As Ace rightly notes, “as the goal is admitted, let us have no more discussion of these ridiculous diversions.” It’s not your folding stocks or flash suppressors or bayonet lugs they’re after: it’s your ability to remind them that you are free people, and that their power is contingent on you. And would-be aristocrats grow weary of such presumptions from the riff raff, particularly those they imagine in a cabin

Really? That’s your simple idea?  Okay.  Now here’s my simple idea.  Consider it a counter-offer:  go fuck yourself asswise with a Halibut. Of course, once we do this — that is, give up on the one document in the history of human governance that has protected individuals from the natural tendencies of governments to accrue power and eventually become tyrannical and then totalitarian — the only thing left to protect

Quietly, behind the scenes, unelected leftist true believers, posing as environmental stewards, are releasing ever-more burdensome regulations with the force of law to de-industrialize the US and turn itself into a kind of centralized authority that will control industrial policy from DC.  And all this was made possible by a three-panel “conservative” court who gave the EPA the authority to police human exhalation as a pollutant. Chase Power, the parent

I wonder, was the Mayor’s security detail armed?  And if so, I hope it was with nothing that can carry more than 7 bullets.  Because otherwise Bloomberg would come off as a petty tyrant and a giant douchey hypocrite.  And nobody wants that for a man who has shown consistently that he is willing to protect the good citizens of his city from salt and soda and accidents that may

Wait, you mean this isn’t only about scary-looking weapons found in the trunk of the car of an elementary school shooter who exploited a government-sanctioned gun-free zone / vulnerable children turkey shoot? Well, then. I feel misled.  And violated.  Freedom Outpost: Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday told host Candy Crowley that the push for gun bans won’t just be about her alleged

This, despite Joe Biden’s having already explained that they’d be far better off with some buckshot, or maybe a blunderbuss. Imagine!  The Blaze: The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO “personal defense weapons” (PDW) — also known as “assault weapons” when owned by civilians. The solicitation, originally posted on June 7, 2012, comes to light as the Obama administration is calling for a ban on semi-automatic

And of course, they aren’t affected by ObamaCare.  Because they’re a special breed, you see, and those who manage us and make us functional economic units in the service of the state deserve rights that the rest of us don’t.  For the trouble of having constantly to police us.  IBT: Not everyone is exempted from owning military-style assault weapons under new legislation proposed by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Weapons used

Granted, it was with blanks, but how come none of the public was aware of these exercises? And why are the police so “vague”? ____________ Looks like something similar was conducted in April 2011, though without any reports of gunfire. But also without any public notification. WTF?

Priceless.  No, really. The response, of course, is predictable.  And every bit as priceless — though for a different reason:  it reveals the extent to which cowards will go to turn their cowardice into an outraged virtue.  Thus, if you peel away the sanctimony, you get to the heart of  cowardly “anti-violence” wishcasting, laid sadly bare:  if you can’t be trusted to lie to us about how safe we are,

David Mamet, on liberty and gun control.  Happily, he hits many of the same points I’ve hit over the past several weeks — which I note as “happily” because it makes me feel smart and urbane to be on the side of the estimable Mr Mamet.  That, and it suggests that somewhere down the road I might be able to write a really cool screenplay about some elaborate con, and