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.

A modest 1st Amendment proposal for Chicago

It’s been established that ideas are the things most likely to cause humans to kill. Sometimes they’re simple and stupid ideas, like the notion that one has a right to another person’s body or money. Sometimes they’re more complex, like Communism, which is, uh, the notion that one has a right to another person’s body or money, if “the workers” say so. In the light of Mayor Daley’s latest attempt to keep Chicagoans safe, I’d like to propose the following policies, which will be even more effective than the ones Daley is proposing.

1. No bookstores, news stands or broadcasters will be allowed within the city limits. After all, one can always get one’s dangerous ideas from outside the city, so this is no 1st Amendment burden at all. Internet access will be permitted (since there is a 1st Amendment) as long as it’s inside your own home. No Mickey D’s Wifi for you!

2. Limit residents from reading more than one book at a time.

3. In houses with children, all books and newspapers must be locked up. Books may be used by children before bedtime, under parental supervision, for the purpose of teaching literacy.

4. Everyone must have 12 years of training before they are allowed to express ideas in public. No schools for idea expression training or independent thought may exist within the city limits (nor do they now).

5. The police department will maintain a registry of every literate person in the city.

6. Prohibit people from expressing ideas if they were convicted of various crimes, including being a member of the wrong political party.

7. No political discussions in public. If such a discussion happens in your home, and your guest leaves, you must be silent on your front porch…no parting shots!

Now, it could be claimed that the above policies totally gut the 1st Amendment. But as established in Schenk v. U.S., there may be reasonable restrictions on free speech. One might falsely shout “fire” in a crowded theater, or claim that the draft is involuntary servitude, or that humans don’t have the same natural right of self-defense that other animals do. We can’t have that. And the same laws will also apply to Chicago politicians, which will make things even more peaceful.

H/T for inspiration: Venlet.

Nookie-Renters Association

Whores. They deny they will endorse him, but they’ve been in bed with him for at least a year, for no good reason based on his record.

Now, I’m getting credible reports that the NRA is leaning toward endorsing Harry Reid, even though the NRA is finally saying it will score a vote on Kagan — something that was not a sure thing.

Why would they do this? Why would they go out of their way to protect a Senator who has demonstrated a repeated hostility to the Second Amendment in his votes and his leadership?

Well, I thought perhaps the NRA carveout in the DISCLOSE Act might be the answer. But, there is more. It turns out, Reid secured a $61 million earmark for a gun range in Clark County, Nevada.

Wise Latina lied, gun rights died

When Sotomayor was nominated for the High Court last year, she was asked by Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D−VT) whether after Heller it is now a matter of settled law that the Second Amendment secures an individual right to own a gun. Her answer was clear and direct: “Yes, sir.”
Yet Monday, Justice Sotomayor joined in full the following statement: “I can find nothing in the Second Amendment’s text, history, or underlying rationale … to protect the keeping and bearing arms for private self-defense purposes.”
The dissent went on to argue that the Court should “reconsider” the Heller decision, meaning that the Court should overrule Heller’s holding that the Second Amendment applies to American citizens.
This is completely consistent with Sonia Sotomayor’s record as a Second Circuit judge, where she repeatedly ruled against gun rights. She argued that the Second Amendment does not apply to individuals, does not apply to states, and that any gun-control law should be upheld if it’s rational. (She then added that because guns are deadly, any law restricting them is rational. Hence, all gun-control laws are automatically constitutional, even complete bans.)

Should we expect anything other from the Wise Dyke?

NRA plays possum on Kagan

…and demands its board members do so too.

Now, WHICH party was the Stupid Party?

We have an odd situation in the Ohio gubernatorial contest: an NRA-endorsed incumbent running under the banner of the No Guns party, and John “F-troop” Kasich running under the more gun-friendly party. Which means, potentially, that the votes of all gunnies are legitimately in play. So how did the Democrats decide to capitalize on that?

The state party sent letters to Ohio’s 88 sheriffs requesting the names and addresses of permit holders and the dates the licenses were issued. Ohio has about 211,000 permit holders…. The Democrats intended to target people who support the Second Amendment — the constitutional right to bear arms — with campaign information, said party spokesman, Seth Bringman.

Of course, the party of Carty Finkbeiner, Frank Jackson, Jay Williams et al didn’t get the info, because it’s exempt from the open records laws. But the attempt would not endear them to freedom-loving Americans, especially when they’re in the hole on guns to begin with. The LP is looking better all the time.

Word

Re the latest shooting party in Cumbria:

You refer to self-defense as “vigilantism” or “taking the law into one’s own hands”? Well, if you’re just going to leave it lying on the ground with the corpses, somebody needs to take it into their hands.