Like vultures, these people. Here’s an idea: instead of working on “gun control,” howsabout we start working on media glorification of mass shootings, often framed as shock and outrage — but never to the point where they will refuse to try to document every detail and make a permanent celebrity of the killer. Provided it isn’t the President or the Justice Department, of course. One has one’s journalistic standards. *****

From Dudley Brown, National Association of Gun Rights: Dear Jeff, Harry Reid has a plan to gut the Senate filibuster to clear a path to pass gun control — and the fight is happening in Washington, D.C. RIGHT NOW! That’s why it’s critical Republican U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hear from gun owners loud and clear. Please call Mitch McConnell — at once — and urge him to stop

Typical liberal political maneuvering: your first set of irresponsible legislation set the stage for mass slaughter of innocents. So naturally the answer is to express outrage, then double down by punishing law-abiding gun owners, turning many of them who will almost assuredly refuse to comply into instant criminals. And maybe “crazy people.” — Which seems to be the progressive’s tack: turn law-abiding gun owners into criminals with mental health issues

Only this time, I’m not on the hot seat. Let me just say this, quickly: if we as conservatives are not willing at this point — having been called enemies, racists, murderers, potential terrorists, et al., by our own government — to accept that what we’re dealing with is indeed a malicious attack on our individual sovereignty and an intentional plan to undermine our constitutional republic and replace it with

Amazingly, Obama’s coronation — with its attendant resplendency and its overtly evangelical overtones — didn’t cure me. Maybe next time, if he does some snake handling… At any rate, I’ve agreed to appear, likely from the comfort of one of my bathrooms, with Cam and Co. on NRA News at 2:40 ET, to discuss my response to Josh Marshall’s frankly strange piece on gun tribalism, which was, incidentally, the “reasonable-sounding”