Category: Gun-“Free” Zones
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A Tale Of Two Cities
Tyler Gottwalt strapped on an AK47 and took a walk. He was looking for trouble… …in pretty much the same way Martin Luther King was. He set out to flush out an illegal law. And he found it. While the Sauk Rapids cops knew the law – citizens with carry permits are allowed to carry uncased long…
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Those Who Forget Stupid-People History Are Doomed To Repeat It
The Early ’70s – the National Coalition to Ban Handguns distributes signs indicating that the home is “proud to be gun-free”. They made the usual, predictable media splash – the nation’s opinion-pushers were pretty roundly anti-gun in those days, and they’d done a pretty fair job of bandwagoning a good chunk of American opinion into…
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Today’s Real American Hero
Missouri Democrat introduces an amendment to “prove a point” about the “absurdity” of open carry… …and loses track of time, and is unable to withdraw the amendment. Rep Deb Lavender (D) introduced an amendment to a bill dealing with open carry and [concealed carry permittees]. Her amendment would open the capitol building up to lawful…
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Absolute Moral Authority
Jesse Hughes – lead singer of the band “Eagles of Death Metal”, the band that was playing at the Bataclan in Paris the night of the Paris Massacre – says what every gun rights activist already knows; the only response to bad guys with guns is good guys with guns: “Did your French gun control…
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Cause And Effect?
Panera is the latest large chain to succumb to the blandishments of “Harpies For A Criminal-Safe World” “Moms Want Action” (a fully-owned subsidiary of Michael Bloomberg). Bakery-cafe chain Panera Bread has joined a growing list of retailers including Starbucks and Target by announcing that customers should leave their guns at home. It makes no difference…
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This Is “Gun Safety”
Chicago has dragged their feet and obstructed the law-abiding gun citizen’s attempt to protect themselves ever since the day the Heller decisions was announced. And the city’s murder rate is setting new records; January saw 51 homicides, the bloodiest January since the gory days of the ’90s. Gang conflicts and retaliatory violence drove the “unacceptable” increase in homicides,…
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Those Gun-Toting White Christian Terrorists Strike Again
Gun toting white Christianist terrorists armed with carry permits and a perfectly legal semiautomatic handgun and lots of hatred shoot a gay man seven times outside a gay bar in Lubbock Texas. Clearly, that wave of white Christianist terror that Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano and wave after wave of earnest lefties have been warning us…
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Our Illogical Ninny Overlords
Told that the State Capitol Police wanted to hold “active shooter” training for the legislature and its staff, Rep. Kim Norton decided to introduce a bill repealing last year’s law allowing law-abiding carry permittees to have their legally-carried firearms in the Capitol complex. And the logic was… …entertaining: If law-abiding citizens can’t bring guns…
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Good Spirit. Lousy Idea.
Anyone with a living soul was nauseated by the display in Cologne on New Years Eve, where thousands of men of “North African” descent roamed the street in gangs, sexually assaulting women and impeding the police’s attempts to respond. Here in the US – where this sort of thing is thankfully very rare – the…
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Small Victories
Making government follow the rules? Should be a gimme. It’s never a gimme. But the folks at the Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance (GOCRA) notched a couple of wins earlier this week. You can, in fact, fight city hall. First? A DMV office in Anoka tried to post itself “No Guns Allowed” – which is…
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A Republican Is A Democrat Who’s Been Mugged
A week ago this past Monday, we wrote about the tear-squirting in Kansas, as Kansas’ state-run post-secondary schools get ready for the legal mandate to allow concealed carry on campus to take effect. And today comes the story of a student and victim from the mass-stabbing a few weeks ago at University of California at…
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Enough Is Enough
I’ve been offline for a bit, so I guess I’m just catching up, here. My condolences to the victims of yesterday’s episode of workplace violence in San Bernardino. Clearly, the avalanche of white-supremacist violence that the left, media and Administration (pardon the redundancy), and especially against the Planned Parenthood clinic just two miles away from…
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Surely There Must Be Some Mistake
UPDATE: As always we follow the 24 hour rule here in SITD. But – and I’m strictly speculating here – am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that the killer or killers (news reporters are conflicted on that point) didn’t stick around to go out in the usual blaze of media glory, but…
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Deja Vu All Over Again
Liberals hate civil rights. Oh, not the civil rights that involve snarking at religion or aborting babies or waving ones’ privates about in public. Those are pretty sacrosanct on the left. But actual rights that matter? Life, liberty, personal property, economic freedom, freedom of conscience, freedom from dependence? Not so much. And whenever The People…
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“There Are Certain Sections Of New York, Major, I Wouldn’t Advise You To Invade”
ISIS – or someone claiming to speak for them, anyway – released a list of American cities they plan to attack. The ostensible “list” has, in some cases, the parents of something that was compiled by throwing darts at a map. And when I saw the list, I couldn’t help but remember this scene, from…
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#GunDense
I’ve recently became aware of “Muggeridge’s Law” – I have an article coming up on the subject. Muggeridge’s Law states that it’s impossible to be funny, since one’s most hamfistedly satirical “predictions” will inevitably be borne out in fact. When I first heard the news of the terrorist attacks in Paris, I thought – I…
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Opposite World
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Another school, another shooting, more people dead, this time in Sweden where a young man wearing a Star Wars mask attacked a school. No, the killer didn’t do the shooting. The killer was stopped by a good guy with a gun. Who shot him. In a school. And stopped…
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Righteous
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Attack a pastor during Sunday worship service and get shot . . . by the pastor? Gives new meaning to the phrase “The way to stop a Bad Man with a gun is a Good Man with a gun.” The police are trying to decide whether to charge the pastor…
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Lott Of Facts
Many thanks to Dr. John Lott – partly for his piece in National Review yesterday expanding on the work that is rapidly ripping the guts out of the left’s meme that “a good guy with a gun” doesn’t save lives and that gun free zones are anything but safe-criminal areas…: But the deterrent and life-saving…
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More Guns (In The Hands Of The Law Abiding) And Fewer Liberals = Less Crime
After every mass-shooting incident, both sides in the Second Amendment debate sound off. The left believes “commonsense gun control” leads to less crime. The right believes “more guns equals less crime”. Both sides tend to leave it at the level of chanting points, without ever really submitting evidence, much less proving anything [1]. So I…
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With More “Victories” Like This…
SCENE: Avery LIBRELLE is switching a regular cucumber label to an organic cuke when he sees Mitch BERG picking out a piece of ginger root. LIBRELLE walks over to BERG. LIBRELLE: Hey, Merg! BERG: Huh? Oh, sh…hi, Avery. What’s up? LIBRELLE: We won a huge victory over the NRA! MITCH: Oh yeah? LIBRELLE: Yeah!…
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Keep Guns Out Of The Hands Of Straw Men
Watch Mitch Berg ANNIHILATE More Liberal Hamsters! Mind Blown! UPDATE: A key “source” in the piece I fisk has turned out to be fraud. See the Update at the bottom of the story.. One of my long-time stalkers – who’s been tweenting about me at least ten times a day for the past six years, which may…
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A Nation Of Classical Philosophers
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: America was founded on the belief that people were endowed by their Creator with certain rights, including the right to life, which carries with it the right to defend one’s life from those who would take it. A gun-free zone denies effective self-defense which jeopardizes the right to life;…
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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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Random Thoughts
Random thoughts after a pretty awful day yesterday: Incongruity: So if #BlackLivesMatter, why do they only make the news the relatively small percent of the time when there’s a white shooter? X Marks The Lack Of Spot: Speaking of shooters, MNGOPAC has a little reminder for everyone that’s jabbering about “commonsense gun control”: They should add a…