A woman to watch

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence insists that the 2nd Amendment only refers to militias. But when a state like Montana openly discusses forming a militia, it’s “insurrectionism”. So who is it who’s making Josh Horvitz pee his pants today?

It’s a goil! Rep. Wendy Warburton, of Havre, MT. Who, I note, is single. And not hard on the eyes, in a thirty-something way. That’s not information I’m in a position to act on, nor does Ms. Warburton seem like the type to accept the proposition of a married man, if I were that monumentally stupid. But she has a very nice set of votes, and is the sort of politician a man would not be ashamed to be the spouse of. I wish her success in this endeavor, and future ones.

Nooner: you’re fired

What civilian needs a pistol with a magazine that loads 33 bullets and allows you to kill that many people without even stopping to reload? No one but people with bad intent. Those clips were banned once; the president should call for reimposing the ban. The Republican Party will not go to the wall to defend extended clips. The problem is the Democratic Party, which overreached after the assassinations of the 1960s, talked about banning all handguns, and suffered a lasting political setback. Now Democrats are so spooked that they won’t even move forward on small and obvious things like this. The president should seize the moment and come out strong for a ban.

Here they’ve got a rule about PG language. Here I don’t, but it’s Sunday, so I should at least make an attempt at Christian forbearance, right? All I will ask is why in the fucking hell is an alleged conservative telling Obama (nonironicly) how to improve his SOTU?

Well, hey, two can play that game. Here’s my improvement to Noonan:
“Here are three things he can do in the speech that would be surprising, shrewd, centrist and good policy. He can come out for the manufacture of a “people’s car” that everyone could afford. He could advocate for construction of a national freeway system to drive it on. And he could take a firm stand against smoking.”

Hey, meets all 4 criteria, right? Too bad that nothing else that guy did fits the bill…though Peggers would doubtless approve of this law.

And what is it about Noonan women and guns? I dated a Noonan for awhile who was anti-gun. I fired her too.

Call me Spartacus

If you don’t know what that’s about, you haven’t been reading the Internet.

Carol Glatz, Magisterium of One

This lady, dredging up some 10 and 20 year old documents from the USCCB, claims that gun control is the position of the Catholic Church. I have no idea who she is; she’s a reporter, not part of their general staff.

Codrea takes this at face value, and conditionally challenges the Church:

If this is the official position of the Catholic Church, if its leadership truly believes guns in private hands are evil and must be eliminated, they should demonstrate the courage of their convictions:
Declare private gun ownership a sin.
Deny communion to all disobedient Catholics who do not relinquish theirs.
Excommunicate all who willfully remain in a state of defiance and who encourage rebelliousness.

The readership sets him straight on the doctrinal parameters. But on a practical level, the Church has not “demonstrated the courage of their convictions” in that way on reproductive issues, so they certainly won’t on non-doctrine. And if the Church decides, in the face of Scripture and tradition to the contrary, that it’s a sin to own a gun, well, I will be an even worse Catholic than I am now. Seriously, if Jesus were incarnate on earth today, would He tell his disciples to buy a sword to bring to a gunfight?

St. Gabriel Possenti, even though the Vatican does not acknowledge your patronage over us gunnies, pray for us.

+1

Tamara nails the mag-cap game:

The thing about “magazine capacity restrictions” is that they’re fundamentally and philosophically flawed. Anyone saying that “magazine capacity restrictions” would have “prevented” the outrage at Safeway is either barely brighter than a turnip or being fundamentally dishonest:

• If magazines were limited to ten rounds, then you’re okay with ten corpses.
• If it was just a six-shooter, you’ve got six cooling bodies to clean up on aisle three.
• Even single-shot flintlocks (you know, like the kind you always say the “founding fathers could envision”) leave Congresswoman Giffords on the same ventilator as Gaston Glock’s latest offering.

So by saying you’re in favor of magazines that hold no more than X rounds, you’re publicly stating that it’s only X+1 bodies that bother you. If that’s not what you mean to say, then come out and state your real intentions.

Or are you chicken?

Of course they’re chicken. They’d rather squeeze the Constitution like a roll of Charmin than to admit they’d rather wipe their asses with it. Besides, with a restricted-capacity magazine, there might not be a bullet left for the perp to use on himself.

TARGET!

Obligatory Massacree Post

I was minding my own business Saturday on Facebook when I encountered this:

The shooting in Arizona today is the final torpedo that will sink the extreme right. I hope no one is stupid enough OR un-American enough to defend that action.

Well, so I go, “WHAT shooting?’ And hit the news to find out. I started this post, but didn’t finish.

And so it went. Finer minds than mine have chewed on this. I was throwing updates on Facebook because I was personally offended. Kudos to the Left for taking a tragedy and making it about themselves and their positions. Your maturity has been noted.

And then there was the “Blame Sarah Palin” game. I’m not much impressed by Sarah’s positions or vision, but if she can wiggle her nose and automagically cause some guy to throw his life away (along with 6 others), what other impressive things could she do? Seriously, I’ve never seen Democrats campaign so hard for a candidate.

Get on the luge to Lucifer

People can carry guns on the D. C. Metro system, even if just to carry them to Maryland?

Stephen the Breyer should put his jackass self on that subway. And then keep going.

Tam dispatches another lib

It seems like a pity to beat up on Roger Ebert in the shape he’s in. But he keeps opening his mouth, metaphorically speaking, so the lovely Ms. Tamara K. had to put him some knowledge:

Roger, think of the Constitution like you do the little list of scutwork you leave for your underpaid Costa Rican housekeeper. Now imagine Congress as Rosita. We’ve left a little list saying “Rosita, you can coin money, make treaties, deliver the mail, and dust the china cabinet.” Nowhere in the Constitution have we written “Rosita, please tell us where we can pack heat.” As a matter of fact, we put a little PS on the document saying “Rosita, stay away from the damned gun cabinet!!!”

If you’re one of those people who just gets their jollies off on being told “verboten”, the Constitution really isn’t your kind of document, so stop trying to read it that way. (Rosita has a friend, though, who will be happy to tell you “verboten” all you want for $200/hr., all major credit cards accepted.)

Howzit…

…that a man legally prohibited from owning ONE GUN can own THREE GUN COMPANIES?

Only starts like a joke

So 5 guys go into a Culver’s restaurant in Madison WI, wearing guns. Aging Hippie Womyn sees guns, freaks, calls cops. Cop dispatcher does not inform Aging Hippie Womyn that guys are within their legal rights, but instead send 8 of Madison’s finest, who, in spite of their training to the contrary, think they have a right under Wisconsin law to ask for the gun-carrier’s names and ID. Gun-carriers attempt to complete officers’ legal training. At least 2 of the carriers get arrested for “obstructing” (which, given what they were obstructing,should have been cause for a medal instead of an arrest). Bunch of gun owners want civil rights charges pressed against said cops, as well they should.

When the WCI member suggested that LEO check the ID of EVERY individual in the store, “Why don’t you check the ID of that lady over there with the kids? She might be a pedophile.” The officer responded, “Pedophiles can be with kids.“

But apparently you can’t open carry.
I’ve enjoyed summers in HippieTown, so I really hope that Miadison sees to retraining its cops; it would be a shame not to be able to go.