. LIBRELLE: I’ll read from this…

  • Just Remember…

    …only the police have the training necessary to deal with spree killers.  You should check your right to defend yourself at the door and let the cops do the difficult work.

  • Events Of A Feather

    Six years ago, Venezuela banned private firearms ownership,  via a piece of legislation that had to have sent a tingle down Linda Slocum, Erin Maye Quade, Jamie Becker-Finn and Dave Pinto’s spines.   It was done to consolidate and reinforce the control of a government that, one might suspect in concept had to have sent a tingle down…

  • Things The Founding Fathers Never Foresaw

    My entire adult life, I’ve considered the Bill of Rights inviolable – with the idea that they’re timeless principles, without which the idea of “Freedom” is pretty much meaningless. I took to heart the saying attributed to Ben Franklin – “He who would trade freedom for security deserves neither”. But recent events have caused me,…

  • Another Gun-Free Zone, Another Mass Shooting, And A Couple Good Guys With Guns

    First things first:  Berg’s 18th Law is still in full effect;  it’s been mere hours since a man murdered 27 people at Sutherland Springs Baptist Church, near San Antonio; anything you read in the media will be crap. One thing we do know?  Churches in Texas are “gun free zones”.  Nobody in that church was legally authorized…

  • Voice Of America

    Berg’s 18th Law is still in effect; we don’t know what motivated the Vegas shooter. But I take heart from this, a guy I’m proud to call a real American hero: Mandalay Bay being a gun free zone  (and at 400 yards, firing back with a handgun would have been a triumph of optimism over feasibility),…

  • Another Gun-Free Zone…

    …another terrorist attack: On Tuesday afternoon, the FBI confirmed the motives of the recent shooting attack at Fort Lauderdale Airport in Florida. The assailant, Esteban Santiago, claimed to carry out the attack in the name of the Islamic State. During Santiago’s bond hearing, FBI special agent Michael Ferlazzo confirmed that he did carry out the…

  • Wages Of Fiction

    The Fort Lauderdale airport? Yep – it was a “gun free zone“:

  • They Tend To Be Shoddy Anyway

    Levi Strauss and company has opted to make their stores criminal-safe. Moms Want Action is all tingly about it – which, of course, means royalties for stock photo vendors!~ To be honest, I haven’t bought Levis in years; for the same money, Duluth jeans are much much better, and given their clientele, they’re way too smart…

  • “You Won’t Be Seeing Me Again”

    The FBI released the details of their initial investigation into the Saint Cloud mall mass stabbing last month, including the first public look at the store video.  MPR News covered it. Warning; the video is  graphic, if you haven’ been completely desensitized to violence: The investigators also praised Jason Falconer. Falconer’s actions are instructive to…

  • So Let Me Get This Straight

    Australia bans vast swathes of political and cosmetically inconvenient guns – drawing the favorable attention of Barack Obama and Hillary Herself. Thing is, Australia never really had a “gun problem”.  They had a couple of mass shootings, to which the political class responded with pure emotion. And now?  Years after they banned most politically-charged weapons?…

  • Chill

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Rep. Keith Ellison introduced the Campus Gun Policy Transparency Act which would require colleges to disclose their policies relating to guns on campus.  He claims existing federal law requires colleges to publish campus safety information but not specific policies related to guns.  In addition, he claims colleges are not…

  • Imbalance

    Joe Doakes emails us a link to a post by Clayton Cramer, who compares murder rates in Idaho and western Canada: Idaho: 2.0/100,000 For the Canadian provinces: Manitoba: 3.43 Saskatechewan: 2.13 Alberta: 2.52 Yukon: 6.88 Nunavut: 10.93 Yet all those provinces have Canada’s restrictive gun control laws. Alhough, at least anecdotally, people in Saskatchewan and…

  • I’m Sure This Is A Surprise…

    …to the clueless; Chicago – the city with all the gun control that “ProtectMN” and Michael Bloomberg want (with the possible exception of “the disarmament of everyone else”) is seeing violence at a record clip: July 2016 was the “deadliest July in 10 years” for heavily gun-controlled Chicago: Sixty-five individuals were shot and killed. Moreover,…

  • Go Figure

    We were warned. Oh, you betcha we  were! The media’s chicken littles parroted the narrative they so, so desperately wish, hope, pray is true; that the average, law-abiding American citizen, left to his own devices and all of his human rights, is a fundamentally depraved actor, motivated by rage and hate, looking for an excuse to stick it…

  • Perish The Thought

    What – you want to tell me that a public union boss who’s an integral part of the machine in a major city that’s been run into the ground by decades of Democrat rule, doesn’t understand the concept of civil rights or the constitution? The hell you say! I’m just amazed that people thought this was…

  • Rumor Mill

    To: Betsy Hodges, mayor, Minneapolis. From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant Re: Rumors Mayor Hodges, Over the weekend, the rumor mill announced that you had told a gathering somewhere in Minneapolis you were planning on holding a “gun buyback”. Please, please please please please please, oh please, please please please please please, I beg of you;…

  • Scenarios

    SCENE:  Mitch BERG is working on the potato boxes in his backyard.    Avery LIBRELLE walks through the back gate into BERG’s back yard. LIBRELLE:  Hey, Merg!  The case of workplace violence in Orlando proves that it’s time for America to get serious about guns. BERG:    We did.  Or at least parts of the…

  • Darn Those White Conservative Christians

    Orlando murderer Omar Mateen – a man who seems to have mixed sexual confusion and extreme millenarian Islam on his way to becoming the worst mass-shooter in US history – was giving off warning signs even in childhood: At age 14, he said he could shoot an AK-47 and mimicked an airplane flying into the…

  • Open Letter To Sen. Latz, Rep. Schoen, Rep. Norton, Rev. Nord Bence, Jane Kaye, Heather Martens, and Joan Peterson

    To:  The Abovementioned From: Mitch Berg, Mere Peasant Re:  Your signage where your mouths are All, You are the leaders of Minnesota’s gun-grabber movement.  You and your wan little pack of Volvo-driving, alpaca-wearing, NPR-listening, St. Olaf-graduating, ELCA-coiffed followers want to take away Minnesotans’ right and means to defend themselves. Now, crime in Minnesota is very,…